Chapter 342: Annihilate the Dragon Vein Kobolds
The Kobold tribe also has a certain magical heritage, and occasionally cultivates a small number of magicians. However, due to the strength, status, and historical background of the Kobolds, their magic level is not very high.
Although the magic level is very average, there is no shortage of spellcasters in the Kobold tribe, because there was once a powerful demigod Imlason among the Kobolds in the Dawn Plane.
This demigod is very powerful, and he is only one step away from igniting the divine fire and being promoted to the God of Kobolds. If there were gods to protect the Kobolds, the status of the Kobolds would be very different. Unfortunately, this demigod was involved in the ancient plane war and is still trapped in the other plane. Although he can still respond to the prayers of believers, he can actually no longer interfere with the actions of the Dawn Plane.
Although the Kobold demigod has been missing for more than 3,800 years. However, the church left by Imlason in the Kobold tribe has been passed down, and it can still rely on the power of the artifact to cultivate priest-type professionals for the Kobolds.
Kobold priests, also known as Kobold priests, can master more than 60 spells stored in the artifacts of Imlason. Although the variety of spells is not as good as that of humans, orcs and elves, more than 60 spells are enough in battle.
Although Kobolds do not have gods, they have accumulated a lot of faith power. Because the number of Kobolds is large and the population size is second only to humans, the faith power accumulated by the church exceeds that of the seven gods of humans.
Because Imlason is not in the Dawn Plane and cannot use the power of faith with maximum efficiency, the Kobold King's Court can only train priests to the ninth level.
The priest profession is different from the magician. How much can be achieved depends on the gods behind.
Imlason was not a god, and he was trapped in a different plane, so he could not train legendary priests at all. Because the church has no legends, the powerful Kobold tribe almost ignores the King's Court.
For example, the legendary Kobold Killam killed by Richard, there are not many priests in the tribe, and all power is in his own hands.
This tribe of kobolds under the command of the legendary black dragon was completely the product of his estrus. Among the dragon vein kobolds, there is the blood of Ramos. When this group of dragon vein kobolds developed to a certain scale, the kobold king court of the Orc Empire came to spread the faith for the god of kobolds and brought the priest inheritance.
Up to now, the kobold priests have mastered a lot of power, and the high priest Latino has been promoted to the eighth level.
Because Richard's magic destructive power is too strong, the two elements of fire and frost collided and collapsed the cave where the dragon vein kobolds lived. In order to ventilate and exchange air, Latino personally directed the operation to dig an exit.
After the dragon vein kobolds occupied this large cave, they almost hollowed out a large part of the mountain, dug out more than a hundred caves, and dug seven or eight passages.
The cave of the dragon vein kobold chief also dug out a window, which can be convenient for viewing the scenery outside the cliff.
The war broke out quite suddenly, and Harland had very powerful scouts, who cleared out the kobolds active nearby before the raid. In addition, due to years of peace, the kobolds reacted very slowly. When they found something unusual, Harland and his soldiers had already blocked six exits of the underground cave. Even the cave where the dragon vein kobolds lived was blocked by the archers.
The seventh-level kobold Masala wanted to open the blockade and organize the dragon vein kobolds to charge, but he died under the cold arrows of the high elves, and many people were killed and injured.
After discovering that something was wrong, the ninth-level dragon vein kobold Pirato changed his strategy and wanted to rely on the complex terrain to defend the cave, and asked for reinforcements from the legendary dragon Ramos.
Unexpectedly, the cave was blown up, and the burning flames consumed a lot of oxygen. With only two windows for ventilation, the oxygen was suddenly insufficient, so Latino could only be sent to lead the team to open the entrance of the cave.
Latino had just completed the task and dug the cave. Richard led the assault team and rushed up fiercely, instantly killing the dragon vein kobolds and forcing them to retreat. Especially the ninth-level half-elf Sano, who was extremely brave and killed six or seven low-level dragon vein kobolds in an instant.
The four sharpshooters, including Sylph and Soros, in the back also pulled the bowstrings to cover Richard's assault team and successfully shot and killed four dragon vein kobolds.
Everyone worked together and launched multiple rounds of attacks, instantly clearing out the helpers around Latino.
Seeing the enemy rushing up and surrounding him, the eighth-level kobold high priest hurriedly released the seventh-ring magic high-level protective force field, and then released the second-ring magic to grease his feet and escape to the depths of the cave.
Anne and Butler, who followed Richard and others, also reacted quickly, and released the grease spell and spider web spell at the same time to restrict Latino's movement.
With the addition of the elves, the Harland Mage Association has greatly increased its strength. Not only has it added an eight-ring elf mage, Undine, but it has also added four mid-level mages, three of whom are elves, and one is a member of the Bolton family, who is the great-grandson of Sano according to his bloodline.
With this group of elves and half-elves, the Harland Mage Association now has three high-level magicians, seven middle-level magicians, fifty-two low-level magicians, and more than two hundred mage apprentices.
In terms of scale, it is not far from the Jonathan family. Because of the mastery of several legendary props, the upper-level power is already stronger than the Jonathan family.
Since William was promoted to hereditary baron, the Harland family has only developed for seventeen years. Richard has been promoted to duke for less than two years, and the mage power he has mastered is close to that of the Jonathan family.
You should know that the Jonathan family has a long history, which can be traced back to the legendary dragon knight Saint Jonathan thousands of years ago. This family has half dragon blood, and Saint Jonathan's direct descendants are all half-dragons.
Even now, the dragon bloodline of the Jonathan family is still very strong, and some members still have some dragon-like traits inherited. For example, Duke Jonathan has three dragon scales on his chest. His eldest son McMillan has two half-foot-long dragon horns on his head.
Because of the dragon bloodline, about one-sixth of the Jonathan family members can awaken magic talents, which is much higher than ordinary people. However, in order to avoid the spread and dilution of the dragon bloodline, the Jonathan family adopted an internal marriage strategy, resulting in a population size far less than that of the royal family, with a total of no more than 2,000 family members.
The Grant royal family, which is also a thousand-year-old family, even if most of the ordinary people with distant bloodlines and no knight bloodline are expelled from the Grant family, the royal family's direct and branch members add up to more than 100,000 people.
Because of the sufficient population size, the Grant Kingdom Mage Association can continuously absorb new blood, with more than 600 members.
According to the current development level of Harland Territory, the number of Harland Mage Association will exceed that of the royal family in another ten years. Even if Richard prohibits publicity and has formulated a certain confidentiality policy, the territory is now open and many outsiders live there. The population size, development level, and number of professionals in the territory cannot be concealed from those who are interested.
If this policy continues to develop, it will inevitably bring a great shock to the Kingdom of Grant.
However, now the Dukedom of Harland has grown into a towering tree. According to the political tradition of the Dawn Plane, other nobles cannot dictate the policies of Harland Territory.
However, in the Noble Council, there have been some voices asking the Harland family to limit the spread of extraordinary knowledge.
Richard ignored these voices.
In the current situation, the Harland family is very important in the northern border, even more important than the royal family and the Jonathan family, and bears the greatest responsibility for defending against orcs. In addition to the achievements in recent years, he has killed legendary professionals twice and made a great reputation in nearby countries. It is impossible for Richard to restrict his hands and feet and slow down the development speed. He does not want to listen to the noise in the Noble Council.
Because of the special territory development policy, Richard had a mediocre relationship with most of the nobles in the Kingdom of Grant and was not very sociable among the nobles.
Even the marriages between the nobles basically bypassed the Harland family, which made Wendy's marriage a difficult problem. Of course, the most important reason was that Wendy herself was not in a hurry and there was no suitable person.
For the nobles of the duke level, because there was very little room for selection of marriage partners, many important family members got married in their thirties and forties.
Wendy is now thirty-two years old, and there are only a few suitable people in the Kingdom of Grant for marriage. She is Richard's sister, and she is a five-ring magician. Her own conditions are too outstanding, and she can't find a suitable young person for marriage.
Richard couldn't get over the psychological barrier of marrying a widowed old nobleman as his wife. He couldn't let his sister become a tool for marriage, so the marriage could only be delayed indefinitely.
Anne and Butler are both fourth-ring magicians. In order to restrict the eighth-level high priest Latino and give others a chance, the spells they cast are all powerful spells.
After the two control spells Grease and Web were released, Latino's movement was successfully restricted.
If it was in the open space outside, Latino might use Flying to escape the siege of the crowd, but in the narrow cave, there was no space for Flying.
Just as Latino was about to release the powerful fourth-ring magic Wall-penetration to penetrate the thick stone wall, Richard's third-ring magic Human Immobilization had already landed on Latino's head.
After awakening the powerful spellcasting talent, Richard's spell power was very strong, and the normal spellcasting power was enough.
This time, in order to prevent the eighth-level dog-headed priest from escaping, Richard rarely used a powerful spell, invested 60 points of magic power, and instantly immobilized Latino, making him unable to move at all.
Richard immobilized Latino, and Sofia immediately released the seventh-ring magic Extreme Cold Ice Blade, and a stream of cold air fiercely hit Latino's protective force field, instantly causing a very large gap in the protective force field.
Sophia opened the protective force field, and Wendy's attack was coming. She held a lightning staff and released a five-ring magic lightning ball.
The lightning ball hit Latino's chest accurately, and the current of up to tens of thousands of volts directly killed him.
Wendy once again made great contributions by successfully killing Latino. Now she has accumulated more than nine great merits and is very close to becoming a baroness.
After Latino's death, the fate of the Dragon Vein Dogheads was doomed.
In the previous and subsequent battles, Harland suffered minimal losses and killed and injured more than 130 Dragon Vein Dogheads. Although there are still 70% of the Dragon Vein Dogheads, their morale has declined to the extreme, and the entrance of the cave is controlled by Harland's officers and soldiers.
Some Dragon Vein Dogheads were ready to climb the window on the cliff to escape, but they were targeted by archers outside and shot to death in mid-air.
A few kobolds who jumped off the cliff from the window were seriously injured and had to face the hunting of the Warcraft Cavalry. They could not escape at all.
Those who hid in the cave and resisted stubbornly were also useless.
After all, the strength was obvious, especially now that Harland led more than ten high-level professionals, while the Dragon Vein Kobolds only had the chieftain Pilato.
After realizing that the situation was not good, Pilato didn't even have time to carry the kobold locker, and jumped out of the window with the Dragon Blood Mirror.
After jumping down from a cliff 100 meters high, even though Pilato had been promoted to the ninth level, his blood was still boiling. Before he could catch his breath, Sylph, who was performing the blockade and cover mission outside the cave, stared at the dog-headed man.
If they fought alone, the two could still have a slight contact, and the dragon vein dog-headed man still had a chance to escape, but Sylph had two high-level elves by his side, and Pilato's fate was doomed.
When Richard led his men to clean up the cave, they found that Pilato's injuries were already very serious. Richard didn't take action to beat the dog when it was down, and soon Pilato died in the hands of the elves.
After killing the ninth-level dragon vein dog-headed man, the Bolton family took another baron territory. Now this half-elf family has seven baron territories, and it is very close to being promoted to earl and becoming a great noble.
If it is counted as a high-level warrior, the power controlled by this half-elf family is a few points stronger than the great nobles of the earl level.
However, in terms of overall strength, the Bolton family's weakness is too obvious. Although their territory is not small, the number of elves is too small. In a regular war, they are not as good as an ordinary viscount territory.
Take the Grant Kingdom as an example. An ordinary viscount territory can pull out two or three thousand soldiers, and the number of professionals is about dozens, and there are one or two high-level professionals. The number of viscount troops is a hundred times that of the elves, and they can also eat this enemy by consumption.
If the elves in the Bolton Viscount Territory exceed one thousand, they can organize an elite elven army of more than three hundred people. With this elite army in hand, it is enough to compete with a duke territory in the forest.
According to the system of the Dawn Plane, the duke's vassal can only be a viscount. Once promoted to an earl, he needs to swear allegiance to the royal family, and take charge of himself and bear more important responsibilities.
The hereditary earls of the Grant Kingdom often need to control a border province. They are real frontier officials. With the power controlled by the Bolton family, they cannot bear the responsibility at all.
Richard has explained this to Sano, Sylph and others. The elves do not have the ambition to be promoted to great nobles for the time being. They do not have mutual trust with the great nobles of the Grant Kingdom yet. They are only willing to recuperate under Richard's wings and prepare to find a way to transform.