Great Nobleman

As the sun gradually sets and dusk approaches, the noble meeting enters the final stage.

Although limited by the unknown enemy movements, the nobles of the Kaya Empire are still not ready to prepare for war.

However, everyone has reached a consensus on further increasing military spending, expanding the Empire's standing army, and further improving the defense of the Empire's borders and major cities.

At the same time, the Empire is also ready to immediately invest more power to explore the exact situation of the three continents of Fantim, Rios, and Sweeting.

——Many hard-line war factions in the Empire are not ready to just wait to be beaten!

In their view, it is also necessary to give a fierce counterattack at the right time and burn the war to the enemy's lair.

For this reason, they should start preparing now!

In fact, as soon as this idea was proposed, Brand directly voted in favor and encouraged others to support it.

Under his persuasion, Madeline, Sharan, Louise, Yersin and some other nobles who are familiar with him kept pace with him.

——The reason why this proposal was passed is that Brand, a young generation of hard-line nobles, contributed greatly!

After the noble meeting, in the study of Morning Flower Castle.

Xisa Li, Melcher, and Chris sat opposite Brand, looking through the information in their hands.

And Brand told them his thoughts:

"This is the result of the vote of the noble meeting.

In view of the very likely upcoming war, our empire will strengthen its military strength.

In this regard, our Morning Flower Territory is the same.

In order to be on the safe side, I plan to strengthen the territory's military to a greater extent than the empire.

We need to discuss this before we can..."

Currently, there are four large cities in Morning Flower Territory, namely Morning Flower Harbor and Blue Yao City in Fanhua Bay.

There is also Flower Heart City located in the central area of ​​the territory's land, and Mudong City located on the southern border of the territory.

In addition, compared with more than a year ago, there is a small city in the east of the Morning Flower Territory's land.

——Craftsman City developed from the expansion of Craftsman Town!

Because of the mining of mineral resources and the gathering of a large number of blacksmiths, Craftsman City has been regarded as the casting place of Morning Flower Territory.

At present, the weapons and equipment made by the blacksmiths not only meet the needs within the territory, but are also sold outside the territory through the channels of Free Iris and Yellow Rose Chamber of Commerce.

In the current Morning Flower Territory, with the existing five cities and the connecting roads between the cities as the center, there are many towns, villages, post stations, and checkpoints of different sizes with different functions radiating outward.

Many Morning Flower Territory residents live in them, and each area has a corresponding number of city guards, reserve members of the library and guards, and members of the regular army of Morning Flower Territory stationed together.

This is the current situation of Morning Flower Territory.

In the pure military field that ordinary people cannot access.

Although the number of formal members of the library is growing slowly, it has now exceeded 160 people.

Among them, there are now more than ten members with the strength of senior mages.

Because of the influence of the magic spring, the elemental affinity of the library members is generally higher than that of many mages of the same realm.

At the same time, a year ago, because the [Demon-hating Flowers] in the simulated world grew and matured in large numbers, their petals began to fall.

[Magic Purification Potion] was also put on the library's core contribution value exchange list by Brand as expected.

All library members who have served Brand and the North Holland family for life and become one of the North Holland family's retainers are eligible for exchange.

So far, more than one-third of the library's official members have taken [Magic Purification Potion] for several consecutive months.

The process of magic purification is "remembered" by the body, and the permanent texture of magic is transformed into docile and easy-to-control "pure magic".

In other words, the casting speed of these library members has been greatly improved, and the process of supporting the framework of the mage group will be easier.

It is worth mentioning that:

The North Holland family did not disclose any relevant content to the outside world.

It is a powerful trump card that Brand has covered!

In addition to the library, the guard group under Hisali has also developed rapidly in the past two years.

And because the Morning Flower Territory is rich in resources and the knight heritage is very strong, reserve knight apprentices have been promoted to official knights one after another.

So far, there are nearly 400 official members of the guard group.

——Compared to the past, the current number has more than doubled!

In addition to the guards, Xisali also has a 3,000-man navy and more than 20,000 regular army under the command of the Morning Flower Territory.

Although the number of the navy is relatively small, the battle at sea does not rely solely on numbers and strength.

In terms of warships, there are already 25 blood amber models anchored in the military port on the west side of Fanhua Bay.

In the past year or so, Brand has used various methods to equip them with sublimated war weapons.

Any warship here can be regarded as a high-level existence among the small warships of the Kaya Empire.

Let's talk about the army.

Although the army has more people than the navy, they are actually the weak point of the Morning Flower Territory.

First of all, this army of more than 20,000 people is not a regular army in the general sense of the Kaya Empire.

Most of them are garrison troops with hundreds or thousands of people, who rotate and disperse on the land border of the Morning Flower Territory to perform garrison tasks.

Secondly, they did not have a so-called "corps leader" who could lead them to perform the secret skills of the legion.

Based on this point, after discussing with the three ladies.

Brand decided:

"Recruit soldiers! The defense of Morning Flower Territory cannot be relaxed, so the current number of our regular legions is obviously not enough.

In addition, I will find a way to get a copy of the inheritance of the legion secrets, and call Louise to help us train the soldiers."

At this time, Chris proposed:

"How about the Lord directly signing an offensive and defensive alliance agreement with Louise?

We in Morning Flower Territory actually lack such an experienced regular legion leader.

In times of war, we can let Louise directly lead the troops as the leader of our Morning Flower Territory regular legion.

In addition, Madeline and Sharan can also join in.

Their mages can alleviate the problem of our scarce number of mages."

"Offensive and defensive alliance?"

After thinking about it carefully, Brand felt that this was also good.

...

Early the next morning.

Because he had something important to do, Brand asked for leave from Celine and teleported back to the Imperial Mansion.

After that, he took a carriage to the Royal Mage Academy of the Kaya Empire and came to the office of the dean.

The dean was not surprised to see Brand coming.

At the noble meeting yesterday, Brand briefly mentioned to him that he would come to visit today and had something to discuss with him.

After a brief greeting, the dean asked curiously:

"So you and Celine are short of materials again?"

Brand shook his head and handed a contract to the dean.

After taking the contract and looking at the strict confidentiality clause with special terms on it.

The dean gradually became a little surprised.

——These contents look familiar!

Brand reminded him at the right time:

"I have another chance to go to the secret library of the academy to select items. The dean should still remember it, right?"

Hearing this, the dean was somewhat helpless and curious and said:

"So you still don't like the things in the secret library of the academy, and are ready to exchange for other conditions like last time?"

As he said this, the dean picked up the feather pen on the desk and began to sign the confidentiality agreement in front of him.

After the contract was signed, he also opened the isolation array in the office.

Seeing this, Brand also smiled and nodded:

"Yes, I have to trouble the dean again this time."

While speaking, Brand took out a batch of precious and rare extraordinary materials.

At first, the dean was still thinking.

But after Brand took out a one-handed long sword with a blade like pure white crystal.

The dean's eyes widened and he exclaimed:

"This should be the rough draft of the Heaven Sword! Do you want to forge the Heaven Sword? Have you gathered all the materials for making the Heaven Sword?"

Brand nodded and said:

"Yes, I am lucky.

In addition, because this time is more difficult than last time.

So I will also make some extra compensation."

After taking out all the materials, Brand took out a few spell scrolls and handed them to the dean.

After looking at the various materials in front of him and the spell scrolls in his hand.

The dean felt that his mood was extremely complicated.

——Can this kind of luck be summarized by a word "very good"?

Of course, no matter what, this is not a bad thing.

The dean actually wanted to participate in the production of this top artifact that was once designed by the predecessors of the academy.

After gradually coming back to his senses from his brief thoughts.

The dean calmed down and began to discuss the specific forging plan with Brand, and signed a detailed commissioned forging contract...