The Mighty Dragons Are Dead-Chapter 645 - 0642: Withered Trees Bear Fruit (Second Update)

Chapter 645: Chapter 0642: Withered Trees Bear Fruit (Second Update)

Liszt was not a person with long-term plans, always acting on his whims. However, his dedication to dragon riding could not be denied; he meticulously recorded any information related to dragons and listed it in his yet-to-be-published “Liszt’s Dragon Taming Manual.”

Furthermore, when he gave magic books to Chris and Ach to read, he also insisted that they note down anything related to dragons and hand it over to him for compilation into the manual.

He often organized literate servants to read through knight’s novels, searching for information related to dragons, training, geography, magical beasts, elves, and more, then detailed those findings in written records.

Just the books for recording information were enough to fill an entire bookshelf—naturally, because they were on thick paper, there wasn’t actually much substantive content.

The White Paper Workshop had been researching and developing white paper, and although they had produced some, the quality was worse than that of the paper used for funerary rites in the countryside, let alone suitable for smooth writing. The research and improvement of white paper still had a long way to go, so for the time being, thick paper remained the mainstay.

According to his survey of all the knight’s novels and magic books available for purchase, none mentioned anything about the Bewildering Dragon Mind Fruit.

Which meant.

The fruit was either monopolized by dragon rearing families or so rare that it was unknown to the world.

“So, where should I look for these three Bewildering Dragon Mind Fruits? Apart from launching a survey of the territory’s farmlands, it seems I have few other methods to search… Perhaps I actually don’t need to do anything, and the three Bewildering Dragon Mind Fruits will just come to me?”

Regardless.

He was now very excited.

Thrilled by the bold idea that sprang to mind upon hearing about the Bewildering Dragon Mind Fruit; all exhaustion vanished, replaced by the boiling of his blood.

“Indeed, as long as my mental interference is strong enough, I could guide the Smoke Mission, or rather, stir the threads of fate! As I think daily of how to ride dragons, the Smoke Mission automatically alters my destiny, guiding me to this magical fruit that could possibly bewitch dragons!”

After a moment of excitement, he forcefully suppressed his thoughts—he must consider that the Bewildering Dragon Mind Fruit might not have the conjectured effects, so it would be better to wait until the fruit was in hand before getting excited.

At this moment.

He called up the Smoke Mission again.

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“Mission: The hand-drawn Ruins Map is inaccurate; you need to search carefully to find the lost unknown civilization. Perhaps lurking in a corner of these waters, a singing voice will guide you forward, please search for the sea chant. Reward: An aged Sea Serpent.”

“Hm?”

“An aged Sea Serpent?”

Another surprise—the sea serpent, a fantastical creature, was known to Liszt as something beautiful ever since his infatuation with Ach.

It was just a pity that this one was aged.

The term ‘aged’ always evoked images of white hair, wrinkled faces, and hunched backs, clashing with the pure, beautiful, and innocent perception Liszt had of sea serpents from Ach’s influence. However, birth, aging, sickness, and death were the natural course of life, and he was not so distressed by it.

“Encountering a sea serpent while searching for an unknown race suggests that this unknown race might indeed have been left by sea serpents,” he suppressed his previous excitement and seriously considered the new mission, “An aged sea serpent should be over four hundred years old, its life must be full of vicissitudes and wisdom.”

At that thought, his eyes lit up.

“This aged sea serpent is practically a living oceanic manual given to me by the Smoke Mission!”

As the saying goes, “Having an elder at home is like possessing a treasure.” Wisdom is often the accumulation of experience. With over four hundred years of life, the places this sea serpent had visited, the ships it had encountered, the stories it had witnessed… It was clear that it was a thick book of knowledge in and of itself.

The following day, after bidding Lady Penelope and the others farewell.

He began to plan his search for the remains of a civilization.

Ach’s help would be needed for this.

“Ach, can you sense the existence of sea serpents within a certain range?”

“Yes, brother, although Ach have never seen other sea serpents, Ach have sensed the presence of sea serpents a few times, knowing they are not far away.”

“How far can you sense?”

“Not very clear, but it should be within a range of tens of kilometers.”

“Hmm, Ach, you get yourself ready carefully, I’m about to explore the ruins map, and we might encounter other sea serpents. That will require you to confirm their presence and make contact with them.”

Under Liszt’s urging, Ach didn’t prepare too much, quickly packed her personal items, and instructed Nami to take good care of the little ducks on Mangrove Island.

Liszt also took the time to write a letter, entrusting Butler Carter to keep it. If Liszt had not returned after the Earl and the others, the letter was to be handed to the Earl.

The content of the letter was not much, mainly entrusting the Earl to purchase serfs and food with the resources obtained in exchange for iron ore—if the Grand Duke sends someone to inquire whether he is willing to follow directly, please have the Earl definitely refuse, as he had not considered following the Grand Duke directly yet.

At the same time, Liszt instructed the territory officers to conduct an agricultural survey, to ensure that if any new varieties of fruit were found, they were to be well preserved and strictly prohibited from arbitrary destruction.

Everything else would wait until his return to be arranged.

And so it was.

In the morning, after exchanging resources in the Gemstone Space, Liszt, together with Ach, set off to sea riding the Rainbow Whale Rose.

Ach understood sailing charts, so she could freely navigate the seas.

Traveling from Coral Island to the Roaring River Estuary Waters by boat would take about ten days, but for riding a Rainbow Whale that could travel at eighty kilometers per hour, including rest, it would only take two and a half days to complete the journey. By day, they would travel, and at night, they would take out the sampan, using the Temperature Calming Pearl, Calming Water, and Calming Wind to rest peacefully.

In the blink of an eye, they had entered the depths of the vast sea.

Occasionally, while Rose rested, Liszt would stand on her back, leap up, soar into the sky, and then pull out a telescope for observation.

About nine hundred kilometers from the shore of the Roaring River Mouth, he spotted a small island emerging from the sea, immediately guiding Ach and Rose towards the isle. Being soaked in the sea was not comfortable, and he longed to feel the solid ground beneath his feet again on the small island.

The island was very small, even smaller than the subsidiary islands of Black Horse Island like Mangrove Island, Rocky Island, Sandy Beach Island, and Seagull Island, being just a tiny island of less than a hundred acres.

It was one of those lonely reef islands, surrounded by rock cliffs on all sides, with only a small patch of forest on top.

Upon approaching, Liszt leapt directly, landing in the small forest atop the island.

Looking around, he saw the same type of trees throughout; these trees were fairly low, and their leaves were quite interesting, resembling fern plants—like those giant trees from the era of dinosaurs on Earth, where most ferns have shrunk into small plants, with only a few trees like alsophila spinulosa remaining tall.

“Could there be elves nurtured here?” Every time he came to a green environment, he habitually used the Eye of Magic to search for elves.

It was merely supposed to be a routine sweep.

But fiercely, three dazzling points of magic feedback appeared in his vision.

His heart stirred, he ran straight towards the direction of the three feedback points, and in less than a minute, he arrived in front of them—a circle of clearing appeared among the fern trees. In the center of the clearing, there was a withered small bush with no leaves left, and on the remaining branches hung three fruits shimmering with rainbow light.

“Bewildering Dragon Mind Fruit!”

Liszt instantly realized that this was the Bewildering Dragon Mind Fruit rewarded by the Smoke Mission!