Chapter 454: Pope of Dawn

After killing the deep-sea monster, the fleet used spear guns and fishing nets to drag the dead deep-sea monster up. It took three or four days to deal with the deep-sea monster.

This deep-sea monster weighs about 300 tons. The skin peeled off from the deep-sea monster can make at least 3,000 pieces of enchanted armor.

The giant whale armor made of the skin of the deep-sea monster has a defense equivalent to the fourth-level enchanted armor. This level of armor costs thousands of gold coins. Three thousand pieces of giant whale armor are enough to arm 3,000 backbone officers, allowing Harland to lead the army to further improve its strength.

The internal organs of the deep-sea monster can also be used to refine Tenghui potions, and can also be made into magic fish oil to help meditation.

The most important harvest is the magic core of the deep-sea monster. This magic core is as big as a washbasin and contains an extremely sufficient amount of magic power, which is equivalent to the magic core of a legendary third-level monster.

Hunting a legendary deep-sea beast can bring the same benefits as hunting two legendary dragons and four legendary magic beasts. However, the deep-sea beast is the overlord of the ocean, and the opportunity to hunt it is very rare.

Legendary magic cores are very precious treasures. They can not only be used to build artificial magic wells, but also serve as the core of magic furnaces to provide energy for magic props. In addition, they can also be used to refine legendary golems, which have many uses.

Harland Territory is not short of magic wells now. Because it is about to enter the Red Moon Plane, Richard does not plan to continue building legendary magic ships, and naturally does not need legendary magic cores to supply energy and build magic crystal furnaces. Therefore, the purpose of this legendary magic core is very clear. Richard is going to serve as the core of the legendary golem and refine the second legendary golem in Harland Territory.

A few years ago, Harland Territory had already refined a legendary golem, which was used by Richard to guard the Crystal Lake Magic Well.

The Crystal Lake Magic Well was the headquarters of the Star Alliance back then. It has three legendary magic plants. This large magic well is also the real headquarters of the Harland Mage Association.

It takes a lot of investment to refine the legendary steel golem. Not counting the legendary magic core and soul crystal, the investment in super magic metal materials alone is as high as hundreds of thousands of gold coins. In addition, a large number of magicians are required to draw magic runes, which is also a very high threshold. It takes more than half a year to hire more than a hundred magicians, and the labor cost alone is also a huge investment.

Comprehensively speaking, the resources invested in making a legendary steel golem have already exceeded one million gold coins. It also requires a very high invisible threshold. For example, even if the Grant Kingdom is willing to provide resources, it does not have the technology to make legendary golems.

Harland Territory excavated the ruins of the ancient floating city and obtained the technology to make the seventh-level steel golem. Based on this technology, the magic achievements mastered by Harland Territory were integrated to successfully create the first legendary steel golem.

The main reason why Harland Territory can do this is that its own magic civilization has developed to a very high level. Richard has a close relationship with the Dawn Church and has exchanged a lot of magic technology. In addition, the Elf Tribe joined and merged some of the Elf magic. In fact, looking at the development level of magic civilization, Harland Territory has already walked at the forefront of the Dawn Plane.

After getting the legendary magic core, it still needs high-level soul crystals and a large amount of super magic metal to refine the legendary golem.

As the undead of the northern ice field moved south, Harland Territory was not short of soul crystals. Although the soul crystals obtained from killing the legendary undead last time were exchanged with the Grant Kingdom for the legendary magic core and the second legendary magic ship was built, Richard did not have the legendary elven magic core for the time being, but Harland Territory still had seven or eight high-level soul crystals in its collection, which could be used to make up the number when refining the legendary golem.

According to common sense, refining the legendary golem should be perfect, and it is best to use the legendary soul crystal.

The golem refined with the legendary soul crystal is more outstanding in terms of intelligence and can be comparable to intelligent creatures. Unfortunately, there is not enough time left for Richard. This time, entering the Red Moon Plane may take a long time to fight. The Harland leaders simply cannot spare their hands to hunt the legendary undead in the Azure Plane. It is still unknown how long it will take to get the legendary soul crystal.

Entering the Red Moon Plane will inevitably face many battles. In order to increase combat power in the shortest time, Richard can only use high-level soul crystals to refine the second legendary golem in the shortest time.

After dealing with the deep-sea monster, Richard led the first echelon to rush all the way and soon arrived at the capital of the Parame Kingdom.

Hawkins Castle, the capital of the Parame Kingdom, is a port city. Through the observation of the city scale, Richard found that the permanent population of this city is about 300,000.

In fact, due to the backwardness of the industrial level, the city cannot support too many off-duty population, and the population of most of the large cities in the eastern countries is about 200,000 to 300,000.

Nolan, the capital of the Grant Kingdom, has a total population of about 300,000 to 400,000. The important cities in the north, such as Black River Castle, Grizzly Castle, and Flame Castle, had a population of more than 200,000 at their peak.

After more than 30 years in the Dawn Plane, Richard has basically been active in the eastern part of the Central Continent. He has entered many cities and found that the population of large cities is at most 300,000 or 400,000, and the population of smaller cities is only tens of thousands.

Only Fort William, the territory of Harland, has now gathered more than 500,000 people.

Fort William is located in a river valley with a very small area, and the city's land is seriously insufficient.

Due to geographical restrictions, it is actually not suitable to be the capital. Starting ten years ago, many far-sighted officials proposed to Richard to move the capital.

At the beginning, Richard was ready to move the capital to the Losa Basin, and ten years ago, he moved a large number of people from Fort William to the Losa Basin.

Lossa Basin is the best area in the Eagle Mountains. If Harland Territory takes the Eagle Mountains as its core territory and has 200,000 to 300,000 square kilometers of territory, Lossa Basin is very suitable to be the capital.

The situation has developed very quickly in the past ten years. Harland Territory went north to seize Prilan and almost occupied the entire northern prairie. In the south, it also took over the three duchies of Edward, Jonathan, and Fox through the exchange of territories, plus the fertile territory of the three provinces in the northern border.

The geographical location of Prilan and Black River Fort is more suitable for the capital than the Lossa Basin.

Especially Black River Fort, although it has been incorporated into Harland Territory for a short time, it already has a population of 400,000, which is higher than Nolan City. According to the current development speed of Black River Fort, it will surpass William Fort in less than five years and become the largest city in Harland Territory.

Black River Fort has such an outstanding geographical location, with maturely developed land and a large population. Many high-level Harland Territory officials want to set the capital here.

But Richard wanted to set the capital in Prilan or a coastal city.

Although there are many advantages to establishing the capital in Black River Fort, after all, it is too close to the Kingdom of Grant, and the terrain in the southern region is not easy to defend. In addition, it is too far from the northern territory, making it difficult to control the northern territory.

And establishing the capital in Purilan makes it easier to master and control the northern territory.

Establishing the capital in the coastal area is very beneficial to marine trade. Coastal countries such as the East Coast, Sis, and Parame all have their capitals in port cities. Although ocean voyages in the Dawn Plane are more dangerous, Richard knows that only by embracing the ocean can the territory have a better future.

Unfortunately, both Purilan and the coastal areas are now relatively desolate. Whether it is the high-level officials of the territory or ordinary soldiers and officials, they do not want to set the capital here, so the issue of moving the capital has been shelved and has been delayed for several years.

After arriving at Hawkins Castle, the capital of the Parame Kingdom, Richard first met with the high-level officials of the Parame Kingdom and exchanged a large amount of super magic metals with the Parame Kingdom with various magic materials. Then he bought some food and fodder with gold coins and distributed them along the way to Auxerre Castle.

After a few days of rest, Harland led the army to split into two groups.

Richard appointed Sutton as the fleet commander and took the fleet back to Black River Castle to undertake the transportation task. He took Sophia and Sylph to build a military station and supply point. After a few days, they finally arrived at Auxerre Castle.

The headquarters of the Dawn Church is in Auxerre Castle. For this reason, there are many legendary masters near this castle.

After entering Auxerre Castle, Richard went into the city to pay a visit to the Dawn Pope, Saint Covenant Fang.

Saint Covenant Fang is a legendary fourth-level priest. In the era of kingship when the gods were asleep and demigods did not come out, the legendary fourth-level was already the most powerful master. Moreover, Saint Covenant Fang is still a powerful priest who can use the power of artifacts. Most demigods are not his opponents.

This old priest of more than 360 years old is a real heavyweight in the Dawn plane.

Saint Covenant Fang's appearance is quite ordinary, and his clothes look very simple. Like the legendary priest Ma Wei La that Richard had seen, his appearance is already very old, as if he is about to die.

The Dawn Plane is a world with gods. The Pope is the assistant of the gods in managing believers, and his status is second only to the incarnation of the gods. Without devout faith and strong will, it is impossible to accommodate the huge divine power. Therefore, the three views and behavioral standards of each generation of the Pope and legendary priests must have great similarities with the gods.

For all gods in the good camp, the power of the church cannot be evil, and the moral level is higher than the secular world. Unless the gods are eroded by the demon king and have fallen from the good camp to the evil camp, the church will harbor filth.

Among the seven gods in the Dawn Plane, the God of Glory, the Dawn, and the God of Fairness and Justice are all gods in the good camp. The God of Truth, the Goddess of Wealth, the God of the Earth, and the God of Kingship are gods in the neutral camp.

In the doctrines of the Seven Gods Church, fairness and justice, the God of Glory, and the Goddess of Dawn have a lot of content that guides people to be good. The moral standards of the priests of these three families are higher than those of the other four families.

When meeting the Covenant Fang, Richard did not bring any guards or followers. The Covenant Fang was one of the most powerful masters in the Dawn Plane. Even a legendary magician would find it difficult to block his legendary magic.

For such a person to deal with Richard, ordinary guards would be of no use at all.

After meeting Richard, the Covenant Fang asked several followers to leave and took the initiative to shake hands with Richard. Although the Dawn Pope looked very old, his palms were particularly warm. After seeing Richard, the covenant party had a bit of appreciation on his face, nodded with satisfaction and said: "More than 20 years ago, I heard Ma Wei La praise the Duke. Ma Wei La's character is very harsh and serious. To be praised by him, the Duke must have advantages beyond ordinary people.

Today I met the Duke and found that the Duke's self-control is indeed very strong. For more than 20 years, the Duke has not used the power of the God of Killing and has relied on himself to get to this point. The Duke restrained his desires, and only then can he go a long way in the future."

For more than 20 years, Richard has been restraining his desire to become stronger and has not used the power of the God of Killing to advance. By looking at the attribute panel, Richard knows that his killing experience has accumulated to 5 million.

Five million killing experience is enough for Richard to promote the magician and warrior professions to the fourth legendary level.

After Richard's magic and martial arts professions are promoted to the fourth legendary level, his spiritual power will exceed 100 points, and his strength will exceed 70 points. In the entire Dawn Plane, although he has not yet mastered the legendary spell template, Richard's strength is also quite advanced with his strong basic attributes.

At least he has enough strength to fight against a legendary fourth-level magician.

However, if he is promoted by the power of the God of Slaughter, this power will penetrate into Richard's soul and gradually change his character. When he is promoted to a demigod and ignites the divine fire, his soul will become a battlefield for the gods to fight for, which will become quite dangerous.

Compared with when he just crossed over more than 30 years ago, the reason why Richard became cold and murderous, in addition to the pressure of the environment, was that he frequently used the power of the God of Slaughter more than 20 years ago, which was also crucial to his character.

When he met the Dawn Pope Saint Fang, Richard suddenly felt familiar, as if he had met the Pope many years ago.

This strange emotion suddenly appeared in his heart, and Richard couldn't help asking: "Respected Saint Fang, have we met before?"

Saint Fang nodded, not hiding anything from Richard.

"The Duke's perception is indeed very sharp. It was thirty-two years ago. At that time, the bishop of Heihe County discovered that the Duke's soul was possessed by a high-level demon. After receiving the news, I didn't dare to neglect it and rushed to Heihe County to exorcise the demon for you. After exorcising the demon, I discovered the killing power in your body, and used the power of the morning light to suppress it for you for a period of time.

I thought that relying on the power of the goddess of the morning light, I could suppress the power of the God of Killing for thirty years. Unexpectedly, in less than five years, the Duke awakened the killing power, and soon his professional level advanced rapidly. The period from the Duke awakening the killing power to Ma Wei La meeting the Duke was the most frightening few years for me.

The Duke's situation at that time was extremely troublesome to deal with. Once I made up my mind to eliminate the Duke's hidden danger, the God of Slaughter would transfer from the Duke to find the next host. At that time, we will lose the initiative, and it will be very troublesome if the situation is out of control. If the time is delayed a little, the Duke can rely on the power of the God of Slaughter to grow to a very terrifying state.

Once the Duke grows up relying on the power of killing, the power of the Dawn Church may not have a chance of winning. Fortunately, the Duke listened to Ma Wei La's advice, otherwise I would have to clean up this mess myself. "Hearing the story of the Covenant Party and combining it with his own guesses, Richard also had some understanding of his physical condition.

"With the goddess of dawn, there are three gods in my body. When it comes to a critical moment, this will be a big trouble."

Noticing the worry on Richard's face, the covenant party comforted him and said, "The Duke's body is very special. Three divinities are left in the Duke's body, one good, one evil, and one neutral, which just achieves a balance.

The good divinity is left by the goddess, the evil one is the god of killing, and the neutral one is the most special and the most powerful. I don't know which god left it. The will of this divinity seems to have disappeared. When the Duke reaches the step of igniting the divine fire, the goddess will help the Duke suppress the power of the god of killing. It will be easier to ignite the divine fire if he masters the three divinities.

On the road to becoming a god, the Duke has walked far ahead of us old bones."