The Mighty Dragons Are Dead

Chapter 0609 Cloaked Bear-wearer (First Update)

"There's no escape, I knew this would be the outcome!" Yevich Water Peanut, pinned to the ground, wailed in self-pity like a woman mourning her fate, "With the foresight of a Dragon Knight candidate like me, how could I be wrong, how could I be wrong, your strength is terrifying indeed!"

"Terrifying indeed..."

Liszt lifted his foot and turned his head to the other side, where the River-Cleaving Swordsaint, Deborah Yuhua Stone, had already risen from the ground and was preparing to flee.

So-called courage had vanished without a trace after a single encounter, replaced by a mind full of confusion and a desire to flee for life.

"Stay here and lie down honestly," Liszt casually instructed Yevich as he stood up, took flight and shot straight toward Deborah, ready to take captive those who offered themselves up.

Seeing Liszt approaching, Deborah's scalp exploded, Thunder Attribute Dou Qi erupting gratuitously, turning her speed into a bolt of lightning.

Thunder Attribute Dou Qi enhanced speed, and although Liszt only had Fire Attribute Dou Qi, which had since been upgraded to Dragon Dou Qi, with a flying speed no slower than his opponent's, the gap in their take-off left him trailing Deborah. However, he was in no panic, promptly switching to the Swift Shadow Bow.

The arrow nocked, the bow drawn fully.

Releasing his hold, three flames tore through the sky, racing straight for Deborah.

Naturally, Deborah saw Liszt shooting arrows. At the level of a Sky Knight, archery was hardly effective in single combat, and a knight who could fly could easily dodge arrows. She was about to scoff at him in her mind for his stupidity when she suddenly remembered what Yevich had once said—that he was nearly killed by one of Liszt's arrows.

When she first heard it from Yevich, Deborah completely disbelieved that even a Completion Level Sky Knight could kill a Swordsaint with an arrow.

But now, she dared not disbelieve.

She twisted her body in a frantic attempt to dodge the trajectory of these three fire-like arrows. Her expertise in archery informed her that arrows shot by knights were capable of changing their trajectory, so she dodged as much as possible, estimating the path of the three flame arrows to avoid them within a span of dozens of meters.

Yet as the three arrows collided with each other, they seemed to track her somehow and charged toward her again.

Clearly, her speed was not faster than the arrows, and with no way to dodge, Deborah, shocked, mobilized her entire Dou Qi to resist the incoming arrow.

Just as the arrow touched her Dou Qi.

Boom!

An explosion rang out as the Dragon Dou Qi clinging to the arrow was detonated without hesitation by Liszt. The blast, hitting Deborah mostly directly, also accelerated the three arrowheads, which pierced through her golden armor and into her body with soft thuds.

"Ah!"

Deborah screamed as she once again fell from the sky.

She couldn't block even one move from Liszt face-to-face, and at a distance, she couldn't withstand even one of his arrows. The gap between a Dragon Knight and a Sky Knight was just that vast.

Deborah, who fell to the ground, tried to endure the pain of three arrows piercing into her body as she struggled to rise. Then, she was kicked fiercely back to the ground by Liszt, who descended from above, her body once more ravaged, letting out an even more agonizing scream.

This scream sent a chill through Yevich, who was debating internally in the distance, freezing him in terror.

Just a moment ago, he noticed Liszt chasing after Deborah while he himself was left unbound. It was the perfect opportunity to flee, but before he could resolve his hesitation, Deborah's agonized scream instantly evoked his fear of Liszt.

He was once admired by everyone as a Dragon Knight candidate, but the years passed, and his edges had long since worn down.

Liszt's aggressive attack evoked the fears he once harbored, fears dominated by those true Dragon Knights—he fell into his fear of the Dragon Knights. It was clear that he had been eliminated from the Kingdom's Dragon Knight program as a candidate who was afraid of Dragon Knights.

And he never recovered from this setback.

"Why!"

"I, Yevich, have a justifiable fear of Dragon Knights, so why do I feel such fear towards Liszt?"

"Why does the fear he brings to me feel just like the fear Prince Alex White Maw Iron of the past brought to me?"

Looking at Liszt's upright figure, a thought suddenly emerged, one he couldn't suppress no matter how hard he tried, "Could it be... he is also a Dragon Knight?"

"No, no, that's impossible!"

"How could a Sapphire Fly possibly become a Dragon Knight!"

"Aside from that Sapphire Dragon which was nearly killed by Prince Alex White Maw Iron's mount, it's impossible for another Dragon to appear in the Duchy of Sapphire! That place is nothing but a desolate island where, each year, the starving Sapphire Flies must come to the bountiful continent to loot supplies in order to survive!"

The Duchy of Sapphire has always been viewed by the people of the Continental Kingdoms as barren, impoverished, barbaric, and uncouth, which is why they rob the continent every year.

Moreover, many Nobles were aware that the Sapphire Family had once sought to establish a kingdom on the continent but were thwarted by the Eagle Kingdom during the Dragon Battle. With the deployment of just one White Maw Iron Dragon, the Sapphire Dragon was nearly killed, leaving behind the Blue Blood Mountain with its rich Sapphire mines before they fled in panic overseas to establish a nation on the barren islands.

To this day, Blue Blood Mountain still occasionally yields Sapphire mines.

"Impossible!" Yevich shook his head, having convinced himself to believe that Liszt was not a Dragon Knight but had somehow attained power that surpassed that of a Sky Knight.

There's a vast gulf between Sky Knights and Dragon Knights, but that doesn't mean there haven't been strong figures bridging that gap.

At least Yevich knew of a Marquis, a Landlord he had once followed, Marquis Pilof the Earth Fury of Boulder, who was such a powerful intermediary.

With his initial strength just entering the ranks of the Swordsaints, he couldn't even withstand a single punch from his opponent.

Moreover, he knew the direct bloodline of the Earth Fury Family did not call themselves Knights but "Cloaked Bear-wearers." He had heard of similar families, such as "Cloaked Wolf-wearers" and "Cloaked Pig-wearers," after Pilof got drunk, but he didn't know which two families these referred to.

Additionally, Yevich had also heard of Vampire families. Among those Vampires who liked to affiliate with the Nobles, the most powerful Pureblood Vampires indeed had strength surpassing that of Sky Knights.

"So young, what is Liszt's identity? What is the nature of the power he has acquired?"

Not much time was left for him to ponder. After dragging Deborah up, Liszt was already approaching Yevich.

Meanwhile, on the other side, with the Earl personally intervening and witnessing the defeat of two of their Sky Knights, the Knights of Little Riverheart Castle could no longer hold out and scattered in all directions.

Those who couldn't escape knelt on one knee, accepting their fate as prisoners.

What should have been a straightforward Knights' charge ended in a dramatic fashion. Leading the bound Deborah and Yevich, the Coral Island Knights triumphantly entered Little Riverheart Castle.

The Earl watched the wide-open gates of the towering Little Riverheart Castle, his heart surging with emotion, as if seeing a promising future beckoning, "Another glorious victory. Even though there's little military merit in conquering a castle, every gemstone collected will earn me a merit!"