This chapter is a bonus update for "Dreamwalking Immortal"'s generous reward.
Rather than hurriedly waking A Ke for her opinion, Liszt sat alone in quiet thought.
The impact of that instant had left him somewhat shaken. It took him quite a while to slowly calm himself. Tossing aside the rotten wooden stick in his hand, he once more saw that pair of eyes in his mind. "What terrifying eyes. More evil than Rio's... No, not evil. They should be..."
For a moment, he could not find the right words to describe them.
In the end, he reluctantly settled on "ruthless"—the kind of ruthlessness in "Should Heaven have feelings, Heaven too would grow old"; a ruthlessness born of the natural order of all things, one no one could escape.
"What creature's eyes were those? Could they have belonged to the Magic Net Dragon?"
When he had torn open the magic net and peered into its nodes, Liszt had caught a glimpse of the Magic Net Dragon. It lay asleep in an indescribable space, terrifying and ferocious, yet the magic net itself radiated from its body. The flourishing civilization of magic during the Moon Empire era had likely arisen because of it.
"If it really is the Magic Net Dragon, and it has awakened, does that mean magic will fully revive at some point in the future... It seems I'm focusing on the wrong detail. I should be concerned about what effects the awakening of the Magic Dragon will bring. It seems to be hunting A Ke?"
Before leaving, A Ke had said, "It has awakened. That fellow is even more annoying than Dulu Michita." Clearly, the Magic Dragon was no good dragon—back then, A Ke had been chased across a thousand miles by Dulu Michita before meeting Liszt.
"You dare