Although it had already been decided that the Eight Greed Kings' equipment shouldn't fall into Ligurit's hands, Ellie was still quite interested in some good things in the Eight Greed Kings' treasure vault. So, after Chao Lu finished tidying up, Ellie requested to go to the treasure vault.
"Since Lord Ellie wants to go to the treasure vault, I naturally have no reason to refuse. There's no need to ask for my opinion." Chao Lu responded without a trace of emotion. Perhaps Ellie herself was still not accustomed to being treated as Bai Xia by Chao Lu, so she used a requesting tone when making her demand.
"However, the treasure vault is currently managed by Snow Elf, but that stupid cat just ran off somewhere. Lord Ellie will have to trouble her to call her out." However, Chao Lu's subsequent addition of this sentence gave Ellie a headache.
How was she supposed to call her? That cat named Snow Elf was someone whose presence she couldn't even sense with her senses fully open. Who knew where she ran off to? How was she supposed to call her? She couldn't just stand there and shout her name, could she?
"How should I call her?" With no other options, Ellie could only ask Chao Lu. After all, she really wasn't that Bai Xia, so of course she wouldn't know how to call Snow Elf. Given this... Chao Lu should suspect that she wasn't Bai Xia, right?
"Just call her name like before. As long as she's in the city, she'll hear your call no matter where she is." Chao Lu inadvertently revealed a very alarming piece of information.
Is that cat's performance that exceptional? She can hear no matter where she is? Does that mean? If she wanted to, wouldn't it be easy for her to eavesdrop on her conversation with Ligurit just now?
Although Bell's talisman could prevent information-gathering spells and greatly reduce the sound of nearby conversations, this cat's hearing covered the entire Sky City, which was preposterous. In other words... perhaps the cat and Chao Lu already knew about her conversation with Ligurit?
No... if they knew, Chao Lu wouldn't have nodded and agreed to go to the treasure vault. Or was she deliberately letting them go even though she knew?
Ellie hesitated, wondering whether to call that cat. Ligurit also noticed Ellie's concern, and her expression wasn't good either. It seemed they were thinking the same thing.
In this situation, they could only take a chance. Because with their combined strength, eliminating everyone present shouldn't be a problem, and there was absolutely no need to set up some trap for them to fall into. There was no need to make it so troublesome!
"Snow Elf! Where are you! Come out!!" Ellie took a deep breath, steeling herself, and then shouted with full confidence. Ellie had never called the maids of Nazarick like this when she was in Nazarick.
"Heh heh! Coming! Lord Bai Xia, did you call me?" However, less than half a second later, the cat's voice came from behind her. Ellie quickly turned around, and Ligurit, who had been beside her, also looked at Ellie's back with great surprise—no, she was looking at Ellie's shadow.
The cat peeked her head out from Ellie's shadow, looking at Ellie with a smiling expression. Had this fellow been hiding in her shadow all along?
If that's the case... then she definitely heard everything she and Ligurit talked about just now.
What should she do? Should she directly put on the Champion Armor and escape? No? Let's see the cat's attitude first!
"Stupid cat? You didn't learn your lesson, did you? You eavesdropped on Lord Ellie's conversation again!" Chao Lu's cold voice came. Although Chao Lu was always emotionless, this sentence clearly contained anger. Chao Lu's reaction surprised Ellie.
"I didn't! I just ran to the city gate to play with those two tin cans, and then I heard Lord Bai Xia's call, so I moved into Lord Bai Xia's shadow." Snow Elf jumped directly out of Ellie's shadow and replied.
The 'tin cans' the cat mentioned must be the two Heavy Armor Knights at the city gate, right? Hey, hey! It takes half an hour to walk from here to the city gate!
This cat could hear her call from such a distance and silently drill into someone else's shadow? This was an ability similar to teleportation magic, wasn't it? The problem was that teleportation magic was countered by various anti-magic and barrier spells. Could this be blocked?
"I hope everything you said is true! Now, Lord Ellie wants to go to the treasure vault, you lead the way." Chao Lu seemed to accept the cat's explanation and then said to the cat.
"Going to the treasure vault? Understood!" The cat stood up straight, saluted Ellie, then pulled open her collar, reached her hand into her chest, fumbled around, and took out several rings, displaying them.
"Please wear these, otherwise you won't be able to enter the treasure vault," Snow Elf said.
Uh... what's with this full sense of déjà vu? The setting where you can't enter the treasure vault without wearing a ring, she felt like she had seen it somewhere before?
Although Ellie really wanted to complain about this, she saw that Snow Elf only took out three rings, thinking that this stupid cat probably couldn't even count people. There were four people going to the treasure vault, not counting the cat, right?
However, Chao Lu, who was beside her, didn't say anything after seeing it. Snow Elf also handed those rings to Ligurit and the others, excluding Ellie. Did that mean? She, as Bai Xia, could enter without any hindrance?
The key was that she was an imposter Bai Xia! This wouldn't trigger some counter-mechanism, would it? Thinking of this, Ellie immediately broke out in a cold sweat. If it were traps or mechanisms set by natives, it wouldn't matter, but these were things created by the Eight Greed Kings. She couldn't handle traps and mechanisms created by players.
"I don't need one?" Ellie saw Ligurit and the others all putting on their rings and quickly asked.
"Hm? Lord Bai Xia is so strange. Didn't you propose the treasure vault's defense system yourself? Of course, you don't need one!" Snow Elf's words instantly made Ellie feel a sense of malice.
Uh... well, she would be the one to test the waters, and it could also prove that she wasn't Bai Xia. If she wasn't Bai Xia, it would be normal for the defense system to be triggered. Alright! Get ready to summon the Champion Armor.
"Alright, then follow me! Yo-ho!" After Snow Elf finished speaking, she turned around and swiped her hand in an empty space. The empty space then split open like a crack, revealing a dark, cavernous entrance.
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