The Knight of Light plants the sun in the eternal night.

Chapter 116 Amazing Past Events

A sip of holy honey, a stalk of pear from the Guangzhu plant.

Bathed in the holy light of the sunflower, Leo felt the holy energy within his body surging rapidly.

Each surge grows stronger.

The rate at which this fighting spirit increases is not as efficient as eating sunflower seeds, but its advantage lies in its continuous and steady flow.

"call!"

"Finally, I've reached the edge of dense battle aura. The flow of holy light battle aura in my meridians has begun to slow down." Leo opened his eyes and smiled. So what if his talent is mediocre? He has all sorts of good things to make up for it.

Especially this sunflower stalk.

At first, the number was too small to be noticed, but now more and more sunflower plants are being planted.

He stood beside the sunflower stalk, bathed in its holy light, and his battle qi recovered faster, his cultivation speed increasing more and more noticeably. Combined with treasures like holy honey and pears, the effects were even better.

He then looked at Vanessa, who was also meditating with her eyes closed, on the other side.

He smiled knowingly.

This is the inner lawn of Sunflower Castle, specially separated by a wall and planted with sunflowers. It is Leo's private training ground, which has a strong buff effect on him and Vanessa as well.

Because Vanessa's name is already etched on the petals of the sun's mark.

Vanessa quickly opened her eyes, her face full of surprise: "Amazing, Leo, Sunflower is amazing! It has even greatly enhanced my current Illusionary Light cultivation. It's truly incredible."

"How about comparing drug use?"

"Even drugs can't compare to sunflowers," Vanessa said. "The potions are nothing more than extracts from the plant's food, but most of the potions on the market are very crude, and people develop resistance after taking them for a while."

In other words, the effects of the potion are at most similar to those of Holy Light Honey and pears, and it is also extremely expensive.

Eating too much will only make it less effective.

The Holy Light from sunflower plants is different; it's a long-lasting, non-decreasing amplification, essentially a permanent buff.

"You should cultivate your sunflower garden as soon as possible, so you can start training as a Phantom Beast Knight sooner."

"Yes, I've already been urging the manor's priest, but the results are far less effective than what you've achieved here, Leo."

At Swamp Manor, with Leo filling in the gaps, the sunflowers' light output barely reaches the level of herbaceous plants.

However, without Leo's Sun Mark, the light output of sunflowers planted by ordinary priests drops significantly, falling somewhere between that of woody and herbaceous plants. Therefore, the advantage of sunflowers producing only light is no longer significant.

Cultivating one sunflower seedling is enough to cultivate many ordinary sunflower seedlings.

Moreover, while the flower heads of sunflower plants are indeed very bright, only the flower heads emit light. To achieve the same effect as sunlight, you would need to plant at least twenty sunflower plants in a room, which seems a bit too extravagant.

In other words, Leo has the power to completely replace the sunflower plant.

If other people want to plant it, they still need to pair it with ordinary sunflower plants; they can't put all their eggs in one basket with sunflower plants.

In fact, Leo would also have people cultivate fluorescent mushroom and porcini mushroom varieties for use as lighting in the farmland. He wasn't so extravagant as to plant sunflower varieties along the ridges of the fields and the edges of the irrigation ditches.

"I'll send you a batch of sunflower seedlings."

"No, Leo. You don't need to worry about my family's estate. What you need to do now is develop the Swamp Estate well." Vanessa was still the lovestruck woman, wholeheartedly thinking about Leo.

"Well, it doesn't really matter. You can come here to cultivate whenever you want," Leo said with a smile. "Butler Dirk will treat you like the mistress of the house."

"I know."

That evening, as was tradition, Butler Dirk brought half a bottle of red wine and chatted with Leo for a while in the small study.

The daily ledgers of a pair of castles.

"Without a mistress in the castle, the accounts seem a mess." At the end, Butler Dirk muttered meaningfully, "Young master, look, the Countess has smuggled another batch of supplies to sponsor you in the caravan."

These supplies, of course, were not accounted for through official accounts; they were all taken directly into the castle's storerooms.

A manor is a manor, and a castle is a castle.

Butler Decker has been working hard to maintain the separation of the two sets of accounts, ensuring their financial independence.

"I remember all the kindness the lady has shown me," Leo chuckled. In front of his trusted butler, he didn't need to hide his relationship with the Countess. "Mr. Dirk, please accept these supplies without worry."

Butler Dirk shrugged: "You're the young master, so I'll do as you say."

He really wanted to tell him "Don't play with fire," because he had personally witnessed how terrifying a chaotic situation could be, but in the end he gave up.

He believed Leo would handle everything.

After Dirk left, Leo was about to rest when he felt a warm sensation in his palm.

He pointed to a potted candle moss plant on the desk.

With the sunflower plants providing illumination, these ordinary plants are simply placed in the room as decorations.

"The meaning of the flower is really right here." Leo didn't even need to get up; he simply reached out and touched the candle moss plant.

These tiny mosses resemble birthday candles.

The language of flowers also speaks softly, as if gently lamenting something: "The old butler always opens his son's portrait in the dead of night, reminiscing about the life that has passed away, but the Holy Light tells me that his son is still alive."

"Um?"

Leo was slightly taken aback: "Mr. Dirk's son is still alive. Didn't he die in that demonic tide?"

More than a decade ago, Dirk was just Leo's butler.

His wife was Mrs. Heisel's maid, and the couple had a seven or eight-year-old son named Draven.

When Mrs. Heather went to inspect the manor, she took Dirk's wife with her. Draven had no one to take care of him, so he went along as well, and was also taught the rules and how to serve the young masters and ladies in advance.

Who knew that once they left, they would never return?

Dirk never remarried, devoting himself to taking care of Leo until Leo came of age, at which point he followed Leo to the Swamp Manor.

"Draven is still alive!" This news was hard for Leo to understand. When the demonic tide invaded, even Lady Heather, who had knights guarding her, died. How could Draven, a seven or eight-year-old boy, survive?

Can't figure it out.

After a moment of contemplation, Leo decided not to inform Butler Dirk of the news for the time being; he needed to conduct a secret investigation.

The investigation will focus on what happened back then, how Draven survived, and where he is now.

"Could my mother's death have been a conspiracy? Was it Sanchez who did it?" Leo even wondered to himself.

But this was quickly dismissed. No one could have manipulated the demonic tide to invade. Moreover, when his mother died, his grandfather, Earl of the Evening Primrose, came to investigate personally, and even brought along a 3rd-rank archbishop. Yet, no trace of human intervention was found.

If Sanchez can fool the 3rd-rank archbishop, then he is truly invincible.

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