While Reilly was making waves in Cedar City, Richard, who had returned to Faro one step later, also took action.

He began by issuing a long list of more than twenty nobles, large and small, who were not welcome to the Church, including even two counts, who were to be stripped of all their interests in the Bloodstained Lands and were not allowed to enter the areas under the control of the Church. In addition, their territory must be open to the church so that the clergy of the Three Goddesses can spread the faith.

Having seen Reilly's method of burning the nobles in public in the House of Lords, one had no doubt that Richard would do something even more terrible. Once someone blocks the entry of those "church personnel", he will definitely directly send troops to destroy the other party. Throughout the history of Faro, which war of faith was not full of blood and darkness?

Richard's list includes both families worshipped by their ancestors and followers of the god of courage, Inner Security. Of course, this list can also be interpreted from another angle. Some of the people targeted by Richard were careerists who were running around trying to carve up his interests in the Bloodstained Lands, some were the most staunch royal parties, and some were nobles who interfered with the succession of Duke Wolf.

After the list spread, the Sequoia Kingdom was in an uproar, and Richard had already walked out of the Bloodstained Land with a group of knights, and his first stop was the Duke of Wolves.

Richard sought out Toffler, Duke of the Blue Wolf's heir, and led him into Deep Rock City, where he drove out a group of nobles who had taken possession of the Magpie's Nest and the officers they had installed.

The next day, Richard bid farewell to the new Duke of the Blue Wolf, Toffler, and went to the county of Duis.

Duis was the largest nobleman on that list, and the brave Earl responded to Richard's arrival with five thousand privates.

This time, Richard only took five hundred knights out, but he also felt that he could walk sideways in the Sequoia Kingdom.

In the first assault, Richard's Constructed Knights scuttled through Duis's Chinese army, and the Count himself was stunned by Tiramisu and captured alive. After that, Richard spent another half an hour chasing down the remnants of the enemy.

The end result of the battle was that two hundred of the Earl's private army were killed and four thousand captured, and only a few hundred people who were quick enough to move escaped from the battlefield. And most of the 200 war dead were born from the first assault of Richard's legion.

These hapless guys had wanted to test Richard's strength before deciding whether to surrender or not. Their thoughts can't be wrong, after all, the number of people on Richard's side is too small to be able to kill themselves. However, these people are simply too unlucky, and they seriously overestimate their strength. They couldn't even parry the blow of the humanoid knight, and they still blocked the way of the charge, so they ...... You know.

The main force was wiped out, and the castle surrendered. Richard publicly pronounced the trial of Duis: because the Count was an unforgivable blasphemer against the Church by force, he himself was to be sent to the Bloodstained Land to serve hard labor, and his domain was to be inherited by his three sons. As for whether the Earldom will not be split into three viscounties, this is beyond Richard's consideration.

Count Duis was followed by Viscount Diem, who showed his obedience to Richard and surrendered his interests in the Bloodstained Lands.

Next, Richard encountered an army of 20,000 men in the domain of the Count of Lohr. Some of the nobles on Richard's list organized coalition armies as a way to demonstrate against Richard. Their real idea was to put the problem on the negotiating table rather than on the battlefield, but Richard had no interest in negotiating and went straight to the charge.

Five hundred ferocious knights formed a torrent of steel, cutting through the opponent's line directly from the middle. After this tactic was repeated four times, the coalition finally collapsed and was defeated.

This time, Richard was unable to pursue the scattered enemy, and he brought too few fighters.

After nightfall, the coalition forces regrouped in the rear, but Lina and another archmage suddenly appeared and cast a series of group attack spells into the coalition barracks, blasting the noble private army and the newly assembled troops to collapse again.

Shortly after the defeat of the Norland Expeditionary Force, the surviving archmagus was persuaded by Richard to surrender, and it was the first archmagus that Richard himself recruited.

Eventually, Richard captured the nobles who organized the coalition and sent them to the bloodstained land to serve hard labor, including an earl, three viscounts, and a baron. Richard did not plunder the property of these people, but left it to the corresponding heirs.

After this battle, the nobles on the list no longer dared to use force against Richard.

This parade not only caused a storm in the Sequoia Kingdom, but also shocked the surrounding countries, and the Church of the God of Courage was even more shocked.

There is no unified faith in the Redwood Kingdom, and the major churches and ancestor worship families are at loggerheads. The church in Neian has been operating in the Redwood Kingdom for the longest time and has the strongest foundations. The god of courage has long regarded the Redwood Kingdom as his own territory, and the church has been doing its best to promote the faith. In the past few years, while using various means to divide mission areas with other churches, they have meddled in the affairs of the kingdom and suppressed the aristocratic families who worshipped their ancestors.

In the battle at the gates of the House of Lords, the Church of Courage had actually entered the battle, only to be killed by Reilly with three priests, not sparing even the corpses.

But this time, the Church of Courage, which had always been strong, unexpectedly chose to remain silent, and it was the Church of the Three Goddesses whose prestige rose with the success of Richard's parade.

On the other hand, as Richard's rule in the Bloodstained Lands became more entrenched, a large number of merchants and adventurers flocked to the smell of gold. More and more people chose to settle in the oases, and a large number of commoners brought their families to Richard's name and became his official subjects. This number has broken through the 100,000 mark in the last count, and there are ten times as many slaves.

On the other side of the Bloodstained Lands, the development of the Forge Dwarves is also on the fast track. They had just annexed three small tribes, gaining tens of thousands of people and 10,000 qualified dwarven warriors.

Richard was still transporting a steady stream of supplies in exchange for the dwarves' ore.

The abundance of food, the abundance of liquor, and all sorts of consumer goods that ordinary dwarves had never seen before came at them, almost dazzling their eyes.

Previously, the dwarves felt that their ore was inexhaustible. But after the trade channel was really opened, they found that the ore accumulated in the warehouse for hundreds of years was rapidly decreasing, and the demand of human friends was simply a bottomless pit.

Richard gave all the ore to Reilly, made into various equipment in his alchemy factory, and then sold it to the Faroes. This comes and goes, and it is several times the profit!

Even in the Norland plane, where the magical civilization is extremely developed, there is no workshop whose production efficiency can compare to that of Rayleigh's alchemy factory. In the manufacture of mass production products, there is no comparison between handicraft workshops and industrial production lines. Reilly already has three hundred and fifty puppet mages, and with enough raw materials, these tireless workers can craft hundreds of high-quality equipment every day. And in Norland, it's not bad that the same number of mages can make a dozen sets. As the scale of production expands, this gap will widen further and further.

However, with the growth of the puppet army, the fine-tier equipment can no longer satisfy Reilly. For the Divine Sun Knight and Magic Mage at the Sanctuary level, the Elite level equipment can only be said to be stronger than nothing.

In order to redress his troops, Reilly went headlong into the laboratory, constantly using alchemy to create excellent equipment. According to the principle of equivalent exchange, Reilly can directly convert materials into corresponding items.

With his current ability, he can refine dual-attribute embryos, and these attributes can be stacked with enchantment effects. Items made by Raleigh have the properties of toughness and self-healing once completed. The former makes these equipment less susceptible to damage, and the latter allows them to repair themselves by devouring materials, so the equipment made by Reilly is durable.

If the Norland plane is characterized by magical pattern construction, then the strength of the world of Entagri is alchemy. Reilly has mastered the technology of material refining through the Star Library, which is an advantage that the Norland powerhouse cannot imagine. When he breaks through the legend, he can refine the best three-attribute embryo, and then he will have the foundation of legendary equipment.

On the other hand, after Richard and Toffler made a new covenant, Reilly's mission was completed. A skull-like helmet flew out of the Tower of Eternity, and Rayleigh studied it for a long time, but he couldn't tell what kind of animal it was, only knowing that this equipment could withstand the legendary level of soul attacks.

In addition, new tasks have been released:

[Side Mission 5: Founding a Nation]

Objective: Help Richard build a new nation.

Reward: Bone Breastplate.