Steve of the Withered Earth

Steve of the Withered Earth

Rather than helping the Flame Cat Couple, Cheng Tian was trying to guide the balance of power between both sides.

Neither the Flame Cat Couple nor Beiye were Cheng Tian's friends. If possible, Cheng Tian's ideal outcome would be for both sides to perish together.

So when the Blazing King Dragon was at risk of suffering fatal damage, Cheng Tian intervened.

He did not want either side to enter a near-death state first. It was not because he wanted to fleece them for Drop Items; it was because this dungeon was not a pure Monster Hunter World dungeon.

The rules of Soul Sacrifice were still in effect!

If either side entered a near-death state, it would meet the most basic requirement for Soul Sacrifice. Should either side successfully sacrifice the other, not only would Cheng Tian lose his rewards, he would also have to face an even more troublesome enemy.

What Cheng Tian had not expected was that merely deploying a small barrier to interfere with that horn charge had directly earned him Beiye's Hate Lock.

Looking at Beiye's nose, streaming with something that could have been blood, snot, or both, Cheng Tian seemed to understand how he had pulled aggro.

Compared with the dragon-beast units of this world, Behemoth possessed a distinctly higher level of intelligence.

Though it still could not compare with humans, Beiye could already be considered a rather strategic tactician among magical beasts.

That was clear from the Maelstrom it had cast at the start to block the entrance. This guy's brain worked far faster than anyone had imagined.

Had it been an ordinary monster whose nose was rammed by the Blazing King Dragon's horn, it would have gone straight after the Blazing King Dragon. But Beiye had tracked the residual