Though Su Ye was inwardly cursing up a storm, this clearly was not the time to voice his complaints.
He looked at A Tai and saw that every trace of the innocent young girl had vanished from her face.
Her eyes had turned pale gold, and her entire presence had undergone a staggering transformation.
Su Ye had the impression that she was not a living creature, but a mountain-an incomparably towering mountain.
At the same time, Su Ye breathed a sigh of relief. He had wondered how a road Instance on a Tier Two Road Section could possibly feature a boss as terrifying as Broken Horn. It turned out there was a powerful ally backing them up.
"Root Grudge, after all these years, I thought you would have let go of what happened back then. Instead, your resentment has only grown."
A Tai spoke, her voice no longer carrying a young girl's clear, bright tone. Instead, it radiated boundless authority.
"Let go? Back then, when the Forest-Guarding Village suffered a year of disaster, their Village Shaman claimed I had brought calamity upon them and had me uprooted. They called themselves forest guardians, yet they couldn't even protect me."
Broken Horn said coldly, "Had that been all, I could have accepted it. My roots remained, so I could still survive. But they insisted on digging that well, too. They meant to rot my roots and cut off my last chance of survival."
Then Broken Horn laughed again. "Still, I suppose I should thank them. If they hadn't dug that well, how could I have gathered yin energy and absorbed spiritual power? This calamity facing the Forest-Guarding Village is merely repayment of its karmic debt."
"Village Chief, what do they mean?"
Su Ye looked at the Village Chief as he asked. By