"Mission: Someone is probing your daily routine. Danger lurking in the shadows is drawing closer step by step. Even as a dragon knight, you cannot guarantee that you will not be ganged up on, and battle is the best solution. Please resolve the crisis in the shadows. Reward: Ogre Traces."
A reward like Ogre Traces did not make Liszt change expression.
What made his expression change was the mission's content. "Someone is investigating me, and a shadowy crisis is approaching... The only force on the Azure Sea capable of threatening me must be the Eagle Kingdom. I slaughtered one of their dragon knights and took one of their dragons. The Eagle royal family will never let this go, and there's also Alonso Cyclamen!"
He quickly restored his expression to normal, leaving only calmness in his eyes. "Ganging up on a dragon knight—these people are really looking to make trouble!"
Though the crisis had already begun lying in ambush, he was not overly worried. Back when the Iron Ridge Kingdom and the Blast Furnace Kingdom had gone to war, he had already considered the possibility that the Eagle Kingdom might gather its strength to deal with him—if they had not lost a dragon, perhaps the Eagle Kingdom would simply have had to swallow its losses.
But they had lost a dragon.
That was a major matter. Not even a king could grit his teeth and endure it. Every dragon represented an ocean of resources.
"They are investigating my routine to prepare for a group attack. A new dragon-slaying war is about to break out. The power of destiny has already sensed their restless stirrings. This great battle is unavoidable!" Liszt was a dragon knight preparing to found a kingdom. His momentum was at its sharpest; he would not cower