Chapter 290 Installing the Portal
After the new soldiers' drill, they were immediately assigned to various armies.
The 4,000 soldiers recruited this year have completed their training. According to the plan of the General Staff, after the Goddess' Birthday Festival, the Harland Territory will plan to recruit another 4,000 new soldiers.
Based on past experience, the orcs will invade again next year, and the Harland Territory will inevitably face a war.
In the last war, the orcs suffered heavy losses in the direction of the Harland Territory. Richard led his soldiers to annihilate an orc legion and was promoted to earl based on his merits.
The orcs have a strong desire for revenge and like to attack enemies who emerge. Especially the newly promoted nobles are often targeted by the orcs, making them unable to gain a foothold.
When Martins was just promoted to earl, the orcs sent a legion to attack and captured the Martins Earldom. Even the Roger Earldom lost most of its territory in that battle, and almost followed the footsteps of the Martins Earldom.
The orcs have good intelligence capabilities. Although they suffered heavy losses last time because of their high self-esteem, they should learn from their lessons this time and send more soldiers to attack the Harland Territory.
Moreover, the Jonathan family has drawn two legions to enter the Grand Duchy of Stannic. Although the Harland Territory has expanded its army by 9,000 and the Iron Lion Legion has expanded its army by 8,000, the northern border defense line has lost more than 20,000 soldiers.
According to Richard's estimation, the orcs will definitely focus on the Harland Territory in this battle, and it is possible that the orc legend will appear in the Harland Territory in person.
According to the plan of the General Staff, the situation next year will be very tight.
Moreover, as long as there is a war, there will be losses. If there are losses, these 4,000 new recruits are prepared to make up for the losses.
Now the economy of the Harland Territory is running well, and it can actually continue to expand its army.
However, due to the actual situation of the territory, if the quality is strictly required, the territory can only train a maximum of 4,000 soldiers a year, and continuing to expand can only reduce the training level.
Richard is unwilling to include soldiers who are just filling in the numbers. In the Dawn Plane, elite soldiers decide the war. Although the number of soldiers is useful, it is simply not enough to compete with a powerful professional army.
The Grant Kingdom has nearly 400,000 regular troops. If a war breaks out, it is estimated that it will not be able to defeat the Holy Glorious Empire's several hundred-man Wyvern Cavalry Regiment. Because the Wyvern Cavalry Regiment has the initiative in the war and can attack scattered enemies at any time.
Years of war practice have made everyone attach great importance to elite troops. The noble lords will only expand the size of the army when there is no other way, rather than building elite troops.
If Richard had a few hundred lion cavalry and one or two thousand Warcraft cavalry under his command, he would naturally not need to train a large number of new recruits to expand the number of troops.
However, there are only a few lion cavalry under his command. Although the Warcraft cavalry is fully expanded, there are only 450 of them, including those incorporated into the reconnaissance unit. Although the Harland Territory has sufficient financial resources and can continue to purchase Warcraft horses, qualified officers and cavalry cannot be trained in a short time.
The external situation did not give the Harland Territory a chance to slowly expand its elite troops. The situation in several countries near the Grant Kingdom is severe, and the power of the Orc Empire in this area is even stronger. Several countries are still under attack by orcs, and a large number of infantry are needed to guard the strongholds and fortresses. Therefore, both the Grant royal family and Duke Jonathan need to build a large number of infantry. The same is true for the Harland family, which needs a large number of infantry.
The recruits have not completed the training, and their combat effectiveness is not good at all. I am afraid that they are only better than the conscripted serfs.
In the war next year, as long as it is not the last moment, the General Staff of the Harland Territory will not allow soldiers who have not completed the training to participate in the war.
The plans made by the General Staff are often the worst-case plans, which are not necessarily accurate.
Special arms cannot be established in a short time. If you want to protect the territory, the only choice is to expand the cheapest ordinary infantry to maintain the stability of the front line.
After watching the drill of the recruits, Richard returned to the official residence.
Last year, more than 200,000 people were eaten. This year, this force was integrated into the Harland Territory. The territory ushered in a great development, and its strength surpassed the earldom in the south.
Even the Harland Mage Association is the same. As the population increases, the number of children with magical talents will also increase. In the spring of this year, five primary schools have added six new members to the Harland Mage Association.
Next year, Richard plans to build the sixth primary school and purchase the second crystal ball for detecting magic qualifications from the Grant Mage Association to continue to expand the detection range, train more magic apprentices, and provide nutrients for the Harland Mage Association.
Throughout this year, the Harland Territory is still recruiting talents. Nolan's store has been advertising continuously, and successfully recruited three low-level magicians and six or seven magic apprentices.
Including the people recruited in recent years, the Harland Mage Association has more than 100 members, including reserve members, and ranks seventh in the Grant Kingdom, surpassing the two duchies of Loran and Gis.
Compared with the rigid and conservative systems of other great nobles, the development of the Harland Mage Association is very amazing.
At the normal speed of development, it is estimated that it will not take a few years to surpass the Grant Mage Association and become the center of magic research in the Grant Kingdom.
After killing the Necromancer Savio and annihilating the ogre tribe, the Harland Territory seized very valuable spoils.
The ogre skin had been made into enchanted armor by Richard and distributed to the second brigade.
This enchanted armor has a strong smell and smells a bit foul, but its defense is better than snake scale armor, and Richard has added a magic shield. As long as the fighting spirit is released, an invisible shield can be formed outside the ogre leather armor. This magic shield is good at defending against magic attacks. In general, the value of the ogre enchanted armor exceeds the snake scale armor, and it is the same as the super magic metal enchanted armor produced by Harland Territory.
Although Harland Territory has mastered the manufacturing technology of brute force armor and light armor, it is limited by the production of blood steel and mountain copper, and can only produce dozens of pieces each year.
Moreover, in order to keep the technology confidential, Richard is not at ease with outsiders mastering the manufacturing technology of enchanted armor. Like the alchemical bomb, the technology is mastered by several core members of Harland Territory.
After obtaining the royal seal and signing the anti-leakage contract, Richard taught the rune engraving technology to outsiders, and the production of enchanted armor gradually increased.
Up to now, Harland Territory has produced a total of 600 pieces of enchanted armor, most of which are concentrated in the first brigade and several backbone squadrons, while ogre leather armor is equipped in the second brigade.
Compared with the various advantages of ogre leather armor, the soldiers don't care about its shortcomings at all. After all, in a dangerous battlefield, survivability is the foundation, and everyone doesn't care about the smell of ogre leather armor. People on the battlefield can endure any bad environment.
Sometimes even going to the toilet, you have to hold back and poop in your crotch.
In addition to ogre skin, the ogre's brain was refined into a deep meditation potion by the priest of the Dawn Church and distributed to the twelve branches of Harland Territory.
This potion can allow magicians to enter deep meditation, and it also has a great auxiliary effect on the advancement of high-level mage apprentices to magicians.
After getting the potion, Richard communicated with other magicians in the Mage Association and left it all to the high-level mage apprentices.
After the high-level mage apprentices used it, nine people succeeded in advancement. Including nine new magicians, the Harland Mage Association has more than 40 formal members.
After more than ten years of training by Richard, the magic power of the Harland Territory has become quite strong, although the backbone is not very good.
The Harland Territory also got some of the magic cores of the ogres. Richard, Sofia and other senior executives did not intervene in these dozen magic cores, and all of them were given to the magicians who participated in the war, so that they also made a profit.
The function of magic core is similar to that of magic crystal.
The Harland Territory has mastered the magic crystal charging technology and can charge more than a thousand standard magic crystals every year.
Relying on the magic crystal charging technology, the Harland Territory is not short of magic crystals, and can even take out some magic crystals for magicians to do research. Even scientific research units such as the Materials Research Institute and the Magic Biology Research Institute sometimes apply for magic crystals to conduct some special research.
The value of the materials on the ogres is already good, and the necromancer Savio has seized treasures of higher value.
First of all, the space altar and the teleportation gate are extremely valuable to a magic organization.
With the space altar and teleportation, the intermediate magicians in the Harland territory can master the teleportation spell.
With this spell, the magician has an extra backup near the magician tower.
Moreover, the space altar and the teleportation gate can also form a teleportation array. If the teleportation array can be successfully built, even if the cost is very high and it cannot transport bulk materials, it will greatly promote the economic exchanges between the two regions.
Since the seizure of the teleportation altar, the Harland Mage Association has held a meeting to study and finally decided to build the teleportation gate in the Flame Tower.
By mid-September, the space altar and the teleportation gate had been installed, and Richard and Sophia personally tested the short-distance teleportation spell.
This spell has a teleportation distance of ten kilometers. As long as the coordinates of the space altar are engraved in the mental space, this magic can be used within a ten-kilometer range to immediately appear near the space altar.
With the space altar and the teleportation gate, it is of great help to the travel of middle and high-level magicians.
After all, in addition to the four-ring magic short-distance teleportation, there are also the seven-ring magic medium-distance teleportation and the nine-ring magic long-distance teleportation, with a teleportation distance of 30 kilometers and about 100 kilometers respectively.
A radius of 100 kilometers can cover about 31,400 square kilometers of territory. In addition to the eastern county of Grota River, it can cover most of the territory of the southern foot of the Eagle Mountains.
After entering the legend, there is also a legendary teleportation with a teleportation distance of more than 300 kilometers. A space altar can cover more than 270,000 square kilometers of land.
The portal has been built and the space altar has been installed.
The Harland Territory Mage Association began to deal with the most valuable legendary dragon crystals.
The legendary dragon crystal contains huge magic power and can be made into powerful magic props of legendary level. Even if it is placed in the Markholm Magic Kingdom, it is still a treasure of extremely high value.
However, the most effective way to use this legendary energy source is to serve as the energy core of the mage tower and create an artificial magic well, which is the greatest help to a magic organization.
Richard already has the Starlight Necklace, and has no shortage of powerful attack methods. In addition, his magic level is not enough to refine legendary magic props.
As for inviting powerful magicians to make legendary magic props, Richard has no channels and no trust, so he doesn't even consider it.
In order to use the legendary dragon crystal as soon as possible, the construction of the third magic tower has been put on the agenda. Sophia and Wendy have been busy with this matter for the past six months.
After many discussions, the third magic tower was decided to be built in Fort William.
After all, Fort William is the core of the Harland territory. Building the Mage Tower in Fort William is not only very convenient, but also can strengthen the defense of Fort William, which is a two-pronged approach.
In December, the Harland Mage Association once again received good news. Wendy was successfully promoted to a five-ring magician.
Throughout this year, many people in the Harland Mage Association have been successfully promoted. In addition to Wendy, Annie was also promoted to a three-ring magician in November.
Even Sophia has completed the meditation progress and is preparing to advance to a seven-ring magician after the Goddess' Birthday. Although it is more difficult to advance to a high-level professional, Sophia is very confident.
If it weren't for the fact that Philip wasted too much time, Sophia's meditation speed would have completed the advancement last winter.
It has been six and a half years since Sophia was promoted to a six-ring magician. She is a high-level talent, and normally she can complete the meditation progress in five years. Even though having a child delayed her time, Sophia also did a lot of very valuable research, and the feedback from meditation was very good. The reason why the advancement speed was slowed down was that Sophia spent a lot of time on deducing the Highland Meditation Method, which delayed a lot of effort.
The Highland Meditation Method can only be promoted to the ninth level. If you want to be promoted to a legendary professional, you need to complete the meditation method to the legendary level.
The collection of meditation methods in Harland Territory is relatively rich, including the legendary fourth-level Star Meditation Method, the legendary second-level Book of Death, and the Highland Meditation Method that can be cultivated to the ninth ring, and the No. 4 Meditation Method for Ogres.
In addition, Richard also deduced and created the Book of Flame and the Book of Curse. The deduction of the Book of Flame went smoothly. Richard has deduced this meditation method to the ninth level and can be cultivated to the sixth level.
The progress of the Book of Curse is slower. It has just been deduced to the seventh level and can only be cultivated to the fourth ring.
The creation of two meditation methods confirmed many of Richard's ideas. After many exchanges with Sophia, he decided to work together to deduce the legendary meditation method.
The legendary meditation method involves the root of magic, and there can be no mistakes when meditating, so the two of them are very cautious when deducing, and it may take a long time.
Starting this year, Richard no longer has time to deduce the Book of Fire and the Book of Curse.
Butler has a superior magic qualification and advances very quickly. He practices the Book of Curse, and the deduction of this meditation method can only rely on himself. Harland Territory has adopted an inclusive attitude towards knowledge and opened magic books to him. As long as he makes enough contributions, Butler can copy the No. 4 Meditation Method and the Book of Death Meditation Method.
As for the strongest Star Meditation Method, because it involves the traverser, Richard has to keep a hand.