A Town in the Uninhabited Forest (Extra-long chapter-please vote with your monthly tickets)

It was a giant eagle, an eagle that blotted out the sky.

The stars and moon vanished beneath its wings. Even the enormous fighter aircraft looked like a tiny bird beneath it.

"What is that?" Mark stared wide-eyed at the giant eagle flying toward the fighter, its wings obscuring the sky. "It won't attack us... will it?"

He Ao watched the giant eagle spread its wings and raised his gaze slightly.

He had actually been releasing a faint trace of high-status pressure all along. Ordinary people might not feel anything, but powerful exotic beasts and powerful transcendents would have their spiritual alarms triggered by it.

Powerful transcendents might be too clever for their own good and dismiss that warning as an illusion, but powerful exotic beasts almost always followed their instincts, obeyed their spiritual alarms, and avoided He Ao.

That was why, throughout their journey, He Ao had never been attacked by a powerful exotic beast, no matter where he went.

But this giant eagle did not seem to have followed its instincts and fled.

Had the pressure stopped working? Or was there something special about this area?

He Ao raised his gaze toward the rapidly approaching giant eagle.

This giant eagle was not an angel-class life-form. Its body was simply exceptionally large.

In fact, this was not the first time He Ao had encountered such a giant eagle. One had passed near them in the desert, but it had keenly avoided his pressure and never even entered their field of vision.

This giant eagle was probably the natural predator of sandworms mentioned in the desert book-or rather, the two were each other's natural predators.

They preyed on sandworms, and sandworms preyed on them.

He Ao simply had not expected these giant eagles to exist in the Forest Corridor as