Chapter 14 (2/2)

It was not challenging at all.

Liszt was amazed by the reward of a monster cub.

Even the monsters at the lowest rank were stronger than a beginner knight and could compete with earth knights. The Wind Blade Wolf that Liszt ran into earlier was a low-level monster. Some of them could even fight sky knights.

What monster could it be? Is it tamable, or can it only be butchered? Liszt looked forward to it.

…

“My lord, the tulip elvish insect is here.” Carter, escorted by the squires, came to the Flower Farm and delivered a jade box to Liszt solemnly.

Taking the box, Liszt sensed that there was a life in it connected to himself.

He opened the box.

Immediately, he saw a “silkworm” that was slightly thicker than his thumb and shorter than his index finger, with blue stripes on its yellow back. It glistened like a piece of wriggling jade and couldn’t have looked more fabulous.

At this moment, the elvish insect was sleeping on the jade powder lazily.

The wormgrass of the elvish insects during the transplantation could not provide nutrition for them, so they could only feed on jade powder. Jade, also known as magic jade, was magic stone. It was cheaper than the gems that dragons produced, but it was also rare and precious.

“Little buddy, have you rested enough? It’s time to check your new home.” Liszt extended his index finger.

Sensing his thoughts, the lazy insect crawled on his finger slowly and lay in his palm. It observed the environment with its bright black eyes.

“What a beautiful lifeform. I can’t enjoy it enough.” Goltai, who had come after being informed, was amazed by the elvish insect.

As an unappreciated knight, he did not have any elvish insects.

Goltai’s fief had declined a long time ago. He sold it and became a knight without a fief. Naturally, he could not afford an elvish insect.

Liszt reached the center of the tulip plantation and pointed at the black tulip. “Little buddy, let this place be your home. Plant your wormgrass.”

Thanks to the connection built by their contract, the elvish insect knew Liszt’s intentions.

It opened its mouth and spewed out a streak of green light that fell into the empty ground next to the black tulip. Then, a tulip grew and blossomed. That was its wormgrass, which could influence the growth of the tulips for acres around.

As an elvish insect, it could double the growing speed of tulips and increase their quality.

Liszt put the tulip in the flower of the wormgrass that was to be its new home. The wormgrass seemed to have drained the insect, and it was too lazy to move anymore. Liszt had to urge it. “Little buddy, there’s a new tulip next door. You don’t want to taste it?”

Interested, the tulip insect finally crawled out of the flower, along the stem to the tip of a leaf.

It seemed to be falling, but it crept forward, raising its head.

The bottom of its body shimmered, as if it was moving on something transparent, until it reached the flower of the black tulip.

The insect’s fat body wriggled.

The tulip insect fed its feeling of excitement back to Liszt and rolled in the flower.

This was assimilation, meaning that the insect was collecting the pheromones of the black tulip and carrying out its abilities.

Of course, Liszt was more willing to believe that the insect was gathering different genes to perfect itself.

When it gathered enough, it would likely evolve.

Back in the Tulip Castle, three tulip insects evolved into tulip elves in such a way. One of them was given to Lvera, Liszt’s sister. In Liszt’s memories, he was quite jealous about it and became even more so when he was given the title of baron, because none of the little elves went to him.