The Mighty Dragons Are Dead

Chapter 0577 Ten Kinds of Abandoned Cordyceps (Third Update, 10,000 Coins Reward Celebration 1/2)

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This chapter is a reward update for the milestone "Just Naming Things".

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Time flew by, and it was the beginning of June before long.

The Abandoned Cordyceps trade delegation agreed upon with Count Jonas Glaux finally arrived at Black Horse Island, led by Jonas' son Jobs Moonflower, a formal member of the Blueblood Knight Order.

"Viscount, allow me to introduce the heads of the families in our team, this being Raswiya White Glutinous Rice, the second son of the Marquis of Leather Island..." Jobs introduced a total of four offspring of the Nobles, two sons of Marquises, and two sons of Earls, himself included, making it five families.

Liszt warmly welcomed these young sprouts of the Nobles, showing them around Black Horse Island for half a day before proceeding to start the negotiations.

The Abandoned Cordyceps that Jobs' family controlled were Blue Pine Mushrooms, with the Water Attribute; Raswiya's family had Golden Cordyceps, with the Earth Attribute; the other three are the Dark Attribute Black Truffle, the Ice Attribute Monkey Head Mushroom, and the Thunder Attribute Horse Bladder Fungus.

Each family brought not just the mushroom strains and secret recipes for the ingredients but also ten serfs skilled in cultivating Abandoned Cordyceps.

Liszt could exchange technology separately and, if he wanted these serfs, he must offer in exchange serfs who knew how to cultivate Flame Mushrooms.

He had already selected fifty serfs, all without families, for the exchange.

Each family made a separate exchange and agreed upon a treaty forbidding the unrestricted spread of these Abandoned Cordyceps—each type of cordyceps had its own distribution range, and uncontrolled spreading would inevitably cause great harm to the holders.

Based on the quality, yield, and use of each type of Abandoned Cordyceps, there was some variation in the need for compensation with Gold Coins. However, overall, not only did Liszt not have to pay out of pocket for the Flame Mushrooms, but he also made a slight profit of eight hundred Gold Coins—Flame Mushrooms have the Fire Attribute and are widely used.

After all, there are many knights with Fire Attribute Dou Qi, and the Flame Magic Potions extracted from Flame Mushrooms were of decent quality, naturally making them more expensive.

And so,

with the conclusion of the Abandoned Cordyceps trade, the domain of Black Horse Island suddenly gained five new types of special Magic Potions.

Yet Liszt, with ulterior motives in his heart, learned from these five Noble heirs of more Noble Landlords that possessed Abandoned Cordyceps varieties.

He found out that besides Flame Mushrooms, there were a total of eight types of Abandoned Cordyceps in the Duchy of Sapphire.

Due to low production and scarcity, ordinary people had no clear understanding of what exactly Abandoned Cordyceps were.

Five of them had already been traded to Liszt; the remaining three were not considered by Count Jonas due to overlaps in their territories.

These three types of Abandoned Cordyceps are—White Ghost Brush from the domain of Earl Shalir Blue Jacaranda from Thunder Sound City, with the Water Attribute; Large Chicken Fir from the domain of Earl Bros Butterfly Orchid on Red Sand Island, with the Earth Attribute; and Green Agaric from the domain of Viscount Tewis of Fallen Leaves City Poplar, with the Wind Attribute.

After the five Noble heirs left Black Horse Island with the spores, recipes, documentation, and serfs for the Flame Mushrooms,

Liszt schemed in his mind: "Blue Pine Mushrooms, Black Truffles, Golden Cordyceps, Monkey Head Mushrooms, and Horse Bladder Fungus—I've traded away my Flame Mushrooms. But I have not only Flame Mushrooms; I also have Ice Snow Flame Mushrooms that I cultivate in the winter, and I wonder if they will restrict each other."

Ice Snow Flame Mushrooms are a mutated variety of Flame Mushrooms.

"I'll try planting them this winter, and if there are no limitations, I can use the Ice Snow Flame Mushrooms to trade once more. I'll get Large Chicken Fir, Green Agaric, and White Ghost Brush... With that, I'll have ten types of Abandoned Cordyceps, and planting ten thousand acres won't be an issue!"

Ten thousand acres of Abandoned Cordyceps, the Magic Potions produced, would exceed what the Giant Algae Greater Elf Pike could produce.

It's like having another Greater Elf in the territory.

Delightful!

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The joy from the Abandoned Cordyceps just passed, and there was a breakthrough in the Smoke Mission, after continuous and unwavering care for Thorn Minor Elf Jela, he finally completed the mission.

"Mission completed, reward: Mutated Thorn variant with Fire Attribute Magic Potion properties."

Liszt was startled, "Rapid Growth Magic Thorn with Fire Attribute?" The original mission description for the Rapid Growth Magic Thorn was a Magic Potion variant with chaotic properties belonging to a Mutated Thorn. Now, with Fire Attribute added, there is no doubt that its chaotic properties have mutated into Fire Attribute.

The value of a Magic Potion with chaotic properties and one with a specialized attribute is not necessarily higher or lower than the other.

However, for Liszt, of course, the Rapid Growth Magic Thorn with Fire Attribute is of higher value, because both he and the Little Fire Dragon share the Fire Attribute.

Fire Attribute Magic Potions have the greatest benefit to their potion-taking enhancement effect.

In over eight hundred acres of Thorn Magic Potion fields, Liszt searched meticulously and finally found a Mutated Thorn at a corner glowing with red magic radiance.

He named this thorn the Rapid Growth Fire Thorn.

He planned to plant Rapid Growth Fire Thorns all around Jela's Cordyceps, and for the other two Thorn Bugs' Cordyceps, he would continue to plant Rapid Growth Magic Thorns—perhaps in the future the Rapid Growth Magic Thorns would continue to mutate.

"Jela, well done!" Liszt turned his head and gave Jela, who was squatting on his shoulder, a peck.

Jela immediately laughed out loud, mixing in a "woo-hoo" sound.

Liszt found her more and more pleasing to the eye.

It's not just about the "first time" attachment to Jela, but more importantly, the thorns mutated by Jela all have the "Rapid Growth" property, growing much faster than other plants. Like the Rapid Growth Magic Thorn, with the enhancement of Cordyceps, it can be harvested four times a year, which is even faster than growing wheat.

As for now.

Liszt also discovered that the thorns influenced by Jela have a strong "mutation" property—Rapid Growth Thorn, Rapid Growth Poison Thorn, Rapid Growth Spiky Thorn, Rapid Growth Magic Thorn, Rapid Growth Iron Thorns, and the latest Rapid Growth Fire Thorn, mutating into six new varieties of thorns all together.

"However, when Jela's Cordyceps affects the mutation of the thorns, it seems to always carry an intense emotional hue?"

Initially, the Thorn Bug, not reconciled to the end of its life, erupted powerfully and mutated into five different thorns, finally breaking free from the shackles of fate and evolving into the Thorn Minor Elf.

Now, after feeling aggrieved, with no outlet for her rage, Jela mutates the Rapid Growth Fire Thorn.

He looked at the now tired and dozing Jela, narrowing his eyes: "Maybe in the future, I should often 'stimulate' Jela a bit? Maybe one day, it will stimulate her into becoming a Greater Elf?" Of all the elves, he loves Jela the most and hopes that she can keep evolving.

To become a Greater Elf with a two-hundred-year lifespan, or even a Dragon Elf with a five-hundred-year lifespan, staying by his side—fittingly, he plans to one day become the Dragon Domain Landlord, probably living for four to five hundred years, too.

So stimulation is a must!

As for how to stimulate, that's another story.

The drowsy Jela, thinking about sleep, has no idea of the plans her master is making, nor does she know how her future life will be full of waves and changes.

At this moment.

Liszt had already shifted his attention to the latest mission.

"Mission: All the Abandoned Cordyceps have finished trading. Blue Pine Mushroom, Black Truffle, Golden Cordyceps, Monkey Head Mushroom, and Horse Bladder Fungus are all important Magic Potion crops that can provide a steady output of Magic Potions. Please make sure these Abandoned Cordyceps are properly settled. Reward: One Elf Bug."

Feeling good, he murmured with a smile, "Hmm, another Elf Bug, not bad, the more Elf Bugs, the better."