Chapter 297 In the Name of Truth

This chapter is an extra reward for the "Fantasy Shinigami 11" contest.

Not only do we need to build the woodworking workshop, but we also need to set up a logging yard and a wood storage warehouse. I’ve already decided to build them near the Garden of Thorns.

In the Garden of Thorns that Jie La can influence, three-quarters of it will be planted with magic herbs, one-quarter with ironwood, and a small amount of common fast-growing thorns.

The common fast-growing thorns are the source of various mutated thorns, and I still hold out hope that they will continue to mutate further.

Outside the Garden of Thorns, in Thorn Ridge, everywhere that can be cultivated into farmland will be planted with ironwood. Only small areas will be reserved for planting fast-growing spiny thorns and fast-growing poisonous thorns, just enough to keep them from going extinct.

In the future, Flower Town could actually be renamed Thorn Town.

“WOOAH!”

“WOOAH!”

After returning to the castle, Jie La immediately came out to greet him. When Liszt took the triplets of Rubber Tree Rubber Bugs out of the jade box, she rushed forward, grabbed one, and continued to shout “WOOAH!” and “WOOAH!”

“Jie La, put it in the insect room’s box, don’t drop it!” Liszt quickly intervened.

Fortunately, Jie La understands the limits. She plays with the rubber bugs but never dares to harm them. Because she knows very well that Liszt does not allow it, and the power of their contract forces her to obey.

The three rubber bugs were a little panicked.

After Liszt calmed them down, they began to crawl around the box filled with jade powder, occasionally bumping into other rubber bugs to say hello. They are triplets, their hearts synchronized, and although it’s not clear yet what use this has, it has at least caused the number of Liszt’s rubber bugs to increase to twelve.

The excitement has died down, and he began to think: “With the triplets of rubber bugs, but no triplet rubber tree rubber grass… so, did I actually gain or lose?”

Overall, I lost.

After all, they require three portions of jade powder to feed them, but the range of the rubber tree rubber grass remains the same as that of a single rubber bug.

Wait!

Suddenly, he paused: “There is a difference. At least, we don’t know the range of the rubber tree rubber grass yet. It might be three times that of an ordinary rubber grass. And with three born at once, when it comes time to evolve the little spirits, does that mean there’s a triple success rate?”

Staring at the triplets of rubber bugs crawling lazily, he felt that this mutation would be more than just an increase in numbers.

There must be something special about it, but it just hasn’t been discovered yet.

Unable to figure it out, he dismissed the thought.

Walking through the corridor, he went to visit the mermaid Acheronides. Acheronides still hasn’t succeeded in casting Water Arrow Spray. She is fully focused on engraving the magic array, showing great diligence and seriousness, almost studying magic books all day.

Sometimes Liszt wonders if he should avoid turning the innocent and pure mermaid into someone like Curtis Truth, a mad scientist.

“Acheronides, take a break, don’t get too tired.”

“Not tired at all, brother. Acheronides will soon succeed in engraving the Water Arrow magic array. Hehe, then I’ll be Magician Acheronides… By the way, brother, do you think I should change my name? It seems magicians all take the surname Truth.” Acheronides pondered seriously.

Liszt couldn’t help but smile: “Acheronides Truth, that sounds very imposing.”

Acheronides shook her head and said word by word: “No, it should be Thanassis Truth, Urania Truth, Selene Truth, Leucothea Truth, Phorcys Truth, Bunesseus Truth… Cassandra Acheronides.”

Hearing this long string of names, Liszt couldn’t help but twitch the corner of his mouth. Why would a little mermaid, raised by the sea and having never met her clansmen, give herself such a long name?

Before he could recover from the shock of the name.

Acheronides laughed and said, "Hehe, I'll just listen to you, and call myself Acheronides·Truth." It was just a joke of hers.

He tousled her hair playfully.

In his heart, Liszt sighed. The little sea sprite who once trembled in fear had now learned to joke. Time truly is a sharp knife. He should protect Acheronides even more carefully, to prevent the world's corruption from tainting her innocence.

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The construction of the woodworking workshop progressed rapidly.

The town boasted five carpenters, who led a group of apprentice carpenters. Guided by them, hundreds of serfs toiled for several days and built the woodworking workshop near the Thorn Garden.

The rudimentary earth workshop required no special skills.

The logging site was quickly established, with a few sheds built, and inside them, the fast-growing Iron Thorns were sawed into sections and cut into planks.

The lumber warehouse was even simpler. A piece of land was marked, a few pillars were erected, and a roof woven from wicker and straw was fixed on the pillars, making it a lumber warehouse. The unprocessed Iron Thorns were temporarily stored in the warehouse.

After the completion of the woodworking workshop, Liszt also drew up the designs for several wooden furniture pieces.

"This is the drawer design. Pay close attention. When crafting cabinets and tables, don’t forget to include drawers. Feel free to get creative with the design... This is the curio cabinet, which differs significantly from a bookshelf. A bookshelf is for books, while a curio cabinet is for valuable items, with compartments of various sizes."

Along with the rocking chair, the drawer and curio cabinet were among the new furniture pieces Liszt chose to introduce to the nobles.

In fact, the baby cradle could also be considered, but poor people couldn’t afford cradles made of iron wood, and noble babies had servants to care for them, so there would be no point in inventing it.

Once all the carpenters had the designs, Liszt brought out another new practical household item he had recently thought of. "This is called a clothes hanger, as the name suggests, it's for drying clothes..."

As a noble, he didn’t need to wash or dry clothes; servants did that.

However, while admiring the castle’s most shapely maid, Little Lily, he had noticed that when drying clothes, they were directly laid over a rope. When collecting clothes, especially formal attire like the Frack Abby, they were placed on a wooden crossbar, which easily left creases at the waist.

They had no clothes hangers.

Modern clothes hangers were generally made of wire, but the Sapphire Duchy lacked iron, making iron hangers impossible. A well-polished wooden hanger, with a smooth support, wouldn’t distort the shoulder shape of clothes, making it the perfect choice for drying formal attire, and the material was conveniently available.

Clothes hangers, rocking chairs, drawers, and curio cabinets.

The woodworking workshop would introduce these items gradually.

Although these new pieces of furniture would undoubtedly revolutionize home decor, Liszt didn’t anticipate them generating significant profit. Carpenters employed by other nobles could easily replicate them with just a few glances.

To dominate the market, the quality of the Iron Thorn wood remained crucial.

With the quality of the iron wood and relatively low prices, such household items would undoubtedly be the favorite of minor nobles. By then, the woodworking workshop would produce both household items and supply high-quality Iron Thorn wood for gun shafts and arrow shafts for the Tulip Castle. The Iron Thorn era in Flower Town would soon dawn.

Jie La's name would resonate throughout Coral Island.