Volume 9, Chapter 27 – An Unexpected Outcome

When Tianyin first met Samael, it was within a relatively enclosed space.

At that time, what Tianyin saw was a girl with crimson red eyes.

She called herself a Blood Knight, and even said that she wanted Tianyin to become the inheritor of her legacy.

Yet after such a long time had passed, everything had already changed beyond recognition. Samael had obtained a body, while Tianyin had long since gone missing.

However, Samael’s extremely distinctive appearance had still been preserved.

“Who could that be? A Blood Knight?”

Tianyin’s profession was not some kind of secret. At least, in front of Xingyu Muxi, Tianyin had never deliberately concealed anything.

And precisely because she knew clearly that Tianyin’s profession was Blood Knight, after hearing the words of the elf elder, Xingyu Muxi’s expression turned hesitant.

Other than Tianyin, the only Blood Knight that Xingyu Muxi knew of was Xiaomengyao.

And even Xiaomengyao, no matter what, could not possibly appear in the Nature Plane to stir up trouble.

So… there was another Blood Knight.

“Who could it be? I’ve got a really bad feeling about this…”

Murmuring to herself, Xingyu Muxi felt that the development of the situation was becoming increasingly confusing. Of course, even though it was confusing, Xingyu Muxi also faintly felt that the person behind this matter was targeting her.

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“I more or less understand the situation now. Leave this matter to me to handle next.”

Soon, after thinking it over briefly and asking clearly about the location where the incident occurred, Xingyu Muxi left directly.

Her destination was naturally the place where the suspected “Blood Knight” had appeared.

“I’m sorry, you’ll have to endure this for now. In fact, I really won’t do anything to you.”

At the destination Xingyu Muxi was heading toward, Samael, who had been causing trouble, had not left.

On the contrary, after defeating and capturing alive the small contingent of elf troops that came to deal with her, Samael locked these elves together while explaining in a friendly tone that she had no malicious intent.

Of course… whether there was any malicious intent or not was something the elves could not possibly know. But after the girl in front of them had effortlessly defeated them and taken them alive, the elves would not believe Samael’s explanation.

After all, who in this world captures others as prisoners and then explains that they actually have no ill intentions toward the prisoners?

‘If there’s no ill intent, then why were you so decisive just now, hey?!’

‘Is this what you call having no ill intent?’

Facing the hostile glares from the elf prisoners, Samael directly chose to ignore them.

Of course, given Samael’s temperament, if they were true enemies, she might really have gone all out without mercy. But because she took into account that Xingyu Muxi herself belonged to the elf race, Samael only chose to capture them alive.

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After all, the fundamental purpose was simply to draw Xingyu Muxi over.

“But speaking of which… the elf that I deliberately let go to pass on the message earlier should’ve returned a long time ago, right? Why hasn’t an elf with an important status shown up yet?”

Samael’s goal was to attract Xingyu Muxi. And because she was not actually clear about how high Xingyu Muxi’s status was within the Nature faction, Samael could only make as big a commotion as possible, striving to catch Xingyu Muxi’s attention.

The first step was to stir up trouble and draw the elves’ attention. And according to the experience Tianyin had once mentioned, about the pattern of “beat the small ones and the big ones will come”.

Samael was certain that after discovering the complete annihilation of the advance force, the elves would definitely take it seriously and send out stronger and more important elves to deal with the matter.

And with Samael’s strength, as long as Throne-tier beings were not mobilized, or multiple Legendary-tier beings were not sent together, she could handle those elves. So Samael was prepared to escalate things.

However, that was how she thought about it. Reality, on the other hand, was somewhat strange.

“It’s already been about an hour since the last wave of elf troops, right? Why are the elves’ reactions getting slower and slower each time?”

She was a bit puzzled. After all, previously, the intervals between the elf units that came to capture her were only around ten minutes. Because of that, Samael was very clear about the elves’ reaction speed.

And now… an entire hour had passed without seeing a single elf arrive…

“What’s going on? Or is something wrong somewhere?”

Samael’s plan, in a sense, was essentially the script of “the gourd brothers coming one after another to save their grandfather”. The early stage of the plan had gone extremely smoothly, but then something went wrong later.

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As for what exactly the problem was, Samael could not figure it out for the time being.

While she was deep in thought, very abruptly, Samael felt an inexplicable sense of dread suddenly surge up from the depths of her heart. These feelings had no clear source, yet they were incredibly intense.

“A sneak attack?!”

In just an instant, Samael understood what that sense of dread was about. And the moment her mind reacted, Samael swiftly left the spot where she had been standing.

Boom—

At the very moment Samael left her original position, a massive roar followed. A feathered arrow blooming with emerald green light came crashing down from the sky, carrying that thunderous sound with it.

In the next instant, the arrow struck the ground where Samael had just been standing. Immediately afterward, with the impact point as the center, the ground within dozens of meters collapsed completely. Not only that, a violent shockwave spread outward like a raging storm.

“Oh? You actually dodged it. Such fast reactions.”

Just as Samael was still guessing who the attacker was, a pleasant voice sounded from above.

The instant this voice rang out, the anger Samael had felt from being ambushed vanished completely, replaced by the joy of having achieved her objective.

Lifting her head, Samael saw, atop a towering tree not far ahead, a beautiful elf girl standing there.

Of course, although the girl’s appearance did not leave a particularly deep impression, Samael had seen her before.

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That girl was precisely the target of Samael’s trip this time, Xingyu Muxi.

However, before Samael could even open her mouth to introduce herself or greet her, Xingyu Muxi, standing on the treetop, made her next move.

“Although I don’t know who you really are, since you’ve come to the Nature Plane to cause trouble, then obediently surrender and let yourself be captured.”

In the next moment, Samael saw arrows raining down like a torrential storm.

They were countless arrows, and every single one of them contained a powerful aura capable of easily defeating a Legendary-tier existence.

“This level of attack… is it Throne-tier?!”

In that instant, Samael immediately discerned Xingyu Muxi’s strength.

Without a doubt, this was Throne-tier.

Facing the full-force attack of a Throne-tier being, Samael’s emotions, which had just been slightly stirred, once again turned grim.

After all, who could have imagined that the person she was looking for had already become Throne-tier?