Some beasts were cautious, retreating the moment Lin Mu's aura brushed against them. Others were bold, territorial, or simply too slow to realize what they were facing.
A pair of Twin Crest Thunder Apes leapt from opposite sides of the forest, fists crackling with lightning as they tried to crush Shrubby between them.
Lin Mu skewered one mid-air and bisected the other in a single fluid motion.
A Sky Maw Leech, a horrifying thing that lurked between layers of mist and canopy, attempted to swallow them whole from above. It never completed the motion. Its body was shredded into dozens of pieces before it could even fully manifest.
By the fifth day, Cattaleya was visibly bored.
She sat cross-legged on Shrubby's back, chin resting on one massive arm, eyes roaming the forest with growing restlessness.
"This is dull," she said flatly.
Meng Bai wisely pretended not to hear.
Cattaleya turned her gaze toward Lin Mu. "Let me fight."
