The Mighty Dragons Are Dead

Chapter 337: 0334: The Sudden Second Little Minor Elf (Second Update)

Chapter 337: Chapter 0334: The Sudden Second Little Minor Elf (Second Update)
 

The gestation of the Apple Tree Elf Bug made Liszt’s imagination soar, bringing to mind an endless stream of stories.

Before long, this would become another topic of avid conversation at noble banquets throughout Fresh Flower Town and even Coral Island, following tales of the Blizzard Beast Dousen, the Thorn Minor Elf, and the Six-Headed King Serpent.

And perhaps, countless years later.

The world would have transformed completely.

Archaeologists digging up a piece of wood from underground might solemnly tell the youth, “This is a branch of the very apple tree that changed the world! The Holy Dragon Knight, the Dragon Domain LandLord, the Thorn Emperor, the Sea Monster King, the Rubber Master, the Dog Master… all sat under the apple tree planted by Liszt Tulip himself, dominating the world’s patterns.”

Under the curious gazes of the young, an archaeologist, clutching an ancient book “Dragons Fight in the Wild”, would chant like a minstrel, “The Thorn Emperor, Liszt. His mandate from heaven, for longevity and prosperity…”

…

All of this was nothing but a wild fantasy conjured up by Liszt.

In fact, as soon as the new mission was released, he forgot these fantasies, opened his mouth wide in shock, unable to utter a word—the happiness had come too suddenly!

“Mission: With the increasing business between Black Horse Island and Fresh Flower Town, a single Fresh Flower Vessel is no longer sufficient for the bustling transport demands. As the Landlord, it’s your duty to solve this issue, please purchase a medium-sized sea vessel. Reward: One Little Minor Elf.”

He could scarcely believe what he was seeing.

So, he closed his eyes and rubbed them fiercely before summoning the Smoke Mission again.

The reward for the mission still read “One Little Minor Elf” and not “One Elf Bug”, a genuine Little Minor Elf, all for purchasing a new ship.

To obtain it!

“It’s a bit… hard to accept, so sudden… Why don’t I need five or six chained missions to get a Little Minor Elf?” Liszt always felt that with the nature of Smoke Missions, it would be difficult to directly lead to a Little Minor Elf.

Because Smoke Missions can’t conjure rewards out of thin air.

It is through the power of destiny that it threads the needle, presenting the reward. Needless to say, to lead to a Little Minor Elf, it would need to change countless Threads of Destiny.

However.

After he took a deep breath and calmed down, he realized he had fallen into a misconception. For the power of destiny, it doesn’t need to lift a rock; it only needs to find a fulcrum, and with a gentle lever, it can change the whole rock, or even lift up an Earth.

“If there is a Little Minor Elf around Fresh Flower Town or Black Horse Island, couldn’t it be levered by the Smoke Mission and then presented as a mission reward?”

With this thought, everything suddenly became clear.

After all, the Smoke Mission had once drawn in even a Formless Dragon; the wonders of the power of destiny were evident from this alone.

As his initial excitement slowly settled, Liszt steadied his emotions, turned his horse around, and headed straight for the port town. He couldn’t wait to spend another moment on Black Horse Island; he wanted to return to Fresh Flower Town, and then, using the channels of Tulip Castle, obtain a new vessel.

“Teacher Marcus, I’m entrusting you with the affairs of Black Horse Island, the Rubber Trees in the Rubber Garden have recovered and can be harvested again, organize the serfs to collect some rubber as soon as possible, I need to construct a house in Fresh Flower Town.”

“Yes, my Lord.”

There was nothing else to instruct.

Seeing it was still early, he ordered Captain Kostor to set sail again, heading back to Fresh Flower Town.

The call of the small horn sounded.

And was swiftly met with the response of horn calls.

Liszt, seated at the prow of the ship, spotted a white shadow surfacing beneath the vast ocean—that was Ach catching up. Resting on the back of Dousen, his thoughts ran wild like an untamed horse, racing freely.

“I don’t know what kind of minor elf it is.”

“It should be a wild minor elf; none of my elf bugs seem to show any signs of evolution.” Among his twelve elf bugs, eight were bred successively within the last year and hadn’t had much time to develop, showing fewer signs of breakthrough.

Liszt had assimilated them with a batch of crops and collected pheromones, but needed time to grow.

The other four elf bugs, the millet bug, little wheat bug, tulip bug, and alfalfa bug, were gifts from the earl. There was also a thorn bug, which had already evolved into Minor Elf Jela.

“The millet bug, little wheat bug, alfalfa bug, and tulip bug probably have no potential for evolution, none of them are of particularly outstanding quality.”

So, the new minor elf was very likely a wild one.

Being wild, its breed was hard to ensure, and most likely it was a minor elf of little use—because most plants in the wild are difficult to tame, and those that are truly valuable have been domesticated by humans and cultivated on a large scale long ago.

Of course, no matter what kind of useless minor elf it was, even if it was just a weed minor elf, to Liszt, it was still a possession—at least weeds could be used for landscaping.

His thoughts soared.

He still couldn’t guess the breed of the minor elf or how to obtain it.

He then reined in his thoughts and began considering the special ability of the rubber bug triplets he had discovered today—Tri-Phase Force. This could definitely be considered a type of magic.

According to different properties.

Humans classified magical power into eight attributes: water, fire, earth, wind, lightning, light, ice, darkness, but magical power clearly didn’t possess only these eight attributes; there were many more chaotic properties, which do not show as any attribute.

Liszt had seen in knight novels and magic books, where elf magic power is referred to as natural magic power.

Or, it could also be called wood-based magic power.

Because it can control plants.

Jela’s method of sowing thorn seeds could be considered a kind of wood-based magic; therefore, the rubber bug triplet’s Tri-Phase Force should also be classified as wood-based magic.

Actually, some people also considered dragon magic power as a new magic attribute—metal attribute magical power.

A metal dragon, needless to say, can produce metal at any time, naturally can be classified as metal attribute magic power.

Gemstone dragons, although not producing metal but gemstones, produce them in the same way as metal dragons, and therefore are also referred to by a few humans as metal attribute magic power.

Elemental dragons, even though their magical power has attributes such as water, fire, earth, wind, their ability to infect the surroundings is obviously different from regular magic power, and it can also be reluctantly classified as metal attribute magic power.

By that rationale, sacred dragons would also be metal attribute magical power.

“Wood attribute represents nature, metal attribute represents infection and creation, the division always seems far-fetched, as if one has to categorize different types of people into four categories: tall, short, fat, thin,” Liszt shook his head, unsupportive of such classification. Fire dragons should belong to the fire attribute.

Why classify it as metallic attribute?

Just like sea serpents, those like Ach possess unique magical power, but her innate affinity is water attribute, so she should be classified as a water attribute creature. Fire dragons also have extraordinary magical power, but they release fire attribute mana and should naturally be grouped as fire attribute creatures.

“In summary, magical power has myriad extraordinary expressions, one needn’t be fixated on which exact attribute it is… Tri-Phase Force is magical in its formation of magic.”

It’s still unclear.

Whether this is unique to rubber bugs or if triplet-type elf bugs all have this trick. Liszt believed that in the future, he would still obtain such types of elf bugs.

“With Tri-Phase Force, my rubber garden will be able to cut a batch and use Tri-Phase Force to repair immediately. Once the rubber bug triplets have rested sufficiently, cut another batch and repair again… a cycle without end, my rubber will be inexhaustible!”