The Mighty Dragons Are Dead

Chapter 785: Chapter 782: Discovering Archipelago (First Update)
 

“Let the storm rage fiercer!”

As one with his Dragon, resonating in Dragon Knight harmony, Liszt grasped the five-meter-long Dragon Lance – Wrath of Thunder, his spirit soaring to the skies with bold ambitions.

Dragon Dou Qi burst forth from his body, evaporating the raindrops the size of soybeans before they could even draw near. Wherever the Dragon Knight passed, even the fiercest storms could only turn into steam and mist, tracing a path of haze in the air. It added a third color between heaven and earth, a tearing trail of water and fire.

Leo was a Fire Dragon, and he did not like storms or ocean environments.

However, his previous incarnation had perished at sea, and upon rebirth, he emerged from the ocean, forced to leave his rightful home and to endure the test of harsh environments.

This made him angry: “Oohoo!”

Liszt and he were two of a kind, understanding each other’s thoughts, and they dominated each other’s thinking: “Anger is the most useless emotion, Leo. You must learn to overcome anger! Destiny made your forebear die in the very sea you fear, so in this life, you should start learning young to conquer the ocean!”

“Oohoo!”

“Yes, mastering the storm is just the first step for you and me to conquer the ocean. Once we conquer the sea, what on the Legendary Continent could possibly stop our steps and wings!”

“Oohoo!”

At this moment, man and dragon felt no fear or loathing for the storm, only a soaring fighting spirit to tear through the winds and rain, the flashes of lightning and thunder.

Suddenly.

Leo twisted his body, diving down in a spiral. Liszt tightened his grip on Wrath of Thunder, vibrating the Dragon Lance in his hands following Leo’s twist, rhythmically releasing bursts of Dragon Dou Qi. Rings of flame expanded outward, continuously tearing apart the roaring wind and rain.

Even the Superior Magic of lightning strikes were shattered upon colliding with the Dragon Knight’s attacks.

By the time Liszt and Leo had plummeted a kilometer from above Dragon Turtle Island, crashing to the other end of the island, the clouds that had darkened the sky were lit up by their persistent dive-attack trajectory, with countless flames hanging in the sky, boiling the wind and rain.

“Sea-Boiling!”

“This is the fourth move of my Dragon Dou Qi Manual, and currently the most powerful one!” Liszt finally channeled the Dragon Knight’s attack towards the chaotic rocks by the sea, directly blasting out a meteorite-sized crater and melting the surrounding rocks with the high temperature, forming many glimmering pieces of glass.

Many of the stones in this area were quartz.

After a while.

The flames in the sky slowly died down, and the giant pit on the ground was filled in by seawater, as the storm smoothed over the Dragon Knight’s attack. Liszt, riding Leo, floated leisurely by the sea, gazing at the fearsome weather and thought quietly, “What if I used Fire Dragon Overmagic to drive this attack, would it be eternally engraved above Dragon Turtle Island’s skies?”

This was just a thought, as the current Leo couldn’t afford to use Fire Dragon Overmagic as a regular means of attack—igniting the Dodo Island Volcano eruption had already consumed much of his Fire Dragon Overmagic.

Flapping his wings.

Returning to the Lightning Dragon Turtle’s position, the sea monster bathed in thunder was quite frightened of Leo. Thankfully, Liszt suppressed Leo’s Dragon Might. Ach kept soothing the Lightning Dragon Turtle, which prevented it from fleeing into the sea—even a Super Dragon Beast had no choice but to shiver in the presence of a Dragon.

Even though the Lightning Dragon Turtle was a hundred meters in diameter, Leo compared to it was like a small bird.

Bang! Thump!

Liszt exited the Dragon Rider Mode, leapt down from Leo, and stood on the turtle shell. Leo then transformed into a ball of flame, returning to Liszt’s body to rest and recover.

“Once the storm stops and the Lightning Dragon Turtle finishes its training, Ach, have it continue to look for new islands… This Dragon Turtle Island isn’t of much developmental value, but those ordinary dragon turtles might be worth trying to tame a few large ones to see if they can be used to pull ships.”

He had some more lines that he didn’t say—next time, they should hunt a group of dragon turtles to taste the meat. If it’s good quality and nutritious, it could be a rich source of magical beast meat.

…

Three days later, after the Lightning Dragon Turtle had finished its training.

The Adventure Fleet had already set sail again, continuing to search the unknown seas.

Liszt and Ach continued to make the Lightning Dragon Turtle search for the islands it had visited before. However, much to his frustration, the Lightning Dragon Turtle’s choices of direction were always heading east towards the Devil’s Sea. Its former habitats were mostly in the Devil’s Sea, not near the coast.

The Devil’s Sea was not yet within Liszt’s planned scope of exploration—the fact that the edge islands could be hit by a three-day and three-night storm implied the interior of the Devil’s Sea would be terrifying, to say the least.

So the current focus remained on searching the nearby seas.

It wasn’t until Ach repeatedly objected that the Lightning Dragon Turtle chose a new direction, heading towards the southwest. Relying on Ach’s control of the currents, it took seven hours before a new island came into Liszt’s view, a green island.

Not very big.

But there were several more island outlines around it.

“This is an archipelago!” Liszt’s heart surged with anticipation. Finding an archipelago meant finding hope for nation-building.

Ach handed over a piece of grid paper: “Brother, here’s the map of the archipelago.”

On the map, using Black Horse Island as the starting point, and including Dragon Turtle Island and this New Archipelago, they could form an obtuse triangle—though Dragon Turtle Island’s position became the obtuse angle. While connecting the islands, Ach also marked the distances, looking very professional.

From Black Horse Island to Dragon Turtle Island is 1850 kilometers, and from Dragon Turtle Island to the archipelago is about 1300 kilometers; from Black Horse Island to Three Islands is 800 kilometers, and from Three Islands to the archipelago is about 2500 kilometers. This means the distance from Black Horse Island to the archipelago is nearly 3300 kilometers, sufficiently far from the Sapphire Archipelago.

Such a distance, by sailing ship, with favorable winds, might take around twenty days.

“Ach, take the Lightning Dragon Turtle to land on the island and check it out. Leo and I will go up to observe and see just how many islands there are around this archipelago.”

“Okay.”

Dragon rising into the sky.

The view suddenly expanded, and one by one, islands came into sight—indeed, it was a vast archipelago. However, the more he flew, the more disappointed Liszt became. There were over a hundred islands observed near the archipelago, but not a single one was as large as Black Horse Island.

The islands were arranged in an arc, sparsely scattered around the arc, stretching out over two to three hundred kilometers.

“Such an archipelago is impossible for nation-building. All of the islands combined might not even be as big as Red Crab Island.”

Liszt returned to the Lightning Dragon Turtle’s location, expressing disappointment in the results of this trip, and hoped the Lightning Dragon Turtle would continue to lead him to new islands.

However, the Lightning Dragon Turtle indicated that this was the farthest it had been; its other habitats were all in the Devil’s Sea.

With this, Liszt could only regretfully accept it and make a new decision, “Since that’s the case, then let’s direct the Adventure Fleet here and use this archipelago as a coordinate to continue the search in the surrounding area. Now that we’ve found a new archipelago, perhaps there are even larger ones nearby.”

“Anyway, discovering such a series of archipelagos is still of great value. We should thoroughly search them and see how many elves, magic potions, and magical beasts we can find!”