After staring at each other for a moment, the girl in white finally came to her senses. A trace of panic flashed through her beautiful eyes, and she hurriedly pulled back her jade-like hand.
"Ah..."
Perhaps she had pulled too hard, and with the girl in white already exhausted, she lost her footing and toppled backward.
Just as panic filled the girl in white's face, she suddenly found her jade-like hand being caught, then was pulled back by a powerful force.
Her delicate body traced a beautiful arc as the girl in white fell straight into Flowing Cloud's embrace.
"Thank you..."
After recovering her senses, the girl in white softly thanked him, quickly freeing herself from Flowing Cloud's grasp. Then, her gaze discreetly swept over the situation beyond the crevice. Brushing the strands of hair before her forehead aside with slender fingers, she looked over Flowing Cloud's face and softly asked, "Are you... a mercenary too?"
"No." Recalling the softness that had just lingered in his hand, Flowing Cloud shook his head.
Hearing this, the girl in white gave Flowing Cloud a slight once-over. Dressed in simple white robes, he truly did not look like a mercenary.
"What about that monster outside?" The girl in white suddenly looked outside, her expression somewhat puzzled.
"You mean the Raging Giant Ape? I drove that beast away." Flowing Cloud looked at the girl in white before him and smiled.
Though the girl before him was not exceptionally beautiful, her gentle, graceful temperament was quite captivating.
Flowing Cloud had always been patient with beautiful women.
Flowing Cloud felt rather fortunate that he had acted just now.
Otherwise, would it not have been a terrible shame for such a beauty to die at the hands of a magical beast?
"You drove that monster away?"
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