BOOM!!
The sound that seemed to precede Lin Yi's complete awareness, even as his senses were finely tuned to the environment.
He then registered the tenth impact just as the noise reverberated through the air. For the better part of an hour, he had been meticulously clearing a route through a dense gathering of territorial beasts, monsters of the mid-level tier who had, for reasons known only to themselves, decided that this particular stretch of terrain leading to the distant mountain range was their domain to guard.
His approach had been deliberate, each movement calculated to avoid any unnecessary show of force or any action that might attract more attention than a lone traveler simply removing an obstruction would naturally incur.
