Chapter 200: !

Now that the dark energy concentration in the air had lightened up and the migration subsided, all those participating in the battle had a chance for rest.

“Whew!”

Boom—!

The Red Garnet Adventurers collapsed. Lia tapped the large canine of one of the beasts she had slain against her palm.

“This one’s thirty thousand!”

That was the thirty-thousandth one collected. Lia nodded, satisfied.

“Lia! I think I’ve gotten stronger!”

Leo was making a fuss next to her. He had never experienced such an incredible battle before.

“Leo, go and help clean up! Help the injured knights!”

“Lia, where are you going?”

Lia looked to the forest without saying anything. Dark energy was gathering there, plunging the trees into an impenetrable gloom but making it an appetizing place for gaining experience. Her characteristic [Adventurer] became stronger the more she explored the world and faced danger.

“I’ll go into the forest for a little while! I can sense something.”

Her intuition was pointing right at it, and Lia quickly followed.

*rustle*— *rustle*—

At some point, Lia, kicking off the ground and soaring through the branches like a flying squirrel, felt something off.

“…What is this?”

She prepared herself before coming, but there were no enemies, not even an ant.

“Is it over?”

Lia, disappointed, kicked a stone, sending it rolling.

Dururururu-

Until it stopped in something sticky.

“Huh?”

A dark red fluid stained the path down the mountain slope. Lia’s eyes widened.

“It’s monster blood.”

Lia decided to follow the drying creeks, but it didn’t take long until she saw a person’s silhouette off in the distance.

“Who…?”

She climbed up the gently sloping mountaintop for a better look.

“…”