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

In the end, Leo couldn't bear to uproot the sunflower and gave it one last chance.

"If you try to talk nonsense with me again, I'll just pull the plug. I mean it!"

The sunflower plant, bare in its pot, gently swayed its large flower head, seemingly oblivious to Leo's threat.

At the dinner, Camille ate and drank heartily.

Even before she awakened her Holy Light Battle Aura, she already had a huge appetite; now that she has awakened her Holy Light Battle Aura, her appetite has increased even more.

"Being able to eat is a blessing," Leo remarked.

Old Knight Rhodes laughed and said, "Being able to eat means that the conversion efficiency of Holy Light Battle Qi is high. Camille's future is limitless. I think she has the potential to be a Phantom Beast Knight."

It's just potential.

To advance as a Beast Knight, one needs to contract a Beast, and Beasts are even rarer and more wondrous beings than Spirit Insects.

Even Leo's brother, Neant, who is the heir to a baronship, is still waiting anxiously for the arrival of the phantom beast.

In theory, second-tier Grand Knights like Rhodes, Harrison, and Pluto all have the potential to become Beast Knights, but they are not favored by any Beasts and are stuck at the Grand Knight level for their entire lives, wasting their lives in front of the ceiling.

The next day.

Pluto and the other knights escorted thirty empty carriages back to the town of Glowing Light, this time with Ramos also accompanying them.

Ramos went to do the bookkeeping. Building houses at Swamp Manor required too many supplies, which had to be purchased from Glowing Town. He also had to calculate the rental costs for thirty carriages, most of which belonged to Glowing Mushroom Castle.

Leo and the newly recruited knight Camille trained in the backyard for an hour before heading to the Magic Crystal Field greenhouse.

Cast Holy Light.

There are now nearly thirty second-generation sunflower seedlings in the greenhouse. Old Bob is leading four trainee pastors to compost and turn the soil outside the greenhouse, preparing to cultivate more fields for use as magic crystal fields.

"Young Master Leo," old Bob jogged over, "you've arrived."

"Um."

"Several sunflowers have stunted growth and can no longer be propagated. Should we transplant them to the farm?"

"It's no longer possible to breed them?"

"Yes, several consecutive seed collections have exhausted its potential," old Bob replied.

Unlike ordinary plants, the Light Plant can live for many years and will not wither in any season. However, it will also produce seeds after it matures. As long as the Holy Light spell is cast properly, it can produce seeds repeatedly.

However, excessive use of Holy Light spells will deplete the seedlings' breeding capacity, rendering them unable to produce seeds again.

Old Bob pointed to one of the second-generation sunflower seedlings and said, "The seedlings cultivated by the Countess have already produced sunflower seeds three times. I tried casting the Holy Light spell before, and they no longer produce nectar or pollen."

"In that case, let's transplant it. Let's transplant it to the outer wall of the fortified village."

At that moment, old Bob and other trainee pastors quickly dug up this batch of sunflower seedlings from the magic crystal field.

Then it was planted outside the base of the fortified village wall.

The first fortified village was located in the northwest, on the main road that extends from Weiguang Road.

The sunflower plants are distributed on both sides.

It's like turning on a dozen LED lights in the dark; although the wattage isn't high, it's very bright.

It was brighter than the light of a kerosene lamp or candle, and it was white light.

"Holy Light!"

The serfs, seeing the sunflowers with bare heads, began to pray, facing the shimmering flower heads.

"The sunflowers are so bright!"

"Like a giant lamp, the kind of giant lamp you only see in the Firefly Town!"

"So beautiful!"

Looking at the sunflower seedlings planted in front of the fortress, Leo suddenly had a plan: "Professor Franken, I plan to plant sunflower seedlings all around the fortress, and each sunflower seedling will be a street lamp."

Franken was captivated by the vision Leo described: "Wow, if every house had a sunflower in front of it, wouldn't it be a castle of light, no, a fortress of light?"

"Yes, the Fortress of Light." Leo nodded. "The sunflower plants will be cultivated soon. At that time, not only will sunflower plants be planted around the fortress, but also along the roads and ridges of the manor."

"By then, the entire swamp manor will be covered in sunflowers, Leo, the Holy Light will surely bestow a phantom beast upon you!"

"I hope so. After all, I am a devout believer in the Holy Light." Leo glanced at his left palm, unsure of his own devotion to the Holy Light, but he was destined to become the sun of the eternal night.

clap clap!

The sound of whipping and cries from nearby interrupted Leo's interest: "What's going on?"

"I'll go take a look."

The two men walked over, and John, the bearded man, who was whipping someone, quickly stopped: "Young Master Leo, you've arrived."

"What's going on?" Franken asked, frowning.

The beaten serfs immediately began to complain, accusing John the Bearded of favoring the local serfs and mistreating their newcomers.

"Silence!" Franken shouted. "Anyone who dares to make a sound in front of Master Leo is committing a grave disrespect!"

The serfs quickly quieted down.

No one dared to act presumptuously in front of the lord.

Franken pointed out a few serfs and explained the situation: it was a problem with the tools. During the construction of the fortress, each serf had a fixed workload, but the tools had not yet been provided.

To incentivize the serfs to work harder, the more work each group did, the more dark bread and beer they were rewarded with.

And that's when the problem arose.

The local serfs had their own tools, so they could work continuously. The newly arrived serfs were dissatisfied and demanded more tools. The local serfs naturally refused, arguing that the tools were their private property and shouldn't be counted as part of their work.

The groups started arguing, which eventually escalated into a brawl. John the Bearded Man, naturally, sided with the local serfs and whipped the outside serfs.

"Please, young master Leo, do us justice!" the foreign serfs cried out.

The local serfs joined in the lamentation: "Please, Young Master Leo, do us justice!"

Even John the Bearded Man knelt on the ground, wailing, "Young Master Leo, please do me justice! I was just supervising according to the rules!"

Seeing this, Franken suggested, "This matter is difficult to sort out. Leo, just give all the troublemakers a good whipping to prevent them from fighting again, and that will be fine."

"A reward is a reward, a punishment is a punishment, a merit is a merit, and a fault is a fault." Leo shook his head. "Teacher Franken, I'm watching from here. As my tutor and the future administrator of the territory, I expect you to handle this dispute properly."

One of the lord's great powers and responsibilities is to adjudicate cases for his subjects and resolve their disputes.

Both local serfs and foreign serfs were Leo's subjects.

Moreover, he himself was an outsider, so he didn't distinguish between locals and outsiders at all, and he wouldn't allow others to use this as an excuse to cause trouble.

He proclaimed loudly, "My people, I am your lord, Leo Glowing Fungus. In my manor, there is no distinction between locals and outsiders. Once the fortress is built, this will be everyone's home."

As Leo's gaze swept over them, the serfs knelt on the ground, listening to their lord's admonition: "Understand this: those who work diligently will be rewarded, while troublemakers and provocateurs will be whipped!"