"Hmm..." Yuelan rubbed her chin. "So in short, we're a little screwed, aren't we?"
"Yep." Xuan nodded. "I kind of doubt we'd be able to escape even if we used Void Step."
Yuelan nodded, and then glanced at her shadows.
"I'm sorry for roping you into this. I didn't expect it to be so dangerous..."
"What are you two even talking about?" Hanbi asked, irritated. "You've been talking amongst yourselves since we first left. Mind cluing us in?"
Xuan and Yuelan exchanged a glance, then sighed in unison.
"You're pretty chirpy, but sure. Xuan, mind explaining?" Yuelan harrumphed.
But Xuan simply shook his head. "Your turn to explain now. I'm going to scout out the area."
Before Yuelan could even begin to protest, Xuan Void Stepped away from all of them.
In the month he had spent before this excursion, Xuan leveled up Void Step by quite a lot.
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