Nimrod saw squads of warriors from the 3rd Regiment carry items before him.
With a sweep of his eyes, he spotted Lung Spiders among them, and also the auxiliary material for Sequence 9 "monster"—the Ice Crystal Butterfly...
Bukayo pointed at these things and said earnestly, "My lord, you have little interest in gold and the like, but you seem very interested in special animals and rare items, just as when you had me search for the largest Lung Spider—the Black Widow."
"I deliberately collected some to offer to you."
"Some of them I came across in the lower hive, and some were found in the false king's treasury. I do not know which might be fortunate enough to catch your eye, so as long as they were uncommon, I kept them all for you to choose personally."
Hearing this, Nimrod could not help admiring Bukayo's cleverness. Only he had thought to cater to Nimrod's tastes and gather these things.
This is actually a good chance to establish a persona! It'll only get harder and harder for me to personally obtain potion ingredients in the future. If I have a reputation for liking rare "things," that'll make matters much easier. Besides, as the saying goes, "when the superior has a preference, the subordinates will naturally cater to it." With more subordinates, more gene-sons offering things to me, the variety and quantity of potion ingredients I obtain will naturally increase as well.
Thinking this, Nimrod decided to make his joy plainly visible.
He strode to a crystal cage, reached out with his large hand, picked it up, and examined the butterfly inside, whose body looked like ice crystal, then laughed and said, "Good! Good! Good! I am very pleased!"
Seeing Nimrod so happy, Bukayo secretly decided that he would gather more strange