The smell of burnt flesh rolled between them.

  "Did you just eat apples because you don't know how to cook?" Anna chided as she watched Mo Li struggle with roasting meat. "It's basic. How come you don't know how to roast some meat?"

  "Will you shut up!?" He growled. "I'm trying to concentrate here!"

  She chuckled and leaned against the wall of the cave. Mo Li, despite her warnings, decided to stay.

  This would be the first night that he would be staying in this cave.

  "Aren't you scared I am going to let other people here while you sleep tonight?"

  "I could just kill you before you can do that," Anna said. First and foremost, this body was overpowered. She was like the destined villain of every novel. She grew up strong and powerful and had a rather sad back story.

  This wasn't some weak to strong novel.

  This was a revenge novel! Anna laughed at her own thoughts.

  "You look crazy." Mo Li said. "Stop laughing like that."

  She snorted and sat on the chair.

  "How long are we going to stay here?" he asked.

  "Don't know. I can still feel them outside." In fact, she wasn't really sure if the demons were planning to leave. What if they were summoned because someone thought she was staying here? They wanted to make sure that she died, so they summoned demons to get rid of her.

  "I am going outside tomorrow and check."

  "I will go with you."

  "You can't."

  "Are you underestimating me?"

  "No." Well… she was. But she wasn't planning to tell him that. "I am not planning to fight demons. I don't want to attract attention. And let's be honest here, your white hair is too flashy." That was the only reason that she could think of.

  "You — " Disbelief clouded his gaze. "Are you saying that my hair is ugly?"

  "Huh?"

  "You just said that my hair…"

  Seeing his reaction, Anna ended up laughing. She held her stomach and giggled for a long time.

  Who would have thought that this Mo Li… would be a little cuter than the Mo Li from the past?

  ….

  It was already nine when they walked out of the cave. Mo Li had no idea how to open the cave from the inside or the outside, so all he could do was follow her.

  "They— "

  "Shhh…" Anna lowered herself and touched the ground. It was a method of fakery that should be enough to fool Mo Li. She wasn't actually using her senses to sense demons. She was just waiting for the system to scan the place.

  After making sure that no demons were near them, she said, "No demons in a two hundred meter radius."

  "Does that mean they might be present outside that radius?"

  She nodded.

  "Then… what are we going to do?"

  "I am going to encircle the packhouse and find something." She would find out those symbols.

  "Why not just go directly towards the pack house?"

  She just shook her head and said nothing. She didn't want to show him that this body couldn't approach the packhouse.

  It was weird, and she had no way of explaining that to him.

  The two of them started running around the packhouse. Of course, she made sure to stay away from the house.

  After almost thirty minutes of running, they finally arrived in a burnt area. The trees and even the ground were burnt. Not a trace of life can be seen around it.

  "This place…"

  "It was just like the one at the school." Mo Li said as he crouched on the ground and examined the soil. "Same texture."

  Anna nodded. Then she walked towards the center of the burnt clearing. Sadly, she couldn't see any symbols there.

  Was it possible that the symbols disappear after the summoning?

  "Hey… did you see anything weird at the one from the academy?"

  "Weird?"

  "Like… I don't know. A symbol? I mean… like a summoning circle?"

  "No. We thought it might be a talisman."

  No. It wasn't a talisman. It should be a summoning circle. However, it looked like she was right after all.

  The symbols disappear after the summoning.

  "Let's go…" she said.

  Then, they found another one. And another one.

  At the end of their quick trip, Anna was pretty much aware of what happened.

  There were eight sets of burnt clearings.

  The summoning happened twice.

  The first one destroyed their packhouse.

  The second one was the one that was done yesterday.

  This also confirmed a few things.

  First, someone is summoning demons.

  Second, that same person wanted to get rid of her.

  And third, that person is using a unique form of magic that no one has ever heard of before.

  Now, this is going to complicate a lot of things.

  "The demons… what do you think will happen to them?" Mo Li asked.

  "I don't know."

  "If they stay here… people will know it soon. The king would surely send some people to exterminate those things."

  That might be too far fetch.

  Anna didn't even know if the King was actually the one who wanted her dead.

  But she didn't say anything.

  "What do you think of the King?" she asked.

  "What do I think?"

  She nodded.

  "Well… the King… isn't a good person. But he is a good ruler."

  Again, she nodded. He was right. Being a good person and a good ruler are two different things.

  "We are leaving…"

  "Where are we going?"

  "To the capital."

  "Huh? Are you out of your…"

  Mo Li didn't continue his words when the ground started shaking.

  The two looked at each other, their eyes widened.

  "The…" Anna couldn't find the right words. "The demons…"

  Mo Li's face paled. He blinked before he added, "They found us."

  Anna's face contorted. Did she do something wrong? No. She did nothing. She was watching Mo Li and even the system was watching him. He didn't do anything that would have led the demons or anyone in this cave.

  It wasn't Mo Li.

  And it wasn't her.

  It must be something else.

  She gritted her teeth when the ceiling shook for the second time. "Grab your sword. We are going to fight."