Chapter 241: Chapter 48: Instructing the Maid Corps

Listening to her father’s words, Antonio encouraged her Spiritual Power to reach toward the Vine Wood. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶

Creatures with the Void Bloodline not only enhance their physical strength through feeding but also their souls.

Therefore, even though Antonio hasn’t specifically cultivated Spiritual Power, her Soul Strength is not weak.

If Antonio were willing to switch to a caster career, it would probably take her less than a year to become a powerful low-level mage, and after a few more years of cultivation, becoming a mid-level mage wouldn’t be difficult. This is a talent enough to make most casters envious, as many have cultivated for decades yet remain mid-level mages, like the Goblin Priest Kadan.

Of course, such talent is also related to Antonio’s basic bloodline. Although it’s a degenerate Dragon Beast, the fundamental bloodline is still that of a Giant Dragon. Moreover, under the continuous strengthening of Void Power, her body is stronger than that of Giant Dragons of the same tier.

Void Dragon Beasts excel in areas like Magic Power, Spiritual Power, and physical strength.

Giant Dragons have the Dragon’s Legacy, with spell-like abilities that can be cast instantly without learning. Their Dragon Breath is powerful, their Long Wei is strong, they have a lot of Magic Power, strong soul, spirit, and willpower, and their bodies are very strong, making them all-rounders with no weaknesses.

In a haze, Antonio accepted the Mountain Faithful career legacy.

Raising her head, Antonio looked at her father in confusion and hesitated, saying, "This is..."

The Black Dragon Lord lazily said, "It’s a good career. You can try to cultivate it."

Antonio seemed to have an epiphany.

Before she could speak, the Black Dragon Lord’s voice once again came from above her,

"After you’ve initially made progress in cultivation and also found companions for your journey, you can leave the Black Castle."

"Huh?" Antonio was dumbfounded.

Why was there another requirement?

And what does it mean to have made progress in cultivation? This special career looks difficult at first glance. Is it going to take her five or six years, or even a decade?

Unlike Giant Dragons’ perception of time, the Void Dragon Beasts, with their regained wisdom, have a more ’urgent’ sense of time.

Giant Dragons are indifferent to five or ten years, but not Antonio. She can at most ignore a few months, but any longer, and she feels the time slipping away.

The root cause is still the Dragon’s Legacy. Giant Dragons with the Dragon’s Legacy know from birth that even without breaking into the Legendary tier, they can live for thousands of years, and the Dragon’s Legacy contains ancestral ’life habits,’ greatly influencing the world views of Dragonlings.

Dragon Beasts lack the Dragon’s Legacy, born with a blank slate and empty experiences.

Therefore, with their newly regained wisdom, almost every day feels fresh and curious, rarely experiencing situations where they sleep for ten days or half a month, much more active than the nineteen Giant Dragons of the Black Castle.

"Why rush?" the Black Dragon Lord snorted, saying,

"If you work hard at cultivation, you’ll reach my requirements in a few months."

Of course, this was deceiving the dragon.

Udi hadn’t cultivated it himself, so how could he know the true state of cultivation?

However, Antonio, who had deeply trusted and admired her father’s words from a young age, believed it and agreed to these two conditions, then happily skipped toward the edge of the Dragon Pool.

After Antonio left, Udi summoned Shiji, Mondo, Kadan, Griffin Bley, Jackal Wolfman Leader Bryan, Ava, Isha, Sofia, Mother Crane Beisha, Rouyu (from the Mo Shao Clam People, strong in Water Element and Illusion Magic), Tina (Wolf Maiden of the Wolf Tribe, one of the earliest Aegean Beastmen maids), and other followers one by one.

It was only then that Udi realized, almost unknowingly, that his core retainers had become so numerous.

With a slight sense of sentiment, Udi let each of them accept the Mountain Faithful career legacy.

Among the core retainers, only Roy, the head of the Higlind family, was not summoned by Udi; the others were all summoned.

Of course, the dozen or so Sha Hua Fishmen followers contracted over a year ago in the coastal waters of the South Sea didn’t come either. Although they bear the name of followers, Udi hasn’t truly recognized them.

In Udi’s eyes, they are all expendables, nurtured like Gu Insects on a block.

Weak ones will be eliminated in the passage of time, and only the final strongest one will command all the Void Sha Hua Fishmen, then join the Black Wing Nest and become a part of it.

"That’s about it. As an initial experiment, a dozen experimental subjects are enough," the Black Dragon Lord muttered.

These dozen or so experimental subjects are almost those who have followed the Black Dragon Lord for the longest time and are most loyal to him.

It could be said that the Black Wing Nest can do without, but these retainers cannot.

Each retainer bears part of the responsibility and development of the Black Wing Nest and has already deeply ingrained themselves in the hearts of millions of monsters in the Black Wing Nest.

As time passed, Udi returned to his usual routine life.

Studying magic, and when tired, gathering the maids for internal ranking competitions.

During the ranking matches, the Black Dragon Lord imparted various combat techniques from past life memories to the maids.

Is the Dragon Body too large for combat instruction?

Then use Shrinking Skill to reduce the Dragon Body.

Or directly transform into a Dragon-man form five meters tall and engage in close combat with maids two or three meters tall, sparing no effort and letting the blood flow.