"It's the legendary hunter from the Eleventh City...! The legendary hunter who forced our Twelfth City down!"
"Right, right! It must be him!"
There were five or six hunters aboard the flying dragon hot-air balloon. They began chattering noisily, yet didn't release any smoke signals or anything else. I furrowed my brow and shouted, "Hurry up and release a smoke signal to notify the other observation posts! Are you waiting to die? The Dark-Eyed Black Dragon is right in front of you—is this a joke?"
The group of hunters immediately fell silent, then hurried about in a flurry of activity. After rummaging through their storage compartment for quite some time, they finally pulled out something resembling a Kongming lantern. Once they lit it, they tossed it straight toward the ground.
Before long, the Kongming-lantern-like cube exploded, shooting out purple light. I had no idea what it represented, but since the thing was so conspicuous and kept rising into the sky, I led the Gale Dragon back as well. Without me there, the hunters had already been eaten by the Dark-Eyed Black Dragon in droves.
Although the hunters had scattered and fled, quite a number of hunters from the eleven great cities had come. They certainly couldn't all be notified in a short while. Besides, it had only just turned daylight, and many people avoided the official roads, so hunters still kept appearing in my field of vision one after another.
Those hunters were naturally caught and eaten by the Dark-Eyed Black Dragon. In fact, hunters below the Hero rank generally didn't wear very good equipment, and with all the blood drinks and food they carried, they were the equivalent of the finest snacks to the Dark-Eyed Black Dragon. Naturally, it chased after them madly, which also allowed it to keep