Chapter 22: The Storm is Coming
Staring at the patterned stone door of the underground chamber in front of her, Kareta shuddered at the judgment that popped out of her head.
As if a ghost, in a nervous mood, Kareta actually accelerated her own pace.
Finally, the end of the road unfolded before her eyes.
The carved stone door in my memory appeared in front of me, and there were still many black-clothed guards guarding it on both sides, and everything had not changed in the slightest.
"Princess, let's go back, there's no way. ”
Adele reminded her behind Carette, her voice sounding a little timid, as if she was jealous of this place.
"Oh... Well..."
Kareta replied, but her gaze was still fixed on the abrupt stone door on the brick floor in front of her, and she didn't want to move.
At this moment, she was worried in her heart, and one thing kept circling in her mind, that is, the task delivered by Zeus!
Demos said that the Athena jewel was in this secret room. He wasn't in the temple at this time, and it seemed like a wonderful opportunity.
However, if I do this, I will lose Demos forever, and I will lose the opportunity to be with him again......
Kareta stood stiff, her mind disturbed by hesitation and contradiction.
The Athena gem is important, and it is important to complete Zeus's mission to rescue Bai Xiu, but the relationship between herself and Demos seems to be more important to her at this moment-
"You seem to be interested in the Pavilion?"
Suddenly, a clear, loud female voice came from behind, pulling Karete's tangled thoughts back into her stiff shell.
Kareta was about to turn around when Kali, the goddess of blood, walked through the gap between Noah and Ade's bodies and stopped at her.
Kali stopped when he was a step away from Karet, and a pair of sharp purple eyes glanced at the shocked expression on the other person's face and the cold sweat on his forehead.
Narrowing his eyes, Cali sneered, his smile looking very strange.
"Does the princess want to enter this underground 'twilight pavilion'?"
Cali's voice was gloomy, and the sharpness in his eyes became even heavier, and he instantly stared at Karete's stunned expression like a falcon.
"No... I didn't. I just walked out of the dormitory to pass the time and walked around. ”
Driven to madness by Ka's piercing gaze, Karette panicked and took a step back, trying to leave quickly.
"Don't worry!" Cali stopped her sideways, his smile even colder and more bewitching.
"Demos once told you that this 'Pavilion of Twilight' is a top-secret place where the Athena gem is hidden. Aren't you curious, don't you really want to go in with me?"
"Goddess Kali! The king has commanded that if the princess wants to enter the court, she needs to be accompanied by the king himself!"
Noah instinctively sensed the danger and took a few steps forward to stop Cali.
"Shut up, you're just a dog in Demos's captivity, and you're not qualified to order me—"
Cali was furious, and his eyes were red with anger and he yelled at Noah.
Noah's handsome white face was purple, and although he was angry, he could only endure it.
Cali then stretched out a lotus root jade arm and grabbed one of Karet's wrists.
"Princess......
Adai on the side was so shocked that her face became even more colorful, and she saw that her master was about to suffer, so she also rushed up.
"Smack" –
After a crisp sound, Ade's delicate cheeks had an extra five-finger red mark. Because of the force of the card, a blood oozed from the corner of the girl's lips.
"Cali, you're so presumptuous!"
Carette couldn't bear it anymore, and finally replied angrily with enough momentum.
Insulting Demos's servants, and beating her own lady-in-waiting, Carette understood that Cali's actions were clearly a provocation to her majesty.
I really never expected that as soon as Demos left the dimension, this goddess of blood would not be able to resist her arrogance!
Cali raised his eyebrows haughtily in the fury of Karete's ashes, making no secret of his disdain for the little woman in front of him.
"Don't think I don't know what's going on in your head, Kareette!"
She brought her face up, and her voice of disdain was so low that only the two women who were tearing each other could hear:
"You fell in love with Demos for the Athena Jewel, you can deceive him, but you can't deceive me......"
"You ......"
Kareta was speechless, her heart racing faster.
In the silent but tense air, the heartbeat of this "tom tom" seemed to be getting louder and louder, and it became more and more urgent, and it became very strange.
"If you don't want me to expose you to Demos, just go in with me!"
Cali put away his smirk and whispered to Kareta in a cold voice, and then pulled her in a trance and hurried towards the stone gate.
Kali pulled Kareta to the edge of the stone gate and winked at the guards.
The guards were confused.
They all knew that the only gods who could freely enter this "Pavilion" were the god of darkness and the goddess of blood, and no one had ever received any definite information that the princess of the temple could also enter and leave this underground chamber at will.
In front of him, Cali dragged the princess with his hands, and the momentum was violent.
"Open the door!
Walking up quickly, seeing that the guards were unresponsive, Cali raised his voice and cursed.
Since that day of their discord with Demos, Cali has been plotting secretly.
She knew in her heart that Demos had fallen completely in love with Carret, and had no intention of wanting revenge. Or maybe his love for Carreta dissolves his hatred for Olympus!
No matter how he understood it, he didn't want to ask Carette to break the seal of the crystal ball and take out the Athena gem at all.
On the terrace, Demos and Carette's sweet kisses and intimate snuggling stimulated Cali again.
She had never seen Demos show such intense tenderness to a woman.
Cali felt he had to do something. What Demos can't do, she can wait until the opportunity is ripe and secretly do it behind his back-
Today Demos went to the human world for something and left his little wife in the dimension. She secretly hid around Carret's dormitory, and followed her all the way, not wanting her to run to the secret room of the twilight pavilion by herself.
Cali believes that this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity......
Next to the stone gate, a guard glanced at the angry Kali, but he didn't dare to slack off. So he stretched out his hands sideways to hold a fairy stone sculpture beside him, and turned the base of the stone sculpture with his wrists in a timely direction.
This stone carving is the activation mechanism of the stone door of the secret room of the Twilight Pavilion.
When the black-clothed guard turned the pedestal of the stone carving, it was equivalent to opening the stone door.
"Roo~Roo~Boom"——
A slow, dull sound came from the stone door, and then the brick floor beneath the feet of everyone present began to shake.
Thick puffs of dust erupted high from the four straight edges of the carved stone door, filling the air above the stone door. As people breathe in rhythm, the dust creeps into their mouths and nostrils, causing them to cough and sneeze one after another.
The clumsy stone gate recesses a few meters deeper, and the two sides of the long row merge into the stone trough. Then, the massive stone door was slowly pushed into the dark compartment at the entrance of the chamber.
In front of everyone's eyes, the door of the secret room finally opened-
What appeared before them was an endless darkness, and in the still, lonely colors, rows of stone steps stretched down were faintly visible.
It was the first time that Kareta had been so close to this mystery.
The Athena gem is inside-
It was this very restless thought that flashed through my mind. For some reason, a little greed grew in Karet's heart at this moment.
Cali quietly glanced sideways at Kareta beside her, and immediately caught a hint of the obsession that had just been displayed in her surprised and delicate face.
Cali unconsciously tilted one side of his face and made a cold sneer.
It was at this moment that she let go of Karet's wrist.
Taking the menorah from one of the black-clad guards, Cali nudged Karete's delicate waist.
"Let's go, princess, come in with me and have a look!"
Carette hesitated for a moment, her glittering eyes still staring straight at the darkness ahead.
Ahead, there seemed to be a mysterious magic in the unknown space of the black hole that tempted her, attracted her, and made her more messy and manic.
That kind of undulating emotion grew like a pampas after the rain, and it occupied her nervous heart without restraint.
Karette took a few deep breaths, and then obediently stepped forward, following Kali down the stairs of the chamber step by step.
Noah watched the darkness in the pavilion engulf the figures of the two goddesses in front of him little by little, and he didn't feel a pang of worry.
He could guess what Cali was trying to do by bringing Kareta into the Chamber of Secrets.
The reason why Demos left him in the Dark Temple was that he was afraid that Cali would embarrass his wife in his absence, and asked his subordinates to stay in the dimension to take care of one or two.
But the only god who could cure the madness of the Goddess of Blood was the God of Darkness—
"Ade, you are staring over here, I'll find the king back!"
While speaking to Kareta's handmaiden, Noah couldn't wait to turn back and run away.
Adele agreed, and looked at the open stone door on the surface, but never saw the hostess come up.
Because of the limitation of her identity, Adele did not dare to enter the secret room rashly, and looked at the serious faces of the guards on both sides, she was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, and kept turning around the stone door.
In the twilight pavilion, Carette was carried by Cali over the fringed draperies to a stone table in the center, and the two of them sat down facing each other.
Cali placed the candlestick in his hand to the side of the stone table, and without wasting much time, he reached out and lifted the black cloth in the middle of the square table, revealing a rare object protruding from the black cover of the silk cloth.
The divine light blew out, instantly snatching the glimmer of the candle on the table, bringing daylight to this secluded and dark space.
As Carreta had expected, the strange light came from the Athena Jewel, which was still standing in a round crystal ball as she had seen it at the Terra Maris café, spinning quietly and sleeping peacefully.