Facing this situation, even the battle-hardened Nightmare couldn't help but feel anxious. If it were just him alone, he wouldn't fear even if thirty more people came. This was a forest, and he could easily escape and evade pursuit, but Ji Qian was right behind him. He had promised Ye Shikai to safely escort her away from the Holy Mountain.
The ambushers were certainly not blind; they would have definitely seen the commotion and were watching closely. Nightmare speculated that they were waiting for everyone to fall into the ambush circle, especially waiting for Ji Qian to come over, before they would strike and annihilate the whole group.
Nightmare ordered everyone to retreat slowly and lightly to avoid getting noticed by the ambushers who were archers.
But similarly, he was quite shocked as to why there were ambushers even here, and so many of them. Could Ye Shikai's prediction have been wrong, or was this place originally a key ambush area for Aphrodite?
