On the general's roof, Quan lazily looked around camp, and then Lin Bai suddenly hopped on the roof.
"I came to check up on you," he said as he sat beside Quan.
"I'm fine," Quan said with a calm tone.
Lin Bai suddenly furrowed his brows in confusion, looking around for someone.
"Where's Natasha?"
"She went back to check on the site where black ones should be," Quan answered with a sigh, and then Lin Bai sighed and relaxed on the ceiling.
"Are you ready?" Lin asked Quan, and Quan shook his head.
"Not at all. This isn't like the guards and generals and otherworld creatures I fought before; this is a real dragon king. I need to be prepared mentally," Quan said and then let out a breath before getting into a meditation pose and then shutting his eyes.
"Gracia is back."
"I saw her, it's surprising that she didn't even come to see me," Quan said with a smile.
"Hehehe... She hates you," Lin said with a chuckle, and Quan shrugged with a smile as he continued his meditation.
...
It has been five minutes since Dexter and his group, now consisting of Gracia, began exploring the city in search of beasts.
"Normally there should be a huge population of beasts going around; I don't know why it's different here," Kila said as she listened to the surroundings.
"Well, the general is keeping the creatures away with his ability. But some monsters still come through nonetheless," Gracia said, and Dexter nodded quietly, still vigilant.
After an extra thirty minutes, they finally stopped, and Dexter furrowed his brows.
"A flying creature is approaching," he said as he summoned his shadow spear.
*Creaaaaaaa!!!*
The vulture-looking bird let out a loud screech before falling to the ground, and it used its beak to grab Dexter.
Dexter was quick as he used the spear to hold its beak from clamping him down. The bird and Dexter fell together.
Noticing the spear getting bent, Dexter released one of his hands and sent a golden flame into the bird's mouth.
*Raaa!!*
The bird let go of the spear, and Dexter looked at it; it was almost broken. Dexter's eyes widened as he was hit by a large feet and sent flying hundreds of meters away.
Kila, Tracy, Hannah, Lily, and Gracia were making their way to the place where the bird landed when a person flew past them, crashing into buildings behind them.
Seeing that Dexter was pushed back, Lily smiled as this one will surely be strong, and she and Kila ran faster.
The bird tried to raise its electrified wing but still to no avail, it was numb. It looked good in the direction Dexter went and let out a screech in anger before running towards the area on its two legs.
Kila and Lily were smiling as they saw the creature approaching them, and the bird stomped hard on the ground with its leg.
*BANG!!*
The ground where the bird stomped caved in a bit and cracked, and the girls that jumped sideways nodded in satisfaction.
As they were about to engage with the bird, a large black spike raised out of the ground, stabbing through the bird and killing it decisively.
"W-what was that?" Kila was shocked, and then she saw Dexter walk there.
"Sigh... The spear's about to break," Dexter said with a sad face, and Hannah and her sister were just arriving.
Gracia was shocked to see the bird that gave her and her team such a hard time on the floor just like that, with a large gaping hole in its body.
"We didn't even get to do anything!" Kila complained, and even Lily looked annoyed as she wanted to test her strength as she evolved recently.
At that moment, a masked figure who was watching the entire thing from the distance turned around and ran away.