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“Huff... huff...!”
The sound of frozen twigs snapping underfoot was drowned out by the ragged breathing that echoed through the forest.
Fran’s face was riddled with exhaustion, but his legs didn’t stop moving, perhaps due to his sheer will to live. Contrary to Karyl’s expectation that it would take him two days, Fran found himself at the middle reaches of the Binfredo River just one day after fleeing from Moon Aether.
Splash…!
Fran plunged his head into the water as soon as he spotted the river, gulping down mouthfuls before choking and spitting it out.
“Rrrrroooooaaarrr!!!”
“Kreeeaaaahhh!!!“
Suddenly, the earth-shaking roar and the powerful gusts of wind caused by the flapping of wings shook the trees.
“...!!”
Fran hastily pulled his head out of the water and scrambled to hide behind a nearby boulder by the riverbank.
“The 1st Wyvern Squadron is already here...”
Peeking out, he saw dozens of beasts with crimson scales soaring in the sky above. They were distinctly larger than the usual wyverns. While not quite the size of a fully-grown dragon, their wings stretched several dozen meters wide.
“Kyaaah...!”
The wyverns bared their fangs as they flew, radiating ferocity, ready to tear into anything. The 1st Wyvern Squadron was unlike any other. These were not wyverns tamed with magitech collars after being captured from the wild. Rather, they had been artificially bred by humans, with their bloodline enhanced by Riseria, the Flame Dragon.
It seemed they had inherited the ferocity of a Red Dragon.
“I need...
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