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

The knights moved the large square stone, and in the dim light, they immediately saw black ants scurrying about in panic.

Among them were a few black ants, holding up tiny, faintly glowing objects.

These are undoubtedly the seeds or leaves of the plant.

"I'll go back and get my tools," Harden said. "I won't let these little ants steal the food that belongs to our territory."

He ran back quickly and then rode his horse back with many shovels.

Taking the shovels, Ramos and the knights immediately began digging at the ant nest. The nest was shallow, and after a few shovelfuls of soil, they unearthed a large number of seeds emitting a faint glow—various kinds of luminous plant seeds.

These all belong to the category of light-stalk rations.

It is an important crop, and professionals need to supplement it with light plant rations daily. Light and shadow warhorses also need to be fed light plant rations.

In addition, all kinds of medicines are extracted from the rations of the plants.

"Wow, there are so many! These little ants are really good at carrying things, it's amazing!" Harden exclaimed as he dug.

The bare stalks of food dug up were enough to fill two bags.

This is equivalent to a month's worth of light-plant rations for the Swamp Manor. Ramos looked at the ant nest that had been completely dug up and said with heartache, "This is just one ant nest, and it has already stolen so much light-plant rations. How much will it steal from all the ant nests in the territory?"

Pluto squatted on the ground, crushed a black ant, and shook his head, saying, "It may not be that serious. This is no ordinary ant; it's an ant that has been imbued with holy light. Ordinary ants wouldn't dare to eat all of a plant's worth of food."

"We've found the queen ant!" Oden suddenly shouted.

In his hand, he held a black ant about the size of a thumb, the queen of the ant colony. It was so black it shone, and one could even faintly perceive that its black exoskeleton was emitting an extremely faint glow.

This giant ant is certainly no ordinary creature.

"Crush it, Lord Oden, crush the thief who stole our rations!" Ramos gritted his teeth.

Oden wouldn't listen to him.

Instead, he looked at Leo and said, "My lord, please handle this matter as you see fit."

"What use are these ants bathed in holy light?" Leo asked.

"They can be used in medicine and eaten," Pluto replied. "These ants are quite large. If we just feed them scraps of their food and keep them for meat, I think that should be feasible."

"And then there's ant acid. These ants' rear ends are acidic. If you collect them and apply them to arrows or sword blades, it should greatly increase their lethality against magical beasts." Harden's eyes lit up; he loved these ingenious tricks.

"Then keep this queen ant... Ramos, you're in charge of feeding her. Have someone make a tin box later, and the black ants will be kept in the tin box."

Ramos was taken aback.

He nodded firmly, "As you wish, young master, I will take good care of them!"

One second he was yelling at the ants to kill them, the next second Leo wanted to raise them, and he immediately treated the ants like treasures.

With two bags of light plant rations, the team set off back to Sunflower Fort.

Because some of them were light-producing plant seeds, Leo had Old Bob and Raoff come over to select them. They picked out an entire bag of light-producing plant seeds, and even if the light-producing rate was only 30%, they could still cultivate thousands of light-producing plants.

Of course, cultivating one would require a considerable amount of magic crystals.

"Young Master Leo, would you like to take a look at the sunflowers?" Old Bob, the manager of the Magic Crystal Fields, invited obsequiously.

"Have you successfully cultivated a light-bearing strain?"

"No, no, not yet, but we've harvested a lot of sunflower seeds and have started planting them now," old Bob said. "If we cast Holy Light on them from the seed stage, we'll definitely be able to grow sunflower seedlings."

Upon hearing this, Leo remembered.

He was also a trainee priest, and he could cast spells on the sunflower himself—just Holy Light. His body had now fully recovered.

Casting Holy Light a few times a day is fine; in fact, it can increase your speed of meditation on the Holy Light element.

"Let's go take a look."

Upon arriving at the Magic Crystal Field greenhouse, one of the open spaces was filled with sunflowers, which had been ripened using Holy Light magic, and their large flower heads were laden with plump sunflower seeds.

"Young master, these sunflowers are growing well. Perhaps they sense your arrival; they give me the feeling that they will shine at any moment." The gardener, Rauff, found a good angle to flatter him.

You know what?

After being flattered by Rauff, Leo actually vaguely felt that the sun mark on his left palm had a special affinity for sunflowers.

Even if these sunflowers are just ordinary plants and don't emit light.

"Since I'm here, I'll cast a spell on the sunflower too." Leo stretched out his hands and silently mobilized the holy light elements accumulated in his body. Soon, accompanied by a sense of detachment, the holy light elements surged into his hands.

It gathered in his hands, as if he were wearing a pair of glowing gloves.

He gently swung his hands.

These elements of holy light, like ashes and dust, rushed towards the sunflowers that were about to ripen.

The sunflowers moved without wind, greedily absorbing the holy light elements.

Leo felt as if his body was empty; this process of drawing holy light elements out of his body was indeed very...tiring.

But perhaps because he was also training as an apprentice knight, he didn't sweat, only breathed slightly.

"call."

While regulating your breathing.

Old Bob suddenly screamed, "Oh my God, by divine light, the sunflowers are glowing!"

He pointed at the sunflowers in front of him and screamed.

Among the sunflowers, two sunflower heads, after being struck by Leo's Holy Light spell, began to shimmer with a faint white light, which quickly stabilized.

Two large, glowing flower plates.

Like two jade plates.

The light wasn't very bright, but it was definitely shining.

"It's glowing?" Leo was also surprised. Wild plants like this, which haven't been specially cultivated, are generally very difficult to glow.

Old Bob and Rauff were preparing to accelerate the ripening of sunflower seeds and then focus all their efforts on cultivating the next generation of sunflowers.

I never expected this.

Leo cast a spell, and the sunflower immediately glowed.

The two hugged each other in surprise: "Young Master Leo, it's glowing! It's glowing! The sunflower is glowing!"

Then he stared longingly at Leo.

Leo shook his head, and just as the two men's faces fell, he smiled slightly again: "Although it was a bit unexpected, you've completed your mission. I'll have Mr. Dirk distribute the rewards to you later."

"Praise be to Young Master Rio!"

"May the Holy Light forever bless you, young master!"

Old Bob and Rauff immediately beamed with joy, especially Old Bob, who was already planning to send his son to Lancashire for further studies.

Once they have mastered their skills, they may be freed from slavery by their lord and become free citizens.

Of course, freedom is not important; the people of the Eternal Night Continent can only enjoy the protection of light by entrusting themselves to the nobles.

The important thing is that the son can become successful, and it would be best if he could become the lord's confidant.

"Old Bob, Rauff, although the sunflowers are glowing, you can't let your guard down. Continue to cultivate more glowing sunflowers," Leo instructed. "The more glowing sunflowers you cultivate, the richer my reward will be."

"As you wish, Master Leo!"

"Also, take good care of these two sunflower plants, and I will choose one to give to my grandmother later."