“Who told you to come?!”0

Sein glared at Natalya after the battle concluded.0

His annoyance was not directed at Natalya’s intervention itself. Rather, it was how the rough female knight had slain the strange Rank Two plant—a specimen Sein had held in high esteem—with a single strike of her sword.1

During the prior engagement, this strange plant had been at a severe disadvantage against Sein.0

With Natalya’s arrival, the combined internal and external assaults of elemental flames effectively extinguished the last trace of the plant’s resistance.0

Yet, the true death blow came from the massive crimson sword Natalya had thrust into the heart of the plant’s root system.0

This was not the first time Sein had seen the...0