An Unfamiliar Sense of Familiarity

Seeing the Moon Priestess Tyrande's unruffled expression as she merely gazed at him, Huang Long truly felt both love and hate toward her. He admired Tyrande's resourcefulness and meticulous thinking; at a glance, she had identified the most fundamental conflict within his Night Elf faction team so far. This was also what made Huang Long greatly appreciate the Moon Priestess Tyrande. Yet this Moon Priestess Tyrande had to bring up exactly the wrong subject, raising this issue at such a moment with the aim of dealing with him.

At that thought, Huang Long could not help glancing at the Demon Hunter Yudian. He found that the hands which had leisurely been spinning the Warglaives of Azzinoth had stopped. His previously calm expression had turned somewhat strange, and no one knew what the fellow was thinking.

Upon hearing the Moon Priestess Tyrande's words, Huang Long froze for a moment before an idea swiftly came to him. He said, "As long as your cultivation surpasses theirs, and they willingly agree to obey you, and as long as your actions and goals do not harm the interests of the Night Elf faction, I have no objection to them following your orders." A glint of wisdom flashed through Huang Long's eyes. The meaning behind his words was very clear: as long as Tyrande's strength surpassed that of Archer Captain Ina and Huntress Captain Elisa, she could command them. Before that, however, she would have to obey them.

Following Huang Long's words, he neither directly answered Tyrande's question nor clarified the relative status of elite heroes and ordinary heroes. Yet he also did not make anyone present feel uncomfortable. It was an incomparably clever response.

"All right, be on your way..." Huang Long waved his hand and no longer dwelled on the matter. Otherwise, he reckoned he would get no good outcome from it. So, he decisively sent the group elsewhere to level up and separated Yudian from them.

After all, in his previous life, the Demon Hunter Yudian had done quite a few foolish things for the Moon Priestess Tyrande he loved. Since Huang Long had brought the Demon Hunter Yudian back to life in this life, he did not want Yudian to follow the same path as before. Furthermore, the Demon Hunter Yudian was one of Huang Long's favorite characters from Earth. Huang Long absolutely did not want him to repeat his past. Separating Yudian and Tyrande, putting distance between the two elves, and doing his utmost to bring Yudian and Ina together were undoubtedly the two best methods he could think of to resolve the relationship between the Demon Hunter Yudian and the Moon Priestess Tyrande.

"Still, overall, summoning the Moon Priestess Tyrande does more good than harm," Huang Long thought to himself. In fact, when he had summoned the Moon Priestess Tyrande, Huang Long had considered this possibility. However, he had not hesitated over whether he should refrain from summoning Tyrande in order to avoid the Demon Hunter Yudian's tragedy because of what had happened between Yudian and Tyrande in the past. He had not considered it at all.

Of course, that was not to say Huang Long did not consider the Demon Hunter Yudian's difficult position. It was simply that Huang Long was confident that even if the Demon Hunter Yudian fell in love with the Moon Priestess Tyrande and failed to win Tyrande's favor, he would not meet the same fate as he had on the Lordaeron Continent in the Warcraft game. At most, the Demon Hunter Yudian would suffer a period of emotional disappointment.

"Yudian, what are you thinking about?" Huang Long could not help asking as he looked at the expressionless Demon Hunter Yudian.

"Nothing. I was only wondering why I feel such an inexplicable sense of familiarity toward that Moon Priestess Tyrande who was just summoned. Clan Leader, do you know the reason? If you do, I hope you can tell me." Seemingly startled by Huang Long's words, the Demon Hunter Yudian returned to his usual elegant demeanor and spoke leisurely to Huang Long.

"Uh, that... I'm not too sure either." Huang Long was stunned upon hearing this, and a cold sweat appeared on his forehead. He truly had not expected the Demon Hunter Yudian to be so clever, to discover something unusual about him in such a short time. Though Yudian had not made it explicit through his attitude, there was still a faint trace of suspicion. This made Huang Long's heart twitch. Were all the elite heroes in the Warcraft game this smart?

"Clan Leader, I sincerely hope you can tell me everything you know about me." The Demon Hunter Yudian's body did not move in the slightest, yet he gave off an air of solitude.

"I haven't hidden anything from you. Besides, if you don't even know about your own affairs, how would I know?" Huang Long was the sort who could lie without blushing. Though he might not compare to the shut-ins on Earth, he had still weathered plenty of storms and was naturally not someone who could not endure even the slightest probing.

"Is that so?" A trace of doubt flashed through the Demon Hunter Yudian's heart. His earlier words had indeed been spoken casually by Yudian, intended to test Huang Long, the clan leader of the Night Elf faction. However, Yudian truly did have that inexplicable sense of familiarity toward the Moon Priestess Tyrande. This was what puzzled Yudian most, and the primary reason he had asked that question. Otherwise, with Yudian's temperament, he would never have done something so foolish.

But since Huang Long would not speak, the Demon Hunter Yudian would not force him. After all, Yudian clearly understood that Huang Long was the master and he was the subordinate. No matter how favored he was, he could not question his master. Such conduct was not that of a servant.

"Of course it's true." Huang Long gave an embarrassed laugh. Though he knew the Demon Hunter Yudian could not see his expression, he still felt somewhat awkward.

It seemed Yudian had already begun to suspect the truth of coming to this world. But just how were the minds of these heroes from Warcraft made? They were all so full of wisdom. The Moon Priestess Tyrande was like this, and so was the Demon Hunter Yudian. With intelligence like theirs, how were Earthlings supposed to live with themselves?

At that thought, Huang Long could not help feeling equally bitter inside. He truly did not know what to do.

Perhaps forgetting everything would be a good thing for these heroes of the Night Elf faction. After all, these elite heroes of the Night Elf faction had not met good ends in the Warcraft game. Forgetting it all and beginning a new life might give these elite heroes a different outcome.

Therefore, he absolutely could not tell these heroes about what had happened to them on the Lordaeron Continent. Now, those who had been summoned seemed to remember only their former professions and identities, while everything else had been forgotten and lost. However, it appeared that the Warcraft Elf System had not completely erased all the elite heroes' memories. It had merely suppressed all their ancient memories, which was why they retained those ancient manners and personalities while not knowing what had happened.

Huang Long even suspected that the Warcraft Elf System had deliberately not erased all the memories of these elite heroes from the Warcraft game, or that for some other unknown reason, it had failed to erase them completely and instead left them behind. This also made Huang Long feel puzzled and at a loss.

Of course, Huang Long knew that none of this was something he could guess at. The being capable of creating the Warcraft Elf System was undoubtedly an incomparably powerful existence, one without equal in the world. Such an existence was already beyond Huang Long's ability to fathom, and he could not even imagine it in his heart.

Huang Long shook his head in confusion, as though trying to clear away every thought in his mind and sort them out properly. Only after casting everything from his mind did he look at the Demon Hunter Yudian. Thinking of what had happened to the Demon Hunter Yudian in the world of Warcraft, determination flashed through Huang Long's heart. He absolutely would not let Yudian meet the same fate as before.

"Let's go somewhere else. You happen to be free right now. Although I still have many skills, I'm not very proficient in using them. It seems I'll need your guidance. That way, my control over these skills should improve." Huang Long smiled as he looked at the Demon Hunter Yudian.

"All right." Upon hearing Huang Long's words, the Demon Hunter Yudian agreed to his request without the slightest hesitation.

"You go to the training ground first. I'll fetch a few jars of Moon Well water and come over afterward." The Demon Hunter Yudian's lips curled into a faint smile as he spoke.

"All right, I'll wait for you there." Huang Long did not suspect anything upon hearing this. He smiled and nodded, then slowly left the place and headed toward the grounds where he had always practiced his skills.

Watching Huang Long's departing figure, the smile that had lingered on the Demon Hunter Yudian's face vanished at once, and a layer of doubt appeared on his face, as though he were pondering something.

At last, the Demon Hunter Yudian slowly let out a breath and gently shook his head. A smile once again appeared on his face as he muttered.

"Damn it. What is the reason that makes me feel such a strong sense of familiarity from that woman called the Moon Priestess Tyrande? Why? Why is this happening?"