The other two Wind Generals were still hot on the heels of his illusion, but as time passed, they began to harbor doubts as they watched Angel ahead of them.
"Why do I feel that something is strange?" The speaker was Chimera's lion head. Chimera was also a three-headed creature: the lion head in the primary position, the goat head on its back, and the snake head on its tail.
"Mm—?" The dull, drawn-out sound came from the enormous air sac atop Kraken's head.
Chimera knew that its companion Kraken spoke with extreme difficulty because of its air sac, so it paid no mind and said bluntly, "We only saw the humanoid creature's moving figure, yet we did not sense the flowing wind produced by his running. That feels very wrong."
Kraken's reflex arc was very long. Only after quite a while did it say, "Oh—"
Chimera had not expected Kraken to give any particularly good answer. What it really wanted to hear was the tail head of the three-headed lion hound. "Lober, what do you think?"
Chimera turned its gaze toward a spot a hundred meters away from Kraken. Clouds and mist coiled around that place, and the silhouette of a three-headed lion hound could faintly be seen.
Yet several seconds passed without any response from the three-headed lion hound.
"Lober?" Chimera called out again, suspicion already flashing in its eyes.
At that moment, the three-headed lion hound in the mist suddenly moved sharply. Its three tails seemed to transform into turbines, firing a column of wind toward some distant direction.
Chimera froze. "Wind-Tail Cannon? Why did Lober suddenly use the Wind-Tail Cannon? Could someone over there be attacking Lober?"
While Chimera was still pondering the situation, the distant "Lober" let out an enraged roar and charged into even