The Mighty Dragons Are Dead

Is Advanced Magical Beast meat delicious? Actually, it's not, at least the texture is a bit off.

"The meat is tough and disappointing," Liszt complained dissatisfactorily. As an Advanced Magical Beast, the Boot Beak Giant Stork indeed had rich nutrition, causing a warm surge in the belly and continually generating Dou Qi with magic power, but its texture couldn't even compare with the Low-Level Magical Beast, the Wind Blade Wolf—it was dry and overly firm.

However, even so, followers like Goltai still ate it with tears streaming down their faces.

"So blessed, in my lifetime I actually got to eat Advanced Magical Beast meat!"

"Thank you, my lord, praise the lord, the meat of the Boot Beak Giant Stork is so... chewy. It's the most precious food I've ever eaten!"

"Knight's glory shines upon us, only the lord could slay an Advanced Magical Beast. Although I've never seen what a Boot Beak Giant Stork looks like, I see its meat, and to eat it is utterly satisfying!"

"As long as we follow the lord into battle, Advanced Magical Beast meat isn't a luxury, and it's not impossible for us to even eat Super Magical Beast meat!"

"That's right, the lord is the youngest Sky Knight in the country, and it's only a matter of time before he becomes a Dragon Knight!" Some followers directly shouted the slogan of the Dragon Knight, which wasn't inappropriate, as the Dragon Knight represented a beautiful aspiration.

Every Knight talked about becoming a Dragon Knight.

This picnic, though simple, left everyone bursting with happiness, except Liszt was not at all satisfied with the texture and quality of the Boot Beak Giant Stork's meat. The chef even made him a separate portion of grilled Purple Sand Crocodile, which was equally unsatisfactory in texture and very coarse, forcing him to eat it just to fill the belly.

In fact, the texture of Magical Beast meat didn't correlate much with its level.

Low-Level Magical Beasts, like the Fire Rabbit and Fen Hai Luo, had very good meat texture despite slightly less nutrition and magic power. Moreover, compared to ordinary livestock meat such as beef, Magical Beast meat wasn't necessarily better—Formless Dragons and Little Fire Dragons both preferred beef over Magical Beast meat.

Of course.

The pursuit of eating Magical Beast meat wasn't for the taste, so no matter how unpleasant the meat of Boot Beak Giant Stork or Purple Sand Crocodile was, he would still devour it alone.

...

Early in the morning.

Riding on the Rainbow Whale Rose, Liszt went straight to his seaside villa in Fresh Flower Town. As it happened, Ach stayed at the seaside villa these past few days and hadn't gone out.

Without mincing words, Liszt said straight out, "Ach, I've got a task I'd like to ask for your help with."

"Brother, just say the word, and Ach will definitely help you complete the task."

"I have a batch of foreign books here that might come from the continent across Devil's Sea, from a race known as 'Children of the Sun.'" Liszt took out a pile of Sun Script books and placed them on the table, "You can start with this "Philip, Scion of the Sun's Diary" which has a simple teaching of Sun Script."

"A continent across Devil's Sea?" Ach seemed very surprised, "Are there humans living there too? Ach thought Devil's Sea was the edge of the ocean."

Liszt said, "Have you forgotten what I told you? Our world might be a planet. If that's the case, then the boundary of the ocean can only be land, and the boundary of land can only be the ocean. So there must be a landmass opposite Devil's Sea."

"We're on the eastern side of the continent, then... what if the other side of Devil's Sea is the western side of the continent?" Ach asked.

Liszt was momentarily startled.

He had actually not considered this possibility. If the other side of Devil's Sea really was the western part of the continent, it wasn't impossible—assuming the planet only had one continent and one ocean, then Devil's Sea would be the sole ocean, just difficult to cross, hence the various legends.

As for the western part of the continent, it's too far and information is not well circulated, not many people know what it's like there.

All he could do was say awkwardly, "Some books have records that the westernmost part of the continent is the Neverfall Empire, where they use High Speech... which probably isn't the same script as Sun Script. Neverfall Empire isn't related to Children of the Sun... Anyway, you figure it out."

"Okay," Ach said, caressing the unusual paper of the Sun Scripture books, then spoke up, "These papers are so thin, they really don't seem to be produced in the countries on our continent, brother. Do you want me to learn Sun Script and then translate the content of these books?"

"Ach is really smart," Liszt said, habitually touching her azure blue hair. "I've found some clues. Remember that sunken ship? Its boxes were filled with these Sun Scriptures and some seeds. The seeds have already sprouted, but their growth is very slow. I believe the technique of how to cultivate these seeds is hidden within these books."

"Is that sunken ship from another continent?"

"Yes, according to my speculation, it might not be a sea ship but a Sky Ship!"

"Ah! A Sky Ship?"

"There's still not enough evidence to support my guess. You'll need to search through these books. Besides, I'm going to move those sprouted seedlings over here. Once you find useful clues from the books, you can study them." Liszt simply handed over the task of cultivating the Magic Medicine Seeds to Ach.

He was getting more and more used to being a hands-off manager.

It was a pity that Ach hadn't grown legs yet and couldn't walk normally on land; otherwise, she could have been of even greater help.

"I really hope the Smoke Mission would post some rewards that could help the sea serpents grow." He kept thinking to himself, trying to influence his own subconscious, to tug on the threads of fate.

The subconscious cannot be controlled.

One can only interfere with the Smoke Mission by constantly thinking during the day and dreaming at night, incessantly self-hypnotizing, in hopes that it really works.

...

He had to monitor the moving of the Magic Medicine seedlings from the glass greenhouse all the time to prevent the servants from damaging them—although there were still a large number of seeds stored in the Gemstone Space, if a seedling was broken, one less would remain.

"Wow!"

Thorn Minor Elf Jela flew out of the castle and landed on his shoulder, then pulled at his hair, loudly demanding Liszt to play with her.

"I'm busy right now, Jela. Go play by yourself." Liszt patted Jela's head, signaling her to stop bothering him.

"Wow!"

Jela pouted and flew away reluctantly.

Back in the castle's Worm Room, she saw Corn Minor Elf Mickey playing with a group of elf bugs. Jela charged straight at them, raising her hand as if to hit them.

Mickey fled in shock, chirping as it flew away.

Actually, Jela's palm didn't come down; it stopped mid-air, confused. Without even looking at Mickey, she flew directly out of the castle and toward the Thorn Garden, where the Cordyceps had been moved from Fresh Flower Town. The Thorn Garden no longer grew Rapid Growth Magic Thorns; it was now planted with Rapid Growth Iron Thorns.

She yelled "Wow," waved her hands, and called forth a swath of thorns.

Then her temper cooled.

She planned to return to play with Liszt, but he was no longer in the castle. He was escorting the Magic Medicine seedlings to the seaside villa.

Following the vague sense in her heart, Jela flew directly to the seaside villa.

The Apprentice Knight Squire Bug Members who followed her couldn't stop her from entering the now-unfamiliar seaside villa. However, Liszt, who was teaching Giant Algae Greater Elf Pike to speak, had already sensed her arrival and called her over.

"Jela, come here. This is Pike," Liszt signaled Jela to land on his shoulder and then said to Pike, who was standing on the table, "Pike, this is Jela. You must coexist peacefully when you meet in the future."

Pike bared his teeth, uncertain whether he was smiling or threatening: "Jela, ugly little elf."

Jela was furious: "Wow!"