The Mighty Dragons Are Dead-Chapter 655 - 0652: Dragon Knight (First Update)

Chapter 655: Chapter 0652: Dragon Knight (First Update)

Leo lay on the ground, fast asleep.

Liszt couldn’t bring himself to move his buttocks away from the Dragon Tooth Platform. With the connection from the platform, the sense of destiny fusion, blood flowing, and thought synchronization was just too amazing.

This was what it meant to be a Dragon Knight.

It wasn’t just a person riding a dragon, but a person and a dragon sharing the same breath and destiny.

It was as if he had opened his entire heart to Leo, and Leo had entrusted everything to him without reservations or suspicions, only the harmonious unity of spirits. They were said to be one man and one dragon, but in truth, they were merged into one entity, with Dragon Dou Qi as the cement and their souls as the steel reinforcement.

A bridge flying across from south to north, what was once an impassable gulf now became a thoroughfare.

The great divide between man and dragon completely dissipated in the state of dragon riding.

“Dragon Knight!”

“My life’s greatest goal, finally achieved today!”

Suddenly, he remembered “All Men Are Brothers”he had once read, and the verse Lu Zhishen recited at the moment of his enlightenment came to him, and he couldn’t help but chant, “All my life I did not pile up good deeds, only delighting in killing and arson. Suddenly the golden ropes are untied, here the jade locks are snapped. Ah! The tide signal comes from the Qiantang River, only today do I realize that I am truly myself.”

Of course.

He hadn’t come to an instant enlightenment and returned to the Pure Land like Lu Zhishen.

It was just a spontaneous exclamation, for only today, riding the dragon, did he realize the sheer exhilaration of dragon riding. It was just too bad that Leo, because of the effects of the Bewildering Dragon Mind Fruit, had fainted, and he couldn’t immediately take him to soar through the skies. He could only savor the thrill of dragon riding on his own. However, just at this moment, the Dou Qi in his body suddenly surged.

His mind stirred.

He quickly left Leo’s Dragon Tooth Platform, flipping off it.

Immediately, a sense of emptiness swept over his entire body. The feeling of spiritual harmony when man and dragon were united faded away in an instant, but he could still feel Leo, a connection of heart and soul that couldn’t be severed. Having ridden a dragon once, having connected once, nothing could ever be the same again.

Just like a phone connecting to Wi-Fi and remembering the password, unless the password is changed, it would reconnect whenever near.

Unless Liszt brutally mistreated Leo, the dragon wouldn’t change the password, and he certainly wouldn’t casually discard Leo, a Fire Dragon with boundless potential.

Once a Dragon Rider, always a Dragon Rider!

He shook his head.

Suppressing the urge to ride again, Liszt then checked the sudden surge of Dou Qi in his body: “It seems that due to the earlier Mind Battle, my Dou Qi has reacted… Is this likely the Complete Advanced Level Dou Qi rewarded from the Smoke Mission?”

He focused his mind and called out, and the Smoke Mission promptly manifested.

“Mission complete, reward Complete Advanced Level Dou Qi.”

Indeed, it had been completed, the reward almost received at the same time as the dragon riding, or one could say that Complete Advanced Level Dou Qi was a prerequisite for dragon riding. Under the influence of the Smoke Mission, with the aid of the Bewildering Dragon Mind Fruit, he managed to rid Little Fire Dragon Leo of evil thoughts and successfully ride the dragon while his Dou Qi reached completion.

Just as he was about to look at the new mission, his body’s Dou Qi surged once more, shifting his attention, and the smoke quickly dissipated.

He had no choice but to concentrate fully on the changes in his body. The Dou Qi continued to surge, stimulating and enhancing his body’s strength, soon making him feel hungry and exhausted. Fortunately, on his return this time, Liszt had prepared plenty of Magic Potions. He grabbed a handful and started crunching them down immediately.

Once the Magic Potion was consumed, it quickly transformed into surging magic power replenishing his dried-up cells and then refined into Dou Qi to continue improving his body.

After that, he began to devour the meat of the Magical Beast in large gulps, adding nutrients to his body.

So it was.

Having consumed a total of fifty Magic Potions and, in combination, five Dragon Kui Auxiliary Medicines, as well as the equivalent in volume to an entire cow’s worth of Magical Beast Meat, his body finally met its nutritional demands. His Dou Qi completely returned to a state of calm, but the explosive power hidden within his body seemed as if all his pathways had been thoroughly opened up.

With the Ice Soul Dragon-Slaying Sword drawn, he proceeded to practice the moves from “Rising Sun Blaze”, alternating between basic and charged techniques to feel the current state of his body.

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When he channelled his Dou Qi and executed his Combat Skills, no longer was there the slightest hint of stagnation.

Every detail of his body was under his complete control.

Sheathing his sword, he stood and gazed at his slender fingers, a fusion of beauty and power, and couldn’t help but feel triumphant, “Is this what it truly means to be a Completion Level Sky Knight?”

Perhaps in terms of overall Dou Qi volume and explosive strength, a Completion Level Sky Knight isn’t much stronger than a Sky Knight of the Sword Saint Level.

But the control over bodily detail far surpasses the Sword Saint.

One might say that if a Sword Saint can utilize eighty percent of their body’s strength, a Completion Level could exert a hundred and twenty percent.

“Next, I must find a way to obtain the Dou Qi Domain Manual to fully complete the knight’s cultivation system… After all, the conditions for Dragon Riding as a Dragon Knight are exceedingly strict. I was able to forcefully succeed in Dragon Riding with the help of the Bewildering Dragon Mind Fruit, but my descendants might not be so lucky.”

The Duchy of Sapphire didn’t have the Dou Qi Domain Manual.

He would have to seize it from one of the Continental Kingdoms, and Liszt particularly had his eye on Marquis Nuta. He had barely managed to rout him in their last encounter without managing to capture him. The next time a Pioneer Mandate was issued, it would be the perfect occasion to capture Marquis Nuta in one fell swoop and then force him to hand over the Dou Qi Domain Manual.

Leo was still in a deep slumber.

Liszt sat cross-legged beside him, once again concentrating to summon the Smoke Mission.

“Mission: Clearly you have successfully ridden a dragon and become a true Dragon Knight, and the vast world is yours to roam. However, it can’t be denied that Leo is still young and the next steps in your training remain unclear. Please curb your flaunting demeanor and humbly seek out the next method of cultivation. Reward: An Archmage.”

“Hmm?”

He was doubly surprised; he hadn’t expected that right after he became a Dragon Knight, Ach would also be on the verge of becoming an Archmage. He had thought that Ach would need at least a year or a half to muster the attempt to advance to the Archmage level—especially since his previous touch with the Magic Web was assisted by the power of a Mermaid’s Tear.

However.

After reading the mission details again, he tempered his excitement, “What does it mean to humbly seek out the next method of cultivation? Does the mission consider itself completed only after I find it? If I can’t find the next method of cultivation in a year or a half, wouldn’t Ach be unable to advance to Archmage for a long time?”

Regardless, he would wait for Leo to wake up and then try to seek out the method of cultivation—with the dragon already ridden, he felt no fear that he wouldn’t be able to find a cultivation method.

He rose to his feet, walked down the mountain, and made his way to the seashore.

He discovered that no matter the distance between them, there was a powerful connection between his heart and Leo’s. Although it wasn’t as intense as the unity of mind and dragon while riding, it was still much stronger than the bond he had with an Elf. With just a thought, he could feel the beautiful dreams Leo had even while deep in slumber.

In its dreams, the Little Fire Dragon envisioned itself as a mighty Fire Dragon, seizing riches of a city and bringing them back to its lair at the volcano’s crater—still harboring evil thoughts.

“It seems I need to frequently cut at its heart to prevent bad thoughts from taking root. After all, I am a knight filled with a sense of justice, and my mount cannot be an Evil Dragon. Filled with love and peace, protecting justice and fairness, that is the true virtue of a knight!”

Feeling euphoric, the scenery at dusk was extraordinarily beautiful.

His steps were light and airy as though he didn’t even need to expel Dou Qi to float up into the sky.