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Chapter 314: Chapter 313: The Best Gift (Extra update, asking for monthly pass) Chapter 314: Chapter 313: The Best Gift (Extra update, asking for monthly pass) The manor court defense officer, who also served as the administrator of the subterranean trade market, Halls, undeniably hit the horse’s leg with his flattery.

After being scolded by Russell, a red-faced Halls hid away in the back of the crowd.

Russell actually didn’t mind Halls’s poor flattery; he understood that subordinates and followers want to advance. No man is a sage or immune to fault, and Russell never boasted of himself as a sage, demotivating his subordinates.

He was willing to promote subordinates who worked hard.

He was equally willing to promote subordinates who spoke pleasingly.

“Rib Jimmy, these river clams were all caught in the clay pond, go and catch a few old river clams from the clamshell pond,” returning to the main topic, Russell immediately instructed the clam digger to catch old river clams from another pond.

The transformation of white pearls into golden pearls was certainly worth exploring.

He also distributed the golden pearls to his subordinate officers, especially to the three Phantom Beast Knights, Eric, Grove, and Katie, instructing them to closely perceive the magic power of the golden pearls, find the effects the magic power could bring, and thereby determine the uses of the golden pearls.

He himself also toyed with the largest golden pearl, carefully perceiving the magic power within it.

“What beautiful golden pearls!” the cat-like sisters Katie and Catherine were more focused on the luster of the pearls themselves, their eyes filled with desire.

A moment later.

Rib Jimmy brought a few more palm-sized old river clams, and after prying them open, dozens of pearls of various sizes were extracted, with the largest still less than half the size of a glass marble and most about the size of a soybean.

However, these pearls were not golden, but milky white like those produced by wild river clams.

“So, using clay as the nucleus for the pearls causes them to change color?” Russell narrowed his eyes in thought, “The clay residue also possesses a certain weak magic power; perhaps it’s this trace of magic power that has altered the nature of the pearls.”

There was no need to wait too long.

Eric and the others had already broadly perceived the differences between the magic properties of the golden and white pearls.

“Sir, the white pearls are not much different from the few large pearls we found before; they are beneficial for the skin, mainly for beautification and skin nurturing,” Eric spoke in a muffled voice, “the golden pearls are similar, but they also have a slight effect on the eyes, which roughly is to improve vision.”

That is to say.

White pearls can beautify and nourish the skin, while golden pearls can do the same and also enhance vision.

“They are all top-notch items, Sir, once the pearls can be mass-produced, they will definitely bring a continuous stream of income to the territory,” Charles said gleamingly, “especially for women, those noble ladies simply cannot resist pearls!”

Russell thought so, too.

From the way the cat-like sisters Katie and Catherine clung to the pearls, reluctant to let go, one could see how powerful the allure of pearls was to women.

“If they were strung into a bracelet… My God, under the gaze of the great dragon, no matter the cost, I would want to buy one!” Catherine said, unable to put it down. If it weren’t for so many eyes watching, she would have wanted to string them into a bracelet and try it on immediately.

Both beautiful and beneficial for beautification, and with the golden pearls even improving vision, imagine which woman could resist such treasures.

“Alright, we already understand the effects of the pearls,” Russell didn’t distribute the pearls generously to his subordinates, but instead instructed, “Butler Morris, collect all the pearls. I’ll think about how to use them later.”

In fact, he already had an idea.

Naturally, the pearls would be made into female accessories, for sale or given as gifts.

“In the future, at banquets, I would gift cigars to the male host and pearl bracelets to the female host… Perfect, this is simply the perfect gift,” Russell thought more and more excitedly. He would no longer have to worry about what to give as presents.

The noon banquet was extraordinarily grand and lively.

Wheat Elf Hewitt, the spirit insects of hops, Katie’s promotion to Mythical Beast Knight, and the harvest of both golden and white pearls.

Happy events piled up, and the citizens praised their Lord enthusiastically.

Because Lord Russell had once again scattered money, serving as a serf for Lord Russell was truly looking more hopeful by the day.

“Gentlemen, drink to victory!”

“Drink to victory!”

The banquet went on for a full two hours before it ended, and Russell also rarely got drunk, without using battle qi to dispel the drunkenness.

Instead, he slept through the afternoon with the feeling of intoxication.

When he woke up from the nap, it was almost evening.

That was when he suddenly realized a problem, “Morris.”

“Lord, I’m here.”

“Where’s Hape? I almost forgot, I haven’t seen Hape since I got back,” Russell asked with a frown. The Pseudo-Harpy Dragon was a Phantom Beast Kind Pseudo-Dragon Successor that he had gone to great lengths to cheat his way into bringing home—it couldn’t get lost.

His heart-mind synchronization with Unicorn Polly was close to perfection, and his next step was to prepare to contract with Hape.

Butler Morris chuckled, “Lord, you don’t need to worry. Since you left the territory, Hape always flies out early in the morning and only returns in the evening to enjoy a grilled mouse meat dinner, then it patrols the territory.”

Hape evolved from an owl, so it had nocturnal habits.

Russell had not yet had the chance to correct its daily rhythm.

As they were discussing, suddenly a crisp cry came from outside: “Gu’er.”

“Hape’s back,” Russell breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile, “Alright, Mr. Morris, arrange for the grilled mouse meat.”

He quickly went out to the terrace garden and saw Hape, the snow-white Pseudo-Harpy Dragon, standing on a specially designed perch, tilting its head as it looked at Russell rather indifferently—but at least it still recognized Russell as its master.

“You’re finally back, Hape,” Russell approached and touched the tuft of “idiot hair” on Hape’s head—a tuft that, like the horn on Unicorn Polly’s head, had special magic power patterns.

“Gu’er!” Hape seemed displeased when his tuft was touched.

However, Russell intended to irritate it; in its irritation, they would gradually accept their relationship and form a unique bond.

Especially since Hape was irritated but did not dodge Russell’s touch, which was a good start to their relationship.

When Butler Morris came with the grilled mouse meat,

Russell personally tore the grilled mouse meat to feed Hape and further enhance their bond.

“During this time, have you been going back to sleep at Greentown Garden Cold Spring Point during the daytime?”

“Gu’er.”

“Looks like you still miss that group of Owl-Dragon Simulants… hm, that name doesn’t sound refined enough, let’s call them Owl-Like Dragons instead.”

An owl is a type of owl.

Owl-Like Dragon sounds better than Owl-Dragon Simulant, but Hape showed no reaction to that.

In this manner, the interactions between Russell and Hape were all observed from a distance by Unicorn Polly, leisurely eating the tender grass in the bamboo grove.

Seeing Russell touch Hape’s tuft and feeding Hape by hand, Polly only occasionally raised her head with a smile that was not quite a smile.

It seemed she felt something.

Russell also turned back, looked towards the bamboo, then made eye contact with Polly and revealed a charming smile.

Polly always had no resistance to Russell’s smile. So she instantly forgot all about Russell’s actions towards Hape and blissfully continued eating the grass, no longer paying attention to what was happening on the terrace garden.

“The intelligence of fantasy beasts is not much less than that of humans, especially Polly and Hape’s intelligence, which seems higher than the average person’s… To balance the contracts between the fantasy beasts and then achieve mental balance—it seems it’s not easy to do.”

The more he understood this, the more he admired his father, Baron Roman.

As a third-layer high-ranking Mythical Beast Knight, Baron Roman was close to completing the heart-mind balance with three fantasy beasts and was thus attempting to contract with a fourth one.

Such talent.

Worthy of being the prodigy that made a name for himself in his youth in the Shadowflame Grand Duchy, and it was precisely for this reason that Count Merlin was willing to marry his daughter to him.