"Exactly. Keep it up. We attack the queen—if we hit that Crystal Dragon too, it doesn't matter!"
Master Gose's spirits rose sharply. Though their main target was the queen, he knew full well that every Magic Beast was an enemy of humankind—just because the Crystal Dragon had come to attack the queen and seemed to be helping them did not make it an ally.
Once the queen was defeated, they would just have to see whether the Crystal Dragon would conveniently scatter their ashes along with the wind.
"Wait!"
But Ian suddenly cried out a warning. He sensed extreme danger. Turning toward the direction where the Blazing Flame Lands people had been, alarm bells blared in his heart. "There... someone is coming from there! Very strong—extremely strong!"
"Not one, but two! Patrick is fighting someone? He activated his Aether Armor and is still being suppressed?!"
Within Precognitive Vision, in the direction of the Blazing Flame Lands Special Forces, two deep-blue mists led a mass of dense white mist in battle against a dim pale-purple mist and a cluster of gray, white, and blue mists.
Overall, they were fairly evenly matched.
But just moments ago, a deep-purple mist had suddenly emerged, while another deep-purple mist overlapped with it... This was clearly Patrick and the Aether Armor: Dark Radiance Offshoot.
He appeared to be fighting someone. He had come all the way here while being suppressed, looking somewhat bedraggled.
The mist following close behind was a mixture of cyan and purple, unmistakably at the peak of the Second Energy Level. It was truly just one Magic Potion away from the Third Energy Level!
"This feeling..."
Ian's eyes widened. At his side, Master Gose and Isengard also raised their heads with grave expressions. The old man had sensed something wrong in the distance,