"Whoosh!" Valfay suddenly drew his bow, pulling the elven longbow in his hand into a full moon. Blazing fire-element Battle Qi Flame instantly climbed over the arrow, and before everyone's astonished eyes, he released the string. The arrow vanished the instant it left the bow.
"No need to sense it anymore." Valfay shook his head and put away his bow.
"I already shot it down." Valfay gestured with his chin.
"Yes! That feeling of being watched is gone!" Alistair nodded in agreement. At the same time, he waved a hand, and a Goblin Knight beside him left to search for the creature Valfay had shot.
"Back already!" Alistair waved the knight who had gone searching over.
"Let me see what it is." Roland beckoned curiously.
"Tsk! This is trouble—an Easterling-trained hawk!" Before Roland could inspect it closely, Valfay frowned.
"Don't look at me like that. We dealt with these things every day back when we wandered the wastelands! Besides, weren't the Dragon Riders on patrol supposed to notice this thing?" Valfay looked helplessly at Roland, who had turned his gaze toward him, then shrugged and raised the scout hawk in his hand, giving it a shake.
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Everyone turned to look at Caslo and the other Dragon Riders.
Caslo, Wes, and Dos Antony exchanged glances, all of them flushing.
"It's not like we expected the thing to be raised by people..." Caslo grumbled. What sane person used Dragon Riders to shoot birds out of the sky for fun? That was no different from using a nuclear bomb to light a stove!
"Forget it. An army on this scale was bound to be exposed anyway! The Knight Order charging about up ahead had already given us away!" Adolf Heinrich sighed, covering his forehead. A reinforced Knight Order of a hundred men