The promotion of the Harpy Dragonbeast Hape that night, rapidly spread throughout the Shadowflame Duchy by way of Thunder Sound Station and then resonated throughout all human realms via the Thunder Voice Conference.
A surge of congratulatory thunder sounded incessantly.
Russell paid no heed and simply let the on-duty Cabinet Minister handle it while he himself returned to Cigar Manor to rest.
The night had grown deep.
He wasn't sleepy, instead, he sat cross-legged on the terrace, facing the incessant northern winds, silently experiencing and summarizing Hape's promotion experience.
On a trellis, Hape stood ramrod straight.
In his heart, it communicated with Russell in painstaking detail, recounting its own journey of cultivation, as well as the details and psychological states before and after its promotion to a Phantom Dragon, over and over.