Sea-Settling Divine Pearl: Water

At Tulip Castle, Liszt swiftly threw himself into preparing for the wedding.

However, there was not much he actually needed to do. Tulip Castle had several hundred servants, enough to handle everything smoothly. Aside from the Count, Lady Mary could make decisions as well; there was no need for family members who had already been granted fiefs to come and weigh in.

Nor did Liszt wish to struggle with Lady Mary for power within the castle. He merely checked on the wedding preparations from time to time, keeping watch for his elder brother Levis.

Most of the time, he still directed the construction of his territory from afar.

Knights traveled back and forth between Flower Town and Tulip Castle without pause every day, reporting the progress of the territory's development. They also brought fresh dragon-breed cow's milk and other delicious foods.

The Mangrove and the Pearl were undergoing major repairs at Flower Port. Essentially, damaged planks were removed and replaced with new Thorn Ironwood, then bonded together with rubber—there was little technical difficulty involved in this method of repair, but the results were absolutely excellent. Rubber's adhesive power was simply too strong.

Even without removing the old wood, simply filling holes with rubber and timber could make the two old sailing ships look brand-new.

In fact, after being reinforced with rubber, the Flower and the Thorn had both come to outperform newly built ships, showing no signs of wear at all.

News of the rubber fruit trees arrived three days later as well.

After Captain Kosto returned to Black Horse Island, he did not find any rubber trees bearing fruit. However, he saw many newly sprouted rubber tree seedlings around that new Bug Grass. Following Liszt's earlier instructions, Steward Blair organized workers to dig up the seedlings and replant them