The Mighty Dragons Are Dead

Chapter 747: Chapter 0744
 

This chapter is a “Chariot Past” reward update.

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“Ahem.”

Liszt cleared his throat.

What Dineo mentioned was Jela.

Upon seeing the Pea Great Elf move into the Worm Room, Jela began to declare her sovereignty. In Thorn Castle, Jela considered herself the boss. The Coptis Minor Elf was a thorn in her side that she would eventually subdue, but she didn’t expect another Greater Elf to emerge halfway, making her very nervous.

Besides, there was another Greater Elf with sharp teeth living outside the Castle, constantly challenging her status, which wasn’t a good sign.

Thorn Castle does not allow for such awesome elves to exist!

“Jela is just a bit hot-tempered, just ignore her. Anyway, since you’ve come here, you need to integrate into my family,” Liszt shook hands with the Pea Great Elf, “How about we start with a name change, and slowly get used to the new life?”

“Change my name?”

“Yes, Dineo is in the past. You should have a new name.”

The Pea Great Elf, smart as it was, was still just a Greater Elf and was quickly guided by Liszt out of its despondency: “Then what should my name be changed to?”

“You’re the Pea Great Elf, and I think ‘Ash’ is a fitting name for you. There was once a very powerful Knight named Ice Archer Ash. She had a Pea Great Elf that evolved into a Dragon Elf, and she was given a nickname—Pea Shooter.”

Liszt made up a story on the spot.

After several abandoned writing attempts, his storytelling had improved significantly: “I hope that one day you can evolve into a Dragon Elf too, so let’s consider Ash as a beautiful aspiration.”

The Pea Great Elf tilted its head in thought for a moment before happily agreeing: “Well, then my name is Ash!”

And so it was.

Liszt’s second Greater Elf was officially named Ash. Although it was a second-hand Greater Elf, it still excited him for quite some time.

It has to be said, compared to Pike, the Greater Elf whose mouth ruined the mood, the Pea Great Elf was really beautiful and deserved the lovely title “Elf.” Its personality was also quite normal, perhaps a bit indifferent, but most elves tended to have an aloof demeanor.

After finding out which flavor of Jade Powder Ash preferred, Liszt immediately had people bring a lot of it for it to snack on.

He then closed the door and left the Worm Room.

He just heard Jela making a “wah” noise at the Window of the Worm Room. Liszt looked up at the chandelier in the corridor, feeling somewhat inexplicably sentimental: “Why do the elves I obtain all have such personalities, while others get along so calmly? Is it because I respect the development of the elves’ individuality more?”

In his view, that was very likely the case.

In this world, the Nobles treat elves as mere farming tools.

Only he regarded the elves as independent entities, not restricting the development of their individual wills. Pike’s poison tongue and vanity, Jela’s domineering and hot temper, Nami’s sociable and hardworking nature, as well as Mickey’s obsession with counting corns, and the frequent infighting of Fizz, Tam, and Eddie.

He didn’t impose any restrictions on them, just set a basic rule—not to harm the elves, not to harm each other.

“Considering Jela’s trigger for evolving into a Greater Elf, perhaps this reasonable indulgence is more helpful for elf evolution?” Liszt felt a vague sense of pride; maybe it was as he suspected, personality did play a role in elf evolution.

Jela was originally a Thorn Bug unwilling to accept its fate and broke free from destiny’s shackles to evolve into a Little Minor Elf.

And Jela, threatened in her position, began to trigger an evolution into a Greater Elf because of her competitiveness.

“Perhaps I could focus on personality to cultivate the potential for elf evolution… but no, to interfere with their nature seems like destruction. Now that I’m a Dragon Knight, there’s no need to trouble the elves… I should provide them with comfort, and the rest is to let them live peacefully.”

Liszt could never simply treat the elves as tools.

“Wah!”

Jela’s call interrupted his thoughts, and he stopped pondering over these matters, deciding to let things take their natural course. What’s urgent now was to complete Jela’s evolution and to welcome his third Greater Elf.

“I hope this heavy snow doesn’t cover too large an area, otherwise the thorns won’t be easy to find.” Thorns are evergreen plants, often mixed in shrubbery, and they are relatively easy to spot in the winter, provided that it doesn’t snow. If they’re buried by heavy snow, nothing will be found.

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Evening.

Iron Knight Alvin with the Alvin Eagle Sword came to Thorn Castle, bringing with him the improved Thunder Roar Knight Suit, “Your Highness, as per your request and with the assistance of the Magic Guild, I have successfully engraved flame patterns on Thunder Roar and added some Fire Attribute materials, which can effectively enhance Fire Attribute Dou Qi.”

This set of knight’s armor was originally worn by Carlo.

However, Carlo was much shorter than Liszt, so the armor had to be reworked. The reworked Fury of Thunder was no longer just silver-white, but had fiery red patterns drawn on a silver-white base. From afar, the red patterns were striking, and the flame colors appeared three-dimensional.

“Not bad, the improvements are good,” Liszt said, putting on the Thunder Roar and feeling that it fitted perfectly.

After dismissing Alvin, he went straight to the changing room to look in the mirror.

In the mirror was reflected a knight both handsome and imperial in bearing. Putting on the helmet and looking left and right, Liszt spoke again, “Bring me my tricolor cloak.” Usually, these items are kept in the Space Ring, but occasionally they are taken out for the servants to clean.

Soon, Servant Thomas brought over the cloak and helped Liszt lay it across his shoulders.

At this moment.

Liszt was wearing the Thunder Roar, with the Ice Soul Dragon-Slaying Sword hanging at his waist, a red-faced, black-based, gold-edged tricolor cloak draped behind him, and three Space Rings on his hands.

Handsome and dashing, powerful and imposing.@@novelbin@@

“I always feel that the sword’s color doesn’t quite match. The armor and cloak colors coordinate well, the red cloak and the red armor patterns complement each other… but the blue greatsword is out of place. If I switch to a pure silver Thunder Fury without the red patterns, it seems just as mismatched,” he mused.

“Alvin is still too inexperienced to engrave flame patterns on the Thunder Fury,” he remarked.

The materials of the Dragon Lance Fury of Thunder were far superior to those of the Armor Thunder Roar, and Alvin, being just a regular Iron Knight, lacked the ability to forge it a second time.

He changed out of the armor.

Back in his Flack Abaie attire, Liszt walked into the study to continue pondering the Fire Dragon Knight-Dragon Dou Qi’s Manual. Recently entangled in mundane affairs, the manual still contained only one move, “Dragon Slash.” Numerous inspirations collided and flickered in his mind, but he had not settled down to contemplate them.

And he was destined not to ponder for long, as trivial matters once again entangled him.

Ach returned from the sea, and like Liszt, she had also been strengthening her powers, constantly thinking of creating powerful magic befitting the status of an Archmage.

“So have you now created magic more powerful than Advanced Magic?” Liszt walked out the door with Ach, asking as they went.

The levels of magic had been officially registered and categorized by the Magic Guild as Basic Magic-Magic Array Embryo, Common Magic-Static Magic Circle, and Advanced Magic-Dynamic Magic Array.

Ach nodded and said, “Brother, Ach has contemplated the Magic Web and the Dragon Dou Qi Manual, and, with the knowledge you’ve taught me before, I’ve finally grasped the beginnings of an even higher level of magic. I’ve researched the first magic that surpasses Advanced Magic, but it’s still in a rudimentary form, not yet perfected.”

They reached the sea.

Taking advantage of the lingering daylight, Ach began to unleash her new magic.

She took a deep breath, gathering energy for a full ten seconds before abruptly lifting her right hand. In the next moment, the Magic Web appeared, drawing vast amounts of high-energy magic power from it.

A giant water curtain slowly rose above the calm sea.

The water curtain seemed to form serrated edges like those of a saw blade; the water at its jagged edges whirled at high speeds, producing an explosive sound akin to a sonic boom.

“Go!”

Ach waved her hand towards the rocky beach on the shore.

The water saw blades seemed to be wielded with force as they thunderously sliced through, cleaving the rocky beach in two as if cutting through tofu.