Even Sword Masters numbered only fifteen across the entire continent.
“No, if you ask what level a Sword User is…”
“That’s enough.
What about Eliza?”
As a red-faced Bash tried to protest, Shark ruthlessly ignored his words and turned his gaze to Eliza.
“I’m about the same as Bash.”
“Then what about Gipel?”
“I’m a mage, a 3-circle user.”
“Ren?”
“I’m a spirit summoner, but I’m still a lower spirit summoner.”
If he had singled them out and asked from the beginning, they all would have answered proudly like Bash.
But having already seen Shark’s reaction, they all answered with their heads bowed.
Sure enough, words that matched their expectations came out of Shark’s mouth.
“Tsk, you’re all mediocre.”
“Ugh.”
Their lips protruded in a pout, but knowing Shark’s monster-like abilities, they couldn’t make any retort.
“We have to get going again tomorrow, so let’s get some sleep.”
As silence flowed, Shark cleared his spot.
The rest of the party drew lots to decide the night watch.
The order was Eliza, Ren, Bash, and Gipel.
Naturally, Shark was excluded from the night watch.
There was no one in the party bold enough to offer him a lot.
Shark couldn’t sleep comfortably either.
From when he first fell into this place until he met Eliza’s party, he brushed it off because he was still in a daze.
But now, he realized that some very significant change had occurred in his body.
He had been somewhat aware of it when fighting the orcs, but now he was feeling it more clearly.
He heard too many sounds too clearly.
If he even listened closely, he could hear the breathing of orcs far away.
Good heavens!
Had he awakened sharp hearing like in the martial arts novels?
‘I guess that’s just how it is here,’ he had also thought.
However, seeing that the rest of the party was completely oblivious, he realized that wasn’t necessarily the case.
In fact, it was because Shark had avoided the orc hordes with such keen senses that he had been able to make it this far without any danger.
Looking back, his movements when chasing the orcs were surprising even to himself.
It was a speed comparable to the movements of Monk Hae-cho, who had taught him martial arts at Chuam Temple.
No, it seemed even faster than that.
Because of that, he had deliberately provoked Bash’s pride to confirm it under the guise of a duel.
Of course, thanks to that, Bash had suffered an unplanned humiliation.
The conclusion he reached after putting various things together was… that his body had indeed changed to an astonishing degree.
Shark concluded that the cause was Katrisian’s Dragon Heart, which had settled in his dantian.
It seemed the Dragon Heart had acted on his body in some way, granting him such monstrous strength.