This chapter is an extra update for "Guoge's Dad" in thanks for the 10,000-coin reward.
The second floor of Thorn Castle was already under construction and would certainly be fully completed within the year.
By the time Liszt finished touring Thorn Castle with A Ke, night had fallen. Port Town's chefs had prepared a lavish banquet. Nearly all of Black Horse Island's principal officials and elite Earth Knights attended that evening's feast.
The reason was simple.
Tonight's banquet was Liszt's opportunity to introduce A Ke to everyone, so that the people of the territory would understand her identity and avoid any misunderstandings later.
No matter how these officials and knights speculated, the fact remained that their lord now had another younger sister.
Over the next three days, A Ke studied magic for storing clothing with Mary and the other vampires while also organizing a batch of magical experiments for Chris to research. As for anything related to magic, Liszt had basically entrusted it all to A Ke and Chris and no longer concerned himself with it.
Nor did he fuss over magical books anymore—he had truly been frightened by all the demands for updates. The Count sent a messenger knight almost every day to ask whether Liszt's Sky Handbook was finished.
Back when no one urged him on, writing was a form of relaxation, a pleasure, a refined pursuit.
But once people began pushing him, writing became a burden, with no pleasure left in it.
He preferred cultivating Dragon Rider Resonance with Rio, soaring through the skies and observing everything in this world through a dragon's eyes—the riot of colors, the paths of motion. Both man and dragon were rapidly growing stronger, their progress tangible at every moment. Rio could even cross the sea between Coral Island and Black