"Those Blade's Reach villagers aren’t too shabby. They didn't abandon us and even helped distract the monster away from us," Lyra said, patting her chest.

Adrian shook his head slightly. That wasn't their intention. The behavior of that giant bird was a little strange. It hadn’t launched a full-scale attack. Otherwise, a seventh-level monster wouldn't have let Adrian and Lyra escape so easily.

Indeed, as Adrian had expected, after the two of them left, Frederick and the others barely managed t