The trail of a powerful Magic Beast.
In fact, ever since rushing to the Trapped Dragon Mountains to guard the iron mine, Leewilliam had sent knights out every day to search the surrounding mountain ranges. Officially, they were looking for possible traces of enemy knights, but in truth, he was more interested in finding intermediate- and high-level Magic Beasts—he had longed for a Magic Beast mount for many years.
Magic Beasts were scarce in the Sapphire Grand Duchy. Few knights rode them, and knights all rode horses when charging on the battlefield.
Only Sky Knights rode all manner of Magic Beasts into battle.
Like the enormous tiger the Raging Wave Marquis had ridden before—it was a wind-element intermediate Magic Beast, a Giant Claw Tiger. However, intermediate and high-level Magic Beasts generally dwelled deep within primeval forests. It was already extremely difficult for knight orders or mercenary groups to form teams and kill them, let alone capture them alive.
Even if one was caught and brought back, taming it was still difficult.
The low-level Magic Beast Earth Wife, the Violent Earth Dog Liszt had captured back then, had been constantly conquered by Dousen's body. Even so, it had taken an enormous amount of time to erase its wild nature. Though Earth Wife no longer harmed people, it was still very difficult to make it obey Liszt's commands.
Even a low-level Magic Beast was this wild. One could only imagine the intermediate and high-level ones.
Liszt had been able to obtain the Blizzard Beast Squad for two reasons: first, Dousen had originally been an unweaned low-level Magic Beast cub; second, it had evolved after eating Bloodline Fruit. If Dousen had been fully grown, it would likely have been difficult to tame it completely. As for Loki the Landwalker and Rose the Seven-Colored