The Defeated Dragon

The Blizzard Beasts in front of him was still very small. Liszt has no time to take care of it all day long. He just turned the recreation room into an air-conditioned room [1] and handed over the burden of taking care of these eight blizzard beasts who did not open their eyes yet to Mrs. Morrison, the housekeeper, and Maisie, the most attentive maid in the castle.

Although the blizzard beasts were very small, they eat a lot.

Liszt could only drink the remaining milk. Their stocks were barely enough for them to consume. When the beasts grow up, it is estimated that they will have to be fed with dry milk powder in stock.

After a busy day, the Little Blizzard Beasts would eat and sleep without any signs of premature death.

They seem to be able to thrive.

The next day, Liszt got up early again and practiced knight combat skills. He took Paris with him, who was getting fatter and fatter, to practice real hard combat skills.  He defeated her quite quickly in the fight. With that, Liszt was so unhappy with Paris’ laziness that he did not give her her monthly gold coin salary.

He said sternly, “Compared with our first actual combat, your strength has declined greatly, and your responses, speed and skills have obviously regressed.”

Paris was gasping. During the fight, her physical strength was greatly consumed. “Although I don’t want to admit it, Lord Baron,your strength has been improving.””

“Why do you think so?”

“Because the flames on your sword are getting fiercer and fiercer, your total amount of qi is constantly breaking through.” Although Paris has gained weight, her cognitive judgment has not declined.

There is indeed a slight regression in her strength. One has to admit that because of the weight gain, there was reduction in flexibility. However, Liszt’s progress was the main reason for the battle defeat. If it weren’t for her black dragon identity, and if light and shadow cannot play a role in the fight, she would be no match for Liszt.

Putting down the red blood sword, Liszt glanced at Paris’s rising and falling chest.

Liszt nodded faintly, “I might be making progress, but that is not an excuse for allowing your strength to recline…I’m afraid I won’t even need to restrain your light and shadow technique from being involved and I can even use a common sword. You are no longer a worthy opponent.”

Paris was a little dissatisfied, but she nodded in the end. “I understand, I will work harder, and strive for my strength to go further without being shredded by you.”

Liszt saw the female mercenary in her wake up.

“People should always rely on themselves the most, and don’t forget you should set an example for your sister,” Liszt said with a happy pat on her shoulder.In his eyes, Paris, despite all the suffering she’s been through, is still a young 20-year-old.

“Well.” Paris twisted her body, seemingly wanting to avoid Liszt’s movements, but holding back.

“I’m going out. You don’t have to follow me. It’s your holiday these days.” Liszt said, turning around to leave. He still has to keep going to the beach and find his own singing demon.

Seeing Liszt riding a horse with his knight escorts whistling away, Paris was momentarily distracted.

Unconsciously , she touched the same shoulder and muttered to herself,  “It seems Baron likes thinner women, I … really should eat less.”

——–

Flower Port.

The Flowers has not returned, and Liszt still has not found the singing monster. The singing demon was probably not in the waters of Flower Town.

“I should save money, buy another sailboat, and go to Black Horse Island to find it.”

He raised his hand and thought to himself, “At current ship market prices, a regular dhow like the Flower will cost more than 500 gold coins.A better two-mast sailboat costs more than 1,000 gold coins, and a better three-mast sailboat costs at least 2,000 to 3,000 gold coins, or if it’s a court-like fast sailboat, it gets at least 5,000 to 6,000 gold coins,” he said.

In terms of fixed assets, Liszt can afford a good sailboat. His fixed assets if pooled together would amount to tens of thousands of gold coins.

If nothing else, a space gem alone cannot measure its value.

But a lot of that wealth cannot be seen in actual value, and a working capital is extremely scarce. He bought the serf using money from his mithril silver. Mithril is of great strategic value and cannot be bought. It is not cost-effective to exchange it for one less gold coin.

“It’s better to save gold coins slowly. I have fresh flower soap and fresh flower wine coming out soon. It’s not far from making money.”

Snowflakes were still falling.

The beaches along the coast were all white.

However, the sea did not freeze, the waves were still rushing up and down.  The Dragon Horse stepped slowly on the snow on the banks. Liszt’s eyes lingered on the sea all the time, looking for places where the singing demons might appear, but the sea was so clean that there was not even a single piece of wood in sight.

However, there are some seagulls flocking across the sea trying  to catch fish.

“Maybe I can buy some small rowing boats first and train the fishermen in Oyster Town to go fishing. The seafood business is already dying. The sea fish business and the shrimp and crab business should be able to continue for a long time. I can do some fishing …Few lords go out to sea to fish now. “

The fishing of freshwater fish is not uncommon. The serfs did not dare to go to the sea, but the ponds and streams posed lesser dangers.

Some migratory fish are also frequently caught.  For example, lampreys, which are very popular with aristocrats, and salmon, a specialty of the Salmon family, are migratory fish. People usually think that this kind of fish is the food given by the sea and are a blessing of the knight’s glory.

There are also ferocious sea monsters in the sea, but most  fish take the initiative to go ashore. This is not a blessing from the sea but a blessing from the knight’s glory. What else can it be?

Walking along the shoreline, Liszt came across the beach near sweet coconut trees and the thorns where they had salvaged a sunken ship with keel fixing technology and found five big boxes of sunken treasure. Now that he thought about it, the sunken ship should be one of the Magic Goat’s family ships.

The destroyed magic books must have been bought by the Magic Goat family wizards, and it might even be that the 36d ghosts in the fixed keel were stuffed by the same wizards.

“Maybe it was Curtis Truth who wrote it. She has been studying soul stripping technology. 36d could be her stripped human soul.”

Curtis Truth and her ghost ship have dissipated. Except for the magic book, the sheep head banner, the bow image, and the sapphire ring, which he did not fully understand yet, there was not much left to study.

However, Liszt still plans to keep the ghosts. Perhaps one day, he will want to study lich technology.

If he can live for five hundred years, he will definitely be able to ride the dragon and he would try to understand this world. This world is far more magnificent and magical than Earth.

———–

In the evening, Liszt waited for the Flowers to arrive.

Marcus returned with the Flowers. At present, about 600 serfs have immigrated to Black Horse Island. All of them were building port towns.

Because there was no food source on the island, the Flowers had to transport supplies back and forth.

“I didn’t expect Sir Baron  to have experienced such a dangerous voyage. There are actually ghost ships in the world, including the ghost ship of the Marquis Cohen, which we thought has long been destroyed.” Marcus saw that the Knight Squad was missing three members. He let out a sigh, but only for a brief moment.

After seeing the eight Blizzard Beast cubs, Marcus got excited and couldn’t help himself. “The knight’s glory will look after them, and the future of Flower town can depend on them!”

“Teacher Marcus,  these pups are like Tremblingwoods in raising up consumption.  I’m afraid they are not much worse than the Knight’s Squad. Flower town as of now still is in a difficult financial situation. We need to develop vigorously. “

“Yes, my Lord, we can’t raise the nine Blizzard Beasts on the strength of Flower Town alone, but we have Black Horse Island, however, it will not produce anything this year. But when a new batch of serfs arrive and the land is finally reclaimed, Black Horse Island’s profits will be enough to support the Lord’s battle for glory!”

[1] maybe just a room they can control room temp in, like with the glass dragons