Proving Himself to Gouki and Walking to the End of the World with His Beloved

After completing the hunt for Behemoth, the player hunters returned to investigating other walking natural disasters—the Elder Dragons. As long as monsters did not disrupt the normal ecosystem, the Guild had no reason to issue hunting quests for them.

With Beiye, that special case, gone, endlessly hunting ordinary monsters would amount to deliberately damaging the ecosystem. The Guild, which upheld ecological balance, would never do such a thing.

Meanwhile, the Savage Devil Land, temporarily monopolized by Cheng Tian, was a special island map that had no impact on the natural ecosystem. The life and death of its monsters would not affect any other regions outside it.

Yet even under these circumstances, someone was still hunting monsters, and those actions themselves were disrupting the ecological balance. The apex forces in the corresponding regions had been hollowed out, leading new tempered monsters and apex predators to arrive and fight for territory, or to compete within the existing monster hierarchy until a territory lord emerged.

Such struggles generally involved fierce mutual slaughter and had no small impact.

The Guild was not stupid. With the Scorching Sun as support, their information exchange had undergone a qualitative leap. Furthermore, most combat personnel from the Fifth Expedition, whether players or NPCs, had joined either the Scorching Sun Legion or the Balanced School, making it easy to investigate and screen people.

With a little time and effort, they had already narrowed the scope down to a very small range. All they lacked now was decisive evidence.

But for Cheng Tian, there was no need to investigate at all. There were only a handful of people capable of killing tempered dragon beasts with their fists: the Great Commander, Bazett, and then Gouki.

But then again, what would evidence accomplish? Were they planning to talk Gouki into stopping?

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