Ambition

Village Chief Qige's words also set Zhang Tie thinking. Taking all those points together, this beast tide in the Ice and Snow Wilderness truly was far too strange. No wonder it had drawn even a Wilderness Guardian from the Church of the Guardian God.

"Did that Wilderness Guardian discover anything?"

"I don't know. That man only stayed in Kurgan Village for one night. What he wanted to know was what I just told you. Once he understood those things, he left!" As he spoke, Village Chief Qige seemed to recall something. "Oh, right. That man had a pet—a huge black eagle. When I saw him off from the village, that giant eagle swooped down from the sky. It gave me quite a fright at the time."

A bizarre beast tide; a Wilderness Guardian of the Church of the Guardian God who had come here with a black giant eagle to investigate the truth... After linking those things together, for some reason, what surfaced in Zhang Tie's mind was not anything else, but the Iron-beaked Ibises that had crazily attacked the airship he had taken to Huaiyuan Prefecture. Because of those ibis attacks, even now, many aerial transportation routes on the Weiyi Subcontinent had been severely affected, with some even facing the danger of being cut off entirely.

Could there be some connection between them?

Zhang Tie almost instinctively caught a whiff of danger. However, for the moment, this matter had no negative effect on him. Not only was it not harmful, it actually made it easier for him to condense Seven-Power Fruit. So after marking it in his mind as something to watch out for, Zhang Tie set it aside.

To Zhang Tie at this time, no matter what might happen in the future, raising his own strength was what