The outskirts of Kalanfu'er, the wilderness.
"Huff... huff..."
Sparse weeds mixed with fine gravel flew swiftly backward on both sides of the road.
Xia Nan panted heavily, his arms pumping back and forth.
The Light Plate Armor rubbed against the Chainmail underneath, letting out crisp metallic clinks; the backpack on his back jolted violently with his high-speed movement, and the jumbled sounds of loose things knocking together could be faintly heard from inside.
There were no stray thoughts at all.
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The strange mushrooms of the same kind as those in the goblin nest, Fugan's sudden change in attitude, the vast aura that had flashed by in an instant, and his inexplicable act of walking into town—
All of it meant that Xia Nan, who had already formed a guess along the way about the target the Barbarian was tracking, did not hesitate in the slightest the moment he heard the other man tell him to run in the opposite direction.
In all likelihood, that mysterious enemy who had made a powerful Transcendent Barbarian cross half the continent and chase them all the way from the distant Northern Territory to River Valley Town...
Was now hiding in Kalanfu'er, a place he had already visited once.
"Who is it!?"
Sweat slid down his cheeks and splashed into tiny crystalline droplets on the ground.
Sweat slid down his cheeks, splashing into tiny crystalline sprays on the ground.
Or perhaps some stranger in the little town whom he had never seen before?
Chaotic thoughts tangled together in his mind like a ball of yarn as the situation abruptly changed.
Yet the cadence of his steps only grew faster and faster.
A battle on this level meant that, with his current strength, the moment he got anywhere near it, he would die.