Within moments, the beach was littered with direwolf corpses. The white sand was now marred with patches of crimson blood, mingling with the endless sea before them.
"Wow... this takes me back!" Sophia grinned, her face glowing with joy, and Adrian couldn't keep his eyes off her. "Is there something on my face?"
"Nah... I was remembering the last time we were stuck in an instance dungeon," Adrian replied before they got busy butchering the monster corpses for valuables.
Like him, Sophia had been weak in the beginning when they first arrived in Nexaria. In fact, she was the last one in their group to manifest an ability.
But before that time, Adrian and Sophia were the support team members. In other terms, they were the porters for the other heroes. During those times, their relationship blossomed and never changed, even when Sophia became the strongest hero in their batch.
