Early the next morning, Maple Forest Youlan's excited voice rang throughout Flowing City. Before long, everyone knew the good news: the mount dragon of Maple Forest Youlan, one of the kingdom's only two Sacred Dragon Knights, had returned fully healed!
For a time, the morale of all Lagrange City visibly soared. Everyone understood what a Sacred Dragon Marshal meant! In this age without gods, he was a demigod! The emergence of a Sacred Dragon Marshal was enough to crush many thoughts people should never have entertained.
"Roar!" Long Xi's clear, resonant dragon cry echoed throughout Lagrange City. Standing atop the tower, she spread her wings and blotted out the sky! Vast shadows fell as her wings unfurled.
"Congratulations!" The crowd gathered around Maple Forest Youlan to offer their congratulations, while Long Xi lowered her head and happily watched her knight hold his wife's hand as he responded to everyone.
"What's wrong, Chasing Light? You don't seem very happy. Is there some conflict among the dragons of the MacDougall Family?" Roland stood beside the somber-looking Chasing Light and patted his scales.
This was no exaggeration. Even humans had their own circles and grudges, much less dragons with their long lives. Over the course of their endless lifespans, dragons would always find a few others they simply could not get along with. Conflicts among dragons were common enough, though they were not as extreme as humans. At most, they fought whenever they met; it rarely escalated to the point of taking lives.
This was especially common in the House of Antony. The mount dragons of the Antony Family, which specialized in fire and lightning dragons, were all hot-tempered fellows. Fighting at the slightest provocation was utterly ordinary. Fire dragons and lightning dragons could always find some minor grievance between them, which