The rustling in the surrounding woods grew more frantic and wild.

Alfredo's eyes swept the area with fierce intensity, but he saw nothing. Yet, the voice he had just heard was as clear as if it had been spoken right beside his ear.

There was no mistaking it. His lifelong rival was here, in the Eastern Regions, right on his home turf of Swordhaven Keep, yet he had received no intelligence about it whatsoever.

With a furious glare, Alfredo swung his sword down, its tip pointing straight at A