The giant lion Nemean Lion moving into Flame Royal City caused a tremendous stir, but the commotion rose quickly and died down just as fast. After all, the residents of Flame Royal City were accustomed to seeing dragons flying through the sky.
Compared with dragons, the giant lion Nemean Lion was far less renowned. Though it was no smaller than a dragon and was a subdragon on the same level as Unicorns and Phoenixes—after abandoning the term "subdragon," Liszt had recently picked it back up and turned it into a category of its own.
He had originally assumed that subdragons were merely a distorted rumor concerning super dragon beasts, but the facts proved otherwise. People had simply confused subdragons with super dragon beasts.
Subdragons were exceedingly rare, and super dragon beasts were just as scarce. Their confusion was understandable.
"Nemean Lion, do you have any preferences for the arrangement of your lair?" Now that he had subdued it, Liszt was still willing to respect the giant lion Nemean Lion's wishes.
"Roar!"
Nemean Lion indicated that it preferred softer soil, which would make it easier for it to use magic to move its body underground—as an earth-aspected supermagical creature, it could merge completely into the earth, much as Phoenixes could merge into magma and flame. It was a special form of magic.
"The soil around Flame Royal City isn't soft enough?"
"Roar!" Clearly, it was not.
"Then go look for a place nearby yourself."
In the end, Nemean Lion selected a forest beside Pegasus Ranch, roughly forty kilometers from Flame Royal City. Following Liszt's instructions, it would regularly head to Flame Royal City, circle the royal city, Sun Mountain, and Moon Mountain once, then enjoy the delicious food prepared for it at the foot of Sun Mountain.
Compared with raising dragons,