After the colossal thing in the sky had drawn everyone's attention with its thunderous roar, it flew to the very center of Firstheart City and came to a hover. Just as everyone was guessing what the airship would do next, its lower hold opened, revealing a pitch-black doorway.
Immediately afterward, a shadow flashed out from the doorway and leaped down.
At the sight, most people showed looks of shock, while some covered their mouths and cried out.
Even with their unusual bodies, jumping from several hundred meters in the air would turn them into a pile of flesh!
Who was so bold? Did he not value his life?
As everyone worried, the falling shadow suddenly gave off a faint Gloomlight, as though trailing a luminous tail behind him! The moment that tail of light appeared, the shadow no longer fell. Instead, as if fitted with a booster, he tore through the air at astonishing speed.
With only the whooshing sound of air being split, the meteor-like shadow landed directly atop a watchtower on the outer ring wall.
The outer ring wall encircled all of Firstheart City, serving as a line of defense between the city and the outskirts. There were no ladders leading up to the wall, so hardly anyone had ever been on it, much less atop its watchtowers.
After the shadow landed on the watchtower, someone finally saw his appearance clearly.
"Isn't that Knight Sabel?!" A man standing atop the Treehouse Tavern suddenly shouted.
Knight Sabel? Those who heard the cry looked puzzled. Knight Sabel was indeed powerful, but surely he had not reached the point of being able to fly? That shadow with a tail of light had danced through the sky like a meteor—could it really have been Knight Sabel?
Everyone was skeptical at first, until