Chapter 72: Loot and Lessons
Ethan's voice came out like a growl, low and edged with steel.
"So… tell me. What are you really here for?"
The group of adventurers flinched. They had already been rattled after watching him chug down three high-grade potions in quick succession—wounds closing before their eyes, his fatigue bleeding away. Now, faced with his unrelenting stare, their bravado faltered.
Six C-ranked adventurers should've been confident, but none of them had ever been challenged so openly. Pride pricked them sharper than reason. They weren't used to someone daring to put them on the defensive. And Karl—smug grin plastered across his face, drunk on superiority—was the first to step forward.
"Don't play dumb with us!" Karl barked. "We all saw it! You used the distraction we created to land the killing blow on the wolf. And now you twist the story as if we owe you something? We only wanted to help!"
