This chapter is an extra update for the ten-thousand-coin reward from "Stirring Gem."
Though he called it an inspection of the Half-Slope Cattle Ranch, there was not much to inspect. The cows that had given birth were healthy, and so were the calves.
Liszt personally fed the cows several bundles of hay, considering it a gesture of consolation.
Afterward, he had someone slaughter a crossbred Estuary Piglet from the Estuary Pig Farm. He wanted roast suckling pig for dinner.
Standing on the hillside of Black Horse Ranch, he gazed at the herd of Black Blood Steeds in the distance. Lightning nestled at his side. He rarely rode this king of Black Blood Steeds anymore. Most of the time, Lightning leisurely acted as his own herd king, mating with whichever mare he fancied.
The herd had already produced many foals. With herdsmen tending them, not a single one had died young, and the population was slowly expanding.
The crossbred horse herd was even larger. Foals were dropping to the ground one after another, already numbering over a hundred. Once these foals grew up, they could equip the Black Horse Island Knight Order. Though their dragon bloodlines were thin, they could still be called Dragon-Blood Horses, sturdier than magic beast-bred horses.
"What a pity. The Invisible Dragon visits my territory only about once a year. Otherwise, if it came a few more times, the territory probably wouldn't lack Dragon-Blood Beasts."
The reason dragons infected dragon-type creatures was the infection of bloodline magic power.
According to the dragon-raising manual left by Marquis Bull, that bloodline magic power might originate from boiling blood. When a dragon became extremely excited, its blood would rapidly boil, releasing the bloodline infection magic power within. This would infect nearby creatures and turn them into dragon-type creatures.
But