Elf Forest's edge,
Li Si knocked away the short blade that had struck from the shadows and looked toward the darkness within the forest ahead.
So they had come after all?
Li Si was somewhat curious. He had not noticed anything unusual along the way, nor had he sensed any signs of someone tracking them.
So how had the other party found him and Cecile?
The person attacking Cecile could not have been from the Elf Slave Hunting Group.
The sneak attack Li Si had blocked just now had clearly been a full-force strike from a Gold-level assassin. If it had been the Elf Slave Hunter Group, they definitely would have held back.
After all, their purpose was to capture elves as slaves and sell them for profit.
Dead elves were meaningless to them.
When Cecile saw Li Si suddenly appear in front of her and knock aside the attack, she was briefly at a loss, but she also realized that they had been ambushed.
She hurriedly took out her staff, her expression tense as she watched the surroundings.
Li Si had already sensed someone quietly closing in from the shadows, sneaking through the forest darkness and slowly approaching him and Cecile.
At that moment, the air in the forest was filled with a grim, murderous intent. It was as though even the wind had held its breath, waiting for an imminent confrontation and slaughter to erupt.
"Come out!"
Li Si shouted sharply. He spun the longsword in his hand and thrust it through the air toward the shadows among the trees on his right.
Just as the longsword was about to strike the ground, beneath the sparse sunlight filtering through the canopy, that seemingly ordinary patch of shadow suddenly twisted. A figure wrapped in dark gray Shadow Power revealed