Like moths flying into the flame, the savor of it was beyond words.
No sooner had the New Year festivities passed than good news arrived. This time, it was good news brought by the Invisible Dragon Bard. While Liszt had been busy with social obligations during the holiday, Bard had wandered idly through the world beyond matter—ever since the magic teleportation array had been established, it no longer feared getting lost.
Quite unexpectedly, it had discovered a natural node. After opening it, it found itself on the west coast of Flame Island, in a reef-strewn area.
It remembered that Liszt had always wanted to open more teleportation arrays on Flame Island and turn the island into a transportation network linking in all directions. Without question, this was a natural node with tremendous development value. It could connect Flame Island's west coast to that network.
So Liszt eagerly followed Bard here to inspect the surroundings.
The ocean waves crashed endlessly against the reefs. The sight of blue sea and azure sky stirred a surge of grandeur in his heart. "Faced with such a scene, I can only recite a poem... Eastward I climb Jieshi Mountain, to gaze upon the vast sea. How the waters roll and shimmer, how the mountain isles stand towering. Trees grow thickly, and all grasses flourish..."
The poem did not fit the scenery here at all.
There were no trees in the reef zone, and this was not the eastern sea but the western sea. About a hundred meters offshore, one could stand upon the reefs and gaze out at the coastline, where a beach stretched onward beyond sight. Its sand was white and clean, with only the occasional one or two trees resembling Fragrant Coconut Trees.
Farther inland stood sparse thickets of brush. The ground was