Raid on Mane City (Third Update, Celebrating a 10,000-Coin Reward 1/4)

This chapter is an extra update for Protector "Suffering on the Road to Redemption"'s 40,000-coin reward. There are still three more chapters to come.

In this strange world, knights' mounts were not limited to horses. Especially after becoming Sky Knights, they could no longer be bound to a horse's back.

Thus, all manner of Magic Beasts entered the eyes of Sky Knights.

Compared to wild beasts, Magic Beasts possessed relatively higher intelligence and held great potential for taming. They understood how to submit to the strong. Back when the Count first came to Coral Island, he had set his sights on the intermediate Magic Beast Giant Savage Bear that lived on the island, hoping to tame it as his mount. Naturally, he ultimately failed.

The Giant Savage Bear did not become a mount, but a chair.

After that, the Count had continued seeking a Magic Beast mount, but none suitable had caught his eye. Thus, he became a Sky Knight without a Magic Beast mount.

Yet his son, Liszt, had acquired Magic Beast mounts long ago—not just one, but nine intermediate Magic Beasts. Of course, outsiders did not know that the Eight Little Ones were all intermediate Magic Beasts. Even after Liszt renamed them Blizzard Beasts, many still believed Dousen was the one and only intermediate Magic Beast.

The Eight Little Ones were merely low-level Magic Beasts mixed with a portion of intermediate Magic Beast bloodline.

After all, they did not have prompts from Smoke missions.

The messenger Sky Knight before them dismounted from the back of an enormous Mottled Gray Eagle. His silver-white mithril armor proclaimed his status—the Mottled Eagle Knights.

Mottled Gray Eagles were avian Magic Beasts raised by the Sapphire Family. The Grand Duke selected outstanding knights from the Blue Blood Alliance, bestowed Mottled Gray Eagle