"In that case, just have them be mindful."
"Maintain their forms in the village to avoid causing damage."
"It has already been arranged."
These matters didn't require Bai Luo's concern; Snow Empress had already taken care of them.
'As expected of my future Demon Country steward.'
Bai Luo actually had little to say; anything he could think of, Snow Empress and Violet surely could too.
He didn't need to worry about management.
What he truly needed to consider was how to use this vast amount of magic essence.
"Snow Empress, notify everyone; I'm going to name them."
Out of 3 million magic essence, excluding the 100,000 to maintain Violet and 990,000 for Bai Luo's own strength, the remaining 2 million was purely surplus.
Without breaking through to S-rank and awakening as a True Demon Lord,
the magic essence could not undergo a qualitative change.
Especially this portion of magic essence; if it wasn't spent quickly, Violet's daily magic essence recovery would be impossible.
Failure to recover meant waste, a losing endeavor.
Even with 3 million magic essence, Bai Luo still couldn't forget the 200,000 magic essence he received every half month.
'Invest! I must invest heavily!!'
2 million magic essence, when used for naming, was equivalent to 4 million.
Once again, thanks to Violet's 50% discount, Bai Luo's assets effectively doubled.
"Am I living off Violet?"
As soon as this thought arose, Bai Luo immediately chose to ignore it: "What's this about living off someone? Being able to live off someone, that's real skill!"
If it were anyone else, they'd want to live off someone, but they wouldn't have anywhere to do it.
"I'm going too!"
Seeing Snow Empress leave, Zhu Cai quickly followed, leaving only Zhu Cai to accompany Bai Luo.
As for Violet, she preferred to stay in Bai Luo's soul, quietly observing everything around her.
Additionally, Violet would connect with the World Core from time to time.
She needed to investigate intelligence on the Cardinal World and monitor any forces that might threaten Bai Luo.
"What is Bai Luo going to do?"
Zhu Cai helped Bai Luo get dressed, then asked the question on her mind.
"Naming."
"Huh?"
Zhu Cai was startled, then reacted, immediately showing an incredulous expression: "You, are you perhaps going to...?"
"I plan to make everyone a named monster."
"This!!"
Zhu Cai was incredibly shocked by Bai Luo's decision: "But if you do that, it will consume a lot of your magic essence, then..."
"Don't worry, Zhu Cai."
Bai Luo lightly patted the girl's head and said calmly: "My Leader has evolved and can add a monster race to become my familiar."
"And what I've chosen is the Ogre."
Once the Ogre was chosen as a familiar, Bai Luo could obtain 30% of the magic essence from the Ogres, excluding his existing familiars like Zhu Cai and Hong Maru.
Compared to the previous 15%, it directly doubled.
"However, to develop the Ogre into a familiar, they must first become namers."
This was crucial, and it was also why Bai Luo intended to name everyone.
"What about the Goblin?"
"The interesting part is right here."
Bai Luo smiled: "The Goblin is a monster race that evolved from fire spirits after they degenerated into fairies."
"Coincidentally, so is the Great Ogre Clan."
"In other words, the Goblin and the Great Ogre Clan can actually be considered the same race."
"Ah, this..."
Zhu Cai wanted to say that the Goblin couldn't possibly be a distant relative of the Great Ogre Clan.
But this was Lord Bai Luo's judgment, so it must be correct.
"Of course, if it were just the Goblin, my Leader wouldn't be able to integrate them with the Great Ogre Clan into one race."
"But!"
Bai Luo said: "The Hobgoblin is different."
Hobgoblin are C-rank monsters, while the Great Ogre Clan are B-rank.
There was exactly one rank difference.
In the original work, Gobuya evolved from the weakest Goblin into a Gobulina (female Hobgoblin), then a Great Ogre Clan, Ghost-Human Race, and finally a Yaogu.
This clearly illustrated one point: there was a clear evolutionary path from Goblin to Ogre.
Bai Luo had asked Violet, and she had given an affirmative answer.
"As long as all Goblin evolve into Hobgoblin."
"I can incorporate this branch into the Ogre race," Bai Luo said: "Then, they will all become my familiars!"
Bai Luo had 3 familiar slots.
The Ogre was Bai Luo's strongest follower at the moment.
Deepening their relationship with him would only bring benefits, no drawbacks.
"So, this time you're naming them, not only won't you lose out, but you might even make a huge profit?"
Zhu Cai and other familiars were Bai Luo's most trusted confidantes, the kind who would never betray him.
However, secrets like the Leader's ability to gain magic essence, Zhu Cai would not reveal to others.
This wasn't deception, but rather the unpredictability of a monarch's grace and might.
"The Goblin race has over 8,000 members. Calculating at an average of 300 magic essence, they would need at least 2,700 magic essence to evolve into C-rank Hobgoblin."
Zhu Cai: "This is not a small sum."
8000 x 2700, a total of 21.6 million magic essence.
Even with Violet's 50% discount, it was still a massive expenditure of 10.8 million magic essence.
This was an extraordinary amount, one that Bai Luo simply couldn't afford.
But!
Bai Luo could first name the Great Ogre Clan.
"If we are named first, there are currently about 250 members of the Great Ogre Clan who have not yet received names."
250 people, with an average of 6,000 magic essence.
To evolve, they would need 4,000 magic essence, which would be 1 million.
After halving, it would only require 500,000.
This wasn't much; Bai Luo could fully afford it all at once.
Then, the 270 Ogres with over 10,000 magic essence, because they were familiars, could provide Bai Luo with 30% of their magic essence.
This would amount to 8.1 million magic essence.
Adding the 1.5 million Bai Luo already had, that would be 9.6 million.
9.6 million magic essence, when used for naming, could be considered double, so 0.4 would be 19.2 million.
Bai Luo didn't need to name all 8,000 Goblin at once.
He could completely choose to name 4,000 Goblin first, and then, after they became Hobgoblin, incorporate them into the familiar system.
"Accurate magic essence expenditure and income have been calculated."
Violet's voice echoed in Bai Luo and Zhu Cai's minds: "Naming the Ogre consumes 500,000 true magic essence and can yield 8.1 million true magic essence."
"Naming the Goblin requires an expenditure of 10.8 million true magic essence and can yield 7.2 million true magic essence."
"After calculation, the final net magic essence gain is 4 million!"
...
A net income of 4 million magic essence, plus Bai Luo's existing 3 million, would make it 7 million.
Bai Luo's total magic essence not only didn't decrease but more than doubled.