Volume 2, Chapter 20 – Ambush

“Master… why are you spacing out again?”

As Tianyin sank into thought, the voice of her loli disciple, Xiaomengyao, suddenly rang beside her ear.

“Mm… it’s nothing, I was just thinking about something…”

At the very least, what she had just been thinking about couldn’t be spoken aloud…

Tianyin thought to herself and gave a vague excuse.

Staaare—

However, seeing Xiaomengyao’s curious little face staring at her with that disbelieving look, Tianyin immediately felt uneasy.

After so many bad experiences, she had pretty much figured out a certain truth, a painful truth.

Yes, generally speaking, whenever her loli disciple looked at her with that kind of expression, it meant that what followed was going to be some sort of verbal persecution directed at her so-called master…

Ah… she’s going to bully me again…

Tianyin couldn’t help but feel the urge to crouch down and cover her head.

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But verbal bullying couldn’t be defended against, no matter how high-tier the skill 【Hug-Your-Head Crouch Defense】 was…

“Master, actually, I’ve discovered a pattern recently.”

Sure enough, after staring at her for a while, the little loli disciple Mengyao finally spoke in a slow, deliberate tone.

Although Tianyin was curious about what kind of “pattern” her disciple had discovered, her instincts were already warning her that this was not going to be good.

“I’m not listening, I’m not listening…”

So she subconsciously covered her ears, chanting the same three words as if they could somehow ward off bad luck.

“Pfft… Master, what are you saying? Did you think I was going to bully you again? Well, I mean, it is fun to tease you once in a while, but I really didn’t plan to do that this time, really~”

Mengyao said with a helpless little smile.

“Eh? Really?”

Hearing that, Tianyin was both surprised and… strangely disappointed. Somewhere deep inside, a faint, almost imperceptible feeling of loss surfaced in her heart.

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“Really, Master~ I just noticed something funny, that’s all.”

“Hm? What funny thing? Tell me.”

“Well, it’s something I noticed when Master was spacing out just now~”

Her loli disciple Mengyao spoke slowly.

“Whenever Master spaces out while walking, something bad seems to happen~”

“What do you mean ‘something bad happens whenever I space out while walking’?!”

Even though she said that, Tianyin couldn’t find a solid way to refute it.

Thinking back, the time in the forest, the time in the valley…

Yeah, those times did seem to start when she was zoning out and sighing to herself…

“Pfft, am I wrong, Master?”

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Mengyao covered her mouth, giggling.

“Could Master be one of those legendary harbingers of disaster… pfft, hahaha…”

“I’m not, I’m not, okay?! Maybe it’s just a coincidence, a coincidence!”

Sure, the timing of those past incidents was suspiciously aligned, but Tianyin didn’t want to admit it.

Besides…

“I was just walking and daydreaming earlier, and nothing happened, see? So it’s obviously just your imagination, it’s not—”

But before Tianyin could even finish the word “wrong,” screams of panic suddenly erupted from the rear of the retreating troops.

At the same time, several deafening roars shook the air.

“Enemy attack! Enemy attack!”

“We’re being ambushed! Form up and defend!”

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“Stay alert! Watch all directions!”

Within seconds, the entire formation fell into chaos.

“…”

Watching the sudden confusion spread through the ranks, Tianyin fell silent.

“Xiaomengyao, I think I really should stop daydreaming while walking…”

“Mm-hm, I think you definitely should, Master~”

As the two exchanged these words, their eyes pierced through the overlapping silhouettes of NPC soldiers, catching sight of the ambushers…

They were none other than the same players from the Guild 【Kongjing】 who had surrounded Tianyin’s remnants in the valley before…