Chapter 29: Look Who Finally Showed Up[1]
Explosions engulfed the whole forest, and points kept racking up. Everything was going smoothly. A bit too smoothly.
I continued to move deeper into the forest.
It was divided into three regions: the outer region held the first-ring beasts, the middle region housed the second-ring beasts, and the innermost region belonged to the dreaded third-ring beasts.
Right now, I stood on the border between the middle and inner region, and I dared not step beyond it. Third-ring beasts were on a different level altogether—something I couldn’t hope to handle at my current strength.
My gaze shifted toward the shadowed depths of the inner region as I scanned the area. And that’s when I saw him.
My psychic-imbued eyes cut through the thick bushes like a hawk’s, and there as clear as day—he stood.
The first protagonist of [Ascension of The Arcane King], the Child of Night - Ray Bladefield.
His butler uniform fit him so well it was almost unfair, perfectly matching that midnight hair and the black blindfold covering his eyes.
And don’t even get me started on the white glove. It was like the universe itself had added a finishing touch, just to spite the rest of us mortals.
Honestly, with that face, he could have been an A-list actor back on Earth. Or at the very least, the guy in every perfume commercial who makes eye contact for half a second and ruins your self-esteem.