Encountering Danger

Ina and Tyrande had just finished eliminating the lord of this territory. Ina slowly put away her longbow and rose to her feet.

"Captain Ina, where are we going next?" Tyrande, the Priestess of the Moon, looked at the leisurely walking captain of the archers and asked calmly.

Ina looked at Tyrande, the Priestess of the Moon, with a trace of impatience in her heart. She greatly disliked the temperament of this so-called temple guardian. As a subordinate, Tyrande had been so disrespectful toward Huang Long, repeatedly pressing him aggressively. Huang Long, meanwhile, was the person Ina revered most. Tyrande's repeated offenses against Huang Long were no different from making an enemy of Ina herself. How could Tyrande possibly leave a good impression in Ina's heart? The fact that Ina had not turned on Tyrande on the spot and started fighting was already no easy feat.

Without looking at Tyrande, Ina merely glanced at the dead level-six magical beast, the Purple Flower Serpent, and said slowly, "Naturally, we are following the master's orders and eliminating every magical beast lord on this island."

At those words, Tyrande's curved brows furrowed slightly. She said in a low voice, "Why does Chieftain Huang Long want to do this? These magical beasts should not be strong enough to threaten Chieftain Huang Long, should they?"

Ina looked coldly at Tyrande, a faint smile curling at the corners of her lips, though there was a chill within it.

"What proof do you have that these magical beasts pose no threat to the master?"

Thinking of the many clansmen who had died beneath these magical beasts' claws and fangs, Ina's heart filled with rage.

"By the judgment of a Priestess of the Moon, these so-called level-six magical beasts, and even those below level six, cannot possibly be Chieftain Huang Long's opponents," Tyrande said evenly.

"So?" Ina tightened her left hand around her longbow, her fingers locking down with force as she sneered back at Tyrande. Her eyes were filled with mockery.

Seeing the mockery in Ina's eyes, Tyrande remained entirely unmoved. She did not take Ina's tone or expression to heart and said indifferently, "Then naturally, we should spare them. They are all living creatures. How can we kill them so casually?"

"Spare them?" Ina shook her head. "Impossible!"

"Why must you exterminate them all? Could it be that, as a member of the Night Elf faction, after coming to another world, you can abandon the noble qualities possessed by the Night Elf faction?" Tyrande gazed calmly at Ina as she asked.

"I'm sorry, but this is the master's will. As his subordinate, I have no choice but to carry it out. So if you have any objections, don't come looking for me. You can speak to the master directly." Seeing Tyrande putting on such a sanctimonious act, Ina revealed a trace of disdain. Yet she did not want to become too entangled with Tyrande, so she pushed all responsibility onto Huang Long. Then she immediately turned and left, no longer paying attention to Tyrande, who seemed about to persuade her again.

Tyrande looked at Ina with hesitation on her face and a trace of melancholy flashing in her eyes. For some reason, she felt immense pressure at the thought of persuading the woman before her. This woman was utterly impervious to reason, soft or hard. She was truly difficult to deal with and gave one a headache.

"Lady Tyrande, this way, please." Elisa, the captain of the Huntresses who had already reached level six, looked at Tyrande, who had only just reached level four. Not only did she show no disrespect, she instead displayed an unexpected degree of reverence.

In Warcraft, on the Lordaeron Continent, the entire Huntress force of the Night Elf faction consisted of personnel assigned exclusively to guard the temple. Unless they received a mission from the temple, they would never take a single step outside it. Thus, they held the temple's Priestesses of the Moon in absolute reverence. Although Elisa and Tyrande were both heroes, Elisa still held an unspoken superior-subordinate relationship with Tyrande. Even Huang Long probably had not expected this.

Changing the subject, both Elisa, the captain of the Huntresses, and Tyrande, the Priestess of the Moon, were expressionless women. They truly had some resemblance to one another, both at the level of wooden masks. Usually, neither showed much emotional fluctuation. Seen this way, they did have some common ground.

Hearing Elisa's words, Tyrande nodded and rode her white tiger after Ina's footsteps.

"Elisa, what do you think of Huang Long as the chieftain of the Night Elf faction?" Tyrande, who had been walking all along, suddenly asked, as though she were pondering something.

"Chieftain Huang Long... although I have not been here long, I can tell that he should be a good chieftain."

Hearing Tyrande's question, Elisa was slightly startled. She did not understand the significance of the question, but she still honestly voiced what she thought.

"A good chieftain?" Hearing Elisa's words, Tyrande said nothing more. She merely murmured under her breath, as if considering something in her mind.

Seeing Tyrande like this, Elisa did not disturb her further and merely followed slowly behind her.

"Hm?"

Suddenly, Ina's voice reached Tyrande and Elisa's ears, instantly snapping Tyrande out of her distracted state. Frowning, Tyrande rode her white tiger slowly toward the front and saw Ina's figure disappearing into a small cave, with quite a few archers following behind her.

"How could Ina make a decision on her own without discussing it with us first?" Dissatisfaction appeared in Elisa's eyes. However, she noticed that the cave was extremely well hidden. It was concealed between two mountain crevices and covered by thick vines. If not for Ina's habit and skill at archery, which had given her exceptionally sharp vision, they might not have discovered this place at all.

"Let's go in and take a look." Upon seeing the cave, Tyrande did not know why, but a fleeting sense of unease suddenly flashed through her heart and lingered there, impossible to dispel.

By Tyrande's usual instincts, she would certainly have turned around on her white tiger and left this troublesome place. But now, she had somehow come to this unfamiliar world, and if she wanted to survive here, she had to rely on Huang Long, the chieftain of the Night Elf faction.

Though she did not know why, Tyrande could feel that when she was beside Huang Long, the faint harmonious aura around him completely soothed her anxious heart, which had been unsettled since arriving in this foreign world. That was also why Tyrande had chosen to stay.

Unfortunately, Huang Long had been too clever for his own good and had overcomplicated matters. He had imagined Tyrande to be far more calculating than she truly was.

"We're going in too." Tyrande glanced at Elisa, then bent down and followed them inside. Fortunately, the cave entrance was fairly large. Otherwise, Tyrande would likely have had to dismount from her white tiger before she could crawl in.

"Yes!" Elisa answered. In truth, even if Tyrande had not told her to enter, she would have gone in anyway. There was no other reason: it was Elisa's duty as captain of the Huntresses.

"Woo... woo..."

Within the dark cave, whose depths led to who knew where, faint gusts of eerie wind blew through the passage, bringing a scalp-numbing chill.

Tap! Tap! Tap! The footsteps of Ina and the others echoed without end, seeming all the more eerie within this pitch-black place.

"Lucy, do you sense anything?" Ina turned her head and asked Lucy beside her. Even Yudian, the Demon Hunter, had praised Lucy's intelligence. Thus, whenever Ina lacked anyone else to assist her, she would seek Lucy's advice on how to solve a problem.

Hearing this, Lucy looked over the surrounding stone walls. There was only a passage leading forward and back, and she found nothing unusual. She could only shake her head, indicating that she had no idea.

"Then what should we do?" Ina's brows were nearly twisted into a knot. They could not just keep walking forever.

After a long while, amid the rumbling sound of massive rocks shifting, an enormous space suddenly appeared before Ina.

"Guests from the outside world, welcome to our demon world! Hahahaha!"

In the brief moment when Ina and Lucy were stunned, waves of wild roars shattered the former silence. Countless green ghostly flames appeared before them, revealing innumerable savage faces.

Ina and the others faced these countless terrifying creatures, while their path behind them was blocked by many more of the same creatures.

At that moment, they had nowhere to escape.