Richard's vision is very accurate, and the enchanted equipment that Farrow has put into it is a real high-end product, and it is also the most profitable part. The cost of the enchanted longsword that can be bought from Noland for 5,000 gold coins is at least 3,000 or more, and such a high cost cannot guarantee a stable supply and a large number of supplies. Moreover, the quantity put by Richard was too large, and hundreds of high-quality equipment were sold, which finally attracted the attention of the Mage Association, and after a little investigation, he found the source of this batch of new sophisticated equipment.

It can be said that Richard touched the core interests of the Mage Association, which is why a large number of mages came to the door. The Mage Guild of the Sequoia Kingdom is first considered to maintain the status quo, and then under the system of the Mage Guild that includes Richard. In other words, it is in the best interest of the Mage Guild to completely eliminate the variable of Richard. As for the part of the equipment that Richard had already taken out, of course, it should be taken over by the association. What the Mage Guild hopes is that there will be no similar large number of fine-grade equipment in the future. Only in this way will the Mage Guild be able to maintain the high price of high-quality magic equipment.

That's why Kalimi came up with such harsh conditions. If Richard bows his head, he will completely become a coolie of the Mage Guild, and if he does not bow his head, it will give the Mage Guild an excuse to eliminate him. As for the teacher behind Richard, the Mage Guild, with its eleven archmagisters, didn't think it needed to fear any single mage. Of course, the Archmage here is determined by the standards of the Faro plane, not the eighteenth level of Norland.

And Richard will never give up the high profits of enchanted equipment, standard weapons and armor are just the beginning, what is truly precious is non-standard epic, or even legendary-level equipment. These can be sold at Faro for a sky-high price, so that Richard can exchange for more resources, and then exchange resources for wealth in Norland and turn them into his own power. This is the foundation of Richard's growing strength, and it is also the source of the wealth of the plane.

So there is a fundamental conflict of interest between Richard and the Mage Guild, either devoured or destroyed, without the slightest room for reconciliation and compromise.

The reason why Richard let Kalimimi's group go back was just to avoid an imminent war with the Mage Guild and delay for a while. Moreover, the mage guild's gold-robed and silver-robed mages are weak, so there is not much threat if they are put back.

The army that followed Richard on his second expedition to the west totaled 15,000 men, of which 5,000 were subordinate to Richard, most of whom were slave fighters transferred from the Battle of the Oasis Meat Grinder. In addition to the one hundred and fifty junior knights, there were more than two hundred surviving humanoid warriors, and only one hundred and fifty grenadiers remained. In the battle of the meat grinder, the losses of the brood warriors were also heavy.

The only good news was that Crimson had been promoted to rank 10 during those four days of fighting. There are also faint signs of promotion. Only Richard was still a certain distance away from the thirteenth level of magic, but a large number of stars had been replenished into the main trunk of the phantasmal star, causing more than a dozen leaves with light blue stars to grow on the two existing branches. The two abilities of the phantom star have been enhanced, and every time he meditates, there are more than a dozen stars flying around Richard, and the frequency of second-order stars that are two or three times the effect of ordinary stars has increased significantly, so that Richard can't catch them. In addition, Richard found that his body was able to absorb free energy from its surroundings and convert it into magical power, thus increasing the speed at which his magic power was restored. As a result, Richard's mana recovery speed was now twice as fast as that of a normal mage.

And now on the main trunk of the Phantom Star bloodline, there is a third branch to grow. Richard was looking forward to the new abilities that were on the horizon.

From the gold-robed and silver-robed mages of the Mage Guild, Richard actually found nearly 100 magic crystals! In the human realm, this is a huge wealth of 500,000. These magic crystals were all given to the brood by Richard, and now if the sixth-order brood wants to add an additional combat unit to create zào ability, it needs to absorb sixty mana crystals, and it can only be improved once. The remaining forty Mana Crystals will become the Brood's energy reserves, and will begin to evolve abilities related to the direction of magic. This is a huge investment, according to the calculation of the brood, it takes more than a thousand magic crystals to create a combat unit with magical abilities. Now Richard has no money left to devote to magic, and what he is trying to strengthen is the rank of the brood itself and the number of battle units created by Zào.

The brood and war are two monsters that devour gold coins, and their appetites are never satisfied.

After the enhancement, the brood can produce four knights per day, eight humanoid warriors, nine slings, and eleven tusks for tusks. Of course, you can only choose one of them every day.

During the Western Crusade, Richard had the brood produce knights at full capacity, but left all the knights in the turbulent land to gather the knights when he returned. In the second half of the longitudinal line plan, Lee felt that relying on the existing strength at hand was enough. Although the armies of Count Latour and Countess Catherine did not agree with Richard's authority in the newly incorporated troops, Count Latour was pressed by Sim, and Richard was not worried. Countess Catherina's troops, Richard took in only the most elite of a thousand people. It's just that the leading general of this army, Ms. Anna, gave Richard a headache. This lady is beautiful and haughty, and her fourteenth-level combat power makes her appear extremely confident and dismissive of any man. Richard was worried about whether she would be completely obedient to command in the coming war, so he simply reduced the countess's forces to a minimum proportion.

Lady Anna's purpose was not to participate in the Western Crusade, but to keep an eye on Viscount Chim, so there was no objection to this.

The first stop in the second half of the line was Camp Canovinsson. Canovinson is the hub and base camp of various barbarian tribes, similar to the capital of the human kingdom. Dozens of races can be found in this camp, which occupies more than a dozen square kilometers, including minotaurs, orcs, ogres, trolls, gray dwarves, evil gnomes, cavemen, and even goblins and narries, belonging to hundreds of tribes. There are many contradictions and even blood feuds between various races and tribes, which has led to constant conflicts and killings.

At Camp Canovinson you can see fighting, crowding, and even killing every day. It was also a concentration camp for bandits from inhuman tribes, and if the warriors of each tribe pulled out of the camp, they would quickly transform into a bandit army. They are naturally hostile to human slave hunters, and if a human caravan passes near the camp, it becomes a carnival for the various tribes. Dozens of races will temporarily unite and wipe out the human caravan. The caravansera's goods were worth a lot, and even the humans themselves, for many of the tribes of Canovinson, were good rations.

Because of this, except for the first-class caravan with more than a thousand escort forces, no human caravan dared to approach Canovinson, and they would rather detour hundreds of kilometers more than be targeted by the tribesmen here.

Richard's army was directed at Canovinson.

Carnowinson poured out all the races, and all the adults who could fight turned into warriors, and eventually assembled an army of more than 40,000 men to fight Richard's forces in a decisive battle in the gravel Gobi.

It's a head-to-head showdown with no fancy.

On the endless Gobi, 15,000 troops are complete, reasonably matched, and equipped with super-standard priests and mages, arranged in a strict formation, and the 40,000 loose and chaotic but extremely vicious tribal warriors on the opposite side have a violent collision, and then fight together!

This is a war that truly tests Richard's ability to command on the frontal battlefield, there is no soil for conspiracy and trickery to survive, and only life and blood can crush the enemy. In the vast battlefield, the individual role of the strong is compressed to the limit, and each warrior is like the smallest part of a huge alchemy machine, which can only play its own role mechanically. They block, swing, block, swing, and repeat over and over again until they are cut down by an enemy.

Time passed in the company of blood.

As time passed, the discipline, equipment, and large regiments of the human army came into play, and the morale of the Buraku people declined rapidly as the number of war dead increased. Richard, on the other hand, emulated Sinclair's tactics by mixing the brood knights with the most elite heavy cavalry of the aristocratic army into small units, and then repeatedly assaulting key positions in the enemy line, constantly tearing gaps in the enemy's columns, and then filling the gaps with infantry. And the concentrated casting method of the mages is incomparably spectacular, when dozens of fireballs pass through the air, the burst of fire will tear a blank in the tribal warriors.

In the end, the first decisive battle at Camp Canovinson ended in Richard's victory. The tribal warriors left nearly 10,000 corpses behind and hastily retreated to the Canovinson camp.

The second decisive battle took place in the Sweetwater Valley, five kilometers from Kanovenlin. There were many more warriors in the tribe, both old and underage, and many of them were only able to take up arms, so to speak, and they were able to come out of the nest. In this way, a patchwork of 35,000 tribal warriors again confronted Richard's 13,000 troops, and after holding out for less than three hours, Richard's cavalry began to chase down the fleeing tribesmen, and the blood stained the Sweetwater Valley red.

The third time can no longer be said to be a decisive battle. Richard half-surrounded the Canovinson camp, taking the upper hand, and then a burst of fire reduced the entire camp to ashes and drove all the aliens hiding in the camp out into the wilderness. The fire burned for a whole day, and thousands of tribesmen were reduced to ashes in the fire.

But looking at the flames, neither Richard nor the nobles who followed Richard on the expedition had any sympathy. In the dirt of Camp Canovinson lay the bones of at least tens of thousands of humans. Here, humans, along with pigs and sheep, are one of the sources of meat for the tribal people.