Amid the drifting clouds, a pure-white bat dragon kicked off with its hind legs, condensing the air into cannons. Borrowing the recoil, it shot rapidly forward.
From afar, each of the bat dragon's bursts looked like teleportation.
After several consecutive dashes, the bat dragon suddenly halted in midair.
It felt as though its bat wings had grazed some creature during its last dash. Yet when it turned back, it saw only roiling clouds and mist, with no living thing in sight.
Was it an illusion?
After thinking it over, the bat dragon still felt something was off. It used its pig-like nose to sniff in the direction it had come from... but detected no suspicious scent.
It sniffed its own bat wings again, but there was still no smell.
As a wind-type creature, it was exceptionally sensitive to scents in the air. Since there was no scent, that seemed to suggest from another angle that it had merely been overly suspicious.
However, the sensation of brushing against some soft, springy creature had been far too real. Being a cautious bat dragon, it decided to investigate in another way.
It raised its round, dish-like ears, and waves of high-frequency sound spread outward from its body.
It wanted to use the echoes of those sound waves to determine whether a hidden creature was present.
Yet before it could find that hidden creature, the returning sound waves let it sense an incomparably immense force of wind speeding toward its location.
At first, it had still been quite far away, but in less than two seconds, the wind force had already drawn near.
The bat dragon looked up and saw a breathtakingly beautiful, dreamlike flying vessel tearing through the sea of clouds at astonishing speed.
Near that flying vessel, the bat dragon sensed two