Lord Harland

The special squadron is a brand-new organization that performs infiltration and assassination missions. It is divided into four squads, with only fifty-two people including the squadron commander.

This army is a team of all-professionals, with carefully selected internal members, mainly composed of knights and magicians.

There are twelve people in each team, consisting of ten knights and two magicians.

In addition to the fourth-level Langton, the command organization also includes three deputy squadron captains, namely the fourth-level knight Capello, the third-level magician Bonova, and Caperson.

When performing combat missions, the special squadron also needs to strengthen magic hot air balloons, Warcraft horses, etc. according to different situations.

The training of the special squadron is very complex and hard. It requires not only learning the tactics of the infantry squad, but also the tactics of the cavalry squad, and learning to control the magic hot air balloon. The tactical level and own skills of each member need to be very high.

Although the number of special squadrons is small, they are carefully selected from the entire army.

They were very well-equipped. They all wore level 4 sub-dragon leather armor, and they also had level 5 and 6 dragon claws and dragon tooth daggers in their hands. Four assaulters were equipped with level 4 mithril swords, six were equipped with level 3 enchanted crossbows, and carried level 3 force field shields.

The special forces are armed to the teeth. With the strength of a small team, their combat effectiveness can already compete with the seventh-level silver knight.

In order to facilitate makeup reconnaissance, when each special team performs a mission, the squadron commander must accompany him. The commander also carries a ten cubic meter space bag in which the equipment can be hidden.

In addition to combat skills training, members of the special squadron also need to learn a variety of skills, such as survival in the wild, hiding under makeup, etc. In addition, they also need to spend a lot of time learning the languages ​​of nearby countries, especially the languages ​​of the East Coast United Kingdom and the Kingdom of Delong, and become proficient in writing the official script of Dawn Continent. And you need to know some cryptography, and you can write secret letters to the territory at important moments.

After several internal exercises, a special team unexpectedly assassinated the Silver Knight, and the probability of success was more than 50% to 60%.

Being able to form a special force is enough to show that Leader Harland has accumulated a lot of knowledge, and excellent talents have mastered a large part of it.

After Richard was promoted to Duke, some frustrated professionals defected to the territory every year, especially the Northern Xinjiang nobles, and many branch members entered the Harland Territory. Langton and Capello are both such people. Among the other two three-ring magicians, Caperson is a friend of Röntgen and someone he has recruited in recent years. Only Bonova was trained by Harland. Direct lineage.

Now that it has developed and grown, it must be open-minded to accept outsiders.

Even if some of these foreign talents are planted by others, we cannot abandon them because of choking.

In addition to the special squadron, Richard also formed a bipedal flying dragon cavalry squad, and the squad leader appointed the seventh-level warrior Driffin.

Although the Bipedal Dragon Cavalry team is very small in number, with only four official members, the auxiliary troops that provide them with logistics already include half a squadron of soldiers.

Every flying dragon cavalry is a mid-level warrior or above. The level is too low to contract a flying dragon.

The wyvern is an intelligent creature, so the sub-dragon leather armor cannot be used at all. This squad cannot get too close to the first squadron, special squadron and other soldiers equipped with sub-dragon leather armor.

In order to protect the flying dragon, Richard and Undine made careful research and finally used precious materials such as mithril and fine gold to jointly refine the fifth-level defensive armor for the flying dragon to protect the flying dragon and the cavalry on it. .

After completing these tasks, it was mid-August.

After the Qiugu inspection, Richard spent a lot of time making magic props and alchemy items.

With the large consumption of materials and Undine's guidance, Richard's alchemy has improved rapidly during this period, rising from the fourth level to the fifth level.

After entering August, a large number of magic props were refined and began to be equipped to various troops. In the next period of time, Richard and Undine prepared to make the steel golem.

Golems are a type of refining creature. In the ancient wizarding era, wizards mastered a large number of methods for refining golems, and could even refine legendary golems with artificial intelligence. It's just that the wizards are extremely cruel to create the legendary golem, which requires killing a large number of intelligent creatures and refining soul crystals.

A floating city created by a legendary wizard must have a legendary golem with artificial intelligence sitting there, as well as a special alchemical creation tower spirit of the legendary level.

The Grant Kingdom also has a golem refining inheritance. The royal family has mastered a method of refining flying golems, which requires the use of a special super magic ore, which can be regarded as a kind of stone golem.

Due to the limitations of ores and other materials, the Grant royal family has only successfully refined eighty flying golems, which is already a very important heritage of the royal family.

Relying on the flying golem troops, the royal family suppressed the harpies by surprise, won the decisive battle in Dragon Canyon, and expelled the orcs from the three northern provinces.

But this was already a hundred and twenty years ago. After this battle, the Flying Golem troops never appeared on the battlefield again. According to some rumors, the Flying Golem consumed magic crystals very seriously.

The Grant royal family will not use it lightly until it is critical.

Harland took control of the ruins of the floating city. Richard also mastered the ancient wizard texts and sorted out a lot of magic techniques from the ruins. There was one way to make energy-absorbing stones, and another way to make steel golems.

It's just that the floating city is very old, has been exposed to wind and sun for thousands of years, and has experienced vicissitudes of life. The technical information left behind is very scattered, and there are only three complete technologies that have been sorted out.

In addition to energy-absorbing stones and steel golems, the last technology is more important. It is the core technology of the floating city, the manufacturing method of elemental furnaces.

Creating an elemental furnace requires a large amount of magic materials. The first one is the artificial heart of elements.

There are two types of elemental hearts. One is the natural elemental core, which is almost only generated in the four elemental planes.

In the ancient wizard era, all the passages between the Dawn Plane and the four elemental planes have been destroyed. Now it is impossible to enter the four elemental planes to find the Heart of the Elements.

In addition, you can hunt legendary elemental lords and create artificial elemental hearts.

Generally speaking, to build a floating city, you need to create at least four elements of earth, fire, feng shui, so that the floating city can absorb different elements and adapt to different environments.

To lift the floating city into the sky, not only must there be enough energy, but also a gravity well, a super-large protective force field, a magic energy conversion center, etc. must be created, which requires the support of a developed magical civilization.

Even if Richard had a chance to create an elemental furnace, it would be difficult for the floating city to fly into the sky.

Making a steel golem requires the use of a large amount of blood steel. Although blood steel is a relatively cheap super-magic metal, refining a steel golem requires eighteen tons of blood steel.

The price of blood steel is very stable. The market price has been six silver coins per kilogram for many years. To refine a steel golem, just buying blood steel requires nine thousand gold coins.

To refine the steel golem, you also need to use mithril and fine gold.

Normally, a steel golem requires twenty kilograms of mithril, and one kilogram of mithril costs three hundred gold coins. Twenty kilograms is a cost of six thousand.

High-level steel golems need to be equipped with sophisticated weapons, which also need to be fused with adamantine.

The price of fine gold is two thousand gold coins per kilogram. Even if two or three kilograms of fine gold are incorporated, it is a huge cost.

In addition, the steel golem also needs a high-level magic core to serve as the core. The market price of a seventh-level or above high-level magic core is about 12,000 gold coins. Adding the cost of high-level magic potions, the refining cost exceeds 35,000 gold coins. This does not include the cost of inviting a high-level alchemist.

Counting Undine, there are only two high-level alchemists in the Grant Kingdom. It is not easy to invite a high-level alchemist. Inviting high-level alchemists often requires paying a lot of hidden fees.

Normally, it may cost 40,000 gold coins to refine a steel golem.

If it weren't for the fact that there are several iron mines in Harland's territory, a large amount of blood steel accumulated over the years, and more than 20 high-level magic cores, Richard would only need to spend hundreds of thousands of gold coins to purchase a batch of mithril and fine gold. He can't afford the cost of refining a high-level golem.

Due to the lack of soul crystals, the steel golem has no intelligence and needs to be secretly manipulated by a magician during combat.

Normally, a one-level magician can control a steel golem and play a major role.

In fact, Richard mastered the technology of refining soul crystals from the ruins of the floating city, but this technology requires the slaughter of a large number of intelligent beings in blood sacrifices.

This cruel technique is inconsistent with Richard's three views, and Richard is not willing to use it easily. Even the Harland Magic Library does not include this technology, and the technical information is only hidden in Richard's mind.

Anyway, there is no shortage of magicians in Harland. Magicians can possess the steel golem through the power of spells and control the golem with their own spiritual power. They do not need to give the golem simple intelligence.

Using a magician to control the golem, although the duration is shorter, is smarter than low-level intelligent golems and can play a greater role on the battlefield.

The Iron Golem has very strong spell resistance. Although it is slow and bulky, it has amazing combat effectiveness on the frontal battlefield.

Dozens of steel golems charge at the same time and can easily defeat a large group of infantry.

The only thing that restricts the combat effectiveness of the steel golem is actually the refining cost.

The cost of materials alone requires 35,000 gold coins, and a high-level alchemist needs to be invited, which is also a huge cost. If Undine hadn't joined Harland's leadership, Richard wouldn't have been able to afford the invitation. High alchemist's fee.

Moreover, Richard was not willing to hand over the refining method of the steel golem to outsiders easily.

Harland had a surplus of 600,000 gold coins in his tie last year, but participating in the auction of the multinational chamber of commerce has consumed nearly 300,000 gold coins. Harland still needs to leave 200,000 gold coins in reserve in the treasury. The remaining gold coins are not enough to purchase precious materials such as mithril and fine gold.

Although Terrain Dragon obtained more than one million gold coins in resources from hunting the flying dragon, it was a pity that these resources were not converted into cash. Instead, they were turned into potions, weapons, and enchanted armor, which strengthened the territory's heritage.

After the summer grain was finally put into storage, some of it was sold to collect enough gold coins to purchase a batch of fine gold and mithril.

Refining a steel golem requires proficiency in magic circles.

Many magicians are very partial to science and have only mastered spell models. They are not proficient in magic principles and magic circles. In fact, among the Harland Territory, there are only about one-fifth of the magicians who can do research. There are sixty or seventy mage apprentices in total.

Most magicians can only serve as tools and screws in magical civilization.

The Harland Mage Association attaches great importance to magic research, and the atmosphere of magic research is far superior to other magic organizations. In a normal magic organization, only 3% of the magicians can engage in research, and the rest are battle mages and magic tool people.

Although Richard cannot independently refine a high-level golem, he has a very solid foundation in magic and is proficient in a variety of magic arrays. He can help Undine a lot and play a supporting role in the refining process.

In fact, several low-level alchemists can also help a little, such as smelting materials, making models, preparing magic potions, etc.

There are many ancient wizard ruins in the Dawn Plane, as well as fallen floating cities. The magicians even found many demon statues left over from ancient times.

The southwestern coastal countries such as Markholm Magic Kingdom and the Holy Radiance Empire have mastered part of the golem refining methods and established golem armies.

In particular, the Silver Golem Legion of the Holy Glory Empire is famous in the plane of dawn.

It is said that this kind of golem uses hundreds of kilograms of mithril, and it costs hundreds of thousands of gold coins to refine one. Even the wealthy Holy Radiance Empire only has 300 silver golems.

This golem army, like the Flying Dragon Knights, is the ace force of the Holy Radiance Empire and an important part of the national defense force.

Occasionally, high-level golems eliminated from the Silver Golem Legion will flow out. Such severely worn high-level golems often sell for more than 200,000 gold coins. Once they appear, they will cause competition among the lords and nobles.

After all, for the nobles, extraordinary power is the basis for maintaining their rule.

A high-level golem can be used for many years and passed down to future generations of the family.

A normal steel golem is divided into six parts: head, body, arms and legs. It needs to be manually carved by a junior alchemist first.

Harland has a developed steel smelting and casting process, which does not require manual production. This step takes a short time and is very easy. The next step is to draw a magic circle on the body of the golem.

This is what Richard and Undine mainly do. The control and operation system of the golem is very complex. Thousands of magic runes must be drawn on one arm, and there must be no mistakes in these runes.

Once drawn incorrectly, the materials cannot be used, so drawing runes requires careful thought and caution.

Each rune also needs to store different magic powers in advance, and the process also requires careful calculation and extreme care.

Richard and Undine teamed up and spent half a month to successfully refine the first steel golem.