"Roar!"
With no surprises, Rio flatly refused!
"Let's reason this out. If you hadn't drained all the volcano super-magic from the Doomsday Volcano crater, the Phoenix would have received enough magical replenishment to hatch... Of course, it's not your fault. They were ownerless resources—whoever grabbed them owned them. Besides, Flame Island is my territory."
He rapidly communicated and negotiated with Rio through their thoughts.
Reasoning proved useless. In the end, he still had to use Red Dragon Water as payment. After using it bit by bit, Liszt had only a little over fifty bottles of Red Dragon Water left.
Rio swiftly named its bottom-line price—fifty bottles.
It wanted to squeeze Liszt's entire stock dry in one go.
"Fine!" At such a critical moment, Liszt had no room to haggle. Besides, both dragons were his anyway; giving the Red Dragon Water to Rio was no loss.
Quickly.
He placed his hand on the Phoenix egg. Rio's dragon super-magic flowed along his hand and through his battle qi meridians into the Phoenix egg. Like a long drought receiving sweet rain, the Phoenix egg sensed the dragon super-magic and began absorbing it frantically. An unending stream of dragon super-magic entered the egg, making the golden light on its surface bloom once more.
The Phoenix could break out of its shell at any moment.
Yet an accident suddenly occurred.
At that very moment, Rio, attached to Liszt's chest, stirred its own magic with lightning speed. Not only did it draw back all the leaking dragon super-magic, it also seized the chance to suck all the magic within the egg into Liszt's body in an instant.
Then the essence aura of the Phoenix egg began flowing toward the spot where it was attached—it was going back on its word and directly devouring the Phoenix egg.