139 – The 500 Serves Arrive
The arrival of the serfs left the town"s officials very enthusiastic. After all, there was a shortage of people at present.
Liszt made preparations to travel to the Coral City to receive the 500 serfs. Although the weather of late summer to early autumn was still hot, but the sun was no longer as cruel and the frac habillé, the emblem of aristocracy, could be borne.
He no longer had to ride a horse.
The castle had just purchased a brand new carriage, which the servants decorated meticulously. They inserted a flag that was embroidered with a purple-black tulip on top of the carriage.
The Tulip Family had its own flag, a scarlet tulip, which was the first type of tulips to breed a tulip sprite worm. Unfortunately, said tulip sprite worm only managed to evolve into a tulip lesser sprite before dying. The current tulip greater sprite was bred from a tulip magic ingredient.
After his enfeoffment, Liszt was no longer a formal member of the Tulip Family. Therefore, it was no longer appropriate for him to use the scarlet tulip flag.
He chose the Black Tulip as his design. The Black Tulip flag was used by the convoys of the Flower Caravan and the Thorns Caravan.
By now, everyone on the Coral Island should be familiar with it. Seeing the Black Tulip flag, people would know that it was the count"s third child, the Baron of the Flower Town, Liszt, who had been in the limelight lately.
Black Tulip Carriage was the name of this new carriage.
The coachman was the One-Eyed Barton. As there weren"t many horses in the Flower Town, his workload was rather light, so he served as a coachman occasionally. Doing so, he could also see the world.
“Master, according to your instructions, I picked the most healthy-looking black nightshade, dug it out along with the earth, and then placed it into a pot. As you can see, its fruits are cyan, they have yet to mature and turn black. There are also some flowers still blooming. Old Madam will love it.”
“Very good, water it and place it in the carriage.” Instructed Liszt.
The black nightshade sprite worm originated from the black nightshade grown by Madam Penélope. Therefore, Liszt re-created the potted black nightshade for the old lady.
Courtesy begets reciprocity.
Conveniently, he would show off his capability before the old lady, who always disliked him just because he was handsome!
“Master, are you taking Tremblingwoods along?”
“I"ll be taking Tremblingwoods everywhere I go, it"s my loyal guard. Earth Knights are no match for it.” Said Liszt proudly.
He was very pleased with Tremblingwoods. The Bloodline Fruit wasn"t wasted on it. It could already release several Rockthorns at the same time. At best, it could release 6 Rockthorns at the same time.
According to Marcus, Gort and the rest, Tremblingwoods could already be cla.s.sified as a mid-ranked magic beast! Although Tremblingwoods was a fairly weak mid-ranked magic beast. Specially when compared to the Purple Sand Crocodile, which could suppress the Coral Island Knights; it could only be regarded as a rookie. However, a mid-ranked magic beast was a mid-ranked magic beast nonetheless.
It went beyond the shackles of low-ranked magic beasts and could release two kinds of magic – Rockthorns and ‘Multiple Rockthorns".
Moreover, it still had room for growth. At the very most, it was merely 7 months old. Perhaps after a while, it could comprehend more kinds of magic.
With Tremblingwoods, he had practically nothing to fear on the Coral Island.
Carter looked at the mighty and majestic Tremblingwoods, and said jokingly: “It"s also good to take it along so that it doesn"t always hover around Stupid Woman. According to Mr. Marcus, Stupidwoman should be pregnant by now. They"re no longer fit to mate.”
“Indeed, Tremblingwoods is still growing, it shouldn"t be depleting itself.” Liszt continued seriously, “In addition, Stupidwoman should be supplied with adequate nutrients from now on… If it"s determined that it isn"t pregnant, then it"ll be necessary to cut off the supply again to curb its fierceness.”
It went hungry for many days and could only occasionally have a meal. After eating, it still had to be raped by Tremblingwoods.
Stupidwoman had fallen on hard times and its fierceness was being curbed little by little. When it saw Liszt and the other humans now, it no longer chose to growl at them. It only showed fear.
No matter how clever, a magic beast was still just a kind of beast.
Using the boiling frog approach would teach Stupidwoman to fear Liszt and the other humans. Even if it recovers its strength in the future, it still wouldn"t dare to rebel against Liszt and the other humans. Just like lions in the circus, who were whipped from small by their trainers, didn"t dare to flee and had no imposing bearing. [1]
Liszt got a lot of inspirations in view of Stupidwoman"s fast change in att.i.tude. Gradually, a vague idea on how to handle Blessedcurls was forming in his mind. It was about time for this Wind Peregrine Falcon that kept eating more and getting fatter to fall on hard times.
He dressed appropriate clothing and the carriage was ready.
Gort also hurried over along with Isaiah, Blair, and Röhm Weinfa.s.s, followed by several clerks. They were going to receive the slaves together.
Meanwhile, Marcus also hurried over: “Sir, do you need the knight squad to accompany you?”
“There"s no need, Teacher Marcus. The logging team"s work is equally important.”
The convoy set out after a simply farewell.
Despite the st.u.r.dy physique of an Earth Knight, Liszt still felt that riding a carriage was much more comfortable than riding a horse. With wind blowing from the opened windows on all side and the carriage shaking through the journey, Liszt was quickly rocked into asleep. Meanwhile, Tremblingwoods also wanted to get onto the carriage and make itself comfortable, yet it was forcibly kicked down by Liszt.
“A dog that wants to ride a carriage instead of following after the wheels, preposterous!”
In fact, the main reason for this was that Tremblingwoods was too big. If it were to board the carriage, Liszt would be so squeezed that he wouldn"t have any s.p.a.ce to stretch his legs. Moreover, it weighed close to 800 catty. Once it got aboard, the two horses pulling the carriage would get quickly exhausted.
After leaving the Thorns Ridge"s road, they entered the Coral Island"s common dirt road, giving rise to a huge cloud of dust.
After following the convoy for a while, Tremblingwoods turned into ‘Tremblingdust". Liszt hurriedly pulled down the curtains and covered the windows. At around 10 o"clock in the morning, the convoy smoothly reached the Coral City.
“Adviser Gort, take Blair and Isaiah and go discus the details with Mr. Frank. I"ll go visit my grandmother first.”
“As you wish, Sir.”
Separated from the rest of the convoy, the carriage proceeded to the villa adjacent to the Coral City. When the castle"s servants saw the Black Tulip flag floating above the carriage, they knew who was coming. The butler quickly led the servants greet him.
“Young Master Liszt, I"m so happy to see you.”
“Where"s Grandmother?”
“Old Madam is chatting with Young Mistress Lvera in the castle. Earlier today, Young Mistress Lvera came to the castle to keep Old Madam company.”
“Lvera came as well?” Liszt wasn"t surprised.
He he saw the carriage with a flag with a particular design parked at the gate of the castle. It was Lvera"s carriage. The flag"s design was designed by herself. Reportedly, it was an abstract a.s.sembly of a hot spring, birds, tulips, and a dame. However, Liszt couldn"t make those things out in the design.
As he entered the castle, he said to the servingman Tom: “Take good care of Tremblingwoods, don"t let it hurt anyone.”
“Understood, Master.” Tom looked a bit nervous as he pulled Tremblingwoods by the rope. Previously, the one looking after Tremblingwoods was Thomas.
Today, Thomas had to follow Liszt, leaving Tremblingwoods to him.
With his strength, he couldn"t restrict Tremblingwoods, he could only try to keep pace with it.
Fortunately, Tremblingwoods was trained to be very obedient. As Liszt didn"t let it run around, it wouldn"t run around.
“Look who came to visit.” When Madam Penélope saw Liszt and before he could say h.e.l.lo, the old lady had already called out, “Lvera, didn"t I say that there were private dealings between this boy and the boy Levis. He couldn"t wait to come when the caravan returned.”
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