Chapter 604
All over the globe, nine silver devices ping simultaneously.
Some are locked away in item boxes and magical storage vaults, while others are worn around strong hunters' wrists and necks like ornaments.
Every one of them sends the same signal: a flashing yellow light among nine other lights that glow brightly.
Some of the lights are a dim yellow, just like the one that is blinking, while others vary in brightness. Some are so bright they almost shimmer white.
The dull yellow light that blinks flickers and fades away, signifying that one of the ten members of this mysterious group of leaders has perished from this world.
The first leader to witness this phenomenon is a woman with long black hair, flying high over a dangerous volcanic region on the back of a monstrous earth dragon.
She looks down at the small device, rubbing her pointer finger over the dull, clear crystal that once glowed with yellow luminosity, and curses under her breath.
"That idiot... Picking a fight with an opponent he clearly couldn't defeat..."
She presses one of the strongest glowing crystals on the device next. It glows bright yellow-white, matching the color of her core and the dragon she flies on, and she speaks again.