Chapter 400: Profits From the Fisherman
After defeating the legendary ghost, the Skeleton Mage did not kill the opponent, but used a seven-ring magic ghost coffin spell to control the legendary ghost.
The core goal of the Skeleton Mage to capture the legendary ghost alive was to absorb the legendary ghost's soul fire so that he could be promoted to a legend.
Because the legendary ghost's soul fire is much stronger than the Skeleton Mage, it can only be absorbed slowly.
After the battle, the expedition team could no longer hold back and prepare to take action. After all, the timing was too good. After a fierce battle, both sides were already injured. Now the legendary ghost's magic power has been consumed, and it is no longer a threat to the expedition team, and has become a prey.
Although the Skeleton Mage's side still has some strength, there are more than 600 soldiers left, and most of their own mana has been consumed. It is no match for the expedition team.
As long as this group of skeletons is wiped out, a lot of soul crystals can be obtained. Even if the plane channel is destroyed, the harvest this time is already very good.
After careful discussion with Sylph and William, Richard decided not to rush to take action, after all, the battlefield is too close to the plane channel. If the news leaks, the high-level undead will search repeatedly, and the coordinates of the plane channel are nearby, so there is a certain risk of leakage.
After making the decision, the expedition team followed the skeleton army carefully.
The skeleton mage's nest is about 30 kilometers away from the battlefield. Richard and others followed for two and a half hours before they reached the skeleton mage's hiding place.
In order to hunt the legendary ghost, the two skeleton mages have cleared three nearby undead nests. For this reason, the density of undead in the western area of the plane channel is not as high as that in the southeast area.
Following the skeleton mage to the nest, Richard estimated that it was about 60 kilometers away from the plane channel, which was barely enough to start.
"Start!" Richard waved his left hand fiercely, and the twelve expedition members immediately took action.
The warrior profession took the lead, and the magician followed behind.
Undine and Sofia had the strongest magic power, and released the Fire Cloud Spell and the Spiritual Orb respectively. These two magics are eight-ring spells with great lethality.
A large cloud of fire hit the skeleton army, and in an instant, magic flames fell from the sky, burning forty undead creatures to death.
The two mid-level skeleton warriors survived the fire cloud spell because they had stronger magic resistance. William and Sylph easily shattered the soul fire and cut off their heads.
Sylph and William have both been promoted to legends, and their melee abilities are extremely terrifying. The two of them were like two sharp arrows, piercing deep into the undead army in the blink of an eye.
The fire cloud spell had just passed, and the spirit ball hit over. The skeleton mage hurriedly released a high-level force field protection to barely block the spirit ball.
However, the spirit ball is a range magic. Although it did not severely injure the skeleton mage, it successfully exploded in the skeleton group and successfully killed more than 30 low-level skeletons.
After Wendini and Sofia made their moves, Richard, Eve, and Wendy, three magicians, all took action. Richard released the seven-ring magic Flame Dragon, Eve also released the Return of the Undead, and Wendy released the Chain Lightning Spell.
The first round of raids by the magicians was very fierce, especially the Flame Dragon released by Richard, which was more powerful than the nine-ring magic Flame Meteor. Richard had already awakened the powerful spellcasting talent, and the spells released by him were about twice as powerful as standard magic. In addition, the flame body blessed the fire attribute spells. Although this spell was seven-ring, its lethality was far greater than the standard nine-ring magic.
Although Richard did not invest more mental power, the destructive power of this spell was about 40% to 50% of the legendary magic.
The magic released by Eve and Wendy was also very lethal, especially Wendy holding the lightning staff and releasing lightning-type spells, which were more powerful than the seven-ring magic.
Three spells successfully hit a large number of skeletons, killing more than a hundred skeleton warriors at one time.
In particular, the fire dragon released by Richard directly killed more than seventy undead, including a sixth-level skeleton mage, severely damaging the undead creatures.
The magicians led by Richard and Sophia killed more than two hundred undead creatures in just one round of spells, causing a large loss of personnel to the enemy.
In order to capture the legendary ghost alive, the skeleton mage's skeleton soldiers died and injured more than a thousand. Now there are only more than 600 skeletons left. After a round of magic attacks, about one-third of them were injured or killed.
At the same time, Sutton, Wilde, Soros, Jennings, and Rola attacked almost at the same time.
Sutton and the other five are all high-level professionals. Although their impact is not as strong as Sylph and William, they can kill a lot of skeletons in a short time.
Sutton, Rola, and Wilde also mastered bloodline spells, and they also killed a large number of skeletons after using them.
In a flash, the skeleton army was defeated.
Sylph and William had a strong impact and rushed to the side of the skeleton mage in the blink of an eye. Seeing that the skeleton mage was about to use magic to escape, William immediately used the giant bear transformation spell.
In an instant, William's body swelled and turned into a six-meter-tall giant bear. He opened his giant hands as big as a palm leaf fan and easily smashed the skeletons blocking his way. The skeleton mage had no time to release the spell, and his price was smashed by William, and the soul fire was also extinguished by Sylph, and he died easily at the hands of the two.
Once the skeleton mage died, the magic coffin spell it released was invalid, and the legendary ghost also regained its freedom.
Unfortunately, the legendary ghost was unlucky. At this time, the magic power in his body was exhausted and he could not escape at all. He died easily at the hands of Sofia.
Once the high-level skeleton mage died, the skeleton army was without a commander and immediately fell into chaos.
The remaining few low- and middle-level skeleton mages, although somewhat intelligent, were not subordinate to each other and were soon killed by the expedition team.
After killing all the skeletons, Richard and others carefully cleaned up the battlefield and used energy-absorbing stones to absorb the remaining magic energy nearby.
The two high-level skeleton mages had a 60-cubic-meter space bag, which should be their relics before death.
Before the Azure Plane was transformed into the Dead World, it was also an extraordinary world with a very high level of magic civilization and many legendary masters. In order to rescue the Azure Plane, the Dawn Plane also sent many good players.
After the death of these high-level professionals, many of them were transformed into undead creatures.
The 60-cubic-meter space bag, worth more than 200,000 gold coins, was given to Sofia by Richard for use.
After cleaning up the battlefield, everyone split into two groups. William, Soros, Wendy, and Sofia monitored nearby, while Richard and others investigated the western half of the plane channel.
The reconnaissance and surveillance lasted for five or six days. Seeing that there was nothing unusual, the expedition team returned to the Dragon Canyon through the plane channel.
This expedition lasted about ten days, and about 6,000 square kilometers of land were surveyed. The legendary undead creature was killed by the fisherman.
In a few days, Sofia had opened the skeleton wizard's space bag, and the harvest from the space bag was also very rich.
First of all, there were negative energy crystals, a total of 3,000 pieces were found.
Because the core of the dead world was refined by the undead lord, the operation of magic energy is very special. Once a magic world is transformed into the dead world, the magic crystal can slowly be transformed into negative energy crystals, which can only provide energy for undead magic.
Although the use of negative energy crystals is greatly restricted, it is not as good as magic crystals in providing energy for various magics, but because of the scarcity of things, the price of negative energy crystals in the Dawn Plane is 50% to 60% more expensive than magic crystals.
Although there are no undead mages in Harland Territory, 3,000 negative energy crystals can still play an important role.
Relying on the magic materials collected in the dead world, the alchemists of Harland can refine a batch of special magic props. These props can release the magic of the dead, just letting the negative energy crystals provide energy for these special props.
Richard and Undine refer to the manufacturing technology of the scorching ray gun and use some white bones rich in negative energy to make a batch of death ray guns. Because the death ray is a three-ring magic, the lethality of this batch of magic props is even better than that of the scorching ray gun.
There are not only negative energy crystals in the storage bag, but also more than 160 soul crystals. This batch of soul crystals is a collection accumulated by the skeleton wizard for many years, and now they are all cheap for the magicians of Harland.
In addition to the harvest from cleaning the battlefield, Harland found about 200 soul crystals in this expedition to the dead world, which is more than the harvest from the last princess's tomb.
Among these 200 soul crystals, in addition to the legendary soul crystals dropped by the legendary ghost, there are also four high-level soul crystals. After returning, Sophia quickly refined them into the Styx potion.
Because Richard's mental power exceeded 50 points, taking the Stygian potion was of little help. Sophia had used the legendary Stygian potion once, and the effect of the second use was only about half of the last time. In addition, her mental power exceeded 40 points. Even if she refined this Stygian potion, it would only increase her mental power by a little at most, which was almost dispensable.
Wendy's mental power also exceeded 40 points, and taking the legendary Stygian potion would waste a lot of medicine power.
In order to maximize the value of this potion, Richard and Wendy discussed and decided to leave the legendary Stygian potion to Wendy. The remaining four high-level Stygian potions tended to be for the elf magician, and the top priority was Eve, who participated in two expeditions.
After refining a bottle of water of life, Wendy's mental power has 32 points, 11 points more than the average six-ring magician, of which 4 points are due to drinking the water of life, and the remaining 7 points are due to the results of magic research. This time, taking the legendary Stygian potion, Wendy's mental power increased by 6 points at once, and she was only one step away from breaking through 40 points and awakening the talent of magic doubling.
In addition to precious resources such as negative energy crystals and soul crystals, the most precious loot is the space bag of the skeleton wizard. This space bag has 60 cubic meters inside, which is already a ninth-level magic prop and belongs to Sofia.
Shortly after the expedition team returned to Harland, William decided to go to the south to serve the Grant family. After he was promoted to Legend, his position in the system of the Grant Kingdom became more prominent, and he was directly appointed as the governor of Ferdinand Province.
In the system of the Grant Kingdom, governors are rarely established. Even in the three northern provinces of the war zone, the provincial governors and the legion commanders share the power of both military and political affairs. Although the legion commander of the main legion is stronger, the royal family will not easily concentrate the power of a province in the hands of military generals.
Generally speaking, the governor is a temporary position. For example, Earl Steven, after suppressing the rebellion of the three southern earls, served as the governor of the southern occupied area for several years.
William's position as governor of Ferdinand Province is probably a temporary position, which will be revoked when the situation in the south changes. At that time, William may lose his position as the commander of the Grizzlies Legion, and return to his fiefdom to retire like Earl Steven.
As William took charge of the military and political affairs of Ferdinand Province, the influence of the Harland family in the south became more prominent. Many Harland caravans went south with William. These caravans mainly engaged in smuggling in the south and collected population by the way.
Last year, the population of Harland increased by more than 750,000, and the original schools were far from enough.
In January this year, Harland Territory increased its investment in education. Not only did eight colleges and universities start recruiting students, but also eight new primary schools and two middle schools were built.
After 20 years of development, Harland Territory has a relatively sufficient talent pool, especially some low-level talents, such as primary school teachers, which can be easily recruited.
Today, Harland Territory has 32 primary schools, 8 middle schools, and a small number of college students. The number of students in Harland Territory exceeds 50,000. The talents that Harland Territory can cultivate every year are far more than those cultivated by the Grant royal aristocracy system.
After entering January, Harland Territory began to pardon indentured servants in advance.
There are 320,000 indentured servants whose terms expire this year. In recent years, they have to be pardoned and the land has been divided before the spring plowing. With the pardoned indentured servants this year, the number of free people in Harland Territory has reached nearly 1.5 million.
The political treatment and income level of free people far exceed those of indentured servants. Although it is the first year of freedom and they do not have much property, they still have a lot of income after a year of hard work because they have been allocated land and houses, as well as seeds borrowed by the government. They are also considered to be a population with consumption capacity.
With a consumer population of 1.5 million, the domestic demand market is probably higher than the export market.
Among the 1.5 million freemen, about 100,000 have received education and read books. After 20 years of hard work, Richard has only cultivated more than 100,000 educated people.
With these 100,000 educated talents, Harland Territory has laid the foundation for rapid development.
Thirty-two primary schools have recruited 12,000 new students this year. Testing the qualifications of 12,000 people has made the Harland Mage Association very busy.
Fortunately, the Harland Mage Association now has sufficient manpower, and the qualification testing does not require the intervention of the territory's top leaders. However, Richard's daughter Margaret participated in the task of testing the qualifications this time.
Among more than 12,000 new students, about 114 people were tested for magic qualifications, and the probability is still relatively stable, maintaining at about 1%.
Including this year's preparatory apprentices, the total number of Harland Mage Association has exceeded 700, which is close to the number of large magic organizations. However, the number of formal magicians is still relatively small. As of late January this year, there are a total of 159 magicians, which is still far behind the number of magicians in the Grant Mage Association.
At present, the Harland Mage Association can promote about 20 to 30 magicians a year. The speed of replenishing new blood is relatively fast. The Grant Mage Association, which has been in operation for a longer time, only adds more than a dozen magicians a year, which is not as fast as the development speed of the Harland Territory Mage Association.
According to the current development trajectory, in about five or six years, the magic power of Harland Territory will exceed that of the Grant family.
In late January, there was a lot of good news from the Harland Mage Association. The first was the elf mage Eve, who participated in two expeditions and took the high-level Styx potion. After that, she quickly broke through the bottleneck and was promoted to the seventh ring.
Eve is more than 200 years old. According to the standards of the elves, she has just entered adulthood. Although elves are very long-lived and are born extraordinary species, their blood matures very slowly.
Ordinary elves are promoted to high-level at the age of three or four hundred. Eve was able to advance to the seventh ring at the age of 200, which was considered very talented among the elf mages.
Shortly after Eve was promoted, Butler also successfully advanced to the fifth ring, and Adrian and Barica also successfully advanced to the fourth ring. The backbone force grew up, strengthening the depth of the Harland Mage Association.