Chapter 435 The Power of Example

Not only Rand received the news, but also other mercenaries active in the north of Prilan. Soon these mercenaries gathered near the forest in the north of Berani, harassing and annihilating the influx of undead from the outside.

Although there are many undead coming south from the Arctic ice sheet, not many of them have wisdom. This group of undead were trapped in a special magic circle by the wizards of the Dawn Plane thousands of years ago. This magic circle can erase self-consciousness. Even if they are legendary undead, they have been trapped in the magic circle for thousands of years and their memories are almost completely lost. They can only rely on instinct to act.

Hundreds of years ago, there was a legendary necromancer who went deep into the northern ice sheet, destroyed the magic circle in an attempt to control this group of undead, and searched for the lost heart of death of the undead lord.

It is rumored that the heart of death was smelted by the undead lord with his own soul crystal and the core of the plane. It has a vast space and negative energy power, similar to the kingdom of the gods of the multiverse, which can accommodate millions of undead.

There were four undead lords who invaded the Dawn Plane. One of them was severely injured by the Rule Wizard and managed to escape. One was shattered and almost died with the Rule Wizard of O'Farland. Richard, the undead lord, also met him. His heart of death was taken away by the wizard, and his soul was merged with Princess O'Farland. Now he is still hidden in the mausoleum of the princess of Harland.

The third one fell on the northern ice field, his heart of death was lost, and his soul was sealed by the wizard of the Dawn Plane. The mess is left until now. The last one fell in the hands of the seven gods from outside.

If there was no invasion of the undead lord, the seven gods would probably not be able to beat the five rule wizards together. After all, the rule wizard is a local force in the Dawn Plane. It has controlled the world tree in the center of the earth and can manipulate the rule power of the entire world. In theory, its strength exceeds that of foreign gods and undead lords.

However, in the ancient war of gods, the rule wizard was driven away and the undead lord suffered heavy losses. In the end, the gods behind humans, orcs, dragons, elves and dwarves won the victory. The reason for this ending is that the World Tree died and dormant for a period of time.

Any extraordinary life has a beginning and an end. Even a powerful World Tree will do the same, falling into dormancy every six thousand years.

During the hundreds of years of dormancy, the World Tree will dry up and shrink its power to the core.

During this period, the World Tree is not only easy to be controlled by people, but also the power it can exert is not as much as 10% or 20% of the usual power.

Just when the World Tree was dormant, the Wizard Age came to an end. The Dawn Plane was first invaded by the Undead Lord, and then entered the multiverse gods. Extraordinary people from other planes also poured into this world and succeeded in becoming gods with the help of special opportunities.

Now there are thirteen gods behind all races in the Dawn Plane, including natural gods who have mastered the power of rules and have been favored by the World Tree, multiverse gods, and native gods of this plane who ignited the divine fire and became gods.

The true god behind the elves is actually the descendant of wizards and other elves from other planes in ancient times. He is essentially a half-elf. However, this half-elf transcendent purified his elf bloodline and was successfully deified in the late Seven Gods Era. He was called the Son of the Sun by the elves.

Because the priesthood was in serious conflict with the God of Glory of the Multiverse, in order to compete for the faith of this plane, the two sides broke out a fierce war of gods more than 3,000 years ago. In the end, the Son of the Sun could not beat the God of Glory who had been deified for many years, and his injuries were also serious. He moved the kingdom of God to the center of the earth and wanted to refine the will of the world tree, but was preempted by the three gods of dawn. In the past three thousand years, he only preached within the elves and did not dare to compete with the God of Glory.

In addition, there is a legendary fourth-level golden dragon in the local area. He ignited the divine fire in the late wizard era and was successfully deified. This golden dragon was originally just a test product captured by the wizard in the other plane, and found an opportunity to escape from the wizard's control. And in the following thousand years, combined with the knowledge mastered by the wizard, he was promoted to the legendary fourth level and successfully deified in the late wizard era.

Now this dragon god is married to a multiverse dragon god, and the kingdoms of both sides are merged together, collectively known as the Kingdom of Dragon. The two dragon gods once wanted to spread faith on a large scale in the Dawn Plane in the Seven Gods Era and completely control the Dawn Plane. Later, they were severely injured by the Seven Gods of Humanity and are now sealed in the Kingdom of Dragon.

The orc gods are gods from other planes, and they are the reinforcements invited by the Seven Gods to deal with the rule wizards.

Now the orcs in the Dawn Plane include both multiverse orc races and extraordinary races created by local wizards for blood experiments, and their bloodlines are extremely chaotic.

After driving away the rule wizards and entering the Seven Gods Era, the Seven Gods of Humanity turned against the orc gods. Because they could not beat the Seven Gods of Humanity, the orc gods set their sights on other multiverse planes and reduced their activities in the Dawn Plane for a time.

Three thousand years ago, the orc gods heard about the infighting among the Seven Gods of Humanity and fell into a deep sleep. They once again sent the incarnation of the gods into the Dawn Plane to provoke a racial war and try to test the Seven Gods of Humanity. As a result, the race war failed, the incarnation of the gods was killed, and the divinity was swallowed by the seven gods of humanity, and the loss was extremely heavy.

The seven gods of humanity are all outsiders. Among them, the God of Glory, the God of Truth, the God of Fairness and Justice, and the Goddess of Wealth are all multiverse gods. They all act as incarnations in the Dawn Plane.

The God of Glory has the strongest divine power and is a powerful god of the seventeenth level of divine nature.

The God of Fairness and Justice is a powerful god of the sixteenth level of divine nature.

The Goddess of Wealth is a medium-level god of the thirteenth level of divine nature.

The God of Truth has only the second level of divine nature and is a god with weak divine power.

It is said that the God of Truth was originally a legendary fourth-level magician who ignited the divine fire and became a god tens of thousands of years ago. His life is longer than that of the God of Glory, who has a lifespan of about 20,000 years in the multiverse.

Although the God of Dawn, the God of Kingship, and the God of Earth are alien life forms, they ignited the divine fire and became gods in the Dawn Plane. They mastered part of the rule power of the Dawn Plane and gained the favor of the World Tree. In fact, like the ancient rule wizards, they can mobilize part of the rule power of the Dawn Plane.

It’s just that the ancient wizards completely controlled the World Tree and suppressed the will of the World Tree with their own will, while the three gods of Dawn could not control the World Tree and could only use the World Tree to mobilize the rule power, such as causing large-scale floods, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, etc.

Relatively speaking, the destructive power is far less powerful than that of the rule wizards.

However, because of their belief in deification, the three gods of Dawn, Kingship, and Earth have mastered many means that rule wizards do not have. If they really fight with rule wizards, it depends on the time, place, and environment of the battle.

Because the three gods of Dawn were deified for a short time, most of them are in deep sleep, and now they are only weak gods of level 6.

In fact, the godhood only represents the number and quality of the believers of the gods. The true combat power of a god depends on its own race, profession, and authority.

For example, the two gods of the dragon clan, judging from the level of the gods, have only weak divine power, but their combat power can beat a group of weak, medium, or even powerful gods.

Because their powerful combat power comes mostly from themselves, and a small part comes from the authority they have.

In the era of the seven gods, even the original body of the god of fairness and justice and the four incarnations of the god of glory could not beat this pair of dragon gods, so they could only unite the power of the seven gods and seal the two weak dragon gods in the kingdom of God with great difficulty.

The gods with strong divine power are stronger than those with weak divine power because they have more divine incarnations and more powerful believers. For example, the God of Fairness and Justice has eight divine incarnations, and his legendary priests are active in multiple planes, with a total of more than dozens of them.

The Goddess of Dawn has only two incarnations, and there are only four legendary priests. The more than ten high-level officials of the Dawn Church are mostly magicians and knights. The magicians and knights are not devout in their beliefs and cannot guarantee absolute loyalty.

However, in the Dawn Plane, the fighting power of the Dawn Goddess is probably a little stronger than that of the God of Fairness and Justice, because the Dawn Goddess can use the power of the World Tree to a certain extent, and the damage she inflicts is extremely amazing.

But in other planes, the fighting power of the Dawn Goddess is far inferior to that of the God of Fairness and Justice.

Some of the undead on the northern ice sheet are soldiers who follow the Undead Lord in other planes, and the other part is the natives of the Dawn Plane who died in the battle on the northern ice sheet.

Because the Lord of the Dead used regular spells such as resurrection of the dead, countless dead lives were resurrected in the form of undead.

The Lord of the Dead mastered the secrets of life and death, and could transform living lives into undead, and also transform undead into fresh lives. Once transformed by him, you can't escape the fate of being controlled by the Lord of the Dead, and you can say that you can't live or die.

Because they were sealed by the ancient wizards with the soul-destroying formation that erased consciousness for a long time, the undead coming down from the northern ice field were quite stupid.

Although there were many such stupid undead, the threat to the human kingdom was very low. Because the human army could use strategies to create an external environment suitable for their own battles and annihilate the enemy with minor casualties.

The Bloodfang Mercenary Group where Rand was located seized the opportunity smoothly, fought several beautiful battles, and almost suffered little loss, and got enough soul crystals to make up for the war.

In less than three months, a mercenary group had accumulated enough military merits. Although it was beyond Richard's expectations, he happily kept his promise and granted Rand 600 square kilometers of land near Belainy.

Seizing the opportunity given by God, Rand was successfully knighted in just three months.

After Rand was knighted, he cleared the undead in the north of Belainy while sending people south to the East Coast United Kingdom to recruit free people.

Rand was able to be knighted in a short period of time, and the hundreds of mercenaries under his command played an important role. After being knighted, Rand got a large piece of land, and he generously granted most of the land to the mercenary soldiers. The least mercenary could also be allocated 300 acres of land, and the most mercenary backbones were allocated tens of thousands of acres of farmland, which exceeded many wealthy gentry in their hometown.

In the current social situation of the East Coast United Kingdom, gentry all have aristocratic blood, and many are the second sons and sons-in-law of the first generation of barons, and are the backbone of local baronies.

Generally, after three generations of hereditary nobles, the territory is basically indivisible. Even generous hereditary nobles will not continue to divide the territory. The second son and daughter cannot divide the family property. They can only get a part of the floating wealth and find a job to make a living with the help of their parents.

There is an endless plain near Belaini. In addition to the vast grassland, the territory is the cultivated land that has been developed. Except for the cold climate, according to the standards of the Dawn Plane, it is a very good land.

Moreover, Richard also allocated him 600 kilometers of land, which is far more than the average baron.

The standard baron of the East Coast United Kingdom is only one or two hundred square kilometers of land. Only a few barons with backgrounds can get the standard of 300 square kilometers.

Moreover, Beretta also built a lot of houses. When Harland led the army to station, he built a lot of camps. Some of them used cement and stone, which can save Rand a lot of money.

Richard gave Rand excellent treatment, which made him realize his long-cherished dream and achieve a leap in social class. At this time, he was naturally willing to be loyal to Richard.

According to Rand's plan, the Barony of Borani can cultivate more than 600,000 acres of arable land and feed 200,000 people.

However, if you want to develop this territory, you also need to invest a lot of manpower and funds.

But Rand has a strong mercenary group to support him. The number of family members of the mercenary group alone is as many as several thousand.

Many of Rand's mercenaries are professionals and are not poor. Now that the members of the mercenary group have been allocated large tracts of land, the family members must migrate to this territory to participate in the management.

In addition to purchasing some serfs, according to Rand's estimate, 10,000 to 20,000 people will be able to migrate next spring.

The power of example is infinite. Rand's success in canonization has attracted mercenaries from many nearby countries to enter the Harland Territory.

In December, Richard continued to canonize the two barons of Reis and Gutre, whose territories are located near the Barony of Borani.

Richard only paid 1,600 square kilometers of wasteland to win the loyalty of three powerful mercenary groups.

Although the three new baronies have just been established, the mercenary leaders such as Rand already have a strong force under their command.

In addition, the three barons also handed over a large number of soul crystals, which were refined into potions to greatly enhance the power of Harland.

The orcs deliberately opened the seal and released the undead on the northern ice field, which did not actually tie up too many troops in Harland. Richard only used a policy of conferring titles to recruit thousands of mercenaries to work for Harland.

This deal made by Richard did not make him lose money.

In the north of Prilan, on hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of land south of the northern ice field, Richard can confer titles on more than a thousand hereditary nobles. With vast and desolate territories, Richard is not afraid of having no land to confer titles.

Moreover, once the border nobles develop their territories, they can provide logistics for the army, making it easier for Richard to mobilize heavy troops into the northern wilderness and completely eliminate the undead.