A Teenage Girl Becomes an Adult

I spent more time than expected saving the subjugation squad, but I had no intention of delaying any longer.

Having left behind a single letter saying I’d be back in a few days, I’d disappeared without a word. My parents might be searching the entire town for me by now.

‘Come to think of it, they said yao beasts had suddenly grown more numerous, didn’t they?’

While I was buying as much time as I could atop the cliff, I’d overheard their conversation as we set up the formation.

The Mountain-Shaking Roar didn’t normally live in Cheonga Valley. Its territory was supposedly in a rocky region far to the west.

There had also been reports that yao beasts were fighting over territory more frequently.

Commander Wi Ji-hyeok, who had been fighting with his flying sword, speculated that a higher-grade yao beast had appeared and driven the lower-grade ones out.

I thought that was the most plausible explanation, too.

When a higher-level predator appears, the existing ecosystem is bound to be pushed aside.

Just as a single tiger moving into a mountain changes the routes wild boars and deer take, I doubted the food chain was fundamentally different in the cultivation world...