In the autumn moon (October), Blackstone City already carries a hint of desolation.
Although there is still some time before the first snowfall, the air temperature has already dropped significantly, no longer the heat of the harvest month.
Four armored men walked along the path in the antechamber of the inner fortress, their breath forming a faint white mist in the air.
"Lord!"
The three bowed in unison.
Kee nodded solemnly, looking at Jotun.
"Only three in this batch?"
Jotun nodded, "The rest are apprentice knights who recently broke through. Lord Su Nan said it's best to wait a while longer, until they've stabilized their strength before taking the potions."
Hearing it was Su Nan's idea, Kee said nothing more and took out three bottles of lesser dragon blood potions.
The subsequent process was simple: the three youths took the potions on the spot.
Two of them broke through to knighthood immediately, and the remaining one, although not breaking through, would, based on past experience, also achieve advancement after several days of training.
After encouraging the three newly promoted (or prospective) knights, Kee signaled Jotun to leave with his men, and then he also left the training ground and headed to the main building.
Since the battle to exterminate the Blackscale Lizardmen, Blackrock City had entered a period of rapid development.
The number of knights had skyrocketed.
Now, Blackrock City had over a hundred knights.
Looking across the entire Starry Kingdom, only noble territories of viscount rank and above, after hundreds of years of development and inheritance, could accumulate so many knights!
Blackrock City, with its sheer number of knights comparable to a viscount's territory, would leave countless people speechless if word got out.
"It's a pity we've run out of blood from the extermination of the Blackscale Lizardmen. From now on, we'll have to slowly extract blood from prisoners, which will slow down the potion production speed on Su Nan's side."
"But it's also good. We used up a lot of Lesser Dragon Blood Potions recently, and there's a shortage of trainee knights in the army. We can take advantage of this time to train more trainee knights."
Kei thought of the Dragon Blood Potion that Su Nan had recently researched.
The effects of that potion far surpassed those of Lesser Dragon Blood Potions. Just four bottles allowed him to cross the threshold that countless knights dreamed of, stepping into the Great Knight level—it was simply miraculous!
The only pity was the extremely limited production.
So far, besides him, only a handful of high-ranking knights, such as Brad, have taken it and thus advanced to the peak knight level.
"It's a pity that Blackrock City is short of time right now. Otherwise, if I had a few years to develop, taking back Flashpoint would be a piece of cake."
As he pondered this, Kee suddenly saw the steward, Old Geller, leading six or seven servants past, a group of people laboriously carrying several plucked sheep.
Old Geller quickly noticed Kee and immediately stopped to bow.
"Lord."
Kee grunted in acknowledgment, pointing to the sheep and asking, "Where are you taking these?"
Old Geller replied, "To Lord Sunan's courtyard."
Kee quickly remembered that Sunan's courtyard seemed to house a giant lizard captured from the Blackscale Lizardman tribe, which ate a considerable amount of meat every day.
However,
his gaze swept over the three sheep, and he was somewhat puzzled.
Had the giant lizard's appetite increased significantly?
He had just heard Jodon say that it only needed one sheep a day?
Curious as he was, Kee didn't ask further and waved for Old Geller and the others to leave.
Things related to wizards are mostly shrouded in mystery and eeriness, difficult for outsiders to understand.
He had no interest in delving into it; he simply wanted to continue supporting Su Nan.
After all, Su Nan's strength meant Blackrock City's strength!