>>546031818
Bennett's passion for adventure is unstoppable.

He wants to constantly explore, challenge, sweat it out, and eventually grow old on the adventurer's path.

But there was once when he met with a true crisis.

Just as that old adventurer had so long ago, Bennett was in a predicament that would cause any other person to despair.

"Losing this much blood... Not good."

But Bennett did not stop. "There's no reason to turn back," he thought.

Somehow, he just knew that all the agonizing misfortune he had suffered up till this point was for the sake of overcoming this precarious position.

But at the end of his hellish journey, what he found at the end was — nothing at all.

"Ha, returning empty-handed is... part of an adventure. I... don't mind..."

At last, his tightly-wound emotions came loose, allowing his many injuries to rob him of his consciousness, and he collapsed.

When he reawakened, he found that his wounds had been cauterized by a mysterious flame, stopping both the bleeding and the pain.

A jewel pulsed warmly in the palm of his hand, its rhythm in time with the heartbeat in his chest — the beating heart of an adventurer.

This was not the mercy of the world, or that fate took pity on him. Rather, this was his "final reward," one befitting a person with Bennett's burning passion.