Lord Harland

The Jonathan family was defeated in the East Route Army, and the situation on Richard's side suddenly fell into danger.

Even though they occupied the kobold cave and built fortifications after the transformation, there was still no chance of winning in a head-on confrontation with the legendary dragon.

After all, due to supply constraints, Richard now has only 500 soldiers under his command. Although they are all elite soldiers, their actual strength is not as good as the 6,000 soldiers of Duke Jonathan.

Duke Jonathan dispatched six thousand regular troops, but they were unable to defeat the legendary black dragon. Even with the five hundred men like Richard, it was impossible to defeat the army under the legendary Black Dragon.

Due to poor traffic conditions, it was difficult to communicate effectively between the east and west routes. Although both sides had messengers to communicate, it was already twenty days after Duke Jonathan's defeat was received.

These days, the legendary black dragon Ramos has not organized an army to attack the kobold cave.

After two consecutive battles, the Legend Black Dragon suffered heavy losses.

The dragon-veined kobolds were completely wiped out, with only half the number of wyverns left. The western area of ​​the kobold cave fell under the control of the Harland Territory. Half-dragons, lizardmen, and ogres all suffered different battle losses.

In the current situation, the legendary black dragon Ramos must shrink his power and give up part of his territory, so he did not organize a large army to attack the kobold cave far away from the dragon's lair.

After more than twenty days of recuperation, most of the wounded soldiers have gradually recovered and can move freely.

During this period of time, Sophia made four slavery contracts and prepared them for use by the four bipedal dragons.

Because the ones left behind are all bipedal dragons with relatively docile personalities. They have lived with humans during this period and have been initially tamed in order to survive. The probability of successful signing of the contract is very high.

The first bipedal flying dragon slavery contract has been successfully signed, and the contractor is the seventh-level warrior Drifen.

After the battle to annihilate Pilosa, although Drifen was seriously injured, he got his revenge and settled a worry. After recovering from his injuries, he quickly succeeded in breaking through and was promoted to a seventh-level warrior, responsible for commanding the second wave of reinforcements.

Although Wilde and Driffin are very strong and capable, their merits in Haaland are not obvious, and it is impossible for Richard to directly appoint them to the top ranks of the army.

We can only adjust them to a suitable position and let them make military exploits first.

After Driffin successfully contracted with the wyvern, he was appointed by Richard as the captain of the wyvern knight team, responsible for commanding the four wyverns.

Although Driffin is only a squad leader, his job importance is higher than that of the infantry brigade.

Seeing that the legendary black dragon had no intention of taking back the kobold cave, Richard was also preparing to slowly withdraw to the Harland territory. However, he did not intend to completely abandon this area, but planned to establish an advance camp and garrison a small army.

The Warcraft Cavalry consumed too much food and was not suitable for stationing outside, so Richard transferred it back to the Double Star Castle. There were only one hundred and sixty members of the demon hunting team left in the kobold cave, and Commander Richard appointed Wilde as the leader.

In addition, half a squadron of magical hot air balloons are stationed in the kobold cave, carrying high-powered telescopes to monitor the enemy.

As a result, the garrison was reduced to about 200 people, and there were still 360 tons of food left. Without the Warcraft Cavalry, a big consumer of food, the 200 garrison only consumed 600 to 700 kilograms of food a day, and only 10 tons of food a month. Ton.

More than three hundred tons of food and grass are enough for the demon hunting team to last for three years. There is no need to worry about the food and grass problem in a short time.

There are abundant monster resources near the kobold cave. When the infrastructure is slowly completed, Richard plans to rely on the monster resources to build a monster hunting town near the cave.

Now the Harland Territory is preparing to establish a Demon Hunting Association to attract monster hunters from the northern part of the Grant Kingdom.

The Dukedom of Harland now has three major associations. The strongest one is the Mage Association, which has grown to a certain scale, with a total number of more than 300 people. Magical civilization has also developed to a higher level, and new things emerge in endlessly.

The second is the mercenary union. The president of the union is Soros. Soros was also a mercenary in his early years. With his success in life, he enjoyed a very high reputation among the mercenaries in northern Xinjiang.

As the Iron Lion and Grizzly Bear legions moved south, the economies of the Iron Lion and Grizzly Bear castles suffered a devastating blow. Now there is almost no commercial activity. The mercenaries active in the two castles suddenly lost their jobs on a large scale, and finally poured in. Harland is the most economically developed territory.

These mercenaries are divided into twenty-three mercenary regiments, with a total number of 1,600 people. Many of these people have retired from the army. The backbone of the mercenary regiments are also professionals, and their combat effectiveness is better than that of Harland's security army. A bit stronger.

At critical moments, the Harland leader can recruit mercenary groups to fight, which can play an important role.

The third is the Demon Hunting Union, which currently has less than 200 members, most of whom are members of the army's Demon Hunting Team and serve the government. There are only a dozen private Warcraft hunters in total.

In the past, hunting Warcraft was an official monopoly business, and the territory also enacted laws prohibiting private hunting of Warcraft.

However, there are many Warcraft resources near the Kobold Cave and there are few people. In order to speed up the development here, Richard decided to make some policy adjustments and recruit scattered Warcraft hunters in northern Xinjiang.

In addition to the official demon hunting teams, there are also a large number of World of Warcraft hunters active in the three provinces and four duchies of Northern Xinjiang. The total number of these people is several thousand, and a large part of them are part-time Warcraft hunters. .

When Richard first debuted, he and Hayden joined the demon hunting team organized by Soros and Roland, and he was considered a part-time World of Warcraft hunter at that time.

Warcraft hunters generally have very high incomes. Most of them are professionals. They are considered outstanding talents in the northern Xinjiang region. Attracting these people to the vicinity of the kobold caves and establishing a stronghold based on the hunting of Warcraft business can not only earn a large amount of money. Profits can also be used to guard the kobold cave with the help of Warcraft Hunters.

Richard led his soldiers and built a simple wooden castle near the kobold cave, naming it the Demon Hunting City. Then he returned to Harland Territory with the Warcraft Cavalry.

Although the Demon Hunting City is simple, it is the key area for the next development of Harland's leadership, and all kinds of materials are given priority.

Soon the territory's directly affiliated chamber of commerce came to the Demon Hunting City under the protection of soldiers. Warcraft material purchase stores, potion and alchemy item sales stores, enchanted weapons and enchanted armor stores, taverns, and inns were all opened. In just one month, they provided There are more than 200 people in logistics services.

Richard even set up a special transportation team and appointed Zhan Nings as the captain of the transportation team. He specially led twelve mid-level warriors and used ninth-level lockers to supplement the logistics of the Demon Hunting City.

After returning to the territory, Richard vigorously promoted the Demon Hunting City to surrounding areas.

Compared with the lords of other regions, the Harland Territory does business relatively fairly, and the level of the entire bureaucracy exceeds the average level of the Grant Kingdom, and it quickly attracted a group of demon hunters.

After entering autumn, there are already eight to nine hundred people living near the Demon Hunting City, and the size of the castle has greatly expanded.

Of course, this area is still very desolate, the houses are simple wooden houses, and the number of craftsmen is rare. Although the demon hunters can make a lot of money, they can only provide a low standard of living.

After winter, the demon hunters will return to their hometown. Only the Harland Demon Hunting Squadron is stationed here, and tranquility is restored.

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Although this battle did not severely damage the legendary black dragon, from a strategic point of view, the east-west confrontation was not well coordinated, so it was not particularly successful.

But for Harland leader, the harvest is not small at all. Within three months of the clearing operation, seven terrain dragons and twenty-two bipedal dragons were killed. The sub-dragon skins sorted out can be used to refine two One hundred pieces of fourth-level enchanted armor, equipped with two squadrons of elite soldiers.

Now Harland leads a total of only a dozen pieces of Yaronhide enchanted armor, basically all of which are in the hands of early officers. With the addition of these 200 pieces of Yaronhide armor, the combat effectiveness of Harland's army has been greatly improved. .

In addition, Warcraft's internal organs and brains can be used to refine Tenghui potions. With these resources, the supply of Tenghui potions in the territory will increase by 6,000 this year. According to past statistics, at least five to six hundred professionals can be trained. With this new batch of blood, Haaland's army can quickly expand.

Generally speaking, the quantity of Tenghui potions produced by Harland Territory is not stable, although several auxiliary materials for refining Tenghui potions, such as Boiling Flower and Moonlight Grass, Harland Territory can be self-sufficient and can supply in large quantities. But the main material, Warcraft viscera, needs to be provided by the Demon Hunting Team.

The income from demon hunting has always been very unstable. It almost depends on the weather. Some demon hunting teams went deep into the forest for half a year and found almost nothing. Due to the unstable supply of World of Warcraft viscera, the output of Harland's Tenghui potion fluctuates greatly and is very unstable.

In the entire Grant Kingdom, only the royal family and a few northern duchies can provide Tenghui potions in large quantities.

The Dukedom of Fox, like the Dukedom of Harland, has an unstable supply. The Dukedom of Edward's Warcraft War Horse breeding base is very large and occasionally kills eliminated Warcraft Warhorses to supply part of it. However, the Iron Wildebeest is of a lower grade and lacks magic power in its internal organs. One Iron Wildebeest can only provide a few materials. Although the situation is better than that of Harland, it is actually just enough for his own use.

The Dukedom of Jonathan has a larger supply, mainly because it has more resources. There is a natural medium-sized magic well near the legendary black dragon's nest. There is not a lot of magic escaping from the nearby area, and there are also a larger number of monsters. Demon hunting The income is far higher than that of other duchies.

The reason why the Grant Royal Family has the largest and most stable supply is mainly due to the success of artificial breeding of Warcraft.

The royal family has a Demonic Arrow Pig breeding base, which can produce 200 Demonic Arrow Pigs every year. The Demonic Arrow Pig is a large fifth-level monster. Each one can provide 120 potion materials. With the Demonic Arrow Pig Breeding Base as a base, it can Basic resources such as Warcraft meat and Tenghui potion are continuously provided.

But the royal family also needs to supply the nobles across the country. In fact, the supply and demand relationship of Tenghui Pharmacy is not very balanced.

Of course, Leader Harland also hopes to establish a Warcraft breeding base, but the Grant royal family strictly guards against Warcraft breeding technology. Outsiders are not welcome near the Arrow Demon Pig breeding base. It is not easy to successfully establish a Warcraft breeding base. .

There are now three artificial magic wells in the Harland Territory. The magicians in the territory are also conducting induction experiments to see if they can catalyze and induce ordinary animals to turn into monsters. However, the induction experiments have not been very successful.

After killing the terrain dragon and the wyvern, Leader Harand carefully disposed of the spoils. All the Warcraft meat is put into the space bag. The Warcraft meat is rich in nutrients and can help train soldiers. Especially the meat of high-level monsters such as terrain dragons and flying dragons can strengthen the body and strengthen fighting spirit, and its effect is second only to the Tenghui potion.

The most important thing is to kill a large number of magic beasts and dig out twenty-nine magic cores. Most of these magic cores are high-level magic cores, which can provide energy for high-level alchemy items.

From the remains of ancient wizards, Harland leader compiled a set of high-level golem refining methods, which required the use of a large amount of super-magic metals and high-level magic cores.

The high-level magic cores in the Harland Territory's reserve were very scarce, and there were no high-level alchemists to support the formation. Richard tried to refine them twice but failed, and the only two high-level magic cores in the territory were completely consumed.

Now that there are a large number of high-level magic cores, and Undine, a seventh-level alchemist, is here, the probability of successfully refining the golem has greatly increased. Even if they are refined into a team of twelve golems, they can still play a very important role in battle.

The steel golem is a seventh-level alchemy item. Under the control of a magician, it is somewhat more powerful than a seventh-level warrior. Twelve golems attack at the same time, and their head-on combat effectiveness is close to that of a squadron of Warcraft Cavalry.

In addition, there were twenty-three bottles of dragon marrow collected from killing the flying dragon and the terrain dragon.

Although Dragon Marrow Liquid is of little use to the Harland Territory, it is the most urgently needed resource for the Duke of Jonathan and has a very high trading value.

Finally, the claws and fangs of the wyvern and terrain dragon are high-grade alchemy materials and are also of great use to the Harland Territory.

Many years ago, Richard could not use these high-level Warcraft materials, and could only trade them to the Grant royal family in exchange for ordinary resources. Now, the Harland Master Mage Association has developed to a very high level, and every material can be used and enhanced. The heritage of the territory.

In this operation, twenty-nine terrain dragons and wyverns were hunted and killed, almost adding a million gold coins to the leader of Harland.

In addition to the benefit of hunting monsters, Harland also captured two precious magic props, the locker and the dragon's blood mirror.

The locker was left in the Kobold Cave to collect and reserve precious resources. Although the Dragon Blood Mirror, a special legendary item such as the Harland Leader, could not be used, it could be traded with the Jonathan family.

After discussing with the higher-ups in the territory, Richard decided to exchange the dragon's blood mirror for a royal seal.

Although the Harland Territory has a royal seal, it has not been enough in the past two years. Now dozens of contracts need to be stamped with the royal seal every day, and those who sign the contracts need to rush to Fort William.

According to the rules of the Grant Kingdom, a legion often needs a royal seal. For example, when Richard signed the royal power contract with the Mad Lion Legion, he could complete the contract at the legion headquarters and did not need to go to Nolan to sign the contract.

Now there are two and a half legions of soldiers in Harland Territory, and they all need to go to Fort William to sign the contract. A lot of time is wasted on the road, and efficiency cannot be improved for a long time.

Although Richard has been promoted to Duke and his priority has been increased, he is not a believer in the Kingship Church and needs to queue for eight years to reserve a Kingship Seal from the Kingship and Order Church.

In order to create this seal, starting from this year, Richard needs to provide 30,000 gold coins to the Royal Church every year for twelve consecutive years, and it will cost 360,000 gold coins to exchange for a royal seal.

For a big noble, the royal seal is the foundation of their monopoly power and the most important heritage of a big noble. It is impossible to appear in auctions, trade fairs and the like.

Although the Jonathan family has formed two new main legions due to its massive military expansion, and they also lack the royal seal, in order to obtain the Dragon Blood Mirror, Richard estimates that the transaction has a high chance of success.