Ascent of Hero on the Dragon Throne

"What are you doing?" Sabina asked when Rocky picked her up.

"Can you walk all by yourself? Or do you prefer if I leave you alone out here with that huge beast's stinking corpse?" Rocky carried Sabina effortlessly while looking at her with that evil smile of his.

After hearing the choices Rocky laid out for her, Sabina was speechless. Although, being in Rocky's arms right now, she felt warmer and it made her reluctant to leave this fortress of safety which was Rocky's embrace.

"You'll be dead if you dare to get physical with me," Sabina warned Rocky with a killer glare. Contrary to her words though, she clutched at Rocky's clothes tighter and leaned closer to him, feeling more of his warmth.

Seeing Sabina's duality in personality, Rocky shook his head with a smile. When they rode Uriah, Sabina was left wondering how Rocky managed to ride the beast without putting Sabina down first.

When they were finally settled, Uriah flapped its wings and took them away.

Their flight didn't take long before Uriah landed to the safe place where Rocky had sent Tasha.

Staying with Rubygon, Tasha remained alert about her surroundings. Her mouth was wide open, her jaw left hanging when she spied Uriah's amazing wings as it flew down from the sky.

The mutation made Uriah look more breathtaking. The color of black and red enchantingly mixed with a pair of bewitching flaming wings made Uriah the most beautiful beast.

Of course, it was worth mentioning that Uriah had reached the fourth grade of the four-star level now, and it was probably the first ever spirit-manipulated beast that had been more powerful than its owner.

However, there were good reasons why Uriah would choose to break convention. One reason was that when Rocky was in danger, the spiritual power connection between Rocky and Uriah was forced to finish in advance. With the spiritual power connection finished, Uriah was

ok.

"Uriah, the little girl is so annoying. Throw her to a nest of some wild spirit-manipulated beast and then we'll be fine." Rocky ordered Uriah in that uncaring manner of his.

Uriah made a sound and started walking towards Tasha.

"Fine. I'll stop asking." Tasha surrendered and quickly took a few steps back to get away from Uriah out of fear of what the powerful beast could do.

"Why were you chased by a Furious Long-nosed Bear?" Rocky asked when Tasha had finally calmed down from her fear of getting thrown by Uriah into some beast's nest.

"You don't let me ask you questions, so I choose not to answer you either," Tasha declared arrogantly.

"Uriah..." Rocky called out his beast in warning to Tasha who was testing his patience.

Uriah got close to Tasha right away, frightening her. "I'll tell you. I'll tell you... It's because I met a group of powerful wild spirit-manipulated beasts with Erica and other people not long ago. When we retreated, I accidentally got lost with them. But unfortunately, I met that beast..."

"Erica? Is she... that Erica?" Rocky immediately thought of the beautiful lady who he had defeated before. Erica, the first master of Magic Phoenix Empire and the high-profile genius spirit manipulator of the Wild Spirit Land.