Chapter 1209 - 559
Caught off guard and choked by the sudden mouthful of a little dumpling, Motan gagged right there, rolling his eyes as he vigorously thumped his chest a few times. Failing to clear it, he began to scratch his neck, and only after he started to lose blood did he gulp down two bottles of strong Healing Potion to flush the thing down, leaning on his knees and gasping for a while before he finally caught his breath...
Yu Chen held her arms and turned her little face away, ignoring him.
"You really aren’t fat, you know."
Motan looked sincerely at the girl before him and said from his heart, "Not at all, so there’s really no need to diet, okay?"
Yu Chen cast a glance at him, her head drooping in dejection, "You don’t need to comfort me."
Motan recited a passage from the Heart Sutra silently to himself, then examined Yu Chen up and down and said with certainty, "I’m really not comforting you."
"I’m two centimeters shorter than Xiaoge and Xiao Island... yet I weigh two kilograms more than them..."
Yu Chen continued to lament as she wobbled up the stairs.
Walking alongside her, Motan thought for a long time, unsure whether to voice his speculation.
[After all, you have bigger breasts...]
If he were frank with the extremely thin-skinned Yu Chen about it, would she, out of embarrassed anger, kick him down the stairs?
However, as if guessing what he wanted to say, Yu Chen added in a voice barely louder than a mosquito’s, "I don’t want them to be any bigger either... My shoulders are always sore..."
"Cough cough, how about we find a less crowded place to walk it off?"
Motan almost shouted to change the subject, feeling his blood pressure rise.
"Hey, everyone just wants to get to know you, especially since the tales of Motan’s deeds in Misha County have already spread."
Yu Chen looked at him with a smile and graciously said, "I want to take you to the top floor. The view is particularly nice there. I’ve already checked with the Saintess, and she said we can go~"
"Uh, there are no special restrictions, right?"
Motan scratched his head, speaking hesitantly, "I always feel like these headquarters-like places must have some big secrets on the top floors. If I accidentally see something I shouldn’t, and then Xia Lian suddenly pops up and tells me that from now on I must either be a slave for the Church of the Dawn until I die or just die directly, that wouldn’t be good."
Yu Chen chuckled and then waved her hands repeatedly, "Don’t worry, it’s not as serious as you think. As the place in the Holy Scripture closest to the divine, the cathedral’s top floor is often open for believers to visit, and high-ranking clergy can also come and go freely."
"That puts me at ease, uh, what is this..."
Motan was cut off mid-sentence by a two-meter-square, glittering golden round tray that suddenly fell nearby.
"Elevator."
Yu Chen jumped on first, then beckoned to Motan, "Using this, we can reach the Thousand Lights Dome in an instant. It’s pretty amazing."
...
Five seconds later
"Wow, that really was instant..."
Motan staggered off the ’elevator,’ his face pale as he murmured, "I feel like I’m about to throw up my stomach..."
Yu Chen immediately trotted half a step forward and crouched down to gently pat Motan’s back, belatedly apologizing, "Oh, I just thought of something. Usually, only high-ranking people can come here... maybe it’s because the speed is a bit too fast. Hmm, do you want me to treat you?"
"No... no need... I’m not bleeding..."
Motan staggered to his feet and looked up at the boundless ’Thousand Lights Dome,’ marveling, "But this place... really is spectacular."
His remark was spot-on, as the ’Dome’ located on the top floor of the Dawn Cathedral was indeed spectacular. Perhaps due to some sort of Divine Arts, although it was called a ’dome,’ it seemed not to truly have a ’top.’ Instead, it was replaced by a sky that beautifully blended the lights of dawn, twilight, evening, stars, moon, and even the aurora. Each owned its territory yet miraculously merged with each other, creating a theoretical impossibility—an astonishingly endless expanse as if an endless nebula stretching into infinity...
"Hehe, I was also startled when I first came here."
Because of her status as God’s Chosen, Yu Chen, who couldn’t possibly suffer any harm in the Dawn Domain, didn’t experience the nausea induced by the gravitational acceleration as Motan did. Seeing that he was alright, she immediately grabbed his arm and walked forward, "There’s more to see inside~"
Her large eyes sparkled with joy, like a child eager to share all the beautiful things she had seen.
In that instant, with his eyes meeting Yu Chen’s, Motan suddenly felt that the miraculous vista around them was just so-so. If possible, he preferred to spend a bit more time gazing into her eyes that could outshine the lights of the dome.
Then, in his distracted state, he nearly tripped over...
Moments later, as if passing some invisible line, the scenery around them abruptly changed. Although the miraculous sky remained the same, dozens of meters to Motan and Yu Chen’s left and right, there suddenly appeared gothic, crystal-clear, colorful, and magnificently beautiful stained glass panes, adorned with various drawings and scenes that Motan couldn’t understand, leading him to preliminarily conclude that their creator probably wasn’t much of a drinker.