Elf Forest,
"Got it wrong?"
Elusa stared at Li Si standing before her with utmost vigilance. His relaxed posture made it seem as though their attack had posed no threat to him whatsoever.
Li Si made no move. Instead, he spread his hands and sheathed the longsword in his hand.
"If I were a slave hunter, how could Cecile be helping me?"
Li Si pointed at Cecile behind him, who stood there holding her staff in a daze, and looked at Elusa.
"Oh, oh, oh!"
Only after hearing Li Si did Cecile come back to her senses. She hurriedly nodded and said:
"That's right. Mr. Li Si is the guard I hired. He isn't part of any slave hunter group."
After saying that, Cecile glanced at Li Si.
She truly had not expected Li Si to be so forceful when facing the Elf Guard.
The battle had lasted only an instant, yet members of the Elf Guard—elites even among the elves—had been utterly unable to fight back before Li Si. And that was with Li Si holding back.
Even if Li Si was a Gold-level powerhouse, he should not have been able to crush her fellow elves so completely, right?
"This..."
Elusa looked at Li Si and Cecile, unable to tell the truth for the moment.
Still, she could not help but believe them a little.
If the young man called Li Si really were a slave hunter, he would never have stopped and calmly spoken with her now.
After all, they had no strength left to resist.
Yet Elusa did not simply trust Li Si. Who knew whether he had some other motive?
Elusa did not respond. She merely watched Li Si warily as she slowly backed away, dragged Pedroes—still unconscious beneath the cover of the tree canopy—to his