Bab 79: He's Lying

"Can we really capture that monster alive with just the five of us?" asked a woman as soon as she and her comrades entered the forest area.

"Relax, Anj, with me here; you don't need to worry about anything," a man reassured his companion while raising his arm and tapping his muscles.

However, the rest of the group laughed as they heard the man's statement.

"It's not you who'll bring this mission to success; it's Aryx," answered another man who was holding a gray-colored staff with a circle at its tip that had several pendants dangling from it.

"Quit fluttering me; after all, the success of a team couldn't be determined through a single person," the man named Aryx replied and smiled afterwards.

Based on his clothing, he was a close-combat fighter who used a strange type of sword. It was a single-edged sword with a convex, curved blade that broadened towards the point.