Chapter 345: Chapter 342: ck Pearl Aquaculture (5th Update, Alliance Hierarch additional update 9/18)


    Magic Medicine Liszt understood well.


    However, with the added meaning of “auxiliary,” it became somewhat obscure and impressive.


    “To understand from the literal meaning, ‘auxiliary’ means to help. So, does it mean that when made into a magic potion, it can aid in the digestion of magic power, or does it mean that it can help other magic potions to grow? Or does it imply that when mixed with other magic potions to create a new potion, the effect would be better?”


    This was impossible to deduce.


    Liszt could only wait; he nned to cultivate more new varieties of auxiliary magic potion Dragon Hollyhock, which would take some time. Even with the boost from the Dragon Kui Bug, it would still be two to three months before he would see results.


    He repressed his curiosity about the auxiliary magic medicine.


    He reviewed the new mission.


    “Mission: Sea Sprite Ake, Acherloides Truth, has discovered a magical coral reef that is submerged at high tide and emerges as a circr reef at low tide. It teems with Tridas, whose shells contain numerous ck Pearls. Why not harvest some? Reward: One piece of magic equipment.”


    “Hmm!”


    This mission made Liszt’s eyes light up, Ake had actually discovered a coral reef, which was home to Tridas capable of producing ck Pearls.<div>


    It quickly reminded him of the Trida he had salvaged near the shorest year.


    Although not a sea monster, it could produce ck Pearls with magical properties. He had thought it was a Trida from the deep sea bottom, identally washed ashore. Unexpectedly, they originally lived in the coral reefs near Fresh Flower Town.


    Without a doubt.


    This kind of Trida could develop into an industry—the ck Pearl industry.


    The Sapphire Family had a Tranquil Lake on Blue Dragon Ind, where they raised low-level sea monsters, Pearl Oysters, which produced arge quantity of White Pearls every year. These were sought after by noblewomen as fine jewelry, with certain calming and soothing effects. ck Pearls had better effects, wererger in size, and could easily rece White Pearls.


    He quickly arrived at the Sea View Vi.


    He blew the horn, summoning Ake, who had been swimming in the ocean.


    “Brother.” Ake emerged from a shell, with Mangrove Minor Elf Nami sitting on his shoulder, the minor elf having be Ake’spanion for swimming through the sea and was no longer a stranger to Liszt.


    “Ake, have you discovered a coral reef?”


    “Brother, you already know? Ake just found that coral reef yesterday. When the tide goes out, they emerge above the water, looking like a veryrge circrke. Many shells live inside, a bit different from Ake’s own shell—simr to the Trida shells at the entrance of brother’s castle.”


    After hearing this, Liszt said, “Ake, these are Tridas, and they can produce ck Pearls. It’s the kind of ck Pearl I gave you before, a very precious material for magic equipment, and it can develop into the ck Pearl industry. I would like you to rify the exact location of the coral reef and determine its distance.”


    “Ake knows, from here, it’s about southeast, nearly thirty kilometers away from the shore,” Ake replied.


    Thirty kilometers, that is about a two-hour journey for the Fresh Flower Vessel.


    After waiting for the Fresh Flower Vessel to return, and timing the low tide, Liszt directly ordered Captain Kostor to set sail, following the direction Ake pointed out. Along the way, Ake would asionally surface, guiding Liszt’s course with his own trajectory, which Liszt then ryed to Kostor.


    Finally, at three o’clock in the afternoon, they saw the coral reef that had already emerged above the water.


    It was shaped a bit like China’s South China Sea Huaguang Reef. Now with the tide out, the circr reef was exposed, and the white sands, developed from corals, had all weathered into finesse.


    Stepping on it was very soft.


    “My lord, who would have thought there could be such beautiful coral reefs around Fresh Flower Town? It’s unbelievable.” Even Captain Kostor, who had spent years at sea, had never seen such lovely inds and reefs.


    Seagulls circled overhead, and the azure seawater was divided by the ring-shaped reef; the deep blue of the oceany outside, while within was a light bluegoon. Near the sandy shores, the vivid colors of the corals were clearly visible. Captain Kostor deduced from the colors that thegoon was only about ten meters deep—quite shallow.<div>


    Since Ake had already explored and confirmed that there were no sea monsters here, Liszt directly ordered his men to dive for Trida.


    Before long, sailors were emerging, one after another, cradling small Trida. These were ones that grew near the coast, with thergest being no bigger than a washbasin.


    When they pried one open, they indeed found ck pearls inside, but they were only the size of a fingernail—small ck pearls.


    The magic power inside them was also very dim.<div>


    Despite this, Captain Kostor couldn’t help eximing, “My lord, are… are these Calming Sea Pearls? Why are they so small?” He knew that the Calming Sea Pearls aboard the Fresh Flower Vessel were made from ck pearls.


    He had participated in the Trida harvesting before and remembered clearly that even the smallest ck pearl was the size of a fist.


    “Of course, small Trida will only have small ck pearls. There are alsorger Trida in thisgoon, and once they are harvested, we can collectrger ck pearls.”


    “Can we harvest ck pearls as big as the Calming Sea Pearls?” Captain Kostor’s eyes sparkled.


    “It’s difficult, who knows whether there are any super-sized Trida living inside.” Liszt shook his head. He had sent Ake to observe thegoon, and thergest Trida they found had a diameter of only one and a half meters. Compared to the nearly three-meter diameter Trida back at the castle, it was half the size.


    The bigger the Trida, therger the ck pearls they could nurture, after all, it takes a long time for small ck pearls to grow to the size of a washbasin.


    It was also unknown whether that super-sized Trida grew up in thisgoon or not.


    “You lead the sailors to search forrger Trida. Return these small ones to continue growing, and we will harvest a batch ofrge ones.”


    “As you wish.”


    Captain Kostor immediately led people to dive and search forrge Trida. The exposed coral reefs did not seem toorge, and looking across thegoon, it felt like a distance of five or six kilometers. Nearly oval in shape, thegoon was about twenty to thirty square kilometers in area.


    It was somewhat smaller than Fresh Flower Town.


    While it was easy to find Trida, searching forrge ones was not. After half a day of diving, the sailors had only found tworge Trida with a diameter exceeding one meter.


    They hauled them up with ropes and fishings, and it was almost dark by then.<div>


    “This should count aspleting the mission, having collected a batch of ck pearls, right?” Liszt called out the Smoke Mission and saw that the task description hadn’t changed.


    Unsure whether it was because the ck pearls were still in the shells of the Trida or because they didn’t collect enough, he then instructed the sailors to drag a few smaller Trida they had found previously onto the ship as well.


    Only then did he announce they would return.


    Back at the castle, the first thing he did was open these Trida shells, but to their disappointment, the tworge Trida shells only contained five fist-sized ck pearls. The smaller Trida shells only had some fragmented small ck pearls, none even the size of a ping pong ball.


    “It seems that my dream of creating Calming Sea Pearls from ck pearls to arm the fleet will have to be put on hold… Finding three ck pearls suitable for making Calming Sea Pearls in the beginning was really just luck.”


    Heposed himself.


    He summoned the Smoke Mission again, and this time, the Smoke Serpent Script finally changed.


    “Missionpleted, reward: one Soul Storage Vessel.”