Chapter 298: Chapter 0296: The Arrival of the Iron Wood Era (Second Update)
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Night had fallen, and the Fresh Flower Vessel had sailed in quite a circle before it finally located Black Horse Port.
“Black Horse Port needs a lighthouse, my lord. Navigating at sea at night by the stars might allow us to identify our direction, but it doesn’t help to accurately find the port,” Kostor said, after docking the boat.
“Let’s talk about it later. I don’t have an architect at the mont, and it’s not ti to reveal Black Horse Island just yet.”
He disembarked.
Without any further ado, Liszt mounted Douson and headed straight for the location of the Rubber Tree Cordyceps. The crystal lamp illuminated the path, and he effortlessly followed the small trail that had been trodden through the bushes to his destination.
He used the Eye of Magic.
He saw the three Elf Bugs, motionless on a tree branch.
Without wasting words, he began climbing the tree. For an Elite Earth Knight, climbing a tree was a piece of cake, and he easily reached the branch where the Elf Bugs were perched.
In the light, three plump, ivory-colored Rubber Tree Elf Bugs lined up in a row. It was unclear whether they were sleeping or not.
They were almost pure white, even their eyes, and without careful scrutiny, it was hard to tell which end was the head and which the tail.
The fingers were long, about as thick as a thumb.
They resembled caterpillars, but were prettier and more delicate, as if they were living creatures carved from jade. Even though Liszt could see Elf Bugs in the Castle every day, he still marveled at their beauty and the incredible artistry of their creator.
“Little guys, no more sleeping, how about so Jade Powder for a midnight snack?”
He spoke softly, and then proceeded with the usual routine, saring Jade Powder in front of the Elf Bugs to entice them awake and begin licking the Jade Powder.
Next, he applied Jade Powder on his own finger and extended it toward the mouth of an Elf Bug.
A gentle nibble.
He contracted one Elf Bug.
A gentle nibble.
He contracted another Elf Bug.
A gentle nibble for the third ti.
With the last Elf Bug contracted, he had successfully bonded with the trio of Rubber Tree Elf Bug Triplets, establishing a soul-connected ownership relationship.
“Co, onto my hand.”
He stretched out his hand to catch the three chubby Elf Bugs and he felt sothing very peculiar in his mind—a sense of having three overlapping, fuzzy emotions appearing in his head, perfectly in sync. Their emotions were exactly the sa and the feedback they gave Liszt was also the sa.
They climbed from his hand to his shoulder.
And followed Liszt as he left the Cordyceps.
“Congratulations on contracting with new Elf Bugs, my lord!” Marcus, Lasse, and Griffin, who had gathered around, congratulated him one after another.
Liszt placed the Elf Bugs into the Jade Box held by a servant, smiling at the congratulations, “It’s been hard work for you guys guarding the Elf Bugs recently. I brought a barrel of Fresh Flower Brew base. You guys share it.”
“Thank you for your generosity, my lord!”
“I should thank you for your hard work in building Black Horse Island.”
After exchanging a few pleasantries, they soon arrived at the port town. He would rest for the night, and tomorrow Liszt would return to Fresh Flower Town. There was no need for his presence on Black Horse Island any longer.
“Marcus, Lasse, Griffin, the contracting of the Rubber Tree Elf Bugs is complete, but I do not plan on moving the Rubber Tree Cordyceps. The environnt there is quite suitable for the growth of Rubber Trees. If you find the ti, you can organize a group of serfs to relocate the scattered Rubber Tree saplings to the vicinity of the Cordyceps and plan out a Rubber Tree garden.”
“Yes, my lord.”
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The following day, Liszt got up very early in the morning because he wanted to share a bond with his mount Lightning and take it for a spin. He left under Lightning’s reluctant gaze.
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Sitting at the bow.
Gazing at the sea, he had believed it would be another monotonous voyage, but the white clouds floating in the sky that day strangely stirred his heart, as if countless sparks of inspiration were bursting forth.
It was a familiar lody that quietly surfaced in his mind, lingering around his ears.
Without hesitation, he quickly took out heavy parchnt and ink, picked up a quill, and, using Douson as a support, began to record the notes. Monts later, as the lody gently dissolved in his ears, the parchnt was filled with dense musical notes.
“It’s “Castle in the Sky”…”
He shook the heavy parchnt, the flash of brilliance in his mind had extinguished, but his heart still resonated with the excitent of recording the notes. The lody that appeared in his ears was indeed the widely known “Castle in the Sky”, comparable to “For Alice”, or rather, it should be called “With You”.
It was the classic work of the master musician Joe Hisaishi, the the song of Hayao Miyazaki’s classic animated film “Castle in the Sky”.
The fa of this piece had even surpassed that of the film itself.
He carefully put away the hastily recorded music, then invoked the Smoke Mission.
The Serpent Script transford remarkably: “Task completed, reward: lody of “With You”.”
This ant Duniko Hyacinth had received the letter he had sent, and at the sa ti, the Smoke Mission opportunistically unearthed that segnt of lody from his mory.
“The power of fate is indeed magical, to even bring mories to the surface… I wonder when it could reward with the mory related to cent? I should have seen and studied how to make cent, but now I only rember a vague principle: listone mixed with clay, finely ground then calcined in a kiln.”
He hadn’t yet figured out what listone looked like, nor had he found clay.
Cent developnt, temporarily powerless.
If the Smoke Mission could dig out his mory, presenting images of listone and clay he had seen, he would easily be able to find listone and clay by comparison.
Glass was the sa.
His thoughts were fleeting.
The Smoke Serpent Script changed swiftly: “Task: The Rapid Growth Iron Thorns have matured, and the carpenter at the Carpenter’s Shop has accepted the impact of the new invention; it is ti to decisively drive the Iron Wood Era of Fresh Flower Town. Please build a woodworking workshop and produce modern furniture. Reward: Three wild tea trees.”
“Hmm?”
He saw the reward content—wild tea trees.
It was known that there was “tea” in this world, which was necessary for making milk tea, but this ‘tea’ was prepared from a kind of fruit known as the Red Tea Tree.
After the fruit was dried and fernted, it could be used to make milk tea.
There were Red Tea Trees on Coral Island, and Tulip Castle even had a Red Tea Tree Elf Bug, yet Liszt had never heard of tea made from fruit. He had also tried to brew the leaves of the Red Tea Tree after frying them, but found the taste too bitter and astringent to drink, and the fruit-infused tea had an odd flavor.
This Red Tea Tree was clearly not the tea tree from Earth, and according to the information in the Knight’s Novel, there were no tea products to be directly brewed; he once thought that no such plant as the tea tree existed here.
Unexpectedly, he was now being rewarded with wild tea trees.
“It must be in so corner of Black Horse Island! Tea trees are great, as drinking tea can be beneficial for health maintenance, especially for its ability to clear greasiness, aid digestion, and act as a diuretic… If I rember correctly, in ancient China, tea leaves were strategic commodities like salt and iron, particularly in trade with northern nomadic tribes.”
Nomadic tribes mainly consud at, which was too greasy and hard to digest without tea to offset it. Hence the Tea-Horse Exchange, trading strategic resources like horses for tea leaves.
Even Arica’s independence could be said to have been sparked by tea—the Boston Tea Party, in protest against the Tea Act, directly ignited the flas of the Revolutionary War.
The importance of tea was thus evident.
Liszt’s situation was similar; he ate too much at, especially Magical Beast at which was greasier and harder to digest than regular at, and the digestive effect of milk tea was limited. With the help of tea leaves, he could better absorb the nutrients of the Magical Beast at.
This applied to most nobles.
“One can imagine, tea leaves will beco another major specialty of mine!”
His spirits lifted: “Once I return, I’ll imdiately build a woodworking workshop, bringing the Iron Wood Era to Fresh Flower Town as soon as possible!”
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