Owl raised his head and looked into the depths of the passage, as if a gaping, blood-filled maw lay in wait in the darkness for him to walk right into its trap.
He flew around the monster's corpse and slowly headed toward the end of the passage. Turn after turn after turn, he caught up with the monster walking ahead of him, slowed down, and merely followed behind it.
Deep within the mine, a black-haired man sat atop a platform made of coal.
"Something is following behind the Coal Ghost!"
He slowly opened his eyes. He had already sensed Owl following behind his summoned beast.
In truth, he could not see Owl either, but there were flies he had summoned throughout the mine. These tiny insects flew around inside the tunnels, and once an intruder approached and touched their bodies, they would sound an alarm.
Owl was merely invisible, not transparent. When those tiny flies struck his armor, they still collided physically with it, and so the black-haired man discovered his presence.
The black-haired man was named Yu Hai. He was a Coal Summoner, once a player of Infinite City and later a director of the Summoner Association. After his embezzlement was exposed, he simply killed someone and fled Infinite City. He was currently wanted by Infinite City.
His arrival in this world had been entirely accidental. Earlier, he had fought hunter players who had come after him and suffered considerable injuries. Worse still, his strongest summoned beast, the Diamond Dragon, had been blown apart on the spot.
In the end, with no other choice, he used a random teleportation item and entered this world.
His most important task now was recovering from his injuries. Once he had healed, he could slowly replenish his summoned beasts. So, in truth, he