Warm Dragon

The battle ended as expected, with Eric knocking Russell's fine steel sword away.

In terms of pure swordsmanship, Eric was no match for Russell.

But he was a phantom beast knight after all, and his own fighting spirit combined with the phantom beast's Yuanli formed a more powerful Yuanxi. The blessing of Yuanxi on physical fitness and the sword light displayed by Yuanxi could crush the fighting spirit.

"Huh!" Russell looked at his empty hands, and the sense of superiority brought by the surge in strength quickly faded.

This was a good thing.

This was also the reason why he rashly challenged Eric, that is, to temper his floating heart through the powerful strength of the phantom beast knight.

Only in this way can he face the extraordinary power correctly and understand that he is still in the starting stage.

After a short time of feeling lost, Russell smiled calmly and said, "Compared to Teacher Eric, I am still far behind."

Eric was not good at comforting people, but just said in a muffled voice, "Your strength has surpassed Jack, Tom and others, and your swordsmanship is even more sharp, but your fighting spirit is not solid enough."

"Of course, compared to you, my fighting spirit is definitely not solid."

"Sir, your strength has improved by leaps and bounds, I wonder why?" Eric asked the doubts in his heart.

"Nothing else, a flying dragon in my grandfather's house likes me, so it spit out a breath of dragon's breath to help me practice." Russell explained briefly, "So I can quickly connect the main meridians and release my fighting spirit."

"Original dragon breath?" Eric's eyes widened.

"Hush, don't be surprised, it's just a little breath." Russell indicated that there was no need to make a fuss.

But Eric's eyes when he looked at him were obviously full of resentment.

At the beginning, he worked hard from dawn to dusk to practice, and suffered a lot before connecting the main meridians. Russell said lightly that he had obtained a breath of dragon's breath, and then... then all the main meridians were connected.

The contrast between the two made people want to cry but could not.

However, the resentment only lasted for a moment, and Eric said excitedly: "Your Excellency has such an opportunity, I believe you will be promoted to a great knight soon!"

"Three to five months, the whole body branch meridians should be opened at the beginning of next year." Russell said.

"Congratulations, Your Excellency!"

Russell said with emotion: "Promoting to a great knight is just the beginning of practice, and you have to strive to polish the fighting spirit chain as soon as possible, and then you can contract a fantasy beast."

"My Excellency, are you planning to contract a fantasy beast as soon as possible?" Eric wondered, "You can get a breath of dragon's breath... Don't you want to wait and wait to ride a dragon?"

"Ride a dragon, ride what dragon, how can it be so easy to ride a dragon." Russell shook his head, "How can I say, I don't consider riding a dragon now, I will become a fantasy beast knight as soon as possible, and have a certain self-protection power before talking about it."

Riding a dragon is not his ultimate goal.

Fighting on the snowfield and feeding the little dream dragon to grow up are his most important things.

Just after the duel with Eric, Jack, Tom, John, and James, four knights, also rushed over one after another.

Russell did not let the four people go. He fought with them one after another, and then won a big wave.

Now he not only has more meridians than the knights, but also has a higher quality of fighting spirit than the knights. Coupled with his extremely sharp swordsmanship, his strength can crush the four knights.

"My lord, you are mighty!" Jack and the other four were obviously a little discouraged and frustrated after losing to Russell.

They even dared not covet the Red-Eyed Rat King anymore.

However, Russell comforted the four people: "Practice hard. You can't expect the Red-Eyed Rat King, but the fantasy beasts in the territory will never be only Kevin and Red Eye. Whoever can be promoted to a great knight will have the opportunity to contract."

"Yes, sir!" The knights were slightly excited.

After Charles arrived, Russell took the Red-Eyed Rat King and set off for Youguang Town with Charles.

Two hours later, they arrived at Youguang Town, and then went to the Black-Waisted Snake Brick Kiln Factory near Youguang Town.

There were many workers in the brick kiln factory, and a large number of slag bricks were piled up on the open space.

"Sir, why are you here?" Little William, the person in charge of the brick kiln factory, hurried out to greet him, "The factory is a bit messy. Now during the day, the masters are working in the pottery kiln factory, and the workers are not yet skilled."

Russell, under the guidance of Little William, took a look at the smoldering kiln, but couldn't see anything special.

He said, "I have seen the quality of the slag bricks in recent batches, which are much better than the rocks mined in the mountains. However, the quality and energy consumption should be further studied to see if they can be further improved, and the output should also be expanded."

Little William said in embarrassment: "Sir, the coal shared by Fluorescent Castle is insufficient, and it is impossible to expand production."

"The Mountain and River Business Road has already started using thunder beasts to pull carts. Is the coal still not enough?"

"It's still not enough."

"Well, I'll think of a way." Russell was also helpless about this. The Dark Light Valley could not produce energy on its own and could only transport it from outside, which greatly restricted production efficiency.

He thought secretly: "If the dragon that my great-grandfather picked up was a black coal dragon or a black oil dragon... But he picked up a clay dragon. Clay needs to be fired, which consumes a lot of coal resources..."

If it was a gem dragon, the demand for energy would be greatly reduced.

Then Russell walked around the corner of the brick kiln factory again, pointed out several safety hazards, asked Little William to rectify them, and then left.

This time, he went to the cigar factory not far away.

The cigar factory was originally a tobacco factory. After cooperating with Russell, Baron Roman changed the tobacco factory into a cigar factory, responsible for the production of Yulong cigars.

"Master Russell, welcome to the cigar factory for inspection." The person in charge of the cigar factory is a great knight who is missing an arm. Obviously, he can't fight anymore, so Baron Roman arranged him to be in charge here.

"Sir Sosco, I won't bother you, will I?" Russell asked with a narrowed smile.

Sosco smiled and said, "How could I? Master Russell is always welcome to come. Speaking of which, the Yulong cigars produced by the cigar factory are the new sun-dried tobacco invented by Master Russell. The Baron attaches great importance to this."

"Yulong cigars are not only invented by me, but your cigar factory also produces them for me." Russell walked around the cigar factory with a frown.

His expression also became serious: "Sir Sosco, please answer me, why does the cigar factory not accept my clerk for quality supervision and management?"

"Your clerk, do you mean Sir Charles?" Sosco frowned, "Sorry, Master Russell, the cigar factory is the property of the Baron. Although Sir Charles is your chief clerk, he is not qualified to come to supervise."

"You are producing for me, don't you understand?"

"Maybe so, but I am only responsible to the Baron." Sosco's tone became stiff.

"Do you need me to accuse you of inaction to my father!" Russell said coldly.

"I am not inaction, Master Russell, speak the truth, I have been diligently serving the Baron!" Sosco raised his head, threw up his empty sleeves, and said, "I have never slacked off in fighting for the adults, even if my arm is broken!"

As a broken-armed knight, Sosco has made military achievements for the Fluorescent Mushroom Family, so he is not afraid of Russell, the second son of the Fluorescent Mushroom Family.

In essence, Russell was already a vassal of Baron Roman, and there was no difference between him and him.

Looking at the unruly Sosco, Russell also knew that if the other party did not give him face, he really could not do anything to him.

However, he soon pointed to the production line where cigars were being rolled and accused him seriously: "Sosco, you said that you worked hard for the family and my father, but this is how you repay my father's trust in you?"

Sosco was stunned: "What?"

"Yulong cigars are to be presented to the nobles for use, and the first batch will be given to my grandfather, the Dragon Knight, Count Fu Qiang, the former Chief of the Senate, Merlin Yu Jiuhua, and will be given to the Grand Duke in the future!"

Russell picked up a cigar that had just been rolled, and then took it apart in a few seconds, and shook a few broken leaves in his hand: "Yulong cigars have clear requirements, and each cigar must use a whole piece of complete tobacco leaves!"

He pinched the broken leaves on his fingertips and scolded: "Is this the result of your constant claim of working hard for my father? Who are you fooling!"