The clerks and pharmacists in the shop knew nothing of the situation around them, but Lolth, Han Tu, and Han Huo did not dare lower their guard for even a moment. They silently watched the situation inside and outside the shop from the warehouse's top floor.
An odd feeling suddenly came over Lolth. When Han Shuo had always been beside her, she had never thought much of it and had never worried about approaching enemies, as though no enemy, however powerful, posed a threat as long as Han Shuo was in the shop. But tonight, with Han Shuo away and all this falling on her shoulders, Lolth kept feeling somewhat uneasy.
Lolth was inwardly startled. She understood that she had unknowingly grown used to relying on Han Shuo. As long as he was beside her, she felt there was nothing to worry about, but when he was absent and she had to take the role of leader, it did not feel nearly as good.
Smiling bitterly to herself, Lolth temporarily cast aside her jumbled thoughts and focused on the shadows of several buildings outside the shop, silently sensing the strength and number of the intruders.
During this time, Lolth had grown accustomed to facing these ill-intentioned intruders late at night. From the first group onward, those who followed had steadily increased in strength and number, until an Upper God was killed during the last attack. Only then had the intruders suddenly vanished, and for a long time afterward, no one had dared launch another reckless assault.
Lolth had originally thought the killing had frightened them off and that they would never come to the shop to seek death again. She had not expected them to reappear tonight, much less for this group of covert attackers to be led by a