Based on his ingrained assumptions, Liszt had always believed the three Dragon-Bewildering Heart Fruits should have been discovered within his territory, or at the very least somewhere nearby.
He had never expected them to be on a solitary island amid the vast ocean.
The withered tree stood less than a meter tall. Three fist-sized fruits with a seven-colored sheen hung from its dead branches. They looked somewhat like apples, only rounder.
They gave off no scent, nor did they leak even a trace of magic power.
If he closed his eyes, then no matter how Liszt sensed the free magic power in the surrounding air, he could not detect the existence of these three Dragon-Bewildering Heart Fruits.
Only when he activated Magic Eye could he sense the astonishing magic power hidden beneath that seven-colored sheen.
The glow reflected by the magic power was a dense chaos color—like a mass of murky gray smog, yet somehow more peculiar. At a glance, it seemed murky gray; look closer, and it appeared transparent and illusory; shift the angle, and it might become tangible smoke.
Neither black nor white, half illusion and half reality, like fog and haze.
"The concentration of magic power is almost saturated. It far surpasses every magic-bearing fruit, including Bloodline Fruit. Such powerful magic truly could bewilder a dragon!" Liszt did not rush to pick the fruits. Instead, he repeatedly examined both the fruits and the dead tree.
He confirmed that the tree was indeed dead, with not the slightest sign that it could revive.
Yet he could not bear to leave it behind. He directly took a bone shovel from Gemstone Space and carefully began excavating around the dead tree's roots, intending to place all three Dragon-Bewildering Heart Fruits together with the tree into his Gemstone Space—such precious items