Chapter 49 (1/2)

Chapter 49: A Forgotten Combat Aura Technique

Monkeys could certainly be trained if monsters could be. For knights with combat aura, beasts were no different from kittens and puppies.

However, there were only five people with combat aura in Flower Town: Liszt, Marcus, Goltai, Isaiah, and Blair.

They all had their responsibilities and couldn’t work as animal tamers.

It seems that I need to select a few healthy young men from the town and teach them to be my squires.

Liszt could even build an order of knights if he could afford it.

However, due to the limitation of gold, he could only build a squad of knights at best. In his plan, the purpose of the squad was to eliminate the monsters on Thorn Hill and make Thorn Hill his territory.

When the food from Oysterton and the taxes of the castle are steady, I’ll start to train them.

Carl Hammer and the other squires were incapable of combat aura and did not have any potential. He had to teach younger, talented people and make them real knights.

While he was considering his future plans in the shade, Goltai was already wiping sweat with his handkerchief. “Liszt, everything goes well in our inspection. Should we go back?”

Liszt also felt hot.

It was not the best weather for an outdoor trip. He nodded and said, “All right, let’s go back.” As the lord of a land, it was unnecessary for him to show that he was diligent or down-to-earth.

Bloodline and combat aura were the foundation of nobles.

On their way back, Liszt inspected the roads within the villages. It was difficult and inefficient to move sand with buckets and basins, but the roads were taking shape anyway.

When they passed Flower Farm, a stink found its way to Liszt’s nose. It was so disgusting that he almost threw up.

His horse was also sniffing as if it couldn’t stand the smell.

“Ah, what’s this smell?”

“Who caused this?”

The squires covered their noses and gagged.

“Is anybody cleaning their septic tank?” Liszt remembered the smell when feces were removed from toilets, but the stench right now was even more intense. He soon realized it. There are no toilets or septic tanks in Flower Town. The dry feces shouldn’t smell so bad.

Holding his breath, he said to his squires, “Carl, go and find the source of the smell.”

Very soon, Carl returned with a grass. “My lord, I’ve found the cause.”

He raised the grass in his hand high. “It’s this grass. Some naughty kids plucked those grasses, and they stank after they were broken.”

As he talked, an even stronger smell entered Liszt’s nose from the grass in Carl’s hand.

Liszt’s eyes glittered despite the stench. “There are a lot of such grasses?”

“Yes.”

“Good! Well done, Carl! Inform Goltai to protect these grasses. Nobody is allowed to approach or harm the grasses!”