Chapter 30: Highland Meditation

Richard did not alert others when he returned to Harden Castle.

Richard went to Fort Vick last night, but he did not receive any combat mission today.

Outsiders are not aware of his visit to Fort Vick for the time being.

The reason why Richard got the upper hand and obtained the family background of Baron Stopa was that his position was the most critical reason.

After defeating the Wald Battalion, Fort Vick was empty.

In fact, only a few officers such as Richard, Diara, Owen, and Ron could seize this opportunity.

Richard's brain turned the fastest, and he took action immediately that night, and then he got the inheritance of the Baron family.

After a day of rest, Richard received the battle report.

Baron Harden, Lieutenant Colonel Marvin and Captain Sharp defeated the Silver Moon Wolf Cavalry Battalion, and Gunderson could only flee to the Eagle Mountains with the remnants of the defeated army.

The battle on the defense line of the Pratos Mountains finally ended ahead of schedule.

After the battle on the Pratos Line, Baron Harden joined Lieutenant Colonel Marvin and went to the Flame Castle for reinforcement. The Eighth Battalion stayed behind to rest in Harden Castle and was responsible for the defense in this direction.

After two months of continuous fighting, the Eighth Battalion suffered heavy losses. Now the strongest forces are the Sixth Squadron commanded by Diara and the temporary squadron commanded by Richard.

Captain Sharp came to Harden Castle and brought new appointments.

Richard was transferred to the captain of the Seventh Squadron, and his eldest brother Ron took over Richard's position as the deputy captain of the Sixth Squadron.

The Seventh Squadron is a newly formed squadron. It was originally insufficient in terms of troops. Most of the soldiers were killed or injured in the battle, and the former squadron leader was also killed in the subsequent battle.

Now there are only more than 20 soldiers in the Seventh Squadron.

However, these more than 20 soldiers have participated in the defense of the city for more than two months. Although their physical fitness is not good, they are already veterans who have participated in hard battles in their mentality.

The temporary squadron commanded by Richard are all recovered wounded soldiers, mainly soldiers from the Eighth Battalion, and some wounded soldiers from the Legion Reconnaissance Battalion.

The temporary squadron is now the most complete. Captain Sharp only gave Richard 30 soldiers and asked him to take them to the Seventh Squadron.

Hayden followed Richard this time and was transferred to the Seventh Squadron. With Richard's care, although Hayden's strength was not strong, he was not in the focus of the battle every time.

When encountering a tough battle, Richard would go into battle himself and let Hayden stay in the rear. After several months of fighting, Hayden was intact in the battle.

There was a serious shortage of troops, and Captain Sharp recruited hundreds of new soldiers from the refugees to supplement the losses of the Eighth Battalion.

Richard took the soldiers to the Seventh Squadron and found that the Seventh Squadron was in good condition. There were more than 50 veterans in total, and the combat effectiveness was estimated to be second only to the Sixth Squadron. The previous main squadron was crippled this time, and 70 to 80 percent were new recruits.

It is estimated that the Eighth Battalion will need two or three years of training to restore its combat effectiveness.

In the next battle, the Eighth Battalion can only undertake the tasks of the second and third lines. The Corps Headquarters did not transfer them to the main battlefield, but stayed in the direction of Pratos for rest.

Now the seventh and sixth squadrons have the strongest combat effectiveness, and Captain Sharp asked these two squadrons to enter the Pratos fortress group.

The remaining main forces are stationed in Harden Castle, seizing the time to train and restore combat effectiveness.

With the books found in Baron Stopa's castle, Richard and the seventh squadron once again entered Castle No. 3.

Castle No. 3 changed hands several times, and the city defense fortifications were damaged a lot, and part of the city wall collapsed.

After entering the castle, Richard organized training while repairing the city defense. Time passed quickly for more than a month and entered August.

In the past month, rewards from the Legion Headquarters have also been issued.

Ordinary soldiers have received double military pay, and officers at the first level of the squadron have a bounty of 20 gold coins.

The most important thing is the military merit. The canyon ambush commanded by Diara and Richard completely wiped out the three squadrons of the Wald Battalion, which played a key role in the victory of the Pratos defense line.

For this victory, the two squadron captains were awarded three medium merits each.

In addition, Captain Diara reinforced the Platos Castle and helped to defeat the orc commander Gunderson, winning a medium merit. Richard led 20 cavalrymen to defeat half of the orc squadron and won a medium merit.

Richard cooperated with the soldier Dida to kill the fifth-level lion-headed man Wald, and was rewarded with two medium merits for Richard and one medium merit for Dida.

Including Richard's killing of the orc professional, this battle accumulated six medium merits and three small merits.

After the entire war this year, Richard has accumulated one major merit and three small merits.

After Ron became a professional, he made two small merits in the subsequent battles, but Hayden still did not make any merit.

Now we are still in the war, and many areas cannot communicate.

Even the situation of his father William is not clear to Richard.

It can only be determined through general intelligence analysis to determine whether it is safe.

According to the war report now, the main castles such as Black River Castle, Flame Castle, and Eagle Castle have not been lost.

However, the fortresses on the southern foot of the Eagle Mountains suffered heavy losses. Some of these fortresses were noble territories, while others were castles directly under the Kingdom, where the main force of the Northern Legion was stationed.

The second brother Barron was in the Grizzly Legion, which was far away from the Mad Lion Legion, and Richard knew even less about the situation there.

Barron's position was relatively low and his strength was not very strong. In such a cruel war, the grassroots officers suffered particularly heavy losses.

After the war started, Richard did not receive any letters from his family. He also did not know whether his father William, his third uncle Bernie, and his second brother Barron had made any military achievements?

William has accumulated a lot of military merits. If he gains something this year, the family merits will be enough to be awarded hereditary nobility.

Living in the Kingdom of Grant, without a noble title, you are inferior to others everywhere.

In the past month, Richard either trained with soldiers in the morning and handled military affairs, repaired the city walls with soldiers in the afternoon, and read magic books at night.

This magic book is called "Charlotte Explains Thirteen Common Spells". In addition to recording the complete meditation method, it also records thirteen common spells.

Through the preface of the book, Richard knew that Charlotte was a local magician.

Active before the establishment of the Kingdom of Grant, around 2000 in the Dawn Calendar.

It has been more than 1,200 years now.

Charlotte is a leader of the magic organization Highland Mage Association.

The meditation method recorded in this magic book is very advanced and complete. This set of meditation methods is called Highland Meditation Method. There are twelve chapters in total, which is enough to practice to a nine-ring magician.

But the number of spells is relatively small, only thirteen. Nine of them are low-level magic, the other three are four-ring magic, and one is five-ring magic.

For a magician, the more magic he mastered, the stronger his ability to adapt to complex environments and fight.

Thirteen kinds of magic are far from enough for a magician.

Because of the busy military affairs, he mainly focused on reading magic books, which even affected his breathing practice. His skills did not improve much, which was reflected in the fact that his experience points did not increase much in more than a month.