Others Summon Dragons, I Summon Legendary Knights novel Chapter 263

Chapter 263: Forbidden City/James’ Ambition

Three days later...

Night-time.

"We’re here, guys. Hu~ I’m nervous," Nathan whispered while adjusting his head camera. He also held a selfie stick that showed his face.

His team worked outside the dungeon, making sure those watching the stream would have access to the split on their screens.

Above, they would see the terrain of the place through the head camera and below was Nathan’s face. His expressions and reactions were also huge selling points.

He was a big shot now, the Athens crisis and the accidental streaming of Godfrey’s battle against the limitless summon shot his popularity through the roof.

His subscribers were over a hundred million! Although the two streams that made him big were both accidental, Nathan with his new team planned to show them the most dangerous blue gate dungeon in the world.

"Alright. I’m ready." Nathan rubbed his hands together. Six other individuals were with him, Saint Tier summoners that made up one of the best freelancing teams in China. At least they could guarantee his safety.

"Can we go now?" The leader beckoned for him to follow them.

"So guys, we’re in Beijing, the capital of China." He followed them with a moderate pace. They walked on pavement blocks made centuries ago with buildings featuring red walls, yellow glazed-tile roofs and intricate bracket sets on the left and right sides.

This path was quite wide as the main gate was just behind him.

"We’re in the famous Forbidden City, right in the heart of Beijing. This place has existed for nearly six hundred years, is as big as a hundred football fields and has once housed twenty-four emperors, their concubines and thousands of eunuchs but now...?"

Nathan looked around. "Not so much. I’m joking. Anyone who goes through the main gate will surely arrive here, in this twisted version of the forbidden city. It’s almost the same as the actual forbidden city but this one is a graveyard and the crimson taotie army patrols often, guarding their nonexistent citizens."

He was quite focused on his screen when he suddenly bumped into one of the freelancers. The man glared at him.

"I’m sorry, I didn’t..." the remaining words fell off his wide mouth as he gawked at a crimson armoured footman on a rooftop.

The footman was clad in crimson metal plates, like a medieval Chinese soldier only much more menacing. His helmet was also a deep, metallic red colour, a textured, almost segmented surface with no eye slit for vision.

A spiral horn-like plume holder was visible at the top rear of the helmet and a small crimson plume fluttered softly.

The footman held a great axe almost grazing the rooftop. Nathan could almost feel the soft clinks of the chainmail connecting the helmet to the chest plate and double-layered pauldrons.

Although Nathan couldn’t see it, the symbol of a taotie, the beast of gluttony, was etched onto the helmet’s face.

He gulped hard.

It stood motionless with a big, bright moon, over ten times the size of Earth’s moon loomed behind this intimidating footman.

Millions of people all over the globe watched Nathan breathe in and out several times before he regained his bearing.

He gulped once more. "That was creepy.... B-but the good news is these taotie soldiers do not move at night, unless you touch them of course. And this footman’s base tier is Throne Tier and with each kill, they devour their foes and grow stronger. It’s said their only limit is that they can’t surpass the emperor."

Nathan sucked in a huge amount of air.

"Do you know what this means? This casual soldier might actually be a Saint or a Divine or maybe even an Origin Tier dungeon monster!"

He shuddered.

"Tsk!" One of the Saint Tier summoners brought out a gauge. It read 15.5, meaning this soldier was at the peak of Throne Tier which also meant it had been killed before.

And what else would a dungeon soldier kill aside from humans?

"We should keep moving." Their leader said. "Will you visit the Six Eastern Palaces or the Six Western Palaces first?"

"You mean the place where the concubines and consorts stayed?" Nathan responded with a whisper.

"You don’t have to whisper. Yes, but don’t expect any concubines here. It’s either the taotie soldiers or the emperor’s ghosts," the leader explained.

"Okay. I think I prefer looking for the taotie cavalrymen and the emperor’s ghosts. Let’s go wherever you think they’ll be." Nathan responded with bright eyes.

His viewers had risen to twelve million! God! He was a star... if only it didn’t have to be because he was thrusting himself into the jaws of death.

"Let’s go."

As they continued moving, Nathan began to speak to add more spookiness to his viewers who were already commenting on how eerie the place looked.

"This is the only dungeon in the world that has not been cleared, not once and it has existed for nearly seventy years! I once heard there have been expeditions to clear it and all of them have failed but were never revealed to the public. I’m telling you, this place could be even more dangerous than the two red gates that opened up in Athens."

Nathan kept speaking until they arrived at a place where they could see a bridge, the Broken Rainbow Bridge. On it were four imposing taotie cavalrymen rendered immobile in their journey back to the inner court.

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