"Your Majesty, negotiations with the Flame Kingdom are imperative." When Prince Alex arrived at the royal palace, the first thing he said upon seeing Adonis was to urge him to negotiate with Liszt.
"Why, Alex? Do you want to see me made a joke of too?"
"Your surname is Moonlight Silver, mine is White Iron, but we are both of the Eagle Royal Family. What difference is there between your joke and mine?" Alex looked at the Eagle King, who had aged twenty years in an instant, and sighed helplessly. "I never thought highly of the Three Kingdom Alliance."
"But you voted in favor of the Three Kingdom Alliance."
"That's right." Alex replied frankly. "Although I never believed the Three Kingdom Alliance could truly strangle the Flame Kingdom—or rather, strangle Liszt's growth—if we did not make the effort, we could hardly just watch the Eagle Kingdom be slowly nibbled away by the Flame Kingdom... Now that the Dragon Rider Corps has fallen apart, the Three Kingdom Alliance has lost all meaning. We need to face reality."
Adonis fell silent for a long while before saying dejectedly, "What kind of reality?"
"Liszt has already become the strongest Dragon Rider in the northeastern corner of the Legendary Continent—no, he should be the strongest Dragon Rider on the entire Legendary Continent. I do not know exactly how strong he is, but judging by how easily he slaughtered Dragon Riders, he has far surpassed peak-stage Dragon Riders... And he was not fighting atop the Invisible Dragon. It was the Fire Dragon!"
"Jupiter the Great also has an Elemental Dragon and a Dark Dragon."
"It is different. I asked the Kushan Empire's envoy. Elemental Dragons are indeed formidable in battle, but at most they are on the level of Magic Metal Dragons or the Royal