"Huh? Ah? What?" Urien's face immediately went blank. For a moment, he could not process what Xiao Ran had said and suddenly had no idea what the situation was.
You said you were a visitor from another world. I prepared a banquet to welcome you, but then you told me you had come here as a merchant to trade with me.
I agreed to your deal, only for you to tell me that you were not a merchant but a mercenary, and the business you wanted to discuss was having me hire you.
Mercenaries would have been one thing, but look at the jobs you were talking about. The Scourge? The Burning Legion? Orcs, undead, dragons? Were those things ordinary mercenaries could handle? Did you know how difficult those enemies were to deal with? Even if you were a visitor from another world, you could not make it sound so easy.
Xiao Ran smiled faintly and raised a hand. "Looks like I startled you."
Urien shook his head and came back to his senses, then laughed as though nothing had happened. "Not at all. It is just that what you said was indeed rather surprising. Please, we can discuss the matter of employment properly during the banquet. For now, I must introduce you to everyone."
In truth, Urien did not know how to introduce Xiao Ran either. Xiao Ran's situation was simple enough: the Archbishop of Holy Light had received a message from the Holy Light that a mysterious and powerful figure from the Order Side of another world had arrived in Stormwind City. The archmages of Dalaran had also received a vague prophecy that a mysterious powerhouse would appear in Azeroth and bring enormous changes to Azeroth.
As for how the Holy Light and the archmages had received this