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Among the elemental dragons so often lumped together with evil dragons, fire dragons were known for their pride, tyranny, and inherently wicked impulses.
If not for the power of the Dragon-Bewildering Heart Fruit, Liszt might never have mounted Rio's back even now. And as that evil continued to breed, Rio might even have turned on Liszt, the one who had incubated and raised it.
Although its mind had now harmonized with Liszt's, and Liszt constantly cut away its wicked thoughts, its pride remained as it had always been. A crippled Sapphire Dragon was beneath its notice, and it liked even less seeing such a crippled dragon showing off before it.
Liszt had no choice but to soothe it and make it calm down.
He had to stop it from charging out regardless of everything, revealing its true form and fighting the Sapphire Dragon, ruining his plan to reap the fisherman's profit.
"Brother, the Sapphire Dragon looks as though it's been disfigured. With a dragon's powerful regenerative ability, why hasn't it restored its body?" A Ke watched the Sapphire Dragon flying overhead, countless thoughts flickering in her eyes. "Did it deliberately leave those scars behind, or are its injuries impossible to heal?"
She had the same question as Liszt.
"It doesn't seem likely that it deliberately stayed that way. If it truly wanted to keep the scars as a reminder of its past suffering, then it should have kept them ever since before the founding of the kingdom." That was all Liszt could conclude. In the dragon-slaying battle before the kingdom was founded, the Sapphire Dragon had nearly been beaten to death by the White Cast Iron Dragon.
That was the truly profound memory worth