136 – Releasing Two Rockthorns at the Same Time
For the guillemot eggs, Kosto wobbled towards the cave atop the Flower immediately after the swimming lesson was concluded. When they got near the cave, they could clearly see the cave"s appearance. It wasn"t big. After all, the ridge wasn"t tall. The flat entrance resembled a gaping maw.
It wasn"t deep either, its interior could be clearly seen at a glance.
With the telescope in hand, Kosto saw it particularly clearly: “Oh, heavens! There are bones!” He saw decaying human remains along with some worn-out stuff and even a boat wreckage lying inside the cave.
“Drop the anchor!”
“Release the canoe!”
He screamed and made preparation to take the canoe to see what was going on inside the cave.
……
The castle, near the black nightshade.
Liszt was inspecting his black nightshade.
“It"s about to be born, Mr. Carter, my ninth sprite worm is about to be born.” He stroked the big budding flower. With Magic Eyes released, he could clearly see light blue magic power gathering towards a particular flower, where the black nightshade sprite worm gestated, from the leaves of the black nightshade.
“Favored by the glory of knights indeed! We all thought that it wouldn"t make it, yet it did. Master, according to Mr. Gort, you are a child of glory. I firmly believe that it is the case! It was your glory that shone on the black nightshade sprite!”
“Perhaps, or I"m really lucky.”
The term child of glory was equivalent to the term ‘Wen Qu Star incarnate" on Earth. Liszt didn"t know if he was a child of glory, or a child of something else. The smoke mission brought him beyond extraordinary luck, which was probably the ‘favor of the glory of knights".[1]
He wasn"t too concerned about this and just instructed indifferently: “Make sure that it"s often looked after, and notify me right away once the black nightshade sprite worm is born.”
“Please rest a.s.sured. The castle"s servingmen will check on the black nightshade once per hour.” Replied Carter.
“By the way, is it time to feed Stupidwoman?”
“It was almost one o"clock in the afternoon when we set off, it should be indeed its feeding time by now.”
“Then let"s go back first.”
After returning to the castle, he took Tremblingwoods and some servants, and went to feed the b.i.t.c.h.
The Violent Dog Stupidwoman"s iron cage was already set up, it was placed 500 meters away from the castle. With the iron cage as the center, the foundation for a 3-meter-tall wall was being excavated 20 meters away. In order to prevent Stupidwoman from breaking out, a tilted baffle was also going to be installed atop the wall.
Currently, Stupidwoman had not eaten for three days.
Only when Liszt came to inspect it, would he have the servants feed it some water so that it didn"t die of thirst.
“Uh!” When it saw people coming over, Stupidwoman, which had been lying on the ground, feebly climbed onto its paws. It stared daggers at Liszt and company. Clearly, its fierceness hadn"t been curbed yet.
“Woof woof!” Tremblingwoods darted forward and started circling the iron cage while wagging its tail and calling at Stupidwoman. It was very enthusiastic.
Stupidwoman, on the other hand, didn"t reciprocate the enthusiasm. It turned its head to stare back at Tremblingwoods and kept issuing growls.
“The feeder hasn"t been delivered yet?” Liszt looked at the cage and asked Thomas, who followed behind him, “Even the stakes haven"t been laid yet, its too slow.”
The feeder was a feeding device specially designed for Stupidwoman.
After all, Stupidwoman was not Tremblingwoods, it could injure one at any time. In order to prevent this, it was kept in a cage. It had to be fed as it couldn"t be left to die. Therefore, a feeding device was designed to send food into the iron cage from outside the wall via a rope.
At the same time, the iron cage could be moved. Once feces acc.u.mulated in the cage, the cage would be drawn away along with Stupidwoman, before being drawn back after the ground was cleaned.
Although it appeared complicated, but in fact, it was very simple. It was a simple application of several ropes.
For his future Violent Dog army, Liszt was very careful when formulating this design.
“It has no magic power. It turns out that even if it"s a magic beast, it also can"t condense magic power when it"s starved.” Mused Liszt.
Half of a magic beast"s magic power was produced on its own, while the other half was absorbed from the outside world.
However, when starved, not only couldn"t it produce magic power on its own, but it also had no strength to absorb magic power from the outside world. Thus, the importance of nutrition regarding cultivation could be perceived.
“Thomas, feed it water.”
“Yes, Master.” Thomas carefully moved to beside the Violent Dog"s iron cage with a bucket in hand. Even though he had already done this quite a few times, but he still couldn"t help but to tremble.
“Uh uh!” Stupidwoman increased the volume of its growls.
Thomas" hands shook violently and half of the ladle of water was spilt. When he extended the ladle into the cage, Stupidwoman reached out with her head, and he spilt the rest of the water.
He lowered his head and hurriedly apologized: “Sorry, Master.”
“Continue. Stupidwoman is no longer able to release its magic, it"s now equivalent to a wild dog. Remember this.”
“Yes, Master.”
The second time, Thomas finally managed to pour the water into the basin without a hitch. Stupidwoman roared for a while. Seeing that it could no longer scare Thomas, it began to drink the water.
When Stupidwoman finished drinking, Tremblingwoods was already whirling anxiously outside the cage.
Having tasted the forbidden fruit, it yearned for more.
Liszt coughed: “Thomas, open the side cage.” There were two iron cages, one was for Stupidwoman to dwell in and the other was for Tremblingwoods to enter through.
Fearing that Stupidwoman could escape, the iron cages could be joined together before opening the cage door.
Because it had already done it once yesterday, Tremblingwoods very naturally got into the small iron cage, which was then pushed towards the door of the big iron cage by Thomas and the other servingman. Next, the door was opened and the two iron cages were joined together. Tremblingwoods quickly rushed inside, pounced on Stupidwoman, and began to hump.
The three-day-starved Stupidwoman had no strength to resist.
Everything was over half an hour later.
Stupidwoman was left lying inside the cage, looking absentmindedly at the meshed sky and the white clouds leisurely drifting in the horizon.
Tremblingwoods, on the other hand, was full of vigor, gamboling in the horse field. Every day, it would come to get a slice of heaven.
Its body was getting st.u.r.dier, which could be perceived every day. Its muscles were no longer that swelled. It gradually recovered the normal figure of a Violent Dog. It looked a bit streamlined. However, it had already surpa.s.sed an adult tiger in terms of height and length.
Its magic power was also rising, and it was capable of releasing 45 Rockthorns per day.
Liszt felt more and more that there was hope for Tremblingwoods to evolve into a mid-ranked magic beast. Therefore, its meals were also getting better and better, short of giving it magic beast meat. It was tantamount to feeding it gold coins. Per day, Tremblingwoods ate at least seven times as much as Liszt.
“At least one gold coin per day. Tremblingwoods, you can"t betray my hopes.” Thought Liszt aloud before issuing an order, “Tremblingwoods, release your magic!”
“Woof!”
While running, Tremblingwoods subconscious issued a call and released its magic.
Thud! Thud! Two Rockthorns simultaneously pierced out of the ground in front of it.
“What? It released two Rockthorns at the same time?" Liszt was quite surprised when he saw that two Rockthorns were released at the same time. This was equivalent to a completely new kind of magic.
Only mid-ranked magic beasts could release multiple kinds of magic!
Without giving Liszt time to come back to his senses, the butler Carter"s voice came from behind: “Master, Captain Kosto asked to see you. He claims to have found a treasure in a cave near the dock site.”
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