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Chapter 489 - 489 488 Earls Promotion Ceremony (Extra Update

Chapter 489: Chapter 488 Earl’s Promotion Ceremony (Extra Update, Asking for Monthly Tickets) Chapter 489: Chapter 488 Earl’s Promotion Ceremony (Extra Update, Asking for Monthly Tickets) Year 5584 of Dragon Calendar, April 15th, the first day of the Warm Season, weather in the Volcanic Oasis was exceptionally clear.

The sunlight evenly scorched every inch of the land.

Inside Furious Wind City, there was singing and dancing, celebrating the birth of the third Earl of the Shadowflame Grand Duchy—Earl Russell Fluorescent Fungus.

The actual elevation ceremony was held in the grand hall of Red Castle.

With the Grand Duke’s seat vacant, just like the last time during the baronial investiture, the ceremony was led by Regent Lady Princess Anxia. Every noble from all over the Shadowflame Grand Duchy, including the embarrassed Earl Osclo Shuiliu and his family, attended the event in full assembly.

The hall was filled to the brim with nobles; even the lords guarding the frontiers entrusted their tasks to their deputies and came in person.

The roars of Bipedal Flying Dragons were incessant.

“Pioneering the Way of the Knight like never before, ascending as a Second-transformation High-ranking Dragon Domain Lord, fortifying the strength of Qinqiu Warm Land, slaying the Snow Giant Da with outstanding martial prowess… United with the nation, Baron Russell Fluorescent Fungus, who has made significant contributions to the state and the Flamecrest Dragonblood Family, shall be elevated to Earl Russell, with a hereditary title that shall not be revoked!”

Princess Anxia, with a radiant smile, finished reading the content of the golden seal edict. Russell, now in more distinguished earl’s attire, stepped forward, struck his chest in salute, then took over the golden seal edict.

Raising the golden seal edict.

Russell said, employing the same dialogue as during his last investiture as a baron, “Your servant, Russell Fluorescent Fungus, shall protect the Shadowflame Grand Duchy with my blood, guard the Shadowflame Dragon, and guard the Flamecrest Dragonblood Family!”

Beneath the great hall.

Countless nobles eagerly watched Russell, and some were even numbed by their fervent gazes, for Russell’s rapid rise was too overwhelming to follow.

Becoming a Dragon Knight, ascending as a Dragon Domain Lord, being appointed as a baron, opening as a Second-transformation, and now being elevated as an earl.

News about Russell never ceased.

And each piece of news was enough to shake the entire Shadowflame Grand Duchy.

To say nothing of the fact that in the four-hundred-plus-year history of the Shadowflame Grand Duchy, such a dazzling genius had never been born, even the Scorching Torrent Kingdom, with a thousand years of nationhood, had never produced a genius more dazzling than Russell.

Setting aside the unshakeable aura of divine spirit of the Dragon Knight, on the path of the Way of the Knight, Russell was indeed the furthest and highest walker.

“Earl Russell!”

“Earl Sir!”

“Lord Russell!”

“Earl Thunderflame!”

The cries came from the mouths of Russell’s followers present, quickly spreading throughout the entire hall, to nearly all the dignitaries.

Whether they were willing or unwilling in their hearts.

The atmosphere had been built up to this point; except for a few veteran ministers, everyone else began to shout along.

Especially as Russell’s gaze swept over, even the barons and Flying Dragon Knights couldn’t help but raise their hands and join in with the crowd. This was a cheer for the hero of the Shadowflame Grand Duchy, and a burst of joy for the strongest on the path of the Way of the Knight.

In such a moment.

Even Russell, who had experienced this once before, was still moved and then felt an uncontrollable surge of emotion.

Clutching the golden seal edict, he declared in an overly dramatic manner, “I, Russell Fluorescent Fungus, pledge my life’s purpose… to drive out the Snow Demons, to warm all beings!”

Having spoken.

There was a moment of silence in the hall.

But immediately afterward, the loudest, most piercing shout erupted, “Drive out the Snow Demons, warm all beings!”

“Drive out the Snow Demons, warm all beings!”

“Drive out the Snow Demons…”

The shouts rose wave after wave, with even Princess Anxia pulling Princess Kunlaya along, both joining in the chanting.

Sitting in the front row of the hall, the previously immovable Count Merlin, when Russell’s name was being shouted, now had a flicker in his eyes. He turned to glance at Marquis Arno sitting beside him, and the increasingly portly Marquis Arno was also smilingly looking back at him.

One was the Chief Executive of the Shadowflame Grand Duchy, a political titan.

One was the master of Evernight Castle in Shadowflame Duchy, hailed as a cultural giant.

At this moment, the two giants, as if sharing a psychic connection, each raised their arms high and shouted with the crowd, “Expel the Snow Demons, warm all beings!”

In the crowd.

Earl Osclo Shuiliu also raised his arm, but his mouth stayed tightly shut, his face sullen and wordless.

On the other side, Glontan Bainroot watched his lord and frantically chanted the slogan, his eyes revealing fanatical worship.

At this moment, Russell was the perfect knight template in his eyes.

“Expel the Snow Demons, warm all beings! Sir’s aspirations are indeed grand; with the blessing of brilliance, the Shadowflame Dragon should not hesitate, contracting with Sir is the best choice,” thought Glontan eagerly. “Only by becoming a Dragon Knight can Sir fulfill his grand aspirations.”

In his view.

This country sorely needed a Dragon Knight to stand up.

The Dragon Sleep Continent, oppressed by the snowfield for millennia, also desperately needed a Dragon Knight concerned for all humanity, to lead people living in harsh cold, expelling the endless Snow Demons and Snow Ghosts, towards a truly warm world.

And that person could be none other than Russell Fluorescent Fungus.

“Kuso, look, the one being cheered and surrounded by people is your uncle, Earl Russell of Thunderflame!” Rolin Fluorescent Mushroom said to her two-year-old son in the area reserved for the nobility, attending the ceremony of her uncle’s promotion to Earl.

Little Kuso, looking sturdy and strong, could already speak simple sentences: “Uncle, Uncle Russell!”

“When you grow up, you must train hard and become a powerful Knight like your uncle!” Rolin imparted high hopes to her son.

Her husband, Cooper Thistlegrass, hearing this, gave a bitter smile and silently said to his son in his heart, “You have it tough.”

Russell’s achievements were truly astonishing.

They were heights ordinary people could not reach, not even managing to follow in his footsteps. Setting Uncle Russell as a target, Little Kuso’s future growth was bound to face too many setbacks. This made Cooper, as a father, deeply distressed.

But he could not dispute it, and deep down, he too hoped his son could become the next Russell.

After all, his life’s greatest luxury was to advance to a second transformation, to become a high-ranking Phantom Beast Knight. With no hope of pursuing Russell’s Way of the Knight, he hoped his son, who also carried the Fluorescent Fungi family bloodline, could at least come close.

After the ceremony came the grand banquet.

Hosted by Red Castle.

This was part of the festival, relieving Russell of the worries of entertaining guests—Cigar Castle could not even accommodate the guests from Glowing Valley and Blackflame Plains, let alone all the nobility from Shadowflame Duchy.

The banquet was served buffet style.

Larger banquets usually adopted buffet style to avoid the trouble of arranging seating.

Most guests were holding plates and glasses, searching for acquaintances to chat with.

Nicholas, having risen to the most famous playwright throughout Shadowflame Duchy with his plays “The Dragonriding Youth” and “Dragon Domain Strikes Lightning,” was fortunate to be invited to the feast.

At the moment, instead of dining or drinking, he was continuously writing in his notebook.

He wanted to record this glorious moment belonging to Russell to draw material for his next play—his next drama, inspired by Russell, told a story of a dark age, and was still incomplete.

“The scale of the banquet is unimaginably luxurious, Earl Russell of Thunderflame is the focus of the entire Grand Duke Yingyan’s Palace, no one can steal his limelight… On his forehead, the lightning symbol now also has a tornado symbol, that must be the mark of a Dragon Domain Lord…”

“It’s hard to imagine, a Knight contracting two Pseudo-Dragons, in addition to a Bipedal Flying Dragon, that’s three dragons!”

“All these placed on Lord Russell seem so natural, he is undoubtedly the leading person below the Dragon Knights… But his smile is very mild, even toward the servants handing him wine, he acknowledges them with a smile…”

“But I always feel, a faint loneliness swirling around him, as if he doesn’t fit into the banquet at all… Perhaps this is the demeanor of a genius, they see the world differently from the rest of us.”

“And it is such a demeanor that makes people respect and admire him all the more…”

After recording the grandeur of the banquet,

Nicholas finally felt his stomach growling; he glanced at the newly elevated Earl, now surrounded by a group of ladies.

He couldn’t help remarking, “What an honor it is to live in the same era as such a genius!”