"Roar!"
Rio told Liszt through their mind link that it wanted to eat the egg.
But Liszt ignored it. This place was too small for Rio to emerge, so he could simply disregard its opinion. He himself circled the bird egg, carefully studying this miraculous, unbelievable egg.
The light radiating from the egg was golden and brilliantly bright, pulsing steadily like a breath.
Yet the light was not dazzling in the slightest. It was exceptionally gentle, giving him the comfortable sensation of spring warmth. The dry firewood beneath the egg blazed with fierce flames, but the wood itself was not burning and remained just as withered as before. The flames were formed from fire-element magic power.
Thus, it looked like an egg roasting over a campfire—except no one knew how long it had been roasting, and it was still not cooked.
"With such intense fire-element magic power, and an egg that is itself a fire-element supermagic creature, its extraordinary nature is clear. In this world, apart from a Fire Dragon, the only fire-element supermagic creature that could be this exceptional is probably the legendary Phoenix." Liszt's gaze was sharp as a torch, his thoughts spinning.
After the Moon Empire fell, knights came to rule the world. Much of the civilization created by the magicians of old had been lost, to the point that people now mistook creatures like Flame Dragon Birds for Phoenixes.
Yet the relationship between Unicorns and Storm Dragon Horses had made Liszt realize that a true Phoenix was likely an existence far surpassing a Flame Dragon Bird. He simply had not dared to confirm that Phoenixes truly existed. Only now, upon seeing this miraculous giant egg that resembled a bird egg, did he realize that he might truly have discovered a Phoenix egg.
"I have to take