"Don't hide anything—just tell the truth?"
Kil'jaeden thought he had misheard and could not help confirming it again:
"Wouldn't that expose everything outright?"
"How am I supposed to explain that to Prince Sargeras?"
"Just say this ruin is a relic of the gods, filled with holy power, and that there is nothing else of value inside. Wouldn't that do?" Lu Li shrugged.
"Not every ruin is guaranteed to contain treasure, right? It's perfectly normal for one or two of them to be empty shells..."
"Ah, well..." Kil'jaeden actually found the argument rather convincing.
Indeed, There were quite a few ruins within the Endless Great Forest.
Although most of them contained treasure, empty ruins were not unheard of.
But the problem was, Those empty ruins could be more or less identified at a glance from the outside.
For example, their entrances were dilapidated, overgrown with vines, and could be entered and exited freely.
Yet the interior of this ruin was clearly still "active"!
Twelve cycles ago, they had needed to splash Goblin blood onto the stone wall at the entrance just to get in!
Prince Sargeras was no fool. How could he be deceived so easily?
"It's not that I don't want to cooperate with you two, but the excuse of an 'empty ruin' simply doesn't hold up..."
"Prince Sargeras knows there are good things inside this ruin. If we suddenly tell him it's just an empty shell, he'll definitely become suspicious!"
Kil'jaeden spoke with great certainty, sounding utterly earnest.
Hearing this, Lu Li turned back for another look.
The spot where the stone wall had once stood had now become a pile of shattered rubble.
But the entrance had not disappeared and still remained.
Like a spatial rift, it quietly floated less than three feet above the ground.
There was