Half an hour later, outside a training ground of the Wind Spirit Moon Shadow Sect.
Mint's slender figure quietly appeared in the distance, but when she passed a patch of grass, she suddenly stopped.
"..."
She lowered her head with a calm expression and looked into the depths of the grass. There, a dark Gu insect about the size of a thumb was lying on a leaf, its two antennae gently swaying as it absorbed the dense spiritual energy around it.
"I know you can hear me."
Mint looked at the Gu insect and calmly said, "I'll wait for you here for the time it takes an incense stick to burn."
"Hiss..."
The Gu insect let out a strange hiss, as though it understood something. Its shell opened, the elytra beneath spread out and began beating rapidly, and it soon flew away without a trace.
Mint said nothing.
She simply stood there and waited quietly.
A few minutes later, rapid footsteps approached from afar, and the little one with wolf ears atop her head came running over.
"I-I'm here..."
As soon as Little Wolf-chan arrived, she immediately looked up at Mint Fairy in the distance. "What did you want from me?"
"Tonight is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity."
Mint looked at the little wolf pup before her and calmly said, "Didn't you say before that you wanted your master? If nothing goes wrong, you should be able to succeed tonight..."
"Really?"
However, upon hearing this, Little Wolf-chan's gaze—or rather, her expression—carried a faint trace of unease. "Are we... are we really going to do this?"
"What do you mean by that?"
Mint's tone remained as calm and indifferent as ever. "That personal maid by your master's side is dangerous. It would be difficult to act with her around, but she just happens