The Mighty Dragons Are Dead

Chapter 818: Chapter 0815: Three Dragons in Hand (Second Update)
 

Whooosh!

Under Liszt’s urging, the Formless Dragon flew at breakneck speeds, hugging one of the labyrinth walls and quickly broke through the seemingly complex maze.

Looking back, the crystal structure that made up the labyrinth swiftly collapsed to be replaced by a brand-new maze. This labyrinth encompassed the entire world, with no discernible patterns, just an array of crystal structures. And he, along with the Formless Dragon, stood atop the throne in the center of the maze.

Speaking of the throne, it was actually just an elevated platform.

“Wuu-ee-yah!”

With a sudden flap of its wings, the Formless Dragon took to the sky, and the layers of labyrinth walls receded rapidly behind it as it flew, facing no obstruction whatsoever.

Within this maze, the Formless Dragon controlled everything.

Suddenly.

The view cleared, they had flown out of the maze, into the real world—or you could say, returned victorious from the Mind Battle. Their thoughts began to sync, and their minds became one; from this moment on, he was genuinely a Holy Dragon Knight—the Formless Dragon Knight.

The process had been somewhat circuitous, but the outcome was fairly satisfactory.

Liszt’s previous feelings of agitation, loss, indignation, and sourness brightened. He could sense the Formless Dragon’s thoughts through their unity, and the dragon could feel his joy. They influenced and affected each other—though it was predominantly Liszt taking the lead.

Now, his view was no longer that of crystal structures but his own human eyesight—yet to achieve the method of the Dragon Eye Trajectory with the Formless Dragon. Much time and adaptation were needed before he could learn to steer the Formless Dragon and forge fighting power.

“Let’s go to Ach!” Liszt discovered that he didn’t need to use the Eye of Magic Power to see the Formless Dragon clearly; its true form was still as beautifully fluid as crystal.

It was as if he sat upon crystal itself.

“Wuu-ee-yah!”

The Formless Dragon gently landed on the Whirlpool Summit, retracting its Dragon Might, with its slender body sitting cross-legged on the ground, appearing full of grace.

Among all the dragons Liszt had seen, Leo was undeniably the most fearsome, and the Formless Dragon, the most beautiful.

He also sensed the Formless Dragon’s age; indeed, it was another juvenile dragon, merely eighty years old, not having passed the hundred-year juvenile period. It lived a nomadic life, seemingly on an island north of the Sapphire Kingdom, but it had a wide range of activity.

The previous encounter in Fresh Flower Town was merely a result of its passing curiosity until it remembered the place after smelling Smoked Grass, treating itself to a feast once a year. This year, it developed a new ability—to break through the material layer and travel through another dimension of space, and then it got magnificently lost.

Lost in a dimension beyond the material plane.

Of course.

The “dimension beyond the material,” was a term Liszt devised based on partial memories from the Formless Dragon. Those thoughts were blurred and details hard to discern. He only knew that it was seeing a framed great ship passing through the Great Whirlpool’s Magic Teleportation Gate that allowed it to find an exit.

Thus, the scene they had witnessed earlier unfolded when the Formless Dragon burst out from the Whirlpool Entrance, leading to this series of accidental encounters.

Thump.

Jumping off the back of the Formless Dragon, Liszt walked over to Ach, “Done.”

Ach said with a smile, “Congratulations, brother, another dragon ridden, and such a pretty Formless Dragon at that.”

“It’s an old friend, after all…” Liszt kept a calm tone, though feeling somewhat embarrassed on the inside. The Formless Dragon as an old friend? Not exactly, as their relationship beyond two meals had no friendship to speak of, clear and straightforward in terms of material exchange.

He had arranged the Smoked Grass feast with a mindset for gain, and the Formless Dragon left behind some gemstones after eating.

That was all there was to it.

Dragons pride themselves, not readily forming friendships with humans.

The term “old friend” was just a jest from the book “The Adventure of Ranger Griffe,” for the protagonist who, after meeting once and receiving a Space Gem from the Formless Dragon, called it an old friend. It suggested that the Formless Dragon indeed had a behavior of leaving behind gifts after enjoying Smoked Grass—so much so that Liszt wondered if the Formless Dragon Griffe had met was the same one he tamed.

Unfortunately, “The Adventures of Ranger Griffe” did not record the author, and its origin was untraceable; it was unknown from which era the work was created.

The Formless Dragon likewise didn’t remember any Griffe, much less a… Griffe.

At this moment, Li Si Te was not embarrassed because he had co-opted Griffe’s “old friend” moniker but because of the Formless Dragon’s previous behavior.

“Ach, why did you refuse when the Formless Dragon let you ride it?” he asked.

“Brother, when did the Formless Dragon allow Ach to ride it? Moreover, Ach is a magician, with no Dou Qi to resonate with dragons,” said Ach, shaking his head, puzzled.

“Then why did you shake your head when it shouted at you?”

“Because Ach doesn’t know what it was shouting ah, its cries all sound the same, Ach doesn’t speak the language of the dragons.”

“I see.” Li Si Te nodded, his embarrassment eased considerably. He had previously thought that Ach refused the Formless Dragon out of consideration for his own reputation.

It turned out that Ach simply didn’t understand the Formless Dragon’s intentions.

He glanced at the other side of Whirlpool Mountain, where knights and serfs were still busily transporting supplies, many looking up curiously toward the summit. They heard the Formless Dragon’s cries and felt its dragon might but could not see the Formless Dragon and were unaware of what was happening.

However, with both Dragon Knights and archmages standing on the mountaintop, it seemed that there was no major issue.

Withdrawal his gaze, Li Si Te pointed at the Formless Dragon sitting on the ground, eyes narrowed as it dozed, “Ach, with your naked eye can you see the Formless Dragon?” It had overindulged in Smoked Grass, and the buzz it got from that had not completely faded, as it was still slowly savoring the wonderful taste of Smoked Grass.

“No, I cannot,” Ach responded after deactivating the Super Magic – Eye of Mana, shaking his head.

Yet, at this moment, Li Si Te could see the Formless Dragon with his naked eye.

It seemed this was the wonderful thing about Dragon Riding; he and the Formless Dragon had become one in spirit, and naturally, he could see the dragon’s true body at all times.

The underlying principle of which remained unknown for the time being.

“Alright, let’s put aside the information about the Formless Dragon for now. After I’ve harmonized with it, I can study it slowly. I’ll have Leo take you to Flame Origin first. There, you can guide the magicians in building the Mage Tower while I take the Formless Dragon out for a flight,” decided Li Si Te after some thought.

He had just mounted the Formless Dragon and wanted to strike while the iron was hot, to fully experience the Formless Dragon’s strength.

He called out to Leo.

The lingering scent of Smoked Grass in the air greatly displeased Leo.

What displeased it even more was seeing Li Si Te subdue another dragon, threatening its position. It directed a fierce “oh-oh!” at the half-closed-eyed Formless Dragon.

The Formless Dragon had a good temper and paid no attention to Leo’s roaring.

Or perhaps it was still blissfully immersed in the euphoria of the Smoked Grass, unable to extricate itself.

Li Si Te patted Leo’s scales, conveying a good deal through Dragon Heart Electrical Signal that it remained his comrade in arms, regardless of the Formless Dragon and the Light Green Gemstone Dragon being more as resources for production.

Having done this,

Leo finally subdued its irritable mood.

Awaiting Ach to climb on its back, it suddenly flapped its wings and flew towards the distant Flame Origin.

“In the future, when constructing the Dragon Nest, I will have to separate these three dragons. It’s best if they don’t see each other.”

Li Si Te breathed a sigh of relief. Managing multiple dragons was indeed a challenging task, but a sense of pride and accomplishment surged through him. He wondered if any Dragon Knight on the Legendary Continent had ever done this—he already had three dragons at his command, not to mention clues about the Smoke Dragon and Jade Dragon.

“I guess I’m a precedent setter, with no forebears or successors, huh?”

His thoughts were fleeting as he mounted the Formless Dragon again, their spirits instantly merging as their thoughts and Dou Qi resonated in sync, entering Dragon Rider Mode.

“Fly, Formless Dragon!”