The Mighty Dragons Are Dead

Chapter 770: Chapter 0767: Erect Centipeda (Third Update, Alliance Hierarch Extra 8/56)
 

Magic potions with the Light Attribute are highly valuable because magicians who study Light System Magic need the enhancement of Light Attribute magic potions; otherwise, it’s very difficult to attune themselves with Light Attribute Magic Power.

Not only is it tough to attune to Light Attribute Magic Power, but the affinity for Dark Attribute Magic Power is also difficult, and the magic potions of these two attributes are very scarce, hence the consistently high prices.

“It’s a pity I don’t have the Aristolochia Insect… Neither the Light Leaf Aristolochia nor the Lycoris has an elf,” Liszt could only dig up the two magic potion plants, soil and all, and wrap them up to place in his Space Ring—the stillness of the space could preserve the vitality of plants without souls.

He would wait until he obtained the Aristolochia Bug and the Lycoris Bug, and then he would start planting them.

Of the seven magical plants that showed luminance of magic feedback, the last one was a small shrub that bore a Bloodline Fruit. Seeing this fruit flickering with yellow Magic Radiance excited Liszt.

He had always hoped to find another Bloodline Fruit, preferably one with Earth Attribute Magic Power, and then catch a batch of Fierce Earth Dogs to breed the young pups. Using the Bloodline Fruit to stimulate evolution during their infancy, if they could survive the violent power of evolution, he could get a new Blizzard Beast, and that would be the perfect time to breed them with Douson’s lineage.

Thus, creating a legion of Blizzard Beasts.

One day, each member of his Burning Knights Group would have a Blizzard Beast for sieges, which would be terrifyingly effective.

“Forget it, I shouldn’t get my hopes up too high. The failure rate of evolution with a Bloodline Fruit is much higher than the success rate. It’s not like every time I can rely on the power of the Smoke Dragon to influence the Threads of Destiny,” Liszt dug up the Bloodline Fruit along with its roots and tucked it into his Space Ring as well.

He carefully monitored the reaction of the Bloodline Fruit in the Gemstone Space; if its magic began to fade, he would immediately take it out.

Fortunately, the fruit was instantly stilled and couldn’t overcome the spatial force of the Formless Dragon—currently, only the Mind Fruit Tree could break through the stillness of spatial forces, dying instantly with no way to stop it.

With that,

His inspection of the first island was complete.

Liszt continued towards the second island, the Dragon Eye Trajectory constantly searching for the luminance of magic feedback on the island, which was one-third smaller than the first island.

The first island was roughly comparable to Black Horse Island, just under two thousand square kilometers; the second island was about one thousand three hundred square kilometers, and as for the third island, Liszt estimated it was only a bit over five hundred square kilometers.

However, the discoveries on the second island surpassed those of the first. There were only two magical feedback radiance spots here, both belonging to elves.

But besides a Mangrove Elf Bug, there was also a Little Minor Elf, one capable of producing magic potions—a straight Erect Centipeda Minor Elf!

“Great!” After contracting with this tiger-headed, simple-minded little fellow with a large green leaf on its head, Liszt felt exceptionally content.

Erect Centipeda is an ornamental plant, much favored by nobles to decorate their estates—large clumps of bright green Erect Centipeda indeed look spirited. Commoners, on the other hand, use Erect Centipeda as a medicinal herb, with its root corms mainly used for killing insects—head lice, body lice, and crabs can all be eradicated.

There were plantations of Erect Centipeda on Black Horse Island—Yevich Water Peanut had an Erect Centipeda Elf Bug that could cultivate Erect Centipeda magic potions.

So this Erect Centipeda Minor Elf belonged to the category of potion-producing elves.

Contracting and collecting Cordyceps, Liszt finished searching the second island, and it was just after three in the afternoon, so he continued his patrol to the third island. The vegetation there was also dense, and the terrain was rugged, filled with gullies. Such an environment was not suitable for habitation, but many birds lived there.

Perhaps due to the large number of birds, any Elf Bugs that emerged were eaten, and no magical feedback luminance was seen on the island. However, as soon as Liszt landed, he discovered caves at many of the gullies.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

He directly entered one of the caves, and it was only then that he realized he had been mistaken—this island was not an island of birds but of serpent-type creatures.

The cave was riddled with the magic radiance feedback from various Serpent Type Beasts, including those of the Earth Attribute, Fire Attribute, Water Attribute, Wind Attribute, and Thunder Attribute, with only the Light Attribute, Dark Attribute, and Ice Attribute missing. However, the magic radiance from these serpent beasts was dim.

It seemed that their magic power was so diluted that they might not even be able to cast magic.

“No, it’s not that their magic power is weak, but that they are hibernating!” Liszt pulled out a few hibernating snakes from a branching small cave.

The magic attributes of these snakes varied, but their patterns and colors looked the same, resembling a certain kind of earthy yellow viper. Liszt had never seen this type of viper before, nor had he seen any similar records—it was quite unusual for the same type of magical beast to possess different attributes.

In Liszt’s hands, the vipers quickly woke from their hibernation, apparently not in a deep hibernation and could be roused at any moment.

Hiss, hiss!

They tried to bite Liszt, but with their heads pinched, they couldn’t bite at all.

“If they have venomous fangs, they’re venomous snakes… I wonder if they can be raised artificially. These many serpent-type magical beasts could be an excellent source of Magical Beast Meat.” He looked at the viper in his hand, but his thoughts turned to how to make snake soup, “Perhaps there’s no need to raise them, just catching a batch from this island every year might suffice.”

Especially since these snakes needed to hibernate, one could effortlessly collect them from the cave during winter—their magic power was so diluted while hibernating, they couldn’t even use magic, posing almost no threat.

“These vipers aren’t long, with short and thick tails; let’s just call them Short-tailed Belly Snakes.” He quickly caught a batch of Short-tailed Belly Snakes and put them into his Space Ring.

Instantly euthanized.

Snake blood, snake gall, and snake meat remained as fresh as when they were alive: “I’ll have Mrs. Abbie cook snake soup herself when I get back, her culinary skills are becoming more exquisite. I wonder how the soup made from this batch of Short-tailed Belly Snakes will taste… As they’re Low-Level magical beasts, they should be quite delicious.”

He had tasted a wide variety of Magical Beast Meat and had become experienced; the meat of magical beasts was not necessarily better with higher rank.

On the contrary, the meat of Low-Level magical beasts often tasted the best.

High-Level magical beasts’ flesh, due to the long-term nourishment and coagulation of magic power in their bodies, had toughened, making it nutritious but not particularly flavorful. However, the taste of the young offspring of High-Level magical beasts was quite unique; the meat of the immature Six-Headed King Serpent had been surprisingly delicious.

…

Snake meat, taken to go.

Liszt rode Leo and left the Three Islands, continuing to patrol the small isles between the Second and Third Islands without any further gains.

However, the Smoke Mission was successfully completed.

“Mission completed, reward: one Erect Centipeda Minor Elf, and one each of Mouse-tailed Sage Elf Bug, Rootless Vine Elf Insect, Pine Elf Bug, Purple Butterfly Elf Insect, and Mangrove Elf Bug.”

One Little Minor Elf, five Elf Bugs.

Additionally, there were two specimens of Magic Potion, one Bloodline Fruit, and a large number of Low-Level Magical Beast Short-tailed Belly Snakes.

The harvest from the three islands was very rich.

Liszt felt very good about it. Although these weren’t islands suitable for establishing a country, their existence was enough to illustrate that the farther seas still had countless islands waiting for his exploration.