Chapter 481 Successfully Crowned King

After Catherine, Marta and the Holy Covenant defeated the body of the Red Moon Goddess, the power of the Dawn Church once again gained the upper hand in the Red Moon plane.

Taking this opportunity, the Dawn Papal State and Harland launched a counterattack against the enemy. Taking advantage of the chaos caused by the defeat of the Red Moon Goddess, the two armies easily broke through the enemy's defense line, as if entering a no-man's land. Even the remaining troops of the Holy Glorious Empire seized the opportunity to rush over and take advantage.

The three parties joined forces and dispatched 300,000 troops to directly expel the power of the Red Moon Church from the Deen Continent, winning a brilliant victory.

This war completely hit the Red Moon Church hard. Pope Gloria was killed by Richard and Sophia, and could only reincarnate her soul. Even if she recovered her strength in another 20 or 30 years, her soul's lifespan would soon be exhausted. Unless a life-extending treasure similar to the Water of Life can be found, or the Red Moon Goddess is willing to grant divinity, Gloria may be able to extend her life.

The body of the saint of the Red Moon Goddess was also severely injured by Catherine and the other two, and was damaged.

Although the Dawn Church cannot destroy the Red Moon Church in one fell swoop, it has controlled the Central Continent after this battle and seized nearly four million square kilometers of land, which is equivalent to two and a half duchies of Harland.

In addition to the Holy Light Empire, Harland also made great contributions in this battle. After discussion, the Dawn Church decided to give Harland County 600,000 square kilometers of land.

When the Holy Light Empire invited Harland County to enter the Red Moon Plane, it gave up 1.2 million square kilometers of land. In addition to the 600,000 square kilometers of land granted in this battle, Harland County already has 1.8 million square kilometers of land in the Red Moon Plane, which is much larger than the territory of the Dawn Plane.

But the foundations of the two sides are not comparable.

Harland County has a strong foundation in the Dawn Plane, with an army of 200,000. After nearly 30 years of accumulation, it has developed a primary industrial civilization, and the magic civilization has also been promoted to a relatively high level.

After more than 30 years of operation, Richard has a very high prestige in Harland Territory. Especially the local population of one million and several million people, the foundation is very deep.

In the Red Moon Plane, because of the instigation of the Red Moon Church, the environment is completely similar to the enemy-occupied area.

Even the 1.2 million square kilometers of land given up by the Holy Glorious Empire is just barely managed, and the 600,000 square kilometers of land occupied by the Red Moon Church is even more unpopular and full of crises.

The population here, whether it is the remaining nobles or serfs, are all believers of the Red Moon Goddess, and they wish to kill every invading enemy.

Richard can only rely on 60,000 elite soldiers to suppress these people.

Because the microorganisms of the two worlds are slightly different, it is difficult for ordinary people to survive after migrating to the Red Moon Plane. In addition, the cost of opening the plane channel is too high, and Richard is unable to migrate to this world on a large scale. Therefore, the Red Moon Plane can only adopt a tethered rule, on the one hand to win over the local nobles, on the other hand to reward many hereditary heroes.

This group of hereditary heroes mainly came from the natives of the Red Moon Plane of the Dawn Papal State. Harland had been in the Red Moon Plane for less than five years, and his foundation was not deep. The highest level of native soldiers trained was promoted to the third-level warrior, and the title was useless.

As for the officers of the Dawn Plane, Richard also thought it was not feasible after evaluation.

After all, a nobleman with no one can control the territory at all. Without sufficient repressive power, he will soon die in the wave of resistance.

Only the natives with a foundation in the Red Moon Plane can stabilize the situation with the support of the garrison. If you want to really control the situation, Richard needs to mobilize 200,000 troops in the Red Moon Plane and cultivate a class that supports him.

The Red Moon Plane is full of enemies, and Richard can't do any industrial revolution in this plane. He doesn't even plan to start education, open up people's wisdom, and make the soil of the territory more suitable for industrial civilization.

In Richard's conception, the territory of the Red Moon Plane is completely a colony in a short period of time. On the one hand, it is used to collect taxes to support the army and dump high-value goods. On the other hand, it provides extraordinary resources and completes the mission of the Holy Glorious Empire by the way, wearing the crown on the head.

After winning this war of gods, the territory of the Dawn Papal State has been greatly expanded, almost reaching 5 million square kilometers, and the territory of Harland Territory in the Red Moon Plane has also increased to 1.8 million square kilometers. Even the Holy Glorious Empire, which is preparing to evacuate here, has retained 600,000 square kilometers of land.

The three parties joined forces to divide the Deen Continent in the Red Moon Plane.

Now Harland Territory has stationed 60,000 elite soldiers in the Red Moon Plane. Although the number is still small, the combat effectiveness of this army is quite amazing.

After all, the soldiers who enter the Red Moon Plane are carefully selected, and the lowest is a high-level apprentice with outstanding physical fitness. The number has exceeded 30,000 in five years. The natives selected from the Red Moon Plane have also undergone years of training. Many people stand out, and more than a thousand people have been promoted to the professional class.

In addition, a large number of artillery, magic airships, and even the Wyvern Knights entered the Red Moon Plane, which were basically all transferred to the Red Moon Plane.

Judging from the quality of the soldiers, the army of the Red Moon Plane is stronger than that of the Dawn Plane.

It is precisely relying on this strong army that the stability of the occupied area of ​​the Red Moon Plane can be maintained.

After controlling 1.8 million square kilometers of land, Harland Territory has six magic crystal mines, which can mine 15,000 magic crystals every year.

Although the land area of ​​the Red Moon Plane is less than one-tenth of that of the Dawn Plane, this plane is not barren.

The most intuitive point is that the land of the Red Moon Plane has a huge reserve of magic crystals.

Although it is not as good as the Dawn Plane in general, according to the statistics of the Dawn Church, the reserves of magic crystals in the Red Moon Plane are equivalent to one-third of the Dawn Plane.

It is precisely because of such a huge reserve of magic crystals that the Dawn Church and the Holy Glory Empire can open the plane portal so frequently.

After seizing the new territory, Harland Territory can mine 25,000 magic crystals in the Red Moon Plane territory in a year, which can basically cover the consumption of opening the plane portal.

Moreover, the magic plants planted in the Red Moon Plane and the magic potions refined can also make profits for Harland Territory.

Because Catherine and Marta live in the Red Moon Plane, the Dawn Church, Harland Territory, and the Holy Glory Empire have decided to reduce the frequency of opening the plane channel again after consultation.

Opening the plane channel once a month can allow the two planes to communicate.

After reducing the frequency of opening the plane channel, Harland Territory can even earn a lot of magic crystal profits from the Red Moon Plane.

In order to maintain the stability of the situation, Richard continued to send troops to the Red Moon Plane. By July, Harland's army had expanded to 80,000 people in the Red Moon Plane.

At this moment, Harland has been in the Red Moon Plane for five years, and has consumed 100,000 magic crystals before gaining a foothold in the Red Moon Plane. To recover this investment, it may take six or seven years for the Red Moon Plane to maintain stability.

This does not include the investment in gold coins and the sacrifice of personnel.

The elite who entered the Red Moon Plane from the Dawn Plane alone, more than 2,000 people died in battle or died of illness, and the number of wounded soldiers exceeded 10,000, but most of them can recover, and only 1,600 people are disabled.

These people have to receive a pension of nearly 40,000 gold coins every year. After all, they are not ordinary soldiers. The soldiers who entered the Red Moon Plane are basically officers. Many of them have a long military service, and they have to pay higher pensions if they die in battle.

It took five years, and the handover between Harland and the Holy Glorious Empire was finally completed.

According to the agreement between Richard and Emperor Edward, after the handover of the territory of the Red Moon plane is completed, a crown will be worn on Richard's head.

According to common sense, the establishment of a frontier kingdom is a very complicated and troublesome ceremony.

Richard needs to take his elite legion to the San Siro Castle, pass through the Triumphal Gate, accept the cheers of the San Siro subjects, wear a wreath, and parade along San Siro.

After the parade celebration, accept the blessing of the Glorious Church, and Emperor Edward VII will personally put the crown on Richard, and this frontier kingdom can be recognized by the Holy Glorious Empire.

Harland Territory is more than 16,000 kilometers away from San Siro. Even if there are military stations along the way, it takes a lot of time to go back and forth. It also takes a huge amount of money to buy supplementary supplies along the way.

Moreover, after entering the Holy Glorious Empire, there is no guarantee of safety.

After considering the above factors, Richard decided to discuss with Earl Truss to simplify the ceremony of crowning the king, and it would be best if a prince of the Holy Glorious Empire could enter Harland with the crown.

Compared with the false reputation recognized by the subjects of the Holy Glorious Empire, Richard was most concerned about getting rid of the shackles of the Grant Kingdom as soon as possible, obtaining complete autonomy, and making Harland a new look.

After Richard was crowned king, the spiritual temperament of the subjects of Harland will become more confident, and they will not feel inferior when they meet the Nolans.

Auxerre Castle is the headquarters of the Church of Dawn, from which there is a super long-distance teleportation array that directly enters San Siro of the Holy Glorious Empire.

Although it takes thousands of magic crystals to activate a teleportation array, it can only teleport 20 to 30 people at a time, and each person needs to bear hundreds of gold coins, which ordinary people cannot afford. Even small and medium-sized hereditary nobles can lose their family assets by taking a few long-distance teleportation arrays a year.

Even the great nobles of the earl class in the eastern countries will feel painful when they open a teleportation array.

However, this level of consumption is already a drop in the bucket for Harland County. In the two years before entering the Red Moon Plane, Harland County had to share 36,000 magic crystals every year just to open the plane portal.

Richard directly paid for Count Truss to return to the San Siro Palace to discuss the matter of crowning the king with Emperor Edward VII.

With the awakening of the goddess of dawn and the demigod Catherine's descent, the situation in the dawn plane has changed again.

Among the seven gods of the dawn plane, although the gods of glory, fairness and justice are all powerful gods, according to the agreement signed by the seven gods, the four gods of glory, justice, wealth and truth cannot descend in person. When the real body cannot lead the general, the power of the three gods of dawn becomes more powerful.

In the past three thousand years, the three gods of dawn have been severely injured and fell asleep one after another, so the Glorious Church has developed the best, and the Holy Glorious Empire is the only one. After the orc war a thousand years ago, it completely surpassed the god of kingship and took control of the richest land in the dawn plane.

Now that the goddess of dawn has awakened, the top level of combat power cannot be balanced. The Holy See of Glory must gradually give up the dominant position according to the changes in the situation, otherwise it will face a religious war.

Because of this background, Emperor Edward was unwilling to offend Richard, the favored person of the goddess of dawn. The Holy Empire of Glory readily agreed to Richard's request.

In fact, according to religious ethics, Richard's crown should be conferred by the Pope of Dawn. After all, Richard is the favored person of the goddess of dawn and has a very close relationship with the Dawn Church.

But the goddess of dawn has been asleep for more than three thousand years, and now the Holy Empire of Light is the common ruler of the human beings in the dawn plane. Most people believe in the God of Light. If they want to be recognized by the nobles, they must be canonized by the Holy Empire of Light.

It was August, and Henry, the third son of Emperor Edward VII, entered William Castle. Under the witness of the Holy Covenant of the Pope of the Dawn Church, he put the crown on Richard's head.

After traveling to the dawn plane for thirty-five years, Richard has reached the first peak of his life from a ten-year-old child who was ignorant and often fearful.

The hereditary nobles in the dawn plane have reached this point and have reached the highest peak.

After the establishment of the Kingdom of Harland, it has 1.54 million square kilometers of land, divided into the northern direct territory and the southern Duke of Rex.

The Duke of William and the Earl of Philip are considered branches of the Harland family, and are still vassals of the Grant royal family, just like the Duke of Jonathan before.

If there is a chance to complete the exchange of territories in the future, we can also negotiate with the Grant family to merge these two territories into the Harland Kingdom. Of course, this requires opportunities and time.

The area of ​​the northern direct territory is 1.26 million square kilometers, which has a very large expansion space. Whether it is the northern prairie, the coastal forest, or the northern ice field, it is now considered an unowned land.

As long as the Orc Prairie Governor's District is defeated, this land will be in the bag. Controlling the two natural barriers of the northern prairie, the Eagle, and the Silver Wolf Mountains, the Harland Territory will become a powerful kingdom with an area of ​​tens of millions of square kilometers.

If it can unify more than 20 scattered countries in the south, the potential can be comparable to the Holy Glorious Empire.

Now the only thing that can limit the rapid expansion of the Harland Kingdom is the population. Without sufficient population, even if Richard defeats the Prairie Governor's District, he can't control the place.

According to this year's population statistics, the population of the Harland Kingdom has reached nearly 28 million, but compared with the vast territory, many areas have not been effectively developed and look uninhabited.

In general, after years of development by the East Coast United Kingdom, the Dukedom of Rex is the most densely populated. Richard plans to slowly draw population from the Dukedom of Rex to support the development of the eastern coastal areas and even Prilan.