Only I May Rob You

Low-level Magic Beasts were not weak, especially flying low-level Magic Beasts. Taking on an Earth Knight one-on-one was no difficult feat for them. Unfortunately, this flock of black bats had run into Liszt, one of the very best elite Earth Knights even among those who relied on potions.

And a knight whose battle aura was gradually transforming into "dragon battle aura."

With Loki beneath him casting Lightness Spell, his leaps reached astonishing heights, sending the black bats scattering in utter defeat. One after another, they were cleaved from the sky by the Sky-Slaying Greatsword. In mere moments, twelve black bats had died. By then, the remaining bats had already fled far away, beyond his reach.

"Damn it, the food at my lips got away!"

Of the flock of twenty or thirty black bats, not even half had been left behind.

He swiftly switched to the Swift Shadow Bow, hoping to shoot down another one or two. But black bats, equipped with ultrasonic echolocation, feared arrows least of all. He failed to hit a single one.

Including the three he had shot before the Bloodline Fruit ripened, he had collected fifteen black bat corpses in total—the black bats were as large as piglets, providing quite a bit of Magic Beast meat as well as plenty of scraps suitable for mages to use in crafting magic arrays. A single bat was worth at least ten Gold Coins.

Fifteen meant one hundred and fifty Gold Coins, a very generous haul—equal to the ransoms paid by five Earth Knights.

The battle in the jungle had also ended. Eight juvenile Blizzard Beasts, relying on the formidable bloodline and bodies of mid-level Magic Beasts, had nearly wiped out the more than twenty invading Wind Blade Wolves. Only three Wind Blade Wolves had managed to escape; the