Chapter 408: Lack of Craftsmen

It is a mallard.

A very fat and large mallard, with a gray body about the size of a wolf dog, and a head covered in shiny green feathers.

It was not flying, but rather leisurely stepping on the mud, walking from the island towards the shore.

"My lord, it's a... very fat wild duck!" Marcus quietly took down his bow and arrow, preparing to hunt it. "Take it to the ship, oil it, and roast it over charcoal. It’ll make for a nice change of taste."

Having been subtly influenced by the castle, he too had developed a taste for fine cuisine.

Liszt reached out to stop Marcus: "This is not a wild duck. It's a low-level blizzard beast, the mallard, which can release water arrows. Let’s keep an eye out and see how many of these mallards are on the island."

"Low-level blizzard beast?" Marcus raised his eyebrows, becoming much more cautious.

Perhaps low-level blizzard beasts were nothing to elite Earth Knights like Liszt, who were well-equipped and used potions, but to a squire knight like him, they were still a threat.

This mallard had been living leisurely on Red Tree Island for over a month, encountering no danger, and its vigilance had greatly decreased. It strolled around, looking for food. It seemed to have spotted a green caterpillar on a red tree branch, and with a snap, it opened its mouth and shot a water arrow, accurately hitting the green caterpillar.

The green caterpillar was knocked down by the water arrow, and the mallard slowly walked over, opened its mouth, and bit into the caterpillar.

Its flat mouth quickly trembled a few times, then spat out the green caterpillar—or more accurately, it spat out the green fuzz of the caterpillar, as it only ate the flesh.

After eating one, it leisurely walked away to find a new green caterpillar.

It was only then that Liszt stepped out from behind the hidden red tree: "The arrival of the green-haired duck on Red Tree Island is a good thing. Let’s look for the duck eggs laid by the green-haired duck. These creatures don’t bother with nests; their eggs are just scattered all over the place."

Before he could finish speaking, Marcus shouted: "My lord! There's an egg here!"

A large pale green egg, estimated to be three times the size of a normal duck egg. Liszt used his Magic Eye to see the faint blue magic power flowing inside, undoubtedly a fresh green-haired duck egg.

After spending an hour, the group roughly searched Red Tree Island, not only finding twenty green-haired duck eggs but also several fat green-haired ducks. However, the whereabouts of the more than forty hatched ducklings were unknown. Liszt did not find them, probably because they had been hidden by the red mangrove spirit bug, Nami.

Liszt had seen Nami when he found the red tree caterpillar grass. Nami was hiding in the red tree bushes and did not greet Liszt, likely a bit afraid of the squire knights following him.

So Liszt did not force it to show itself.

Spirit bugs, as family heirlooms, didn’t need to be shared with everyone. It was better to enjoy them secretly.

"Carefully hold the green-haired duck eggs. Let’s go back!" Liszt specifically observed Nami’s red tree caterpillar grass, feeling it was just an ordinary red tree, not very useful.

So he didn’t pay much attention and directly returned to the Flower.

With enough samples collected, they could start raising green caterpillars and mallards in Flower Town.

Once the technology was fully mastered, they could expand the breeding scale on Black Horse Island—the mallard would definitely become a highly valuable blizzard beast business in Liszt’s hands.

On the ship, Liszt instructed the squire knights to cushion the duck eggs with cloth and lay them out flat on the deck so that the sunlight could continuously shine on them, avoiding any delay in their hatching.

"Advisor Gort, expedite the understanding of the breeding techniques for green caterpillars and mallards."

"As you wish."

"The seven craftsmen I brought back, you also need to arrange them as soon as possible." Liszt also remembered that he had sent Marcus to search for craftsmen in Mane City, then directly sent them to the seaside, sneaking them into the fleet. There were a total of seven craftsmen and their families.

He had originally planned to continue searching for craftsmen, but unfortunately, the Earl called it off. Liszt didn’t want to risk losing significant gains for minor ones, so only these seven craftsmen could be brought back.

"Fred Jingrao's work is easy to arrange, I will assign him a dedicated drilling team," Gort said with some excitement. "His arrival is very important for Black Horse Island. It's difficult to obtain water in Port Town, as the nearby rivers have too little water, so we must drill wells to get water." Fred Jingrao is the only craftsman among the seven who has reached the master level, and he is also an indispensable well driller for the territory—not an oil driller, but a water well driller. His surname also originates from drilling; "Jingrao" is a wooden tool used to fix the well walls.

It can be said that Fred's relocation to Black Horse Island has solved the island's water source problem.

Gort continued: "The paper craftsman Lavagne can have a thick paper workshop built for him, so we can produce thick paper ourselves; the shoemaker Flatong can prepare a shoe shop in Flower Town, I believe the business should do well; the two carvers can be assigned to the woodworking workshop to cooperate with carpenters in carving furniture; the umbrella craftsman Gomez can also prepare an umbrella shop."

"I remember there is also a gelder?" Liszt inquired.

"Yes, the gelder Dwight, I asked him yesterday, he can geld cattle and horses, and has gelded horses for the nobles of Mane City, those warhorses all originated from his work." Gort is now increasingly adapting to his role, working diligently, "The batch of mixed-blood horses in the stables is about to foal, and the future gelding work can be handed over to Dwight."

Counting up.

The Fire Dragon mares and other mares have been pregnant for eleven months, and it's about time for them to give birth.

This is the first batch of horses mixed with Black Blood horse bloodline, the quality is uncertain, but Liszt holds high hopes for them—a purebred Black Blood horse community cannot be developed without decades of breeding, making it difficult to arm an Earth Knight order. But they can continuously breed, producing hybrid horses.

As long as the mares keep up, these hybrid horses can quickly expand in scale, easily arming an Earth Knight order—he is already the Viscount of Black Horse Island, capable of supporting an Earth Knight order of over a hundred people, to fight for him.

Well driller.

Paper craftsman, shoemaker, umbrella craftsman, carver, gelder.

These seven selected craftsmen barely cover some industries that Flower Town lacks, but to build Black Horse Island well, more craftsmen are needed—pot menders, vinegar brewers, butchers, scale makers, salt workers, knife sharpeners, pen makers, bamboo weavers, mold makers, wax workers, ink workers, etc.

Even comedic actors are needed, as this is part of building a spiritual civilization.

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After returning to Flower Town, the green-feathered duck eggs continued to incubate in the sun.

Liszt then went to the magic workshop to inquire about Cris's progress on the magic notes, and to his surprise, she had already answered all the questions within just one day.

"Sir, the magician who posed these questions is very talented, but his experience is too immature, as if he is exploring on his own, many common sense understandings are wrong. I have temporarily answered the questions in this magic notebook, if you need, I can write a detailed basic magic teaching book for you."

Cris, treating Liszt as a lifesaver or a sponsor of magic research, is very dedicated.

Liszt of course would not refuse: "Then I will trouble you, it's for a distant cousin of mine, she doesn't like to cultivate mana, but is full of interest in magic."

Cris smiled: "If she has any questions, she can come and ask me, I will tell her everything I know."

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