This news spread faster than a Dial Car on the Cloud Rail.
But Nora showed no reaction to the attention of the crowd.
At that moment, it was tearing into an enormous Sky Fish hauled from the sea of clouds. The fish was far smaller than its current dragon maw. It pinned the fish to the clouds with its claws, batting it around like a cat playing with a mouse before finally swallowing it whole.
For quite some time afterward, Annus set aside an hour nearly every evening to accompany Nora by the Sky Shark Pool.
The dragon had only gained its new ability a few days ago and was still unaccustomed to its overly massive new body. Whenever it landed, its tail would often snag the crowns of the ancient trees lining the shore, uprooting several century-old trees and flinging them into the sea of clouds.
Annus stood on the shore, using Mantra to capture the muscle coordination signals being recalibrated within Nora's body one by one. Then, through the power of the Rumble-Rumble Fruit, he sent faint electrical pulses directly into Nora's nervous system, helping it adapt to its new body more quickly.
By the evening of the seventh day, Nora could finally fly a full circle around God's Island without crashing into anything. When it swept over God's Island, its enormous dragon shadow blanketed the entire temple in a gentle darkness. Its tail dragged across the cloud surface, leaving behind a white mist trail several miles long, steamed up by intense heat.
The people of the Heavenly Kingdom went from shock to familiarity, then from familiarity to a pride they considered only natural.
It was at such a time that the Blue Sea people passing through the Heavenly Kingdom saw Nora.
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