"Du Han, put some more effort into it, hey, I've got my eyes on you." Leo, perched happily in a tree, watched as his leveling energy rose bit by bit. In just over ten breaths, the number of wild wolves felled by Du Han's sword had reached thirty-two, and Leo's leveling energy had risen from the initial 1/100 to 33/100. At this rate, it wouldn't take long before he could accumute enough points to level up to level one.

  "Hmph, if I reach level one, I won't be as powerless as I am now," Leo thought to himself. Setting aside the unknown benefits that a necromancer would gain upon reaching level one, just the two known equipment skills—summoning crows and venomous vine—were already making Leo's mouth water.

  As he was daydreaming about the wonderful future after breaking the zero-level barrier and leveling up to level one, Leo joyfully discovered that his leveling energy had surpassed forty and was heading towards fifty.

  "I'm so smart," he thought. "I just used some casually picked herbs to get such a strong fighter like Du Han. This deal is worth it. If it weren't for Du Han following me today, I might really have been in deep trouble. I find myself to be so brilliant that I even admire myself a bit. Du Han, this tough guy... Eh, that's not right, why can't I only see Du Han fighting the wolf pack? Where are the two guards who were following him?"

  Leo's body shuddered violently. Yes, where did those two guards who came out with Du Han go? The perched Leo hurriedly looked around, and upon doing so, his heart sank.

  "Where are the two guards? Why can't I see them?" Leo sensed that something was amiss. Two guards, who were no less imposing than Du Han in terms of build, couldn't have been silently killed off by the wolf pack, could they? Besides, even if they had been killed, they would have at least left behind some traces, like the armor they wore or the weapons in their hands. It was impossible for there to be absolutely no trace.

  Two guards who had disappeared without a trace, and Du Han, who was fiercely fighting the wolf pack and unaware of what had happened behind him, made Leo suddenly smell a rat.

  His mouth opened and then slowly closed again. Leo felt very depressed. Even if he realized that there was some conspiracy involved, what could he do? Warn Du Han? But what good would that do? Not to mention that in the midst of the rising and falling howls of the wolves, Du Han might not even hear what he said, and even if he did, Du Han, who was surrounded by the wolf pack and fully engaged, probably wouldn't have the extra strength to take care of others.

  Thinking of this, Leo felt dejected, just like when he was an ordinary person on Earth before crossing over, facing all kinds of injustices, what else could he do besides venting a few words online? And that venting had to be anonymous; otherwise, if the "river crab auntie" came knocking, wanting to py hide-and-seek or drink hot water games with you, that would be terrible.

  Shouldn't a crosser be rampaging everywhere? Why am I still so frustrated? Am I really that miserable?

  Even though his leveling energy had broken sixty, Leo didn't feel any joy in his heart. In the final analysis, it was still a matter of strength. If his strength were sufficient, he wouldn't be hiding in the tree; if his strength were sufficient, he wouldn't be powerless after discovering a conspiracy; if his strength were sufficient... Damn it, if I had powerful strength, I wouldn't care about any conspiracy or trickery, I would just smash it with a sp. In the face of absolute strength, any conspiracy or trickery is but a paper tiger.

  Du Han, who was fighting the wolf pack, also noticed something unusual at this time. While dealing with the wolf pack's attack, he took a moment to look in the direction he had come from but didn't see the figures of his two subordinates. Du Han's face immediately darkened. These two guards were said to be his subordinates, but their strength was no worse than his own, and now they had disappeared without a sound. Coupled with the sudden encounter with a wolf pack that rarely approached the main road today, Du Han felt a bad premonition in his heart.

  The perched Leo suddenly saw Du Han secretly gncing in his direction, and this gnce made Leo have a bad feeling. Could it be that this guy Du Han was going to...

  Du Han, who was fighting the wolf pack, swept horizontally and knocked the two wild wolves in front of him to the ground, then strode forward and rushed into the forest. It was obvious that he was pnning to abandon Leo in the tree and flee for his life.

  Indeed! Du Han, this guy is too unrighteous! No, brother tough guy, don't go, what will I do if you leave? The bad premonition in his heart became a reality. Looking at the more than ten wild wolves below the tree staring at him with greedy eyes, Leo suddenly felt that his life was bleak.

  "Du Han, you scoundrel, you are also a town sheriff, which is equivalent to the role of a public security bureau chief on Earth. How can you just leave me behind like this? Do you still have professional ethics, do you still have a sense of shame, do you still want to have a face, you..." As he was scolding the other party, Leo suddenly saw Du Han, who had broken through the encirclement, suddenly turn back, and he was overjoyed. He immediately changed his tune: "Big brother Du Han, you're a good man, little brother knew you wouldn't abandon me. Our friendship, indescribable, tears streaming down... Uh, oh my god, I thought you came back to save me because you had a change of heart, but it turns out you were driven back by someone, wasting my expression."

  In the direction from which Du Han had retreated, more than a dozen figures were slowly approaching him, which made Leo's heart suddenly cool down by half. He knew he was definitely not going to have a good time.

  Forced to turn back, Du Han immediately fell back into the frenzied siege of the wolf pack. The wolves, covered with the blood of their companions, would not let go of this human.

  "Sheriff Du Han, where do you think you're going?" A sinister voice sounded, and Leo followed the voice to see the two guards who had originally come out with Du Han leading a group of people from another direction.

  This was clearly a conspiracy against Du Han, and he was just an innocent victim who happened to be in the way. Leo cried out in his heart, damn it, why is there so much shady stuff in this foreign world? I just wanted to pick some grass, make some money, kill some monsters, and level up, how did I end up in this situation?

  "Garrik, Ernd, who exactly are you?" With Du Han's strength, dealing with the siege of wild wolves didn't seem too difficult, and he could even spare the time to talk amidst the wolf pack's frenzied attacks.

  "Du Han, can't you guess who we are? Don't think about stalling for time, no one here will come to save you," it was still the somewhat sinister voice of Ernd speaking.

  Leo didn't quite understand, why did this guy named Ernd Drommel look so imposing and use a very manly double-handed axe, but why did he always speak in such a sinister tone?

  "Ernd big brother, you guys settle your grudges yourselves, can you not involve me? I'm just a bystander who happens to be passing by," Leo said weakly. At this time, he found that the more than a hundred figures that had appeared from all directions had formed a circle and surrounded the area.

  As soon as he finished speaking, Leo's heart suddenly trembled, and his body instinctively shrank. Something sharp and cold almost brushed past his scalp. If Leo's reaction had been just a little slower, there would definitely be a hole in his head right now.

  "Hit by Ernd Drommel's attack, confirmed Defias Thief Group as an enemy force, killing members of this force can obtain leveling energy."