Cultivating Snakeblood Fruit with Snake Blood (Fourth Update, Bonus Chapter for a Ten-Thousand-Coin Tip 2/3)

This chapter is an extra chapter for "bittertree"'s twenty-thousand-coin tip. There is another chapter to come.

The relationship between a lord and his followers was also a game of power.

When the lord was strong, his followers would be disciplined and loyal; when the lord was weak, his followers would grow unrestrained, their thoughts flickering with ulterior motives. The situation on Red Crab Island was precisely that of a weak lord, with followers itching to make a move.

Therefore.

Liszt had always been learning how to become a qualified lord. If he spent his entire life holed up on Coral Island, he probably would not need to learn much. With his family protecting him, his followers would not dare act recklessly. But his ambitions were not limited to a small island like Flower Town or Black Horse Island.

Neither Count nor Marquis was his goal. His goal was at least the rank of Grand Duke—riding a dragon!

The future was bright, but the road was winding. Every step he took now was preparation for the future, laying a solid foundation. Thus, the gossip behind Paris's salary was merely a small opening for him to test the arts of power, an experiment in how to command his followers.

After pondering for a moment, he calmed himself—more important matters awaited his attention.

Sea snakes.

A venomous type of snake that lived in the ocean, with vividly colored patterns on their bodies.

Sea snakes were often found in shallow waters, but sea-snake water monsters had not been discovered many times so far, and were mostly found in the deep sea. Or perhaps they should be called sea-snake sea monsters.

Water monsters and sea monsters meant the same thing.

This world had no so-called officially recognized formal names, nor any internationally accepted