Author: Feng Xue Xin
Rumble—!
The heavy rain continued to pour…
Inside the cave, Emilia asked Xiruila again:
“Could it be that your Guild Master orchestrated a one-for-one trade, sacrificing one of our own members for one of theirs?”
That was the most obvious possibility to consider.
After all, Xiruila had just mentioned that their Guild Master was a terrifying person.
Sacrificing one of her own pieces to take down an opponent’s piece—a crazy enough person would indeed do that. So naturally, she was the prime suspect.
Faced with Emilia’s question, Xiruila didn’t hesitate for a moment and immediately shook her head vigorously.
“It’s not Guild Master! Absolutely not!”
Xiruila’s tone was urgent as she explained earnestly:
“I admit Guild Master is terrifying, very controlling, and her punishments for mistakes are especially severe. I fear her from the bottom of my heart… but!”
“No matter how dominant Guild Master is, she would never lay a hand on members of her own guild, let alone personally eliminate one of her own.”
In the Falcon Guild, Stella’s principles had always been clear. She showed no mercy to outsiders, strictly disciplined her own members, and punished every mistake, but she would never harm her teammates without reason. She might be a bit ruthless, but she had her limits.
Even if Xiruila dared not reveal Stella’s talent and trump cards—that was the guild’s rule, something she couldn’t disclose even on pain of death.
“But I can guarantee one hundred percent that Nailuo’s elimination has absolutely nothing to do with Guild Master!”
Seeing the sincerity in Xiruila’s eyes, Emilia and Leinata exchanged a glance, both falling silent. It didn’t seem like she was deliberately lying or making excuses.
Quietly, both of them accepted this explanation in their hearts.
After all, Xiruila was extremely afraid of Stella and wouldn’t dare to whitewash the Guild Master. Her firm denial at this point must be the truth.
With Stella cleared of suspicion, the remaining possibilities were even fewer.
First, it absolutely couldn’t be someone from the Glaze Guild.
Leinata had been with her the entire time, never leaving her side even for a moment, so she had no opportunity.
As for Nuo Ai’er…
Not to mention she would never hurt Hui Mei, but in terms of combat strength…
Emilia thought about how Hui Mei could pin her down with one hand until she passed out…
With that level of combat power, how could she eliminate two people?
Then, according to Xiruila’s testimony, the members of the Falcon Guild could also be ruled out.
So the final conclusion was that Hui Mei and the opponent had traded one-for-one?
If that were the case, it wouldn’t be a fatal crisis for Emilia at all.
Her causality talent only avoided truly unsolvable, truly high-risk disasters.
For her strong luck to go so far as to create a streak of bad luck and even hurt herself to stop them from approaching the creek…
“Maybe it was a third party force.”
Emilia’s eyes were complicated as she voiced a speculation.
“A third party? Isn’t this game a two-sided battle?”
Xiruila blinked.
“Only that possibility could make my strong luck act like this… And moreover, the status of this third party might far exceed ordinary Players, even the instance rules…”
Meanwhile, by the creek.
A small, lazy figure in green was strolling leisurely along the creek bank, relaxed and at ease, without any tension from having just killed someone.
It was the Green Witch—Ka Fei.
She wore a light lolita dress, her emerald hair gently stirred by the breeze. She deliberately suppressed her Witch aura, making it impossible for ordinary people to detect just what kind of existence this harmless-looking little girl truly was.
“What sudden rain… Is it to increase the dungeon’s difficulty, or… are you protecting someone?”
Ka Fei smiled. Then she lightly tapped her fingertip, and with a slight surge of magic, a delicate, pure white transparent umbrella materialized out of thin air, hovering steadily above her head.
However, Ka Fei herself possessed a magic barrier, so not a single drop of rain could fall on her.
Holding an umbrella was just for the atmosphere.
Ka Fei strolled leisurely by the creek, humming a light tune under her breath.
As she walked, she recalled in her mind all the information that the assassin Camilla had reported to her earlier.
After forming a partnership, Ka Fei had specifically helped Camilla invade the dungeon, then ordered Camilla to control the black-robed puppet to sneak into the wooden cabin, taking advantage of the window when Stella left, to secretly attack Nuo Ai’er, hoping to use the puppet to probe the trump cards and talent of this little white-haired loli.
The black-robed puppet slipped in silently and without warning, then began a massacre.
But the result greatly exceeded both their expectations.
Because Nuo Ai’er’s behavior was bizarre to the extreme.
Before the puppet even appeared, she had preemptively predicted all its movements and attack timings out of thin air.
With no signs at all, she knew of all the dangers in advance.
She even used the cabin’s furniture in advance to thoroughly toy with the powerful black-robed puppet.
The puppet was repeatedly foiled, and the damage was all redirected back to Stella.
Afterward, Camilla combined all her battle memories and gave a final speculation.
Nuo Ai’er most likely possessed some kind of high-level precognition ability.
And it wasn’t the type of prophetic dream that required sleep or triggering a dream to activate.
Because from the moment she entered the dungeon, Nuo Ai’er had been imprisoned and tortured the entire time, without a single second to rest or sleep, so she had no chance to activate a precognitive dream.
The clues kept increasing, the anomalies became more frequent, but the more she investigated, the more Ka Fei couldn’t see through her.
The secrets hidden within this white-haired loli were far deeper than she had imagined.
Countless fragmented pieces of evidence were right before her eyes, yet she still couldn’t piece together the full picture of her true talent.
This made Ka Fei somewhat impatient. The efficiency was too slow.
The reason she personally invaded the dungeon this time wasn’t to target Nuo Ai’er herself.
She was too lazy to keep playing tug-of-war with Nuo Ai’er.
It was Hui Mei.
She was well aware that Nuo Ai’er’s precognition ability was too bizarre.
If she rashly moved to capture Nuo Ai’er directly, given the latter’s terrifying prediction ability, Nuo Ai’er would surely foresee it in advance.
In the end, Ka Fei would one hundred percent fail and wouldn’t be able to get a hold of her.
So, what Ka Fei had planned early on was to use Hui Mei once again.
Just now, at the moment she eliminated Hui Mei, she had secretly planted a magic inside Hui Mei’s body without anyone noticing.
This magic wouldn’t take effect immediately, but it would be a great help later.
Ka Fei had long known that Nuo Ai’er cared most about the companions around her.
Hui Mei was a child she had personally redeemed from the Despair Dungeon, a family member she protected with all her might.
As long as she had a hold on Hui Mei, she also had a hold on Nuo Ai’er’s lifeline.
When the time was right, using Hui Mei’s safety as leverage, Nuo Ai’er would inevitably compromise of her own accord to save her only companion.
Without expending a single soldier, Ka Fei would be able to firmly control Nuo Ai’er, who possessed a bizarre talent.
“Interesting little loli, I want you more and more~”
Ka Fei gently curved her lips, having already finalized all her plans in her heart.
If she could confirm that Nuo Ai’er’s talent was truly top-tier precognition, or even a forbidden ability more advanced than precognition.
Then Ka Fei was determined to obtain this talent.
Such an overwhelmingly powerful ability, falling into the hands of a dumb loli, was truly too wasteful.
“Only when it’s in my hands can it realize its maximum value.”
“Mm~ I’ve played enough. Time to go back.”
The next moment, a faint flow of magic at Ka Fei’s fingertip, and a pitch-black, slender space crack instantly split open in the void before her.
A deep space tunnel slowly unfolded, connecting to the outside of the dungeon.
Ka Fei tossed away the transparent umbrella, and it turned to dust in the air.
Then with light steps, she stepped into the space crack.
As the crack slowly closed, she vanished from the spot.