Emily's praise was wholehearted. In truth, even Liszt himself felt that he was extraordinary.
He had already ridden eight dragons. Besides that, he had A Ke, a magus riding a Unicorn, and Laird Truth, the magus who had only recently pledged allegiance to him.
That amounted to ten combatants standing at the pinnacle of power.
From the standpoint of a dragon-slaying war, that was already enough to fight a battle that could overturn the Eagle Kingdom's rule. But on a foundational level, the Flame Kingdom still had too few knights to replace the Eagle Kingdom in governing such vast territory. Moreover, the Eagle Kingdom would not willingly accept a dragon-slaying war.
Adonis Moonlight Silver's strategy was simple: avoid battle, build up strength, then frantically seek aid to contain Liszt's expansion.
He had already revealed the news of the Holy Dragon to the Kushan Empire. Clearly, the Everlasting Glory Empire and the Blue Dragon Empire had likely received the news one after another as well. It was simply that those two empires were far too distant; coming to seize the Invisible Dragon would not be easy—or perhaps they were plotting something in the shadows.
This was also what Liszt was most wary of. He did not dare rashly launch a dragon-slaying war, fearing that the two great empires would make a covert move to harm him amid the conflict.
There was no telling whether the trump card of Phoenix Transformation had already been exposed.
Who knew what unimaginable methods an empire with a heritage spanning thousands of years might possess?
"Besides, even if I defeat the Eagle Kingdom in a dragon-slaying war, I won't be able to seize that many dragons. The mind imprint is a huge problem." He sighed inwardly.
The mind imprint greatly strengthened a dragon's mental world. What