The translucent screen rippled like the surface of water, then three pieces of intelligence swiftly appeared:
[Daily intelligence update complete] [1: Extensive growth of frostleaf vines was discovered today at Rock Valley North Ridge in the northern Red Tide Fief. The optimal harvesting window will last one week.] [2: Ernst August, emperor of the Ironblood Empire, has officially issued a new Northern Frontier Reclamation Edict.] [3: The sinister beings nurtured by the Snow Oath are stirring. This crisis will sweep across the entire Northern Frontier this winter, rivaling the Great Rebellion two years ago.]
"Frostleaf vines?!"
Louis sat straight up in bed, making Sif murmur and roll over beneath the covers.
He paid little attention to that, his eyes already gleaming with excitement.
Frostleaf vines were no ordinary medicinal herbs.
They were rare plants capable of "soothing magical beasts" and "stabilizing agitation in low-tier magical beasts." Harvested properly and successfully prepared into medicine, they could become the treasure every beast tamer dreamed of!
"This stuff is practically a divine artifact..." Louis murmured, the challenges of raising magical beasts flashing through his mind.
Magical beasts were not mere brutes that relied on muscle alone. They were supernatural creatures whose physiques, senses, and various abilities were sustained by trace amounts of mana within their bodies.
That was precisely why they were so difficult to tame.
Mana circulated extremely erratically within magical beasts, often disrupting their minds and causing agitation, anxiety, or even something akin to collective madness, severely hampering taming efforts.
Some magical beasts could even undergo a mana-stress explosion when subjected to confinement, starvation, or sudden upheaval, blowing themselves up on the spot.
Moreover, if one beast lost control of its emotions, mana resonance could send others of its kind into a collective rampage, a phenomenon known as the