Chapter 177

Because at this moment.

Tang Qianqian leaned in close.

She said excitedly, "It really is an elf, exactly the same as the Dark Elves we just saved!"

Hearing this sentence.

Aleya and the others, who had been secretly on guard, were instantly stunned. The Dark Elves they had just saved... Could it be that these human girls had also rescued their companions?

"By the way..."

"Jiang Li, before saving Tina, you once mentioned that a companion had already been rescued..." Aleya suddenly remembered this and hurriedly asked Jiang Li.

"That's right."

"It seems they must have completed the mission," Jiang Li nodded, feeling surprised in his heart.

Obviously.

He hadn't expected Li Mengying and the others to be able to defeat the Dark Elves.

Although weakened by the Natural Crystals, the Dark Elves were still very powerful, and for Li Mengying and the others to surpass them was truly beyond his expectations.

Seeming to sense his confusion.

Li Mengying opened her mouth to explain, "We were actually able to defeat the Dark Elves this time by taking a clever shortcut."

"Qianqian's class is Holy Light Knight; some of her skills are imbued with Holy Light power, which has a certain suppressing effect on various evil Dark Powers and Death Powers."

Having finished speaking.

Li Mengying glanced a few times at the three elves beside Jiang Li... She, Xiao Ning'er, and Tang Qianqian had relied on class suppression, but Jiang Li, as a One-Star Warrior, didn't have that help.

Thinking this, she felt even more that Jiang Li was inhumanly strong!

And on the opposite side.

After receiving Li Mengying's personal confirmation.

The eyes of Aleya, Tina, and Sif instantly softened.

The vigilance in their hearts almost instantly vanished without a trace.

These girls in front of them had successfully saved their companions... Just this point alone was enough to make them grateful.

"By the way."

"I want to ask you a question." Jiang Li suddenly thought of something and decisively asked, "After you defeated the Dark Elf, where did that Dark Elf go now?"

Hearing this question.

Aleya and the others perked up, their faces filled with expectation as they waited for an answer.

"Where did she go?"

Li Mengying and the others looked at each other.

Xiao Ning'er replied, "After we defeated the Dark Elf, she returned to the original big tree... Hmm, more accurately, she was sucked back into the big tree..."

"Returned to the original place?"

Upon hearing this.

Jiang Li frowned slightly.

He recalled the situation when Aleya, Tina, and the others first appeared... A big tree emitting dense Dark Power had broken open from within, and Aleya and the others had been hiding inside the tree trunk.

"This is a bit tricky..."

Jiang Li thought silently in his heart.

He hadn't expected that the Dark Elf defeated by others would be different from the one he defeated.

"It seems it must be a problem with the power of purification."

"Other people's Natural Crystals can purify at most ten percent of the Dark Power, whereas I can purify one hundred percent. Therefore, according to the normal dungeon rules, even if a Dark Elf is defeated, it remains in a state of Dark corruption and cannot fully recover its sanity."

"Jiang Li..."

Aleya beside him called his name.

Jiang Li turned his head and could see the worry in Aleya's and the other elves' eyes.

Obviously.

This abnormal situation left them somewhat at a loss.

They had thought that other companions, once defeated, would all return to sanity and recover their consciousness, but now it seemed only they were the exception, and the cause of this exception was the Jiang Li standing before them.

Therefore.

Aleya and the others subconsciously regarded Jiang Li as their mainstay and sought Jiang Li's opinion.

"Don't worry."

"At worst, we'll just go there again." Jiang Li understood their worry and smiled to comfort them with a few words.

"Thank you..." Aleya and Tina had tears in their eyes and couldn't help but whisper thanks repeatedly, while the more mature Sif pressed her lips together, a trace of gratitude rippling in her purple eyes as she looked at Jiang Li.

They certainly understood clearly.

Jiang Li had absolutely no need to save so many elf companions...

And now, helping them without asking for anything in return truly made them overwhelmingly grateful; if not for Gu Ji and Li Mengying and the others being present, they might have rushed forward and hugged him tightly.

"Jiang Li..."

"From what you're saying..."

"Do you mean you want to save all the other Dark Elves in the entire dungeon?"

And on the opposite side.

Li Mengying and the others listened for a moment and roughly understood Jiang Li's next plan.

"Yes."

"I intend to rescue all the other elves corrupted by Dark Power."

Jiang Li did not deny it and nodded.

Hearing this, Li Mengying and the others fell silent, unsure what to say.

Saving all the dark elves… there must be at least ten of them, right?

For them, this was absolutely unimaginable.

More than ten dark elves — how could they possibly fight that?

A moment of silence.

Jiang Li was the first to break the mood: "We still need to hurry and save the other dark elves."

"Let's talk after we get out of the instance."

Li Mengying and the others nodded.

But before leaving.

Li Mengying said, "However. I also have a question I want to ask you."

Jiang Li's steps paused for a beat. He didn't know what she wanted to ask, but he still nodded: "Go ahead and ask."

"Earlier…"

"The person who shot the Shadow Phantom Tiger… was you, right?" Li Mengying narrowed her eyes, staring intently into Jiang Li's eyes.

"Shadow Phantom Tiger?" Before Jiang Li could react to this question, Xiao Ning'er and Tang Qianqian were the first to be startled. They looked at Li Mengying: "Yingying, wasn't the one who helped us earlier an Archer class professional? Why would you ask Jiang Li like that?"

"The one who killed the Shadow Phantom Tiger was indeed an arrow, that's correct," Li Mengying said. "But no one ever said a Warrior class professional can't wield a longbow, right? You should know about something like all-class weapons."

"You—"

Xiao Ning'er and Tang Qianqian were a bit bewildered.

All-class weapons?

Such things did exist, but the problem was they were incredibly expensive.

How could a new professional possibly own one?

"Ahem."

At this moment.

Jiang Li awkwardly rubbed his nose.

He hesitated for a moment.

Then he answered, "You might be thinking wrong. I'm just a Warrior — where would I get a longbow and arrows…"

Hearing this answer.

Li Mengying, who had been harboring expectations, immediately dimmed. As expected, it wasn't him.

Xiao Ning'er and Tang Qianqian, who had never expected it in the first place, showed expressions of "just as I thought." See, I told you — Jiang Li is a Warrior class professional, how could he possibly know how to shoot arrows…