"You actually dared to break my fence!"
"Damn it!"
Ethan instantly became alert.
He hurriedly grabbed his shortbow and four explosive arrows from the warehouse and ran to the villa's terrace.
Gazing into the dark night sky, Ethan directly summoned the still-sleeping White Eagle.
"White Eagle, Eagle Eye!"
[Intermediate Spirit Pet, White Eagle (30%): A hunting expert with powerful talons. Temporarily not rideable. Requires elemental riding device to ride.]
[Status: Loyalty 100 percent, Eagle Eye duration increased to 30 minutes, flight speed +100 percent (special ability: night vision effect)]
[Feather of Wind 1000, collectable!]
"Huh!"
"White Eagle leveled up?"
The moment Ethan summoned it, he noticed it had evolved from a basic spirit pet into an intermediate one, and also had an extra 30 percent experience.
Not only that, its flight speed had doubled.
It even gained a special ability, Night vision.
"Eeeng!"
White Eagle cried out.
The next second, Ethan's vision split into two overlapping views.
One was his own view, which could only see black darkness and mist, nothing else.
The other was White Eagle's night vision.
The entire world was still mostly black.
But all objects and creatures glowed in different colors, like thermal imaging.
Ethan quickly saw himself through White Eagle's eyes.
He appeared as an orange-red figure. The bath towel around his waist was purple, and everything else glowed in yellow-orange tones.
Lifeless objects showed as gray outlines.
High-temperature objects showed orange.
Low-temperature objects showed green.
Although he still couldn't see things as clearly as in the daytime, finding living creatures or intruding enemies in this darkness would be extremely easy now.
Everything was silent.
The mist-covered land was like a dead world.
Standing on the open terrace, Ethan looked around but saw nothing unusual.
Except for a few wild chickens, startled awake by the loud noise.
They were anxiously running in circles in the coop, making faint rustling sounds and occasional clucking.
Whooo~
But at that moment, a gust of wind rushed past Ethan's ears.
The sound felt like some enormous presence sweeping right beside him.
The wind carried a vicious howl.
"Meowww!"
Before Ethan could react.
A furious howl came from behind him, Daji's voice.
Ethan turned, just in time to see a dark shadow leap high behind him, pouncing toward the top of his head.
Ethan panicked and ducked quickly.
The next moment, he broke into a cold sweat.
Above his head appeared a fire-red flying dragon.
A huge lizard-like creature with two bat-like wings.
But its head didn't resemble a wyvern, it looked more like a Chinese dragon: hooked beak, long whiskers, and two sharp horns.
The red dragon flapped its wings, extending a massive one-meter claw toward Ethan, the dragon flapped again, its huge talons grabbing downward.
But at the very moment it was about to seize Ethan, Daji leapt directly into the attack path. Her arms instantly turned feline, growing sharp claws, and she slashed at the red dragon.
Swoosh!
Daji's claws flashed across the dragon's leg.
The next second, blooms of blood burst from the dragon's leg, splattering to the ground with a sizzling corrosive sound.
The ground ignited instantly, several patches of fire burning brightly in the night.
Fortunately, the villa was built from stone and clay, impossible to ignite.
So the flames died quickly.
"ROAR!"
The red dragon howled in pain at Daji's attack.
It immediately abandoned Ethan and flapped its wings hard, diving toward the ground.
After gliding four or five meters, it sharply swerved and shot upward again.
Its glowing red eyes, bright like searchlights, locked onto Ethan with blazing hatred.
This thing clearly wasn't going to stop.
Ethan snapped out of his shock.
He raised his bow, pulled an explosive arrow, and shot it at the circling dragon.
Swoosh!
The explosive arrow tore through the night.
It streaked toward the red dragon, about to hit, but at the final half-meter, the dragon suddenly reached out with its huge claw and caught the arrow.
BOOM!
Luckily the explosive arrow detonated on contact.
It burst into countless shards that struck the dragon's enormous body.
The attack came too suddenly. The red dragon didn't react in time and took the full blast.
"ROAR!"
The dragon roared again in agony.
Its massive ten-meter body twisted in the air, wings beating rapidly as it retreated into the mist.
"Damn, what a pity!", Ethan sighed.
The explosive arrow didn't land directly; the blast alone couldn't penetrate the red dragon's armor-like scales.
Its scales were far too thick.
The damage was even weaker than Daji's claws; at most it only blackened a few scales.
'Probably classified as a minor burn?'
Either way, it clearly didn't cause any real harm to the red dragon.
But Daji…Ethan turned and looked at her, only to realize that after waking up, she looked completely different.
Her height had grown from 1.2 meters to over 1.5 meters.
She now looked like an actual y*ung girl.
But Daji still seemed half-asleep.
She sat lazily on the ground, front paws propped against it, lifting one paw to lick it.
Ethan, however, noticed something surprising.
Something about Daji's body seemed different.
When she wasn't fighting, the fur on her limbs faded away, and her paws gradually turned into human-like hands and feet.
Without fur covering her, Daji's entire body was being revealed before Ethan's eyes.
Pft!
Ethan's nose instantly spurted blood.
Daji heard the sound, tilted her head, and looked at him, "Meow?"
Her expression seemed to say, 'Master, did you get injured in the fight?'
Ethan scrambled to cover his nose and shook his head wildly, "I'm fine! Just… dry weather, nasal dryness, nosebleed, hahaha!"
"Meow!"
Daji stared at him with an expression like he was a complete idiot, looking as if she had seen through the entire world.
Ethan's lie was instantly exposed.
"Uh!"
Ethan felt both embarrassed and helpless.
Being judged by a cat, this was…
But at that moment—
"Meowww!"
Daji suddenly arched her entire back.
Even without fur, Ethan felt like he could see her bristling.
Her eyes glared fiercely at the dark sky.
Her almost-human limbs instantly reverted back into feline claws.
Ethan quickly turned toward the mist.
He knew, the red dragon was coming back.
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