Chapter 109: What a Coincidence for Old Foes to Meet!

“Sir, you may choose to withdraw from this instance now, but your chance will disappear with it,” the staff member said warmly.

Yuan Si’s eyelid twitched. This was a gold-tier instance his father had only obtained through great connections, and he had only this one chance.

He absolutely could not give it up.

But if he refused, he would have to team up with this violent priest...

After much hesitation, Yuan Si finally made his decision. “Lin Han, once we’re inside the instance, let’s each go our own way!”

With that, he stepped into the teleportation array.

Lin Han was speechless. “This guy must be crazy.”

Soon, the others also entered the teleportation array, and in the next instant they appeared within an ancient ruin.

“Wang Qiang, does this look like the ancient battlefield we came to last time?” Lin Han surveyed the surrounding terrain.

“It really does,” Wang Qiang said seriously. “But it should be deeper within the battlefield. Last time we only cleared a silver-tier instance, and this time it’s gold-tier.”

“About right.” Lin Han continued, “Everyone, stay alert. Yuan Si, you’re only a second-awakened assassin. It’d be safer if you stayed with us.”

Yuan Si, walking at the very front, was covered in dark lines and stubbornly replied, “No need. What is there for a dignified second-awakened assassin like me to fear?”

Just as he spoke, more than a hundred minotaurs suddenly burst up from the ground!

Yuan Si froze, then bolted madly in another direction. These minotaurs were all at least level fifteen!

They were all silver-grade monsters!

He was only level eighteen now. If he got surrounded by them, wouldn’t he be doomed?

“Hanzi, these are all the hidden bosses we ran into last time!” Wang Qiang’s confidence also wavered. He had personally witnessed the explosive power of that single minotaur last time, and now there were so many of them!

“What are you afraid of?” Lin Han said. “We came here to level up. If you’re already scared of this, what will you do when you meet higher-level enemies later?”

“Right now our experience is all linked together. With Liu Yunyun, a second-awakened spirit healer, right beside you, what do you have to be afraid of?”

“Do you want to make a fool of yourself in front of Yunyun?!”

Hearing Lin Han’s words, Wang Qiang’s anger surged at once.

“Afraid? I, Wang Qiang, a dignified second-awakened card grandmaster, have nothing to fear!” He pulled out his silkwood deck and charged forward at once. Liu Yunyun followed closely behind to heal him, and the two instantly plunged into battle.

“You know,” Feihua said with a smile from the side, “you’re actually pretty good at these rousing speeches.”

“I can’t always be at their side, and I can’t protect them forever. Most of the time, they have to rely on themselves,” Lin Han said helplessly. “Senior Feihua, please help keep an eye on them.”

“You’re going to find that brat?”

“Though he isn’t a friend, I still have to help him. I can’t just watch him die in this instance.”

“All right.” Feihua found a place to sit down. “Go on, then. Leave your brother and sister-in-law to me. But you should watch your own safety too. I don’t want to become a widow, after all.”

...What had been a rather warm conversation was shattered to pieces in an instant.

Lin Han said nothing more and rushed toward the direction Yuan Si had fled.

Feihua rested her chin on her hand and watched his retreating figure. “This guy really is kind-hearted. I wonder how many secrets he still has. I just can’t see through him.”

...

Lin Han followed that direction and quickly caught up. Yuan Si was still fleeing in panic.

“Yuan Si, if you keep running like this, you’ll only tire yourself out and die,” Lin Han called from a high point kindly.

“Mind your own business! This is my strategy,” Yuan Si shouted irritably, then kept sprinting ahead.

“Heh...” A hint of cunning flashed across Lin Han’s eyes, and he immediately ran to Yuan Si’s side.

“You... what are you doing?!” Yuan Si was stunned by Lin Han’s move. Who would run into the crowd of people being chased?

Then Lin Han shouted at the minotaurs behind them, “You bunch of trash, were all those muscles just for show? Can’t even catch the two of us?”

“So minotaurs really are useless!”

At Lin Han’s taunt, countless minotaurs instantly went mad and charged faster than before.

“Lin Han, are you insane? Aren’t you just digging your own grave?” Yuan Si cursed angrily, then quickened his pace. As an assassin, he had a natural advantage in speed.

“Don’t go. Let’s play slowly.”

Lin Han grabbed Yuan Si, his overwhelming strength locking Yuan Si in place. No matter how Yuan Si struggled, it was useless.

“If I can’t escape, do you think you can?” Yuan Si shouted hoarsely.

Lin Han smiled. “How about this? Beg me, and I’ll let you go.”

“Beg you? Dream on!”

“Then there’s no choice. We’ll die here together!”

Even facing more than a hundred minotaurs, Lin Han remained perfectly calm. Yuan Si was gambling too. He bet that Lin Han could never keep this up with him forever.

At the final critical moment, Lin Han would definitely let go and run!

And that would be his chance.

Fifty meters.

Thirty meters.

Twenty meters.

Yuan Si waited anxiously. At this distance, with the minotaurs’ speed, they would arrive in just a few seconds!

At this moment, Lin Han quietly slipped his hand into his pocket. Yuan Si watched him closely.

But in the next second, Lin Han tossed him into the air!

“Lin Han, what are you doing?!”

Yuan Si’s body instantly lost weight, and he could not summon any strength at all.

Meanwhile, Lin Han took a minotaur-horn hat from his chest and put it on.

Under Yuan Si’s astonished gaze, the minotaurs all avoided Lin Han, as if he did not exist, and rushed to wait beneath Yuan Si instead.

The minotaur-horn hat!

An item that could reduce the minotaurs’ hatred toward its wearer. It only worked on minotaurs, but its effect was indeed excellent.

Lin Han had originally intended only to test it, but now the test had succeeded.

Even if it had failed, he was still highly confident he could blast these minotaurs to death.

But Yuan Si was not nearly so fortunate.

“Lin Han, you actually set me up!”

The ground beneath Yuan Si was now completely occupied by the minotaurs, all of them waiting for him to fall. The moment he did, they would surround him in an instant.

“Don’t put it like that. They don’t like hitting me—what can I do about it?”

“Besides, if you just beg me now, I’ll help you out. How about we face these minotaurs together?”

“What do you say? Am I not incredibly kind?”