"Eh, Yao girl, when did you go outside?"
The corner of Giant Axe's eye caught the scene before the tavern, and he asked in puzzlement.
In his memory, Yao Ziyan should still have been upstairs. How had she suddenly appeared outside without him noticing in the slightest?
It was not just him. Even Wang Gulas, also a Legendary Expert, had failed to sense her.
Hearing Giant Axe's voice, Wang Gulas looked behind him, an equally puzzled expression appearing on his face.
"No, she isn't Yao girl."
Giant Axe quickly furrowed his brows, retracting his earlier words.
Though her features were almost indistinguishable from Yao Ziyan's—violet eyes and violet hair, both rare sights—the feeling she gave off was entirely different.
Yao Ziyan felt refined and gentle, lively and graceful, while the girl before them seemed strange and impish, making it impossible to guess what she would do next.
Beside this girl, whose face bore an extraordinary resemblance to Yao Ziyan's, stood another young girl who looked soft-natured and shy.
The two girls were standing before the tavern door, curiously peering inside.
Yet the dwarves in the tavern, along with the scant few elderly Human Mages, paid them no mind. All of them were immersed in their Hearthstone Legends matches and the Voice of Stories from earlier.
"This feels different from other taverns."
Yao Ziyue stood at the entrance, curiously looking into the tavern. Though it was equally noisy, it was nothing like other taverns, where dwarves were always arm-wrestling and drinking themselves blind drunk.
Instead, it somehow even had an air of elegance.
"So many tables... What are these dwarves playing?" Elina noticed the Hearthstone equipment placed throughout the tavern. Not a single one was idle, and dwarves stood watching beside every device. The projected screens displayed scenes she could