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

Chapter 91 Knight, do you want the Elf Insect or not?

At nine o'clock in the morning, Leo, the Baron, and his elder brother spent some time in the training ground learning knightly techniques before returning with the old knight Rhodes.

On the road.

Leo remained silent.

Old Knight Rhodes probably already knew the reason, and said with a forced smile halfway there, "Young Master Leo, I'm sorry—the lord asked about the Swamp Manor, and I couldn't hide it from him, so I could only tell him about Miss Vanessa."

Riolema stopped.

Looking at Rod.

After a long pause, he shook his head and said, "I don't blame you. You are the captain of the guard assigned to me by my father. You have your duties."

"Young Master Leo, I—"

"It's alright, Lord Rhodes." Leo chuckled softly. "I, Leo, am an upright person, and there's nothing I can't tell my father. From now on, if my father asks anything, just answer directly and don't hide anything for me."

Having said that, Leo spurred his horse forward: "Let's go."

Rod gave a wry smile on his back, shook his head, and spurred his horse to chase after Leo's glittering figure.

He knew he had lost Leo's trust.

Indeed, that was the case. Leo did not blame Rhodes himself, after all, Rhodes was different from knights like Pluto and Harrison; he did not become his follower and always served the Baron.

He simply realized that if there was anything he didn't want the Baron to know, he had to keep it a secret from Old Knight Rhodes.

When we were halfway there...

Leo felt the sun's mark on his palm, a warm guiding light pointing towards the vicinity of the dimly lit road.

We haven't reached the swampy plains yet.

Leo raised his hand: "Wait a minute, I need to go relieve myself."

But instead of relieving himself by the roadside, he followed the warm water and walked to a spot about twenty meters away from the dimly lit road.

"Was it really necessary to go this far to release him?" Old Knight Rhodes muttered to himself as he walked along the road. "Young Master Leo is pointing fingers at me, clearly telling me that he no longer trusts me. Sigh, this is difficult!"

Rhodes was overthinking things.

But Leo did have to be wary of him, because just as he crouched down, he saw that the source of the warm guidance was a cluster of wild fluorescent fungi.

As I touched the small, green umbrella-shaped canopy, a voice that sounded exactly like the village chief instantly echoed in my mind: "Knight, do you want a spirit insect or not? Just say the word, and I have one right at my base."

Fairy Bug!

Leo stared wide-eyed, wishing he could dig up the cluster of glowing mushrooms and the sprites at their roots right away.

But he glanced back at the old knight Rhodes waiting on the road.

He forcibly suppressed the idea, because this section of the road was not a swamp or wilderness, but still within the family's territory.

According to aristocratic laws.

All products on Earth—minerals, light plants, spirit insects, and magical beasts—belong to the Glowing Mushroom family.

"Go and come back quickly, the sprite bug shouldn't be able to escape." Leo had made up his mind, and directly took off his pants to urinate.

Then he returned to the path of shimmering light, mounted his horse, and said, "Alright, let's go."

They sped all the way to the Swamp Manor, and upon arrival, immediately sent the old knight Rhodes to rest.

He then went to the Spring Crystal Field and found Oden: "Come with me."

"Sir, what's wrong?"

"To whom do you pledge allegiance?" Leo asked seriously.

Auden was puzzled, but still firmly replied, "Of course, I am loyal to you, sir!"

"If there were a conflict between me and my father, whose allegiance would you choose?" Leo asked again.

Auden's eyes widened: "My lord, did you have a fight with the Baron?"

"Stop talking nonsense, I'm just asking you, if you have to choose sides, who do you choose!"

"Of course, it's you, my lord!" Oden replied solemnly. "My lord, I have sworn an oath of allegiance; please have no doubt about Oden's loyalty!"

"Alright!" Leo smiled. "Let's go riding. Just follow me."

Amidst Oden's confusion, he led Oden at breakneck speed, arriving directly at the location where the fluorescent mushroom plant had been discovered earlier.

He even stuck a stick by the roadside as a marker to prevent getting lost.

"Come!"

"Sir, what are we doing here?" Oden followed Leo and walked aimlessly to the fluorescent mushroom plant.

Leo pointed at the glowing mushroom plant and smiled slightly, "Cast a Holy Light spell on it."

Oden was still baffled, but he quietly did as instructed, drawing his sword and using the blade to gather holy light elements to cast a holy light spell on the glowing mushroom. As the specks of light fell, a magical scene unfolded.

From the roots of the fluorescent fungus plant, a plump, green worm with a warm, lustrous sheen quickly crawled out.

Oden's eyes widened immediately: "A fairy bug!"

He turned his head and looked at Leo in disbelief: "Sir, it's a spirit insect."

"What are you waiting for, Oden?" Leo said with his hands behind his back, looking completely calm and collected. "You are the knight I personally chose. I've said before that you might not have the chance to become a Knight of Light within the family, but I, Leo, will definitely help you advance to the rank of Knight of Light."

pat.

Oden wasn't stupid; the moment he saw the sprite insect, he understood everything.

Undeterred by the dirt on the ground, he immediately knelt down and kowtowed deeply to Leo: "Oden swears to serve Lord Leo the Glowing Fungus to the death. If he disobeys, he will be condemned by the Holy Light and die a violent death in the wilderness!"

Then, under Leo's watchful eye, he reached out and put his fingers into the mouth of the sprite worm.

Unlike before, when Leo simply stroked the spirit insect and formed a contract.

The glowing mushroom insect was somewhat resistant to Oden, but when the finger was brought to its mouth, it couldn't resist taking a bite.

It was this bite that made Oden and the elf insect both shudder.

The sacred covenant has been concluded.

"My lord, I—I did it!" Auden was so excited that tears streamed down his face, holding the fairy insect and not knowing what to do.

Leo commanded, "Put away the cordyceps and let's go back. Once we get back, don't announce that you've contracted the spirit insect. After all, this isn't a spirit insect within my territory. Wait a few days before revealing that you've discovered the spirit insect."

"Yes, sir!" Oden nodded.

Then he couldn't stop laughing, he kept laughing like an idiot all the way back to the manor and the spring crystal field, he was still laughing.

"Shut up, Oden, stop laughing!"

"I...I can't control myself, haha, sir."

"Laugh again, and I'll rip the spirit insect off your body, making you a trainee priest for life," Leo said viciously.

The way to punish the priest is to break the contract with the spirit insect.

Upon hearing this, Auden immediately became serious and finally dared not laugh out loud. He obediently planted the fluorescent mushroom cordyceps in the magic crystal field.

Then, hide the spirit insect in the jade box and keep it close to your body.

Leo only waited a few days until the right time to announce it to the public. In fact, Leo's purpose in making this arrangement was only to guard against Rhodes and prevent him from becoming suspicious and doubting the pure origin of this elf insect.

If the ownership of the elf insects is revealed, Oden may have to go work at the monastery in the glowing town.

"My lord, please give the spirit insect a name." After planting the cordyceps, Auden hurriedly asked Leo for a name for the spirit insect.

Because the elven insects belong to the lord's property.

Even if the priest contracts with the spirit insect, the ownership of the spirit insect still belongs to the lord; it is merely lent to the priest for training.

"Name—" Leo thought of his sprite, the insect Maokai.

It's called Maokai because it's an oak cordyceps, so this green, succulent-like insect in front of me is a mushroom-type cordyceps, therefore—

Leo said directly, "Let's call it Teemo."

"Teemo?" Oden accepted with delight. "Teemo, hehe, Teemo!"