"Heh! Heh! Let's see who dares to save it! I'm hungry anyway!"
The Featherguard were extremely arrogant. Not only did one have an Elf sitting on its back, but its two huge claws were even clutching an entire Rakshasa and carrying it through the air. From time to time, it would use its enormous beak to tear strips of flesh off the Rakshasa and swallow them!
Seeing this, the Rakshasas all shrank their heads down. Forget saving their companion; they didn't even dare look at the Featherguard more than once.
"Heh!"
Watching the arrogant Featherguard in the sky, Ethan couldn't help letting out a quiet laugh.
The Featherguards had excellent hearing, and sure enough, they immediately caught Ethan's mocking laughter. The Featherguard birdman currently using the Rakshasa as food immediately flew into a rage and shouted, "What are you laughing at? Believe it or not, I'll tear you apart too!"
"Come on, then!", Ethan moved his face onto the enormous sail and looked at the Featherguard mockingly, "If you're not afraid of being electrocuted to death, be my guest."
The Featherguard birdman's expression first turned angry, but it soon remembered the miserable death of the Rakshasa Bird King earlier. Naturally, it wasn't stupid enough to follow the same path.
It merely snorted coldly and said with a look of disdain, "Hmph! You sneaky little rat! If you've got the guts, come out of that raft! Let's see if I don't tear you apart!"
"You useless thing. If you want to tear me apart, do you even need to pick a location?", Ethan looked at the Featherguard birdman with a grin and said, "I don't need to pick a location to tear you apart. Even if you're up in the air, I can still rip you apart easily. Believe it or not?"
"Hahahaha..."
The Featherguard didn't believe Ethan at all. They even burst into loud laughter.
However, it wasn't that the Featherguard were particularly narcissistic. Their defenses really were incredibly strong. Their bodies were covered in white feathers that could not only withstand all kinds of magical attacks but could also block seventy to eighty percent of physical attacks.
On top of that, they were the messengers of the sky, so dealing with them really wasn't easy.
But... As the group of Featherguards laughed, their laughter suddenly came to an abrupt stop.
One after another, they were like those screaming rubber chickens whose throats had been squeezed shut. They simply couldn't make a sound.
Because... the waves in the distance were now sweeping toward them like an enormous wall.
The sky, which had been clear just moments ago, was already covered in dark clouds, and countless bolts of lightning were flashing continuously high above. It was practically as if the end of the world were about to arrive.
At this point, both the Featherguards and the Rakshasas immediately underwent a drastic change in expression.
Some of the weaker Rakshasas even turned around and flew straight back toward the shore. They were worried that if things continued like this, they might not even survive long enough to reach the other side.
"My top-tier raft offers docking services!", Ethan shouted opportunely, "Absolute safety guaranteed! Only fifty thousand Dragon Coins per person to dock. No bargaining!"
"With waves this big, how can you guarantee our safety?", the Featherguard shouted angrily, "You're making an outrageous claim! Even we Featherguard, the kings of the sky, wouldn't dare guarantee absolute safety under a giant wave like this! What makes you think you can?"
"Because... of this!"
Ethan instantly transformed himself into a bubble that enveloped the entire super raft, "What do you think?"
"This..."
The Featherguard birdmen were practically dumbfounded by Ethan's incredible transformation.
Who could have imagined that this man could even turn his raft into something resembling a giant air bubble? How on earth had he done it?
"Isn't fifty thousand Dragon Coins for a single stop a bit too expensive?"
The Rakshasas didn't have anything close to the Featherguards' ability to withstand storms, so their immediate choices were either to fly back or negotiate with Ethan about docking.
But if they flew back, they'd already been flying for half a day. That would be a terrible waste.
Besides... Even if they flew back this time, who could guarantee they wouldn't encounter another storm when they went out to sea again?
In that case, wouldn't it be more worthwhile to dock on Ethan's raft, which absolutely wouldn't sink?
"Expensive?"
Ethan smiled pleasantly and said, "If you fly back now, I can't guarantee whether you'll pass the trial, but I can guarantee that you definitely won't make the top twenty."
"But if you stay on my raft until the storm ends, you'll have saved your energy. Then, if you make a final sprint afterward, you might even have a shot at first place in the third round."
"Who knows what kind of good stuff the first-place winner will get, right?"
"Besides, every passenger on my raft has paid at least one hundred thousand Dragon Coins for their ticket. If you board my raft, you'll basically become one of my passengers too. You only have to pay half the price. Do you really think that's expensive?"
"Uh..."
The Rakshasa birdman was immediately brainwashed by Ethan's logic.
It suddenly felt like the price wasn't actually that expensive after all.
"Fine! Fifty thousand it is! Open the door and let me in!"
The Featherguard birdman had also sensed that this storm was no ordinary one and immediately prepared to make an emergency landing.
"Didn't you just say you wanted to tear me apart?", Ethan looked at the Featherguard birdman with contempt and said, "And now you want me to open the door and let you in? Do you take me for an idiot?"
"Can't I just apologize?"
Seeing the storm drawing closer and closer, the Featherguard birdman's expression became somewhat panicked. It shouted, "The storm is almost here! Hurry up and let me in!"