The Short Priest lowered his head and hurriedly reported:
"Your Excellency, High Priest!"
"Everything happened exactly as you predicted!"
"After those two came out of the secret chamber, they didn't return to their rooms to rest. Instead, they dragged Lin Shen and his brother along as laborers and plunged straight into our library!"
The Short Priest raised his head, his voice tinged with flattery:
"I heard them clearly from outside. They were tearing through all sorts of ancient texts like madmen!"
"That fellow named Jiang Xiao even fell asleep from the exhaustion of flipping through books, and the other one gave him a harsh scolding."
"In my opinion, they're so desperate to look through those records because they want to learn the truth about that Dragon Egg in the underground Blood Pool!"
"Other than that, I haven't noticed any unusual behavior."
The High Priest listened to the Short Priest's report.
Rather than showing any anger at having his secrets pried into, the High Priest slowly revealed a cold smile, as though everything was under his control.
His withered fingers tapped lightly against the stone table, producing dull echoes:
"Heh heh..."
"If they could see that unborn Dragonkin and then act as though nothing had happened, without any curiosity about its origins..."
"That would be when I suspected they had something to hide!"
The High Priest slowly opened his clouded eyes, a cold understanding of human nature flickering in their depths:
"Greed is the truest nature of every living creature in this Wasteland."
"And the purest motivation for us followers of the Abyss."
The High Priest rose and stood with his hands behind his back, his voice full of haughty calculation:
"The more ancient texts they read, the better they'll understand the staggering value of that Dragon Egg, and the deeper