After saying goodbye to Natasha, Nalant led his team straight towards the south. After a week of traveling, he finally returned to the Tulip Earldom.
"Annie, start practicing!"
"Yes, sir!"
In a dense forest, while his subordinates were resting, Nalant took Annie to an open space far away from the team.
Ever since he learned about the magical power of Anne, a gifted girl who could control the weather, Nalant had gone further and further towards this obscure aspect.
I am afraid that even the previous prophet goddess had not thought of it. This goddess was obviously to assist farming, or to change the subsequent goddess in the war, but in the end she was forcibly regarded as a 'magician' by Nalant for group harm!
Boom!
Click! Click!
Following Nalant's instructions, it didn't take long for the clearing to be covered by billowing dark clouds. After these days of continuous practice, Annie's natural power has improved a lot.
As the power of talent increased, the dark clouds that could originally cover a few hundred meters in radius increased to more than a mile.
Of course, the dark clouds referred to here are clouds that can release lightning. Within this mile, Winnie can control lightning to accurately attack any location or object.
Moreover, the frequency of lightning can also be controlled by Annie, but there is an upper limit on the number of lightning.
A few days ago, in the capital city of Nok, Annie's lightning release limit was about ten times.
There has been considerable progress in the past two days and has increased to less than thirty times, and the number of times is increasing every day as Annie practices.
In addition, if Annie's natural power is not used to release lightning, but to rain, the area covered by the clouds will be even wider.
For example, when it's light rain or drizzle that irrigates farmland, Anne's clouds can already cover three or four miles.
After letting Annie finish releasing the lightning in the woods and all her natural power was exhausted, Nalant returned to the convoy with the girl.
With a greeting, the motorcade continued on its journey.
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"The wisest and most powerful lord of the Storm Territory, you are finally back!" Two days later, when the convoy finally arrived at the New Storm Territory.
A group of people who had received the news long ago, led by Butler Thomas, had been waiting for a long time to greet their lord in a grand manner.
And Thomas, the butler, was as diligent as ever. As soon as Nalant got a little closer, he immediately stepped forward and took the reins of Nalant's horse, and then offered his flattery.
"Thomas, how are you doing in the territory?" Nalant jumped off his horse very naturally and asked Thomas while washing his face with a towel.
"Sir, after you leave, the territory will develop according to the plan arranged by you!"
"Very good, I'll let Mario come to the castle to report on the current situation later!" Nalant was very satisfied, dropped the towel and headed forward.
"I have met you, sir. Congratulations on your triumphant return!"
"I have met you, sir. Congratulations on your triumphant return!"
"Sir, you are finally back. Woo hoo, sir, Shirley misses you so much!"
Nalant had only taken two steps when Vivian, Shirley, and Catherine gathered around him and greeted him respectfully.
"Haha, sir, I miss you too. No, after the affairs of the Nok Empire were completed, my lord immediately returned to the territory!" Seeing that the women were safe and sound, Nalant also breathed a sigh of relief.
"Uh-huh, sir, have you brought any gifts for Shirley and Sister Vivian? You told me before setting off!" Shirley's eyes rolled when she heard this, and she asked with concern.
"You girl, you didn't think of me just now, but you thought of a gift, right?" Nalant laughed angrily at the little Lolita.
"Well, not at all... Well, Shirley does want a gift, but only half of it is thinking about gifts. The other half is really thinking about adults!" Little girl Shirley blushed at Nalant's question.
Finally he hesitated and gave an explanation.
"To be honest, my lord has prepared gifts for each of you this time. They are beautiful clothes and accessories. When they are unloaded from the carriage, you can choose them yourself!" Nalant and Natasha were in Knock for the next two days.
The king took a walk around the capital and naturally bought a lot of bits and pieces.
As for the gifts given to the girls, Narante did not forget them. Even Natasha bought some for Narante to give to the girls.
"Ah, this is great, sir. You are truly the most generous and kind nobleman in the world. Shirley likes you the most!" After confirming that there was a gift, little Shirley immediately became happy.
"Ah, it's Sister Anne! Sister Anne, Shirley is also very happy to see you back!"
At this moment, Anne, who was sitting in the carriage behind, happened to arrive nearby.
The excited little girl Shirley immediately ran up to Anne and greeted Anne warmly.
Of course, little girl Shirley also knew that Annie might not respond to her warm greeting, but she didn't care anymore.
However, what Shirley didn't expect was that the next moment, Annie nodded, "Thank you, Shirley!"
When the little Loli heard this, her expression suddenly froze, "Sir... Sir, was Sister Anne talking to me just now?"
Vivian, Catherine and other women also looked at Anne in surprise.
In the past, Anne would never respond to her masters' orders except for them.
Even if you are a familiar person like Shirley, nagging little Loli is not enough.
But now Annie has only been out with the adults for a few days, and she can actually respond to Shirley.
"Didn't you hear it? Anne said thank you just now!" Nalant was also a little surprised.
Although since girl Annie's revenge was avenged, her original hollowness and numbness have faded a lot, and she can occasionally exchange one or two words with herself on weekdays.
But when he came back, he could immediately start communicating with Shirley and others, which was definitely beyond his expectation.
"Oh ho, Sister Anne and Shirley talked! Sister Annie and Shirley talked!" Little girl Shirley received the confirmation and immediately took Annie's arm and cheered.
And Annie did not reject the little girl Shirley's move, silently letting her hold her hand, with a hint of warmth flashing deep in her eyes.
"Okay, Shirley, I'll leave Anne to you. Sir, I'll go back and wash up first!"
Narant finally breathed a sigh of relief that Annie, the girl, could smoothly integrate into Shirley Vivian and others, and the days to come will definitely be more and more promising.
After giving instructions to the women, Nalant returned directly to the castle.
After washing up nicely and enjoying a sumptuous lunch carefully cooked by Chef Rose, Narant finally recovered from the journey of having nothing to do but sleeping in the open air.
After a full meal, he summoned a few of his principals.
The first is of course Mario and Thomas.
After questioning the two of them, Nalant also roughly understood the current situation of the Storm Territory during his absence.
The first is infrastructure construction. The new town in Stormland has been completed, and all serfs have moved into their new houses.
Moreover, the two large brick kilns in the territory are now at full capacity and starting to store bricks in preparation for the first phase of Nalant's construction of Stormwind City in the future.
In addition to infrastructure, land cultivation is also a top priority.
The first batch of sweet potatoes, sugar cane and grapes that were sown when Nalant arrived were already mature. The sweet potatoes can ensure the food rations of tens of thousands of people in the territory in the next season.
Grapes can produce at least thousands of barrels of wine, and sugarcane can also produce thousands of kilograms of brown sugar.
Well, the reason why it matures so quickly is because the sacred continent has sufficient various elements and magic power.
So, whether it is sweet potatoes, grapes, sugar cane, or other crops.
Growth in this sacred continent is even more unique.
Not only does it grow rapidly, but the quality of the fruits it produces is somewhat better than that of Glory Continent.
The second batch of new grapes and sugar cane and sweet potatoes were cultivated half a month ago, and the scale is expanding.
Especially the size of the sweet potatoes, this time is no less than the cultivated land originally cultivated in the Fiery Grassland.
When this batch of staple food matures, it will be able to provide food for 100,000 people for a year.
In other words, it can ensure that tens of thousands of people like Narant can eat for at least two years.
This kind of output is unique even in the Holy Continent, let alone the Glory Continent.
Fortunately, Nalant has not announced the existence of his sweet potato yet, otherwise if other nobles knew about it, they would probably miss it as much as the wine.
After all, the nobles do not lack land. The population of each noble's territory needs to be increased at least two or three times to be considered the most reasonable number of people.
However, because of the low crop yield, the nobles' territories were simply not enough to support so many people.
In addition to farming, another very important thing is also being carried out in an orderly manner in Nalant Territory, which is brewing the Eye of the Storm.
Eye of the Storm needs to provide at least 50,000 pots to the dwarves every month, so there cannot be any surprises in this matter.
Mario and Thomas tried their best to supervise, and with the help of Bernard and Nalant's cheap dad, the second batch of emerald spirit was sent to the Storm Territory not long after Nalant left.
Then after orderly distillation, the second batch of 50,000 barrels of Eye of the Storm has been completed, waiting for the dwarves to arrive again to take away this batch of wine again.
In addition to these accidents, New Storm Territory has gradually become more lively in recent times, and more and more caravans have begun to come to New Storm Territory.
These caravans come from various principalities and empires in the Holy Continent.
And the reason why they took the trouble to come is very obvious, that is because of the wine.
Since wine is so popular in the Nok Empire, it is no exception in other empires.
Therefore, many agile noble caravans have arrived.
And Mario and Thomas, two cunning guys, have captured the essence of Nalant's neighbor Benny.
Obviously they can pick up the goods for people on the same day, but they forcefully push it to three or two days, using the excuse of queuing up for shipment to make people stay in Baofengling for two extra days.
Several caravans originally expressed dissatisfaction with this. You should know that staying in the Storm Territory for a few more days will not only cost more gold coins, but will also delay returning to their respective principalities to earn gold coins.
But after staying at the inn that had just been built in New Storm Territory, the people in these caravans never said anything dissatisfied.
Because the delicacies of this new Storm Territory are so delicious and novel.
Coupled with the beautiful cost-priced wine, staying here for a few days is simply the best time to relax.
In this way, what was originally thought to be an obviously unreasonable waiting time was unanimously welcomed by the caravan, especially the ordinary guards and members of the caravan.
Where can they taste such delicious food and wine in the Holy Continent?
Let’s talk about wine. The cheapest one after returning home is probably ten gold coins per bottle.
But in this Storm Territory, the cost price is four gold coins, which is simply unbelievably low.
Wine at this price is simply worth drinking...
After listening to the two guys' accounts and explanations, Narant was speechless.
However, since these caravans have no objections, Naranti naturally has no objections.
You must know that allowing these caravans to stay for a few more days, if things go on like this, can greatly boost the economy of the New Storm Territory.
Not to mention that Nalant made it on his own, even some serfs in the territory could make a fortune by doing small businesses based on the huge flow of people.
After listening to the reports of the two men, Nalant talked about the future wine sales of the Nok Empire to the Frank family.
Then he asked the two of them to arrange the elf bugs sent by Duke Miller, and then sent the two of them away.
After Mario and Thomas left, Quick, the captain of the Storm Knights, was the only one left in the room.
At this moment, Quick's face was glowing red, and one look at him revealed that this guy had been living a very healthy life recently.
"What, another breakthrough?"
"Yes, sir!" Seeing that his thoughts were directly revealed, Quick immediately scratched his head in embarrassment.
Now, this guy is already a silver intermediate knight.
Although he is not even a green onion in this holy continent, the speed of this breakthrough would really shock everyone.
Of course, this is not because of how good Quick's own talent is, it is entirely because of the effect of the powerful fruit potion.
"Well, it seems that you have worked very hard during this period. Do you know that you will continue to work hard in the future?" Nalant nodded.
"Yes, sir, my subordinates will definitely work hard to practice and live up to your gift!" Quirk immediately responded solemnly.
"Well, let's talk about the recent achievements of your Knights of the Storm!"
"Yes, sir!" Quick stood up straight and then reported: "Sir, there are one hundred members of the Knights of the Storm. Yesterday, the last member of the Knights of the Storm also completed a breakthrough and successfully gathered the fighting spirit seeds."
"In this way, the Knights of the Storm are now the true Order of Extraordinary Knights!"
"Well, I'm very satisfied with this speed. Quick, please remember to go back to the higher level and don't be too proud. Becoming a Bronze Knight is just the beginning. What I want is for them to reach the level of the Holy Continent as quickly as possible."
"In addition, the master will not be stingy with the potion of the powerful fruit. Just use it. When it is used up, come to the master to apply for it immediately. I will ask Winnie to allocate it to you!"
"Yes, sir!"
"Well, is there anything else you want to report?" Nalant was about to send someone away.
"Sir, now that all the members of the Knights of the Storm have become titled knights, I would like to ask if you can teach the secret skills of the Knights of the Flame Spear to all the members?"
"Well, then pass it on!" Nalant nodded.
This spear of flame can only be used to its greatest effect by the Extraordinary Knights, so it will naturally be passed down.
"Yes, sir!"
Immediately, Quick retreated.
Nalant, on the other hand, continued to practice in his room.
Now, he has some free time to start practicing.
Of course, this free time will probably not last long. Duke Miller mentioned last time that the revenge of the orcs may be coming.
Therefore, he will have to be busy again after a while.