Oats, barley, apples, tomatoes, peas, White Crystal Chrysanthemums, Ice Grass, and the seven Great Elves paid by Piero Graymouth Iron—of them, only the White Crystal Chrysanthemum Great Elf could cultivate magical herbs.
Rockwood, tobacco, Black Tea Trees, barley, millet, and the five Great Elves paid by Pilov Earthrage—none were of the magical-herb type, and all could barely be considered grain crops.
The sudden addition of twelve Great Elves directly doubled the number of Great Elves under Liszt's command. It had to be said that only now had he barely built up the foundations of a dragon-rearing family. At least in terms of Great Elf numbers, he was not much worse than the dragon-rearing families of ordinary duchies.
In this world governed by the knightly system, although nobles stood at the top of the ruling hierarchy, they were strictly divided into ranks.
An ordinary Baronet Knight could live off a single Elf Bug; a baron had several Elf Bugs and farmed a small town; a viscount had one Little Elf and managed a small city; a count had one Great Elf and managed one large city along with several smaller ones; the number of Great Elves owned by marquises varied.
Ancient warrior families like Stone Marquis Pilov Earthrage, or Domain Knights like Raging Wave Marquis Dimaria Yuhuashi, all possessed more than a dozen Great Elves.
Even Marquis Bull of old had possessed a Dragon Elf.
As for ducal families like Piero Graymouth Iron's, having more than twenty Great Elves was standard, and they needed two or three Dragon Elves as well. A ducal family like the Red-White Rose Family might possess forty or fifty Great Elves.
Higher still, the royal families of the great kingdoms might have over a hundred Great Elves, and could raise many Dragon Elves as well.
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