There wasn’t a cloud to be seen in the big, blue sky. The rays of dawn spread out, illuminating the entire Eight Sect Coalition megacity.10

A roar echoed out and terrifying shockwaves rolled through the sky as a huge black dracolizard flew out from the headquarters of Seven Blood Eyes. It had massive wings that sent gale force winds out in all directions and seemed capable of obscuring the sky. It started out only 300 meters in length, but as it flew into the dome of heaven, it rapidly grew larger. In the blink of an eye, it was 3,000 meters long, but it kept growing after that until it was over 6,000 meters! On the dracolizard’s back were an array of numerous buildings, within which were a host of figures.4

Xu Qing was among them.1

This dracolizard was one of Master Seventh’s three dreadnaughts. The other people gathered on it were the other Seven Blood Eyes disciples who had accepted the kill mission. Most of them weren’t going on the mission because of any sense of camaraderie or friendship. Rather, it was for the very sizable mission reward.8

That was just how Seven Blood Eyes worked; everything came down to matters of profit versus risk. In a chaotic world, risk could be ignored as long as there was enough profit...4