After escorting the Light Green Gem Dragon Isen to Flame Island and finding a suitable dragon nest for him atop one of the Flame Mountain Range's peaks, Liszt bid farewell to mundane affairs.
For the time that followed, he and Bard continuously shuttled between the material world and the world beyond matter.
They gathered vast amounts of information for A Ke, allowing her to constantly refine the new magic gate design.
One day in mid-October, he and Bard flew into the world beyond matter as usual, aimlessly searching for new anomalous points—thus far, aside from the Great Whirlpool's wormhole space, no other anomalous points had appeared. The world beyond matter seemed like a stagnant pool.
After several days without finding anything, Liszt could not help feeling discouraged.
Yet just then, the Invisible Dragon used Mana Echo Location and finally detected another new anomalous point beyond the Great Whirlpool's anomalous point.
"Wuu-yiya!" Bard abruptly grew excited.
Man and dragon swiftly flew toward the anomalous point.
Space magic surged as they tore through the boundary of matter.
They passed directly through the anomalous point. Boom! Their view suddenly opened up as they entered a strange space. It seemed to be pieced together from countless shattered mirror fragments, but within the Crystal-White Trajectory, every crack between those fragments was a scar left by the torn magic net.
Bard's wing merely brushed one of the cracks before it let out a scream of agony. "Wuu-yiya!"
A violent tearing pain erupted in both its and Liszt's hearts at once. By the time Bard quickly drew its wing back, Liszt had already discovered that the Invisible Dragon's left wing had been sliced open by a crack, leaving a gash as long as an adult's arm. Transparent blood flowed out, while spatial magic constantly leaked into this