The Mighty Dragons Are Dead

Chapter 896: Chapter 0893: Traffic Throat (First Update)

Adorned with the Mermaid’s Protection, Mathew of the Red and White Roses quickly led the Envoy Group to set off, preparing to visit his self-proclaimed “brother-in-law” in the Duchy of Sapphire.

In his view, sea serpents could not bond with humans, and Liszt was indeed of typical noble origin—although only an earl’s heir, he could barely be considered among the major nobility. Such nobles have a common attitude towards love, which is that it must be based on interests.

Apart from a very few nobles, the vast majority of nobles prioritize family and personal interests, which are the core of the knightly system.

“My sister Marilyn is the foremost beauty of the Northland and the Steel Pearl; there is no woman in the entire northeast corner of the Legendary Continent more suited to be the Queen of the Flame Kingdom… To have a Dragon Knight with four dragons as my brother-in-law, and a King’s brother-in-law, how glorious my status would be.”

Ultimately, his eagerness to arrange a marital alliance for his sister was mainly to bolster the Red and White Rose Family.

Since countless generations ago, the Red and White Rose Family had understood the importance of hitching to a powerful connection, and without that marriage of convenience, they would have vanished into the annals of history.

“Even if Liszt is powerful, he cannot ride four dragons at once. Perhaps, once Marilyn becomes the Queen, I too may have a chance to ride a dragon… The Ruby Dragon of our family is really too old, yet the Steel Ridge Royal Family disagrees with me riding any other dragon… Uncle Osborne, in utilizing the Red and White Rose Family’s marriage alliance, isn’t this also a form of self-protection for the Red and White Roses?”

Mathew had already begun fantasizing. Once the marriage alliance was successful, how illustrious and honored the Red and White Rose Family would be, caught between two great Kingdoms.

And all this was based on the premise that Liszt was, as he believed, a noble who put interests at the core.

For this reason, in leading this Envoy Group, he not only carried a multitude of gifts from the Steel Ridge Royal Family but also brought an enormous number of gifts from the Red and White Rose Family—Red Dragon Water made from red roses, potent magic potions made from white roses, and rubies produced by the Ruby Dragon.

“Even the most talented young strongman would succumb to the wealth of the Red and White Rose Family!”

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Liszt, unaware that someone was preparing to dazzle him with wealth, cast the issue of the Steel Ridge Royal Family’s Envoy Group to the back of his mind after his Blood Servant Mary reported it. The idea of an arranged marriage happening to himself was, upon reflection, quite amusing.

Before coming to this world, as a person so ordinary to the extreme, he often thought during his failures in love why the government didn’t allocate wives to spare honest men the trouble of even catching a plate.

But the thought of actually entering into an arranged marriage with a lady of noble repute whom he had never met was rather frightening—after all, the lifestyles of the nobility here were extremely open.

Liszt was very particular about the honor of his own name.

This was also one of the reasons he maintained a good impression of young girls like Emily, Lucy, Ruth, and Hippolyta. A young girl is always pure and uncorrupted by the murky world, like a lotus flower that rises out of the mud but remains clean, and with careful nurturing, can always grow into the form he desires.

Of course, he welcomed the arrival of the Envoy Group and happily accepted the overture from the Steel Ridge Kingdom.

It was great news as long as the three major Kingdoms did not band together.

The Flame Kingdom needed time to develop, and he himself needed time to grow. Riding too many dragons in a short period meant training with each dragon was too brief, and up to this point, he hadn’t left a single Mind Branding, not to mention how little he had developed the “Dragon Dou Qi Manual”.

The next day.

With the last magic ingredient ready, Liszt decisively left the comfortable Thorn Castle and, riding the Formless Dragon Bard, traveled through to Mind Island.

At this moment on Mind Island, a vortex-shaped Magic Gate was slowly rotating, with a pitch-black passage leading straight into the interior of the island.

There was no water; this Magic Gate was completely built on land.

“Brother, you’re back,” Ach said, standing at the edge of Mind Island, practicing the mastery of the Earth Elemental Incarnation—if it weren’t for the delay caused by the Space Elemental Incarnation, after mastering water and ice elements, she would have proceeded with practicing the Earth Elemental Incarnation according to the plan, which was cultivated for the construction of major projects.

Ordinary Grand Magicians could only slightly alter the terrain with magic, but once an Archmage mastered the Earth Elemental Incarnation, changing the terrain would be at their discretion.

The legendary Ancient Magicians were said to have the might to move mountains and fill seas, perhaps an exaggeration, but it gave a glimpse of an Archmage’s power.

“Mhm, I’m back,” Liszt walked over and touched Ach’s azure blue hair, while Ach tilted her head submissively, enjoying the caress.

A profound tacit understanding and intimacy had developed between the two.

“So brother, let’s start connecting the two Magic Gates and expand the Wormhole Space!” excitedly said Ach after enjoying a head-patting session.

“Okay!”

Both of them mounted the Formless Dragon Bard and headed straight for the Magic Gate. After entering the world beyond the physical realm, Ach took out the magic materials, created the required Magic Array, and continuously guided Bard to activate the Magic Array. Then, with the help of its innate abilities, she moved back and forth between the two Magic Gates, pulling strings.

It was a complex magical behavior, roughly achieved by the attraction between magic forces to guide the Magic Gates.

Finally, the “beacons” of the two Magic Gates were connected, and then slowly, through Bard’s Space Magic Power, they expanded upon the linked magic lines, carving out the Wormhole Space.

The principle was very complex.

Liszt did not understand much, but he only needed to do as Ach instructed. After intermittent work for three days, when the human, dragon, and Sea Serpent were all exhausted, the Wormhole Space between the two Magic Gates was finally expanded. After carefully reinforcing it one more time, the Magic Teleportation Array was officially complete.

“The two-way Repulsive Force of the passage is normal, the velocity of exiting the Magic Gate has decayed, and it is now equivalent to the velocity of entering the Magic Gate… Brother, the Mind Island-Reed Swamp Magic Teleportation Array is declared complete!” After repeatedly passing through the two Magic Gates, Ach revealed a sweet smile.

A sense of accomplishment filled her heart.

This was her replication of the first radiance of an Ancient Magician.

Standing in front of Mind Island’s Magic Gate, Liszt was also excited, this great miracle that only existed in certain legends was just wrought by his hands, a sense of accomplishment no less than what Ach felt in her heart.

He took a deep breath.

He made a swift decision, “Since this Magic Teleportation Array has been completed and the territory temporarily lacks the financial and material resources to establish a Black Horse Island-Jade Mountain Magic Teleportation Array, let’s use this Magic Array as a regular transportation nexus to transport resources and start constructing the Flame Islands!”

With the Magic Teleportation Array completed, Liszt soon notified the Marquis of Bull Tail, asking the Tulip Family to prepare materials to participate in the construction of Mind Island.

To protect the Magic Teleportation Array well, it was best to build Mind Island into a castle fortress.

The Mind Island controlling this transport nexus could completely become the trade center of the Sea of Azure Waves—before the Black Horse Island-Jade Mountain Magic Teleportation Array was built.