From Baron to Lord

Allen tossed a piece of animal hide paper to Nick, saying, “This is the recipe.”

Nick excitedly examined the recipes carefully, then nodded, “Your Grace, this is a treasure! Although it’s a one-time potion, it has no side effects on mental strength and can increase the probability of intermediate mages advancing to senior mages!”

Nick's eyes lit up: “This… this is a fatal temptation for mages! Even if they don't break through to become senior mages, this mental secret medicine has a great effect on anyone below the senior mage level!”

Allen nodded: “That's right, so this thing has extremely high commercial value, Nick.”

“The secret of the recipe must never be leaked.”

Nick immediately nodded solemnly upon hearing this: “Your Grace, rest assured.”

“Alright, go and produce a batch of finished products. I will have someone send you the required magic herbs. You don't need too many finished products, two hundred should be enough.”

Allen stroked his chin as he spoke. Sparrow was currently preparing a chamber of commerce and forming a trade caravan. Without a treasure to hold the line, it would be difficult to open up commercial channels.

Allen already had some ideas. The chamber of commerce lacked reputation and foundation the most.

Allen, a newly established duchy, didn't have much foundation for his chamber of commerce, but he could take out a rare, or even non-existent, magic potion.

As long as this magic potion was released, it could immediately make a name for itself.

At that time, there would be no need to worry about the reputation of the chamber of commerce.

It might even attract some mages to come and join him.

As for Allen's subordinates, hehe, with the mage training ground, this magic potion wouldn't be of much use to them. Instead, it would be more suitable as a commercial product.

“Scarcity makes things valuable. Let Sparrow build a reputation first, and then hold an auction…”

Allen pondered the commercial development of the Duchy of Allen.

At the same time, he waved his hand at Nick: “Go and prepare, I need the finished product in a week.”

“Rest assured, Your Grace, no problem!”

Nick laughed and then left.

ps: Chapter 4, asking for monthly tickets, flowers, evaluation tickets, and subscriptions! I can't do it anymore, I'll update to here… I'm dying… things.

Chapter 300: The Inheritance of a Race? No, Only the Inheritance of the Duchy (1)

The system gave Allen three rewards in total, two of which he had already placed in the hands of professionals.

For the last one, Allen naturally thought of the dwarves first.

These natural master blacksmiths were the best people under his command to receive runic knowledge.

However, it was already dark, and Allen planned to go to the New Royal Capital tomorrow. “Hmm…”

Allen had just walked out of the conference hall and arrived at the castle where he lived when he saw Annie, wearing a white dress, scurrying away.

Behind her were a large group of maids. “Miss Annie! Wait!” “It’s time to take a bath, Miss!”

The maids behind Annie were running quickly, chasing after her.

But they couldn't catch Annie. Although the little girl was petite, her long-term labor had made her very agile. She was very good at dodging, and the maids couldn't catch her. “Ahhh!”

Annie quickly saw Allen and ran behind him for cover.

For Annie, she had never received princess-like treatment. For her, having enough to eat was the greatest wish.

This wish had been fulfilled after meeting Allen.

As for being served by maids.

Annie really hadn't thought about it. In her eyes, these women in beautiful clothes were not people she could approach. “Annie, what's wrong?”

Allen picked up Annie. The little girl had been following him recently, but because she couldn't communicate, she couldn't talk to anyone.

The little girl who couldn't talk was even less willing to get close to others. “Your Grace.”

The maids immediately knelt before Allen.

“Your Grace, Miss Annie doesn’t seem to want us to give her a bath.” The female housekeeper appeared before Allen, panting heavily.

It was obvious that the female housekeeper had experienced strenuous exercise before. “You don’t want to take a bath? Annie?”

Allen said to the little girl in his arms.

“Water is precious.”

Annie looked at Allen with bright eyes.

“Hahaha, I told you, this is the world above ground, there is plenty of water.”

Allen carried Annie to the bathroom and then put her on the ground, holding her little hand.

The bathroom was extremely large, luxuriously decorated, and steaming hot.

“Go take a bath, and then you can rest.”

Allen said to Annie, “These people are all my servants, they will take good care of you, don’t be afraid.”

Annie still held Allen’s hand tightly.

“Your Grace, this…”

The female housekeeper sighed. There was nothing she could do about it.

“Allen?”

At this moment, Lucy walked over, looking like she was also going to take a bath.

“Ah, Lucy.”

Allen pointed at Annie: “Can you give Annie a bath?”

“Of course.”

Lucy said with a smile.

Lucy squatted down in front of Annie and smiled: “Annie, come with me.”

Perhaps it was Lucy's natural affinity, or perhaps it was because she saw many beautiful nature spirits and fairies surrounding Lucy.

Annie obviously had a much better attitude towards Lucy.

Annie nodded and walked into the bathroom with Lucy.

Allen smiled, then instructed the maids to wait here for instructions.

He went back and cultivated diligently.

The next morning, Allen took Lucy and Annie to the New Royal Capital. Recently, the construction of the New Royal Capital had slowed down a bit, after all, Allen had transferred the manpower away.

“Copperbeard!”

Allen brought two women, one big and one small, to Copperbeard's blacksmith shop. At this moment, the dwarves inside were working enthusiastically.

There were more than thirty adult male dwarves, enough to ensure uninterrupted work around the clock.

When Allen arrived, Copperbeard was resting.

“Oh, Your Grace!”

Copperbeard bowed slightly to Allen: “Your Grace, why are you here today? I heard that there are descendants of ancient empires in the Aruke Forest?” Copperbeard said curiously. He had heard this from Redsteel.

In fact, this matter was a secret of the Duchy of Allen.

Even if everyone knew that Allen had mobilized his army to sweep through the Aruke Forest, no one would know the secret of the Aruke Forest. Allen smiled: “Copperbeard, this is my secret.”

“I understand, Your Grace, rest assured, I will definitely not leak it.” Copperbeard immediately replied, understanding Allen's meaning. “Well, that’s good. I’m here today for one thing.”

Allen said to Copperbeard, “My knight armor has just begun to be forged, so I hope you can learn a new technique.” “New technique?”

Copperbeard was stunned: “Your Grace, is there something wrong with our dwarven forging technique?” He subconsciously thought that Allen was expressing dissatisfaction with him.

“No, no, no, Copperbeard, the dwarves' skills are impeccable, but Copperbeard, you also know that all current civilizations are just developed on the basis of some superficial foundations left over from the great and brilliant ancient civilizations.” Allen's words made Copperbeard nod: “Yes, Your Grace, even the dwarves are like this. Many forging techniques of the legendary Dwarven Court have been lost.” “So, your skills are still lacking, so I need you to learn new knowledge.”

Allen took out a notebook: “This is the knowledge of elementary ancient runes, knowledge about forging weapons, it is a very precious thing, Copperbeard, are you willing to learn it?” He handed the notebook containing the knowledge of elementary runes to Copperbeard. “Elementary ancient rune knowledge?!” Copperbeard had never heard of such knowledge.

However, just the word 'ancient' was enough to shock Copperbeard. “Your Grace, is this ancient knowledge?!” Copperbeard gasped.

“Yes, Copperbeard, I’m giving it to you, I hope you can use it to forge knight armor for me.” Allen patted Copperbeard on the shoulder and said earnestly.

“This, this is too precious, too precious, you, you want to give this knowledge to us dwarves?! This is the inheritance of a race, Your Grace!” Copperbeard was simply confused with gratitude. Allen was actually willing to give this precious knowledge to the dwarves, instead of other humans.

This made Copperbeard feel unbelievable and extremely ashamed.

You must know that Copperbeard had never thought of teaching his skills to other humans.

Although they were willing to interact with humans, and had good friendships with the humans in the New Royal Capital.

But this was the foundation of their dwarven race, even if he was loyal to Allen, he would not selflessly dedicate his knowledge.

They could serve Allen for generations, but they would not teach the forging techniques to humans.

This was the inheritance of a race.

Yes, in this world, knowledge is the foundation, it is the inheritance.

But now, Allen took out forging knowledge that was even better than the dwarven race's inheritance, and selflessly gave it to Copperbeard.

This made Copperbeard feel extremely ashamed.

“Otherwise? You are the most outstanding blacksmith under my command, a natural master blacksmith, more excellent than most human blacksmiths.” “Giving this knowledge to you is the best, and I also hope that my knight armor can be better.”

Allen said indifferently, he had never thought about the topic of racial differences. In his opinion, as long as they were in his country, they were all his people. “As for the inheritance of a race… Hahaha, Copperbeard, in my country, everything is equal, all races are equal.” “We don’t need the inheritance of a race, we only need the inheritance of the Duchy of Allen.”

Chapter 301: Miss Anna is Jealous, the Taste of Love (2)

“The inheritance of the Duchy?”

Copperbeard held the notebook in his hands carefully, his heart filled with gratitude.

“I understand, Your Grace, rest assured, we will definitely carry the name of the Duchy and pass on the knowledge.” Copperbeard said respectfully to Allen.

“Alright, go to work, the main thing today is to bring this rune to you.” Allen bid farewell to Copperbeard and walked through the New Royal Capital with Lucy and Annie.

At this moment, the snow in the New Royal Capital had almost melted, and various snack shops had reappeared on the streets.

The entire royal capital began to lively up. “Oh!”