Swallowed Star: Beginning as a Giant Axe Warrior
Chapter 52

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"An attack?" Li Yilin's expression shifted. He exchanged a glance with Blair.

"Who would attack you?" Li Yilin asked.

"Have you offended anyone lately?" Blair asked.

"The people who attacked me were from the Shenlan Crystal Clan. I don't know why they attacked me, either." Hilda shook her head, confusion in her eyes. "The most important thing is, I'd never had any dealings with the Shenlan Crystal Clan before, let alone offended them."

Without some dispute over benefits or a personal grudge, people generally didn't go around offending others for no reason. After all, no one could know whether an insignificant-looking ant might have a mountain behind it that they couldn't afford to offend.

"Oh, and the person who hunted me in the secret realm—I suspect he was from the Sanglan Crystal Clan, too." Hilda spoke excitedly. When she'd been gravely wounded once, she'd overheard him speaking. His words sounded a lot like the native language of the Sanglan Crystal Clan. Unfortunately, the man had been covered head to toe in armor and had even disguised himself, so she couldn't make out what he looked like.

She knew it had been the Sanglan Crystal Clan's language because, years ago, while adventuring through the universe, she'd once spoken with someone from the clan. Unfortunately, that fellow had been unlucky enough to enter a secret realm and never come back out.

"Something doesn't add up." Li Yilin frowned.

"You encountered someone who had comprehended two laws, including a Higher Law, and who was hunting you. How could you possibly have escaped?" Those were laws, after all. Comprehending even one would let someone easily defeat a stronger opponent.

The reason he'd managed to hold out for so long during that hunt back then was that he'd comprehended the Lightning Law. Under the extreme

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