Lily had the trident and could use Poseidon's abilities, so that meant she could also shapeshift and was sure it could succeed and nodded to Urug.
Karrghed lived not too far from this village, so they flew off immediately.
2 hours later they saw a huge white city built on a big mountain. There were caves and houses everywhere and it looked like a modern city mixed with something ancient.
Lily placed the hatchling in William's arms and told him to take care of it. She sneaked to the city alone and luckily, she saw some male orcs, but they were all red skinned and had face paint but were wearing normal human clothes and even shoes which surprised her. She hid behind some bushes and waited for some women to appear and shortly after she saw a group of red female orcs who had white flower wreaths in their hair and beautiful white dresses. It looked like they had a status, so she chose the one that looked the most beautiful even though none of them were pretty in her eyes but chose the one that stood out the most from them.
"I hear there’s a lake that can make one's skin look better. Let's visit it.” said one of the women and they quickly walked away from the city.
Lily took out the trident and remembered exactly in her head what the woman looked like and suddenly she felt her body begin to change. She felt her skin, legs and arms stretch and she grew taller. She felt in her mouth that she had gotten 4 tusks and felt them and looked at her arms and saw that they had turned red.
Unfortunately, she wasn't wearing the same clothes as them, so she had to find some unless her white dress worked. It had to be a test and she made the trident shrink and placed it between her breasts where Eco lay. She could teleport but unfortunately, she didn't know the buildings inside, otherwise she could have used that ability. Suddenly she saw a white flower wreath on the grass and thought of the same one the woman had on her head and put it on hoping it would help with her disguise.
When she entered the town, everyone greeted her nicely and they smiled kindly at her, so she was right that the woman had a status here.
When she had been walking for some time, she saw a huge round white palace in front, but suddenly became doubtful if she could get in there. She was not a royal guard or someone who worked at the palace.
As she was about to turn around to think of a solution, she heard a man say, “Princess Garakh. Didn't you go away with the girls a little while ago?”
She looked to her right and saw an orc wearing a white robe and long white hair and a white beard. If she was a princess, that meant she had access to the palace. The question was whether she still had living parents or whether the palace had raised her.
"What is dad doing?" she asked.
"He still attends meetings. Why?" he asked.
Lily sighed and replied, “I just missed spending some time with him. It feels like I never see him.” and was reminded of her own father who traveled a lot because of his work.
The man sighed and said, “I know your upbringing has not been easy since your mother passed away. If you bring him the usual cookies, he will be happy to see you.”
Lily nodded and was happy and ran inside because she was ecstatic that she could now sneak in without difficulty. She hid behind a white pillar in the shadows and took out the card which had a map of the palace. The scroll and the artifact should be in a study room, and she really hoped that both things were present because then she could kill two birds with one stone. She slipped around and was not stopped by anyone because she was a princess, but she knew that one's father's study room was a forbidden area and when she arrived at the room she hid behind a pillar.
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“Is there a barrier there?” she whispered.
Eco chuckled and replied, “No and there’s no one present inside. He really thinks he’s so powerful that he doesn't need a barrier.”
Lily had a beautiful smile on her face and looked like a sly fox and whispered, “Let's see what treasures he hides. Hehe.” and slipped to the door.
She was surprised that there were no guards so Eco must have guessed correctly that Karrghed had big thoughts of himself. She opened the door and slipped inside, using the trident to light up the room.
"Help me." she said because she didn't know if Karrghed's meeting ended unexpectedly.
Eco flew out from her breasts and hovered in front of a bookcase and said, “Here.”
Lily went to her left and took out a big thick blue book and in the same second, she heard a creaking sound and the bookcase started to come apart in the middle. There was a black hole behind, and she went in there immediately. She heard the bookcase creak again and it closed. She hoped there was another way out, but she could worry about that later.
When she had walked for a few minutes, she saw a room in front of her that lit up and when she entered there were heaps of treasure chests with precious stones and all kinds of jewels that she had never seen before. Since she was already here, it didn't hurt to take something with her. With Eco's help, they found two small brown boxes where one had a white scroll and the other had a large gold medallion with a dragon's head which was the artifact she came to steal.
Eco helped her take the most valuable things and suddenly she noticed a large wooden chest that had a lot of scrolls in different colors.
"What do they contain?" she asked curiously.
“It looks like ancient summoning scrolls.” Answered Eco who hovered to her right.
When Lily heard that she hurried to take the whole chest in the space ring and looked around and suddenly her eyes fell on a large white skeleton of a dragon where all the bones were hung up on strings, so it looked like the dragon was flying in the air.
If she could revive flowers, was it possible that she could revive a dragon?
"Whose skeleton is that?" she asked curiously.
“It looks like an ancient dragon. Possibly the first to live in this world. Why?" Eco asked.
" Uhm, can you help bring it with me in my space ring?" Lily asked.
Eco shook his head and replied, “Your ring will break if that skeleton gets in there. There’s still a strong aura even though it’s just a skeleton.”
Lily sighed and was disappointed but as she was about to give up, she heard him say, "I can take it in my space if you want it."
Lily hugged him and said, "I love you." and was happy again.
Eco moved his right wing and suddenly a black horizontal rift opened to the right of them and began to suck the skeleton into him. When all the bones were in there, the rift closed.
Lily had seen Bai do the same and now wondered if everyone had a dimension. She was reminded of the Book of Dimension and that she had her own but hadn't used it yet.
Eco sat on her right shoulders and pointed in front of him, saying, "There's a way out there."
On the way to the exit, Lily's eyes suddenly fell on a lot of black treasure chests that had a lot of different kinds of stones in different colors. They didn't look like jewels or precious stones, so she was sure they were used for something else.
"What kind of stones are these?" she asked, pointing to the coffins.
"It's magic stones." replied Eco.
Lily immediately took them into her ring because there were people who could not level up with the system and therefore could benefit from these stones.
Eco chuckled and said, “You might as well steal the whole cave.”
Lily pouted and said, "When Urug gets the artifact back he will be the new leader so I can't steal all his valuables." and walked through the long black hallway and 5 minutes later she saw light and when she stepped out, she was in a forest.
With Eco's help, she quickly found William and Celestia and they flew back to Urug and handed the artifact to him who wept with joy. Lily mentioned she had taken some treasure and the dragon skeleton as she didn't want to sound like a thief.
Urug chuckled and said, "You could have taken it all and it wouldn't matter since this village also has treasures."
Lily changed back to herself, and they said color l to Urug and his people who wanted to throw a party for them but unfortunately they didn't have time and politely declined.
They got on Eco and flew towards the sylph queen who lived in a lava area.
"Why did you take a skeleton?" William asked curiously.
"She intends to revive it. Am I right Lily?” Celestia said.
Lily nodded and explained her abilities and what she had in mind and hoped it worked but wanted to wait to do it until she needed a real dragon. She already had quite a few in her world but they were all trapped by the system.