The Mighty Dragons Are Dead

When she was the 36D Ghost, her facial features were almost indiscernible, but now they were very clear, bearing a vague resemblance to Curtis Truth, and quite beautiful.

However, her style was completely the opposite; Curtis always had a gloomy Lich-like presence, surrounded by green light, which was very uncomfortable. In contrast, this misty figure radiated a white light, appearing somewhat holy.

“You can’t remember who you are?” Liszt looked at the Soul Storage Vessel in his hand, feeling it was incredible.

With just an inhalation and exhalation, the once fierce and terrifying specter had transformed into holy light. It seemed that the Soul Storage Vessel was definitely Divine Artifact-level Magic Equipment.

Moreover, it really bore some resemblance to Aladdin’s Lamp, at least the girl’s body, which was like a puff of smoke coming out of the spout of a teapot.

The upper half of her body was humanoid, while the lower half remained as smoke.

The girl lowered her eyelids, seemingly in thought.

Liszt didn’t disturb her.

In fact, he had some speculations.

The 36D Ghost originated from the Dragonbone Stabilizer, from a sunken ship of the Magic Goat Family, containing five chests of treasure. Two chests held Magic Books, and the others contained crystals, jade, and mithril. The fact that such cargo could be transported indicated the sunken ship was no ordinary vessel, but likely an important one belonging to the Magic Goat Family.

Thus, the identity of the girl sealed within the stabilized Dragon Bone of such a ship was not hard to deduce; she should be related to the Magic Goat Family.

The more he thought she resembled Curtis, the more it supported Liszt’s guess that she might be from the Magic Goat Family, or even someone whose soul had been stripped by Curtis and sealed within the Dragonbone Stabilizer.

“The Magic Goat Family…”

A family lost in the rivers of time, yet time and again entangled with Liszt. He didn’t know whether to feel honored or unlucky.

He also thought of Merlese Truth, who was killed by Paris, and who seemed to have connections with the Magic Goat Family; her research notes were all marked with the goat symbol. And the Magician, Chris, who was in a coma, whether she too was related to the Magic Goat Family was uncertain, yet the Soul Storage Vessel appeared to be the work of an Evil Magician like Curtis.

A moment of contemplation.

The girl, looking somewhat absent-minded, raised her head and looked at Liszt again, “I can’t remember… It seems I’m no longer a human, right? Do I look like I’m in a soul state?”

“Yes, you are currently in a soul state, but slightly different from any other soul I have seen; they all exist in the form of light. Whereas you are more like a smoke form, and previously, you were a Specter sealed within the Dragonbone Stabilizer.”

Liszt shook the Soul Storage Vessel in his hand, and following the smoke from the mouth of the teapot, it immediately started to quiver.

This, in turn, caused the girl’s entire body to tremble, as if wavering like ripples on water, yet it didn’t seem to make her feel uncomfortable.

She just stared blankly at the Soul Storage Vessel, looking at the smoke that connected to her body.

Murmuring to herself: “Dragonbone Stabilizer… Dragon Beast Sailboat… Truth… Magic Goat… Who am I… Who am I exactly?”

Dragon Beast Sailboat?

Liszt’s ears perked up upon hearing a new term. He guessed that this must be the name of the sailboat itself that used the Dragonbone Stabilizer Technique, the unique technology of the Magic Goat Family — the Dragon Beast Sailboat.

When he heard her mention the “Magic Goat,” it was quite evident; she indeed was from the Magic Goat Family. Liszt interrupted her troubled pondering, “I think I can give you a hint. The Dragon Beast Sailboat is likely the exclusive type of sailboat mastered by the Magic Goat Family, and as for you, you might be someone from the Magic Goat Family.”

“I’m from the Magic Goat Family?” The girl seemed touched by a memory, yet she couldn’t recall anything, “Do you know anything more?”

Liszt raised an eyebrow, “Do you know Curtis Truth?”

“Curtis!” The girl’s face drastically changed, her expression full of panic, and her body made of smoke and light started to flicker, “It’s her! It’s her! Curtis Truth, that terrible woman! She’s the one who killed me! She massacred the ‘Goat Assembly’; anyone who didn’t obey her commands was killed by her!”

Suddenly, she clutched her head and wailed in pain, “I… don’t kill me… I’m Virginia, I’m your sister… don’t kill me, Curtis…”

It was unclear if the pain was too much, or if time had simply run out.

She turned back into a wisp of smoke, returning to the Soul Storage Vessel. When Liszt shook it, he could feel the bit of liquid inside, but nothing would pour out no matter how he tried.

Having no other choice, he stored the Soul Storage Vessel in the Gemstone Space—living things put into the Gemstone Space would soon have their souls extinguished and thus die, but a soul could avoid extinction if it took refuge in an object. The Drift Bottle had been in there for a long time, and the 36D Ghost was still normal, so the Soul Storage Vessel likely had a similar function.

Of course, it was also possible that it didn’t have that function, and Virginia might have extinguished right away… He hadn’t considered that possibility.

He returned to the castle.

He took out a piece of thick parchment and wrote down the three Serpent Script phrases: “Dragon Beast Sailboat,” “Virginia Truth,” and “Goat Assembly”: “The ‘Goat Assembly’ is probably an organization of magicians, and Virginia might be Curtis’s biological sister, possibly in possession of the Dragonbone Stabilizer Technique.”

As for the grudges and grievances of those days, Liszt no longer cared—it was nothing more than a sappy story about a woman mad with love, who betrayed her own family.

Regardless of justice or evil, it was all irrelevant to him; he was more interested in the Dragonbone Stabilizer Technique.

On the vast sea, the chances of encountering a Sea Monster were indeed not high, but should it happen, using the Dragonbone Stabilizer to release Dragon Might would definitely increase the chances of survival considerably.

…

Virginia Truth couldn’t be tipped out of the Soul Storage Vessel, and Chris Truth lay on the bed, never waking up.

Before he knew it, May was drawing to an end, and the weather officially entered the scorching summer days.

Good news followed one after another.

First were the four Serpent Blood Tree Plant Pots, from which the Elf Bugs had successively emerged, biting Liszt’s finger and becoming his contract Elf Bugs.

Four Serpent Blood Fruit Bugs, all a light white base color with a red stripe on their bodies, were very beautiful.

Liszt had transported the Serpent Blood Fruit Bugs to Black Horse Island, planting them on a newly reclaimed wasteland there—Serpent Blood Fruit attracted snakes, and since there were no venomous snakes on Black Horse Island, there was no danger of attracting poisonous ones. The only precaution was to not attract Sea Serpent class Sea Monsters.

Following the Serpent Blood Fruit Bugs, the Apple Bugs also successfully emerged.

The apple tree that had become Cordyceps grew more robust and lively, producing a plethora of little green apples this year. Unfortunately, that was their extent; they would no longer grow—whether it was spring, summer, autumn, or winter, they remained in that state.

Many of the lesser nobles especially enjoyed going into the forest to find Elf Bugs during winter; if they were lucky, they could discover a green Cordyceps among a vast expanse of withered trees.

Of course, the probability was very low as the distribution of wild Elf Bugs was quite sparse.

In the winter on Black Horse Island, Marcus and others had searched several times to no avail, without discovering any Cordyceps.

The light green Apple Bug was now lying in Liszt’s palm, chubby and cute, resembling a lush and tender piece of soft jade.

“As I do not plan to transplant this Apple Tree Cordyceps, therefore, Mr. Carter, you should contact Administrative Officer Isaiah to transform the surroundings of the castle into an apple orchard,” Liszt decreed.

Butler Carter bowed in response, “As you wish, my lord.”