At that thought, Aegon's gaze grew colder. It seemed he would have to set an example for Sheepstealer first.
"Roar!"
Cannibal beat his wings fiercely, his pitch-black wings slicing through the sea breeze as his enormous body surged into the air.
Aegon tightened his grip on the saddle handles, leaning back slightly as the dragon climbed-then the trait Grey Ghost had given him activated.
Hidden in the clouds.
It was a strange sensation.
Aegon could clearly feel a thin, damp, silvery layer within the clouds swirling around him-a trace of Grey Ghost's magic, a trait he had obtained from the little silver-grey dragon through the "King of the Wild Dragons" trait Cannibal had provided.
It made him and his dragon almost invisible within the clouds. Even a battle-hardened dragon like Caraxes could not sense their presence.
This seemingly marginal ability, which only worked within clouds and mist, might have other applications waiting to be discovered, such as-
An army?
But Aegon had only just acquired it, and he truly had no time to explore its possibilities now.
When Cannibal reappeared, he was already in Caraxes's blind spot. A rough roar erupted from the clouds beneath Caraxes, crashing down like rolling thunder. Cannibal surged upward from below and to one side, his monstrous jaws opening as wide as they could before clamping onto the base of Caraxes's right wing, where it joined his body.
Crack.
A teeth-grating snap rang out. Then Caraxes let out a shrill, agonized cry.
"Screech!"
The scarlet dragon struggled wildly, trying to counterattack with his neck, which was far longer than Cannibal's-
But Cannibal had seized an overwhelming advantage in an instant. How could he let Caraxes have his way?
He kept his jaws locked around Caraxes's wing root, shaking his enormous head violently as though he