A mother Violent Earth Dog pup named Yeast had been entrusted with Liszt's high hopes. He had expected its arrival to bring him an army of Blizzard Beasts.
Yet the result was disappointing. After eating the Bloodline Fruit, Yeast had not even had time to grow before blood poured from all seven orifices and it died on the spot—the Bloodline Fruit's evolution had failed.
Looking at the dead little Violent Earth Dog, Liszt shook his head and sighed. "So Bloodline Fruits not produced by smoke missions, just like ordinary Bloodline Fruits, carry such a high chance of failure... I wonder whether the smoke mission has failed as well, and what the punishment for failure might be."
He had someone clean up the scene and send the dead Violent Earth Dog's corpse to the Magic Guild, where the magicians could dissect it for research and squeeze out whatever value remained.
He then returned to Thorn Castle and summoned the smoke mission.
Mission complete. Reward: new clues regarding a Super Dragon Beast.
"Hmm?" Liszt exclaimed in surprise. He had not expected the mission to be completed despite the little Violent Earth Dog's sudden death. "It seems the mission only required feeding the pup, not whether its evolution succeeded... Although I lost a Bloodline Fruit, the loss is still within what I can bear."
He did not intend to abandon his plan for a Blizzard Beast legion. Whenever he found Bloodline Fruits in the future, he would still attempt to evolve new Blizzard Beasts—the Blizzard Knight Order was destined to become an elite component of the Burning Knight Order.
Putting aside his disappointment over the little Violent Earth Dog's death, he continued examining the Smoke Serpent Script before him.
In the blink of an eye, a new smoke mission appeared.
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