Hearing the strange noises from outside, Liu Xiaoxiao immediately dove through the pool he had entered through and followed the sounds through the dense, spiderweb-like maze of complex tunnels.
After quite a while, when he reached the vicinity of a cavern where the noises originated, ten signs of life appeared within his Mental Detection.
Seven were clearly Dark Elves. The remaining three were from the Elf Clan, yet for some reason, they carried an aura similar to that of the Dark Elves.
No, more precisely, their auras were very similar to those of three of the Dark Elves, and somewhat surpassed those of the other four Dark Elves.
Moreover, Liu Xiaoxiao was no stranger to that aura.
The aura of destruction.
The situation in the cavern was six against four. Three members of the Elf Clan and three Dark Elves, all possessing the Power of Destruction, were joining forces to attack the other four Dark Elves.
Besides that, a stone pillar stood in the center of the cavern, carved with patterns of elves and dragons. At its peak sat a black gemstone.
It was a cat's-eye stone, predominantly black, with a white streak running through its center like a cat's eye.
The ground was covered in intricate magic arrays, though they appeared to have been mostly destroyed.
Before Liu Xiaoxiao could act, one of the Elf Clan members had already seized the cat's-eye gemstone.
He did not know what the cat's-eye stone was for, but if it could drive these elves to fight so fiercely over it, it clearly served an important purpose. It absolutely could not be allowed to fall so easily into the hands of those carrying the aura of destruction.
The Void Breaker Sword appeared in his hand. Rather than attacking outright, Liu Xiaoxiao tried to draw