"Mission: May is the season when plants flourish. The crops on Black Horse Island are growing continuously, and as lord, you have not fulfilled your duty of inspecting the territory for a long time. Why not tour the territory's crops and check on their growth? Reward: A large batch of Elf Bugs."
The mission for Nami's evolution had just ended when a new mission brought Liszt a large batch of elves.
After several years of cultivation and soil enrichment, Black Horse Island's crops had grown far more luxuriantly than those on other islands. As a result, Elf Bugs had begun to emerge in rapid succession.
This time, Liszt and A Ke operated the Magic Eye and the Eye of Magic together, carefully inspecting both the island's land and sea from end to end.
They found three Wheat Bugs, one Barley Bug, one Thorn Bug, one Pea Bug, one Rubber Bug, one Peanut Bug, one Mangrove Bug, one Corn Bug, one Millet Bug, one Fragrant Coconut Bug, two Giant Kelp Bugs, and two Elf Bugs of unknown algae species.
He named them Black Algae Bugs and Brown Algae Bugs, and had A Ke contract both of them. He himself no longer particularly wanted to contract Elf Bugs; it was too troublesome.
Sixteen Elf Bugs in total—this was the reward Black Horse Island had earned under Liszt's leadership after more than three years of scientific farming: building toilets extensively, piling up manure, digging irrigation channels, artificially watering crops, selecting and breeding superior seeds, meticulous cultivation, weeding and pruning, and ensuring reasonable sunlight.
The Magic Guild had dedicated research teams studying the relationship between scientific farming and the gestation of Elf Bugs, and they had already reached a preliminary conclusion through big data.
The gestation of Elf Bugs was a probability-based