Chapter 160: Prepare to Become a Medicine Jar

The sun rises in the east.

Hiddleston, chained, has already been tugging at his chain back and forth, waiting for Liszt to take him for a walk.

At the castle's dining table, Liszt flips through Granny Truth's collection of books while enjoying breakfast. As always, the meal is sumptuous, but he focuses on savoring the milk.

Whether it's psychological or real, the milk that was merely good now tastes exceptionally fine.

It truly lives up to its reputation as dragon breed cow's milk!

"Mr. Carter, have someone notify Advisor Gort to come to the castle after nine o'clock."

"Yes, sir."

"Oh, and tell Mrs. Mo Sen that from now on, I want two cups of milk every morning and two cups of milk tea every evening."

"As you wish."

Draining the cup in one gulp, Carter takes the cup to find Mrs. Mo Sen to brew another cup. Liszt closes the book titled "Sixteen Small Techniques to Enhance Fireball Spells," leans back in his chair, and plans his next steps.

To reach the elite rank,

it's difficult to further enhance one's aura just by eating meat and drinking milk.

At this point, he needs the assistance of magical potions to expand his body's cells' ability to produce aura, thus continuously increasing his total aura. Once he reaches the critical point of storing aura in his body, he can make a qualitative leap and break through.

"From today onwards, I'll be a potion addict."

Liszt doesn't know how Sky Knights become Dragon Knights, but he is very clear about how Earth Knights become Sky Knights. His father was a Sky Knight, and he naturally passed down his breakthrough experience to his children.

In short, it's all about taking potions!

"The black tulips from the first three years will all need to be handled by Levis, which won't be easy. But the flame mushrooms, I can keep for myself. Flame mushrooms possess fire elemental magic and are excellent materials for making potions that enhance fire elemental aura." He thinks of Glanny, "Glanny is proficient in fire magic; I can ask him to make the potions."

Potions refer both to plant-based potions and finished magical elixirs.

Most plant-based potions have chaotic attributes and assist in enhancing various types of auras. A few, like flame mushrooms, have distinct attributes and can be made into targeted magical elixirs with better effects than chaotic ones.

One is general, the other specialized, and their values are hard to compare.

But for Liszt, the magical elixirs made from flame mushrooms are the most suitable potions.

Mages certainly know how to make potions—magical equipment and elixirs. With these two skills, mages can rise to the upper-middle class of society.

Otherwise, pure mages, not subject to the constraints of noble power, would have long been overshadowed by knights.

In this world, knights have an absolute advantage in both numbers and strength. Magicians, despite being said to stand at the pinnacle of power alongside Dragon Knights, capable of challenging dragons alone, are no match for Dragon Knights. The combination of dragons and knights is not a simple addition but a qualitative leap.

Thus, knights are mainstream, while mages are non-mainstream.

His thoughts drift a bit, but Liszt quickly brings them back, continuing to ponder: "Although Glanny's personality is a bit stubborn and his IQ is low, he still falls within the realm of normalcy. Perhaps I can persuade him to settle in Flower Town... He likes Coral City because it has brothels, but I can find him a wife."

Mages are usually single, dedicating themselves to the pursuit of truth and forsaking worldly constraints.

But mages are human too, and solving problems together is more attractive than doing it alone.

"In any case, I need to earn money. Only with money can I buy more potions." He somewhat regrets giving Levis all the shares of black tulips for the first three years. At that time, he thought it would take him at least three years to reach the bottleneck of his aura. Otherwise, producing and selling potions himself could save a lot of money.

There are too many expenses, and once this batch of demonic beast meat runs out, he will need to purchase more from outside to maintain his training speed, which is a huge expense.

Potions are one expense, demonic beast meat another, and it's difficult for a lord of a small town to support such costs.

Even with his seafood business, Liszt isn't sure if he can sustain it. Cutting expenses is not possible, so he must think more about increasing income.

He needs to build more workshops and strive to turn Flower Town into a center for agricultural product processing.

He also needs to quickly conquer Black Horse Island, where the trade of Black Dragon horses will surely bring in a large amount of gold.

At the same time, he must accelerate the construction of the Knight Squad. Having no knights guarding the territory is not a healthy state.

"Fortunately, there are dragon breed cows providing me with rich nutrition, alleviating the pressure on food." A few cups of dragon breed cow's milk each day provide at least the same nutritional value as demonic beast meat.

Of course,

that's assuming they are truly dragon breed cows.

...

After walking the dog,

Gort has already arrived at the castle.

Without a doubt, he has received another task from Liszt regarding the dairy farm's improvements—something he has grown accustomed to given Liszt's unpredictable actions.

"As you wish, the cows in the dairy farm will receive the same treatment as your Black Dragons!"

Sending Gort away,

Liszt rides his horse with his retinue straight to Wheat Village. He intends to inspect the progress of Glanny and Brad's work and urge them to complete their tasks soon.

Twelve retinue knights follow him, creating a formidable presence.

After the Logging Team leveled Thorns Ridge, Marcus and the retinue knights' mission ended, and the retinue knights returned to guard Liszt. As for Marcus, he has a new task: training the children brought by the serfs.

Currently, among the local and purchased serfs in Flower Town, there are 354 children aged between three and ten.

Marcus needed to divide them into several groups based on gender, age, physical condition, intelligence, and other factors. Liszt would then arrange suitable instructors to train these children—future loyal retainers who must be groomed from a young age to become Earth Knights.

"Lord!"

The patrol guards stationed outside Glanny and Brad’s house immediately saluted upon seeing Liszt.

Magic apprentice Charlie opened the door, poking his head out and instinctively shrinking back: "Baron, do you want to come in?" The old Charlie was impolite, but the new Charlie revered and feared Liszt—simply because Liszt had once frightened him with Hiddleston, causing him to wet his pants.

Since then, Charlie dared not show any disrespect when he saw Liszt.

"Is your teacher working?"

"Yes, the teacher is making the second crystal chandelier."

Liszt entered the house and soon saw the busy Glanny and Brad. Brad had already started carving the fifth piece of crystal, while Glanny had just completed one chandelier.

He couldn’t help but urge them: "Speed up, Mr. Glanny, Brad. I’ve had enough of the flickering candlelight; I urgently need the crystal chandeliers."