The Mighty Dragons Are Dead

Chapter 762: Chapter 0759: Old Phil’s Sexual Blessings (Fifth Update, 10,000 Coins Reward Celebration)
 

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Three Court Fast Sailing Ships, the Explorer, the Discovery, and the Opportunity, exhausted all the experimental materials of the Magic Guild. Each was equipped with a binary core Magic Platform, and on the flagship Explorer, an extra Magic Platform was installed as backup.

The sea-launching ceremony was grand and solemn.

With snow still swirling, the knights were covered in white. Liszt himself handed over three flags adorned with dragon-shaped flame patterns to the captains of the three exploration ships—the expedition team leader and captain of the Explorer, Yevich Waterflower, and two other Earth Knight captains trained by the territory.

As the dragon-shaped flame banners were raised high, the three exploration ships slowly set sail towards the open sea.

This marked the first step of nation-building, with what remained being to find suitable islands to relocate to, and to develop and build upon. Liszt did not turn back until the ships faded into the clouds on the horizon.

Development of the territory continued as normal.@@novelbin@@

Serfs from Iron Hoof City were transported batch by batch, swiftly joining in the territory’s construction and development.

Smiles were on the faces of all serfs, not because they found the living conditions in the territory fine, but because they had become serfs to a Dragon Knight. The treatment of the serfs under a future ruler surely couldn’t be the same as that of ordinary serfs—even though they still needed to farm, their welfare was definitely superior to that of the common serfs.

“Your Highness, the negotiation team has agreed with trade representatives of the three Marquises that half of the profits from future trade cooperation will be invested into the serf trade. With our serf pricing, the Marquis Families will certainly be willing to pay with serfs, thereby saving Gold Coins.”

The three Marquises were the Marquis of Bull Tail, the Marquis of Red Crab Island, and the Marquis of Golden Island, which were currently the ones Liszt chose to cooperate with for glass, white paper, and sea salt trades.

The trade channels of these three Marquises were partnerships with the coastal Marquises of the Steel Ridge Kingdom.

Additionally, Liszt controlled his own trade route, primarily collaborating with the Marquis Nuta of the Eagle Kingdom to engage in smuggling on the high seas.

Marquis Nuta suffered heavy losses in two major battles and had to find ways to compensate for those losses.

Sea salt was currently the biggest item in smuggling trade, with Marquis Nuta pretending to react to the King’s call by purchasing a large number of ships produced by the Eagle Kingdom. His ships harassed the Sapphire fleets at sea while hunting for the Light Green Gemstone Dragon, but in reality, under the cover of the Flame Territory fleet, they reached a designated third-party island, where they conducted sea salt trades.

The trade was conducted by exchanging serfs for sea salt, one ship of serfs for one ship of salt—clear, concise, and straightforward.

A ship of sea salt, if taken to the continent for sale, could be exchanged for about five or six ships of serfs, and with more ruthless bargaining, even ten. It could be said that the sea salt trade was exceedingly profitable, for Marquis Nuta as it was for Liszt. The cost for Liszt to produce sea salt was almost nil, merely the cost of labor.

Now, the Flame Territory was madly producing sea salt.

Of course, the technology must be monopolized—no one dared to freely encroach upon his technology, and should someone be found producing sea salt too, Liszt would not be merciful.

The Dragon Knight was synonymous with monopoly!

After learning of Liszt’s sea salt trade, even the Sapphire Family just came to inquire about participating in trade, not scheming to steal the technology.

The ongoing cooperation with the Sapphire Family was still under negotiation, mainly stalled on the details of profit sharing—the Sapphire Family hoped for a buyout by paying a “patent fee” or “protection fee,” whereas Liszt insisted on technology equity participation and a share in the profits.

Of course, neither the Sapphire Duke nor Liszt would quibble too much. After all, both parties were temporarily in an offensive and defensive alliance, and they both could step back a bit to achieve trade cooperation without much difficulty.

“Isaiah, work out the details with the officials to find the balance between territorial expenses and income, then appropriately increase the proportion of serf purchases. We must accumulate serfs in large quantities to prepare for the future establishment of a nation… When the new country is founded, serf trade may not be so smooth.”

Liszt was well aware that once he declared the establishment of his own nation, the Continental Kingdom would definitely not sit idly by.

Perhaps incapable of launching a second Dragon Slaying War, but they would most certainly take actions to contain its development, with the strongest measure being to crack down on the serf trade. The serf trade could not be banned, but during a crackdown, the price of serfs would skyrocket, greatly slowing down the development of the new nation.

“Your Highness, please rest assured, we will find a balance point as soon as possible and renegotiate the distribution scheme with several trading channels.”

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“Master, have you noticed that Jessie has been very happy these past few days?” Butler Carter said with a smile.

“What’s Jessie happy about?” Liszt asked while amusing the growing Jela and inquired. Jessie was the main male servant in the castle and had been an old member of the castle staff since the beginning.

“Old Phil finally got his wife pregnant with the help of the Magic Guild.”

“Is that so? Congratulations are in order.” Liszt smiled. He was very familiar with Old Phil, a descendant of the Sun whose blood he had collected in copious amounts.

Upon learning of Old Phil’s identity, the Grand Magicians of the Magic Guild even devised a “Pig Breeding Plan” to get Old Phil to mate vigorously, aiming to breed a “New Son of the Sun” capable of casting Druid transformation magic and to test magic such as turning into a bear or a panther.

Butler Carter became troubled again as he spoke: “There is one thing, though, I’m uncertain if I should report to Master.”

“Go ahead.”

“Magicians from the Magic Guild have brought in quite a few prostitutes from other regions and forced Old Phil to copulate with them. It is said that Old Phil has already lost a great deal of weight…”

“Hmm?”

Liszt suddenly didn’t know what to say, whether Old Phil was fortunate in a perverse sense, whether the magicians were absurd, or whether to rebuke the Magic Guild for their indecency. He paused for a long while before asking, “Was Old Phil coerced? Was his wife also threatened by the magicians?”

“That… the magicians promised Old Phil’s wife that they would train her son to be a magician in the future, so she ignored Old Phil and even urged him to cooperate. As for Old Phil, he was obviously ambivalent… Poor Jessie, he still doesn’t know about Old Phil’s situation.”

“That’s enough, I understand.” Liszt did not offer any comment.

He planned to bring up the matter the next time he saw Chris, even though it didn’t violate the Magic Guild’s regulations nor the territory’s laws. In fact, regarding Old Phil’s case, he himself had once tacitly approved it when speaking with Lars and several other Grand Magicians.

But in the end, it did not look good; it could be regarded as human experimentation.

He made a decision in his heart: “Next time, before initiating similar experimental projects, they must receive my approval. We cannot allow magicians to research recklessly, especially involving humans and dragons!”

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Old Phil’s good fortune was not a serious matter, and Liszt soon put it out of his mind.

He carried the significantly grown Jela with one hand and headed for Ach’s laboratory upstairs, intending to have Ach give Jela a full body check.

To see how healthy Jela was and incidentally gather some data on elf evolution.

“Wah!”

“I understand, your strength is growing stronger and soon you’ll be able to defeat Ash.”