Chapter 970: Chapter 0967: Giant Demon Tuber Chapter 970: Chapter 0967: Giant Demon Tuber Snow had fallen on Black Horse Island, and winter arrived. Unlike the competitive atmosphere of previous winters, the island was gradually becoming deserted.
Many plantations were abandoned, and a few small towns were almost uninhabited.
Many workshops had disappeared as well, with only a few places still bustling. One such place was Giant Algae Town near the coast, a significant spot for Magic Potion production, where many Knights and Serfs lived by the Giant Algae Forest. Another was Giant Algae City, the island’s seaport open to international trade.
Near Giant Algae City was Thorn Castle. Thomas, as usual, held keys to all the rooms and inspected every room in the castle from top to bottom.
He continued his rounds to the castle’s study.
Several young Servants were cleaning the study; upon seeing Thomas, they greeted him, “Mr. Thomas.”
Thomas, with his ticulous hair and a stern expression to match, just nodded slightly, then joined in arranging the books himself, “The master values the books on the ancient shelf the most. Be careful when cleaning—knowledge is the most precious wealth,” the master had said.
After instructing the young Servants, he finished arranging the books on the ancient shelf.
Then he pushed open the study’s balcony doors and stepped onto the snow-covered balcony, which overlooked the Needle Grass Hill behind the castle.
His gaze turned towards the hillside, missing the familiar massive figure that had disappeared which made him feel a deep loss, “The Grey Iron Dragon Ornn had been ridden to Fla Island by the master, and the Elves had all been sent to Fla Castle. Now Black Horse Island and Thorn Castle have beco very quiet.”
What he had once most hoped for was to beco the Butler of Thorn Castle, and now that he had achieved this, it did not feel as glorious as he had imagined.
Being the Butler of Thorn Castle, he now just governed a few Servants.
The servants he knew, Butler Carter, Mrs. Morson, Mrs. Abbie, the attractive Little Lily, kitchen-loving Eileen, and fools like Tom and Jessie, had all gone to Fla Castle to continue serving the master. He, once the master’s personal manservant, remained at Thorn Castle.
However, Thomas no longer harbored much envy, for from the start, he was not favored by Liszt; the young master did not like having manservants closely attend to him.
Moreover, as Liszt’s ti spent away from the castle significantly exceeded his ti living there, the position of personal manservant was practically in na only.
Now that he had beco the Butler of Thorn Castle, he was fully content — for a manservant, the greatest goal in life was to rise to the position of Butler.
As long as Old Carter lived, he would not glimpse the opportunity to beco the Chief Butler of Fla Castle or even the future Royal Palace.
“It’s winter again, snow is falling, and the holiday season is nearly here. I wonder how the master will celebrate the festive season at Fla Castle.” He shook his head, returned to the study, carefully closed the door, and, holding the keys, continued on to inspect the next room.
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In contrast to the tranquility of Thorn Castle, Fla Castle was bustling with activity.
Servants were busily at work, and Elves were frolicking and arguing all over the castle, their quarrels reaching a peak these days — because the Thorn Plantation had been established near Fla City, Jela and its Cordyceps had been relocated here, settling in Fla Castle.
At this mont, Jela, hands on hips, was scolding a naughty minor elf, “Ooh, you damned little elf, still daring to throw Jade Powder around, you’re asking for it!”
“Don’t be afraid of it, Gourd Minor Elf; if it dares to hit you, I’ll hit it!” said the Man-Eating Tree Dragon Elf Kali, dressed as Flack Abbie and tasting a fruit salad with a fork and knife.
“Go ahead and discipline the Gourd Minor Elf, Jela; I support you,” said the Buckwheat Dragon Elf Yati, sitting at the sa table, seemingly inciting more strife between Jela and Kali.
Due to Jela’s nasty temper, it disliked the Greater Elf, and as for Kali, the Dragon Elf who disregarded other elves, it liked even less.
Jela, however, turned its guns on the two Dragon Elves and burst out, “Shut up! It’s none of your business how I discipline the minor elf. Ooh!”
“Hehe,” Kali chuckled coldly.
“Heh heh,” Yati smiled gently.
“Liszt, they’re arguing again.” A Greater Elf with a peculiar flower on its head quietly climbed onto Liszt’s shoulder as he was reading, to report to him.
Liszt put down the book he was holding and smiled at the Greater Elf, “I know, Karl.”
Karl, the Troll Taro Greater Elf, was one of the elves presented to Liszt by Su, the Listener of the Holy Tribe, when Liszt was passing by the Holy Tribe after becoming familiar with the King of Birds’ abilities. With the help of knights and magicians sent by Liszt, Su had subdued many Moon Slayer Tribes and gathered quite a few elves.
This only Greater Elf was the one he nad “Karl,” the Troll Taro Greater Elf.
Troll Taro is a plant unique to Fla Island, called “Corpse Flower” by the native Moon Slayers. Liszt disliked the na Corpse Flower, forcibly changed it to Troll Taro—he even wanted to change the na of the Man-Eating Tree, but Kali, liking the na, didn’t want to change it.
There are Magic Potion varieties in Troll Taro, so Karl’s value is significant, and its personality is quite amusing; it enjoys tattling a lot.
Of course, from another perspective, this is called loyalty.
Thus, Liszt liked Karl very much, always feeling that Karl was an extraordinarily unusual elf—essentially, he liked elves with quirky personalities, finding them full of vitality, those with duller personalities, he always felt lacked vigor—but in the research at the Magic Guild, there was no clear correlation between personality and elf evolution.
“Aren’t you going to stop them?” Karl asked, curious.
“No worries, they’re still in the adjustnt phase, I believe they’ll soon grow to like each other.”
“I don’t think so.”
While they were chatting, Butler Carter knocked and ca in, “Master, the Marquis is back.”
“Um, I’ll go talk to Father,” Liszt signaled Karl to go play, then walked over and knocked on Kali and Yati’s table, “You two, don’t stir up trouble, rember to stay united!”
“Don’t worry, Liszt, with here, there won’t be chaos!” Kali said, lifting her head.
Yati pursed her lips and said nothing.
When he arrived in the living room, the Marquis of Bull Tail had just changed into his ho clothes.
Father and son then began discussing politics in the living room; Liszt was particularly concerned about a recently concluded advanced-level exam in their domain. The Marquis of Bull Tail pulled out a docunt, “The data has just been compiled, each town’s school has completed their assessnts, and here is the list of outstanding students nominated by the schools.”
Liszt took it and casually flipped through a few pages, not seeing too many impressive young students.
He had asked each school to specify students’ ages and training duration, considering any student who could beco an Earth Knight within three years a genius worth cultivating.
“Not a single talented student in sight.”
“There are quite a few, look at the schools in Fla City, they already have a fourteen-year-old Earth Knight, and not just one, these two students are definitely geniuses.” Li Weiliam pulled out a list, pointing to two students, one nad Dulontan Red Apricot and the other nad Curster Windmill.
“Still not genius enough. I rember these two students, Dulontan is the son of Count Durt, and Curster is the son of Viscount Rayleigh.”
Durt Red Apricot, a seasoned Sword Saint, Count; Rayleigh Windmill, a Sky Knight, Viscount.
Their sons had been trained from a young age; advancing to Earth Knight at fourteen, their talent is about the sa as Liszt’s brothers, Levis and Lidun.
Sky Knight has potential, but Dragon Knight is almost impossible.
“They are already excellent, Liszt, you can’t expect everyone to have talents like you and Emily,” Li Weiliam said speechlessly, “Even Yevich, who was once selected for the Eagle Kingdom’s Dragon Knight backup program, was only an Earth Knight at thirteen.”
“Then let Father manage their arrangents, expedite the establishnt of the Royal Academy to train them… when there’s a candidate suitable for the Dragon Knight backup program, I’ll pay attention then.”
For Liszt, only Dragon Knights could catch his eye, capable of being the cornerstone for the Fla Kingdom; Sky Knights at that level were rely a bunch of slightly more advanced productive materials.
However, with the arrival of this list, the Smoke Mission was completed: “Mission accomplished, reward: Obsidian Ring.”
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