Chapter 54: Making Iron Armor

Nineteen bottles of potion were left for the soldiers. Two high-level warrior students who practiced the Silver Wolf Breathing Method could take four bottles.

A soldier who practiced the Barbarian Bull Breathing Method took three bottles.

This soldier who practiced the Barbarian Bull Breathing Method was a grassroots officer of the Delong Kingdom. He had already exchanged for the fourth level of the Barbarian Bull Breathing Method, but was captured by Duke Gis in the war and eventually became a slave.

In fact, this person's chance of advancing to a professional is worse than the two soldiers who practiced the Silver Wolf Breathing Method.

But without the follow-up breathing method, this person is not as promising as the soldiers who practiced the Silver Wolf Breathing Method.

Not everyone is William, who can successfully switch breathing methods.

Most people who switch to breathing methods will inevitably have serious physical problems, and they may even die on the spot if they are not careful.

The Dawn Church has made statistics that only three out of a hundred people who switch to breathing methods can succeed.

The remaining ninety-seven failures, twenty-three died on the spot, and nineteen were paralyzed. Six vomited blood severely, and thirty-two had severe body pain. They stopped practicing breathing methods and their physical fitness seriously deteriorated.

Seventeen others barely succeeded, but completely lost the ability to advance.

Such serious consequences let people know that once the breathing method is practiced, it must not be changed.

This is a truth that all professionals understand.

Unfortunately, the Harland family was born in a humble family, and William practiced the breathing method ignorantly. When he entered the Northern Legion, he realized that he had taken a detour.

William originally planned to withdraw from the Northern Legion and find a way to join the Crazy Lion Legion.

During an operation, William found a fifth-level magic plant in the Eagle Mountains. He was attacked by the magic beast guarding the magic plant. After escaping death, he swallowed the magic plant in a panic.

William fled into a cave, and the magic beast was blocked at the entrance because of its huge size. In order to avoid being killed by the furious magic beast, he had to take the risk of switching to the breathing method, but it turned out to be very smooth. He became a formal professional and escaped the pursuit of the magic beast.

Officers and outstanding soldiers divided the remaining Tenghui potions, and the remaining eight bottles of potions were left for ordinary soldiers.

These eight bottles of Tenghui potions should also be given to soldiers who have made rapid progress in breathing methods as much as possible.

Soldiers with average qualifications are not qualified to buy it at all.

Richard asked soldiers who had used Tenghui Potion in detail, and wrote letters to Hayden and Powell, and found that the effect of Tenghui Potion on each person was different.

The best two or three, like Richard, increased their cultivation progress by about 30%. Most soldiers who used Tenghui Potion could only increase their progress by more than 10%, and some even by a few percent.

From the effect after taking Tenghui Potion, we can also observe the talent of soldiers in practicing breathing.

After using Tenghui Potion, two soldiers successfully advanced to professionals. Their names are Jennings and Vincent.

Vincent is the soldier who practiced the Bull Breathing Method. After becoming a professional, he was promoted by Richard to the deputy captain of the second squadron.

Jennings was an ordinary slave, and his family was sold to the Harland Territory.

When Jennings suffered from the plague, Richard used healing to save his life. He had a strong sense of belonging to the Harland Territory and was very loyal to Richard.

Jennings is undoubtedly very talented to become a professional in less than three years.

If he is lucky, he can survive in one war after another and may even become a high-level professional. It's a pity that the Silver Wolf Breathing Method can only be promoted to the fifth-level professional. Practicing this breathing method may waste Jennings' talent.

Judging from Jennings' experience, there are many excellent talents among ordinary slaves and civilians. It depends on whether the superiors can recognize the pearls.

After entering winter, all outdoor projects can only be stopped.

Richard bought a batch of iron materials from Black River Fort and hired several high-level blacksmiths at a high price to prepare to make some armor.

Now there are two squadrons of soldiers in Harland Territory, with a total of about 300 people.

There are seven professionals in the two squadrons, and the soldiers have been trained for two years.

Soldiers practiced the Silver Wolf Breathing Method on a large scale. Even if they were of average talent, most of them advanced to elementary warrior students.

With the help of the power of Tenghui potion, six soldiers with good talent broke through the realm and were promoted to high-level warrior students.

Judging from their physical fitness alone, the soldiers of these two squadrons are no worse than the main army.

However, in terms of equipment, they are far from being comparable to the main army. Not only do they not have powerful weapons such as enchanted bows and explosive arrows, but ordinary armor is also far from enough.

Richard plans to make some iron armor this winter to provide some protection for grassroots officers.

In the past two years, the Harland Territory has trained some slaves who can forge iron, and the territory of ordinary farm tools can be self-sufficient.

However, making armor requires higher ironmaking skills.

The craftsmen who can make armor in Black River Fort are all high-quality talents, and they basically serve the nobles.

William has a wide network of contacts in Black River Fort. The noble officer Tengwei Saman, who he saved in the past, is now the deputy commander of the Northern Army.

The Saman family is the first batch of military nobles in the Northern Territory. The territory is in the hinterland of the Northern Territory, south of Lightburg, the capital of Geda Province.

The kingdom's territory in the North is divided into three provinces, and a main army is stationed in each province.

The territory of the Geda Province includes the Dragon Canyon, the eastern part of the Platos Mountains, and the southern foothills of the Eagle Mountains. It is located in the middle of the three northern provinces of the royal family.

The western Gascoyne province is relatively desolate, with the only densely populated area being the Laber Basin. The Mad Lion Legion is stationed in the Flame Castle in the north of the Gascoyne province.

The Pratos Fortress is located at the junction of the two provinces. The Barony of Harden in the west is under the jurisdiction of the Gascoyne province, while the Barony of Stopa and the Barony of Harland in the east are under the jurisdiction of the Gedda province.

The best developed royal territory is the eastern Rach province, which not only has the main Grizzlies Legion, but also the Eagle Legion and the Swallow Legion to assist.

The Rach province borders the Duke of Jonathan's territory. There may be other reasons why the Grant Kingdom stationed three central legions in this province.

The royal family will be on guard against the Jonathan family, which ranks second in strength.

Although the Saman family's territory is far less than that of Harland, which is only more than 400 square kilometers, it is densely populated with a population of more than 50,000.

As hereditary barons, the Saman family is now much stronger than the Harland family.

In order to make armor, William found his old superior Teng Wei.

Teng Wei gave William face and selected the best blacksmiths from the blacksmith shop controlled by the Saman family to come to Harland Territory.

With the guidance of this group of highly skilled blacksmiths, by March of the following year, it took more than five months for Harland Territory to successfully make more than 30 pieces of armor, which increased the protection of the grassroots officers at the squad level.

In addition, during these five months, Richard arranged for the blacksmiths in the territory to make 50,000 iron arrows.