The Mighty Dragons Are Dead

This chapter is an additional update sponsored by Alliance Hierarch "Feng Angju". For now, this is an additional chapter with ten more yet to be filled in.

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To demonstrate Dragon's Intent, more time is needed to explore.

Now, Liszt wanted to develop a new training method beyond Dragon Magic Refining Qi and Dragon Breath Tempering to rapidly enhance his strength.

The delightful feeling that comes from improving one's strength can be intoxicating.

After each training session with Little Fire Dragon Leo, he always felt a dual refreshment of soul and body, sensing that he had greatly improved compared to before the training. Unfortunately, there was no one to test his strength, leaving him somewhat unclear about how much he had improved.

As to whether he was stronger or weaker than the former Lich, Marquis of the Bull, there was no conclusion.

"This Pioneer Mandate is my opportunity to test my strength, as long as the Eagle Kingdom does not deploy a Dragon Knight, I have nothing to fear!"

Leo had already burst out of his body, turning into a ball of flames, then solidifying back into form from the fire.

He slowly landed next to Liszt.

He let out an increasingly majestic roar of "Oh-ho!"

"Stop roaring, here's your beef." Liszt took out the prepared secret recipe steak, allowing Leo to enjoy it voraciously, along with plenty of Magical Beast Meat to replenish his nourishment.

Then he proceeded to handle it up and down, brainwashing it through constant murmuring while caressing it.
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How other Dragon Knights formed partnerships with dragons to ride them, he didn't know. He could only rely on his own methods, depending on brainwashing over time, to completely subdue Leo—now that Leo was still young, it was the perfect opportunity to shape the Dragon's correct worldview. Once it grew up, these ideas would become unshakable.

The previous few trainings,

Leo was quite annoyed by his constant murmurs, but now it had grown accustomed to them, occasionally lifting its head to reply with an "Oh-ho!" When it stopped resisting, that was the moment its brain was "twisted". His ideas would slowly fill its heart and mind.

"Oh-ho!"

After devouring a large chunk of steak and drinking a can of Banpo Milk, Leo contentedly rubbed against Liszt's hand.

Little did it know that as Liszt muttered away, his mind was on something else: "Certainly, Leo can help me practice Dragon Dou Qi, vastly surpassing Sky Knights. But in the end, I'm not a true Dragon Knight, and it is still very young, with a hundred-year juvenile period."

He couldn't wait for Leo to grow up slowly; if he started to ride the dragon when his hair was white with age, by then he feared he would be so old he couldn't even fart, let alone release Dou Qi with Unity of Man and Dragon.

Thus, the plan for becoming a Dragon Domain Landlord was an absolute must.

"Should I share my lifespan with Leo to become a Fire Dragon's Dragon Domain Landlord, or should I find another dragon? Aside from Leo, there's probably just the Formless Dragon with some clues... The Formless Dragon is likely also a young dragon, with an ample lifespan." Compared to a powerful Fire Dragon, he would rather contract with a production-type dragon as a Dragon Domain Landlord.

Using Leo for riding and fighting was the best choice.

Soon he shook his head: "Am I worrying too soon? I don't even have the technology for becoming a Dragon Domain Landlord yet, so how can I make a pact? I truly regret having killed Curtis Truth; she had the technology for Dragon Domain Landlords, and she probably provided the Lich Technique as well."

This genius from the Magic Goat Family, a young Grand Magician named Curtis Truth, was indeed very powerful – both the Dragon Domain Landlord pact and the Lich transformation technique were mastered by her.

Regrettably, to eliminate future troubles, Liszt directly killed her while she was in her Lich state.

The Ghost Ship fell apart, and even the remaining Soul Submerged Wood, Goat Head Flag, and Figurehead were used as kindling to revive Little Fire Dragon Leo.

Practically destroying the evidence.

"However, it's fortunate that the Grand Duke definitely has the method for a Dragon Domain Landlord pact. When the Magic Goat Family was eradicated by the Sapphire Family, all their technologies were seized by the Sapphire Family... When the time comes for me to found a nation, I could exchange with them or even directly overthrow the Sapphire Family?"

If the Sapphire Family didn't try to snatch Liszt's dragon, he planned to find another place to found a nation; if the Sapphire Family coveted his dragon, a battle would surely ensue, and he might as well overthrow the Sapphire Family.

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The future was still very distant.

After the training ended, the mind-washing also came to an end.

Liszt returned to the wooden house at the foot of the mountain, where he spent the night making repairs. Early the next morning, he picked many seeds of the Human Skull Fruit and seeds of the Hemp Rope Vine, then he rode back to Black Horse Island on the back of Rainbow Whale Rose.

It was at this moment.

The Smoke Mission had already been completed.

"For completing the mission, you are rewarded with two Tulip Spirit Bugs."

"Task: The final blueprints for Thorn Castle have been completed, and the groundbreaking construction is about to begin. Before building the main body of the castle, why not first construct the auxiliary facilities step by step? Please excavate the Tonghai Canal for the castle. Reward: A fish spring that gushes throughout the year."

With the task completed, the wilted Tulips recovered, and the two spirit bugs grew robustly.

The new task also followed, requiring Liszt to start building the castle: "The territory is in dire need of serfs right now. I did not plan to build the castle so soon, but it seems it was still from my subconscious... The Smoke Mission is a projection of the Power of Destiny combined with my subconscious, reflecting my true desire to build a castle."

Black Horse Island was far from the mainland.

Besides pirates, there was no danger of being invaded.

With Coral Island for support, it usually wouldn't suffer from pirates—behind the pirates are the great nobles of the country. Should their identities be leaked, it would start an outright war with Li Weiliam. No great noble would be foolish enough to oppose Li Weiliam and his son Liszt, both of whom had boundless potential.

Therefore, it was not a problem to build the castle later.

Despite this reasoning, Liszt was impatient to build the castle deep inside—enjoyment that, in his heart, was even more important than development.

"Since the Smoke Mission has been issued, let's build it!"

He immediately summoned architects, including Jomaya Bangtu, as well as officials like Goltai, to discuss the details of castle construction.

In the meeting room of the harbor town.

Jomaya stood in front of a wall, drawing the structure of the castle and explained in detail: "The main body of Thorn Castle consists of a five-story building, divided into the main tower, the left wing guard tower, and the right wing guard tower. The main tower has a floor height of six meters, with a total height of thirty meters, plus a ten-meter-tall watchtower, which amounts to forty meters."

The style of Thorn Castle was similar to the neoclassical style of The White House in the US.

But the actual model they would follow was similar to the Capitol Hill Building.

Besides the main building, left wing, and right wing structures, at the castle's main gate, there would be a huge Tonghai Canal connected to the sea, which would allow his sea elves and Ach to come and go freely in and out of the castle. Even a single-masted sailing ship could directly transport goods to Thorn Castle through this canal.

At the end of the canal, they planned to build a huge arch to protect the safety of the Tonghai Canal. Additionally, there would be a new lighthouse constructed next to it, taller even than that of Black Horse Port Lighthouse, to show the way for nearby ships.

Other than that, there would be stables, pastures, carriage houses, wells, hedge estates, greenhouses, and other subsidiary buildings.

Of course, surrounding Thorn Castle, they would have to build a moat and castle walls—not really to defend against enemies, but to keep people on the island from sneaking into the castle.

Thus.

The sheer volume of work for Thorn Castle was so vast that it might take more than a year or two to complete, even with the outstanding building efficiency of rubber water and brick mixtures. It would not be an easy task.

"Jomaya, postpone the construction of the main body of Thorn Castle, and first excavate the Tonghai Canal," he finally decided.

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