One Earth Savage Bear swiftly submitted beneath Liszt's majesty. The other did not hold out for long either, and before long, the two Earth Savage Bears became Liszt's and A Ke's mounts respectively.
If they had been somewhat unwilling when they first submitted, then after Liszt took out two ordinary potions and fed them to the bears, the two highly intelligent high-level Magic Beasts felt much better. Since they could not resist anyway, they might as well get some useful potions out of it.
Riding the Earth Savage Bears and becoming familiar with their abilities along the way, they soon arrived at a mercenary camp.
Pegasus Forest not only had high-level dragon-beast pegasi favored by the knightly class of great nobles, but also a great many ordinary Magic Beasts. These were the prey mercenaries enjoyed hunting, so mercenary camps that served as trading markets and supply stations could be found everywhere, with merchant caravans frequently passing through them.
At that moment.
The guards on duty at the mercenary camp quickly spotted the arrival of two enormous high-level Magic Beasts, Earth Savage Bears.
"Earth Savage Bears! High-level Magic Beasts—raise the alarm!" A guard hurriedly blew the horn in his hand, and the mournful blare of the ox horn rang through the camp.
Mercenaries and knights who had been enjoying a brief respite scrambled out of their tents and wooden cabins.
As they put on their armor, they shouted, "What's going on?"
"High-level alert! A high-level Magic Beast is approaching!"
"A high-level Magic Beast? Damn it, weren't there supposed to be no high-level Magic Beasts around here?"
"Maybe it wandered over from somewhere else."
"Captain Flander only just led his mercenary group away. Otherwise, we could have joined forces and kept the high-level Magic Beast here!"
Mercenary camps were made up of