Imperial Crown

The Wind King Egg, that is, the Hippogryph Egg after reversion, began to hatch.

This was not only beyond Raven's expectations, but also beyond the common sense of the Warcraft trainer Odu.

According to past experience, the incubation period of Hippogryph eggs should be between 11-14 months, but this batch of Wind King Eggs has only been in existence for a little over 8 months since its birth!

"I'm really sorry, Baron." Odu rubbed his hands, with an unconcealed shame on his face: "It was so sudden, I didn't expect such a thing to happen..."

Behind him, in the nest made of feathers and straw, there were Wind King Eggs.

Compared with ordinary Hippogryph eggs, they are larger, with barb-like spikes on the surface, and the eggshells are even more blue with magic patterns.

Even as an outsider in Warcraft breeding, Raven can see that these eggs are on the verge of hatching.

Because they don't lie in the nest honestly, but jump, roll, and move around spontaneously. Sometimes they will suddenly burst out a gust of wind and blow themselves into the air, making the apprentices guarding nearby panic, fearing that they will fall to the ground.

"This is not your fault." Raven said: "After all, the wind king eggs are different from the horned eagle eggs. With experience this time, it will be better to deal with it next time."

As he said, he turned to the back and asked: "Have the children from the orphanage arrived?"

Volaf immediately responded: "I have notified them, and they will be here in about half an hour."

Like many birds, horned eagles will regard the first person they see after breaking out of the shell as their closest relatives, so if you want to cultivate tacit understanding, it is best to start from childhood.

Raven nodded, walked to the side of the nest, opened the Eye of Truth, and observed these wind king eggs.

The activity of the storm element contained in them is indeed far beyond that of ordinary horned eagles.

Suddenly, a wind king egg jumped in front of Raven and almost jumped out of the edge of the nest.

Raven caught it quickly and felt that it was heavy and a bit heavy.

The wind king egg felt hard to the touch, but it was also soft. Through the shell, one could clearly feel the heat and even the heartbeat of the little guy inside.

Dong, dong, dong...

Crack

A hole was pecked out of the eggshell, and several cracks appeared with it as the center. The silver beak took shape and retracted. Not long after, there was another squeak.

Raven quickly put it back into the nest.

This little wind king began to break out of the shell.

The little guy's vitality seemed to be quite tenacious. In just five or six minutes, he pecked seven or eight holes in the eggshell.

When these holes were connected in a line, with the last peck, the eggshell finally broke completely, revealing the body of the wind king cub inside.

Ordinary horned eagles are gray and white - the whole body is white, and the top of the head, chest, and wings are gray.

But this cub is completely different. It is snow-white, except for the pair of wings under its ribs, which are pure blue.

The little guy who just broke out of the shell still has some mucus on his body, and his eyes are not fully open, but after a short while, he stood up energetically, shook himself dry, and began to peck at the broken eggshells to replenish his nutrition.

Raven reached out and stroked its little head. The fluff was tender and soft, just like touching the finest satin, which felt wonderful.

The little guy didn't guard the food, but was a little impatient with the extra palm on his head.

Although it was just born, its physique was not much different from that of a Teddy dog, but its appetite was quite amazing. After eating up its own eggshell, it actually set its sights on other wind king eggs.

Odu quickly handed over the fresh meat strips mixed with butter in advance. Raven picked up one and slightly tempted it, attracting the little guy's attention.

Watching it swallow the fresh meat, Raven thought of Xiaobai, who was buried by him on the bloody high ground. She used her last strength to ensure the safety of her master.

After that, Raven never chose a dedicated horned eagle mount again.

"Since you took the initiative to run into my hands..." Raven scratched its chin: "You, inherit her name, and call yourself Xiaobai."

The little guy with the new name raised his head and shouted loudly. His stubborn look really had some of the style of Xiaobai in the past.

During the time when the little guy was hatched, other wind king eggs were also ready to move, but fortunately, the children in the orphanage also came at this time.

There are a total of 59 wind king eggs in this batch, and there are 58 eggs excluding the one in Raven's hand. There are more than a hundred children who were selected to become the first batch of horned eagle knights, so these children can be regarded as lucky ones.

The eggs were distributed to everyone, along with the matching strips of fresh meat, so that the wind kings could recognize their masters as soon as they hatched, and cultivate feelings from an early age, which would save a lot of trouble in the future.

The children were always noisy, and even when Raven was present, he only asked them to be quiet for a while after they saluted. When their attention was focused on the wind king eggs, they never stopped screaming and looking happy.

They were all teenagers, about fourteen or fifteen years old. They usually acted like tough guys, but when they really saw small animals, they would still love them.

The wind kings hatched one by one, and the children started to play with their own magic beasts and began to name them in different ways.

Some directly called them human names such as "Wayne" and "Kent", some were tough and tender in the style of "Little Yellow Flower", "Green Spot", and "Little Cute", and some were full of middle school style such as "King of the Sky" and "Thunder Monarch".

It was fine at first, and everyone was having fun, but after the Wind King cubs finished eating the eggshells, the children began to compete with each other.

Mine is stronger than yours, yours is not as handsome as mine, and your name is really bad!

I don’t know if the owner’s mood affected the little Wind King, one of them suddenly flapped its wings and flew into the air!

This made the children around them dumbfounded, and even Odu was quite surprised.

Although the horned eagle is a magical beast, after the young birds are born, they also need to learn and train to slowly master the flying skills. This Wind King can actually fly when he is born!

Not only flying, but also seeing the lightning wrapped around its tiny claws, and then suddenly thrusting, a thin lightning fell on the Wind King on the opposite side.

This is not over yet, the lightning passed through the Wind King and flowed to the child next to it.

The Wind King on the opposite side was not to be outdone, and with a whistle, the secondary wings under the ribs opened, and suddenly a strong gale blew up, blowing the Wind King who released the chain lightning from the air!

If there is one, there will be two. Before long, the little wind kings fought each other, with strong winds and lightning flying.

Although they had just hatched, the innate magic used by these little wind kings was not very powerful, but they could not withstand the electric current passing through their bodies, which was indeed numb and painful.

For a while, the monster breeding farm was full of orphans' ghostly howling.

Raven called Sikoret to meow, and then the little wind kings calmed down.

"Baron, this is really... a miracle." Odu swallowed his saliva.

As far as Odu knew, even the Slater family, which was famous for raising horned eagles, had only one horned eagle that could use innate magic among the tens of thousands of horned eagles raised in the past hundreds of years, and it could only raise storms to a limited extent, and had no electrical ability at all.

Not to mention, it mastered two innate magics just after hatching!

"That kind of wind magic is called 'Storm Vortex'. It is said that after adulthood, it can stir up strong winds strong enough to blow away the dark clouds!" Odu's eyes lit up: "But I have never heard of that kind of electric magic."

There are always many children who like to show off. Rhino Lennon was the first to say: "I know what it is called. It is called... Thunder Hammer!"

This immediately attracted laughter from the people around: "Nonsense, where is the hammer?"

"Then what do you say it is called?"

So the children started shouting, such as "Lightning Flash" and "Lightning Five Whips", and the most outrageous one even came out with "Thor's Wrath".

In the end, it was Hoyaz, who was once taught "Driving Tigers and Devouring Wolves" by Raven, who gave the most reliable name - "Pulse Surge."

And this also won Raven's approval.

Raven was quite surprised by the talents and abilities shown by the little wind kings.

Electric magic is extremely powerful against heavily armored soldiers in full helmets and armor; if the storm vortex is used together, it can not only blow the enemy to the ground, but may even change the weather on the battlefield.

Not to mention that after growing up, it is likely to be strengthened again; even if it cannot be strengthened, just based on the effects of these two innate magics, it is not inferior to the third-level magic beast!

The thought of a group of third-level magic beasts is worth looking forward to.

There are also shortcomings.

Raven originally wanted the orphans to take these little wind kings back to the orphanage to raise them, which can not only inspire the pride of having a wind king, but also cultivate the tacit understanding between knights and magic beasts from an early age.

Now it seems that it is probably impossible.

He runs an orphanage, not a mental hospital, and it is not appropriate to give children electric therapy every day.

He can only arrange for these orphans to come more often every day and feed them personally, and make other arrangements when they grow up.

As time went by, Raven also practiced step by step, not only engraving the fireball spell in the magic pool, but also practicing the 6 new third-level magic.

It is worth mentioning that according to subsequent statistics, all the horned eagles that contained the essence of corrupt souls in the egg stage were males; and there was only one exception without the essence of corrupt souls, and the rest were all females, which also confirmed Raven's previous speculation.

Occasionally, when he had free time, in addition to handling government affairs, he would take the magic book to fish in the study.

As an inventor, how could he not have one for himself?

Due to some unspeakable narcissism, Raven's favorite thing to do during this period was to open the magic book and read the users' "user experience".

The first two days were basically flattery, and most of the merchants from Mon'en City praised him in various ways.

But as time went on, the content began to be renewed.

It can be said that no matter where people are from or what class they are in, they all have a burning heart for gossip and the instinct to spread gossip.

So Raven doesn't need to go out to know what happened in Xuefeng County and Meng'en City.

For example, there was a murder case in the upper city of Meng'en City. The victim was stabbed seven times in the back. The murderer ran away for a week and couldn't be found, so they had to force the case to be a suicide;

Viscount Hyde returned to Meng'en City and slapped a baron's teeth out with a slap, and compensated 200 gold coins;

Marquis Anthony showed his old ways and gave scores to every noble he saw.

The person who sent the last message even sorted out and posted the details, which involved most of the nobles in the Nord Province.

If the nobles pay attention to personal relationships, Marquis Anthony did not comment on the two earls in the province.

So it was not surprising that Raven was ranked first: 100 points.

Marquis Anthony's comment was: "I might give 99 points to other young people because they still have room to grow; and Baron Raven, I have to admit that he is a perfect example of the young generation of nobles."

After seeing this comment, Raven immediately began to reflect on whether he had offended this old guy in some way, and wanted to flatter him like this.

But seeing the ranking below, Raven understood a little.

Raven is the only baron in the top 10.

The second place is Minsk of the Slater family, while the eldest son of the Fox family, the future earl Gul'dan, is ranked 11th.

The comment for Gul'dan is also: "He should learn from Baron Raven how to be a good noble."

Okay, he really never forgets to disgust the Fox family.

Raven, the inventor, is not the only one who likes to read the magic book when he has nothing to do.

Everyone who receives it and understands its function will love it.

For example, Raven's old acquaintance, Baron Romney's widow, Ms. Doreen.

Ms. Doreen's life is not good. Not only does she have to take care of her three-year-old son who runs around, but she also has to deal with the big and small things in the territory. She basically has no time to rest.

Even if she has some free time, there is no entertainment to speak of.

She originally liked cocktail parties the most, but her identity as a widow is not suitable for hosting or attending cocktail parties.

And if she finds a man, let alone whether there is someone she likes in the territory, if she is plotted against and has a child in her belly, she will really be doomed.

But since she got the magic book, Ms. Doreen's life has become a little interesting. As long as she holds it in her hand, she can chat with people through it.

In this era of inconvenient transportation, communication is a precious and scarce commodity, so not long after she got it, Ms. Doreen chatted with her sister who married a wealthy businessman in Monen City for a whole night.

In addition, there are other options.

What Ms. Doreen likes most is the novel serialized on it.

This allows her to temporarily forget her worries and immerse herself in another world.

If there is anything she is dissatisfied with, there are two points. One is that except for the first three chapters, each chapter costs 5 points; the other is that there is a lack of romantic elements.

She has already read 20 chapters, why hasn't she seen any love yet?

This is unreasonable!

She even wants to write some stories herself.

Everyone has different focuses. Ms. Doreen focuses on entertainment, while our old friend Baron Judela focuses more on practicality.

Although he was quite dissatisfied with Raven in his heart, as time went by, he had to admit that Raven took every step very steadily.

For example, when the business alliance was established, Judela was not optimistic at the time.

Because everyone has selfishness, Raven, as the leader of the alliance, does not need too much. He only needs to embezzle once or twice to destroy the alliance from the foundation.

But Raven restrained his greed, and the business alliance ran smoothly.

This also benefited Judela. High-quality fuel is no longer a problem, allowing the production capacity of Iron Furnace Town to be restored.

The Sky Eagle Platform is a stroke of genius, a further strengthening of the business alliance. On it, Judela can always find the cheapest and best quality sources of goods, and can also receive large orders at any time.

There are not many merchants on it at present, but this is just the beginning.

Judela believes that as the magic book spreads, more and more merchants and nobles will use it.

Sooner or later, the Sky Eagle Platform will replace Monen City and become the real commercial lifeline of the Nord Province.

And all of this will be in Raven's hands.

Wealth, in many cases, means power; being able to distribute wealth means mastering the power to distribute power.

In addition to Judela, the people who see this clearly include Baron Wesassin, who has suffered twice at the hands of Raven.

If you say who in the entire Snow Maple County does not want to see Raven succeed the most, Wesassin can definitely rank first.

It was Raven who forcibly intervened and asked him to give the port territory to Lady Doreen for renewal; then in the arena, Raven defeated him as a third-level knight as a mage, which was a great loss of face!

For nobles who value reputation, this is really unacceptable.

But you have to accept it even if you don't want to. After weighing reputation and interests, interests are more important.

Indeed, he can withdraw from the Merchant Alliance and not use the Sky Eagle Platform, but what's the point of him giving up alone?

The Sky Eagle Platform is too convenient, which is more convenient than he imagined. If he doesn't get on this giant ship that has just started, he will definitely be left behind by the times.

At that time, the only one who will suffer is himself.

Since you can't fight, then join!

Moreover, Baron Wessacine has also discovered new business opportunities after intensively studying the Sky Eagle Platform in the past few days.

There are many bulk orders on the Sky Eagle Platform, and the Merchant Alliance itself does not provide protection services for caravans.

He can start from this aspect.

His territory has a vast grassland with high-quality alfalfa, which is an excellent pasture. He has many cavalrymen, which is also the reason why he sent his men to pretend to be horse thieves.

Baron Wessacine can rent out his own forces on the Sky Eagle Platform to escort the cargo caravan!

This should have been the business of the mercenary group, but mercenaries have always been synonymous with unreliability. In the Nord Province alone, there are countless precedents of mercenaries temporarily changing their jobs to robbers and looting goods and payments. There are three or five cases every year.

The reputation of the nobles is much better than that of the mercenary group.

I didn't do this before because of limited channels.

As a baron, you can't lower your status to join the mercenary guild, right?

Having made up his mind, Baron Wesassin operated the Book of Magic, carefully selected words, and published his "goods" on the Sky Eagle platform.

At this moment, a new message attracted Wesassin's attention.

"Marquis Anthony, announced the specific punishment for the re-audit of military merits..."

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