Carpeted with Dried Tulips (First Update)

Traveling beneath stars and moon, chasing the morning dew, the fish-belly white of the east gradually turned into red clouds filling the sky. By the time a crimson sun rose over the eastern horizon, the party had reached Coral City's harbor.

Many knights and their squires had already gathered at the harbor.

"Captain Raiden, I'll leave the Black Knight Order's assembly to you." Upon seeing Raiden Water Jug, Liszt directly handed the task of assembling the troops over to him.

He himself went to discuss the allocation of ships with Levis.

The Tulip Family owned around fifty seagoing vessels. Half were two-masted cargo sailships; of the remaining half, two-thirds were ordinary two-masted sailships, while one-third were two-masted fast sailships. There were only two three-masted vessels: the Tulip, an ordinary three-masted sailship, and the Coral, a three-masted cargo sailship.

The three-masted ships naturally would not be assigned to Liszt.

He was assigned one two-masted fast sailship, two ordinary two-masted sailships, and one two-masted cargo sailship.

The cargo ship would transport food and water, the ordinary ships would carry the squire knights and horses, and the fast ship would be for the nobles. Of course, Liszt had privileges. His knight squad and squire knights also traveled aboard the fast ship to serve him, and even the Li Dragon Horse was kept aboard.

Paris stayed in the adjacent cabin, while Dousen guarded the door.

His personal safety had been raised to the highest level.

Once he and Levis had settled which four ships would belong to the Black Knight Order, the Count also arrived. After delivering a brief speech at the harbor, he was the first to board the three-masted Tulip.

One by one, the sailships then departed from the harbor.

As the rising sun climbed into the sky, Coral Island's knight orders