Throne Steps

A year later, at the foot of the mountain on the top of the temple.

The carriage was still standing not far behind, Saenz looked up and breathed a sigh of relief.He turned his head and glanced at the man behind him. There were expectations, reluctance, resentment, and a little bit of bewilderment in his eyes.

Li Chen stood there, steadfastly accepting the baptism of his eyes.

Saenz opened his mouth, but the words he was about to utter slipped back to the bottom of his heart, and he turned around: "... let's go."

Li Chen followed his steps, stepping on the simple and simple stone stairs step by step, climbing up the steps.Ten steps away from the pure white patriarch and the golden nine-star dragon knight, followed by a small group of pure white guards.

Saenz walked step by step, neither fast nor slow, as if he was still calm and relaxed even if he was facing a treasure purification ceremony that he hadn't seen in a hundred years.

Li Chen said softly from behind: "Your steps look heavy."

Saenz didn't look back: "You read it wrong."

"Really?" Li Chen took a step forward and touched his hand, "Your hand is so cold... Do you still want to say that I feel wrong?"

Saenz held his hand instead, and pulled him a bit, pulling him to a position next to him.

This is very unruly, but the guards at the back pretended not to see it and went their own way.

They even think it's normal.

In the past year as the head of the family, Saenz went out to inspect many properties belonging to the Saenlich family.Gu Long didn't follow him, and even Li Chen didn't follow him.At first, some people thought it was because the black swan had become a dragon knight, and of course they would no longer be called around by the pure white color. Unexpectedly, they just changed the way of declaring their relationship.

As long as there is a letter, the dragon knight will soon drive the bone dragon to the side of the new head of the pure white color.The divine bird that delivers letters travels far and wide, and the space talent of the Dragon Clan shrinks to an inch.Soon, before Saenz gave a word for a long time, the sound of the dragon's cry would be heard above people's heads.

Sometimes it was Li Chen who gave him something, and sometimes it was Saenz who gave Li Chen something.

The most insignificant thing is two freshly baked flower cakes.

What did the Dragon Knight say?He said that it was really not worth the magic power of him and Bone Dragon Flower to make a trip for these two cakes, he had to find things and make up for them.

So he picked up the cup that Saenz drank, and the local person in charge of the reception didn't even have time to say "I'll pour you a cup of freshly brewed tea", and the dragon knight ate the tea from the owner of the pure white color A flower cake.

The remaining one was stuffed in Saenz's mouth.Saenz didn't dislike Li Chen's dirty hands, he smiled and took it and ate it, and even drank the tea that Li Chen had left.

Now that the matter has come to this point, everyone in the Lei Di A Alliance who has some insight has pondered the true relationship between the new Patriarch of Pure White and the Dragon Knight.

However, how can it be their turn to talk about what these two people at the pinnacle of power are going to do?Didn't you see that even the former head of the family and Saenz's father didn't care?

Vagcheno wanted to explode, but the combination of the two was basically invincible, and the former head of the family could only see it.

Therefore, when Saenz announced that the freshly baked golden nine stars would go to the top of the temple on the day of the purification ceremony, everyone could only feel a feeling of "it really is".

However, this close relationship, which is almost acquiesced by the entire league, is becoming more and more like a heavy boulder in Saenz's heart, and his heart is getting heavier and heavier.

Today, he brought his dragon knight to the top of the temple, and all the interested people in the alliance felt that this was the new Patriarch's disguised recognition of his relationship with the dragon knight.Only he himself knows that he is actually executing a "death sentence" for himself.

He promised Li Chen almost 40 years, and today it will become a reality.He couldn't imagine what would happen to Lei Di'a Continent if Zhenbao opened the door to cross time and space for Lichen.

If Li Chen left, what would happen to him?

Saenz has actually thought about the latter question countless times.He can calmly analyze what will happen if other people find out that he connived Li Chen to do this, what will happen if Zhenbao loses the role of pure white color in the past, and what will happen if everyone else in pure white color unites himself How... But he couldn't, didn't dare to imagine what he would do if Li Chen left.

Perhaps it was a mistake to force Li Chen to change when he was looking for the dragon.Li Chen has a broken attitude, accepts everything about Saenz, and does not hide his own feelings for Saenz.As long as Li Chen is willing, it would be inappropriate without him to coax him. In the past, when Saenz had no strange feelings for him, and when he was not honest with Saenz, he could do it. When Erns has been in love for a long time again.

Saenz is a person who enjoys the process more, just as he sought the position of head of the family through countless means, but now he doesn't have an inflated attitude.However, Li Chen was an exception to him, he got Li Chen's affection and dedication, but he was still unsatisfied.

Li Chen is like the hallucinogen developed by their black swan, which is intoxicating and addictive.

Moreover, the cognition of "he is leaving" suppresses Saenz all the time.

Saenz understands that in fact, Li Chen is well aware of his own habits, and knows that he loves the ups and downs of the process more than the dust settles, so he also has his own ideas.On the one hand, he has not cooperated with him all the time in the past two years, so he wants to let himself gradually get bored with the results; problem, I'm afraid everything will change.

Li Chen always thinks much more than he says.His affectionate look at people does not seem to be fake, but he is never soft on anyone's calculations.

Including to himself, including to his own feelings.

Saenz wanted to sigh deeply and say that time will tell, but their time was running out.

Li Chen was held by him without any struggle, and his attitude was calm, as if they should be like this.The more natural he was, the more Saenz wanted to pry his brain open to see what he was thinking.

"You don't have to hold on so tightly." Li Chen chuckled beside him, "I won't roll down the steps."

"Why are you still so calm?"

"what?"

Saenz turned his head and looked at him deeply, as if he had a thousand words, but turned back and continued to lead him forward.

The guards who followed were startled when they saw them stop suddenly, and Saenz turned his head and stared at Li Chen for a few seconds.Did the Dragon Knight and the Patriarch quarrel in this place at this time?Don't!

What they didn't see, and what Saenz didn't see, was that Li Chen smiled lightly at the moment the man turned his head back, and then the smile was fleeting.

At the entrance of the temple on the top of the mountain, the guards of the guardian temple opened the door for everyone.Saenz was not in a hurry to go in, he just turned his head and asked Li Chen, "What's the matter?"

Li Chen pointed to a large open space next to him: "Here, was it pressed out by the bone dragon?"

"Well, there is one here, and another one behind." Saenz was a little helpless, but also a little indulgent, "The position behind is basically facing the direction of the treasure."

"Not surprising." Li Chen narrowed his eyes and smiled, turned around and prepared to enter the door with Saenz, "Longs like treasures."

The guards thought nothing of what he said, but it was a pun to Saenz.Saenz glanced sideways at him, but said nothing.

It's rare for him to be bored in front of his own people. Li Chen finds it funny, but his face remains calm.

Although the top of the temple is the nickname of the whole mountain, it actually refers to a tower in the backyard of the temple on the top of the mountain.This tower is a real forbidden place, except for the pure white Patriarch and the lucky nine-star mercenary, no one can go up.

The guards' send-off ends here, and from here on, only Saenz and Li Chen can enter.

Climbing so many stairs in a row, people with no physical fitness may have to kneel, but Pure White and Dragon Knight seemed to be okay. After the gate at the bottom of the tower was closed, they turned around and went up the stairs.

It is still an ancient stone staircase, winding up along the side of the tower.Because the stairs made it difficult for the two to walk side by side, Saenz and Li Chen walked one after the other, with the forest-like mountain breeze blowing from the small square window from time to time.

"This...is like what I saw in my dream." Li Chen stretched out his hand to caress the stone by the window, and chuckled, "I thought this kind of place should be more gorgeous than what I dreamed about."

"...It even showed you the place where it lives?" Saenz walked in front without turning back, "It seems that you have a good relationship."

"Naturally not shallow." Li Chen replied, "But in my dream, it should be empty in the middle, and there are some vines winding around the steps... Well, now that I think about it, it looks more like a greenhouse."

Saenz replied: "Maybe it wants to impress you, so it beautifies its place."

"It's such a funny joke, I'm about to laugh." Li Chen pretended to "hehe" twice, and then suddenly stopped in front of a window, "Hey, that should be the mountain where the bone dragon is now? The vegetation is still there. It’s so lush, you can’t see it.”

Saenz didn't stop walking: "Because it's on the other side of the mountain, of course you can't see him."

"...Okay." Li Chen didn't feel any embarrassment at all, he followed Saenz, "You know it so well, why don't I give it to you?"

Saenz ignored him at all.

"Hey, I say you should think about it, it's not bad to accept it, and it doesn't need to eat, and it's already cooked on your mountain." Li Chen continued, "You two are like a strong alliance, the whole alliance... no , the strongest in the whole continent is here, even the elf king may not be able to beat you."

Saenz continued to remain silent, walked up almost ten steps, and said, "...Didn't you decide to let it die a long time ago?"

After Li Chen left, if the effect of his death was the same, the bone dragon would not lose its energy immediately.According to the talent of the Dragon Clan, at least there is more than enough time for it to fly to the cemetery it wants to go to.

"It decided it, not me." Li Chen said later, "If you want, of course I will follow your wish first."

"……I do not want."

"Don't rush to refuse, think about it again, I don't think it repulses you very much, maybe..."

"I said I don't want it!" Saenz finally couldn't help turning around, holding Li Chen's shoulders, and pushing him against the wall, "What do I want it for! You know exactly what I want...! "

Li Chen looked at him steadfastly, as if he was familiar with the answer to this question: "I can't give you what you want."

"No, it's because you don't want to think about the other ending I want." Saenz's voice became a little hoarse, as if he was suppressing some emotion.He stared into Li Chen's eyes for a few seconds, then let go of him, turned around and continued walking up.

Li Chen didn't speak anymore, even his footsteps were quiet, but Saenz knew he was following.

At last they reached the last step.

Next to a small platform, there is a double door.The style here is still different from that of the nobles. There are two simple doors without any patterns.

"Why don't you draw two family crests of the Saenlich family here?" Li Chen was a little curious, or rather surprised.In his eyes, the nobles in the Redia Alliance are very territorial, but there is no pure white mark on the top of the temple. What kind of painting style is this?

"No outsider can come up, so why bother?"

Saenz replied nonchalantly, and then stepped forward to use the family's unique secret method to unlock the magic circle on the door.He suddenly laughed at himself: "Fortunately, you left immediately, otherwise you saw this formation once, wouldn't it be optional to open it in the future?"

He was right, Li Chen saw the light path of the formation, and it was easy to imitate, but Li Chen didn't answer.

Saenz stood in front of the gate, closed his eyes, and pushed the gate open.

In the empty room, the white light of the treasure inlaid on the gold base surged, and it caught Li Chen's eyes at once.

He involuntarily passed Saenz and walked forward.

Saenz stood at the door and looked at his back with complicated eyes.

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