The Mighty Dragons Are Dead-Chapter 971 - 0968 Daily Patrol of the Territory

Chapter 971: Chapter 0968: Daily Patrol of the Territory

Chapter 971: Chapter 0968: Daily Patrol of the Territory

Obsidian Ring, Liszt soon learned the origin of this reward—it was found on a statue of an Ancient Mage from the ancestors of the Moon Slayer people. The Obsidian Ring was discovered in a Native Tribe that had been conquered by the Holy Tribe, worn on the hand of the Listener, a symbol of tribal authority.

Commander Emily, who was then directing the Mammoth Knight Brigade in flattening the terrain, brought the Obsidian Ring back to Flame Castle.

Taking over the deep black ring that resembled a thumb ring, Liszt didn’t immediately check its attributes. Instead, he said to Emily, “Let your deputy take charge of the Mammoth Knight Brigade for now. After you’re done training with Ethan, come spend this year’s festival at Flame Castle.”

Emily’s eyes lit up, and she nodded hastily, “Yes, Emily thanks Your Highness for the invitation!” Spending the festival at Flame Castle with His Highness was a significantly meaningful symbol for her.

After Emily left Flame Castle with a delighted mood, riding on the Landwalker Bird Loki to head to Jade City for training,

Liszt called out the Smoke Mission and looked at the new mission.

“Mission: In the blink of an eye, you’re about to welcome your fifth festival in this world. The increase in age, improvement in strength, and change in status prompt a shift in your mindset. You’re no longer the poor young Baron who hid in the countryside, amusing himself. Life still needs to move forward, please await the end of the festival. Reward: Unknown reward.”

The long-interrupted unknown reward mission had once again appeared.

For Liszt, this was like a relaxation. He didn’t have to worry about the Smoke Mission. He just needed to wait for the festival to end, and the reward would come automatically.

The climate of Flame Island in December is dry and cold. Although it never drops below freezing, all life stops growing.

In past years, just like the Magical Beasts, the Moon Slayer people would hide in their nests await the revival of the next spring. However, with the arrival of the Flame People in recent years, Flame Island has completely changed. The long and dry winter season is an ideal time for construction, and countless serfs toil the land.

Felling trees, leveling land, reclaiming wasteland, constructing channels, building workshops, piling up wooden houses…

After practicing Dragon Dou Qi, Liszt mounted the Formless Dragon Bard and slipped into the material border, preparing to survey his territory in the last few days of Sapphire Calendar Year 155.

First was Flame City.

As the first city of Flame Island designated as a major agricultural city, its development speed had admittedly fallen behind the other cities, but it had the largest population. Around the city, forests were no longer visible. Nearly all the trees had been felled, and the rest were transformed into plantations.

Because the outflow from Whirlpool Cave was substantial, leading to an abundance of water in Whirlpool River, the magicians from the Magic Guild who researched water conservancy had guided the serfs to build an irrigation network near Flame City.

The sprawling network of channels irrigated nearly five million acres of land. At a glance, all one could see were white water bands, enveloping green oases. To this day, this irrigation network, dubbed the “Flame Whirlpool Irrigation District,” is still being excavated.

Perhaps due to the nourishment from magic power, the physical constitution of humans in this world is much better than those of Earth—stronger, less prone to sickness, and less likely to die.

And the serfs who have lived in the forests for a long time have even better physical conditioning than the common Flame People.

Additionally, there are Apprentice Knights forming assault teams responsible for cutting through mountains and stones, as well as teams of Ancient Magicians who specialize in transforming the toughest terrains.

This has made infrastructure construction very smooth. Even without machinery like excavators or bulldozers, the efficiency is not at all weaker than the infrastructure construction speed in China on Earth—which pleases Liszt greatly. Now, under his influence, the Flame Kingdom truly has the temperament of a construction fanatic.

“There needs to be an upgrade. The roads in the Flame Whirlpool Irrigation District are not good enough, mostly just dirt roads. Dry weather in winter isn’t too much of an issue, but once the rainy season comes in summer, it will be disastrous. This isn’t good,” Liszt took out a notebook and simply recorded his thoughts, “Must quickly upgrade all these roads to concrete… It’s a pity there’s no asphalt.”

Compared to the hard concrete roads, Liszt actually preferred the kind of asphalt roads, but unfortunately, in this world, there’s no mention of resources like coal or oil, so naturally, there are no by-products like asphalt.

“However, it will be difficult to build concrete roads in a short period. The renovation of a few main roads with concrete might deplete most of the current output of the concrete workshops… A crushed stone road, on the other hand, isn’t bad. With a Shovel-Tusked Giant Elephant, several kilometers of country lane can be trampled out in a day. Put down some crushed stones, and it’s good enough.”

Having recorded the issues with the roads, he then noted the problems with the plantations.

Plantation issues were plentiful, mainly because some plants were not suited to the climate of Flame Island, and without the influence of cordyceps, they couldn’t even survive. However, overall, the soil of Flame Island was much more fertile than Black Horse Island, and with the Magic Guild developing various fertilizers, the yield per acre of crops had increased year by year.

“Rubber trees need to be planted in large quantities, potatoes need to be planted in large quantities, corn needs to be planted in large quantities…”

After inspecting Flame City, he immediately took to the skies along Dragon Cinder Road, flying towards Dragon Valley City.

Dragon Valley City was positioned as a major mining city, with five mining districts—Black Heart Iron, Bronze, Mercury, Galena, and Titanium—all offering quality, high-yielding mineral resources.

The typical mining city is seriously polluted, yet Dragon Valley City was much cleaner.

The reason is simple: all the iron smelting workshops, copper smelting workshops, mercury workshops, lead smelting workshops, and titanium smelting workshops here used the Fire Dragon Converter—powered by Leotaur’s Fire Dragon Overmagic, it required no chemical dyes, providing stable furnace temperatures and high efficiency.

However, the capital required to build a Fire Dragon Converter wasn’t cheap, and in order to secure this Fire Dragon Overmagic, Liszt had no idea how many magic potions he had stuffed into Leotaur’s hands.

“The workshops are still too crude, not refined enough… Next time, I must remind the Development Committee to promptly set up specialized factories such as rebar and wire factories. Plus, now that we’re not short on metal, the Magic Guild also needs to accelerate the development of the steam engine; I want to build aircraft carriers in the future!”

“No, that’s not right.”

Liszt fantasized in his notebook, “It should be called the Flying Dragon Mothership, serving as a landing place for my dragons when crossing Devil’s Sea… However, it seems Ach can create a large amount of packed ice, and with Ach, I can take as many dragons as I want.”

Leaving Dragon Valley City.

He continued his inspections at the next destination, Jade City, which had yet to have a clear purpose. Currently backdropped by Jade Mountain, the city was being used to exploit the Jade Vein. Plans were also in place to construct an irrigation district here and later develop new plantations—cities under the knight system primarily focused on agriculture.

With the construction of Jade City progressing slowly, Liszt wasn’t in much of a hurry. He rode the Formless Dragon Bard and headed south, eventually arriving at Estuary City.

Estuary City was intended to be a major port city, responsible for trade and exchange with Tulip Island.

However, as the development of Tulip Island had been postponed, Estuary City couldn’t immediately showcase its intended purpose. The city’s focus had now shifted to offshore development—searching for suitable shallow marine aquaculture waters, preparing for future breeding endeavors such as Hei Chequ, Fen Hai Luo, Golden-Lipped Clam, as well as Giant Algae and kelp.

They also had to cultivate mangrove forests in the wetlands at the river mouth, planning to further expand the breeding of Green Caterpillars, Green-headed Ducks, and Flamingos.

With the Hundred Birds Toward The Phoenix ability, Liszt could be called the king of birds. He would seek out more avian magical beasts suitable for domestication in the future—compared to hunting magical beasts to provide magical beast meat, breeding them was more cost-efficient and eco-friendly.

“It’s been a long time since I’ve gone to the sea to search for elves and resourceful sea monsters… I’m now about the same as most of the native nobles, focusing all my attention on the endless resources of the continent, preferring to wage wars for them rather than searching the sea for food.”

He hadn’t changed the world, yet the world had long since changed him.

Fortunately, Liszt had always possessed the vision to transcend his era and this world: “Conquering the sea is also part of my plan; Devil’s Sea won’t stop my strides!”

Having inspected Estuary City, he directly used a Space Shuttle to arrive at Reed City.

Reed City’s role was to be a major trading city. As long as the new Teleportation Array had not been activated, Reed City was to be Flame Island’s sole channel of communication with the outside world. Thus, the development of Reed City was rapid, constructing several large buildings almost overnight.

The city was very populous, and to avoid crowding, Liszt’s directive was to build high-rises directly, six-story buildings—thanks to the emergence of concrete, the use of rebar, and the production of bricks, cheap multi-story buildings could be realized.

Just as he was about to identify some pitfalls in the development of Reed City, a thunderous roar suddenly erupted from the distant earth, like an earthquake. Turning his gaze, he saw a low mountain that blocked traffic being slowly pushed back into the ground by a tremendous force, quickly flattening the land.

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“Hmm, it’s Ach; she’s mastered the Earth Attribute incarnation to perfection!”