Chapter 182: The Arrival of the Lightning Silverfish!

"Very well, it is settled then. To avoid accusations that I am bullying you, I will give you two days to rest properly!"

"Of course, during these two days, the shackles must remain on!"

"You human nobles, will you keep your wager promise when the time comes..."

"I, Gervas Gale, swear here before the God of Glory that I will definitely honor the wager promise made with you barbarians!"

"Good!" The barbarians immediately grew excited; in their eyes, their side had surely won.

Immediately, Gervas led the group of barbarians back to the castle.

"My lord, can fifty ordinary guards really defeat these barbarians? I fear that even fifty formal knights fighting them might not guarantee victory!"

On the return journey, Knight Mi Gen and others wore faces full of worry and confusion.

After all, regarding this wager, it seemed my lord himself had no chance of winning.

"Knight Mi Gen, do you remember the formation I had the guards train over the past half month?"

"My lord, you mean the spear formation? Of course I remember. The spear formation composed of the fifty best guards among the new recruits; you said this is a troop type capable of exerting tremendous power in open-field battles."

"Correct. In two days, we will use this spear formation to defeat these barbarians!"

"My lord!"

Upon returning to the castle, just as Lei Meng and the other knights were taking the barbarians away to be imprisoned, Old John immediately sought out Gervas.

"Steward John, how is it? Have all the seaweed been thrown into Silverlight Lake?"

"My lord, after a morning of collection and deployment, dozens of carts of seaweed have already been thrown into Silverlight Lake!"

"Very good!" Gervas finally felt relieved; the Lightning Silverfish should enter Silverlight Lake very soon.

And indeed so it was; Old John's words had barely stopped.

"My lord, according to reports from the serfs, after dozens of carts of water plants were thrown in, many silver fish appeared in the waters of Silverlight Lake!"

"Although the fish species cannot be confirmed for now, these are very likely the silver fish from the earlier rumors!"

"Now the serfs are all saying that my lord is a lucky lord, because after you became the lord of Baron Kane's territory, even the legendary silver fish have appeared!"

"Oh? They have already arrived?"

Gervas was stunned; he originally thought Old John was reporting on the seaweed's progress, not the appearance of the Lightning Silverfish.

Now that even the serfs can see the Lightning Silverfish, it indicates that the number of Lightning Silverfish has reached a certain baseline.

"My lord, did you know beforehand that these silver fish would arrive?"

Seeing Gervas's reaction, Old John knew clearly enough that his lord had already known in advance about the arrival of the silver fish.

"Correct, Old John. Moon Chaser told me this morning that Lightning Silverfish would appear at the river mouth!"

"And their arrival is for spawning, so they need vast amounts of water plants to build fish nests; otherwise, they will leave again!"

"What? Li... Lightning Silverfish? Young Master Gervas, are you saying Lightning Silverfish? Could it be that I heard wrong?"

Old John immediately detected the strangeness in Gervas's words.

He was instantly shocked, doubting whether he was hard of hearing and had heard wrong.

Silver fish are not rare; after all, most fish carry silver on their bodies.

But silver fish with the two characters 'Lightning' prefixed, there is only one kind in the entire kingdom.

That is the Lightning Silverfish.

Old John had also heard the legends regarding the Lightning Silverfish.

After all, a viscount cultivating one hundred titled knights in a few years is absolutely enough to shock the whole nation.

Moreover, if that count's Lightning Silverfish habitat had not been sabotaged, he would certainly have been able to cultivate even more titled knights subsequently.

Furthermore, it is heard that the effect of the Lightning Silverfish can help titled knights cultivate rapidly all the way to Silver Knights.

So, not to speak of cultivating more titled knights, simply cultivating one hundred Silver Titled Knights in a short time already rivals an old-established count family.

"Correct, Old John, it is the Lightning Silverfish!" Regarding his steward, Gervas certainly would not hide the truth.

With the Lightning Silverfish confirmed, Old John was so excited he could not be more so. "The God of Glory favors us! My lord, truly the God of Glory favors Storm Territory!"

Now that his lord is also a viscount, if he can rely on the Lightning Silverfish to be promoted to count in a few years, what kind of scene would that be?

Old John could not imagine it, but he truly hoped he could witness that moment.

Becoming a count's steward would absolutely be the most glorious moment of his old John's life.

"Let's go, Old John. We will go to Silverlight Lake to take a look right now!"

Gervas had originally planned to go out to sea first, then check on the Lightning Silverfish upon his return later.

But since the Lightning Silverfish have already arrived, naturally he must first take a look at these 'silver fish treasures'.

After all, in the coming years, they will be the best aid for him to cultivate titled knights on a large scale.

Silverlight Lake is actually very close to Storm Territory, because it is the lake in Baron Kane's territory closest to Storm Territory, connected to the Duonaohe at the river mouth.

And the Silverlight Fish traveled upstream from the river mouth along the Duonaohe, finally arriving at Silverlight Lake, dozens of li inland.

The lake is not large, only one-third the size of Swan Lake.

Because of this, it had not been developed by Baron Kane for aquaculture previously.

This also allowed the landscape of Silverlight Lake to be preserved to the greatest extent.

"This... there are simply too many fish!"

As soon as they arrived at the lakeside, Knight Mi Gen and others widened their eyes.

Because at this moment, a continuous stream of Lightning Silverfish from the Duonaohe was already entering the lake.

Because the numbers were truly too great, these silver-glowing sea fish seemed to form a ribbon of light; under the sunlight's shine, they glittered with silver, dazzling people's eyes until they could barely keep them open.

"Huh, the swimming speed of these fish is too fast! How is it just like shooting arrows?"

Knight Mi Gen, more curious, picked up a stone the size of a chicken egg and gently tossed it into the lake, instantly startling a school of silver fish that scattered in all directions to flee.

And the speed at which these silver fish fled was beyond imagination; in the blink of an eye, only a streak of silver light could be seen flashing by.

Seeing this, Old John immediately grew anxious. "Knight Mi Gen, do not throw stones at them! These are Lightning Silver Fish!"

"Old John, these silver fish run so fast they could never be hit by a stone. Wait, Steward John, what did you say? Light... Light... what fish?"

"Lightning Silver Fish!" Gervas interjected with a smile.

"Light... Lightning Silver Fish? My lord, are those the Lightning Silver Fish of that viscount?" Clearly, Knight Mi Gen had also heard of that incident.

Even Knight Commander Lei Meng, who was usually calm and composed, showed a look of astonishment as he gazed at the silver fish in the lake.

"That is correct; it is those Lightning Silver Fish. You just saw their swimming speed; do they not deserve the name 'Lightning'?"

"And these Lightning Silver Fish, unless they swim to the lakeshore on their own after spawning to await capture, cannot be caught in the ocean at all!"