Chapter 486 Chief Advisor
The dinner was even more grand.
The guests who were originally going to go back after the ball were also kept in the Cigar Castle by Russell to celebrate all night.
Only the main castle of the Cigar Castle was built, and the towers and city walls were not built, so it was impossible to arrange accommodation for so many guests. Fortunately, they were all small country nobles, and they were not so particular, so it was okay for several people to squeeze into one room.
If they were to entertain great nobles in the future, they would not be able to arrange it this way.
"Keep playing music, keep dancing!" Russell held a red wine glass and greeted the guests from a distance, which was greeted with even louder cheers.
However, after drinking a glass of red wine, he quietly left the banquet hall.
In the study.
Baron Roman and his wife were already waiting for him.
"Oh, my son the Earl is here." Baron Roman was a little drunk, and when he saw Russell, he bowed and saluted, "Greetings to Earl Lei Yan, Roman Fluorescent Mushroom offers you all the respects of the Fluorescent Mushroom family."
Russell blinked and looked at Mrs. Meryl.
Mrs. Meryl rolled her eyes and said, "Don't be surprised. This is your father, a fool who never grows up."
Russell smiled and said, "I accept your respect, Baron Roman."
"Does the Earl have any other instructions?"
"Eat and drink well."
The father and son were performing boringly, and Mrs. Meryl was speechless: "You two, speak properly!"
Then she scolded Baron Roman: "Hurry up and use your fighting spirit to get rid of the alcohol. Every time you drink two glasses of wine, you start to embarrass yourself. Now you are embarrassing yourself in front of your son. I really don't know what your face is made of, metal?"
Being scolded by his wife, Baron Roman shrugged his shoulders and had no choice but to use his dragon breath to get rid of the alcohol.
When the alcohol dissipated and he sobered up, he seemed to understand that his previous behavior was a bit exaggerated, especially in front of his son, which smashed his father's majesty to the ground.
So Baron Roman quickly changed the subject: "What are your plans after being promoted to Earl?"
"Develop the fiefdom, do some interesting experiments, and cultivate a group of industrial talents." Russell said casually, "Of course, we have to cooperate with King Ares and Shadow Flame Dragon to deal with the threats of frost trolls and snow giants."
Mrs. Meryl heard this.
I was immediately worried: "You are only nineteen years old, and you are not a dragon knight. Why do you have to deal with frost trolls and snow giants? This King Ares has always had bad intentions, Russell, you must be careful."
"I will be careful, mother." Russell replied.
Baron Roman said: "Your mother's worries are not unreasonable. In short, I can no longer intervene in the frost trolls and snow giants you are dealing with now. You have to solve everything by yourself. Your elder brother and I will help you take care of the territory."
"Then I am relieved." Russell smiled.
Suddenly remembering something, he said, "Father, after opening up Qingqiu, the Thunder Flame Territory will expand further and will definitely become the largest warm enclave of the Shadow Flame Grand Duchy. I plan to imitate the Volcanic Oasis and establish an administrative system."
"That's what I should do."
"I would like to ask you, father, to serve as the chief advisor of the Thunder Flame Territory and be fully responsible for the development of the Thunder Flame Territory. In addition, I would like to ask my eldest brother to serve as the second advisor, and all the affairs of the territory will be managed by my eldest brother... If possible, I plan to ask Uncle Rosen to serve as an official as well."
"Is it necessary?" Baron Roman frowned, "Although your territory is large, the population is only 200,000 at most."
"But father, this territory has great potential, doesn't it?" Russell smiled.
In fact, he wanted to cultivate the territory governance capabilities of his father, brother, and uncle in this way, and prepare for his own future founding of a country.
"Yes, Roman." Lady Meryl advised, "Russell has opened up a bigger foundation. How can you, as a father, stand by and watch? These two territories are the inheritance of the fluorescent mushroom family!"
"Okay, just be a consultant, no problem." Baron Roman replied.
"Then it's settled, father."
...
The cigar castle was brightly lit that night. Because there were not enough rooms, many guests simply played cards in the hall and the side hall all night.
Even Russell gave his room to his grandmother, old lady Ingrid, to rest.
He flew up to the dragon column and slept with the black oil dragon Rose. The guests invited him to play cards, but he refused. The reason was simple. He needed to accompany Xiao Menglong in his sleep and see if Shuangda would come again.
"Gah!"
"Xiao Gao, you're handsome again!" Russell laughed.
Xiao Menglong also quacked, as if he was also praising Russell, who was also handsome. Business mutual praise has become a daily routine for one person and one dragon.
"Let's go, call Polly and Ouroboros, well, go see Hape, Hape has been promoted to a pseudo-dragon, maybe you can pull it into the dark dream." Russell called out, and the little dream dragon took off immediately.
The dark dream of tens of thousands of acres has included the Cigar Castle and the surrounding birch forests, bamboo forests, and oak forests.
A cackle.
The unicorn Polly instantly fell into the dream and turned into a cartoon pony outlined by golden lightning.
Another cackle.
The Ouroboros also fell into the dream and turned into a khaki cartoon snake, which was much darker in color.
Then, at Russell's urging, the little dream dragon called out to Hape, the harpy perched on the oak tree: "Cack!"
Unfortunately.
Hape did not fall into the dream, and still showed an outline outlined by the magic light, staying quietly on the oak tree.
"Alas!" Russell sighed heavily, regretful.
Xiao Menglong didn't care. It didn't care about the fantasy beasts and pseudo-dragons that had nothing to do with the dark dream. So after calling and getting no response, it flew around in the oak forest, looking for the fairy Saiban.
But it couldn't find it.
As long as the fairy Saiban didn't want to show up, Russell and Xiao Menglong couldn't find it, even if they knew it lived in the oak forest.
"Don't worry, ice cream, there will always be a day when the Saiban fairy will relax. Then you and I will wake it up and grab a lucky four-leaf clover from it!"
"Ga!"
"Let's go, let's go to Qingqiu and take a look at my new territory!" Russell waved his hand, and the Dark Dream family set out.
This time.
The Dark Dream clone expanded again.
The newly joined bee amber worm quickly became familiar with the sword butterfly, thorns, ticks, and geckos, and then happily stayed on the small white flowers blooming in the thorns - unlike the ticks that were forced to stay in the small white flowers, Xiao Menglong did not reject bees.
With the bee amber worm, the radius of the Youmeng clone expanded by two meters again, reaching a range of ten meters.
It can light up an area of more than 300 square meters.
"The Youmeng family is getting more and more prosperous, right?" Russell looked at the team he had pulled together with satisfaction.
There are already nine members!
"Ga!" Xiao Menglong was also happy.
Soon he flew to the land of Qingqiu. Through the Youmeng clone, he could see a trace of blue magic light flashing from time to time on the land of Qingqiu. This is the power of the pseudo-dragon when it was promoted, and it is still surging and opening up warm land.
After this trace of magic power is still, Qingqiu is completely finalized.
"The Black Fire Land is in the center, with Lei Ze to the east, Qingqiu to the south, and Youguang River Valley to the west. If you, Ouroboros, are promoted to a pseudo-dragon, you will go to the north to be promoted... Maybe after the warm resonance, you can connect to the Volcano Oasis!"
Russell fantasized: "At that time, there is no need to cross the trade route. You can communicate with the Volcano Oasis all year round, and the development of the territory will definitely take off!"
"Russell, I will definitely work hard!" Ouroboros responded in his heart, "I have learned from Hape's experience and I will definitely gain something!"
"Don't put too much pressure on yourself, just let it go." Russell said.
"I will!"
After walking around Qingqiu for a while, he didn't find any special magic light or magic sound. Russell waved his chubby little hand: "Let's go. If Shuangda doesn't come to find us, we will go to Shuangda... Ice cream, go to the Black Wave Mountains first!"
"Ga!"