"Your Highness Liszt, Lord Ake Roides, welcome to Blue Sky Mountain Palace." Grand Duke Sapphire looked at the upright, high-spirited Liszt. Beneath his calm gaze lay a faint, irrepressible disappointment.
Once, he had been an unknown nobody who could only crawl before him.
Now, he had become a Dragonrider on equal footing with him—no, more accurately, a new overlord standing high above him, someone before whom he needed to bow slightly upon meeting.
Especially when he looked at that grayish-white Gray Cast Iron Dragon, his heart gave a violent twitch—this was clearly the Gray Cast Iron Dragon of the Gray Iron Grand Duchy.
In the last Dragon Slaying Battle, he had killed Carlo Violet and seized the Light Green Gem Dragon.
In this Dragon Slaying Battle, he had killed Luo Yier Copper and seized the Gray Cast Iron Dragon.
Grand Duke Sapphire could not imagine how the young man before him, smiling at the corners of his mouth and barely twenty years old, had managed to accomplish all this.
But the Gray Cast Iron Dragon was coiled in the palace square, leaving him no choice but to believe it.
Not the three dragons mentioned before, but four dragons... Such a lavish lineup surely means trouble. This time, the Sapphire Family probably has no right to choose at all. Bitterness filled Grand Duke Sapphire's heart, and waves of weakness kept coursing through his body. Fortunately, his wife, Mrs. Salite, who had linked arms with him, quietly supported him.
Thus, he did not show it.
"Grand Duke, I came uninvited. I hope I haven't disturbed you." Liszt was not arrogant and greeted him with the same gentlemanly bearing as ever.
His gesture was the knightly courtesy used between equals, giving Grand Duke Sapphire ample face.
He then looked toward Marquis Oxtail and