Back aboard the Flame, Liszt rested and recuperated.
Liszt examined the new mission.
"Mission: The Crystal Tree Fern forest on Mind Island has matured. Though it lies off the shipping route and has not yet been discovered by the Eagle Kingdom fleet, there is no guarantee that Mind Island will remain undiscovered forever. When that happens, the Crystal Tree Fern forest will become a clue. Please harvest every Crystal Tree Fern. Reward: one Super Magic Beast."
"Hmm!"
The moment Liszt saw the mission details, his interest was piqued. Even without a Smoke mission prompt, he had intended to harvest the entire Crystal Tree Fern forest—the Crystal Tree Ferns, once crystallized, were priceless treasures. The crystals alone were already exceedingly valuable.
What truly concerned him was the mission reward: a Super Magic Beast.
By now, he had gained considerable experience and seen quite a few kinds of Magic Beasts, but he had yet to encounter either a Super Magic Beast or a high-level Dragon Beast. High-level Dragon Beasts were one thing—after all, he had seen Super Dragon Beasts—but what exactly did a Super Magic Beast look like? He was genuinely curious.
"Could it also undergo some qualitative change, like a Super Dragon Beast?"
There were no traces of Super Magic Beasts in the Sapphire Grand Duchy. Even on the Legendary Continent, there were few records of them. Compared to Super Dragon Beasts, which frequently appeared in legends, Super Magic Beasts kept a far lower profile—perhaps the authors of those knight novels were inherently prejudiced against species without dragon bloodlines.
As a result, Super Magic Beasts had received almost no attention.
The only Super Magic Beast Liszt had barely come into contact with had been through the vampires. Back at the Trapped Dragon Mountains Iron Mine, after killing the pureblood Famur, he