Lord Harland

In the past eight years, the Harland Kingdom's army has expanded to 450,000, and its territory has also increased by nearly 300,000 square kilometers.

The increased territory came from the orcs. In the past eight years, the Kingdom of Harland has developed to the eastern region of Pryland and established the province of East Pryland. The territory of the Orc Empire has been encroached on some more.

If the territory can be extended to the seaside, the territory can be increased by more than 200,000.

After the Battle of the Samba River that year, the commander of the Orc Grassland Governor-General Melonla decided to give up the territory to the north of the Harland Kingdom. Therefore, it became very easy for the Kingdom of Harland to expand its territory.

If the entire Bolton Forest in the north of the Harland Kingdom could be included, the territory of the Harland Kingdom would exceed three million people.

In the past eight years, the situation in neighboring countries has not changed significantly.

The civil war in the Delong Kingdom also ended for three years.

Although Richard provided a large number of advanced weapons to the rebels, King Anton was far ahead in terms of population and economy. With the support of the Holy Glory Empire, the rebels eventually became weaker and weaker.

It wasn't until three years ago that King Anton conquered Clam Castle, killed the last rebellious duke, and put down the rebellion.

The war lasted for nearly seven years from the outbreak of the Dron civil war to King Anton's suppression of the civil strife.

Seven years of civil war devastated the land of the Delong Kingdom. By the end of the war, the total population was only 15 million.

Compared with before the war, it was reduced by 11 million.

Of course, not all of the eleven million people died in the war.

About three million people became war refugees and were swallowed up by Haaland, Grant, Maya and other territorial states. Four million people were sold by the rebels to the Kingdom of Harland in exchange for arms and money. Two million people fled into the barren mountains, and most of them died from famine caused by the war. The last two million people died from the massacre caused by the war.

The Harland Kingdom used the war to purchase five million indentured slaves from the Delon Kingdom. Coupled with the natural reproduction of the domestic population, the current population has exceeded 40 million.

Grant and Maya also made war fortunes, accepted some of the fugitive nobles, and increased their population by more than one million.

Although the population decreased by 42%, the Delong Kingdom unified its thinking and eliminated internal troubles.

Even after seven years of civil war, King Delong still insisted on running schools.

The Anton Kingdom has shown great courage, poaching people from the Harland Kingdom with more than ten times the salary, recruiting unsatisfied talents, and using teachers recruited from the Harland Kingdom to open elementary schools and middle schools. Now they are the first to enroll. The children have graduated from primary school, and some middle school students have been trained.

With enough talents, the Delong Kingdom is developing faster and faster, and has not been interrupted by wars. On the contrary, due to the war, various technologies have improved a bit.

After quelling the civil strife, the actual potential of the Kingdom of Delon is second only to that of the Kingdom of Harland. The reform of the political system has also begun to show results. The commercial field is extremely active, and science and technology are also developing rapidly. It is on the eve of a major explosion.

During the war, the Delong Kingdom also seized three magic crystal cannons. After research by the legendary mages of the Holy Radiance Empire, the manufacturing process of super magic metal materials, launch runes and so on has been cracked.

In the final war, the knock-off magic crystal cannon manufactured by the Holy Radiance Empire has appeared.

Although the knock-off products manufactured by the Holy Radiance Empire have a slightly shorter range and higher manufacturing costs, after passing this threshold, subsequent improvements are not difficult.

This was not beyond Richard's expectation.

After the invention of a new technology, it will inevitably lead to technological diffusion.

The enemy is not a fool, especially a powerful force like the Holy Glory Empire, which also has talents within its ranks. After discovering a new weapon with powerful lethality, it must be copied and cracked.

Even if there is no such opportunity, as long as the Holy Radiance Empire continues to invest gold coins in research, the manufacturing process of the magic crystal cannon can be kept secret for up to five or ten years.

After all, the magical civilization level of the Holy Radiance Empire is already very high. Even if you see the real thing from a distance, you can figure out some of it with many technologies.

In fact, the reason why the magicians of the Holy Radiance Empire quickly cracked the magic crystal cannon manufacturing process was that they had already laid the foundation, and only the last step was left.

In the past eight years, Richard's eldest daughter Margaret has been promoted to the ninth ring. He was promoted to the ninth ring at the age of thirty-four, a little faster than Richard and Sophia.

Many people in the Harland Mage Association have advanced, including Annie who has also been promoted to the ninth level, Bella and Butler have been promoted to the eighth level, and Harrison, Berika, and Dilson have been promoted to the seventh level.

Richard was also promoted to the second level of Legend last year.

After being promoted to the second level of legend, Richard engraved the second legendary spell in the spiritual space.

This spell is called Phoenix Flame.

The Phoenix has many names. Monks like to call it Phoenix, priests call it Sunbird, and wizards name it Arcane Ashes.

In the ancient wizard era, the Dawn Plane was also called the White Tower Plane. It was rumored that there was a population of phoenixes at that time, and they were the partners of the White Tower Rule Wizards.

After entering the age of the Seven Gods, phoenixes have become very rare. It is said that the God of the Fire Element has extended an olive branch to them. These beautiful and deadly creatures have become followers of the God of the Fire Element and have long since left this world.

Legend has it that the sky they fly through will leave behind brilliant firelight, and when they land, everything will be reduced to ashes, and the flames on their bodies will only be extinguished at the moment of death.

Phoenix Flame is a public legendary spell template that is widely circulated in the Dawn Plane. It is rumored that this spell is a blood spell of the Phoenix race, and its lethality is very impressive.

As long as it is contaminated even a little, it can cause hundreds of degrees of damage, and even the soul will be destroyed.

Phoenix Flame is a legendary fire-attributed large-scale destructive spell that can directly summon a sea of ​​​​fire two thousand meters away. A single spell can destroy an infantry brigade, and its lethality is only slightly worse than that of a star bomb.

After being promoted to the second level of Legend, Richard's mental power increased to 91 points, and his magic power increased to 2184 points. Although it is not comparable to demigods and gods, it is already extraordinary among legendary magicians.

Most of the legendary third-level magicians are weaker than Richard.

The legendary fourth-level mage is very rare in the plane of dawn.

At this time, there are already many ninth-level magicians in the Harland Mage Association. Wendy and Undine are preparing to break through to the legendary realm, while Anne and Margaret have not been able to break through the ninth level for a long time and need to accumulate for a while.

After eight years of development, the official members of the Harland Mage Association have exceeded 4,000, and the number of apprentices has increased to 50,000.

Every year, the Mage Association can add four to five hundred magicians.

The number of people increasing in one year is almost comparable to that of neighboring countries.

Three years ago, Wilde took a bottle of eukaryotic potion and was promoted to a legendary knight. Now he has replaced Sylph and is stationed in the red moon plane for rotation, serving as the commander of the red moon plane garrison.

Viscount Rand in the north of Priland also broke through the bottleneck and was promoted to a legendary warrior. Together with Wilde and Rand, the Kingdom of Harland already has eight legendary professionals. This does not include Richard's father William, who also reached a higher level three years ago and broke through to the second level of legend.

Jennings was promoted faster than William, breaking through to the second level of Legend six years ago.

Although the lifespan of elves is much longer than that of humans, their promotion to professional levels is relatively slow. Whether they are pure-blood elves like Sylph or half-elves such as Sutton and Undine, they have not been promoted to professional levels in more than ten years.

Soros slacked off a bit after being promoted to Legend and no longer insisted on practicing breathing techniques every day. Now that he is over eighty years old, he should really have an easier life in the next thirty or forty years.

Over the past eight years, Richard's eldest son Philip has given birth to four children with Vivian. The two grew up together and were childhood sweethearts. After marriage, they had a very good relationship and contributed to the development and growth of the Harland family.

If all family members are like aunt Wendy and sister Margaret who do not fall in love or get married, the rule of the Harland family will end in one or two generations.

The second son Rex is eighteen years old, but because he is a quarter elf, he looks younger than his peers.

The eighteen-year-old prince had already reached the time of engagement.

The princes of the royal family have a very small circle of marriage choices. Rex's wife can only be chosen from the princesses of the nearby kingdoms and the legitimate daughters of the great nobles in the territory.

Among several nearby countries, the Kingdom of Harland has closer relations with Grant and Stanik.

The eldest son Philip has been married to the Grant Kingdom, and the second son Rex cannot be chosen in the Grant Kingdom. However, there is no princess of the right age in the Grand Duchy of Stanik, so Rex's marriage partner can only be selected within the territory.

There is indeed a suitable candidate within the territory of the Kingdom of Harland.

The first is Rex's uncle, the Duke of Sutton, who has a daughter of the right age, Windsor.

Windsor is Rex's cousin. She is thirty-six years old, two years older than Margaret. According to human age, the two of them are really not suitable for each other.

But Windsor has three-quarters of elven blood, and will live for more than four hundred years. At the age of more than 30 years, she looks like a girl of 14 or 15 years old.

According to general circumstances, the life spans of Ricks and Windsor are quite far apart, so they are not suitable for marriage. After all, Rex's lifespan is only 156 years old. After he dies, Windsor will still be a widow for many years.

But whether it is Undine, Sutton, or Sylph, they all have plans to get the cousins ​​to get closer.

Secondly, Jennings’ second daughter is one year younger than Ricks. She is Ricks’ cousin and is also a good candidate.

Today, the Kingdom of Harland only has one duke and three earls. With the merits of Wilde and Rand, they are still a little short of being promoted to earls.

The remaining two major nobles, Luomen and Soros, have no suitable candidates.

Luo Men was already very old and had been in bed for three or four years. Once he died of illness, a bloody battle for the title would inevitably break out within the family.

Moreover, Luo Men himself did not have a daughter of the right age, so for Rex to marry Luo Men's granddaughter, there was a huge difference in status. Richard also didn't want his son to get involved in the battle for the title of the Luomen family.

Soros does have a daughter of the right age, but she is not his legitimate daughter, and her status is quite different. Besides, after getting married, the seniority becomes a bit confusing.

The marriage of nobles in the Dawn Plane does not care much about seniority. The nobles are all relatives.

It is common for somewhat perverted nobles like the Jonathan family to ensure the purity of their blood.

But Richard's soul came from another world, and he formed a complete three views after traveling through time. Even after being in this world for half a century, many of his ideas are still deeply ingrained and cannot be changed.

There are two candidates for marriage, and Richard asks Rex for his opinion.

In a centralized feudal country like the Kingdom of Harland, nobility could not have the conditions for free love. Since you enjoy the rights brought by the nobles, you must fulfill the obligations of marriage.

Free love in the Dawn Plane is synonymous with cowardice and irresponsibility, which will make the mainstream of society look down upon and bring shame to the family's reputation.

Ricks has received this kind of education since he was a child, and he has no idea of ​​free love subconsciously. He directly chose his cousin Windsor, whom he was more familiar with and more familiar with.

Ricks made his choice, and Richard immediately picked a date and made an engagement.

Shortly after Rex's engagement, Richard received information and prepared to attack the legendary white dragon's lair north of the Samba River.

This legendary white dragon is an old female dragon that has been entrenched in the northern part of the Samba River estuary for more than five hundred years. It has always been a trouble for the orcs in the past.

After the leader Harland defeated the orcs, he only managed the Puliland area at first, which was still far away from the legendary white dragon's lair. The two sides lived in peace for many years.

Later, when he built Haikou Castle at the mouth of the Samba River, he had an entanglement with this legendary third-level female dragon.

As the Kingdom of Harland expanded to the east of Pryland, the conflict between the two sides became more intense.

In recent years, this white dragon, along with the black dragon that was severely damaged by Richard and MacMillan, commanded its bipedal flying dragons to attack towns and villages in the Kingdom of Harland many times, causing more than 10,000 casualties.

Because the legendary white dragon has an elite dragon-born army under his command, and it is far away from the core territory, the Harland Kingdom has no trouble with the legendary white dragon.

Now that the legendary Bailong has taken advantage of the situation, Richard decided to solve this hidden danger.

The legendary white dragon's lair is located in a steep mountain stream, surrounded by dense forests for 200 to 300 kilometers. It is far from the core town of the Kingdom of Harland, so it is extremely difficult to send a large army to attack it.

Especially the magic crystal cannon, which cannot be transported to the front line at all.

With two legendary dragons leading the way, Richard did not dare to send his magic airship troops to engage in air combat with them.

After careful consideration, Richard decided to raid from the sea and send an elite force to raid the White Dragon's lair.

The legendary white dragon's lair is close to the sea, twenty or thirty kilometers away from the coastline. Although the nearby coastline is full of cliffs, there are no suitable landing points.

However, the rugged terrain cannot hold back the elite professional army at all.

After making preparations, Richard led 600 elite infantry, 200 magicians, 200 lion knights, a total of 1,000 elites, to attack the legendary white dragon's lair.