Chapter 37: The Lord Has Flown to Heaven!

Roar!

Seeing Gervas's arrival, Zhuiyue let out a long neigh, and with joyful surprise, flew swiftly to his side.

Then it nuzzled Gervas's cheek affectionately with its head.

"Haha, Zhuiyue, did your transformation succeed?"

Roar!

Zhuiyue let out a long neigh to confirm.

"Then besides growing taller and bigger this time, did you have any other changes?"

Roar!

'You come up and try!'

Zhuiyue neighed loudly again, its head constantly swaying toward its own horseback, somewhat impatient.

Gervas also felt the meaning it transmitted in an instant of thought.

"Could it be that the grown Zhuiyue now has enough strength to carry me flying?"

Gervas delayed no more, leaped, and directly mounted the horse.

Roar!

'Ready, Master!'

Before Gervas could react further, Zhuiyue suddenly leaped into the air.

Immediately, its huge snow-white wings spread open; Gervas felt his whole body lift off the ground, and the scenery below grew smaller and smaller.

"Haha! It can really fly, finally it's flying!"

Watching the castle grow smaller and the servants shuttling about turn into tiny ants, Gervas couldn't help but laugh heartily.

Although there were airplanes in his past life, flying in a cabin is worlds apart from flying openly in the air.

Moreover, because the horseback is narrow, if one has a small courage, it is no different from standing at the edge of a hundred-zhang cliff and looking down.

This feeling is so thrilling!

'Master, am I amazing, right?'

Zhuiyue's cry came again.

"Amazing, Zhuiyue! You are the most amazing flying magical beast I have ever seen, bar none!" Gervas transformed into the God of Praise.

Zhuiyue had never experienced the New Century PUA technique; instantly, as if injected with chicken blood, it began to constantly change poses, flying up and down in the air.

Soon, they were circling above the training ground where the guards trained.

Knight Captain Lei Meng was the first to notice the anomaly and looked up in confusion.

At first glance, he didn't pay much attention; Zhuiyue had often flown in the sky before.

But upon a second careful look, "Is that Lord Gervas?! Lord Gervas has flown into the sky!"

"What? Lord Gervas has flown into the sky?" Hearing this, Knight Mi Gen and others also looked up at the sky one by one.

Then, they happened to see their Lord waving at them from the air.

"It really is the Lord flying!"

"The Lord has flown into the sky, the Lord is mighty!"

"The Lord has flown into the sky..."

Good heavens! Gervas exclaimed "Good heavens."

Why does the cheering afterwards sound so strange?!

"My lord!"

"My lord!"

After circling in the air for more than ten minutes, Gervas finally landed.

Immediately, the subordinates surrounded him.

At this moment, Lei Meng suddenly felt something was wrong, "This... my lord, Zhuiyue's single horn..."

Lei Meng's shocked expression with wide eyes made Knight Mi Gen somewhat puzzled.

"Knight Captain Lei Meng, it's just an extra horn growing; why are you so surprised? It doesn't seem like this horn can add much combat power!"

Lei Meng rolled his eyes. "Knight Mi Gen, do you know what a unicorn is?"

"A unicorn?"

"Exactly. A winged horse with a horn is no longer a winged horse, but a unicorn. Previously, the entire kingdom had only one, owned by Your Majesty the King. Now, if Zhuiyue is one as well..."

Knight Mi Gen was already stunned. "A winged horse with a horn is a unicorn, the entire kingdom has only Your Majesty the King owning one, and now, our Lord also has one, does that not mean he is the same as Your Majesty the King..."

"Enough, no need to be too surprised; I obtaining Zhuiyue is also due to your contributions!" Seeing this, Gervas immediately comforted everyone.

"My lord, congratulations on obtaining a unicorn!" Knight Mi Gen and others hurriedly offered their congratulations.

After a few words of flattery from them, Gervas began to address the main business.

He ordered everyone to train until noon, then rest well and await his assigned task.

Although they did not know what the task was, seeing Gervas give such solemn instructions, the subordinates naturally dared not be negligent.

After instructing Lei Meng and others, Gervas quickly summoned Thomas and Thomas.

"Thomas, immediately arrange personnel to collect and weave large nets from hemp rope!"

"Large nets? My lord, I do not know what size is needed, and how many are required?" Thomas asked.

"Each net should ideally reach about twenty square meters, and the gaps in the middle only need to ensure they can cover even a horse!"

"As for the quantity, the more the better, absolutely no fewer than twenty sets; I need them ready before noon! Thomas, can you arrange this?"

Thomas immediately puffed out his chest. "Lord, I will definitely complete the task before noon; in the past, many people in Storm Lord used to fish in Duonaohe, so weaving fishing nets will definitely not be a problem!"

"Very good, then I entrust this matter to you!" Gervas nodded, then looked at Old John. "Old John, follow Thomas to the town to select twenty people who can swim and dive, and come with me to Tianehu!"

"Yes, my lord!"

Soon, twenty men who could swim and dive were brought forward.

Gervas did not delay; he immediately led the group to Tianehu.

They arrived directly at the area where he had previously collected the colorful-winged swan's eggs; the small spring gushing forth, just over ten centimeters from the lakeshore, still existed.

"Did you see that spring source? Send a few people over to check how large it is and how deep the water is!"

"Yes, my lord!"

Soon, three serfs, the most skilled at swimming and diving, jumped into the lake.

In just a moment, the three resurfaced. "My lord, the water there is about two men deep, and beneath the surface, after scraping away the ten-centimeter-thick silt, there is a crack about the length of a palm—those springs are gushing out from that crack!"

"If I ask you to expand that crack fivefold, how long will it take?"

The three exchanged glances. "My lord, if twenty men take turns diving, we can certainly finish before nightfall!"

"Are you certain?"

"My lord, I dare not deceive you!" The serf's face changed; he quickly knelt on the ground and swore.

"Good. Then, the next twenty of you will take turns excavating and enlarging the spring. Remember: by nightfall, it must be at least five palm-widths wide!"

"If you complete it, each of you will be rewarded with one jin of smoked meat and one loaf of black bread. Understood?"

"Thank you, my lord's grace! We will surely fulfill our lord's command!" The serfs erupted in excitement—three jin of smoked meat was an unimaginable windfall for serfs who rarely tasted fat all year round.

Gervas then left without further delay, leaving the site in the care of Old John, who would supervise the serfs and also arrange their lunch and other logistics.

Soon after Gervas returned to the castle, Thomas found him, saying a man claiming to be from the Tulip Caravan had arrived in the village.

He was advertising that they were buying large quantities of animal pelts—from common rabbit hides to rare brown bear or tiger and leopard pelts.

"My lord, the caravan man said that normally rabbit pelts sell for ten copper coins each, but they are offering eleven; tiger pelts, normally thirty silver coins each, they are offering thirty-three."

"In addition, they have brought a large stock of goods this time—medicines, herbs, iron, grain—and are willing to trade for these items directly!"

Gervas heard this and immediately recognized it as one of the pieces of information the system had mentioned.

"Thomas, I understand the pelts situation. Tell the caravan man that Stormhold will be sending a large quantity of pelts for trade tomorrow—make sure they wait for us!"

"Huh? My lord, do we have that many pelts?" Thomas froze.

"We will have them by tomorrow. Thomas, just repeat my exact words to them!"

"Yes, my lord!" Thomas did not hesitate and hurried out of the castle.