The Defeated Dragon Chapter 174-175

Chapter 174 – Opportunities in the Eyes of the Earth Knight

The importance of a sprite goes without saying. Even the Tulips considered the harvest of a new sprite as a festival worth celebrating.

Liszt quickly a.s.sembled officials like Gort after the birth of the Thorn Sprite.

They had their meeting in the castle.

“Whoo-hoo!”

“Whoo-hoo!”

“Whoo-hoo!”

The thorn sprite flying around in the living room undoubtedly attracted everyone's attention. It was bold and was not afraid of people. The little guy was pretty fierce.

Thomas, who was serving tea, blocked the sprite, and the little guy immediately jabbed his teeth at Thomas, waving his palms, as if ready to shoot straight past him.

It was giving Thomas a big mouth.

Despite the fact that Thomas avoided the sprite, the sprite still held his head up and his chest forward and was shouting at him.

It was as if it was saying, “I am the master, and this is my territory!  Open your dog's eyes, despicable slave!”

In fact, Liszt can feel it, and the thorn sprite was indeed dissatisfied with Thomas. Because of its bond with Liszt, it immediately regarded the castle as its own home. Except for Liszt, everyone else was an unwanted presence.

These 'unwanted' people in the living room praised the thorn sprite without realizing it.

“Its beauty is like the stars in the sky. I can't think of a better word than this to describe it!” Gort danced. “The advent of it just proves what I said before that Flower Town is not only a place blessed with the glory of the knights, it is also the birthplace of knight's glory! “

“It is not only an ordinary sprite, but also a sprite that brings endless wealth. Under its care, it will be a tree full of gold coins for us.”

Marcus has always been compet.i.tive with words,  “The thorn sprite will show our path for glory!”

The praises were endless.

The thorn sprite , however, does deserve such praise-it can grow a potion, a kind of wood, and its strategic value is almost as important as that of the food crop sprite.

Liszt waved his hand.

The thorn sprite flying all over suddenly obediently fell on Liszt's shoulder and yawned, “Wow.” It was probably tired of playing.

Liszt glanced at his gaudy followers and slowly said, “There is a lot of time for praise in the future. What I want to know now is how we should hold a celebration.”

“Sir, please give me the task of presiding over the celebration. I am the best at this.” Gort said indifferently.

“So tell me, how do you plan to celebrate?”

“Every time Tulip Castle gets a sprite, you invite the following n.o.bles to a feast ;  you as the Flower Town baron, the blood of the Tulip Family, you can invite the n.o.bles of the North Valley City to come to the feast. Meanwhile, relatives in Tulip Castle, as well as the Baroness of Falcontown, should also be invited. “

Gort first determined who should be invited.

Then he said: “In order to celebrate the thorn sprite, all the civilians in the territory should be involved. I think it should be a holiday … Well, it's fine, it should not be a holiday. The autumn harvest is keeping everyone busy, and all the projects are short of manpower. Letting the lazy serfs go on vacation is simply unforgivable. “

The civilian holidays just pa.s.s by so fast.

Even while celebrating, they still work.

Blair heard this and added,  “Perhaps we should give each serf a copper coin to show the Lord's concern.”

“Do you really need to treat serfs this way?” Gort disagreed. He has always looked down on the civilian cla.s.s.

Liszt gave the final word, “It is decided that each serf would be given a copper coin, and the free people would take a day off. As for everyone who works on the day of celebration, they will be paid double.”

“Double the wages, alas, that's a good idea,” Gort nodded quickly and praised.

“Thank you for your generosity!” Karl, Romm, and others quickly expressed their grat.i.tude. They liked the lords they followed for they were generous lords.

Liszt was satisfied with his subordinates' response so he let out a slight smile.

Throwing money was not an act of generosity, in a deeper meaning, the act of distributing money is done to stimulate the circulation of goods in Flower Town.

After all, he has the soul of a modern man in the 21st century and has learned more or less the theories of economics.

After all, one can feel inflation every day from the rising prices, devaluing yuan, and increasing wages. As a result, people find themselves getting farther and farther from affording a house. It is also from these intuitive feelings that one would slowly understand and care about the country's economic policies, and know what stimulates consumption.

The purpose of stimulating consumption is not for consuming products alone, but to stimulate demand as well. Once there is demand, it can promote the development of various industries.

As it is said, money can only produce actual value when it is in circulation.

If Liszt would follow other lords and h.o.a.rd all gold coins in his own warehouse, then the territory would stay in its original farming stage where the people cannot eat and go hungry. People would not talk about buying items or wanting to start a small business or do some sideline business and the like.

When one has money in hand, there will be a desire to consume, and one's territory land will thrive.

The original farming phase will s.h.i.+ft to handicraft and the production industry which will bring a steady stream of wealth — but it will bring a negative effect as well, their Lord's desire for wealth would grow.

But Liszt was not that stupid.

Liszt  believes that as long as he holds firmly on to the Knight's system and regularly collects first-born fat pigs as tax, the land cannot rise to any waves – after all, a world ruled by personal power and wealth only thrives under the protection of power.

“Adviser Gort, please continue.”

“As you wish, my lord.” “The last and most important point of the celebration, you should announce your acceptance of new followers!”

Lister raised his eyebrows and chewed, “Recruit followers?”

“Yes, everyone knows the importance of the sprites to the n.o.bility and with a sprite, you will go further and gain more glory. It is a good time to recruit followers now. There are always people like me, Marcus, Blair, Isaiah who are willing to follow in your footsteps! “

He just gained a sprite, why so much celebration?

On one hand, of course, it is a festivity, on the other hand, it is showing off; showing off the power of the lord and attracting the knights. In this world, n.o.bles and free peoples have cultivated a lot of earth knights, but only a small part can get lands and t.i.tles, and the rest were tirelessly looking for opportunities to become n.o.bles.

“I have a thorn sprite, and this is the opportunity for these earth knights.” Liszt instantly realized that the birth of his thorn sprite would be his voice to certainly rise to higher levels.

A huge leap from being a  baron in the countryside to becoming the future Viscount!

A Baron who has his own land and city will become an upper cla.s.s member of the aristocracy.

Chapter 175 – Same as Levis'

Falcon Town was located in Birch City, not far from Coral City.

Riding her own horse, Lvera, dressed in a military uniform, practiced a group of young female knights on the lawn near the castle.

A knight flew in.

“My Lady!”

“What is it?”

“The Flower Town emissary has come to the castle to convey to you an invitation from the Flower Town Baron.”

“Invite?””Let him wait, let's keep training!”

Xavier Oxdung waited in silence in front of the castle of Falcon Town.

Before he arrived, his Lord told him that perhaps that he would be met with some cold treatment in Falcon Town — List knew the character of his sister — so Xavier just brushed the fur of the horse he was riding quietly, a young female horse at the age of three.

It's not a good breed, it's just a common horse that can't go to the battlefield.

But he loved the little mare, it was a more important companion to a knight than his own wife. Perhaps when he will be promoted to an earth knight, the Lord will reward him with a new horse that will be good in the battlefield, but he will never forget the little mare that he raised.

Poof!

The little mare snorted.

 Xavier was a little worried. He felt the pony's belly, trying to determine if it was pregnant.  Just a few days ago, this mare was just grazing in the farm but was raped by the Lord's dragon horse. He felt very much in pain with what the mare has gone through, it was just a child after all!

But a dragon horse in Flower Town had the same authority to that of Liszt himself. It will do what it wants to do and no one can stop it. Xavier can only stare and watch it rape the little mare.

“Hopefully you're not pregnant for you're too young to produce ponies." Xavier whispered to himself, “When the Lord enlists me on the battlefield and win glory, I will buy you, keep you at home, and give you to my future son!”

The average life expectancy of an ordinary war horse is 30 to 35 years. Unusual war horses, such as magical beast horses or dragon horses will more likely live up to 60 years old, or even 100 years old.

The age at which a regular horse is best suited to ride for battle is 5 to 15 years old, known as the golden decade.

The horse would be old after that.

Xavier believed that his children would be born soon – he already has a girl he loves. When the children grow up, they can ride. The mother was still in her prime, and can follow the children until they go to war and change horses.

Thinking of this, Xavier became full of energy.

He was extremely convinced that under the leaders.h.i.+p of Sir Baron, he has a bright future to look forward to. Flower Town is the birthplace of knight glory, and Sir Baron is the son of glory.

 “The knight who just sent the message just looked at me and my horse with contempt in his eyes. I know he is riding a good war horse for Falcon Town is a wealthy town, but he knows nothing about Flower Town. The town is only part of the Lord's journey for someday he will own a city! “

Xavier looked at the knights who were hurriedly coming in from a distance, and guessed that it should be Lord's Sister, Lvera Tulip and her knights.

There is a tulip sprite in Falcon Town, and there is also a thorn sprite in Flower Town!

A moment later.

The party has arrived in front of Xavier.

Led by a woman in a military uniform, Xavier met her and bowed immediately: “The messenger of Flower Town, Xavier, sends his regards to the Baroness.”

“So Liszt asked you to come. What is he going to invite me to?” With her head up, Lvera looked down on Xavier, “I hope it's an important invitation. I am extremely busy and have no time to go to a boring country party.”

Xavier still replied with respect, ” In two days, on November 5th, the Sir Lord will celebrate the birth of his little Sprite.”

“Celebration for the birth of a sprite?” Lvera was stunned, her face changed dramatically, and she repeated, “Celebration for the birth of a sprite, he has a sprite? How is it possible?! He only has a few sprite worms, how could he have been born a sprite? A sprite? “There was a deep question in her tone and a hint of jealousy she didn't even notice.

“It is a thorn sprite worm that evolved into a thorn sprite.”

“A thorn sprite?” Lvera's complexion was slightly distorted, but she managed to slightly calmed down. “So it turned out that the thorn sprite worm has evolved. Indeed, it is necessary to hold a celebration. At least he can now monopolize the hedgerow business on Coral Island. The thorns cultivated by the sprite must be more suitable to be made into hedges. “

“Baroness, Flower Town has more to offer than thorns that can be a hedge." Xavier remembered that Sir Lord told him that he must explain to Lvera that Flower Town has potions and iron wood aside from the thorns. He also said, “There are iron wood-quality thorns, and magic potion quality thorns, these are the latest variation of the species. “

Iron wood!

Magic potion!

Hearing both words, Lvera's face was distorted.

She wanted to say, " How is that possible?!"

These series of blows made her difficult to accept it all. But after all, she was a well-educated aristocrat. Her face flashed for a moment, then returned to being calm. She then said indifferently,  “Tell Liszt I will attend the sprite birth celebration on time … Morris, you are responsible for receiving this knight . “

After that, Lvera went straight into the castle.

She changed her clothes and drank a gla.s.s of milk but she was still a little sullen.

She sat in her chair and started thinking.

At a very young age, she hated Liszt, or was it jealousy? — Why is that she wasn't as beautiful? As Liszt's talent was left behind, she became psychologically balanced, and as a woman who had been promoted to an Earth Knight years ago, she was confident enough against Liszt's beauty.

But all of this changed when List was exiled.

First, Liszt's promotion to Earth Knight level was a bit late, but not too much. At least a lot earlier than many people, including the count.

Then came the discovery of the black tulip, a peanut sprite worm, a dragon horse and a beast dog.

Liszt's luck has exploded.

Most importantly, Liszt began to respond to her straight on the eyes like an equal.

Sons don't even look at their fathers in the eye. It made Lvera very uncomfortable.

“People are turning to dogs!”

She gritted her teeth and cursed.

But she has to admit that she can no longer get along with Liszt in the same way she used to – now List has a Thorn Sprite, the equivalent of preparing for a Viscount. She also has a sprite, but the chances of women going to war are very low, and in her lifetime she'll probably be at most a baron.

“At least it's Liszt, not Lytton!”

After rubbing her face, Lvera took a deep breath, and the expression on her face finally returned to normal. She turned and shouted, “Mrs. Phoebe!”

“Miss, I'm here.”

“Prepare my present for the celebration in two days, and I will give it to Liszt.”

Mrs. Phoebe asked,  “What should we prepare specifically?”

“With……Like the one on Levis' birthday.”

“As you wish.”