"What the fuck," Kael muttered, his voice laced with frustration.
The forest stretched endlessly around him, its dense canopy blocking most of the sunlight.
He had been scouring the area for nearly four hours, looking for any sign of the demon's hideout.
So far, all he had found were false trails, and faint traces of mana that led nowhere.
The air was heavy, thick with an eerie silence that only deepened his unease.
This wasn't normal.
The demons or outworlders he had encountered so far had been reckless, almost eager to reveal themselves.
But now?
It felt like something was watching him, hiding just out of sight.
"Where the hell is it?" Kael hissed under his breath.
As he pressed further into the forest, his persistence finally paid off.
A narrow opening in the rocky hillside caught his eye, barely visible behind a cluster of thorny vines.
It was a cave.
