Looking down towards the black heart that he would have to move past if he wanted to complete the main quest, Xuan Hao could not help hesitating. Even if he had not seen the black heart attack, he did not doubt that it had the ability to do this. After all, if it didn't have any ability to protect itself outside of the restrictive power, there was no way that the phantoms roaming the ancient battlefield would have left it alone.
But… The reward from the main quest was far too tempting for him to just let go without and given that the black heart had still not managed to notice him at this point in time, he felt confident that he should be able to sneak past it without getting discovered and find the last secret mentioned by the system before leaving.
In the first place, he didn't need to fight against the black heart or take anything away…