Lord Harland

Chapter 349 Iron Golem

The special squadron is a brand new organization, which performs infiltration and assassination missions. It is divided into four teams, with only 52 people including the squadron commander.

This army is a full-professional team, and its internal members are carefully selected, mainly composed of knights and magicians.

Each team has a total of twelve people, consisting of ten knights and two magicians.

In addition to the fourth-level Landon, the command agency also includes three deputy squadron leaders, namely the fourth-level knight Capello, the three-ring magician Bonova, and Capeson.

When performing combat missions, the special squadron also needs to strengthen magic hot air balloons, magic beast horses, etc. according to different situations.

The training of the special squadron is very complicated and hard. Not only do they need to learn infantry squad tactics, but they also need to learn cavalry squad tactics, and they need to learn to operate magic hot air balloons. The tactical level and personal skills of each member need to be very high.

Although the number of special squadrons is small, they are carefully selected from the entire army.

They are well-equipped, all wearing fourth-level sub-dragon leather armor, and fifth- and sixth-level dragon claws and dragon tooth daggers. Four assaulters are equipped with fourth-level mithril longswords, six are equipped with third-level enchanted crossbows, and carry third-level force field shields.

The special forces armed to the teeth, relying on the strength of a single squad, can already compete with the seventh-level silver knight in combat.

In order to facilitate makeup reconnaissance, each special team must be accompanied by the squadron commander when performing a mission. The commander also carries a ten-cubic-meter space bag on his body, in which the equipment can be hidden.

In addition to combat skills training, special squadron members also need to learn a variety of skills, such as survival in the wild, makeup hiding, etc. In addition, they also need to spend a lot of time learning the languages ​​of nearby countries, especially the languages ​​of the East Coast United Kingdom and the Delong Kingdom, and be proficient in writing the official language of the Dawn Continent. And they need to understand some cryptography, so that they can write secret letters to the territory at important moments.

Through several internal exercises, a special team unexpectedly assassinated the Silver Knight, and the success rate has exceeded 50% to 60%.

The ability to form a special force is enough to show that Harland Territory has accumulated a lot of foundation and has mastered a large part of excellent talents.

After Richard was promoted to Duke, there were some unsuccessful professionals who defected to the territory every year, especially the nobles in the northern border, and many branch members entered Harland Territory. Landon and Capello are such people. Among the other two three-ring magicians, Capeson is a friend of Roentgen and has been recruited in recent years. Only Bonova is a direct descendant cultivated by Harland Territory.

Since it has grown and become stronger, it must have the mind to accept outsiders.

Even if some of these foreign talents are nails planted by others, we cannot abandon them because of choking.

In addition to the special squadron, Richard also formed a two-legged dragon cavalry squad, and appointed the seventh-level warrior Driffin as the squad leader.

Although the wyvern cavalry squad is very small, with only four formal members, there are already half of the squadron's soldiers providing logistics for them.

Each wyvern cavalry is a mid-level warrior or above, and those with too low a level cannot contract a wyvern at all.

Wyverns are intelligent creatures, so the sub-dragon leather armor cannot be used at all. This squad cannot get too close to the soldiers equipped with sub-dragon leather armor such as the first squadron and the special squadron.

In order to protect the wyverns, Richard and Undine conducted careful research and finally used precious materials such as mithril and fine gold to jointly refine the fifth-level defensive armor for the wyverns to protect the wyverns and the cavalry on them.

After completing these tasks, it was already mid-August.

After the autumn harvest inspection, Richard spent a lot of time making magic props and alchemical items.

With the large consumption of materials and the guidance of Undine, Richard's alchemy has made great progress during this period, from the fourth level to the fifth level.

After entering August, a large number of magic props were refined and began to be equipped to various troops. In the next period of time, Richard and Undine prepared to make steel golems together.

Golems are a kind of refined creatures. In the ancient wizard era, wizards mastered a large number of golem refining methods, and could even refine legendary golems with artificial intelligence. However, wizards were extremely cruel in making legendary golems, and they needed to slaughter a large number of intelligent creatures and refine soul crystals.

A floating city made by a legendary wizard must have a legendary golem with artificial intelligence sitting in it, as well as a legendary special alchemical creation tower spirit.

The Grant Kingdom also has a golem refining heritage. The royal family has mastered a flying golem refining method that requires the use of a special super magic ore, which is considered a kind of stone golem.

Due to the limitations of ore and other materials, the Grant royal family only successfully refined 80 flying golems, which is already a very important foundation of the royal family.

Relying on the flying golem troops, the royal family unexpectedly suppressed the harpy people, won the decisive battle of the Dragon Canyon, and expelled the orcs from the three northern provinces.

However, this happened 120 years ago. Since this battle, the flying golem troops have never appeared on the battlefield again. According to some rumors, the flying golem consumes magic crystals very seriously.

Unless it is a critical moment, the Grant royal family will not use it easily.

Harland controlled the ruins of the floating city. Richard also mastered the ancient wizard text and sorted out a lot of magic technology from the ruins. The method of making energy-absorbing stones is one, and the method of making steel golems is another.

It's just that the floating city is very old, and has been exposed to the wind and sun for thousands of years. It has experienced vicissitudes of life, and the technical data left behind is very scattered. There are only three complete technologies that have been sorted out.

In addition to the energy-absorbing stone and the steel golem, the last technology is more important. It is the core technology of the floating city, the manufacturing method of the element furnace.

The manufacturing of the element furnace requires a large amount of magic materials. The first one is the artificial manufacturing of the element heart.

There are two types of element hearts. One is the natural element core, which is almost only generated in the four element planes.

In the ancient wizard era, the passages between the dawn plane and the four element planes have been completely destroyed. Now it is impossible to enter the four element planes to find the element heart.

In addition, you can hunt down the legendary element lord and create an artificial element heart.

Generally speaking, to build a floating city, at least four element hearts of earth, fire, wind and water need to be manufactured to allow the floating city to absorb different elements and adapt to different environments.

To make the floating city take off, not only sufficient energy is needed, but also gravity wells, super-large protective force fields, magic energy conversion centers, etc. need to be built, and a developed magic civilization needs to support it.

Even if Richard has the opportunity to build an elemental furnace, it is difficult to make the floating city fly into the sky.

To make a steel golem, a large amount of blood steel is needed. Although blood steel is a relatively cheap super magic metal, it takes 18 tons of blood steel to refine a steel golem.

The price of blood steel is very stable. The market price has been six silver coins per kilogram for many years. To refine a steel golem, it takes nine thousand gold coins to buy blood steel alone.

To refine a steel golem, mithril and fine gold are also needed.

Normally, a steel golem requires twenty kilograms of mithril, one kilogram of mithril costs three hundred gold coins, and twenty kilograms costs six thousand.

Advanced steel golems need to be equipped with sophisticated weapons, which also need to be fused with fine gold.

The price of fine gold is two thousand gold coins per kilogram. Even if two or three kilograms of fine gold are fused, it is a huge cost.

In addition, the Iron Golem also needs a high-level magic core as its core. The market price of a high-level magic core above level 7 is about 12,000 gold coins. Adding the cost of high-level magic potions, the refining cost exceeds 35,000 gold coins. This does not include the cost of inviting a high-level alchemist.

Including Wendy, there are only two high-level alchemists in the Grant Kingdom. It is not an easy task to invite a high-level alchemist. Inviting a high-level alchemist often requires a lot of hidden costs.

Normally, it may cost 40,000 gold coins to refine an Iron Golem.

If it were not for the fact that Harland's territory has several iron mines, a large amount of blood steel has been accumulated over the years, and there are more than 20 high-level magic cores, it would only cost more than 100,000 gold coins to buy a batch of mithril and fine gold. Richard could not afford the cost of refining a high-level golem.

Because of the lack of soul crystals, the Iron Golem has no intelligence and needs to be secretly controlled by a magician during battle.

Normally, a first-ring magician can control an Iron Golem and play a significant role.

In fact, Richard had mastered the technology of refining soul crystals from the ruins of the floating city, but this technology required the slaughter and blood sacrifice of a large number of intelligent lives.

This cruel technology was inconsistent with Richard's three views, and Richard was not willing to use it easily. Even the magic library of Harland Territory did not include this technology, and the technical information was only hidden in Richard's mind.

Anyway, Harland Territory has no shortage of magicians. Magicians can possess steel golems through the power of spells and control golems with their own spiritual power, and do not need to give golems simple intelligence.

Using magicians to control golems, although the duration is shorter, is smarter than low-level intelligent golems and can play a greater role on the battlefield.

Steel golems have very strong spell resistance. Although they are slow and bulky, they have amazing combat effectiveness on the front battlefield.

Dozens of steel golems charge at the same time and can easily break a large group of infantry.

The only thing that restricts the combat effectiveness of steel golems is actually the cost of refining.

The cost of materials alone requires 35,000 gold coins, and it is also necessary to invite high-level alchemists to help, which is also a huge cost. If it weren't for Undine joining Harland Territory, Richard couldn't afford the cost of inviting high-level alchemists.

Moreover, Richard was unwilling to easily hand over the method of refining the Iron Golem to outsiders.

Last year, Harland Territory had a surplus of 600,000 gold coins, but participating in the auction of the Transnational Chamber of Commerce has consumed nearly 300,000 funds. Harland Territory's treasury needs to keep 200,000 gold coins as a reserve, and the remaining gold coins are not enough to buy precious materials such as mithril and refined gold.

Although hunting two-legged dragons and terrain dragons has obtained resources worth more than one million gold coins, it is a pity that this resource was not exchanged for cash, but turned into potions, weapons, and enchanted armor to strengthen the territory's foundation.

Finally, after the summer grain was stored, part of the grain was sold to collect enough gold coins to buy a batch of refined gold and mithril.

To refine the Iron Golem, you need to be proficient in magic circles.

Many magicians are seriously biased in their studies. They only master the spell model and are not proficient in the principles of magic and magic arrays. In fact, in Harland Territory, only about one-fifth of the magicians can do research, including the apprentices of magicians, which add up to about 60 to 70 people.

Most magicians can only serve as tools and screws in the magic civilization.

The Harland Mage Association attaches great importance to magic research, and the atmosphere of magic research is far superior to other magic organizations. In normal magic organizations, only 3% of the mages can do research, and the rest are combat mages and magic tools.

Although Richard cannot refine high-level golems independently, his magic foundation is very solid and he is proficient in many magic arrays. He can help Undine a lot and play an auxiliary role in the refining process.

In fact, several low-level alchemists can also help a little, such as smelting materials, making models, preparing magic potions, etc.

There are many ancient wizard relics and fallen floating cities in the Dawn Plane. The magicians even found a lot of golems left by the ancients.

The southwestern coastal countries such as the Markholm Magic Kingdom and the Holy Glorious Empire have mastered some golem refining methods and established a golem army.

In particular, the Silver Golem Corps of the Holy Glorious Empire is well-known in the Dawn Plane.

It is said that this kind of golem uses several hundred kilograms of mithril, and it costs more than 100,000 gold coins to refine one. Even the wealthy Holy Glorious Empire only has 300 silver golems.

This golem army, like the Wyvern Knights, is the ace force of the Holy Glorious Empire and an important part of the national defense force.

Occasionally, there will be high-level golems eliminated from the silver golem army. Such severely worn high-level golems are often sold for more than 200,000 gold coins. Once they appear, they will cause lords and nobles to fight for them.

After all, for the nobles, extraordinary power is the foundation of maintaining rule.

A high-level golem can be used for many years and passed down to the descendants of the family.

A normal steel golem is divided into six parts: head, body, arms and legs. It needs to be manually carved by a primary alchemist.

Harland has a developed steel smelting and casting process, and does not need to be made by hand. This step takes a relatively short time and is very easy. The next step is to draw a magic circle on the golem body.

Richard and Undine mainly do this part. The control and operation system of the golem is very complicated. Thousands of magic runes need to be drawn on one arm, and these runes cannot have any mistakes.

Once the drawing is wrong, the material cannot be used, so drawing runes requires careful thinking and caution.

Each rune also needs to store different magic power in advance, and the process also needs to be carefully calculated and extremely careful.

Richard and Undine worked together and spent half a month to successfully refine the first steel golem.

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