Finally! Firelink Shrine!

Where can we find the way?

The way lies beneath the bird's claws.

"Wait, wait, wait, are you insane?"

Watching Hewei point at the bird's nest and claim it was the way, Todd was swept into a whirlpool of complicated emotions. He truly could not understand how this guy's mind worked!

"Bird-type monsters throw their prey from high altitudes to kill them, or they use those huge, hard beaks to peck open skulls. No matter how you think about it, there's no way we can rely on that thing to leave this place!"

Todd knew quite a bit about the ecology of bird-type monsters, so he completely rejected Hewei's suggestion.

Dying during an adventure in Sain Underground City was one thing. It only meant you had been careless or lacked the skill. But deliberately seeking out a giant bird in such a peaceful situation?

Being dropped to his death would have been fine. But if his skull got pierced open... He did not want to die in such a bizarre way!

"We have to try, don't we? We don't have any other way out right now anyway."

Hewei's eyes shone with the spirit of adventure. Perhaps he was an extremely aggressive adventurer at heart.

"I, you, this..."

Todd could not think of any other reason to oppose him, because he felt like he simply could not understand how the people of the Starfire Church thought.

In the end, they really were not the same kind of people.

"Anyway, I'm absolutely not going to mess around with you people. If you want to get yourselves killed, go right ahead!"

Todd crossed his arms and let out a roar from the depths of his soul.

A moment later.

Looking at the empty cliff with only himself left behind, he froze.

The people