「Three days later, at Withered Tree Shoal.」
Sixteen Worker Ants dragged a heavy, iron-caged flatbed cart and, under Kael's guidance, moved it into a pre-dug hollow at the center of the basin.
The iron cage was forged from black iron bars as thick as a man's arm. Inside lay a giant beast, its body over five meters long.
This was the bait Caroline had purchased for a fortune—a Level 4 Magical Beast, the "Horn-Crowned Crystal Armored Rhinoceros."
The great rhinoceros's single horn was broken, and the crystalline shell covering its body was riddled with cracks. Each breath it took was weaker than the last.
It was on the verge of death, but the vast life energy lingering within its body still served as a conspicuous beacon.
A freshly cut wound on its hind leg's artery was gushing blood, which flowed down through an opening in the ground beneath the cage, spreading deep into the earth.
Roland stood on a high cliff face, watching the dying beast, his heart stirred once more.
