The Mighty Dragons Are Dead

Chapter 947: Chapter 0944: Planting the Phoenix Tree (Second Update)

Annie felt better, especially when, under Leo’s malicious gaze, she received a Fire Dragon Scale.

Everything was delightful.

Therefore, under Liszt’s astonished gaze, the cordyceps plant, the Phoenix Perch Parasol Tree, surprisingly bloomed one by one with flowers resembling flames. These flowers, thick with Fire Attribute Mana, transformed into clusters of flames under the sunlight.

From afar, the entire Phoenix Perch Parasol Tree seemed to be burning.

Little Yellow, Little Red, and Little Purple, three Flame Dragon Birds whose bodies had grown and were now adorned with vivid, fiery red feathers, joyfully circled around the Phoenix Perch Parasol Tree. Even Leo, who usually disliked Annie, approached and sniffed the Phoenix Perch Parasol Tree, taking a liking to the fiery giant tree.

“Liszt, look!” Annie carried the Fire Dragon Scale on her back, then plucked a flame flower from the cordyceps, which immediately wilted, extinguished its flame, and turned into a pile of ash.

The ash dispersed with the breeze, leaving behind seven purple-red seeds.

“What are these?”

“These are the seeds of the Phoenix Perch Parasol Tree, Liszt, I can bloom and produce seeds now!” she placed the seeds in Liszt’s hand and giggled, “Annie can cultivate more Phoenix Perch Parasol Trees, Annie wants to evolve, and the Phoenix Perch Parasol Trees will cover the entire volcano!”

In the Eye of Magic’s view, the seeds flickered with a fiery red magic radiance.

“Are these Magic Potions?” Liszt immediately had Annie try sowing some Phoenix Perch Parasol Trees.

Annie complied and, with a wave of her hand, the flame flowers on the tree wilted and turned into seeds that flew into the soil. Soon, around her cordyceps, small Phoenix Perch Parasol saplings sprouted from the ground, growing swiftly in the wind to become little tree saplings.

The saplings, not selectively bred, varied in quality, but each shone with a fiery red magic feedback, undoubtedly categorizing them as Magic Potions.

“Task completed, reward: breeding of Phoenix Perch Parasol Trees.”

Fleeting Serpent Script flashed by unnoticed by Liszt, who was still studying the varieties of these Magic Potion Phoenix Perch Parasol Trees. Among all his elves, aside from the three Rubber Minor Elves born of the same origin, which was very magical, the Phoenix Perch Parasol Greater Elf was most unusual. It was the only cordyceps that didn’t need sibling plants to provide nutrients and could grow freely.

Unfortunately, when Liszt met Annie, she was already a Greater Elf, and he didn’t know how she evolved from a Little Minor Elf to a Greater Elf.

Now, Annie was evolving towards a Dragon Elf, yet unexpectedly started to flower and produce seeds, generating sibling plants, which was truly strange.

Strange as it was, after failing to figure out the reasons, Liszt assigned Annie a task to plant a plethora of Phoenix Perch Parasol Trees within the influence range of the cordyceps. When these trees matured, it would be time to harvest and refine the Magic Potions, though the effects of the potions derived from the Phoenix Perch Parasol Trees were yet unknown.

Now, the domain could produce an increasing variety of Magic Potions.

Man-Eating Tree Dragon Sprite Karli alone, with her scale of Magic Potion cultivation, could match the output of all other elves combined; Giant Algae Greater Elf Pike, Thorn Greater Elf Jela, and the newest Phoenix Perch Parasol Greater Elf Annie, were all main producers of Magic Potions.

Especially Jela, whose cultivation of Auxiliary Medicine Thorn was immensely valuable, producing several times more than the average Greater Elf cultivating Magic Potions.

Without these Auxiliary Medicines, there simply wouldn’t be enough Magic Potions in the territory.

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“Task: As the saying goes, ‘Plant the parasol tree to attract the golden phoenix.’ The Flame Dragon Birds love the Phoenix Perch Parasol Trees and enjoy nesting in them. Why not plant a forest of these trees to attract Fire-attribute Birds? Reward: Unknown number of Fire-attribute Birds.”

An unexpected surprise.

The Smoke Mission and the task Liszt had assigned to Annie surprisingly aligned.

“Attract Fire Attribute Magical Beast birds, huh? On Black Horse Island, there are specially raised Flamingos, low-level Fire Attribute beasts… I wonder what kind of Fire Attribute birds the Phoenix Perch Parasol Forest could attract. I hope they aren’t too shabby, ideally tamable as mounts or able to provide Magical Beast Meat.”

Originally, he had planned to let Annie plant the trees herself.

But since the Smoke Mission required it, Liszt thought it worthwhile to put effort into personally completing the tree planting task—of course, “personally” meant transporting a group of serfs and knights over to help Annie plant the trees and share the burden.

“Leo, lend a hand.”

“Oh, ho!”

“Unwilling?” Liszt’s eyes bulged, “Then let’s communicate properly!”

He prepared to ride on Leo and execute a Mind Purification Plan to eliminate the vile thoughts that had emerged within Leo lately. It must be said, as the number of training sessions increased, although Leo still developed evil thoughts, they were no longer as frequent as before. The reason was simple: a faint knightly shadow had appeared in his mind.

This was Liszt’s Mind Branding, beginning to suppress Leo’s evil thoughts.

At this moment, Leo had grown to a wingspan and body length of forty meters. The various Volcanic Super Magic of the Endless Volcano had greatly propelled his training. Coupled with Liszt providing food, Magic Potions, and proper training guidance, he grew stronger every day.

His combat power had exploded in growth, and in a one-on-one fight, the Light Green Gem Dragon Ethan might no longer be a match for him, starting to directly threaten the battle rank position of the Grey Iron Dragon Ornn.

He mounted the Dragon Tooth Platform.

In the mental world, Liszt did not hesitate to cut off the sinister Dragon thoughts that had sprouted, letting Leo be reborn once more, and this time he agreed to help readily.

On the way back, Liszt called on Ethan—As for the Mountain Copper Dragon Mata, due to insufficient synergy, he was temporarily undirectable.

Three dragons, Bard, Leo, and Ethan.

Catching a hot-air-balloon-like basket, he pulled along no fewer than eight hundred knights and serfs, soaring through the sky of Flame Island, returning to the Endless Volcano Cluster.

“Your task is to follow Captain Pàlìsī’s commands, and in cooperation with Phoenix Perch Parasol Tree Greater Elf Annie, plant seeds in approximately 6000 acres of land centered around this volcano crater,” Liszt ordered while riding on Ethan’s back, assigning the knights and serfs and arranging for Paris to lead this project.

Paris was his trusted follower; assigning her here underlined his prioritization of the Phoenix Perch Parasol Forest.

“Your Highness, rest assured, I’ll handle everything here,” Paris said solemnly.

“I’m reassured by leaving this to you, but be aware that these Phoenix Perch Parasol trees are extraordinary, they are valuable Auxiliary Medicine, and we will need a group of plantation workers to stay here long-term. Take advantage of the times when Annie is tired and have the serfs build a camp nearby, preferably by digging into the mountain.”

“Dig into the mountain?” Paris asked, puzzled.

“I worry that these Phoenix Perch Parasol trees might attract Magical Beasts, and living inside a mountain cave would be safer,” Liszt did not know exactly what kind of Magical Beasts it might attract.

But Magical Beasts are aggressive, and he didn’t want his followers and serfs to suffer losses.

Paris nodded, “I understand.”

“Life here might be somewhat monotonous; if there are any needs, you can ask me, I’ll come over about once a week,” Liszt said.

He would come each time to train with Leo.

Though it seemed, for now, that the Dragon Knight’s training had reached an impasse hard to break through, habitual training must not stop—Knight Dou Qi Cultivation was such that if you stop, you regress, thus it is live till old, train till old, even Dragon Dou Qi is the same.