Chapter 789: Green Ethan

The awakening of the Lightgreen Gem Dragon eased Liszt's worries. For now, the dragon would remain on Dodo Island until it could take flight before leaving.

However, before leaving.

Liszt discussed a significant matter with the Lightgreen Gem Dragon: "Did you have a name before?"

"Roar!"

The Lightgreen Gem Dragon let out a melancholic roar. It indeed had a name in the past, but after the passing of the First Dragon Knight who once accompanied it, its name was lost. No one dared speak its name again, and over time, even the dragon itself almost forgot it ever had one.

Seeing this, Liszt stroked gently the dragon's scales: "I have a Fire Drake Rio. You've met him."

"Roar!" The Lightgreen Gem Dragon growled in clear annoyance toward the young dragon that had defeated it, vowing never to coexist peacefully with Fire Drake Rio.

Of course, they wouldn’t fight outright, but they absolutely could not live together—choosing Rio meant rejecting it.

Liszt naturally had no issue with this. He couldn’t ride two dragons at once, and besides, Fire Drakes were combat-oriented while Lightgreen Gem Dragons were more utility-oriented.

"I’ll keep you and Rio separate. Your life here won’t be much different from how it was in the Kingdom of the Eagle... But you still need a name. How about Ethan?" Liszt recalled a game where a redeemed green dragon was named something like Ethendre.

Since this dragon was light green, not dark green, he settled on half the name—Ethan.

Naming things usually involved his stream-of-consciousness or free association.

Just like why the Fire Drake was named Rio—because in a game, the male fire dragon was called Rathalos and the female Rathian. Since dragons in this world weren’t gendered, he simply named it Rio.

"Roar!"

The Lightgreen Gem Dragon—or rather, Ethan—wasn’t thrilled with its new name.

But it didn’t resist the name Ethan either. Through their bond, it understood Liszt’s reasoning: a name was just a label, nothing more.

A weakling by any other name is still weak, while a strong being remained noble even with a humble name.

"Alright then, Ethan, focus on resting."

"Roar!"

...

After bidding farewell to the Lightgreen Gem Dragon Ethan, April 4th came quickly. Two-thirds of the Sapphire Duchy’s knights had already gathered at the port of Hoof City on Ironhoof Island.

Liszt didn’t join the Flame Territory’s knights, instead entrusting command to his father, Marquis Niuwei.

He and Acheronides would serve as battlefield enforcers, ensuring no dragon knights from the Kingdom of the Eagle participated in the battle to attack ordinary knights. However, Acheronides alone could handle suppression duties—Liszt planned to personally get his hands dirty, capturing knights for ransom.

"So, Father and Uncle, attack without hesitation. I’ll patrol the warzone waters and capture any resisting knights. Once we crush the Kingdom of the Eagle’s fleet, we’ll immediately advance to their coastal cities and obliterate their maritime forces."

Lee William and Mexiro smiled in agreement. With Liszt, a dragon knight, backing them, they could already envision this naval battle as nothing more than a cakewalk.

Later.

Crown Prince Anthony, the supreme commander, also came to visit Liszt. After some casual conversation, they finalized the battle plan one last time.

At dawn on April 5th, the Sapphire fleet filed out of Hoof City’s port.

They set off into the azure sea to prove that the Sapphire Sea remained the Sapphire Duchy’s domain, not something the Kingdom of the Eagle could encroach upon.

The Flame Ship followed the Sapphire fleet at a leisurely pace. It carried no sailors, only a few maids for cleaning and several cooks carefully trained by Mrs. Abi. For the knights, this was a battle to be taken seriously—for Liszt, it was merely just a stroll.

The dragon knights on the frontier of the Kingdom of the Eagle were already overwhelmed and unable to support the Great Sea War, just like during the annual Frontier Decrees, where the Kingdom of the Eagle was always on the defensive.

After much effort preparing for a major move to wipe out the Sapphire forces in one fell swoop, they encountered the unexpected emergence of Liszt.

"Brother."

Acheronides' voice brought Liszt, who had been admiring the blue sky and white clouds, back to reality. In truth, he wasn’t simply staring blankly at the sky but contemplating the fifth move of the *Fire Dragon Knight - Dragon Aura Manual*. By now, he had mastered *Dragon Slash - Cleave*, *Skyburn - Sweep*, *Sun Devourer - Thrust*, and *Boil the Sea - Crush*, and was ready to develop the next move.

However, though countless ideas for the next move swirled in his mind, he hadn’t yet settled on where to begin.

He turned to Acheronides: "What is it?"

Acheronides handed him a notebook: "While researching Parris’s path in the Lightblade's training path, I’ve summarized the basic training methods for the Dragonblade. But this is only an outline—specific details will require you to personally train Flame Swordsmen to verify the content."

The notebook’s cover read *Dragonblade Cultivation System Outline*.

Flipping through its pages, elegant lines of Serpent Tongue script clearly outlined the cultivation process. It also contained numerous illustrations, including diagrams of human meridians and magic array schematics. After years of studying magic, Acheronides had become a master illustrator, capable of drawing with photographic precision without the need for rulers or compasses.

Moreover, after developing the ultimate spell—the Magic Eye, she could even create 3D drawings based on its vision, earning her the nickname "printer."

After carefully reviewing the *Dragonblade Cultivation System Outline*, Liszt stored the book in his dimensional ring: "Once the Great Sea War is over, I’ll select a group of qualified young knight cadets and train them as Flame Swordsmen based on this book."

Acheronides let Liszt pat her head before returning to the cabin to continue her research.

Now that the improvements to the arcane platform had been handed over to Cris, the Magic Eye project was complete, and she had helped establish the Flame Swordsman’s cultivation system, she could finally set aside complex magic experiments and devote herself fully to shifting his elemental avatar's aspects.

Liszt lay back in his rocking chair, gazing at the clouds as he pondered how the fifth move of the *Dragon Aura Manual* should manifest its offensive power.

At the same time, he continued refining the previous four moves, striving to perfect the *Fire Dragon Knight - Dragon Aura Manual* into a truly unrivaled combat style, enabling him to ride Fire Drake Rio into battle and achieve invincibility.

Deep down, he also had a vague clue.

Perhaps only by cultivating to the peak of a dragon knight through his own efforts could he glimpse the path beyond. His research on *Flame Dragonbirds* and *Thunder Dragon Turtles* had led him to suspect that the fusion of the soul with high-level and even archmagic might be the next stage after becoming a dragon knight.

The triangular theory of magic power, matter, and spirit seemed to require a trinity balance to reach greater heights.

Legends spoke of the Elven King’s boundless size, transforming into a forest where even dragons lived. Legends told of the Moon Empire possessing a magic array leading to the moon, while beyond the Devil’s Sea lay the ruins of the Children of the Sun civilization. Legends claimed that souls resided in the Land of Exile, where Curtis Truth had built ghost ships attempting to traverse it...

This world was far vaster than imagined—how could dragon knights be the pinnacle?