Chapter 511: Nicole Needs More (Additional Update, Please Give Me a Monthly Vote)
"Beautiful, Neeko!" Russell was in a good mood when he saw Neeko bringing a new elf back home.
Although he now has three elves, who would dislike having too many elves?
What's more, he doesn't have many elves.
As a count, the Yujiuhua family has a big elf, more than a dozen elves, and countless elf bugs. Compared with them, Russell's elves are really not worth mentioning, and he will build a country in the future, which will make him even more lacking in elves.
So the birth of each elf bug is an important gain for him.
"Eh!" Neeko danced proudly in Russell's hands, without any rhythm, just twisting randomly.
But magical creatures like elves are beautiful no matter what.
"Katie, thank you for taking care of me during this period of time. Now that the elf bug has been bred, you can take two days off to go around." Russell looked at Katie who escorted Neeko back, "By the way, how is your practice with Jerry?"
"It's still a little time. Within half a year, we should be able to synchronize our minds perfectly." Katie responded.
Russell nodded. This progress was not slow in the fantasy beast knight, but compared with Katie's outstanding cultivation talent, this progress can only be said to be average.
The problem still lies with the red-eyed rat king Jerry. The cultivation of the fantasy beast knight is complementary. Jerry's IQ is not outstanding, so he drags Katie down - it can't be said to be dragging her down, not every fantasy beast has the IQ of Polly, Happy, and Ouroboros.
"Practice well and strive to open the second turn as soon as possible." Russell encouraged.
Katie responded and then left. Russell pierced his fingertips and contracted the newly harvested tobacco spirit worm.
"Eh."
"Nico, you watched the whole process of the spirit worm breeding. Did you gain anything?" Russell fed the remaining jade powder of the contract to Nicole, "I see that your mental state is a little excited now."
In fact, since the day when the breeding Cordyceps was discovered, Nicole's mental state has been in an excited state.
It was hard not to make Russell feel that it was about to evolve.
Although he was happy, he actually didn't want Neeko to evolve at this time point, for no other reason than that Xiao Menglong was still sleeping.
Without the help of Xiao Menglong's dragon flame, if the evolution process was not smooth, not only would Neeko lose the opportunity to evolve again, but she would even backfire, causing great damage to her vitality, which would reduce her lifespan at best and endanger her life at worst.
Russell once asked Princess Anxia about the secret of the elves' promotion to great elves.
Just two years ago, a little lynx elf in the Red Castle successfully evolved into a great lynx elf and was named Lechenis. For this, the Red Castle also held a grand banquet and invited all the nobles of the Grand Duchy.
Princess Anxia told Russell in detail the secret of the evolution of the great elves recorded in the Red Castle.
In fact, there is no big mystery. It's just that the evolution of each elf has different precursors, and some even start to evolve without any signs. In the process of evolution, some help needs to be provided to the elves, but it mainly depends on the elves themselves.
Dragon Fire is definitely helpful, but it doesn't mean that Dragon Fire can definitely help the elves complete their evolution, nor does it mean that they can't evolve without Dragon Fire.
When the little elf Lycoris evolved, Shadow Flame Dragon was seriously injured and had not recovered, so it didn't provide Dragon Fire.
But no one expected that this little elf would have a crazy time in the Red Castle for half a month, and even went to Windrage City for a wandering, and then evolved into a big elf Lycoris after returning.
"Eh-gu." Neeko tilted her head and looked at Russell.
Her clear big eyes were filled with some special meaning, and then she stretched out her hand and gestured: "Eh-gu, eh-gu!"
"What?"
"Eh-gu!" Neeko thought for a while, and suddenly picked up a cigar from Russell's table and kissed the end of the cigar with her little mouth.
Then she put down the cigar and gestured with her hands.
This operation immediately made Russell's eyes light up: "You mean, you hope that Yulong Cigar, that is, the magic cigar you produce, can be sold all over the world, and then you can evolve?"
"Eh-gu!" Neeko tilted her head, then spread her hands and gestured a big, big meaning, "Goo-gu, eh-gu, eh-gu!"
As if saying.
Not enough, not enough, Neeko needs more!
"I understand!" Although Neeko's evolution opportunity was a bit inexplicable, and I don't know why it was linked to Yulong Cigar, but since Neeko has reached this point, he must operate it carefully anyway.
Russell said solemnly: "Neeko, I will help you to sell Yulong Cigar to surrounding countries!"
The next day.
He flew directly to the Red Castle and met Earl Merlin.
"Russell, how is the territory developing recently?" Earl Merlin looked at Russell with a complicated look in his eyes.
The grandson who used to be useless except for his appearance is now the number one person in the Grand Duchy of Shadow Flame, and is very likely to become the new knight of the Shadow Flame Dragon. Such a drastic change has been completed in just three or four years.
"Everything is fine in the territory, and I also thank the Yu Jiuhua family for their support." Russell responded and went straight to the point, "Grandpa, I came here this time to ask for your help."
"What is it?"
"I want to send a batch of Yunwu series Yulong cigars to all the diplomatic countries through the diplomatic channels of the Grand Duchy to open up trade channels."
"That's all?" Count Merlin frowned, "Russell, your Rain Dragon cigars can't even meet domestic demand. Now that trade between the two countries has normalized, there is no need to use cigars to deal with trade exploitation. What else do you want to expand abroad?"
"It's not to make money, but to help Neeko evolve."
"Neeko? Evolution?" Count Merlin was shocked, "Tell me in detail, is it Neeko who has the opportunity to evolve into a great elf?"
"Yes." Russell briefly talked about Neeko's recent changes, "Grandpa, it seems that the expansion of Rain Dragon cigars has been linked to Neeko, so I plan to expand abroad and let more people share the magic cigars."
After listening.
Count Merlin lit up a Fengshuang series Rain Dragon cigar and said, "Russell, in my opinion, you misunderstood."
"Hmm?"
"I witnessed Neeko's evolution from an elf bug. Before giving it to you, I spent ten years with Neeko." Count Merlin recalled the past with some regrets. Because he loved smoking, he specially cultivated a tobacco elf.
That's how Neeko was born.
It wasn't until Russell came to celebrate his birthday and smoked a more stylish cigar that he was willing to give Neeko to Russell.
"I understand Neeko. What Neeko showed you is probably not to sell Rain Dragon cigars further, but to let more people share the magic cigars... Go back and expand the production scale of Yunwu and Fengshuang."
Paused.
Count Merlin smiled and said, "I will directly reserve all your Fengshuang series' expanded production capacity, purchase it in the name of Red Castle, and use it to entertain foreign guests."
With the advice of his grandfather, Russell quickly returned to Cigar Castle.
Then he carefully communicated with Nicole and confirmed that Nicole was not trying to sell Yulong cigars further, but just wanted more people to smoke Yulong cigars - only the Cloud and Frost series belonged to Nicole's influence.
"That's easy." Russell breathed a sigh of relief.
Then he asked someone to call Old Hans, the head of the cigar factory. As soon as he met him, Old Hans knelt on the ground and kissed Russell's shoe uppers: "Old Hans greets the master!"
"No need to be polite, Old Hans." Russell said gently, "How much of the magic potion in our tobacco potion field was used to make Frost and Cloud?"
"My master, tobacco magic potion is divided into leaves and other parts. The other parts are used to refine magic potions, and among the tobacco leaves, nearly 20% of the output is taken out to roll Frost and Cloud."
"Hmm." Russell touched his chin, "Does the magic potion workshop still have magic tobacco leaves in stock?"
"There shouldn't be much stock." Old Hans shook his head.
"Then from now on, 40%, not 50%, of the tobacco leaves in this season's tobacco potion fields... Never mind, you can't catch a wolf without sacrificing a lamb, Old Hans, all this year's potion tobacco leaves will be used to produce cigars!"
For the sake of Neeko's evolution, Russell doesn't need any magic potions anymore, just go all in and use all the potion tobacco leaves to produce cigars.
If there is not enough magic potion in the castle, borrow some from the fluorescent mushroom family. If it is still not enough, borrow from the Yujiuhua family, or simply borrow from Princess Anxia - now Princess Anxia is still the head of the Red Castle.