The Mighty Dragons Are Dead-Chapter 709 - 0706: Battle of the Dragon Knight (Fourth Update, 10,000 Coins Reward Celebration 2/2)
Chapter 709: Chapter 0706: Battle of the Dragon Knight (Fourth Update, 10,000 Coins Reward Celebration 2/2)
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Among the Elemental Dragons often confused with Evil Dragons was the Fire Dragon, Leo.
Liszt found that Leo’s nature was proud, domineering, and inclined towards wicked thoughts. Had it not been for the power of the Bewildering Dragon Mind Fruit, Liszt might never have been able to mount its back to this day. Moreover, as evil continued to gestate, there was a chance that Leo might end up inflicting some form of backlash against Liszt, who had hatched and nurtured it.
Although now in harmony with Liszt, routinely purged of its malignant thoughts by him,
its pride remained, as undiminished as ever. It did not even consider a crippled Sapphire Dragon worthy of its attention, let alone tolerate such a dragon upstaging itself.
Liszt had to soothe it, coaxing it back to calm.
To prevent it from recklessly bursting forth and revealing its true form to clash with the Sapphire Dragon, thereby ruining the plan of extracting advantage from the situation.
“Brother, the Sapphire Dragon looks disfigured as if it’s been mutilated. Given a dragon’s strong regenerative powers, why has it yet to heal itself?” Ach queried, her eyes sparkling with numerous thoughts as she gazed at the Sapphire Dragon in the sky. “Is it deliberate, leaving the scar as a reminder, or is it a wound that can’t be healed?”
She shared the same doubt as Liszt.
“It doesn’t quite resemble deliberate preservation. If the intention was to keep the scars as a reminder of suffered hardships, then it should have done so before the founding of the nation,” Liszt could only analyze thusly. Before the nation’s founding, during the battle to slay dragons, the Sapphire Dragon had nearly been killed by the White Maw Iron Dragon.
That was the memory worth etching in its mind.
“Could it be that the soul was damaged, hence the wounds cannot heal?” Ach continued with her questions, but Liszt was unable to provide an answer.
While everyone expected that the Grand Duke arrived atop the Sapphire Dragon to deal with invaders from the Eagle Kingdom, the Sapphire Dragon circled in the sky without showing any intent to descend or drive away the invaders.
“Liszt, what’s the situation?” the Marquis of Bull Tail came over again.
He had been ready to take advantage of the Sapphire Dragon’s appearance to perform a bit of theater, but with the Sapphire Dragon not descending, the naval battle had also come to a standstill.
Liszt glanced at the silhouette of the Sapphire Dragon and the Grand Duke, then looked out to the distant ocean horizon.
He had roughly guessed, “The Grand Duke likely isn’t here because of the fleet. The ships of the Eagle Kingdom will be dealt with by the Sapphire fleet. His target must be Alonso Xiankelai.”
“Alonso is here?”
“I didn’t sense him, my senses are not particularly sharp when I’m not riding a dragon, I can’t detect other Dragon Knights from farther away.”
So he could only wait.
The Grand Duke, too, waited high above the battlefield, riding the Sapphire Dragon.
At that moment, the waves in the great sea were still raging, but the battlefield fell into an eerie stillness, with none of the ships daring to move about under the watchful eye of the dragon overhead. With the Grand Duke not issuing commands, the First Prince, steering the Sapphire fleet, also made no move.
Time ticked away by the minute and the second.
Restlessness rose in everyone’s hearts, even Liszt began to grow impatient. The arrival of the Sapphire Dragon prevented Leo from resting peacefully, unable to ignore the insolent presence of the ugly Sapphire Dragon flying above, which made him soak through his undershirt with agitation.
“Whether to fight or retreat, just what is the Grand Duke trying to do?” he griped, taking hold of the Ice Soul Dragon-Slaying Sword and employing the Ice Rotation Skill to release Ice-attribute Dou Qi to cool himself down, soothing Leo’s restlessness.
The effect of the Ice-attribute Dou Qi was good.
It quieted Leo for a bit.
But before five minutes had passed, Leo grew excited once more, conveying its sensation to Liszt—another dragon was approaching!
“Roar!”
The Sapphire Dragon let out a resounding dragon’s roar, its head aimed at the southern sky, its eyes emitting dazzling blue light.
Following Leo’s psychic prompt, Liszt also looked toward the southern horizon. The blue sky and white clouds seemed no different, but when he picked up his telescope, he quickly spotted a dragon flitting in and out of visibility among the clouds. In a moment, the dragon burst through the cloud layer and flew toward the battlefield.
Its form was now fully exposed to all.
It was a mature dragon of a greenish hue, shimmering with the distinct luster of metal. Compared to the fifty-meter wingspan of the Sapphire Dragon, its wingspan seemed a tad smaller, around thirty meters or so. Its frame was more slender than the Sapphire’s, and its body not as long, but atop its Dragon Tooth Platform sat a knight in black armor.
Without a doubt.
This was a true Dragon Knight, a knight united in spirit with the dragon.
In his hand he held a lance about five meters in length, matching the greenish hue of his Bronze Dragon mount. The spearhead, unlike the typical Knight’s Spear, was like a folded, old-fashioned umbrella. One-third of the entire lance was the spearhead, structured as a cone, with the thickest part as big as a knight’s round shield.
It inexplicably reminded Liszt of Athena’s golden lance in “Honor of Kings.”
“A five-meter Dragon Lance, just about right for a Bronze Dragon of that size. I’d love to snatch it and use it in conjunction with Leo… Once Leo reaches adulthood with a hundred-meter wingspan, a ten-meter Dragon Lance would be ideal, but five meters could be passable. There’s nothing better for the juvenile Leo now.”
He wasn’t amazed by the Dragon Knight’s presence; rather, like Leo’s first impulse to charge out and fight, his first thought was to grab some equipment.
Of course.
The thought was quickly suppressed, and he continued to watch, as a spectator, the standoff between the two dragons and knights in the sky.
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“Alonso, think carefully about this. To invade our Sapphire territory does come at a price!” Grand Duke Andrew Sapphire’s voice boomed.
The expression of the Bronze Dragon Knight, Alonso Xiankelai, from across was indiscernible, his knight’s helmet equipped with a mask, yet his voice, deep and hoarse, carried authority: “Do you think I went to all the trouble of drawing away Steel Ridge’s Dragon Knights just to come and listen to your threats?”
“So, no chance of a discussion?”
“You never had the right to discuss matters. A crippled Sapphire Dragon and an old man who can’t ride a dragon… I’m going to take action now, Duke Andrew.” Alonso seemed ready to mock, but ultimately refrained, calmly making his choice and swinging the green Knight’s Longsword.
In an instant, man and dragon charged toward the Sapphire Dragon.
Grand Duke Andrew didn’t have a Dragon Lance; he wasn’t a Dragon Knight, just a man standing on the Dragon Tooth Platform, maneuvering the Sapphire Dragon. Yet he didn’t panic facing the Dragon Knight. He calmly drew his own blue greatsword from his waist.
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The sword was two meters long.
The blade burst out with a rippling blue flame, like flowing water.
This was a Knight’s Longsword never mentioned in descriptions before, unlike the Wailing Cage Sword that Grand Duke Andrew was known to wield, a Greater Elf Warrior weapon of similar grade to the Ice Soul Dragon-Slaying Sword, which was roughly one and a half meters long and did not emit blue flames.
Instead, it was the greatsword of the Marquis of Bull that Liszt had seen before, the one he jokingly called the Pleasure of Flame, that emanated blue flames.
And it was speculated to possibly be forged from a forelimb of the Sapphire Dragon.
Regardless of the sword’s origin, as soon as the greatsword was drawn, the Sapphire Dragon’s body was suffused with a bright blue light, its presence growing even mightier. Then, at that moment, the Grand Duke unexpectedly sat down on the Dragon Tooth Platform. Man and dragon quickly united their souls, and within Liszt’s Eye of Magic vision, their Dou Qi and Magic Power merged into one.
“Roar!”
Wielding the greatsword, he charged toward Bronze Dragon Knight Alonso.
In that instant, only a few, including Liszt, could understand—Grand Duke Andrew was also truly a Dragon Knight!
