Lord Harland

After the formation of the three artillery squadrons was completed, it was already early July. A dozen days ago, a large amount of poisonous aconite grown in the newly opened magic plantation matured. The pharmacists used poisonous aconite as the main material to start refining large quantities of insect repellent.

With the introduction of insect repellent, in just twenty days, the number of diseases spread by mosquito bites has been greatly reduced, and the Haaland Territory has mastered another powerful drug with outstanding effects.

According to statistics from the pharmaceutical department, 90,000 tubes of anthelmintics can be produced this year.

One dose of insect repellent has a wide range of use and can last for half a month. Ninety thousand tubes of insect repellent are enough for land reclamation.

In early July, the summer harvest had begun in Harland Territory.

The weather in northern Xinjiang was smooth this year. When Richard led his troops southward at the turn of spring and summer, Harland led a fierce conflict with the orcs in the northern part of the Eagle Mountains. There were even an orc brigade going south to attack the grass valley.

However, the northern defense line of Harland Territory was tightly guarded. Seeing that there was no advantage to be taken, the orcs did not expand the conflict, but chose to retreat with their troops.

Now the Harland Territory occupies the northern foothills of the Eagle Mountains, and Military Station No. 10 is about 200 kilometers away from Pulilan. This position is equivalent to a nail embedded in the northern prairie, pressing against the waist of the orcs.

The Orcs will not give up until they clear out Depot No. 10 and break through Harland's northern defense line.

The orcs retreated in the spring and summer, probably because they were afraid of disturbing the situation, and were preparing to accumulate strength, so that when the autumn was high and the horses were fat, they could decide the victory or defeat in one fell swoop.

In early July, Richard once again received an invitation letter from a multinational chamber of commerce. This time, the auction was held by the Sollenheim Chamber of Commerce.

The Sollenheim family was originally a ducal family in the Holy Glory Empire. Unfortunately, a battle for titles decades ago caused the Sollenheim family to split. Some members fled the Holy Glory Empire and transformed into merchant organizations.

After decades of development, the Sollenheim Chamber of Commerce has once again cultivated a legend and developed into a multinational chamber of commerce. This multinational chamber of commerce has been seeking to regain the title, and has a very serious conflict with the Duke of Solenheim of the Holy Glorious Empire.

Because it involves the internal struggle of the Sollenheim family, the Holy Radiance Empire has no official name to intervene. However, the nobles of the Holy Radiance Empire have secretly intervened in the struggle of the Sollenheim family. Both sides have supporters, and fierce battles have broken out. .

The Sollenheim Chamber of Commerce held a large-scale auction at Linus Castle. I heard that it was Archduke Jonathan who personally invited the Sollenheim family, which led to this large-scale auction.

The last time the Grant Kingdom held a large-scale auction, there were murders, treasure grabbing, and roadside robberies, which greatly affected the reputations of the two transnational chambers of commerce, Fanxing and Cangqing. Many collaborators complained. In order to settle everyone's complaints, the two major multinational chambers of commerce spent a lot of effort.

For this large-scale auction, Duke Jonathan and the Sollenheim family promised to protect the attendees and endorsed the safety of the auction. The two legendary knights, Grand Duke Jonathan and John Solenheim, publicly announced that whoever dares to kill and steal the treasure after the meeting, the Grand Duchy of Stanik and the Solenheim family will fight to the death.

Because of the security guarantee and the fact that the Grand Duchy of Stanik was an ally of the Grant Kingdom, Richard dared to take a small number of guards to participate in this auction.

Although he brought few people with him, when he went to Venus Castle, Richard still brought the 3rd Warcraft Cavalry Brigade, the 2nd and 4th Griffin Knight Squadrons, the 1st Squadron of the Guard Brigade directly under Richard, and the 1st Squadron of the Harland Mage Association. The squadron and other elites have a total number of about 550 people.

Harland Territory has been domesticating griffons for eight and a half years, and the original nine griffons have expanded to sixty-five. Now Harland Leader has organized four gryphon squads, and the number of gryphon cavalry has expanded to forty-three.

Last fall, three wyverns were successfully hatched, but it would take twelve or three years for these three little wyverns to grow up.

Because there were elite soldiers and generals on the road, and the space props carried by Richard and Undine had stored a large amount of food and grass, there was no need to buy supplies along the way. The road went very fast. It only took eight days. It covered a distance of 800 kilometers, and the average daily marching speed reached about 100 kilometers.

Even though he uses Warcraft horses to travel, it still takes six or seven hours to march hundreds of kilometers a day. Walking every day is extremely hard.

After entering Linus Castle, it suddenly started to drizzle. The rain moistened the dry air near Linus Castle, giving people a refreshing feeling.

Because of his special relationship with Duke Jonathan, Richard moved directly into Duke Jonathan's villa.

The auction was held on July 19th. Compared with the last Starry Cangqing joint auction, the Sollenheim family brought more goods for auction, but the items auctioned by the Sollenheim family this time were not. It requires gold coins, which need to be paid with magic crystals and extraordinary resources.

As for the resources sold by other nobles, the conditions can be negotiated by yourself. The Sollenheim family will only take 3% of the value of the proceeds, and the Grand Duchy of Stanik will take 5%.

After taking the proceeds, the two are responsible for protecting the security of the auction.

There is no shortage of magic crystals in the Harland Territory. There are 28,000 standard magic crystals accumulated in the mage tower. In addition, there are also many extraordinary resources rich in the territory, such as Tenghui potions, alchemy bombs, and enchanted armors. In addition, Sophia also From the Mage Tower Plantation, take out dozens of medium magic plants that have been planted for more than ten years. These dozens of medium magic plants are worth tens of thousands of gold coins in total.

Counting miscellaneous things, in order to participate in this trade fair, Richard and Sophia prepared extraordinary resources of 600,000 gold coins. As long as the high-grade dragon blood fruit appears, they must grab it even if they pay a high premium.

On July 19th, the Solenheim auction was held as scheduled, and the venue was the Lynas Castle Opera House.

This place is considered a lucky place for Richard, and the bottle of Star Glory was found here. Back then, Richard only spent two hundred gold coins to obtain two legendary fourth-level treasures.

The Star Bottle and Star Necklace were undoubtedly of great help to Richard. It is precisely by relying on the deterrence of the Star Necklace that the Harland family can become the overlord of Northern Xinjiang.

The auction items on the first day were all conventional resources, mainly enchanted weapons, enchanted armors, warcraft horses, and mid- to low-level magic props.

The Harland family is a ducal family, and Richard is a well-known heavyweight in a nearby country. He also has a separate box for the auction. An auction box comes with twenty-four auction numbers, and Richard has left these number plates to important members and subordinates of the Mage Association.

Although middle and low-level magic props are of no use to high-level magicians such as Richard and Sophia, they are very useful treasures for middle- and low-level magicians.

Especially in a magical desert country like the Grant Kingdom, the premium for magic props is very high. Holding a large-scale auction can earn a very high income for the Sollenheim family.

On the first day of the auction, Richard didn't do much. He only bought four groups of flaming horses, with 60 flaming horses in each group. The average auction price was around 1,200 standard magic crystals.

Four groups of flame horses, a total of 240 horses, cost 4,900 standard magic crystals, and were worth about 49,000 gold coins when converted into gold coins.

This batch of Warcraft war horses did not come from a good source. They were war horses resold by the Central Forbidden Army of the Holy Glory Empire. The quality was very good. Because Warcraft warhorses are numbered, they can only be sold in remote areas.

Although it is taboo to purchase prohibited items from the Holy Radiance Empire, the Grant Kingdom is far away from the Emperor and the Holy Radiance Empire is thousands of miles away from the Harland Territory. Richard is not afraid of anyone pursuing him at all.

This year, Richard led his troops south, captured East Castle, captured 300 flame horses, and formed the third Warcraft Cavalry Brigade.

Due to the shortage of Warcraft horses, the Third Warcraft Cavalry Brigade is very small, with only about 300 Warcraft Cavalry members.

Participating in the auction this time, I got 240 flame horses at one time, which was of great help to the expansion of Harland's population.

Nowadays, Harland leads the Warcraft War Horse Breeding Base to a very large scale. There are 860 Iron Wild Horses and nearly 150 Flame Horses in the base.

In addition, Harland leads three Warcraft Cavalry Brigades. The first brigade is equipped with iron horned horses. This year it has been fully staffed. There are a total of ten Warcraft Cavalry squadrons and the number of Warcraft Cavalry is about 1,000.

The Second Warcraft Cavalry Brigade consists of six squadrons, with flaming horses as mounts. The number of Warcraft Cavalry is 600.

Although the Third Warcraft Cavalry Brigade is a new unit, due to Richard's attention, the total strength will soon be expanded to 500 people. This brigade also uses flame horses as mounts.

Now Harland leads the Warcraft cavalry team, and the number of flame horses exceeds that of the iron horned horses. However, in the Warcraft horse breeding base, the iron horned horses are still the mainstay.

After the auction on the first day, Richard directly approached the vice president of the Sollenheim Chamber of Commerce, hoping to exchange four thousand alchemy bombs for four groups of flame horses. After personally checking the power of the alchemy bombs, the vice president of the Sollenheim Chamber of Commerce Chang happily accepted it.

The auction went on to the second day, and basically all the precious potions were up for auction. The finale was three magic snake potions. This potion is a famous high-level potion in the Dawn Plane. After taking it, it can increase the magic power by 30 points. about.

After the appearance of the magic snake potion, it immediately caused a sensation. High-ranking magicians from the major nobles took action one after another. In the end, the three magic snake potions were snatched by the wealthy Grant Mage Association.

The auction price of a magic snake potion was actually around 56,000 gold coins.

The value of the Demonic Snake Potion is not much different from that of the Advanced Styx Potion, which shows that potions that can improve mental power are rare.

Because Richard and Sophia were preparing to refine the legendary Styx potion, they did not take action after the Demonic Snake potion appeared. With the resource point of Princess Mausoleum, they still have the opportunity to hunt more undead creatures, so Undine, Wendy and others do not have to worry about not having potions to enhance their mental power.

The upper-level members of the Harland Mage Association did not fight for it. Although the middle-level magicians had intentions, their own financial resources were far from enough.

At the potion auction the next day, only Wilde bought an eighth-level Holy Spirit Heart potion, preparing to use it to break through the bottleneck.

Wilde had not been in the Harland Territory for a long time, and the gold coins accumulated in his hands were far from enough. However, he had participated in many battles and had accumulated a lot of merit.

According to Grant Kingdom's standards, a great achievement can be exchanged for treasures worth ten thousand gold coins. Wilde paid two major merits and four medium merits, and asked Richard to redeem the Holy Spirit Heart potion for him.

Considering that Wilde had integrated into the Harland territory, married a new wife in the territory, and had children, Richard did not hesitate and readily agreed to Wilde's request.

After the potion auction ended on the second day, the third day of the auction soon came.

The auction on the third day was more chaotic, with all kinds of things available.

After auctioning more than twenty treasures, at noon, the auctioneer held a thick magic book and introduced it to everyone.

"This auction item is the highlight of today. This book is a rare magic book that introduces very precious astrology. As we all know, the inheritance of prophecy spells is very rare and the value is also very precious. It is rarely available outside. Scattered and left behind. This magic book has been identified by us as a treasure from ancient times. It not only records precious knowledge inheritance, but is also a valuable antique with a starting price of 6,000 standard magic crystals."

Listening to the auctioneer's introduction, Richard saw the thick magic book on the booth. When he saw this magic book, Richard felt familiar.

He saw this thing at the first auction he attended more than ten years ago.

Unfortunately, the Harland family was very weak at that time. Richard remembered very clearly that this magic book fell into the hands of the Linus family, the Stanik royal family at the time. The auction price is only about 10,000 gold coins.

More than ten years have passed, and things have changed.

The Linus family was defeated and expelled by the Jonathan family. Now he has become the Duke of Lane Kingdom and is struggling to gain a foothold in Lane Kingdom.

I don’t know what twists and turns it took, but this original magic book fell into the hands of the Sollenheim family.

Although the auctioneer of the Sollenheim family introduced the magic book very hard, and the value of this magic book was also very high. The starting price of 60,000 gold coins was not very high, but the scene was very deserted, and there was no one raising a placard.

After a while, a young attendant walked up to him and whispered a few words to the auctioneer. The auctioneer nodded in realization.

It turns out that more than ten years ago, the Stanik nobles joined forces to take the inheritance of the Star Mage into their hands. The auction price at that time was not high. After the big nobles bought it, they would copy each other's information, including breathing methods, astrology, experimental records, etc., and the price they paid was only about a few thousand gold coins.

The people participating in the auction this time were mainly the nobles of Stanik and Grant.

Stanik's heavyweight nobles have mastered the inheritance of astrology, and of course there is no need for auctions. Although the great nobles of Grant Kingdom have needs, they also know the whole story and are unwilling to be taken advantage of.