Chapter 411: The Knight’s Glory

"Five spirit bugs at once?"

Liszt almost exclaimed in surprise. He had already been amazed by previous rewards of three rubber bugs and four bloodfruit spirit bugs, but he was completely unprepared for the sudden reward of five spirit bugs, each of a different type.

"Just two days ago, I was complaining about not harvesting a single spirit bug for over a month, and now I get hit with this concentrated surprise!"

"The smoked grass spirit bug is probably in the smoked grass field—should be easy to find; the green tea tree spirit bug has to be on one of those three green tea trees; the fig spirit bug... I don’t think there are any figs in Flower Town or Black Horse Island, right? Wait, my grandmother just gave me a potted plant—could that be a fig?"

He hurried over to the carriage and ordered the squire knight, "Open the carriage door—I need to check that potted plant."

After the carriage door was opened, through the Magic Eye’s vision, the potted plant was glowing with a magic reaction, with a noticeable red magic gathering on one of the purple-red fruits.

"Take good care of this potted plant—not a single leaf should be damaged!"

"Yes, my lord."

As he looked away from the fig potted plant, Liszt suddenly didn't know how to describe his feelings. He’d just been complaining about his grandmother always giving away potted plants, thinking it was pointless.

To his surprise, this was already the second potted plant she’d given him that contained a spirit bug.

"Looks like I’ll have to visit my grandmother’s balcony more often, to see if a third spirit bug might show up." He was thrilled—freshly ennobled and now gifted five spirit bugs as a celebration. "So, the fig bug, smoked grass bug, and green tea bug are accounted for—just the blackberry bug and pea bug left."

Blackberries grow wild all over Coral Island and are a common snack for the locals, resembling raspberries or mulberries, with a taste that can be both sour and sweet. Maybe because wild blackberries are everywhere, no one bothers to grow them.

Though Mrs. Abi does make a blackberry pancake pie—basically a pancake topped with blackberries.

The taste... well, it’s edible.

"Flower Town and Black Horse Island both have a lot of wild blackberries. Without any leads, finding the blackberry bug will be tough." Liszt frowned, then thought about the other pea bug.

Peas are a staple for the common folk.

Every household grows peas in their backyard. Mature peas are ground into flour and mixed with wheat to make dense black bread, which is a staple for commoners. Younger peas can be used as a vegetable side dish, eaten with bread—Liszt quite likes peas.

Especially fried green peas.

Like the "American peas" he often ate before his transmigration, they taste great.

"Almost every household grows peas, but there are no large-scale pea fields. I wonder in whose home this pea bug will be born. I hope this household is smart enough to notice the anomaly of the pea bug grass early and report it to the office, so as not to damage my pea bug."

The territory's policy is that discovering magic herbs, spirit bugs, or developing new technologies all come with high rewards.

Encouraging the town residents to explore the new world.

However, not many actually receive this reward, but the policy is still warmly supported by the town residents, everyone hoping to be the lucky one.

Therefore.

Liszt is not too worried about his spirit bugs; what is meant to come will come. He admired the scenery along the way, feeling that today's scenery was exceptionally beautiful.

Perhaps only Meng Jiao's poem could describe his current mood—"The spring breeze is proud, the horse's hooves are swift, in one day I see all the flowers of Chang'an."

He couldn't help but reach out and touch the viscount's medal hanging on his chest, then took it off. The high-profile moment had passed, and it was time to be more stable. The viscount's medal, an unnecessary decoration, no longer needed to be worn.

"Made of brass, I wonder how many copper coins it could make."

Liszt thought.

The medals for different ranks are made of different materials. When the king ennobled a duke, it is said that the medal was made of mithril, a magic metal; the marquis's medal is made of gold.

The earl's medal is made of silver, the viscount's medal is made of brass, and the baron's medal is made of fine steel. As for the knight lord's medal, it is made of wrought iron.

These medals are only used once during the ennoblement ceremony or worn at high-level banquets. They are rarely taken out at other times and are not used as proof of identity.

In Liszt's castle, there is also a Flower Town baron medal made of fine steel, which he has never worn.

He handed the medal to the squire knight for safekeeping.

Liszt continued to review the smoke mission, and a new mission had been released.

"Mission: As the new viscount, with an independent island as a fief, the next step is naturally to have a named castle worthy of one's status. Please select a suitable location to build the castle. Reward: Advanced mana skill manual."

At first glance at the mission reward, his eyes lit up with excitement, feeling that he was enveloped in the glory of knighthood today. But after calming down, he couldn't help but chuckle to himself.

He knew where this mission reward came from—during the Iron Horse Island campaign, while plundering, an advanced mana skill manual titled "Thousand Thunderbolts Shaking the Sky" was found in Parsley Castle. So he requested the earl to use this manual for a trade, to exchange for an advanced skill manual suitable for fire attribute mana.

The earl naturally wouldn't deny his son's request, and indeed, the family had no knights capable of using thunder attribute mana.

"Although I know that smoke missions don't conjure rewards out of thin air, but... this kind of reward that would have been achieved without the smoke mission is really a bit odd."

Like the birth of a spirit bug, he truly needs the hints from the smoke mission to tug at the threads of fate.

In this situation, there's no need for the smoke mission to intervene—but since the smoke mission has already stepped in, Liszt is quite at a loss.

He now has two options: one is to wait for the advanced mana skill manual to arrive, which would enable him to alter the mission and issue a new one; the other option is to complete the mission.

"Simply selecting a suitable location to build a castle, not actually constructing it now, so this mission isn't difficult." Since there's no difficulty, he naturally opts to complete it, ensuring a double insurance for the advanced mana skill manual suitable for his use.

Because he has gradually felt that his drug-taking progress is smooth, his strength is improving rapidly, far surpassing his brother Levis.

He compared the total amount of mana between himself and Levis and found that the mana in his body had significantly surpassed Levis's.

Levis has been taking drugs for several years, while Liszt has been taking them for less than a year.

"In one year of taking drugs, I have surpassed Levis. Perhaps in another year or two, I can really be promoted to sky knight before the age of twenty! Scientific drug-taking is indeed effective... and I have dragon milk to increase nutrition, green tea to digest food, and blizzard beasts' meat every day, and the meat of the six-headed king sea snake hasn't been finished yet."

It can be said that relying on his own harvest, his drug-taking methods are no less than those of the children of great nobles.

"By the way, I also have nightshade, the auxiliary magic herb nightshade, I wonder if it will enhance my drug-taking."

While thinking.

He has already returned to Flower Town.

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