"That's because you don't understand how powerful those lords are. In front of them, even gods must obediently bow their heads," the Priest loudly retorted.
Leticia didn't particularly want to argue with him about this issue for now. Arguing wouldn't serve any purpose anyway. The most important thing right now was to quickly find Lin Qingyu, then have the Heavenly King take her away before Bai Ling arrived.
After that, she could take her sweet time.
"Where did that Half-Elf go?"
The Priest blinked, "I don't know."
"My patience has limits." Leticia glared at him, seemingly trying to intimidate the Priest in front of her, but when she made that expression, it only made people think she was adorable.
However, the intimidation did work. After all, this pathetically weak Priest had just been instantly killed by Leticia's sword, so being afraid now was perfectly normal.
But no matter how scared he was, he couldn't give an answer he didn't have.
"The agreed teleportation landing point was supposed to be here with me, but I just walked around and asked around, and the only stranger is you," the Priest said pitifully.
He was just a low-level worker—how could he know so many things?
"Tch, then what about your organization's base here? You should at least know that, right?"
"Base? There isn't one. Those higher-ups come and go without a trace. Even when they do come, they don't stay at my place for long."
"Wait, aside from knowing what your organization is called and what it's supposed to do, what else do you actually know?" Leticia felt her blood pressure was probably skyrocketing. How could this Priest be so pathetic? His combat ability was pathetic, and the intelligence he provided was pathetic too.
She might as well just call him Pathetic Priest.
"Ah, isn't that... enough?" Pathetic Priest blinked—he really only knew these things.
He had basically spent his entire life soaking in this small town. Divine Throne had discovered there was someone with qualifications here when they passed by long ago, and the leader of Divine Throne at that time had given the Priest some power without saying or asking for anything before leaving.
Later, the Priest learned that person was actually one of the founders of Divine Throne.
Someone like him belonged to Divine Throne's outermost members—he agreed with Divine Throne's ideals and had accepted power from Divine Throne, but because his combat ability was pathetic, he generally just did logistics work.
Like providing venues.
"Your Divine Throne just sent you alone to guard here? Aren't you afraid you can't handle whoever gets teleported over?" Leticia asked.
"There's a Divine Envoy in Eden, but she hasn't contacted me, so I don't know where she's hiding."
Hearing this, Leticia covered her face with her hand. This Priest was too disappointing—she couldn't squeeze out a single useful piece of information.
The key thing was, this guy wasn't lying. He really didn't know these things.
Ridiculous, right?
Too ridiculous.
"Forget it, just stay here. I'm going to wander around outside the town." Leticia put away her magic sword and turned to leave.
That teleportation magic circle was relatively low-level, and with her deliberate sabotage, the few people who were teleported should be scattered quite far apart.
She was lucky to end up here. Those with bad luck would probably be teleported directly into the wilderness.
If they were teleported into the wilderness, with Lin Qingyu and Miss Xi's delicate frames, they probably wouldn't even be enough for those wild beasts to pick their teeth with.
Leticia now hoped she would be the first to find Lin Qingyu. If Lin Qingyu was found and taken away by Divine Throne first, then she would be completely defeated.
If Bai Ling found Lin Qingyu first, then Leticia would also be defeated—she wouldn't be able to get Lin Qingyu in her hands this time.
If Bai Ling ran into her first, then Leticia would have to think carefully about how to stall for time until Xue'er and the others finished their business.
Five possibilities in total—Leticia hoped her luck would be a bit better.
"Hah, let's go this way."
......
When Leticia was heading toward the wilderness, Bai Ling was crouching in a cave, staring wide-eyed at a black-haired girl in black clothes.
The girl was holding a half-eaten roasted sweet potato. When Bai Ling suddenly appeared, she was eating this sweet potato, and she nearly choked to death.
After finally recovering to normal and taking a closer look, she nearly fainted again.
Wasn't this guy the Miss Bai that Songstress mentioned who was very difficult to deal with? Why would this guy also be teleported here? What the hell was going on with Songstress?
"Cough cough, um, want some?" The girl weakly pulled out a fresh sweet potato.
It wasn't that she didn't want to fight—it was mainly that the faint pressure emanating from Bai Ling made her not dare to make a move. She felt that if she tried to fight, she'd be instantly killed.
Suicide? She wasn't about to do that.
As for running, she looked at the cave entrance blocked by Bai Ling, her eyes full of despair.
Why was she being blocked in such a dramatic way?
Was this Miss Bai's luck too explosive? The teleportation technique sent her directly to her face—what kind of game was this?
She was screwed.
"Who are you?" Bai Ling took the sweet potato the girl handed over, her mood improving slightly.
"Divine Throne affiliate, Senior Divine Envoy, Yi Yujun," the girl answered quietly.
Bai Ling touched her chin with some confusion. Divine Throne—she'd never heard of that name.
Was it some unknown small organization?
But looking at the quality of this girl's clothing, it didn't seem like a two-bit organization.
"Songstress is one of yours?"
"Um, should be, I guess she counts as one of ours."
"You're also the ones who made a move on Qianqian?" Bai Ling narrowed her eyes.
The girl immediately felt the threat of death. She almost instinctively shook her head, then nodded again.
"We just wanted to trade her for that Half-Elf, we didn't want to hurt her!"
"But you still made a move." Bai Ling drew her sword with a cold expression. Daring to make a move on Leticia—she couldn't forgive these guys.
The girl completely panicked. She racked her brain thinking about how to escape from this situation, but the result of her thinking was—might as well just give up.
She couldn't win in a fight, and she couldn't escape either. Her life-saving techniques had just been used a few days ago, and she couldn't use them at all now.
Can't fight, can't run—didn't that leave only giving up resistance?
The girl's reaction made Bai Ling pause. She had thought this girl would use some desperate measures to struggle, but this guy actually just gave up resistance?
Looking at the girl sitting duck-style on the ground with lifeless eyes, Bai Ling didn't know what to do for a moment.
She poked the girl with her sword, "Fight back a little."
If she didn't resist, she didn't feel much desire to kill her.
"Can't resist. Just do it." The girl looked up, revealing that delicate little face. If she could resist, she would have done so already, but the person in front of her made her unable to muster any thought of resistance.
"Tch, where's Songstress?" Yi Yujun's attitude of lying on the ground ready to be picked made Bai Ling feel like she had a breath stuck in her chest that she couldn't exhale.
Very uncomfortable, really super uncomfortable.
"I don't know." Yi Yujun shook her head directly. "Shouldn't I be asking you this question?"
She had been happily munching on sweet potatoes here, and then in the blink of an eye, this harbinger of doom blocked her door. She had no idea what was going on either.
Where was Songstress? Where was that Half-Elf?
And what about the Priest back in town?
The teleportation point was clearly set for the town side—why did this guy get teleported to her side?
This place was several kilometers from the town. The teleportation magic circle she got from the big shot couldn't be that shoddy, could it?
"Do you have a way to contact Songstress?"
"Yes, but not here." Yi Yujun shook her head. Usually when she contacted Songstress, she relied on that short person in black clothes as an intermediary, and right now, that short person in black clothes wasn't here.
She had gone to meet Songstress, and who knew if she had succeeded.
As for phones... this was a small town in the wilderness—where would there be cell phone signal?
"Take me to find Songstress," Bai Ling said coldly.
Although she wanted to find Leticia more right now, she also knew that having Yi Yujun take her to find Leticia wasn't very realistic.
Yi Yujun and Leticia had probably only met once. Expecting her to take her to find Leticia—Bai Ling felt she might as well hope for Leticia to fall directly from the sky into her arms.
"Ah, well, I can only say I'll do my best." Yi Yujun answered weakly. "I can only take you to the teleportation landing point we originally agreed on, but you came here with Songstress, right? You got teleported to my place—do you think Songstress could land normally?"
Bai Ling turned her clever little brain and thought about it, discovering this was indeed a good question.
Probably, perhaps, maybe, Songstress had also been thrown somewhere strange like herself.
"Speaking of which, aside from that town, the surrounding area is all wilderness where monsters are active. If you're unlucky enough to be thrown there..." Yi Yujun muttered quietly.
Bai Ling's pupils contracted. If Leticia had been teleported there...
No, she had to hurry.
"Take me to that predetermined teleportation landing point, quickly!"
......
Leticia's safety wasn't a problem, but the safety of the other girls was very problematic.
When she saw those emerald green snake eyes, Songstress knew something was wrong. She had killed quite a few wilderness monsters in her early years, so she could easily identify that the large snake in front of her wasn't some ordinary wild animal.
This thing was a monster.
So where was the promised harmonious and stable small town? Where were the promised warm and hospitable villagers?
Don't tell her this was the so-called warm and hospitable villager!
The most uncomfortable thing was that Songstress had two dead weights hanging behind her.
Lin Qingyu, who was too scared by the large snake to move, was tightly gripping Xi Mengyao's hand, while Xi Mengyao... this girl still hadn't regained consciousness.
Songstress sighed and raised her hand to snap her fingers again.
"Eh?" Xi Mengyao's eyes regained their light, and then she saw that large snake that was thicker than a person.
Her legs went weak immediately. If Lin Qingyu hadn't been supporting her, this pretty girl would have sat ungracefully on the ground.
"What is this thing? Am I dreaming?" the girl said with a sobbing voice.
"Unfortunately, we're all quite awake right now," Lin Qingyu said. Although she was also somewhat afraid, her performance was much more composed than Xi Mengyao's.
After all, she had crossed the wilderness from the border between the elven world and human world to reach Central City all by herself. She had seen these monsters from afar before, just never face-to-face like this.
So she was still afraid, but not that afraid.
Besides, there was still a meat shield in front.
"You two don't run around. If you encounter other monsters, I might not be able to protect you," Songstress said, moving her wrists. Dealing with this monster wouldn't take much effort, but she was afraid that Lin Qingyu would run around with Xi Mengyao while she was dealing with it.
Her mission was to bring Lin Qingyu alive to the town, and their goal this time was to try to get Lin Qingyu to join their Divine Throne.
Lin Qingyu couldn't die.
"Why do you care about us? Aren't you a bad person?" Lin Qingyu asked.
Songstress was stunned again. Although she sometimes dressed like a bad person, she hadn't done anything bad except trick Xi Mengyao once: "Where am I bad?"
"Poisoning Little Xi, this was all your conspiracy, right? Just to approach me, to approach Miss Bai." Lin Qingyu indicated she wasn't a naive child—she had already deduced the cause and effect of this matter.
"Although I'm not exactly a good person, I do have a conscience. Using innocent people for your own purposes—do you think you can still be called a good person?"
"Tch, I knew it would be like this." Songstress curled her lips and turned to look at the large snake. "Regardless of whether I'm a good person or not, right now I'm the only one who can protect you. If you don't want to die, behave yourself."
Songstress had never been good with words, but there were quite a few people with good eloquence in Divine Throne. As long as she brought the person back, it would count as successfully completing the mission.
Roar! The large snake that had been ignored for so long finally couldn't help but launch an attack. It felt like it was being looked down upon by these three little things.
Come on, it was so big and looked so mighty—shouldn't it firmly attract your attention?
Why did you start arguing among yourselves instead? Annoying, too annoying.
It definitely had to torture them properly.
"Ah!" Xi Mengyao was startled by the large snake lunging at them with its mouth wide open. She instinctively hid in Lin Qingyu's arms, making the pure Half-Elf miss blush slightly.
This girl was a bit heavy. Wanting to step back, Lin Qingyu helplessly discovered that Xi Mengyao seemed to have no strength at all from fear, pressing all her body weight on her.
Over there, Songstress had already started dealing with the large snake. Various strange sounds that made people want to vomit came from Songstress's mouth, not only driving the large snake into madness but also making the other two girls feel very uncomfortable.
Lin Qingyu was still okay—with Flora's necklace protecting her closely, she only felt a headache.
The most miserable was undoubtedly Xi Mengyao. This girl's eyes were about to lose their light again.
Fortunately, the battle didn't last long. No matter what, Songstress was a former S-level hero, and now that she had joined Divine Throne and further strengthened her abilities, dealing with this large snake that hadn't developed intelligence was simple.
"Whew, done." Grabbing the snake's tail and flinging it away, Songstress turned to the two dizzy girls and said, "Let's go. We're about to start wilderness survival."