Chapter 27

“Alright, you guys should leave this place.”

The stone statue spoke again when it saw Athosen accept Matthew.

“Wait.”

Matthew asked the question that had been interrupted before. “How should Athosen improve its strength?”

Athosen realized that this fellow knew nothing.

It couldn’t help but despise Matthew in its heart.

It was about to explain.

However, the stone statue spoke first. “You will know in the future.”

As soon as it finished speaking, the surrounding space began to distort.

Matthew and the others gradually lost their vision.

Moments later, the blood-red cave they were in disappeared from their sight.

In its place was a dense forest, which was where they were looking for the Darkin Flower.

This place was auspicious and peaceful. There was nothing strange about it at all.

Unlike before when there had been scarlet mist and horrifying voices.

It was dark when they fell into the quagmire. Now that they came out, the sky was already bright.

When Matthew thought of the Darkin Flower, his expression immediately changed.

He immediately started rummaging around, but he couldn’t find what he wanted even after a long time.

Athosen saw Matthew’s frantic look and felt another wave of distaste.

“A brat with no demeanor!”

It muttered.

Matthew heard it but didn’t care.

He was searching for the Tier 9 Darkin Flower.

A Tier 9 treasure!

It was a nearly extinct treasure on the Vartas continent.

Although it was not as rare as the divine beasts of the dragon race, it was still extremely rare.

Most people might not encounter a Tier 9 treasure throughout their lives.

Matthew was lucky to be able to encounter it now.

But Athosen did not know this.

The grumpy Athosen waited a long time.

Finally, it couldn’t help but roar, “What exactly are you looking for? You brought me here to waste time?”

“A Tier 9 Darkin Flower! That’s a treasure that even Gods would be jealous of!”

Matthew replied coldly, his hands and feet still busy.

If not for the system’s constant reminder that the Tier 9 Darkin Flower was here, he would have given up long ago.

However, the System had always helped him find many treasures. Every single one of them could be found accurately.

Why was it that after searching for such a long time, he didn’t even see the shadow of the Tier 9 Darkin Flower?

“Hmph, stop dreaming.”

At that moment Athosen snorted.

“What do you mean?” Matthew looked back at it.

Athosen said with an arrogant expression, “The Darkin Flower is a divine item of the Darkin Race. How could it fall into the mortal world? Although I don’t know how you found this place, I can tell you the location of the Darkin Flower. It’s right on that stone statue’s head.”

What!?

Matthew felt a bolt of lightning flash through his mind, leaving his mind blank.

The Darkin Flower was on the head of the stone statue!?

Matthew thought back to what he had seen.

There was indeed a flower on the head of the stone statue. It looked like it was carved from crystal and was translucent.

It turned out that the Darkin Flower was so close to him.

But he missed it because he did not recognize it!

A supreme opportunity that was so close!

Matthew felt like crying.

If he had known earlier, he would have asked the stone statue directly.

Perhaps because of their agreement, the stone statue would give him the Darkin Flower.

Athosen chuckled to itself when it saw Matthew lose his composure.

It seemed really happy to see Matthew’s ludicrous action.

Following which, Athosen spoke in an arrogant tone, “Don’t worry, my Darkin Race has many treasures. If you make me happy, I might reward you with a couple of them.”

When Matthew returned to his senses, he glared fiercely at Athosen. What was going on in this fellow’s head every day?

He said coldly, “If you make me unhappy, I won’t help you revive the Darkin Race!”

Athosen was at a loss for words at the mention of reviving the Darkin Race. He did not know how to retort.

Reviving the Darkin was its ultimate goal.

With the curse, it could not complete this grand goal alone.

It could be said that without Matthew, it could not do anything.

“You… foolish human, one day, I will reward you with death.”

In the end, Athosen could only stare helplessly at Matthew as it spat out a vicious sentence through gritted teeth.

Matthew responded casually, “If you think you can kill me.”

“…”

Athosen was speechless again.

It was not that it did not have the ability to kill Matthew, but it could not kill him. Otherwise, it would be no different from committing suicide.

As the last member of the Darkin Race, how could it die because of a mere mortal?

“Hmph!”

Athosen, unable to argue, could only snort to express its disdain.

And Matthew paid no further attention to Athosen’s presence as he walked toward Brenda and Edith.

Matthew hadn’t seen the two of them earlier in that scarlet cavern.

At that time, he had been curious about where the two of them were.

In the end, he never expected that they were sleeping soundly on the ground, and even the curse on their bodies had disappeared.

“Wake up.”

Matthew crouched down and pushed Brenda with his right hand.

“Hnngg!”

Brenda groaned as she slowly opened her bright eyes.

Then, Brenda saw Matthew and was shocked.

“Am I still alive?”

She touched her beautiful face and was instantly excited when she felt the sensation.

She quickly shook Edith, who was beside her, and shouted excitedly, “Sister, wake up! We’re still alive!”

They had thought that they were going to die. When they gradually lost consciousness, their hearts were filled with despair.

Unexpectedly, when they woke up again, they saw the blue sky and the white clouds floating in it.

And they saw… the Dragon Knight.

Edith also slowly opened her eyes.

Her watery eyes were filled with some confusion.

When she saw her sister, that trace of confusion instantly disappeared and was replaced with a bittersweet feeling.

Thinking back to the pain from the curse, even though it was no longer painful, she still felt her blood run cold.

At first, she thought that she had died, but after seeing her sister, she knew that they were still alive.

Edith immediately embraced her sister, two streams of tears running down her cheeks. It was hard to tell whether she was crying from joy or fear.

The two beauties embraced each other on the ground, presenting an extremely heartwarming scene.

The warmth between them influenced Matthew.

This made him recall his life in Dragon God Village seven years ago. It was also this warm.

After a brief moment of warmth, Brenda and Edith parted.

The two came to Matthew and bowed slightly. “Honorable Dragon Knight, thank you for saving us.”

In their eyes, no one could have saved them except Matthew.

But it wasn’t Matthew who had saved them.

If his guess was correct, the stone statue had saved the two girls.

But Matthew didn’t want to reveal what had happened in the bloody cave.

Knowing too much might not be a good thing for the two girls.

At that moment, Brenda and Edith also saw Athosen. They looked puzzled…