After all, this was already our second encounter. If we had merely met by chance before, then so be it, but now I had saved their lives. Not telling them my name would have been going too far. I wasn't afraid of exposing it, so I told them my real name. The uncle from the Sheng family was called Sheng Zong, his son was Sheng Wen, and his niece was Sheng Lin. Their names were all quite simple. Sheng Zong said it was so they would be easier to call out on the battlefield, which I found rather amusing.
However, there were only two Gale Beasts left, so each could carry two people. Although these giant beasts could bear heavy loads, there wasn't much room to sit on their backs. Sheng Zong and his son could only ride together, while I rode with the girl.
"That blue smoke! Could it... be coming from the dragon's corpse?" Sheng Lin had just mounted her beast shyly when she suddenly pointed in shock at the blue clouds of smoke in the distance. I didn't feel much about it, but Sheng Zong was already greatly alarmed. "Oh no! Someone's discovered the dragon corpse! What... what should we do?"
"Father! Big Brother Xia killed that dragon! How can we let them take it away!?" Sheng Wen shouted, his face full of displeasure.
I smiled and said, "Don't worry. Having more people isn't necessarily a bad thing. We only have two Gale Beasts. Even if, as you said, the Sheng family has several friendly hunter clans in the great city, calling them all here would only bring around twenty mounts. They wouldn't be able to divide up this Sky-Defying Armored Dragon anyway."
"But what if they take advantage of this chance to seize ours... no, Big