The Mighty Dragons Are Dead

"Complete the mission, reward: Druid Magic - Magic Bean Planting."

Ach deciphered the magic "Bathing in Sunlight" from the "Druid's Compulsory Courses - Magic Bean Planting" the natural mission was thus completed, and the reward for this magic was made clear.

For Liszt, this was akin to opening the door to a new world.

It turned out that the seeds preserved by the Sky Ship were not simply magic medicine seeds but special plants developed by Druids that required Druid Magic to spur growth. No wonder the seedlings sprouted and grew slowly, without a single sign of magical power in them.

Immediately after,

Ach demonstrated the Magic Bean Planting Magic "Bathing in Sunlight" for him on the spot. She lightly waved her slender fingers and a stream of chaotic magic power cascaded onto the magic beans in the pot. The leaves seemed to come to life in an instant, rhythmically sparkling with a crystal clarity similar to jade.

Sunlight scattered across them, reflecting a faint rainbow glow.

After three minutes, everything reverted to its original state, and Liszt noticed that the magic bean plant had grown significantly taller in just a short time.

"It's amazing!"

He had never seen any magic besides the Elves' that could promote plant growth.

Ach, however, shook her head, "Brother, Ach can only resonate with Water System magic. It took a long time to use Water System magic to drive Chaotic Magic Power and cast this magic. If it were an ordinary magician, casting this magic would probably be much easier than for Ach."

Liszt exclaimed in surprise, "You can actually use Water System magic to drive Chaotic Magic Power?"

Ach smiled sweetly, "Hehe, Ach works really hard."

"Then have you ever thought about using Water System magic to drive other types of magic? If so, couldn't you cast magic from other systems?"

"Actually, Ach has thought about it, but it's very difficult, and Ach doesn't have time to try it for now. There are so many Sun Scriptures waiting for Ach to decipher... Compared to driving other systems' magic, Ach prefers to study Druid Magic, they're really wonderful."

"That's true, Druid Magic is somewhat more important," Liszt immediately decided, "Ach, write down the magic you've deciphered. I will take them to the Magic Academy later, and strive to train a group of human Druids to help me plant these magic-bean-like plants."

The Magic Academy wasn't just a place to train magicians; in his mind, it was for training pharmacists and Magic Equipment Forgemasters.

Now, with the addition of Druid Magic, it also became a place to train magic farmers.

Plants like magic beans that could be eaten or used to make magic potions undoubtedly held great value. In the Sun Script, such plants did not have a fixed name; after discussing with Ach, Liszt decided to name them "Magic Plants," abbreviated as "Magic Plant," to distinguish them from magic potions.
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To conceal the secret of the Child of the Sun, Liszt also instructed Ach to omit the Druid profession when recording Druid Magic.

In its place, they coined the term "Magic Plant Master," and "Natural Magic" — although "Wood-based Magic" would be more appropriate, the world's humans had already dubbed the Elves' representative magic as such. To distinguish it, the Druid magic related to plants was renamed to "Natural Magic" by Liszt.

...

After instructing Ach to continue developing Natural Magic,

Liszt left the seaside castle, riding the Rainbow Whale Rose directly to the port town. Upon arrival, he changed his clothes and quickly went to the Knight Academy.

The Knight Academy was located near the Knight's Square in the port town, similar to how the Magic Academy was housed in the Mage Tower. Knight's Square was a good distance from town, a row of three-story stone buildings surrounding a vast square, newly constructed.

The architectural style was similar to that of the Mage Tower, featuring a neoclassical design.

In fact, after the architectural style of Thorn Castle had been set, Liszt had insisted that the future buildings of Giant Algae City, including the Mage Tower and Knight's Square, must have a consistent style with Thorn Castle. Other buildings like the city hall and administrative buildings, which were just breaking ground in Giant Algae City, were also employing the Neo-classical style.

Giant Algae City is currently still a port town,

but it is already being planned with the metrics of a city, including streets, sewers, and building layouts, all designed for a medium-sized city with a population of ten to twenty thousand.

Now,

they were only waiting for the final version of Thorn Castle's blueprints to be completed. Then Liszt's new home would finally settle on Black Horse Island, complementing and forming a cornerstone with Giant Algae City.

"My Lord!" Marcus, who was in charge of the day-to-day operations of the Knight Academy, hurried over to pay his respects.

Liszt spoke briefly, "I am planning to inspect the orphanage and select some suitable children to send to the Magic Academy to study magic."

Marcus looked puzzled, "Didn't Her Excellency Chris come with three magicians to make her selection already?"

"She selected too few children, I'll supplement her with another batch. The training of magicians is difficult; the more seedlings we have, the higher the chance of success," Liszt lied with his eyes open.

Actually, his visit to the orphanage was due to the latest Smoke Mission.

"Mission: The Mage Tower's brilliance bathes in the dawn's light. To ordinary people, it is a mystical place of magic, inhabited by mysterious and dangerous magicians. However, for the orphanage twins Lucy and Rose, it is the place they yearn for in their hearts. Why not arrange for them to study magic? Reward: One Elf Bug."

Arranging for the orphaned twin sisters Lucy and Rose to study magic at the Magic Academy—this was almost blatantly telling Liszt that these two had extraordinary magic talent.

What made him so sure was because there was a previous Smoke Mission that had instructed him to arrange appropriate knight training for the girl Emily.

As a result, Emily made the rank of Earth Knight in just one year, her talent was so outstanding it was enviable.

Moreover, under Liszt's generous nutritional support and relentless training, Emily had recently shown signs of nearing the threshold of becoming an Elite Earth Knight.

Now, with the Smoke Mission hinting at Lucy and Rose studying magic, how could Liszt not look forward to the terrifying magical potential that the twins might possess?

After all, for the sake of the Elf Bug, the mission had to be completed.

If they could become genius magicians, it would be a happy affair; if they couldn't, it wouldn't cause any loss, so why not do it?

Marcus didn't say much else and immediately led Liszt to the orphanage.

The orphanage had a separate large courtyard in Knight's Square, where hundreds of orphans of varying ages lived, under military-style management—there was no talk of a happy childhood, the orphans' only chance for changing their fate was to demonstrate potential during their daily studies.

Choosing seedlings was just an excuse, and he had no idea how to distinguish those with magical talent.

So his choice was to look at the names of the orphans in the orphanage, ask the person in charge of the orphanage about how many sets of twins there were—after inquiring, there were fully five pairs of twins, among which were the names of Lucy and Rose.

He selected Lucy and Rose.

He also simply chose eighteen other eye-catching lads and lassies, making up a group of twenty to send to the Magic Academy. By now, the Magic Academy already had forty magic apprentices learning, including Chris and three other magicians, each responsible for a part of the teaching content.

Seeing Lord Landlord bring another twenty magic apprentices, Chris, looking at the children, began to feel overwhelmed, "Viscount, training forty magic apprentices is already too much, and you've brought another twenty, the Magic Academy is going to explode."

"Sorry, Chris, I didn't discuss it with you in advance," Liszt said with a slight smile, "but I believe after you hear what I am about to say, you will understand my intentions... I have obtained a legacy of Natural Magic, and I hope the Magic Academy will take on the task of training a group of Magic Plant Masters."