Reborn as the Henchman Who Protects the Villain novel · Chapter 20 of 24
Chapter 20: The Lower Gate
The stair ended in a cave so large that the roof was lost in the dark.
In the middle of it, in a bowl of black rock, lay a moon.
It was the size of a hall and the color of dull pearl, curled in on itself and cracked along its whole side.
It was not bright.
It gave off a thin cold gleam, the kind a candle gives on its last inch.
It rose and fell, slowly, with the breath they had heard through the floor.
Shi Wen stopped on the last step with his lamp hand pressed to his chest.
He had read about many things in eleven readings of Dawnbreak.
He had never once been told how sad it would look.
On the platform at the edge of the bowl stood the Peak Master, with Dawnbreak in his hand.
Forty disciples in blue were fanned out behind him.
At the side, between two of those disciples, stood the Young Sword, very pale, with his hands tied in front of him.
"Lord Duan," said Zhu Hongdao, pleasantly. "You are slow. I opened the Gate myself, and had time to admire her."
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