I Am the True Calamity—The Fourth Calamity
"Monster Knight... no wonder they were rejected by the hunter community~"
This was the Great Commander muttering to himself after reuniting with the Half-Elf, Cheng Tian, and the others, then witnessing the Blazing King Dragon and Blazing Queen Dragon quietly staying by Cheng Tian's side.
As a traditional hunter who had been forced to accept the rules of Soul Sacrifice due to the mutation of the earth veins, he naturally knew a thing or two about the Monster Knights, who had once clashed fiercely with the hunter community.
And if he remembered correctly, the trumped-up charge pinned on the Monster Knights back then was that "one day, they would stand with the monsters and attack humanity."
But if one looked past the surface, to put it more bluntly, the higher-ups among the overwhelmingly numerous hunters rejected Monster Knights simply because they did not want anyone else taking a slice of the pie.
Hunters only needed courage and training, so the threshold was relatively low. Knights, on the other hand, truly needed the talent to empathize and communicate with monsters. That so-called threshold was little different from a wall for many people.
Cheng Tian had appeared with a Tyrannosaurus Rex from the very beginning. Although Scarlet had spent a long time scavenging around Astera and eaten plenty of prey, causing many hunter commissions to fail, it was still within understandable limits. The Beast Wyvern Species could theoretically be killed or captured.
But communicating with and taming Elder Dragons—and taming an entire family in one go—had far exceeded the Great Commander's understanding.
From another perspective, Cheng Tian had already replaced the Blazing King Dragon and Blazing Queen Dragon as a new walking natural disaster. If he ever developed some unusual ideas, then with humanity's intelligence