There is no time for anything else.

The three of them, who narrowly avoided the fatal attack, quickly got up from the stinking bones and looked up at the sky in unison.

"That's it!"

Looking at the huge demonic beast that was constantly circling in the sky, Bill's eyes widened suddenly.

"Peng Bird?"

Fran, who had finally come to her senses, looked at the beast in the sky that looked like a bird of prey, but was far larger than an ordinary adult dragon, and muttered its name.

The Peng bird is a solitary animal that has a lifespan of several centuries.

They bring trees, tents, wrecked ships, and caravan wreckage from here and there to tangle into giant nests, set up in crevices on the cliffs that are hard for the lower creatures to reach.

Sometimes, the birds' nests hold treasures from caravans or ships that have been looted, and these giant creatures don't really care about these gadgets, but simply imitate their natural predators, the dragons.

That's right, Peng Bird, like the blue-footed dragon snake, belongs to the Titan creation and is the natural enemy of the true dragon.

But the difference is that the creator of the Blue-Footed Dragon Serpent is the Storm Titan.

And the creator of Peng Bird is even more terrifying and powerful.

He is the beginning of all things, He is the Father of the Titans, and He is also the Creator of Io, the Father of the Giants, Annan!

Legend has it that back in ancient times when giants and dragons competed for world supremacy.

Annan, the father of the Giants and Titans, created the Peng Bird Clan with clouds and breeze so that its worshippers (the Giants) could challenge the dragons' dominance in the air.

After the end of the ancient war, the Titan god Annan disappeared, and these super-giant creatures known as the "Titan of the Sky" were freed from the control of the giants and began to multiply freely around the world.

To this day, the traces of Peng Bird have spread throughout the astral boundary, with

While the Cloud Giants and Storm Giants sometimes seek out and tame these large birds as mounts, the Birds also see the large giants as prey.

Compared with Peng Bird's natural enemy, the 'True Dragon', in fact, the giant clan that has enslaved Peng Bird for tens of thousands of years is even more hated by Peng Bird.

"How is it possible, how can there be a juvenile bird here? It's not a habitable area, is it? ”

Looking at the giant beast in the sky that was still hovering and had a wingspan of more than 50 meters, Fran shouted in a panic.

Although the title of [Sky Titan] is partly due to the dragons' malicious taunts of the Peng Birds, it also proves the horror of the Peng Bird Clan.

At least in terms of size, Peng Bird is not inferior to ordinary Titans.

In order to meet the huge consumption of their large bodies, the birds often fly far away to feed, and above the clouds are their favorite hunting grounds, and their food is often a large, slow-moving target (such as giants, whales, or elephants).

Don't look at this Peng bird, which has a wingspan of more than 50 meters and a body length of more than 23 meters, it is a complete behemoth, but in fact, if it is converted to the age of the dragon family, it is equivalent to a young dragon.

In other words, it's still an underage baby!

"Look at its wings!"

Bill frowned, pointing to the right wing of the bird hovering in the sky.

In the beautiful red and blue wings, there were two huge cylindrical holes, as if they had been pierced by something.

"This bird seems to have been injured, and I suspect that our previous hunting target must have been captured by it, and that the wound should have been caused by it while hunting the ferocious horned ox."

Bill calmly analyzed.

"With its eyesight, it should have discovered us a long time ago, and the reason why it chose to sneak attack may be because its body has just suffered a heavy injury."

Fran's eyes lit up:

"That is."

The three of them glanced at each other and nodded in tacit understanding.

If a Tier 4 Demonic Beast can damage it, it means that this behemoth is not invincible.

If you can defeat a [Sky Titan], there is no reason why the assessment task should not give a full score to a few people?

"Bill, Raya, first set of tactics!"

Fran suddenly let out a loud shout, and the other two instantly understood her intentions.

Without any hesitation, with the blessing of the Wind Blast, the three of them immediately rushed to the low bushes not far away, hoping that these obstacles would obstruct the view in the sky.

The bird is a creature that relies heavily on vision for perception.

Looking at them, it seems that the fighting spirit has been rekindled.

Tina, who was about to take action to solve the problem, hesitated for a moment, and finally gave up the interruption to save her, and instead continued to stay invisible and follow the three of them to prevent any accidents.

Just as the three of them were running into the jungle and thinking about the battle plan, the Peng bird, which had been hovering in the sky for a long time, seemed to have lost a little patience.

The wounds on its wings were still draining its physical strength, and it had to kill the other party quickly.

In fact, if it weren't for the group of humans approaching its territory, it really didn't want to kill the mad cow again.

"Chirp—"

There was a fierce gleam in the bright eagle's eyes.

In the next moment, a golden paw print light suddenly flew out from the tips of its three eagle talons, blasting towards the three fleeing people below.

Bill was keenly aware of the wind pressure of the blow.

"Spread out and dodge!"

Without any hesitation, after reminding the two of them, Bill slammed on a tree trunk on his side, and violently retreated more than ten meters with the help of the rebound force, successfully dodging the attack range of the energy claw attack.

And Raya and Fran, who were blessed with the Feather Fall and Wind Surges, also dodged in a similar way.

Although the magic shields of the two could theoretically withstand such a tentative blow, it would be too much magic to waste.

A qualified mage must know what attacks to dodge in battle, what attacks can be resisted (or can't be dodged), and allocate their physical strength and magic power according to their state, and maximize the use is the basic operation of a spellcaster.

As a result, the less magic power and the lower the rank, the more flexible and versatile the mages become, like a melee mage.

No way, with too little mana, your spell shield is as fragile as paper.

And in the later stages.

For example, those mages who have reached the legend are very lazy to engage in some physical operations, and the basic operations are 'flickering away' and 'magic shield hard resistance'.

Seeing that the blow failed, Peng Niao seemed a little annoyed.

"Chirp! ——”

It let out a long roar, and the blood-red claws swung out several paw prints again, and at the same time, the pair of red and blue wings also swung violently several times, and countless wind blades flew in the direction of the three of them fleeing with the golden eagle claw prints.

"Boom!"

After another thrilling dodge,

Looking at the eagle claw-shaped pit ten meters long and more than one meter deep in front of him, Bill frowned slightly, and reminded:

"The attack strength of this Peng Bird should have reached the standard of a fifth-order demonic beast, don't think about hard-catching its attack."

As she ran, Fran carefully observed the juvenile bird that was suspended seven hundred meters above and constantly unleashing attacks, but had no intention of landing:

"This guy seems to be ready to consume us with a ranged attack, and he'll have to find a way to fight back."

"The point is, it's always in the air, and our traps and magic can't hit it!"

Not far away, Raya was covered in muddy water and a little embarrassed and pulled her legs out of a small puddle and shouted helplessly.

When she was dodging just now, she was accidentally attacked by the aftermath of the wind blade, but fortunately she was not injured by the protection of the inner armor, but was shocked by the air wave and flew into a small circular quagmire.

"We need to let it land on its own, or."

Just as Raya frowned and thought.

"Raya, watch the back!"

Bill's eyes widened suddenly.

"Huh?"

Raya was stunned as she ran, and she was about to turn her head.

But before she could turn around.

Suddenly! A red glow flashed silently behind Raya.

It turned out that the Peng bird, which was originally guerrilla in the sky, unknowingly swooped behind Raya who was the slowest while launching a magic attack!

It's the same claw attack, but this time Raya is not facing an illusory energy claw print, but a real Peng Bird claw!

This giant bird, which can be compared to the ancient dragon in adulthood, finally showed its terrifying speed at this moment!

Either you don't attack, or you attack, or you will be killed with one hit!

Although she was still in her infancy at this time, it did not affect Peng Bird's claws that could tear apart the dragon to easily tear apart Raya's talisman magic shield, and grabbed straight at her skull.

"Raya!"

Ignoring the wind blades around him, he sliced through his own protective gear, stirring up blood flowers.

Bill didn't hesitate to give up all resistance and frantically rushed towards Raya's position.

"What?!"

Fran and Tina, who were following behind, finally reacted at this time.

This juvenile Peng bird actually learned to disguise?!

The performance of its deliberate grinding in the sky just now was just pretending to consume the three people and make them let their guard down.

Compared with the three unscathed, Peng Bird, whose wings were seriously injured, should need to fight quickly!

"Damn, it's too late!"

"Do you want to release that?"

Fran clenched her fists, a twinkle of struggle flashing in her eyes.

Inside the clenched fists, the white gravel that had just been secretly taken down from the corpse was lying quietly in Fran's palm.

The sharp tip of the stone even cut through her palm, and drops of blood slowly wrapped the entire rubble.

"No matter, the most important thing is to save Raya!"

In the midst of lightning and fire, Fran, who had no time to think about it, finally chose an instinctive answer.

She waved her hand violently, and the power from her bloodline instantly enveloped the stone.

"Time pauses!"

With an invisible gray wave.

In an instant, everyone present, including the swooping Tina, was imprisoned in place.

Except for Fran.

At this time, she had already lost too much blood, and her face began to turn a little pale.

Perhaps, this also has the credit for the near-nine-ring magic that completely exceeds the limit of her current casting.

Before he had time to think about it, Fran quickly ran away from Raya and Bill, who were suspended in the air not far away.

That stone could allow her to unleash a time forbidden spell with the Hyperring, but that didn't mean it didn't come at a cost.

At this point, the gray-white piece of rubble had broken away from Fran's palm and was suspended in the air.

It had absorbed a large amount of blood at this time, as if it had completely awakened, and continued to emit bursts of unknown fluctuations,

It is like an invisible spear, firmly nailed to the space and time with a radius of tens of meters around it!

But at the same time, it is also dissociating at a speed visible to the naked eye, like weathered rock.

7 seconds!

This is the maintenance time calculated by Fran.

5 seconds!

It took two seconds for Fran, who had been blessed with the Wind Blast, to quickly pass the invisible Tina and finally come to Raya's side.

3 seconds!

She ignored the crimson talons visible from the pores on the top of her head and stretched out her hands.

1 second!

Fran gritted her teeth, grabbed a person's inner armor strap with one hand, and dragged the two of them to jump, instantly rolling out of the attack range of Peng Bird's claws.

The next second

"Boom!"

The claws of the Peng Bird pierced into the ground below in an instant, like a hot knife cutting through paper, and erupted into a terrifying attack wave.

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meanwhile

The other side of the Ibi Great Forest.

"Huh?"

Ron, who had been calculating something with his head down, suddenly raised his head suddenly, frowned, and pulled out a silvery-white half-crippled runestone from the scale armor below his neck.

"Strange, why did this thing suddenly come alive?"

Ron looked at the time rune stone in his palm that was vibrating with some bewilderment.

This thing has never changed since he snatched it from Tina's hand when he entered the royal capital.

This time rune stone didn't show anything unusual other than giving Ron a little bit of growth speed, so much so that Ron almost forgot it existed after carrying it with him.

At this moment, the runestone that suddenly shook seemed to convey a message to Ron.

"What's wrong? Is there anything missing from the cultists? ”

Just as Ron was frowning and observing the rune stone, a beautiful shadow came to his side accompanied by the fragrant breeze, leaning lightly behind Ron without mind, and asked curiously.

It was none other than Elise, who had completely surrendered to Ron.

At this time, she was wearing a cool green gauze dress, no longer flustered before, and returned to that elegant and naughty image.

Behind a man and a dragon, dozens of uniformly dressed corpses lay in the dark cave.

At the same time, a large number of members of the Blue Legion searched inside and outside the cave for missing people.

This is a stronghold of the Holy Cult.

However, this place should soon be ruthlessly destroyed by Ron, just like the previous strongholds.

Obviously, with the help of Elise and the Blue Legion, it was much easier for Ron to find the worms hiding underground.

"It's just a small base, I didn't get any useful information, but I found something interesting."

Ron casually shoved the Temporal Runestone, which had stopped trembling, into the scales, and then picked up another newly seized item on the ground.

Looking at the key in his hand that exuded the aura of the abyss and the succubus queen, the corners of Ron's mouth rose slightly.

In fact, he was not too interested in what evil this holy religion had done.

He just wanted to find out if the group was related to Mecanshut, and then retaliate.

But now, he seems to have found something even more interesting.

Savoring the different abyssal scents, Ron smelled a fishy smell that belonged to a baboon.

"Interesting."

Ron fiddled with the keys in his hand, the corners of his mouth curled slightly.

Behind this [Holy Sect], it seems that there is more than one abyss lord behind Mecansut?

The drama is getting more and more interesting.

Elise behind her looked at the key curiously and asked:

"And what about the rest of the people?"

"It's time to eat, it's time for your little ones to come in handy."

"Hmph~~~ Obviously, they are all your predecessors."

"Are you itching in the ass again?"

(End of chapter)