As the former master of the sea, Grand Duke Sapphire had nowhere to vent the resentment filling his heart. He had thought that his success in paying the price to ride a dragon would be enough to shield Sapphire through the crisis.
The appearance of two Dragon Knights from the Eagle Kingdom made him realize that Sapphire's crisis was far more terrifying than he had imagined.
Although Liszt and A Ke Roydes had ultimately appeared and successfully defused this calamity, with one Dragon Knight and one Magician joining forces, the sea was no longer under Sapphire's control—or rather, ever since the Eagle Kingdom had begun producing two-masted sailing ships, the sea had no longer belonged exclusively to Sapphire.
"Damn Andy, you ungrateful white-eyed wolf!"
"If it hadn't been for the Bull Family's betrayal, how could the Eagle Kingdom have developed its shipbuilding industry, much less dared to launch a dragon-slaying war!" Hatred flashed in the Grand Duke's eyes. "I won't let you die easily. Not only you—your grandson and your clansmen, sooner or later I'll send them to follow you!"
He brooded in secret hatred for a while.
Only then did the Grand Duke regain his calm. Dawn had quietly arrived by then, and the eldest prince had already led the fleet back to Bull Hoof City's harbor, having achieved plentiful results in the night-long pursuit.
As the sun rose over the horizon, the harbor became lively once more.
The knights endlessly boasted of their respective achievements—how many fleeing ships they had destroyed, how many knights who had jumped into the water they had captured. Naturally, they also discussed the Dragon Knight and Magician born from the Tulip Family, Carlo's death, Liszt's rise, and the changing of the sea's overlord.
Yet Liszt, the focus of everyone's discussion, sat quietly in