Their companion had died without warning, resurrection had inexplicably failed, and even daily intelligence had issued a danger warning.
Everything unfolding before him made Chen Feng's scalp prickle. Without a moment's hesitation, he opened with Time Stop and summoned the Two-World Traversal System. "It's a dangerous world out there. If you can't handle it, retreat."
But as he prepared to leave, Chen Feng discovered a problem. His affinity with Lady Fulameng was only a tiny bit higher than that of strangers, nowhere near enough to take her with him.
"How could it be this low?"
"I never called her an old hag."
Different races had different perspectives on the world.
Compared to humans, elves measured their lifespans in millennia. In her long life, even the members of the Hero Party who had traveled with her for ten years were merely friends she had met that afternoon, let alone a passerby like Chen Feng, whom she had only met twice.
"Since she doesn't even consider me a friend, leaving her here would be perfectly reasonable."
"But elves have their standards, and humans have ours."
By human standards, anyone who had faced life-and-death danger and fought alongside you was a friend.
Abandoning a friend was something he simply couldn't do.
Chen Feng gritted his teeth and pulled out a painting.
"Map of Mountains and Rivers!"
This spatial World Item could transport its holder and all living beings within a hundred meters into a Small World for one minute, isolating them from the current universe and granting immunity to certain attacks or effects that targeted only that universe, such as time stop, reversal, or cognitive modification.
Go!
It all happened in a flash.
As the scroll unfurled, the Savior, Fulameng, and Sika, who were closest to Chen Feng, were swept into the Small