Yu Lin Bloodhawk stayed in Elf Village for two days, spending most of that time watching the Snow Leopard Squad and the Dire Wolf Squadron train.
Over those two days, he more or less figured out what was going on. The Snow Leopard Squad practiced stealth assassinations against Shidewa every day. Shidewa would simply find somewhere to lie down and let the squad members try to assassinate him. Anyone who managed to hurt him even a little could take a day or two off from their grueling training. Naturally, the squad focused on stealth and surprise attacks. Not only that, each of them carried an assortment of personalized weapons. If you could imagine it, they had it. It seemed they had truly burned through every last brain cell trying to find a way to hurt Shidewa.
Besides two daggers and a long, two-handed Bone-Cleaver Sword strapped to their backs, they each carried a hand crossbow. Yet the longbow that every Ranger normally carried was not something they all had. Yu Lin Bloodhawk watched them ambush Shidewa several times. Although not one attempt succeeded, he came to understand why they all carried that four-piece set, while a longbow was no longer essential.
Even when Shidewa lay still, the air around his body seemed to contain an almost imperceptible distortion, making it difficult for the Snow Leopard Squad members to hit him with surprise attacks from a distance. According to Shidewa, this was probably an overflow of the power of the laws of destiny. Destiny encompassed both the past and the future, so the small space around his body constantly alternated between the two, creating a tiny distorted domain that made him difficult to hit from afar. Thus, without any prompting, the Snow Leopard Rangers had all chosen close-range ambushes. If a