The Mighty Dragons Are Dead

Not only did he have to build a woodworking workshop, but the accompanying logging field and wood warehouse also needed to be constructed, located near the Thorn Garden; he already had it all planned out.

In the Thorn Garden, influenced by Jela, three-quarters of the plants were magic potions, one-quarter were Thorn Ironwood, and a few were regular Rapid Growth Thorns.

The common Rapid Growth Thorns were the source of various mutated thorns; he still hoped they could produce new mutations.

The surrounding area of the Thorn Garden, Thorn Ridge, would have all areas unsuitable for farmland planted with Thorn Ironwood. He would only leave a small section to plant Rapid Growth Spiky Thorn and Rapid Growth Poison Thorn to ensure they wouldn’t become extinct.

The Fresh Flower Town of the future could actually be renamed Thorn Town.

“Wuwah!”

“Wuwah!”

After returning to the Castle, Jela immediately came to greet them. When Liszt took the Rubber Tree Elf Bug Triplets out of the Jade Box, it rushed forward, grabbed one, and continued to cry, “Wuwah! Wuwah!”

“Jela, put it in the box inside the Worm Room, don’t damage it!” Liszt hastily called out.

Fortunately, Jela knew how to handle them with the necessary gentleness. It played with the Elf Bug but never dared to harm them because it understood very clearly that Liszt would not allow it. This was the power of the contract, making it irresistible.

The three Rubber Bugs were somewhat panicked.

After being calmed by Liszt, they settled down slightly and began to crawl around in the box sprinkled with Jade Powder, occasionally bumping into other Elf Bugs to greet them. Being triplets, they were in sync, although it didn’t seem to have any use, but at least it increased Liszt’s number of Elf Bugs to twelve.

The initial excitement had subsided, and he began to contemplate, “I own Rubber Bug Triplets, but not three Rubber Tree Cordyceps… so, have I made a profit or a loss?”

In general, it was a loss.

After all, he had to spend three portions of Jade Powder to raise them, but their range of influence as Rubber Tree Cordyceps was no different from that of a single Elf Bug.

No! That’s not right!

Suddenly, he blinked, “You can’t say there’s no difference. At least for now, the influence range of the Rubber Tree Cordyceps is unknown; maybe it’s three times that of ordinary Cordyceps. Moreover, giving birth to three at once might increase the success rate of evolving Little Minor Elves in the future by threefold?”

Staring at the Rubber Bug Triplets crawling leisurely, he felt this mutation definitely wasn’t just a plain increase in number.

It must have something magical about it; it just hasn’t been discovered yet.

Unable to figure it out, he set the thought aside.

Walking through the corridor, he went to chat with Sea Sprite Ake. Ake was still unable to successfully cast Water Arrow Barrage. She was fully dedicated to inscribing the Magic Array, a very serious and diligent attitude, almost always holding Magic Books and studying.

Sometimes Liszt thought, don’t turn the innocent and pure Sea Sprite into someone crazy like Curtis Truth.

After all, most magicians were a bit off in the head.

“Ake, take a break, don’t tire yourself out.”

“I’m not tired at all, brother. Ake will soon be successful in inscribing the Magic Array for the Water Arrow Spell, hehe. And then Ake will be Magician Ake… Oh right! Brother, should Ake change her name? It seems magicians should all have the surname Truth,” Ake pondered seriously.

Liszt couldn’t help but smile, “Acherloides Truth, huh? Sounds very imposing.”

Ach shook her head, word by word she said, “No, it should be Tanaxistie Ulapapni Selaino Liukateya Forekus Buniseis… Cassandra Acherloides Truth.”

Upon hearing this long string of names, Liszt couldn’t help but twitch the corner of his mouth—why on earth would a little sea monster, who was born and raised in the sea and had never even seen her own people, want to give herself such a long name.

He hadn’t even recovered from the shock of the name when,

Ach giggled and laughed out, “Hehe, let’s just listen to brother and go with Acherloides Truth.” It turned out that what she had said before was just a joke.

He vigorously ruffled her hair.

Liszt sighed in his heart, the little sea monster who used to shiver in fear had learned to joke—time really was a butcher’s knife, and he should protect her even more, to not let the tainted society affect Ach’s purity.

…

The construction of the woodworking workshop progressed rapidly.

The town had as many as five carpenters, who brought along a group of carpenter apprentices, and under their guidance, hundreds of serfs worked tirelessly for several days to build the woodworking workshop near Thorn Garden.

The primitive mud workshop featured no technical content whatsoever.

A lumberyard was also casually set up, with a few shacks erected, then Rapid Growth Iron Thorns were sawed into sections and cut into planks inside.

The lumber warehouse was even simpler, merely an area demarcated with a few poles erected, then thorn branches and wheat straws were woven into a roof and secured on the poles, becoming a lumber warehouse. Those Thorn Ironwoods that were not yet cut were temporarily carried to the warehouse for stacking.

After the completion of the woodworking workshop, Liszt also finished the design drawings for a few wooden furniture pieces.

“This is the drawing of a drawer, look closely, when making cabinets and tables, remember to add drawers, and fully use your imagination for the styles… This is a curio shelf, which is very different from a bookshelf, bookshelves are for books, curio shelves are for valuable items, with compartments of various sizes.”

Like rocking chairs, drawers and curio shelves were other types of new furniture that Liszt had chosen, preparing to introduce them to nobles.

In fact, he could also consider baby cradles, but the babies of the poor couldn’t afford iron wood cradles, and babies of nobles had servants to care for them, so they didn’t need a special cradle, which made inventing one pointless.

Once all the carpenters had received the drawings,

Liszt took out a new type of practical living ware he had only recently come up with: “This is called a clothes rack, as the name implies, it’s used for drying clothes…”

As a noble, he didn’t have to wash or dry clothes, as all that was done by servants.

However, he did appreciate watching the castle’s best-shaped maid, Little Lily, hang clothes. He noticed that the clothes were simply draped over ropes to dry and when collecting clothes, especially a gown like Flack Abbieye’s, they were also draped over wooden racks, which easily left creases at the waist.

In other words, there were no clothes hangers.

Clothes hangers today are generally made of wire. With iron being scarce in the Duchy of Sapphire, iron hangers were out of the question. Polished smooth wooden hangers, with their rounded support parts, wouldn’t damage the shoulders of clothes, and were the best choice for hanging gowns, while also being very easy to source.

Clothes racks, rocking chairs, drawers, curio shelves.

The woodworking workshop would gradually introduce them.

But while these were all new types of furniture that would inevitably spark a home living revolution, Liszt didn’t expect them to bring in much profit, because carpenters working for nobles from other regions could take a few glances and probably know how to copy them.

What would be needed to capture the market were the quality of Thorn Ironwood.

Ironwood quality combined with lower prices made such household products definitely the favorites of the middle and lesser nobles. By that time, the woodworking workshop could both produce household items and provide Tulip Castle with ironwood-quality weapon shafts and arrow shafts. The Iron Wood Era of Fresh Flower Town was fast approaching.

Jela’s name would also resound all over Coral Island.