The Mighty Dragons Are Dead-Chapter 816 - 0813: Labyrinth (Fourth update, Alliance Hierarch additional update 3/150)

Chapter 816: Chapter 0813: Labyrinth (Fourth update, Alliance Hierarch additional update 3/150)

However, the dragon was my own choice.

Even with tears, I had to ride it!

But Little Fire Dragon Leo was instantaneously smoked to the point of retching, and then, disregarding Liszt’s obstruction, he transformed into a ball of flame and plunged into Liszt’s body, leaving Liszt alone to face the Formless Dragon.

“Wuu yiya!”

The Formless Dragon, sniffing the scent released by the crushed Smoked Grass, seemed like a heavy smoker taking a deep drag and blissfully drifting as if ascending to immortality. Witnessing this scene, Liszt could only continue covering his nose, executing the next part of his plan. He began transporting the prepared food out of his Space Ring.

There were fine wines and beef, all prepared for the Formless Dragon.

...

Of course.

The portions were not large, but rather small servings, slowly enticing the Formless Dragon’s interest. Once the Formless Dragon was smacking its lips with greasy beef, excited to reveal its true form, and let down its guard, begging Liszt for more meat, Liszt knew the right moment had arrived.

Quietly, he handed over a piece of roast suckling beef stuffed with a Bewildering Dragon Mind Fruit to the Formless Dragon. Completely off guard, the Formless Dragon bit into the roast suckling beef in one go.

“That’s settled!”

Liszt rejoiced inwardly at the sight.

However, after a brief resistance, the Formless Dragon opened its mouth and spat out a fruit with a colorful skin—it ate the beef but spat out the hidden Bewildering Dragon Mind Fruit.

“Huh?”

Liszt’s eyes widened in disbelief, utterly unexpected that the Formless Dragon could pull off such a sly move.

Turning his head to look at the Bewildering Dragon Mind Fruit lying not far away, and then back at the Formless Dragon, which seemed to have merely spat out a grain of sand and was continuing to relish the roast suckling beef, Liszt didn’t know whether he should silently pick up the Bewildering Dragon Mind Fruit, pretending nothing had happened, or force open the Formless Dragon’s mouth and stuff the Mind Fruit back in.

The latter method was clearly not feasible.

He could only silently walk over and pick up the Bewildering Dragon Mind Fruit. There were only three of these Mind Fruits, each one worth a fortune, representing a dragon—the assumption is that those dragons weren’t as picky as the Formless Dragon, treating eating beef like spitting out sand; when Little Fire Dragon Leo ate beef, he wolfed it down.

“It seems this time I can only harvest a few Space Gems.” Shaking his head, Liszt simply stood aside, watching the Formless Dragon slowly enjoy the Smoked Grass feast.

Then waiting for it to finish its meal, to pay him with Space Gems as compensation.

And begin planning for next year when the Formless Dragon returns to eat, figuring out some way to force it to consume the Bewildering Dragon Mind Fruit.

Not far away.

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Atop Whirlpool Summit.

Ach, who had just received the tenth framework of a large ship, stood at the summit, secretly watching how Liszt would tame the Formless Dragon, only to see Liszt with a look of utter despair.

She covered her own nose, chuckling.

Quietly, she took a few steps back to avoid the smell of the Smoked Grass.

…

The Formless Dragon had been lost for a long time, with its stomach nearly flattened with hunger. It was rare to come across a delicious feast it loved, and it ate with gusto.

When it got excited, it started to see Liszt more favorably.

Once it ate the last piece of beef, it slowly walked towards Liszt. Just as Liszt got ready to accept its payment for the meal, it tilted its head and made a gesture of raising its head.

“Wuu yiya!”

“Huh?”

Liszt didn’t understand what it meant.

Formless Dragon nudged Liszt with its head, seemingly inviting him to mount its back. This was incredibly surprising for Liszt, who had intended to use the Bewildering Dragon Mind Fruit to stun the creature before forcibly riding it. Yet after seeing through his ruse, Formless Dragon had offered a ride on its own.

Even though he wasn’t entirely sure that was the intention, Liszt quickly seized the opportunity and leapt onto the Dragon, swiftly taking his seat on the Dragon Tooth Platform at the junction of the Dragon’s neck and body.

It wasn’t until his bottom was firmly pressed against the Dragon Tooth Platform that he was certain—the Formless Dragon was indeed allowing him to ride.

His carefully prepared Smoked Grass feast had conquered the beast, earning its approval, and now a mind battle between man and Dragon could commence.

Boom!

The Formless Dragon flapped its wings and soared into the sky, with Liszt gripping the scales on its neck. In a moment of dizziness, the scenery of the world transformed before him. Every flower, grass, tree, and flowing river turned into crystals, some kind of irregular crystal structures.

“Is this… the world through the eyes of a Formless Dragon?”

The world as seen by a Fire Dragon was incredibly vibrant and colorfully distinct, whereas a Formless Dragon saw a monochrome world of crystal structures—perhaps this is their most direct experience of strength in the material world.

“These crystal structures represent the spatial composition of matter?” he pondered internally.

However, in the next moment, the world changed drastically: the mountains sunk, the earth heaved upwards, and countless crystal structures formed into a massive labyrinth without an end in sight. Apart from the repeated appearances of crystal structures, this world lacked any other color or shape.

“Woo-eee-ya!”

The Formless Dragon stood at the entrance to the labyrinth.

Stepping slowly into the labyrinth, Liszt instantly realized how to defeat the Formless Dragon’s mind—by finding his way out of the maze.

Not every Dragon’s mind battle was purely combative; it was only creatures like the Evil Dragon Leo that declared victory through slaughter. The mind battle with the Light Green Gemstone Dragon was more of a conflict between Liszt and the First Dragon Knight, with the Light Green Gemstone Dragon itself not participating.

“Get out of the labyrinth, huh…” Liszt had an inkling of a headache.

The labyrinth composed of dense crystal structures left him clueless. Arriving at the first fork, he started feeling dizzy, afflicted by decision paralysis.

“Forget it, don’t overthink it. Left first, then right, keep trying over and over, and eventually, I’ll find the exit!”

…

He had no idea how much time had passed in the outside world.

In the heart of the mind battle, it seemed like Liszt had spent the better part of the day, yet aside from being drenched in sweat, he hadn’t found his way out of the labyrinth. He had even forgotten where he was in the maze, which wasn’t simply made up of walls but resembled the form of the Extra-Dimensional Killing Array.

There were forks in every direction—up, down, left, right, front, back—with each fork’s crystal structure appearing slightly different, seemingly holding some meaning, though he didn’t understand.

He couldn’t even remember these repetitive or non-repetitive crystal structures.

He attempted to command the Formless Dragon to smash through the walls but was flatly refused; he drew his phantom version of the Ice Soul Dragon-Slaying Sword, ready to forcefully dismantle the walls, but nearly knocked himself out instead.

The smoke swirling around him offered no assistance.

Even when he tried to use the smoke to mark each fork, it was futile. The labyrinth seemed endless, trapping him in an eternal loop of encountering new forks or returning to previous ones.

Inner anxiety grew.

Even reaching a point of utter frustration, “It’s all a sham, a trick! No one could find their way out of such a maze!”

In the end, he could only watch as the labyrinth slowly collapsed, signaling the impending destruction of his mental world, which meant his mind battle to ride the Formless Dragon was an outright failure.

Boom!

When Liszt opened his eyes again, the world had reverted to the normal sights one perceives with the naked eye—blue skies, white clouds, and green mountains and rivers. Formless Dragon still stood on the same mountain clearing, then arched its neck to make a “woo-eee-ya” sound, urging Liszt to leave its Dragon Tooth Platform—Liszt had failed to ride the Dragon, and it no longer acknowledged him.

“Damnable!”

Without the Bewildering Dragon Mind Fruit, he really couldn’t handle a Dragon!

After he jumped off, Formless Dragon flapped its wings, leaving not even a Space Gem behind before flying off into the sky without a backward glance.