In the center of the deadly forest of Country Verdantis filled with huge towering trees and a dense humid atmosphere, there lay the army barracks where cultivators trained tirelessly, with their lives hanging in the balance with every step.
While marching off the dense foliage with dense weights, the sound of jesters and mockery echoed.
"This son of a bitch had some fearsome grit."
"Traitors are something else. They have the fearsome zeal to hang onto life."
"HMMM! What can you expect from the big families who leech off the common people's blood?"
The subject of mockery was Steve Lambert, a figure often mocked and scorned by his peers, who had been labeled a traitor by others as they doubted his loyalty due to Lambert's betraying humanity and helping Vampire to enter.
Ignoring them, Steve with a blank expression kept running but in the next turn, he suddenly found himself squeezed among several others.