One year later.
In a clearing outside Campbell City.
Boom!
Moo!
A deafening explosion rang out, accompanied by an earth-shaking bellow.
A small mushroom cloud slowly rose.
A moment later, the dust cleared, and a figure suddenly flew backward out of it.
Dunn controlled his body and landed steadily on the ground nearby.
"Let's stop here for today, Kane."
"Yes, Lord Dunn."
Kane the Minotaur, standing firmly at the center of a deep crater, answered in a low, rumbling voice.
"Annie, I'll leave repairing the ground to you!"
"Fine!"
Annie rolled her eyes and irritably forced the word through her teeth, then began manipulating the breeze and her mental power to level the ground.
Over the past year, this scene had actually played out many times.
Given Dunn's strength, only two people on all of Campbell Island could put him under pressure as sparring partners.
One was Pearl, but whenever Pearl sparred with him, Dunn inevitably took a beating.
Whether for the sake of his pride or anything else, Dunn did not want to get beaten up.
So Dunn could only choose the other one, Minotaur Chieftain Kane.
As a traditional Classholder close to becoming Legendary, Kane was undoubtedly stronger than Dunn.
Fighting Kane allowed Dunn to gain better control over his various abilities.
So whenever Dunn's abilities improved, he would seek Kane out for a bout like this.
And since the battlefield was part of Dunn's territory, he could not simply ignore it after the battle and leave the land riddled with craters.
Under these circumstances, assigning workers to clean up would take both time and effort.
So this responsibility ultimately fell to Annie.
This left Annie, who had only just been freed from the task of transporting slaves to the Storm Sea, gritting her teeth in resentment.
Fortunately,