Seeing this, Eris reached out. The little parrot landed on his arm and clambered up his sleeve toward his shoulder.
The messenger frowned.
"Bai Mao, what the hell are you doing?"
"Those people who ran away couldn't even beat a squad of Fifth Stage Law Knights. How could they scare you this badly?"
The little parrot hurriedly shook its head.
It moved so quickly that its head looked like a brush.
"Wrong, wrong."
"That was only a small unit before. There's a vast plain ahead, filled with chaotic source essence auras. There are plenty of Seventh Stage ones!"
"Eris, you need to listen to me this time. If you recklessly step into that area, I can't even promise I'll be able to keep you safe!"
Seventh Stage? And plenty of them?
As those words came from the parrot's beak, Linsey took them to heart.
He immediately pulled up the map on his status panel.
But even after extending the scouting range as far as it would go, he saw no large-scale battlefield apart from the two groups that had just left.
Only then did Linsey ask:
"Bai, where did you find so many Seventh Stage Awakened?"
"I fly high, so I see far!" The little parrot used its beak to preen the feathers on its wing, its tone displeased yet nervous. "Besides, this is a magical beast's business. You humans wouldn't understand. I can smell them!"
"..."
Having said that, the little parrot proudly flapped its wings.
Linsey and the other two could only look at one another.
They had traveled all the way from the City of Law to the eastern edge of the world. When it came to such crucial intelligence, there was no reason to deceive or doubt their companion.
Then, based on the little parrot's information—