"Task completed. Reward: one Thorn Bug."
As Liszt rode Loki, the Landwalker that had already learned the Levitation Spell, flying through the air, shifting Smoke appeared before his eyes, informing him that the task had been completed.
The orphanage had been temporarily established.
The requirements of Smoke tasks were not always strict. Much of their content served more as a reminder; once he noticed it and began carrying it out, the task was considered complete.
"Another Thorn Bug?" Liszt's eyes gleamed. Only the day before yesterday, he had contracted the Thorn Bug bred from his previous reward and relocated its Bug Grass to the Garden of Thorns planned for the as-yet-unbuilt Thorn Town. "Two Thorn Bugs being bred in succession will greatly increase my Thorn Potion production. Excellent!"
Patting Loki's extended neck, Liszt called out loudly, "Loki, to the Garden of Thorns!"
This Garden of Thorns was the one in Flower Town.
"Cluck!"
Loki answered happily, flapping its wings and turning around to fly, neither too fast nor too slow, toward the Garden of Thorns beside the Dairy Farm. A light current of wind-element magic supported Loki's body, making it weightless, allowing it to fulfill its dream of flight by beating its wings.
The Levitation Spell was an advanced wind-element spell, an evolved form of the Lightness Spell.
The Lightness Spell was a spell every mage studying wind magic would inevitably research. It gathered wind-element magic to lift oneself or other objects, reducing their weight. It was an extremely practical spell; mages loved using it to climb mountains or transport heavy loads.
But the Lightness Spell was, after all, merely an ordinary spell. It could not make a person fly.
Its evolved form, the Levitation Spell, possessed true flight capability. It could gather a mass of wind-element magic