Isaac had already been astounded once upon hearing Isabella's recount on the way in. Now, looking at the Black Dragon in the flesh right before his eyes, his heart was mostly filled with curious intrigue and the instinctive human awe towards the most powerful creature in the world.
This was a living, breathing dragon, an entity that had broken from its shell and been born in an era where magic had declined to the extreme and magical creatures were nearly extinct.
If the people in the Royal Capital or the Church were to know of its existence, they would probably immediately dispatch an entire army of Templar Knights armed to the teeth to inspect, capture, or even exterminate it immediately, deeming it a heresy or a latent threat to humanity.
"I heard you accepted a mission to the Catthalan Empire this time?" Jasmine had heard a brief account of Isaac's stormy and lengthy journey from Isabella just now when he first arrived.
