Lithops potted plants required meticulous care as well, lest the Elf Bugs they were nurturing miscarry. However, Liszt did not place too much importance on them. The reason was simple: lithops were neither magic herbs nor productive crops.
They were merely ornamental plants. At most, with Bug Grass, they could improve the quality of ordinary lithops, allowing the potted plants to fetch a slightly higher price when sold. Like the Venus flytraps he kept around the castle to catch flies, they looked rather nice but had no practical use.
What he valued more now were the two Tulip Bugs awaiting birth—the cultivation of Black Tulips could not do without Tulip Bugs.
Flower Farm was not large. Apart from over a hundred mu of Black Tulips, there were another twenty mu of red Sundance Tulips and more than ten mu of yellow William I Tulips. Both varieties had been discovered after arriving on Coral Island: one commemorated the ancestor Dans Tile, while the other commemorated Leewilliam being made Count.
As ordinary tulips, their greatest use was being made into dried tulip flowers, whose rich fragrance could ward off the reek of filth and excrement in the cities.
But under his rule, there was no problem with filth and excrement, so naturally there was no need for dried tulip flowers.
Furthermore, the serfs of Flower Town had all been transferred to Black Horse Island. As a result, the serfs at Flower Farm spent every day busy in the Black Tulip fields, neglecting Sundance and William I. By the time Liszt came to inspect them, some of the red and yellow tulips had already withered.
"My lord, Rayman failed to notice the Sundance and William I tulips withering. Please punish me, my lord." The steward of Flower Farm was filled with regret and