"Hey, Weber! What's wrong with your battle beast? Why is it behaving like this?" Darren asked with a frown as the Thunder Cloud Bird continued to fly violently.
"Don't mind it. It's just that there are quite too many strangers riding on it, so it's a little angry," Weber said with a seemingly forced smile.
"Hey, Thunder Cloud Bird, behave yourself and fly well, will you?" Weber said in an authoritative tone.
Whoosh!
However, the moment Weber said those words, the battle beast became more violent and flew wildly in the air.
"Everybody! Hold tight, or you'll fall!"
The young talents were almost shaken off as the giant bird flailed rashly.
"Weber, can't you do anything to make it calm down?" Sally was scared silly while holding tightly on the feathers of the Thunder Cloud Bird.
"Just take it easy. This bird is actually very tamed. I think it's just playing around. Don't be afrai—"
Before Weber could even finish what he was saying, the battle beast suddenly turned around and changed its trajectory. It was now flying straight back to the black shadow that was chasing after them.
"Oh god! What are you doing? Not that way! Turn around and escape from that thing!" Weber's face turned pale with the sudden action of the huge bird.
"Hey, dear bird? Can you hear me?" Weber almost burst out into tears upon realizing that the battle beast wasn't listening to him anymore. "All right, I'm sorry! It's my fault, okay? I'll kowtow to you a few more times. Just turn around and do what I say."
Darren and the rest were utterly shocked upon hearing what Weber said to the battle beast.
'What? Did he mean that he kowtowed to the bird before?' all of them couldn't help but wonder.
"Come on! I already said that I was wrong. Please don't rush in this direction!"
However, no matter how hard Weber pleaded, the Thunder Cloud Bird just ignored everything he said and just continued rushing towards the black shadow at its top speed.
Seeing that the battle beast had already gone out of control, everyone panicked and was sure that the huge bird was attempting to collide against the black shadow.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
At this moment, the other young talents already had no choice but to fly away from the Thunder Cloud Bird. Fortunately, their battle beasts were still following them, so they landed back on them.
"See? I told you that my battle beast was just shy around several strangers. Now, everything's fine. You all saw what happened back there. I tried to save them just like you said, but we almost died instead." Weber's confidence had somehow returned upon seeing that the Thunder Cloud Bird had finally calmed down after a lot of people had gotten off its back.
"We can't celebrate yet, Weber! Your battle beast is still flying straight towards the black shadow!" Sally shouted at Weber to regain his senses.
She was indeed right. The Thunder Cloud Bird did calm down and was already flying steadily, but its direction still didn't change.
Then, out of nowhere, a blade radiance cut through the air.
"Move away from the bird!"
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