Chapter 463 Seizing the Demiplane

The power that Sussman left in the half plane was not weak, and he also arranged some powerful magic arrays.

Under the leadership of two high-level and six mid-level magicians, they were able to rely on the geographical advantage to trap Richard in the Rubik's Cube Maze.

After several rounds of fighting, the two sides were actually in a stalemate.

It was obvious that Sussman's students wanted to delay time and wait for the teacher to come and suppress Richard, the terrible enemy.

Unfortunately, they didn't know that Sussman had been exiled to the Azure Plane by Richard. Although the Azure Plane was not too far from the Red Moon Plane and was in the same plane group, in order to return, a lot of preparatory work needed to be done, including the construction of the plane transmission channel and the construction of a simple transmission portal.

To complete these tasks, Sussman alone would take at least a few days to succeed.

The space above the Rubik's Cube Maze suddenly twisted into a door. There was a dazzling white light inside the door, and the energy of the space suddenly dissipated near the door.

In an instant, Sophia, wearing a court dress, walked out of the gate with Eve and Annie, and Richard rushed to the rescue.

Sussman could not return quickly, but Sophia entered the demiplane with Eve and Annie.

Even if Sophia's strength was not as good as Richard's, her mental power was also more than 50 points. She mastered many nine-ring spell templates, and her body had undergone elemental baptism. Her combat power was equivalent to that of half a legendary wizard, and she was also very powerful.

More importantly, Sophia was not trapped in the maze.

In addition, Eve also controlled the legendary golem to launch a frontal attack on the wizard tower.

The wizard tower that Sussman arranged in the demiplane did not have the help of the Red Moon Church warriors, but only 20 golems of different levels to provide melee protection.

Sussman was a legendary magician. Such people essentially wanted to explore the truth of the universe, and their belief in the gods was generally not devout.

Although the power they possessed was very strong and they were high-level in the Red Moon Church, like Senna Walton in the Dawn Plane, they could not actually enter the core of the church.

In any church, the core positions are occupied by priests, which is also the basis for the church to employ people.

Therefore, there are no senior members of the Red Moon Church in the demiplane controlled by Sussman.

The twenty golems arranged by Sussman could not compete with the iron golem at all. Soon, Sussman's students were attacked by Richard and Sofia, and the situation could not be sustained.

Both sides released a lot of large-scale killing spells, and the magic power dissipated in the demiplane space. The magic cube maze lost more than 18% of the rooms. The magic tower arranged by Sussman was also bombarded by Richard and Sofia, and was seriously damaged.

The battle lasted for more than two hours, and almost all of Sussman's students were killed or injured. The few magicians who wanted to escape through the plane portal died in the focused attack of Richard and Sofia.

Although the battle lasted for a short time, Richard, Sofia and others killed more than 160 people and captured more than 30 people.

These thirty people are basically apprentices of mages and low-level mages. They are not the core of the mage organization created by Sussman, and there is not much useful information from them.

Since they are of no value, Richard intends to wipe out these people. After all, in a plane with gods, Richard dare not trust the believers of the Red Moon Goddess.

Although Richard does not like to kill prisoners, he can only do special things at critical moments.

After defeating the opponent and dealing with the prisoners, Richard immediately destroyed the half-plane portal and cut off the main passage between the Red Moon plane and the half-plane. Prevent Sussman from returning and sending a large number of reinforcements to this half-plane through the plane portal.

As for Sussman himself, he can enter this half-plane again through plane positioning and plane travel spells.

After solving most of the troubles, Richard began to explore the half-plane controlled by Sussman.

This half-plane is parasitic on the Red Moon, with irregular shapes and a total area of ​​about 12,000 square kilometers, which is considered medium in the half-plane.

This half-plane has no oxygen and is not suitable for human survival. Unless you are a mid-level or high-level magician who can cast space barrier spells and produce oxygen, you can stay in this demiplane for a long time.

Without oxygen and light, there is naturally no biological activity in this demiplane.

Sussman's students can only stay in the Mage Tower and the Magic Cube Labyrinth. These two magic buildings have special life support systems that can provide space barrier protection and can also produce a large amount of oxygen for human use through spells.

Although there are no plants and animals, this demiplane is not barren.

First of all, the concentration of magic energy particles here is high, which is very suitable for magicians to meditate. Secondly, the demiplane contains rich elemental power and has a large number of super-magic minerals. The most important thing is a large magic crystal mine. As long as there are dozens of magic apprentices, more than 10,000 magic crystals can be dug out every year.

It is precisely because this demiplane is very rich that Sussman will hide it from the people of the Red Moon Church and spend a lot of effort to operate it.

Unfortunately, this battle failed, and this demiplane is about to fall into Richard's control.

All the magic crystals that Sussman has accumulated for many years fell into Richard's hands.

The total number of magic crystals seized from the energy storage room of the Mage Tower is as high as 130,000, almost equal to the inventory of Harland Territory.

You should know that Harland Territory itself is located in an area with abundant magic power. Four magic crystal mines have been discovered, and magic crystal charging technology has been created. It has many magic wells. After years of accumulation, it has stored more than 100,000 magic crystals.

And Sussman is worth about the same as Richard just by relying on a half-plane with abundant mineral resources?

This discovery shocked Richard.

Of course, Harland Territory has advanced magic crystal industrial technology, and it also has to face large-scale wars. The huge amount of magic crystals consumed every year is not as good as Sussman's only input and no output, which is also a fundamental reason.

For example, Harland Territory produced 21,000 magic crystals this year, and charged 38,000 magic crystals, which is equivalent to producing 60,000 magic crystals, but it is still not enough.

Now, the cost of opening the plane channel of the Red Moon Plane alone in a year is allocated to Harland Territory. It will cost 30,000 magic crystals, and the industrial consumption of magic crystals will also be about 20,000. In addition, the 4,000 consumed by magic research and the 38,000 consumed by wars will consume 30,000 stocks in a year.

If the plane channel is still frequently opened and the war is not stopped, even if the magic crystal charging technology is mastered, Harland Territory will not be able to support it unless new magic crystal mines and new magic wells can be found.

Seizing Sussman's batch of magic crystals can buy Harland Territory more than five years, which is extremely important for the development of the territory.

According to the current situation, Richard and Sofia will most likely be promoted to legends in five years, and there will be enough garrisons in the Red Moon Plane. Two of the three Red Moon Plane magic crystal mines controlled by the Holy Glorious Empire will be handed over to Richard, which will not only reduce the consumption of opening the plane channel, but also replenish most of it in the Red Moon Plane.

By then, Harland Territory will have two legendary magicians with bright prospects, and the room for maneuver will be greatly increased.

After destroying the plane channel arranged by Sussman, Richard and Sofia cooperated, and Eve and Annie helped to rebuild a new plane teleportation array soon.

The new portal is located in the Biers Castle controlled by Harland Territory, and the first batch of magicians who entered was as high as more than 30 people.

After these people came in, they immediately began to repair the magician tower and the magic cube maze.

After Sussman returned, he wanted to take back the half plane, but was defeated by Richard and Sofia. He had no choice but to flee the half plane.

In order to defend against Sussman's attack, Richard decided to continue to draw elites from Harland.

At this time, the Four-Nation War had ended, and the situation in Harland was no longer tight. Richard transferred Wendy to the Red Moon Plane.

In April this year, Wendy's professional level was also improved, and she was promoted to an eight-ring magician. Her mental power was also very strong, and it had already exceeded 40 points. Her combat power could be used as a half-legendary magician.

The professional level of Wendy, who stayed behind, was also improved, almost the same as Wendy, and she was promoted to a nine-ring magician.

Wendy is a half-elf. Although she is born with a longer lifespan, it is more difficult to break through the professional level barrier than humans. She has stayed in the eight-ring magician stage for fourteen years. If it weren't for the continuous opportunities after joining Harland, I'm afraid it would take another ten years to complete the promotion.

There are more than a hundred magicians who entered the Red Moon Plane with Wendy, and among them, there are more than sixteen mid-level magicians.

Now, 70% of the magicians of the Harland Territory Mage Association have entered the Red Moon Plane in batches.

With the completion of the restoration and renovation of the Mage Tower, the Rubik's Cube Maze can also be put into use. Harland Territory's foundation in the demiplane is becoming more and more stable, and Sussman is finally completely discouraged. He knows in his heart that it is impossible to take back his demiplane, so he can only give up.

After winning the battle to defend Biers and taking away Sussman's demiplane space. Perhaps she felt threatened, or perhaps she didn't know Richard's background, the Red Moon Goddess did not use the God's Descent to descend, and did not risk using the body of the Saint. The situation in the Red Moon Plane finally calmed down for a while.

In the blink of an eye, time has entered February of the 3279th year of the Dawn Calendar, and Richard has reached the age of forty-three.

Because of taking the Water of Life, his life span has increased by two hundred years, and Richard's appearance still looks relatively young.

According to the economic statistics sent by Roger, Richard found that even though Harland participated in the Four-Nation War last year, the economy was still developing rapidly.

Last year's war broke out on the border, and the battle line basically did not move. Wilde also relied on powerful weapons such as magic crystal cannons to cross the Kampa River, captured seven smaller border castles, and pushed the battle line into the enemy's territory.

The war broke out in the enemy's territory, and the economic and population losses were not serious. On the contrary, Wilde took advantage of the minority advantage and looted more than 300,000 people from the Kingdom of Ryan.

In addition to a small number of free people who voluntarily migrated to Harland, the population of Harland had reached 12.8 million in the household registration books at the end of the year. The number of free people has increased again, exceeding 10 million in statistics for the first time.

With 10 million free people, the field tax alone can collect nearly 3.4 million. In addition to other taxes such as commercial taxes, tariffs, and property taxes, Harland's tax revenue last year was as high as 4.7 million, which is close to the level of the Grant royal family.

After nearly thirty years of development, the number of free citizens in Harland Territory has far exceeded that of indentured slaves. According to statistics from the official household registration department, there are only more than 1.6 million indentured slaves in the territory. If there is no influx of indentured slaves within five years, Harland Territory will lose the indentured slave class.

In addition to taxation, Harland Territory also has a large number of state-owned enterprises. Although state-owned enterprises are not very active, corruption and waste are very serious, and profits are not as good as private enterprises, many state-owned enterprises are monopolistic industries and can steadily turn in a large amount of profits every year.

Last year, the fiscal revenue of Harland Territory reached 7.2 million. This fiscal level has surpassed the coastal kingdoms such as East Coast and Sith, and has ranked first among the nearby kingdoms.

With sufficient fiscal revenue, Harland Territory will naturally continue to expand its army. Despite the war last year and the huge increase in fiscal expenditure, the army of Harland Territory is still expanding rapidly.

Last year alone, Harland Territory added more than 20,000 soldiers, and the total force increased to 190,000.

Among them, the Red Moon Plane expanded 6,000 native soldiers, and the Harland Territory expanded 14,000 people.

As of February 3279 of the Dawn Calendar, the number of Harland Territory entering the Red Moon Plane was as high as 10,000. Last winter, the second batch of 6,000 soldiers was recruited from the natives of the Red Moon Plane.

As the army increased, the Holy Glorious Empire handed over part of the territory. This time, in addition to the border castle, it also owned part of the rear territory, including a small magic crystal mine. From this magic crystal mine, Harland Territory can get about 2,000 magic crystals a year.

Including the territory transferred this year, Harland Territory has controlled 90,000 square kilometers of land in the Red Moon Plane, which is equivalent to a duchy in the Eastern Countries.

Including new recruits, Richard controls an army of about 22,000 people.

There are about 400,000 natives living on the 90,000 square kilometers of land. After all, most of the territories controlled by Richard are frontline, and because of frequent wars, there are basically no people on the frontline.

The management of these 400,000 people is relatively chaotic, and they also rely on the locals of the Red Moon Plane.

After all, most of the bureaucrats in Harland Territory are not professionals, and it is difficult for them to survive in the Red Moon Plane and block special germs.

Unable to transfer bureaucrats from the Dawn Plane, Richard can only select talents from the locals to straighten out the ruling order.

Of course, one of Richard's most important grasps is the families of the local garrisons. These people add up to a total of 50,000 to 60,000 people, because their families serve in the Harland Territory army, they can be relatively trustworthy.

Last year's war was also a great boost to the industry of Harland.

The output of steel has once again surged, and has increased to 380,000 tons.

The railway has also been built to the city of Padin on the western border. Richard also wants to build a railway in the Grand Duchy of Stannic and enter the Earldom of Philip in the south, but looking at the intention of the Grand Duchy of Stannic, it is obvious that he does not want to agree.

Since the western railway cannot be extended further, Richard intends to let the railway department focus on the east and prepare to build the railway to the original Duke of Jonathan.

Now that Harland has abundant fiscal revenue and sufficient manpower and material resources, Richard plans to build two railways at one time to open the section from King's Castle to East Castle. Then continue to advance along East Castle and build it all the way to the Morning Glory Castle at the mouth of the Black River.

In addition, in the southern foothills of the Eagle Mountains, Richard also plans to build a branch line to build the railway from the Twin Star Castle to the Annis Castle, and finally lead to the dragon's lair.

With the advancement of the railway, the territory will be further developed and the economic foundation will be more solid.

Unknowingly, the great era of railways in Harland has quietly arrived.