The Mighty Dragons Are Dead

The Rainbow Dolphin Sea Monster vanished without a trace, and Ach grew a little anxious.

It wasn't that she was worried about not being able to hunt it, but rather she feared that the Sea Monster would find other Elf Bugs and eat them. In the current Giant Algae Forest, three Elf Bugs and two Little Minor Elves had already been discovered; it was difficult to guarantee that no other Elf Bugs would be found. All the elves of the entire Giant Algae Forest belonged to her brother Liszt.

They couldn't be spoiled by the Sea Monster.

After a careful search, she still couldn't find any trace of the Sea Monster, so she could only comfort herself, "The Sea Monster probably didn't target the elves; it might have just been curious about them... I've never heard brother mention any animals that feed on elves, nor have I read about it in books."

Besides, discovering an Elf Bug was also very difficult; the Sea Monster might not actually be able to find a second one.

"Sea Monsters don't have the Eye of Magic," she murmured as she swam gently through the Giant Algae, feeling a little regretful, "What a pity that Ach is not a Knight and doesn't possess Dou Qi, unable to cultivate the Eye of Magic. Otherwise, Ach could help brother quickly find all the elves and Magic Potions in the sea."

"The Eye of Magic" is a Dou Qi Secret Technique, which only Knights can cultivate; Magicians naturally cannot.

She searched in circles.

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Night had completely fallen.

She returned to the spot where she had seen the new Giant Algae Minor Elf for a while before leaving the Giant Algae Forest and swimming toward Mangrove Island.

On Mangrove Island, Nami was holding a Green-headed Duck that had hatched just a few days ago, waiting for Ach's return. Sometimes Ach would take Nami with her, but now with the responsibility of taking care of the duckling, Nami spent half of the nights on Mangrove Island. It also liked Mangrove Island very much, as it was born there.

When she saw the seashell emerging from within the Mangrove Forest, Nami immediately put down the duckling, flew up excitedly, and called out "Peep" as she rushed towards the seashell.

By the time Ach flew out of the seashell, Nami had just crashed into her arms.

"Nami, Brother Liszt brought you a new friend," Ach said.

"Peep."

"Blurp!" Without waiting for Ach's introduction, Fizz emerged from the shell, baring his teeth at Nami. His sharp teeth instantly frightened Nami into hiding in Ach's arms.

"Fizz, you are not allowed to scare Nami."

"Blurp!" Fizz turned and bared his teeth at Ach again. Although having a 'mother' was important, this did not mean that Fizz would bow to Ach...

Unless she took out the Jade Powder.

Smack smack.

Having received the Jade Powder, Fizz no longer provoked Nami and quietly licked the Jade Powder. Nami, getting bolder, began to size up Fizz and occasionally peeped at Ach.

Ach explained softly, "It doesn't have wings because it's a Little Minor Elf from the sea. The Little Minor Elves in the sea have fins instead of wings. See its fins? Don't they look a bit like Ach's fin wings?" Ach's fish fins were also transparent behind her ears and back.

In fact, the sprites of the sea and the elves from within the sea shared great similarities.

A moment later.

Fizz had finished eating the Jade Powder, and upon seeing Nami looking at him, he started baring his teeth again. However, now that Nami knew it couldn't fly, she was no longer afraid and peeped as she turned and flew away. In a flash, she had taken two peanut toffees from her Cordyceps leaf.

"Peep."

She handed one of the peanut toffees to Fizz.

"Blurp?"

Fizz paused, sniffed with his nose, then reached out his hand and accepted the peanut toffee. Seeing Nami bite down on hers with a crunch, he too mimicked and crunched on it. However, after just a couple of bites, he spat out the peanut toffee and threw away the candy in his hand.

Again, he started baring his teeth.

Nami pouted and turned back to communicate with Ach with a "peep." Then Ach took out some Jade Powder and handed it to her. She immediately grabbed the Jade Powder and flew towards Fizz for the second time—and as expected, Fizz eating the Jade Powder was not at all resistant to Nami.

Nami let herself be petted on the small patch of giant algae atop her head.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

Ach watched from the side, finding the whole affair quite amusing. Nami truly was a clever little minor elf and quite adept at making friends.

...

"Another giant algae minor elf?"

The next morning, after meeting up with Ach, Liszt was utterly shocked, "Just as I suspected, this giant algae forest harbors too many elves... Anyway, can we still find that rainbow dolphin you mentioned? I'm really interested in it. If possible, try not to hunt it but capture it."

His astonishment at the minor elf soon gave way to suspicion that the rainbow dolphin could very well be the low-level dragon beast sea monster hinted at by the Smoke Mission.

A large fish with colors of the rainbow, looking similar to a dolphin, fit the profile of a dragon beast — the landwalker bird Loki also sported rainbow feathers.

Regardless.

The search for the new day began with Ach leading him straight to the cordyceps of the giant algae minor elf. It was the same routine with the same result, the gluttonous giant algae minor elf couldn't resist the temptation of the jade powder, and Liszt took the opportunity to extend his finger for a quick contract with a smack of his lips.

After surfacing, Liszt was quite proud of himself, "Ach, these little elves really are easy to tempt."

"Brother, if it were Nami, she definitely wouldn't be lured so easily," Ach recounted in detail how Nami had befriended Fizz the day before.

Is that so? Nami is so cute... however, I disagree with you. Perhaps without my intervention, Nami would approach me on her own and contract with me, just like she voluntarily contracted with you."

Ach was momentarily taken aback.

Suddenly, it seemed likely that that was the case, given that Nami naturally enjoyed making friends.

While they were talking, a commotion arose from the shells — Fizz and the newly arrived giant algae minor elf couldn't see eye to eye and had started to scuffle in the water, exchanging punches and bites in a fierce fight.

"Stop!"

Liszt immediately commanded them to cease, and while the two little elves dared not disobey, they still glared at each other, baring their teeth and grimacing. Although they were both born in the giant algae forest, and their species and appearances were similar, the two little fellows were clearly not of a sociable nature, daring to brawl upon their first meeting.

Such fiery tempers!

"From now on, you are forbidden to fight and even more forbidden to bully any elf! Did you hear me, Fizz, and you... you'll be called Tam, which means king of the river. As for why you should be called that, given your hot temper, you're bound to be the tyrant of the castle's canals."

Fizz and Tam continued to glare at each other.

The power of the contract prevented them from rejecting Liszt's orders, and they no longer dared to fight.

...

Time ticked away, and the day came to an end.

The bounds of the magic medicine kelp were finally determined to be approximately two thousand five hundred acres in size, although not every acre was covered with magic medicine kelp — many regular giant algae were also mixed in.

The yield of these magic medicine kelp would definitely not be less than that of the rapid growth magic thorn. Liszt had observed through the Eye of Magic that the magic medicine kelp was not only enormous, but also had a high concentration of magic power. The amount of magic potion that could be extracted from a single plant was incomparable to ordinary magic potion.

"Ach, we need to keep searching within this magic medicine kelp. According to my calculations, there should be at least two more elf bugs, and I have a rough idea of their locations."

Previously, Liszt had ridden Loki to carefully map out the distribution of the magic medicine kelp and the locations of the four cordyceps.

Based on the positions of these four cordyceps and circling their reach, he found that they wouldn't cover all the magic medicine kelp. In the areas outside of the cordycep's range, he speculated carefully and concluded that there had to be two more elf bug cordyceps to account for the spread of the magic medicine kelp.

This was a calculation derived from scientific method.

The accuracy was high.

Liszt gazed out over the vast sea, thinking to himself, "The mission isn't complete, which means the core secret of the giant algae forest has yet to be discovered. So, is it about finding all the giant algae elf bugs, or is there some other secret I need to uncover... Could it be possible that there is a giant algae greater elf lurking in there?"

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