Chapter 344 Aladdin’s Magic Lamp

The chances of a spirit bug evolving into a small spirit are very low. Only a few out of every twenty spirit bugs might successfully evolve, and even then, the risk of failure is high.

As for whether the evolution probability is related to transplanting bug grass, Liszt isn’t sure.

There is no evidence to suggest a connection between the two.

When Jie La was still a Thorn Bug, her bug grass was in Tulip Castle. It wasn’t until she migrated to Flower Town that she began to evolve and finally succeeded. Of course, the help of the Smoke Mission was a factor, but this at least shows that migrating the bug grass can lead to evolution and success.

"Maybe migrating the bug grass for spirit bugs is similar to how the rubber bug trio uses their Three Phase Power?" Liszt suddenly thought.

The Three Phase Power should be considered a type of magic that doesn’t affect the evolution of the rubber bugs. Otherwise, the Smoke Mission’s ability to unearth their potential would be harming Liszt.

That wouldn’t align with the consistent style of the Smoke Mission.

"When the rubber bug trio use the Three Phase Power, they recover after some rest. Similarly, spirit bugs recover after resting post bug grass migration. Maybe for spirit bugs, it’s like a magician casting magic. It certainly consumes some energy, but it also serves as training?"

By continuously casting the Three Phase Power and migrating the bug grass, the spirit bugs' mastery of "magic" is honed?

This theory doesn’t seem too solid. The Three Phase Power might be explained as "training for improvement," but migrating bug grass can hardly be considered training. Which spirit bug would casually uproot its bug grass—as a plant, shouldn’t it just be steadily growing in the field?

"The foundation of spirit bugs lies in their bug grass. Migrating the bug grass should be considered damaging to their roots, while the Three Phase Power shouldn’t be..." Liszt can only judge it this way.

At least the rubber bug trio are currently in good condition. There’s no visible negative impact from having used the Three Phase Power once.

He waved his hand.

The Smoke Mission surfaced.

It was still the original mission and hadn’t been completed due to the bug grass migration.

"Probably because the blight in the wheat field hasn’t been fully resolved, the mission can’t be considered complete. Let’s wait a couple of days and see if that’s the case."

...

After resolving the conflict with the Wheat Bug, Liszt focused his attention on Elkson and Glanny.

These two magicians showed no sign of handing over the soul storage container. One was calmly making potions and cracking jokes at the banquet, while the other was buried in the creation of the Sea-Stabilizing Pearl, unwilling to even take a bath. Their apprentices were also diligently working without any abnormalities.

There was no word about the soul storage container from any other sources.

This left Liszt feeling frustrated and uneasy. Watching the two magicians indulge at the banquet, he wasn’t very happy: "It seems that if I don’t force them, they won’t hand over the soul storage container."

Just as he was considering how to force the two to surrender the soul storage container, an unexpected situation arose the next day.

A member of the bug protection team came to report that a horn had sounded by the sea—this was a signal for communication between him and the mermaid Acheronides. He had instructed the team members guarding the coconut bug grass to report to him whenever they heard the horn.

So.

He understood that Acheronides was looking for him. If it wasn’t something important, Acheronides generally wouldn’t blow the horn. She preferred to quietly stay in her room reading books and studying magic.

Upon arriving at the seaside villa, Acheronides said somewhat flustered, "Brother, I found a woman unconscious in the sea. I’m not sure what to do."

Following the direction Acheronides pointed, Liszt saw a pale woman lying on the bed in the second-floor wooden room.

Her pale face and soaked clothes, clearly a magic cloak, made her look almost lifeless. She was a magician.

And then.

Liszt saw a teapot-like jar on the bedside table.

"A soul jar?" Liszt's mind raced with inspiration, realizing his previous guess had been wrong. It was likely that Elkson and Glanny had nothing to do with the soul jar. The clue that fate had guided him to was the unconscious magician lying before him. "Acheronides, what's the story with this teapot?"

"It was hidden in her clothes and was in the way, so I took it out and put it on the table," Acheronides said nervously. "Brother, is she already dead?"

Her breathing was steady.

"She's not dead yet," Liszt murmured, stroking his chin. He didn’t think the magician’s unconscious state was due to drowning, as the breathing of a drowned person wouldn’t be so normal.

Her heartbeat was also steady.

"It seems she’s not drowning; she’s just unconscious... There’s no doctor in town, but a few elders know how to brew herbal remedies. I’ll ask them to come take a look, and Marcus might also know how to help," Liszt told Acheronides. "You should step aside for a moment."

"Okay." Acheronides returned to her shell and swam back into the sea.

Liszt ordered the squire knight to immediately fetch some people, while he stayed to watch over the female magician. As he looked at the unconscious magician, he was at a loss—he didn’t know how to save her, and only knew the theory behind artificial respiration, but it wasn’t needed.

After all, she was breathing.

He picked up the teapot-like jar from the table and began examining it. It was made of copper, but clearly wasn’t designed for holding tea. Only Liszt had access to real tea.

Everyone else drank a type of milk tea made from red tea fruit. They had no use for teapots.

"It looks like the *magic lamp from One Thousand and One Nights*!" Liszt wondered as he rubbed the copper teapot, hoping that a blue smoke genie would suddenly appear.

He had expected to be granted three wishes.

But nothing happened.

He shook the teapot, but it was empty and had no lid. It seemed to be a single piece, with only the spout serving as an opening. "Is it really a container for souls?" After using the Magic Eye, he found no trace of magic, making it appear like an ordinary teapot.

A teapot carried by a magician couldn't just be an ordinary item.

But Liszt had no idea. He put down the teapot and carefully examined the unconscious magician. Her pale face gave her a deathly appearance. She had a fairly ordinary appearance, with a few freckles. Her hair was brown, and she stood about 1.65 meters tall, with a slim build.

With no one around, he didn't have to hold back. He carefully searched through her clothes, looking for anything that might identify her.

In the end, all he found around her neck was a pendant.

The pendant held a silver coin—not a coin that could be used for trade, but a lightweight, circular metal piece that felt somewhat like mithril.

On the front was a triangular symbol with an eye in the center—the mark of magicians, known as the Eye of Truth. Below the triangle were a few wavy lines, likely representing water.

On the back was a tiny line of serpent tongue: "May your journey to seek truth be guided by the vast sea of knowledge, Cris Truth."