Chapter 212 Magic Elements
The brain of the ogre can be used to make a deep meditation potion. Unfortunately, the Harland Territory does not have the formula for the deep meditation potion.
This material can be sold at a high price of more than 300 gold coins in the Markholm Magic Kingdom, but it can only be sold for about 200 gold coins when sold to the Grant Kingdom Mage Association.
The Markholm Magic Kingdom is more than 10,000 kilometers away from Fort William. Even if you ride a fast horse, it takes more than half a year to go back and forth.
Moreover, there are many dangerous areas along the way, and you need to follow a large-scale noble caravan to pass through, which may delay a year.
Richard needs to manage the territory and cannot leave the territory for too long. Although Sophia is very familiar with the road, Margaret is still young and cannot leave the child for too long.
Among the three magicians of the Harland family, only Wendy has time to go to the Markholm Magic Kingdom.
I heard that a war broke out in the Kingdom of Saint Gruy halfway, and the road was not safe. Richard was also worried about Wendy passing through the war-torn country alone.
In desperation, he could only temporarily endure the exploitation of the Grant Mage Association and sold the raw materials cheaply.
After returning to Fort William, Richard continued to deduce the Book of Fire. Including the No. 4 Meditation Method practiced by the Ogre, Richard has read four advanced meditation methods, which can be regarded as knowledgeable.
Especially the Starlight Meditation Method, which is a super meditation method that can be practiced to the fourth-level legend.
Every time he reads and studies this meditation method, Richard can't help but admire the breadth of knowledge and the profound thinking of Shao Gongyuan, the creator of this meditation method.
Every person with magic talent has different affinity for various elements.
In the Dawn Plane, according to the theory of ancient magicians, there are more than a dozen magic elements such as wind, fire, water, earth, light, darkness, lightning, stars, and soul.
The so-called magic elements refer to various different magic energy particles.
The Highland Meditation Method practiced by Richard mainly absorbs earth elements and wind elements.
But the element with the highest affinity of Richard is precisely the soul element, followed by the light element. His affinity for earth and wind elements is very average, so the effect of meditation is not very good. If it weren't for the help of killing power, he might not be able to advance to the intermediate magician so quickly.
Sofia's elemental affinity is the highest for water element, followed by wind element, and Wendy's elemental affinity is the highest for earth element.
When Richard just started learning magic, he didn't even know the common sense of magic. He finally got a magic book, so he naturally practiced it.
Once a magician chooses a path, it is difficult to change the path of learning and meditation.
If Richard practiced meditation methods such as the Book of Light and the Book of Holy Light, the effect of meditation would be much better.
Although he has the highest affinity for soul elements, because the three views formed in his previous life conflict with the cognition of soul magic, he learns soul magic very slowly and is not suitable for the path of soul magician and necromancer.
Now that Richard has created the Book of Fire, children with high affinity for fire elements in the territory can choose to practice meditation in the Book of Fire.
A large magic organization must have meditation methods of various attributes. Only in this way can we teach students in accordance with their aptitude and quickly cultivate mature magicians.
Only when each generation of magicians can innovate can magic civilization make progress and develop.
I heard from Sofia that Albert Sacco, the chairman of the Magic Council, has completed the deduction of two legendary meditation methods.
Although the fourth meditation method is very rough, it is closer to the essence of magic.
By reading the fourth meditation method, Richard gradually had new ideas. Then, through brainstorming and listening to other people's ideas, he began to deduce the Book of Fire.
By winter, Richard had deduced to the seventh level. The meditation method that can be cultivated to the fourth ring has a certain value even in the Markholm Magic Kingdom, and can be exchanged for a lot of magic crystals.
In recent months, in addition to deducing the meditation method, Richard also took the time to make a batch of enchanted leather armor.
The enchanted armor made of ogre skin is of higher quality than snake scale armor.
More than 40 ogres can be made into about 100 pieces of armor by peeling off their skin.
Richard equipped all of these 100 pieces of armor to the First Squadron to strengthen the fist in his hand.
Now there are 16 professionals in the First Squadron, and the veterans are all enchanted armor. When the war breaks out, the squadron will also be equipped with 30 pieces of brute force armor and 20 pieces of light armor.
Every veteran who has been in the army for more than five years has an enchanted long sword. There are more than 30 archers in the First Squadron, equipped with enchanted bows and crossbows.
These archers have reached the third level of archery.
The combat effectiveness of the First Squadron is second only to the Warcraft Cavalry Squadron. Because of the large number of people in the battle between the two armies, the combat effectiveness is superior to that of the Orcs' Snake-Body Heavy Infantry Squadron.
The snake-body scale armor replaced by the First Squadron was strengthened in the Second and Third Squadrons.
Although the combat effectiveness of these two squadrons is much weaker than that of the First Squadron, they are also the main squadrons of the Harland Territory, equipped with more than 100 pieces of enchanted armor and 30 pieces of magic armor.
Three squadrons with less than 500 elite soldiers, combined with alchemical bombs, are strong enough to compete with the orc brigade.
By this winter, Richard had counted that there were already 186 professionals in the Harland Territory Army.
In the event of war, the mage group, medical group, and church priest group will be strengthened, and the total number of professionals is estimated to reach more than 200.
In less than ten years, the number of professionals in the territory has exceeded 200, and the development speed is very fast. The accumulation of Viscount Sisse's territory for sixty years cannot be compared with the territory of Harland.
Just when Richard was busy, the legendary ogre Gresso received the news that the ogre tribe was annihilated in the west of the Eagle Mountains.
The ogre tribe annihilated by Richard was the descendant of Gresso.
Especially the ogre magician Tagrat, who was the youngest son of the legendary ogre Gresso.
Because he loved this youngest son very much, Gresso gave him such a precious treasure as the lightning staff.
Unexpectedly, Gresso had just let Tagrat go out for training, and was annihilated by the territory of Harland. It is rumored that even the skin on his body was made into armor by humans.
After hearing the news, although Gresso was very angry, he did not let his anger cloud his mind and rashly went down the mountain to seek revenge on the territory of Harland.
Gresso has been able to stand firm in the Eagle Mountains for many years. He is very wise, and he is very good at judging the situation and has a deep study of geopolitics.
After discovering that Tagrat was dead, he immediately thought that humans had set a trap at the foot of the mountain and wanted to ambush and kill him after he came down the mountain.
Although he was furious, Greso's response was very organized. He first notified the human spies hidden in the Duke of Edward's territory and asked them to collect detailed intelligence on the Harland territory. After collecting the intelligence, he decided whether to take action?
Although Greso likes to eat people, he is very good at using human spies. He has been dealing with the Duke of Edward for hundreds of years, and Greso's intelligence network has completed the infiltration of the Duke of Edward's territory.
Through coercion, inducement, magic control and other means, some people who serve the legendary ogre even come from the Duke of Edward's family.
Through the Duke of Edward's intelligence network, Greso quickly got some intelligence on the Harland territory.
After getting the intelligence, Greso deliberately kept his troops still and observed for a while. After discovering that it was not a trap, he was ready to take revenge on the Harland family.
With this idea, Greso began to draw people.
It is difficult for ogres to reproduce. There are only a few dozen ogre tribes in the western part of the Eagle Mountains, with a total population of about 2,000 people.
Although ogres are powerful individually, they are too small to be a match for a dukedom.
A dukedom has at least one main army, two garrison army, at least one million people, and a large number of professionals.
If Duke Edward is determined to wipe out the ogres, he can still eliminate his opponents as long as he is willing to pay a certain price.
However, the ogres have legends as their backers. If they cannot solve the legendary ogres and wipe out the ogre tribe, they will cause great trouble.
Greyso is determined to seek revenge on Duke Edward, but Duke Edward may not be able to prevent him.
After all, there is no reason to guard against thieves for a thousand days. As long as you relax a little, you will be killed by the legendary ogres hiding in the dark.
Legendary terrorists are difficult to defend against even a kingdom.
Duke Edward is unwilling to offend a legend until the last moment.
The most critical problem is that the Grant Kingdom does not have a legendary prophecy mage who can set traps to hunt down legendary opponents.
In order to plot against the legendary magician Elena of the Venus family, Duke Brena even used the method of pretending to be dead, but still failed to completely kill the opponent.
This method can only be used once, and it will be difficult to get the opponent to take the bait next time.
Greso has drawn 500 ogres to prepare for a surprise attack on the Harland territory.
He had just entered the Geda Province when he suddenly felt a strong palpitation, and a strong sense of crisis suddenly emerged in his heart, as if a disaster was about to happen.
As a legendary magician, Greso has several special talents, one of which is the same as Richard, which is danger perception.
The greater the perceived danger, the greater the fear in the heart.
Greso has been a legend for nearly a hundred years, and he has only felt this terrible feeling two or three times.
After the danger perception talent gave an alarm, Greso immediately abandoned the ogres under his command and quickly returned to his nest. It was not until this terrible feeling disappeared that the pressure in his heart was relieved a little.
The ancestors had all fled, and the remaining ogres were not fools. They immediately noticed something unusual and chose to retreat.
In fact, the reason why the legendary ogre felt the danger was because Richard had the Starlight Necklace on him.
The Starlight Necklace came with the legendary magic Starlight Bomb.
The Starlight Bomb was the iconic magic created by the fourth-level legendary Shao Gongyuan, and it was very lethal.
If this magic was used well, it could threaten the life of the legendary ogre.
It happened that the legendary ogre Greyso had a talent for danger perception, and he was a cunning and cautious person.
After sensing the danger, he ran away without caring about his face.
The legendary ogres had all fled, and the remaining ogres would of course secretly speculate, and they did not even enter the Harland territory, but returned to the west of the Eagle Mountains.
Richard had survived a crisis in his confusion. He had no idea about all this.
This crisis was over before it even began.
This year, more than 47,000 people poured into the territory.
With such a huge influx of population, the protection of the territory's living and production resources became a very critical task.
The vast majority of these 47,000 people were placed in the two baronies of Stopa and Diram.
More than 360,000 mu of farmland has been reclaimed in the two baronies. Including the original population of Stopa Territory, the two baronies now have a population of 70,000.
Richard looked at the atlas. The two southernmost territories have the best agricultural conditions. If all the wasteland is developed, another 100,000 mu of farmland can be reclaimed.
In two or three years, there will be no flat wasteland in this area, which is considered mature.
As for the development of terraces on the hills, it requires a very large project. There are still many wastelands in the territory, so it is not necessary to go to this step.
In the hilly terrain, Richard is not going to reclaim terraces, but to cultivate economic crops such as brown sugar, fruit trees, and medicinal materials.
In addition, the hilly terrain is also particularly suitable for ranching and breeding. In recent years, wool textiles have been the largest industry in the territory. If the wool textile industry is well developed, it will make much more money than building terraces to grow food.