Chapter 215

With the thunder of hooves beneath us, we arrived at the Grand Temple in no time.

Ordinarily, the place would have been bustling with holy knights and priests guarding it, but now the entrance stood empty, as if everyone had been pulled inside to deal with Shurin.

Cain reined the horse to a smooth stop and set me down on the ground.

"Take those stairs over there, and you'll find the chapel. Go inside."

Cain said, pulling the hood down low over my head.

"It's empty inside, so wait there."

He stared, intent, at the building around us. With a Dragonblood's keen senses and eyes that could see straight through holy power, he seemed to have grasped, at a glance, that the inside was safe.

"What about you, Cain?"

"I told you. I'll clear the way."

Our eyes met in the air between us. I understood, at once, exactly what…