After Marquis Merlin's funeral ended, Liszt did not linger at Long-Yam Castle. The next day, he returned to Black Horse Island with A Ke.
While other nobles had to sail slowly across the sea, he rode in A Ke's shell at the speed of sound, crisscrossing the Sapphire Archipelago as easily as traversing the city's second ring road. Upon returning to his territory, he first mounted Loki the Landwalker and made a circuit of the domain. Then he found Rose, the Seven-Colored Whale who had been growing fatter and fatter in captivity, and went for a swim in the sea.
It was now the sweltering height of summer, and swimming in the ocean was wonderfully refreshing.
The Lightning Dragon Turtle raised by A Ke had become Black Horse Island's guardian beast. Every day, it spent half its time lying on the beach near Giant Kelp Town.
Then it enjoyed the large quantities of delicious dried fish delivered by the servants from Thorn Castle.
It was not as though it did nothing at all. As a lightning-element super dragon beast, high-level lightning magic naturally gathered around its body, forming a natural training ground dense with lightning magic power. Many lightning-element knights in the territory trained around it.
These knights were all very young, reserve knights Liszt was cultivating for his own Burning Knight Order.
Grand Duke Sapphire had the renowned Blue Blood Knights as his direct military force. Naturally, Liszt could not be without a direct force of his own. As the Burning Knight Order continued to grow and expand, it would gradually develop into a noble meritocracy like the Blue Blood Alliance.
A vast foundation that would guard the Flame Family for generation after generation.
"The Black Blood Steed herd is being raised well. The Black Blood crossbreeds can already