The Strategic Asset at the Heart of the Plan!

"Cough, cough..."

Although the Traveler's Hospital Room had mostly healed his serious injuries, the lingering pain, combined with another fight, still made Fang Ran cough twice.

Whether it was Puppets beyond C-Rank or the Faceless Men equipped with arcane machinery who feared neither severed limbs nor pain, they were both terrifyingly troublesome enemies.

If Gluttony had not happened to excel at dealing with enemies like these, even if Fang Ran's abilities had not vanished, that situation just now would have been difficult to handle head-on.

Of course, that was without using the External Core.

"Phew."

After taking a long breath to steady himself from rushing here at full speed, Fang Ran patted the dirt and dust from his trench coat and shook his hair loose.

His only impression of those enemies with their horrifying visual style was, There sure was a lot of dust.

Then he walked into the small patch of woods where he had casually dumped Tang Bing after "politely" hailing a ride, only to pause in confusion at the pitch-black darkness within.

Had she not come?

Based on his instinctive understanding of Osphia, Fang Ran did not think she was that kind of person. But after walking deeper in and still failing to find Tang Bing,

he remembered that he had left her here all alone and could not help feeling slightly ashamed.

Uh... she had not been carried off by wolves in the middle of the night, had she?

Then, in the very next second,

Fang Ran suddenly saw familiar motes of multicolored light gather nearby. A beautiful silver-white giant wolf, larger than an SUV, appeared before him.

Unlike the fierce, imposing presence it had displayed during the National War, it slowly rose after revealing itself and gazed at Fang Ran peacefully and quietly.

Except it