Even so, if things had gone no further than this, it would only have been a "controversy," at most a "scandal," and absolutely not a "crime."
However, one reporter tried to uncover the truth.
He was a war correspondent with a long-standing reputation in Dragon City.
Though his own cultivation level was not high, he possessed a fearless, battle-hardened nature and often followed the Crimson Dragon Army or hunters straight to the forefront of the fiercest fighting, filming every pore on the monsters with crystal clarity.
The immensely impactful photographs and video reports born from this won him the love of ordinary citizens.
The most iconic photograph he had ever taken used an upward-looking angle, capturing the Hell Beast "Tyrant Mammoth" from beneath its belly.
In the photograph, Tyrant Mammoth had raised high a hoof covered in bone spikes and bony tumors, with streams of visible baleful aura coiling around it.
Its innate skill, the terrifying War Stomp, was gathering power.
The immersive image made every reader and viewer hold their breath, as though they, like the photographer, would be trampled into minced meat by Tyrant Mammoth half a second later.
In truth, although this Tyrant Mammoth had had half its head severed by a Heaven Realm expert wielding a Super Alloy war blade 0.1 seconds later—
Its hoof still came crashing down, blasting out at least 30 percent of War Stomp's power and grievously injuring the war correspondent, leaving him with permanent aftereffects of severe concussion and comminuted fractures.
Yet after resting for only three days, the war correspondent dragged his limbs full of steel pins back to the front line, searching for the next, bigger, more savage Tyrant Mammoth.
—This gentleman's work style as "Life-Risking Saburo" was plain for all to see.
Thus, when this war correspondent's child