Lord Harland

The kobold tribe also has a certain magic heritage and occasionally produces a small number of magicians. However, limited by the strength, status and historical background of the kobolds, the level of magic is not high.

Although the level of magic is mediocre, there is no shortage of spellcasters in the kobold tribe, because there was once a powerful demigod named Imrason among the kobolds of the plane of dawn.

This demigod was so powerful that he was just one step away from igniting the divine fire and becoming the god of kobolds. If there were gods to protect them, the status of the kobolds would be very different. It is a pity that this demigod was involved in the ancient plane war and is still trapped in the alien plane. Although he can still answer the prayers of believers, he is actually unable to interfere with the actions of the Dawn Plane.

Although the kobold demigod has been missing for more than 3,800 years. However, the church Imrason left behind in the kobold tribe has been passed down, and it can still rely on the power of the artifact to train priest-type professionals for the kobolds.

Kobold priests, also known as kobold priests, can master more than sixty spells stored in the Imrason artifact. Although the variety of spells is not as diverse as that of humans, orcs, and elves, in battle, more than sixty spells have been used. That's enough.

Although kobolds have no gods, they have accumulated a lot of power of faith. Because there are so many kobolds and their population size is second only to humans, the church has accumulated more power of faith than the seven human gods.

Because Imrason is not in the plane of dawn and cannot use the power of faith with maximum efficiency, the Kobold Court can only train priests to the ninth level.

The priest profession is different from the magician. The upper limit that can be achieved depends on the gods behind it.

Imrason was not a god to begin with, and because he was trapped in an alien plane, he was unable to cultivate legendary priests at all, because the church had no legends, and the powerful kobold tribe barely had any access to the royal court.

For example, the legendary kobold Kiram killed by Richard did not have many sacrifices in the tribe, and all the power was in his own hands.

This kobold tribe under the legendary black dragon is completely the product of his estrus. Among the dragon-veined kobolds, there is the blood of Ramos. After the dragon-veined kobolds developed to a certain scale, the kobold royal court of the orc empire came to spread the faith of the kobold god and brought the priest inheritance.

Up to now, the kobold priests have mastered a lot of power, and the high priest Latino has been promoted to the eighth level.

Because Richard's magic was too destructive, the two elements of fire and ice collided and collapsed the cave where the dragon-veined kobolds lived. An exit was dug for ventilation, and Latino personally directed the operation.

After the dragon-veined kobolds occupied this large cave, they almost hollowed out a large part of the mountain, digging more than a hundred caves and seven or eight passages.

The dragon-veined kobold leader's cave also has a window dug out, so you can easily view the scenery outside the cliff.

The war broke out quite suddenly, and Harland had very powerful scouts. Before the raid, they cleared away the kobolds nearby. Coupled with years of peace, the kobolds reacted very slowly. By the time an abnormality was discovered, the soldiers led by Harland had already blocked the six exits of the underground cave. Even the cave where the Dragon Vein kobolds lived was sealed by the Archers. The main entrance.

The seventh-level kobold Masala wanted to open the blockade and organized the dragon-veined kobolds to launch a charge. As a result, he died under the cold arrows of the high elves, and many people were killed and injured.

After discovering that something was wrong, the ninth-level dragon-veined kobold Pilatu changed his strategy and wanted to rely on the complex terrain to defend the cave, and requested reinforcements from the legendary dragon Ramoos.

Unexpectedly, the cave collapsed. The flames burned and consumed a lot of oxygen. With only two windows for ventilation, the oxygen was suddenly not enough. They had to send Latino to lead a team to open the entrance to the cave.

Latino had just completed the task and dug the cave. Richard rushed up with the raiding team. The dragon-veined kobolds killed in an instant retreated continuously, especially the ninth-level half-elf Elf Sano, who showed extraordinary bravery. In an instant, In a short time, six or seven low-level dragon-veined kobolds were eliminated.

The four marksmen in the rear, including Sylph and Thoros, also drew their bowstrings to cover Richard's raiding team and successfully shot four dragon-veined kobolds.

Everyone worked together and launched multiple rounds of attacks, instantly clearing Latino of his helpers.

Seeing the enemy rushing up and surrounding him, the eighth-level kobold high priest hurriedly released the seventh-ring magic high-level protective force field, and then released the second-ring magic to rub the soles of his feet, and fled deep into the cave.

Annie and Butler, who were following Richard and others, also reacted quickly and released the Grease Technique and Spider Web Technique at the same time, restricting Latino's movement.

With the addition of elves, the strength of the Harland Mage Association has greatly increased. Not only has Undine added an eighth-ring elf mage, but there have also been four intermediate mage additions, three of whom are elves and one is a member of the Bolton family. According to blood, he is the great-grandson of Sano.

Including these elves and half-elves, the Harland Mage Association now has three high-level magicians, seven medium-level magicians, fifty-two low-level magicians, and more than 200 magician apprentices.

In terms of scale, it is not far behind the Jonathan family. Because they have mastered several legendary items, the upper-level power is already more powerful than the Jonathan family.

The Harland family has only developed for seventeen years since William was promoted to hereditary baron. Less than two years after Richard was promoted to duke, the power of magicians he mastered has already approached that of the Jonathan family.

You must know that the Jonathan family has a long history, which can be traced back to the legendary dragon knight Saint Jonathan thousands of years ago. This family has half dragon blood, and the direct descendants of Saint Jonathan are all half dragons.

Even now, the dragon bloodline of the Jonathan family is still very strong, and some members still inherit some dragon-like traits. For example, Duke Jonathan has three dragon scales growing on his chest. His eldest son, Macmillan, had two half-foot-long dragon horns growing out of his head.

Because of their dragon ancestry, about one-sixth of the Jonathan family members can awaken magical talents, a rate far higher than that of ordinary people. However, in order to avoid the spread and dilution of the dragon's bloodline, the Jonathan family adopted an internal intermarriage strategy, resulting in a population size that was far smaller than that of the royal family, and the total number of family members did not exceed 2,000.

The Grant royal family is also a millennium family. Even if most of the bloodlines are removed and ordinary people without knight blood are expelled from the Grant family, the total number of direct and branch members of the royal family exceeds 100,000.

Because of its large population, the Grant Kingdom Mage Association can continuously absorb new blood, with more than 600 members.

According to the current development level of the Harland Territory, the number of people in the Harland Mage Association will exceed that of the royal family in another ten years. Even though Richard banned publicity and formulated a certain confidentiality policy, the territory is now open and there are many outsiders living there. The population size, development level, and number of professionals in the territory cannot be hidden from those who are interested.

If this policy continues to develop, it will inevitably bring great shock to the Grant Kingdom.

However, now that the Dukedom of Harland has grown into a towering tree, according to the political tradition of the Dawn Plane, other nobles cannot dictate the policies of the Harland Territory.

However, in the Parliament of Nobles, there are already some voices asking the Harland family to restrict the spread of extraordinary knowledge.

Richard ignored these voices.

The current situation is that the Harland family plays a very important role in northern Xinjiang, even more important than the royal family and the Jonathan family, and assumes the greatest responsibility for defending against the orcs. In addition to the achievements he has made in recent years, killing legendary professionals twice and gaining a great reputation in nearby countries, it is impossible for Richard to limit his own hands and feet and slow down his development. He does not want to listen to the noise in the noble council. .

Because of the special territorial development policy, Richard had a normal relationship with most of the nobles of the Grant Kingdom and was not very gregarious among the nobles.

Even the marriage between nobles basically bypassed the Harland family, causing Wendy's marriage to become a big problem. Of course, the most important reason was that Wendy was not in a hurry and there was no suitable person.

For big nobles at the duke level, there is very little room for selection of marriage partners, and many important family members are in their thirties and get married in their forties.

Wendy is now thirty-two years old, and there are only a few suitable marriage partners in the Grant Kingdom. She is the younger sister of Richard's mother, and she is also a five-ring mage. Her own conditions are too outstanding, and it is impossible to find a suitable young person for marriage.

Richard couldn't get over the hurdle of marrying a widowed elderly nobleman. He couldn't let his sister become a tool for marriage, so the marriage could only be postponed indefinitely.

Anne and Butler were both fourth-level magicians. In order to restrain the eighth-level high priest Latino and give others a chance, the spells they released were all powerful spells.

After the two control spells, Grease and Spider Web, were released, they successfully restricted Latino's movement.

If it were in the open space outside, Latino might use flying to escape the siege, but in a narrow cave, there was no room for flying.

Latino was just about to release the powerful four-ring magic wall penetration technique to penetrate the thick stone wall, when the three-ring magic human immobilization technique released by Richard had already landed on top of Latino's head.

After awakening the powerful spell-casting talent, Richard's spells are very powerful, and his normal spell-casting power is enough.

This time, in order to prevent the eighth-level kobold priest from escaping, Richard rarely used a powerful spell and invested 60 points of magic power to instantly immobilize Latino, making him unable to move at all.

Richard immobilized Latino, and Sophia immediately released the seven-ring magic extreme cold ice blade. A blast of cold air hit Latino's protective field fiercely, instantly causing a very large gap in the protective field. .

Sophia opened the protective field, and Wendy's attack came immediately. She was seen holding a thunder staff and releasing a five-ring magic thunder ball.

The lightning ball hit Latino's chest accurately, and the electric current of tens of thousands of volts directly killed the man.

After successfully killing Latino, Wendy once again achieved great merit. Now she has accumulated more than nine great merits and is very close to becoming a baroness.

After Latino's death, the fate of the dragon-veined kobolds was doomed.

After several battles, Harland's leader suffered very little losses, killing and wounding more than 130 dragon-veined kobolds. Although the dragon-veined kobolds are still at 70%, their morale has declined to the extreme, and Harland has led officers and soldiers to control the entrance of the cave.

Some dragon-veined kobolds prepared to climb out of the cliff window to escape, but were targeted by archers outside and shot to death in mid-air.

A small number of kobolds who jumped off the cliff from the window were seriously injured in the fall. They had to face the hunting of Warcraft cavalry and had no chance of escaping with their lives.

Hiding in a cave and stubbornly resisting will also not have much effect.

After all, the strength is obvious, especially now, Harland leads more than ten high-level professionals, while the dragon-veined kobolds only have the leader Pilatu.

After realizing that the situation was not good, Pilatu didn't even have time to carry the kobold locker, so he picked up the dragon's blood mirror and jumped out of the window.

Jumping from a hundred-meter-high cliff, even though Pilatus had been promoted to the ninth level, his blood was still surging. Before he could take a breath, Sylph, who was performing blockade and cover tasks outside the cave, stared at the kobold.

If they fight alone, the two of them can still touch each other a little, and the dragon-veined kobold still has a chance to escape, but with two high elf helpers beside Sylph, Pilatus's fate is already sealed.

When Richard led the people to clean up the cave and came out, they found that Pilato's injury was very serious. Richard beat the drowned dog without making any move, and soon Pilato died at the hands of the elf.

After killing the ninth-level dragon-veined kobold, the Bolton family won another barony. Now this half-elf family has seven baronies, and is very close to being promoted to earl and becoming a great noble.

If counted as high-level warriors, the power controlled by this half-elf family is somewhat stronger than that of the nobles at the earl level.

But in terms of overall strength, the weaknesses of the Bolton family are too obvious. Although their territory is not small, the number of elves is too small. They cannot compete with an ordinary viscounty in a regular war.

Taking the Grant Kingdom as an example, an ordinary viscounty can pull out two to three thousand soldiers, the number of professionals is about dozens, and there are one or two high-level professionals on duty. The number of the viscount's army is a hundred times that of the elves, and they can defeat this enemy even with all their efforts.

If the Bolton Viscounty has more than a thousand elves, it can organize an elite elf army of more than three hundred people. With this elite army in hand, it can compete with the same dukedom in the forest.

According to the system of the Dawn Plane, the duke's vassal can only reach the level of viscount. Once promoted to an earl, he needs to swear allegiance to the royal family, take on his own responsibility, and assume more important responsibilities.

The hereditary earls of the Grant Kingdom often need to control a border province and are the real frontier officials. With the power controlled by the Bolton family, they simply cannot bear the responsibility.

Regarding this point, Richard has explained it to Sano, Sylph and others. The elves have no ambition to be promoted to the nobility for the time being. They do not yet have mutual trust with the great nobility of the Kingdom of Grant. They are only willing to take shelter under Richard's wings to recuperate and prepare to find a way to transform.