Xia Nan reacted fast.
Although he was in one of the rare safe environments on an adventure, and was himself immersed in recovering his mental state.
The good habits he had developed since crossing over, along with his Perception Attribute as high as 10 points, still kept him alert to his surroundings.
Almost the very instant the scream reached his ears, accompanied by a fleeting iron-gray flash in the air, the Beheading Longsword was already instinctively out of its sheath and gripped tightly in his hand.
As for the bowl of mixed mushroom soup he had originally been holding, it had naturally overturned onto the ground.
The corner of his eye swept over it, and his brows furrowed slightly.
Yet Xia Nan did not hurriedly rush toward the direction the sound had come from.
Instead, he focused his attention, gathered his mind, and checked the environment around him in the fastest, safest way possible.
His many days spent in the Tavern Hall had not been for nothing.
He had heard who knew how many strange and bizarre anecdotes, and he knew clearly that using a teammate's commotion to draw attention, then taking advantage of an Adventurer's divided focus to set an ambush and launch a surprise attack, was a method commonly used by many Monsters and even intelligent beings.
Only after confirming that there were no enemies in the surrounding darkness did he silently use [Gravity Control] to reduce the effect of gravity on himself and increase his movement speed.
Heading toward the source of the sound, the black figure clad in iron armor melted into the depths of the night in the blink of an eye, leaving only the shrill roar of wild wind in the air.
The village was not large. Although the empty houses were scattered, a