Chapter 447: Another Marriage

The value of the Water of Life is very high. In extreme cases, one portion can be exchanged for a Viscount territory. It is impossible to sell the Water of Life in units of one bottle.

A bottle of the Water of Life can increase lifespan by 200 years. It is the least expensive longevity potion. No matter who gets this treasure, they will take it first. Even if Richard and Sophia appear, they will leave it to the closest people.

Preserving the Water of Life for a long time and selling it will face the prying of many legendary magicians. It is actually very unsafe and risky. After all, in this world where extraordinary power belongs to oneself, the law of the jungle is the most basic logic. Many powerful legendary magicians are not reasonable people.

Moreover, most people cannot afford the price of exchanging a bottle of the Water of Life. Even King Roger cannot come up with something of equivalent value. Unless he is willing to divide the territory and give Richard a duke territory.

However, the territory directly under the royal family is no longer as large as that of the Harland family. Even if Roger Kingdom wants to exchange, the Grant family will not let him succeed in the exchange and cut his own flesh to feed the big tiger of the Harland family. The Grant Kingdom belongs to the entire royal family, not Roger alone.

Roger's influence on the Grant family is far from that of Richard on the Harland family, because Richard is the founder of the Harland family. What he says is the law of heaven, and one call will be followed by hundreds of people.

Under the auspices of Richard, the Harland family has achieved brilliant success in the past 20 years, which has made family members very blindly follow Richard. Even William and Bernie, once Richard has made up his mind, even if it touches their interests, the two will not rashly oppose, but actively support Richard's decision.

Although Roger Kingdom is the most powerful person in the Grant family, once he chooses to harm the collective interests of the royal family for his own interests, it may cause internal political instability. If he is not careful, it may even trigger internal political struggles.

Although the territory of the Kingdom of Grant has expanded rapidly in the past 20 years, King Roger also has a very high prestige. In addition, without the Duke of Brena as his mother-in-law, he is already one of the most prestigious people in the history of the Kingdom of Grant, but he is still not comparable to the founder of the great nobles like Richard.

Moreover, Richard has a general relationship with King Roger, and he does not want him to increase his life by 200 years and be promoted to the legendary realm. After all, Roger is Richard's feudal lord, and in the political rules of the Dawn Plane, Richard is naturally inferior.

Even if the Harland family is recognized by the Holy Glorious Empire in the future and becomes independent from the Kingdom of Grant, Richard still needs to bow and salute when he sees the Kingdom of Roger, and the Harland territory cannot expand in the direction of the Kingdom of Grant, let alone actively invade.

From the dark thoughts in Richard's heart, he is unwilling to live under the shadow of Roger for a long time. When the Harland family develops for another 30 years, the population exceeds tens of millions, and the Orc Prairie is successfully developed, Richard will have the idea of ​​annexing the Kingdom of Grant.

Based on this idea, Richard would never exchange anything that could really increase the strength of the Grant royal family.

The value of a bottle of water of life could no longer be exchanged for merit. Richard was unwilling to take the risk of trading, so he had to distribute it, and the core layer of the territory got some.

It has been more than fifteen years since Sutton was promoted to the ninth level. From the perspective of the half-elf race, it is not in a hurry to be promoted to the legendary realm.

Although elves and half-elves have a long lifespan, it is much more difficult to break through the realm than humans. Generally speaking, half-elves must stay at the ninth level for at least thirty years before trying to break through the legendary realm.

Sutton originally planned to wait another fifteen years, but he didn't expect that good luck would come too early.

Since he and Undine persuaded their mother to join the Harland Territory, the Sutton family has become very lucky, and the Morning Elves have also ushered in extremely rapid development. First, Sylph was promoted to the legendary realm, but he didn't expect that in just five years, he would get the opportunity again to take a whole bottle of water of life to break through the realm. Even the prince of a large elf tribe would not be able to take a whole bottle of water of life to break through the legendary realm.

Although the effect of increasing life span was wasted because he took a portion of the Water of Life last time, Sutton is a half-elf and has a life span of more than a hundred years. As long as he is promoted to Legend this time, he can also increase his life span by sixty years with the help of the improvement of his life level.

Moreover, with the development of Harland Territory, Richard, Sofia, and Undine will definitely be promoted to Legendary Wizards, and they will have the opportunity to obtain other methods of extending life. In the short term, Sutton still has a very sufficient life span, and death is still far away from him.

After everyone returned to Fort William by magic airship, Sutton immediately went to the headquarters of the Star Alliance for retreat, and Richard brought a bottle of Water of Life to his second son Rex.

Rex is just two years and three months old. Compared with his brother Philip, he is luckier. Not only did he inherit his mother's half-elf bloodline and live longer than ordinary people, he also took a whole bottle of Water of Life and has a life span of 360 years.

Among Richard's three children, Philip's chance is worse after all.

After all, no one can predict the future. Unexpectedly, in just five years, Harland Territory has once again obtained a large amount of Water of Life resources. If I had known this would happen, I should have let Philip give up the opportunity last time. This time, it would be Philip and Rex's turn to take the Water of Life. It would take some time for Sutton to be promoted to the legendary level.

The Water of Life has a high affinity with the elves. Although Sutton's breakthrough was not as smooth as Sylph's, he still successfully broke through to the legendary level after more than ten days of retreat.

Sutton and Sylph broke through successively, and with William in the south, the Harland family has three legends, and its strength has obviously increased a lot.

The rapid development speed of the Harland family made the Grant royal family a little stunned.

Who would have thought that in just fifteen years, the Harland family would far surpass the royal family in terms of high-level combat power. Since the death of Duke Brena in battle, the royal family has not promoted the second legend.

Because breaking through the legend contains great risks, Roger Kingdom has some concerns in his heart and dares not easily break through the realm. Nine-ring magician Pansy Grant lacks foundation, and it is also very dangerous to be promoted to a legendary magician. The one with the greatest chance is actually Earl Steven, but this person is unlucky and died in battle a few years ago.

Not counting Steven who died in battle, the Grant family now has six ninth-level professionals. In addition to Roger Kingdom and Pansy, there are also the Duke of York, the previous generation of Prince Philip, the vice president of the Mage Association, Shane, and the new commander of the Southern Guards, Heaton.

The Duke of York's situation is similar to that of the Roger Kingdom. They have accumulated enough foundation, but people of high position and power like them lack the determination to fight to the death. Unless they get a very high-grade legendary potion that can guarantee their own safety, they will never risk advancing to the legendary realm.

Shane, vice president of the Mage Association, has a shallower foundation. He is a combat mage. Although he has successively refined two high-grade Styx potions produced by Harland, his mental power has increased to 37 points, but he is still far from the minimum standard for impacting the legendary bottleneck.

Heaton is a rising star of the Grant family. He succeeded Earl Steven and served as the commander of the Southern Guards. His accumulation is still slightly insufficient, and he will have to wait a few years before breaking through the legendary.

When the previous generation of Prince Philip was young, he was forced by the Duke of Brena to give up the throne and enter the Dawn Church Monastery. In fact, it is equivalent to leaving the Grant family. This person is extraordinary. Like Richard, he is a candidate for magic and martial arts. His priest level has been promoted to the ninth level, and the knight profession has also reached the ninth level.

The promotion of priests requires a lot of faith power, and also requires the favor of gods to help break through the realm. Because the degree of recovery of the goddess of dawn is relatively low, only three legendary priests can be promoted now, serving as the pope, the high priest, and the cardinal.

There are more than 20 ninth-level priests in the Dawn Church, all waiting to be promoted to legends, and Philip ranks behind these 20 people. After Ma Wei La's death, the Dawn Church has selected a new cardinal and promoted legendary priests with the help of the goddess. Philip wants to be promoted to legend, and it may be faster to start from the knight.

Although six members of the royal family have been promoted to the ninth ring and more than 20 ninth-level priests are under their command, none of them have been promoted to legends, and the Harland family has had Sylph, William, and Sutton break through the legend in just five years. Although there is no most powerful legendary magician yet, the high-level combat power has far exceeded the Grant royal family and can be compared with the Ryan royal family.

After Sutton was successfully promoted to legend, Sylph came directly to Richard to discuss, hoping to give up the original territory and move the elf tribe to the maze to look after the tree of life.

In addition to producing the Water of Life, the leaves and branches of the Tree of Life are very good magic materials, which can be used to make a variety of magic props and are very rare in the market.

In addition, the fruit of the Tree of Life, the Fruit of Life, is also of great help to the development of the elves. Long-term consumption of this fruit can not only increase magic power in small amounts, but also has great benefits for female elves to breed life.

Generally speaking, once an elf tribe discovers the Tree of Life, it will inevitably settle down under the Tree of Life. A large elf tribe of several thousand people may only have an activity range of about one or two hundred miles nearby.

After discovering the Tree of Life, Richard estimated in advance that Sylph might make such a request. He had already considered this issue very clearly.

"Because of Undine, I will agree to your request and hand over the Tree of Life to the Morning Elf Tribe, but you must also fulfill your promise and be loyal to the Harland family.

When encountering war, you must obey the lord's call and draw people to help Harland fight. You must also hand over half of the output of the Tree of Life to the lord's mansion."

Hearing Richard's answer, Sylph was particularly happy. She nodded and said, "Don't worry, Richard. The Morning Elves will be tied to the Harland family. I have discussed with Sutton and decided to marry Sutton's youngest daughter Windsor to your second son Rex, and Sutton's granddaughter Leila will also be Philip's court lady.

I swear to you in the name of the God of Elves that the elves of the Morning Tribe will not support Rex and Philip in competing for the head of the Harland family. My descendants will intermarry with your descendants for generations, and our blood will blend and become inseparable."

Sutton has three partners, two of whom are humans and the other is an elf. Because Sutton has half-elf blood, his life span is much longer than that of ordinary people. Sutton's first two human wives have already exhausted their life spans. His youngest daughter, Windsor, is the child of Sutton and the female elf Rilla, and has three-quarters elven blood.

This child's genes are basically inherited from her mother, with particularly obvious elven characteristics.

Children with such strong elven blood often have a longer lifespan than ordinary half-elves, most of them can reach three or four hundred years old, just enough to accompany Rex who drank the water of life throughout his life.

Although Sutton's youngest daughter is already sixteen or seventeen years old, for a race with a long lifespan, this age is still a child, and in the long run, she is considered the same age as Rex.

Although Sutton's granddaughter Leila also has elf blood, it is actually very rare, and this marriage is actually just a bonus.

After Richard and Sylph reached an agreement, Sutton and Sylph submitted an application to the Harland Noble Council, giving up their original territory and taking 6,000 square kilometers of land near the Tree of Life. Although the elves don't like the cold climate in Bolton Forest, they can overcome all difficulties by living near the Tree of Life.

Moreover, the elf maze has been repaired and can still be used, and the actual safety is more guaranteed than the original territory.

The population of the Morning Tribe is not large, with only more than 400 elves in total.

Four hundred elves only need a small amount of baggage. Richard and Undine only need to run a trip with the space props to carry the baggage consumed by the elves for a year.

Although the elves are small in number, their actual combat effectiveness is far superior to the eleven noble coalitions of Berleni. Even if the 30,000 mercenaries in northern Prilan are added together, their combat effectiveness is not as good as the more than 400 elves and half-elves led by the two legends.

With the elves in Bolton Forest, Richard can rest assured of the safety of the north.

After the elves migrated to Bolton Forest, Richard could reward thirty or forty baronies for the territory handed over by Sutton Silve. Together with the eleven barons in northern Prilan, Richard has more than sixty vassals.

Although the power of the Harland family has surpassed the Grant royal family, the direct vassals are only one-sixth of the level of the royal family. The vassals under Richard can pull out a coalition of 20,000 to 30,000 nobles, while the royal vassals have an army of 100,000.

In addition, the Harland family also lacks the loyalty of great nobles. In the Harland territory, the only families that have the opportunity to be promoted to great nobles in a short period of time are Romen and Sutton.

The lack of loyalty of great nobles and the small number of vassals under their command have led to the Harland family controlling very few troops, only less than 200,000, while the Grant royal family, not counting the Harland territory, can mobilize a million troops in a nationwide mobilization.

Although the army led by Harland is powerful and possesses a variety of advanced magic weapons, its overall strength is still a few points behind that of the Grant Kingdom.