The days passed one after another.
And as time went by, Nalant's forces gradually grew stronger.
For example, the Storm Knight Order had once again expanded dramatically, reaching two hundred and fifty men.
During this period, Bessie, the Daughter of Luck and cultivator, had ripened another two Bloodline Qi Fruit trees.
Once the two fruit trees matured, they produced a total of twenty-three Bloodline Qi Fruits.
Made into potions, that amounted to one hundred and seventy-one bottles of Bloodline Qi Potion.
Nalant took out one hundred and fifty of those potions for his subordinates to consume, bringing the Storm Knight Order's number of Title Knights to two hundred and fifty.
As for the remaining twenty-one bottles, Nalant temporarily distributed them among Thomas, Mario, and the castle's maids.
Thomas and Mario had been utterly loyal to him, so such rewards were necessary.
After becoming Title Knights, their energy would be even more abundant, allowing them to serve him better in the future.
The same went for the maids. Even Lilia, his little personal maid, received a share.
After becoming a Title Knight, she would no longer be a little burden whenever Nalant went out in the future.
As for whether using those twenty-one Bloodline Qi Fruit potions on them was a waste—
Nalant already had a plan: to purchase Bloodline Qi Fruit trees from the various duchies.
Of course, if the Bloodline Qi Fruit trees were healthy and intact, the duchies and empires definitely would not sell them. After all, they were strategic resources.
But it would be different for Bloodline Qi Fruit trees that were diseased, gnawed by Spirit-Eating Insects, and could only survive for another year or two.
Nalant believed that the nobles knew how to do the math. If they kept such trees, they would die in two