The Mighty Dragons Are Dead

Chapter 1012: Chapter 1009: Everything is Ready

Chapter 1012: Chapter 1009: Everything is Ready

Oats, barley, apples, tomatoes, peas, White Crystal Chrysanthemum, ice grass—Piero Grey Iron paid with seven Greater Elves, of which only the White Crystal Chrysanthemum Greater Elf could plant Magic Potions.

Rockwood, tobacco, tea trees, barley, millet—Pilaf the Earth Frenzy paid with five Greater Elves, none were of the Magic Potion variety, but they all just barely counted as grain types.

Suddenly, with twelve more Greater Elves, the number under Liszt’s command had doubled. It had to be said that only as of today did he barely manage to build a bit of the foundation befitting a Dragon Rearing Family—at least in terms of the number of Greater Elves, not much behind an average Grand Duchy’s Dragon Rearing Family.

In this world of knightly systems, the Nobles might rule, but they were strictly divided into hierarchies.

The common Honored Knights lived comfortably just by looking after an Elf Bug; a Baron may have a few Elf Bugs, cultivating a small town; a Viscount owned a Minor Elf, managing a small city; an Earl had a Greater Elf, operating a large city and several smaller ones; the number of Greater Elves a Marquis had varied.

For Marquis Pilof of Boulder from an Ancient Warrior Family or Marquis Nuta with Dimaria Yuhua Stone who were Domain Knights, both had a dozen or more Greater Elves.

Even the former Marquis of Bull had a Dragon Elf.

And for Grand Ducal families like Piero Grey Iron, having over twenty Greater Elves was standard, and there should be two or three Dragon Elves as well. If it was a Grand Ducal family like the Red and White Rose Family, the number of Greater Elves might reach forty or fifty.

Then moving higher up, each major Kingdom’s Royal Family might have Greater Elves numbering over a hundred, and they could also breed many Dragon Elves.

“The journey is long, and I need more accumulation,” Liszt sighed, already embracing the Greater Elves as they entered the world beyond material with Formless Dragon Bard.

Upon seeing the world beyond material for the first time, all the Greater Elves trembled.

Feeling sulky, aggrieved, excited, they all held back their little tempers and hid in Liszt’s embrace.

These small beings who couldn’t be infused with Space Magic Power would usually not be brought along. However, Formless Dragon Bard was growing; its Dragon Magic Power spread out, moving the surrounding space into the world beyond material.

“Ach, do you think if Bard keeps growing, it could expand the range of its Dragon Magic Power and then carry a flock of dragons through space?” Liszt calmed the Greater Elves while conversing with Ach, who was leisurely strolling around Bard on Unicorn Charlie.

Ach pondered for a moment, “Ach isn’t sure, but judging from Bard’s growth trajectory, it’s quite likely. The full power of an adult Formless Dragon is unimaginable.”

“If that were truly possible, it’d be marvelous.”

He had beautiful thoughts; if it were truly possible, Bard would equal the Master Spell in ‘Warcraft,’ an outstanding group teleportation. It was conceivable that a Dragon Knight in flight would suddenly face a group of dragons appearing before them, be overpowered and killed, and then the dragons retreat in a puff of smoke.

Coming without Shadows, gone without a trace, it would be the nightmare of any ordinary Dragon Knight.

“Wuu ya!” Feeling the scene Liszt imagined, Bard also got excited, expressing its certainty that it could achieve all this—as long as it had a sufficient supply of Red Dragon Water Magic Potion to grow quickly, helping Liszt conquer far and wide across the Legendary Continent sooner.

“Red Dragon Water isn’t easy to come by; the Red and White Rose Family aren’t fools. This friendship won’t last too long.”

“Wuu ya!” Bard indicated that while the friendship was still strong, they should exchange more gifts for Red Dragon Water; with Red Dragon Water, everything else would be negotiable.

“I’ll do my best, I’ll be sending an Envoy Group to the Rose Duchy for exchanges soon.”

…

For Liszt, retuning from an outing with twelve Greater Elves hardly caused much of a stir in the estate. Even the servants at Flame Castle were just momentarily pleased.

They had experienced too many wonders at Liszt’s side over the years.

Dragons were brought home as though they were wholesale items, let alone Greater Elves. For the Son of Glory, who was believed to be favored by the glory of knighthood, all this was just part of the routine–a fact that somewhat irked Liszt, who now felt unable to attract attention without making a big move.

“Father, I’ll leave these Greater Elves to the Development Committee to handle. They should build plantations for them as quickly as possible. If we sow now, we can still reap one or two harvests after autumn.”

“Have you named them?”

“There are too many, impossible to name them all at once. We’ll decide on that later. I’ve been quite busy lately and might have to be away for a while. If there are no particularly difficult decisions to make, I’d like you to oversee everything.”

“I will take good care of everything on Flame Island for you.”

After sorting out the estate development matters, Liszt immediately immersed himself in Ach’s laboratory, working with Ach to set up a purification magic. This magic was based on a Magic Array and, with the help of Bard’s abilities, could reverse the sealed space, breaking down the barriers of space.

Conspiracies were brewing in secret, necessitating meticulous preparations.

While creating the purification magic, Liszt was also developing his Phoenix Incarnation abilities, practicing several powerful magics that Ach had developed for him.

Even with a strong set of trump cards,

he was still genuinely arranging fallback plans and various escape schemes, fearing not for the ten thousand possibilities but for the one that might actually occur. Dragon Knights seemed to stand at the pinnacle of power, yet dragons were diverse in kind, including Sacred and Evil Dragons, and the enigmatic Dragon of the Magic Web. Who knew whether forces existed that could threaten him.

Fortunately, the destiny power represented by the Smoke Mission was truly formidable, revealing the conspiracies in advance and facilitating Liszt’s strategic planning.

He and Ach labored in the laboratory for a whole week, arranging numerous fallbacks. Feeling that the preparations were about right, he then prepared to set off for Firm Earth to oversee Florenza Chase Wind Arrows’ first Mind Battle.

Accompanying them were four Blood Servants adept in Wind Language, equipped with the latest model of the Simple Magic Platform. The task of these four Blood Servants was to monitor Florenza and Picart Earthrage, to be informed of their progress in subduing the Aluminum Dragon at all times.

They brought magic equipment personally designed by Ach, extremely capable of hiding their presence, especially at night when even Domain Knights could not detect them.

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After arriving at Firm Earth, the four Blood Servants immediately went undercover.

Ach continued to ride Unicorn Charley, hiding at the edges of the material world. Liszt did not show himself immediately either, riding the Formless Dragon Bard as he searched the vicinity for a natural node. He carefully scoured the wilderness to the south of Firm Earth and indeed discovered a natural node.

The exit was within the Aluminum Dragon’s territory, on a somewhat bald hillock. He tried scraping at the hillock, only to find that it was actually a mine–a Brass Ore mine.

The value of Brass Ore was average, mainly used for equipment and making copper coins; a pity that the mine was far within the boundaries of the Eagle Kingdom, and Liszt could not mine it. So he simply noted down the location, perhaps for the time when the Flame Kingdom could annex this territory after the fall of the Eagle Kingdom.

“The natural node has been found. This way, the journey to and fro can be greatly shortened. No amount of Kushan Imperial’s conspiracies will be able to truly get at me!”

A few days after discovering this natural node of Brass Ore, Florenza, under the influence of silver coin persuasion, finally got the chance for a Mind Battle with the juvenile Aluminum Dragon.

And with this, Liszt’s vigilance was heightened to an extremely cautious level.