At this moment, a faint trace of despair appeared in Asher's eyes, 'So this is the reason why my little heart has been pounding erratically before?'
'So it wasn't because there was a great opportunity here.'
'But rather to tell me not to come here and die?'
Asher didn't know whether there was any resonance between the two box jellyfish, but the huge box jellyfish across from them clearly did not come with good intentions.
"No need to explain for my brother! This is definitely his fault!", Felter had no idea what Asher was thinking and decisively blamed Prince for the problem.
Don't ask, ask and you'll be told that there were way too many warning signs to even count.
"If we manage to survive this, I'm definitely going to tattle! I'll tell Mom everything!", Felter howled at the sky and cursed loudly.
"HAHAHAHA!"
At that moment, the Tier 9 Lightyear Dragon Rider, flying faster, still caught up with them. Hearing what Felter said, Prince laughed heartily with his hands on his hips.
"I'm here to save you!"
"Bullsh*t!"
"Save us? Wasn't it you who provoked it in the first place?"
Freya and Felter couldn't help but keep cursing out loud.
"Eh?", Prince blinked, looking so confused and innocent.
If they didn't already know Prince's true nature, Freya and Felter couldn't promise they wouldn't be fooled by that expression.
But the giant Beast chasing them, supposedly a box jellyfish, was definitely not joking around.
Asher's eyes darted.
"Ahem, actually…", Asher tried to take responsibility, but the other two didn't give him a chance to speak at all.
Freya stretched her hand out toward Asher, making a time-out gesture.
Felter very cooperatively looked at Asher and said, "Don't be fooled by my brother's appearance!"
"He's got skills!"
"Give him a chance and he could poke a hole in the sky! A mere box jellyfisg, what wouldn't he dare provoke?"
"He might've even recognized it and gone to provoke it on purpose," Felter said firmly.
Freya nodded repeatedly at the side.
Asher: "..."
How should he put it?
This must be what people mean when they say someone has too many priors, no one will believe your defense at all.
Asher sighed. He felt like he still needed to explain a little.
"Still, was that really a box jellyfish?", Prince asked, showing a sudden look of realization.
Then he pounded his left fist into his right palm, his face lighting up with obvious excitement.
"Hahaha!"
"Isn't that even better?"
"Come on, come on! It's a box jellyfish! You don't want to GG just like this, do you?", Prince said with the friendliest expression, but with words full of intimidation.
Freya and Felter: "..."
They looked seriously at the Lightyear Dragon Rider.
To die at the hands of a box jellyfish or to die on the back of the Lightyear Dragon Rider, which was the better choice?
Three seconds later, they made a decision.
Better to cling to life than die gloriously.
Maybe a miracle would happen?
Let's follow the Lightyear Dragon Rider for now.
Asher also followed, "The appearance of the box jellyfish might have something to do with me."
Grabbing a brief lull, Asher hurried to explain.
'Please stop pinning all the blame on Prince.'
"It seems like it's coming for my pet," As the others looked at Asher in shock, he sighed and said.
"Eh?"
Freya and Felter hadn't yet reacted.
Upon hearing that, they wanted to ask something.
But the next second, the Lightyear Dragon Rider began to accelerate.
"Charge!"
"HAHAHA!"
"Professor Asher, whatever you want to say, save it for when we escape!"
"Wahoo!"
Prince glanced back at Asher with a cheerful, unconcerned look, clearly enjoying the adrenaline of racing both the box jellyfish and death itself.
Everyone had prepared in advance this time, barely managing to stabilize themselves on the Lightyear Dragon Rider's back.
And they truly felt it, what it meant to experience speed and passion with minimal protection.
They wanted to scream, but their screams melted into the air and couldn't escape.
Looking at the accelerating Lightyear Dragon Rider, the box jellyfish in hot pursuit behind them seemed even angrier, wildly waving its long tentacles.
Glancing back, all they could see was a scene that massively drained their sanity points.
"I feel like once I get out, I'll be able to create a great maste—cough cough cough!", Felter was speaking when a cold gust of wind went down his throat, causing him to hunch over and start coughing violently.
Asher: "..."
"Save your breath."
Then Asher looked at Prince and shouted, "Which direction are we running in?"
"Ah?", Prince didn't seem to hear, barely turning his head to glance at Asher.
Asher leaned closer and yelled the same thing louder.
"Oh oh oh!", This time, Prince finally understood, looking enlightened and then saying, "No idea!"
"There's no landmark here at all."
"Whatever."
"Hahaha! Randomness is a kind of happiness too!"
"This way we can even find out just how big this secret realm is!"
By the end, Prince's voice echoed through the air.
Asher: "..."
How to put this.
Well, even though, sometimes when people misunderstand Prince, Asher really doesn't find it strange.
Freya and Felter also heard clearly what Prince said, and their faces showed a resigned expression.
They had become zen.
The fact they could hold back from puking mid-air was already the greatest respect they could offer Prince.
Mainly because they pitied the Lightyear Dragon Rider.
Prince was a terrible beast tamer.
But the Lightyear Dragon Rider wasn't at fault.
Just then—
"Wait!", Asher had been scanning his surroundings the whole time, hoping to find a way to escape danger.
And unexpectedly, he really saw something special.
"Front left!"
A space shrouded in golden-pink mist appeared especially unique and distinct in Asher's eyes.
Freya and Felter: "?"
"What what?"
Their eyes were full of confusion.
Asher didn't have time to explain, "Fly that way!"
"Roger that!", Prince had no objections and directed the Lightyear Dragon Rider to charge straight toward that direction.
With extreme speed, the Lightyear Dragon Rider plunged into the area wrapped in golden-pink mist with the four people on its back.
The box jellyfish that had been relentlessly chasing suddenly froze in place.
Its tentacles flailed madly.
'Where did they go?'
'Why did their aura suddenly vanish?'
The box jellyfish's body seemed frozen, completely still.
———
[On the Other Side]
After diving into the golden-pink mist, Freya and Felter were shocked to find, the box jellyfish chasing them was really gone.
Their eyes lit up with excitement.
"It really didn't follow us?"
"Amazing, Professor Asher!"
Felter and Freya turned simultaneously to look at Asher, their eyes full of excitement and joy.
But Asher rubbed his forehead.
Back when they briefly spoke, he had already sensed something wrong.
This space clearly covered in golden-pink mist, why did Felter and Freya act like they hadn't seen anything at all?
Asher looked at Prince, who was guiding the Lightyear Dragon Rider and slowly slowing down, "Did you see it?"
"Eh?", Prince blinked, quickly realized what Asher meant, and decisively said, "I didn't see anything!"
Asher: "..."
"So you really just charged in that direction because I said so?"
"Hahaha!", Prince looked at Asher's expression and laughed loudly and happily.
"Professor Asher, you're my teammate!"
"Of course I have to trust you!"
Asher smiled.
A fastball straight to the chest.
He doesn't do those.
Still… Asher glanced at Prince.
'Yep, confirmed again, this guy probably really doesn't have much of a brain and operates purely on instinct and reflex.'
Asher had no idea what to say about someone like that.
'…So be it. Not a big deal.'
The fact that this guy could become an Tier 8 Ace-level beast tamer meant he clearly had a practical survival method.
No need for Asher to intervene.
"Golden-pink mist," Asher described what he saw in this space.
After entering, the mist wasn't present inside.
But once Asher looked back, the golden-pink mist was still swirling outside like a huge dome.
"But I still don't see anything?", Freya and Felter, hearing Asher, mimicked his movement and looked back as well.
Unfortunately, still nothing.
Asher frowned slightly, "Let's not dwell on that for now. Let's figure out what this place is."
"Don't let us just escape the tiger's den only to fall into the wolf's lair," Asher said helplessly.
When luck comes, sometimes you just can't stop it.
As he spoke, they all looked down.
They couldn't help it, there was clearly visible land below, and it obviously had traces of biological activity.
"Going down?"
"Do we have a choice?"
"Let's give it a try. If we really run into some Beast… we can always rush back out and maybe have it fight the box jellyfish outside."
Upon hearing this, the others fell silent, looking at Asher like they were staring at the devil.
"Even the devil isn't as ruthless as you."
"Sure, sure. Using force against force, I like it."
"Don't be too aggressive right away, though. Maybe it's something we can communicate with?"
Hard to say.
But everyone mentally prepared for things going badly, and the Lightyear Dragon Rider finally began to prepare to land.
Yet just before touching the ground, it flapped its wings, as if refusing to land no matter what.
"Owoo!", the Lightyear Dragon Rider let out a low whine.
"What's going on?", Felter frowned in confusion, "Is the Lightyear Dragon Rider sensing something ominous?"
Asher shook his head, "It's probably similar to what happened on that island before."
He looked at Freya and Felter.
The two of them instantly understood what he meant.
Prince: "?"
Knows nothing. Fears nothing.
Thud!
Prince, bold and reckless, jumped off the Lightyear Dragon Rider, pulled off a beautiful 360-degree flip, and landed gracefully.
Didn't even fall.
Asher: "..."
Freya: "..."
Felter covered his face, unwilling to admit he knew this guy, let alone that this guy was his own brother.
Clap! Clap! Clap!
Just then, enthusiastic applause came from who-knows-where.
It rendered Felter completely speechless.
'What?'
'There's someone who would actually applaud such a flashy performance?'
'Seriously?'
'This is real?'
Felter instinctively looked toward the source of the clapping and slowly tapped out a question mark.
Asher looked too.
Asher: "…My Little Pony?"
You couldn't blame Asher for blurting that out.
Because the creature, probably a Beast, that appeared before him looked way too much like something out of My Little Pony.
A white, elegant pony with a horn on its head, its pink mane soft and shiny.
Next to it was a smaller pony without a horn, with purple fur and a pair of small purple wings.
Asher: 'What is this, a live-action version of My Little Pony?'
He couldn't match the exact characters.
But it really did feel like they were about to film a live-action version.
Asher shook those wild thoughts out of his head.
Just then, Freya's confused voice sounded, "What My Little Pony? It looks more like a unicorn?"
"But it still doesn't feel quite the same?", Freya's gaze fell on that white little horse, "Unicorns' fur is generally silver-white, not this kind that looks like marshmallow-like milky white."
"And then the horn on the head should have more sense of oppression, also more sharp."
"Finally, the unicorn's mane is singular, very beautiful and pure golden."
"And also that pair of wings, are big wings."
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