Chapter 173 - Prelude
Amid the towering trees of the Great Forest, a figure moved with almost supersonic speed.
His body was an almost imperceptible blur to ordinary eyes, like a shadow slicing through the air between colossal trunks and branches.
He was a man of the beast-like race, about one meter and eighty centimeters tall. His long, dark-brown hair was tied back in a ponytail that swayed with the wind of his fierce movement.
His eyes, red and sharp like those of a predator, revealed an unshakable gleam. A prominent scar crossed one eye, climbing up his forehead and disappearing into the dark strands.
At his waist hung a falcata-shaped sword.
The brown hilt was detailed with intricate silver runes, and the blade had a dark-silver hue, with an almost liquid gleam, as if it pulsed with energy.
On the opposite side of his waist rested a short black sword, whose sheath seemed to absorb the light of the surroundings.
Unlike the norm among beast-men—who usually wore light armor or even went shirtless to maintain agility—this youth wore full black armor.
Silver accents traced the lines of the armor with lethal elegance, and at the center of the breastplate shone a symbol: the face of a wolf surrounded by a mystical aura.
Anyone who had visited one of the monuments of the Seven World Powers in recent months would recognize the symbol immediately—the emblem of the Beast God, the newly elevated sixth among the Seven World Powers.
This young Doldia warrior racing through the Great Forest was Kilian Dedoldia, sixteen years old, the current second-in-command of the burgeoning Iron Legion.