I Became the First Love of the Impenetrable Male Lead (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 49

It wasn’t until sunset that the extermination squad finally set up camp on a flat stretch of land surrounded by rocks. While several knights from the White Knights Order went out to scout the surroundings, a simple meal was prepared.

I looked around at the extermination squad gathered in small groups. Aside from the White Knights, the tension had long since vanished from the faces of the other knights.

Though most of the monsters were concentrated near the Red Spring halfway up the mountain, making the lower slopes relatively easy to clear…

They still shouldn’t be letting their guard down this early.

“By the way, who do you think killed it?”

“Scorpion? Maybe the two fought each other?”

“But there were clear signs of sword cuts.”

Everyone gathered was passionately debating the scorpion corpse. I sat apart from them all, lost in thought.

The corpse bore a diagonal slash—right where the head met the torso—not even targeting the relatively weaker exoskeleton joint.

To cleanly slice through a scorpion’s tough exoskeleton with an ordinary sword…

There was only one way.

Using aura.

“Who on earth could it be…?”

Since the entire squad moved together, it couldn’t have been someone from our group. That meant someone else capable of wielding a sword was on this mountain.

And since I sensed traces of aura on the corpse, it wasn’t just any swordsman—it had to be a Swordmaster.

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