To secure Old Phil, one of the Descendants of the Sun, the three Grand Magicians had no choice but to throw themselves into researching the difficult problems A Ke had raised. With Chris coordinating the overall effort, this magical research team still had a very important role to play.
Human strength had its limits. Even if A Ke advanced to become a Magister in the future, she would still need a group of magicians to help her complete all manner of detailed experiments.
Over the next three days, Liszt had little to do apart from training.
He merely contracted the newly born Peanut Bug. Together with the Oat Bug he had contracted a few days earlier, he now possessed sixty-four Elf Bugs.
"I keep feeling that the number of Elf Bugs being born in my territory can't keep up with the pace of my expansion. It's no longer like before, when an Elf Bug would be born every few days... Could it be that too much of the Smoke Dragon's power of destiny is tied up in matters involving riding dragons, weakening its influence elsewhere?"
In truth, Elf Bugs were being born on Black Horse Island at no slow rate. Most plants had only been planted for their first or second crop, and perhaps had yet to adapt to the local soil.
But Liszt simply felt it was too slow. If he did not pick up an Elf Bug in a day, he felt uncomfortable all over.
This showed that it was easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but hard to go from extravagance back to frugality.
Still, although he had not found many Elf Bugs, he had found no shortage of pearls. In the waters near Rocky Island, he pried open several Golden-Lipped Clams and collected four nicely