"A dragon actually turned up among the Merfolk Tribe's things."
It was Kroya's first time seeing a dragon with his own eyes. No, judging by its size alone, this dragon could hardly be called gigantic.
It was even rather petite.
Inside the bottle, it probably wasn't even as big as his fingernail.
But it really was beautiful.
Its body was covered in scales that looked like flowing silver light woven from hazy moonlight. Its translucent wings lay over its body, resembling soft veils of moonlight more than wings.
Its slender, snakelike neck connected to a head that lacked a dragon's ferocity and instead looked rather dainty.
Its translucent, glasslike horns were crystalline and flawless, like the finest jade.
Its tail, meanwhile, was a fish's tail.
"What a beautiful creature." Kroya watched it for a while in pure appreciation, then began examining its astral spirit body.
To his surprise, its astral spirit body was entirely independent. It wasn't an illusion created by the Voidmoon Divine Tree.
It even had a name-
"Voidmoon Illusion Fish Dragon."
"Wait, what's this after it...?"
Kroya frowned and read out the name written in strange characters.
"Luthia Selhalon."
As he spoke that name, the surrounding magic fluctuated noticeably, seemingly stirred by some unknown, immense power.
It surged from the castle toward the ocean.
But as it approached the seawater, an enormous figure blocked its path.
That figure wore a crown of horns, its body resembling a streak of platinum light in the boundless sky. After it blocked the fluctuations, clouds and mist swayed around it.
Once it had finished, it truly vanished like morning dew beneath dazzling sunlight, silently disappearing without a trace.
Kroya glanced toward the sea in confusion.
"Strange. It felt as though some enormous consciousness flashed past..."
He narrowed his eyes and