"Can titanium dragons make jumps? Becephorus isn't going to get crushed to death in the gravity well just like that, is he?" Yu Lian, who had just taken off his heraldry mech aboard the Kettle Street, asked the exact same question as Jiafeier.
At that very moment, everyone on the bridge had also spotted a titanium dragon clinging to the ship's hull. At first, they had panicked, thinking the oversized space lizard was playing dirty and planning a sneak attack. But the other dragon simply lay still on the ship, showing no signs of aggression. It even spread its body as wide as it could against the hull, as though afraid its bulk might interfere with the ship's flight.
Only then did everyone realize that the dragon meant no harm. It was probably planning to defect. Agnes lowered her hand from the trigger, too. She had already powered up the Kettle Street's anti-aircraft guns and nearly let loose a burst right in the dragon's face.
But the jump engines had already started, and there was no way to stop them now.
"...According to The Encyclopedia of Mythical Beasts, ancient dragons that have lived for more than a thousand years can do it. But Becephorus definitely doesn't count," Fifi said.
"Yeah, definitely not... There are only a handful of dragons over a thousand years old in the entire galaxy, right? And that's not even counting the ones in captivity. I can only remember a few in the Dragon's Approach Palace," Yu Lian said.
Those ancient sacred creatures were less like war beasts and more like members of the Imperial royal family. Even if any were actually here, Yu Lian couldn't handle them as he was now, much less kidnap them and hold them hostage as dragon hostages.
There really were colossal