What Do You Want Me to Be to You?

"Thud..."

Amid a dull impact, the upper and lower halves of the One-Hit Bear, which had been sliced directly in two, fell to the ground at the same time.

The seeping blood had already dyed a patch of ground completely red.

From beginning to end, Fang Li never turned around. As though he had done something utterly insignificant, he flicked the blood clinging to his sword away with a swing.

"Roarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr----!"

The death of their companion, along with the pungent stench of blood, seemed to have provoked the pack of One-Hit Bears. They became even more violent and charged this way without regard for anything else.

One-Hit Bears were attacking from the front and back, even from both sides.

"Quite a lot of them."

Fang Li glanced around before speaking to Alice, who was staring at him blankly.

"Alice, handle the monsters in front. I'll take the rear. Ignore the ones on the sides; deal with them when they come at us."

Hearing that, Alice finally came back to her senses.

"...Yes!"

With an invigorated reply, Fang Li and Alice turned at the same time, their backs to each other as they faced the packs of black bears ahead.

Then, as though they had agreed on it beforehand, the two stomped on the ground and rushed out simultaneously.

The battle ended before long.

"Slash----!"

With another cutting sound, the final One-Hit Bear was split in two before it could even let out a scream. Amid thick blood and a pungent stench, it collapsed onto the ground.

A closer look revealed that the famous monsters of this wilderness now lay scattered across the ground, not a single one left standing.

These monsters had either been dismembered by powerful slashes or blasted to death by astonishing bolts of lightning. They were