"Maybe we should reconsider, see if there are any other ways?"
The burly man spoke cautiously, not because he was timid, but because he was unclear whether the villager's warning of a "crisis at night" referred to a crisis within the secret realm or a plot-triggered death. If it was a crisis within the secret realm, then it would be much simpler: they could fight their way out based on strength.
Even if their strength wasn't sufficient, retreating back into the house should pose no problems.
But if it was a plot-triggered death, then they really would be pissing in front of the Supreme Elder Lord, courting death.
Plot-triggered deaths mean that once certain special conditions are triggered, death is almost certain, irrespective of a person's strength, like that young man carrying a rocket barrel, whose strength did not even get used to a tenth of its capacity before he was impaled by three spears.
"What's up?"
