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But I'm afraid... afraid that I'll be discovered, and that all of humanity will be implicated and perish because of me.
She was trying her best to suppress her emotions, but An Yi still noticed that her voice was trembling.
Irene continued, "Humanity is far from having grown strong enough to contend with truly powerful beings."
The seventy-two demon king servants I mentioned to you last time—any one of them could destroy the entirety of human civilization.
Humanity is now the only hope to overthrow the demon race. If I am the reason why all of humanity is facing a death threat, then…
Isn't that a terrible thing?
An Yi looked down at Irene and remained silent for a long time.
After listening to Elaine's words, he understood her concerns, but;
It felt like a scene had been cut from the middle of a movie; An Yi always felt something was missing.
We shouldn't just listen to Elef's side of the story; we also need to consider what Shiloh said, including the context of the time.
Shiloh said she had seen Elaine act like "Sisley when she was little and heard thunder, cowering in a chair in fear."
An Yi found it hard to believe that her master would show such fear because of a casual thought.
The key is--
This fear was even exposed to Hero.
They were exposed to a weak human whom Irene could crush with a flick of her wrist.
Shiloh was fast, but Elaine was even faster. Elaine could easily regain her composure before Shiloh even appeared in front of her.
She wasn't an elf who would easily reveal her weakness. 5
She's one of the Elf King's twelve royal attendants, a top-100 elf among the world's elite fighters. How could she possibly appear like that?
Why didn't you hide your fear?
Very simple.
Because she couldn't care less.
The thought of fear overwhelmed her almost instantly, leaving her unable to manage her loss of composure.
That's how uneasy I feel.
An uneasy thought made Annie ponder: was it really just a terrible idea that Eleva had at that moment?
Was she really just overthinking things at the time?
No matter how much she overthinks, surely she wouldn't be unable to control her composure when Shilo walks right in front of her?
What exactly was in the scenes that were cut from the movie?
If it were an ordinary human being, even if Lycorina were standing here, she wouldn't find anything unusual in Irene's words.
But standing here is An Yi.
In her previous life, An Yi was already powerful enough to stand before the Demon King.
She could fool others, but An Yi knew that there were only a handful of people in this world that Elef could be wary of.
And because she tried her best to hide herself, only a handful of demons could discover her existence.
She was worried that the few king-level demons, or demon kings or lesser demon kings, might come to human territory to look for her.
What level of existence is the other party?
She was actually worried that some of the deepest, most ancient monsters of the demon race would run to the demon border, capture her, and then destroy human civilization?
Even if what Elef said makes sense, it's still worrying too much.
Was her heightened vigilance solely due to the discovery of Black Raven City by Silvermoon Fortress?
To make this logic work, perhaps it's because Ireve foresaw that Black Raven City might launch a war against Silvermoon Fortress, and she couldn't help but take action, which was eventually discovered by the demons, leading her to anticipate the terrifying consequences.
However, the logic is sound but cannot explain Irene's loss of composure.
Behind the silk lies another truth, one that terrifies Irene to the point of being unable to conceal it, a truth even Annie finds hard to believe—
That day, one of those few monsters that you could count on one hand appeared in Irene's perception!
It's possible that Shimazu has already sensed her presence!
That's why she couldn't hide her fear, and that's why her loss of composure was noticed by Shiloh.
3. If it weren't for this reason, even if she thought of something terrifying, she would still be able to calm herself down before Shiloh saw it.
At this moment, an even more inconspicuous yet crucial piece of information suddenly surfaced;
Zero Shiloh said that Elaine disappeared suddenly for a moment, but then quickly returned.
Nothing happened after U returned, but it was from that day onwards that Irene unusually requested to leave Silvermoon Fortress.
Why would someone suddenly leave after being detected as being afraid?
Hilo didn't mention Elef's fearless demeanor at the time, glossing over it without any details.
But An Yi dared to assert...
When she left, perhaps she was going to confront the enemy.
She returned because the enemy did not attack her.
The enemy also failed to capture her.
Moreover, the peace and tranquility in human territory is also due to the fact that the enemy has not brought the intelligence back to the demon race.
The other side found Irene, but then let her go, without even sending a single soldier to deal with the humans.
What conspiracy are they plotting?
No, given their strength, they wouldn't need to prepare at all; they could simply exterminate the humans who were protecting Irene.
However… based on An Yi’s understanding of the demon race, he had another explanation.
"arrogant."
The arrogant demons wanted to see what kind of trouble Elef and their group of humans could cause.
In other words, arresting Irene is a done deal, and finding her in human territory is not a difficult task.
Rather than arresting them prematurely, it's better to have some fun.
Given the opponent's strength, no matter how much trouble these humans cause, it won't escalate to the point where they can't control the situation.
After all, the other side could easily wipe out the entire human territory.
The arrogance of the other side gave humanity a chance to survive, but this was a much greater crisis—
The survival of the entire human race rests on the decision of the other side.
This means that in the early stages of the game, primitive people using wooden clubs and stone axes encounter a modern civilization possessing nuclear weapons.
The ancient apes were powerless to resist, except to look up at the towering, terrifying modern upright apes and shout in awe, "I am the ape god!"
Thinking about this, even An Yi couldn't help but feel uneasy.
He saw this deadly threat as an inescapable dead end!
Game Over!
One day, if the other party becomes unhappy, they might destroy the entire civilization!
The scenes cut from the movie were pieced together in An Yi's mind.
That's how Irene appeared before the enemy.
Irene probably realized that the other party had no intention of making a move, and she needed to find out why.
But the other party didn't take her seriously and just told her to leave.
Immediately following was what Elef had just said.
She feared that she would bring about the demise of all humanity, and she also knew that with the opponent's strength, it would be very easy for them to destroy humanity.
So... she chose to leave Silvermoon Fortress and came to this city.
This city is the heart of believers and heroes; she had no choice but to abandon all other cities and stay here to deal with the unpredictable disasters.
He thought that if he could buy some time, he might be able to leave behind a spark of hope.
If it were An Yi, she would probably make the same decision, right?
Everything in this life is progressing at an accelerated pace, but An Yi never expected it to accelerate to this extent.
A tremendous sense of crisis filled Qiu's heart, to the point that he wished he could slaughter demons right now to level up.
Time waits for no one; perhaps this is the foreshadowing of his desperate rescue of Elaev!
If we hadn't saved Irene, perhaps they wouldn't have arrived at the border so quickly?
But he has no regrets!
Regret is useless. Before you regret it, do everything you can to defeat the demons, since there's nothing else you can do anyway.
3. It is impossible to betray Irene and surrender, and it is impossible to find the hidden enemy and kill him.
No matter how terrifying the future may be, he can only do his best in the present.
In An Yi's mind, a new plan began to be drafted.
The next time he enters the Demon Realm, he will change his strategy.
But before that, he had one more thing to ask Irene.
"Master, I'm sorry, I asked the Sword Hero about the reason why you suddenly left the fortress."
4. She told me she was scared when she saw you.
Zhe Yilei lowered her head and smiled bitterly: "Yes, as I said before, I was a little scared. I suddenly thought of something terrible, so I..."
Replace "no".
Gou An Yi shook her head expressionlessly;
"The master I know will compose his expression before the swordsman sees it."
Neither I nor the Sword Hero can keep up with your speed.