Chapter 104 The Day That Never Sets
The capital on which the sun never sets, this time it still did not live up to its name, and it still persevered to the end and never fell.
However, after the bloody battle, there were less than 300 strong people who survived, and nearly 100 of them were irreversibly seriously injured and had no hope of returning to the Holy Land for the rest of their lives.
The bloody battle is over. Both sides suffered heavy losses in this war, and the Daxodas suffered greater losses, so the pattern in the Land of Dusk changed only slightly, and the place of the rising sun was saved, at least for a short time.
The Holy Alliance lost a large number of strong men, and its national strength was suddenly thrown off by the Holy Tree Dynasty and the Millennial Empire. However, it was a battle of dignity that made the Holy Alliance gain high prestige among the human realm, and both the Holy Tree Dynasty and the Millennium Empire successively stated that they would give assistance to the Holy Alliance and open up the supply of some strategic materials. Many of the free and powerful of the Terran also chose to join the Holy Alliance, even if it was only temporary, but it was enough to support the Holy Alliance through the immediate crisis.
The eternal glow was finally extinguished, but the flaming fireball would be remembered as the spiritual totem of the entire Legion Fortress in the future.
The bloody battle has been over for several days, but the traces of the war are still everywhere. Although Faust has sent a lot of craftsmen and support personnel, there are less than a thousand people active in the entire city of the sun, most of them are busy cleaning up the battlefield and rebuilding the most important defensive magic array, and they can't afford to renovate the entire fortress.
The environment of the Land of Twilight is harsh, and only the strong people of the Holy Realm can resist the invasion of the environment. Even in the core area of the legion fortress within the protection of the temple, it is not for ordinary people to stay, and the craftsmen who can operate here normally must at least be alchemists.
At this time, Richard, White Night, and Splash were lying side by side on Lawrence's hospital bed, wrapped like mummies. The old man became the busiest person, spending a lot of time with three people every day. At this time, the old man naturally had to complain about nagging and complaining, complaining that they didn't know how to cherish themselves, so that they were so badly injured that they couldn't get out of bed after so many days.
And after finishing their treatment, the old man's day's work had just begun, because there were still a large number of wounded people outside who could not be treated by magic or magic, waiting for his treatment.
Many of the seriously injured powerhouses were sent back to Norland for treatment, while Richard and others preferred to believe Lawrence. Deep down, Richard also didn't want Quicksand to see what he was like now, lest she be worried. To his relief, he was a little disappointed that Quicksand was not in the team sent by the temple after the war.
Although lying on the stage could not move at all, it did not hinder Richard's good mood. First of all, it is a joy to be able to survive.
It was only after the final bloody battle that Richard discovered that his Elemental World Tree had grown from the third order to the fourth order at some point. Perhaps because he used enough lethal magic, the bloodline ability that the fourth-order Elemental World Tree brought to Richard was an elemental burst.
When this ability is used, it can turn the damage of attack magic such as Fireball into pure non-elemental damage, and greatly increase the power of the magic itself. As a result, when dealing with enemies with high magic resistance, such as the Dark Mage of Daxoldas, the Elemental Burst becomes extremely effective, after all, full magic resistance like manta rays is extremely rare in comparison.
In Richard's original plan, when the Life and Natural World Trees also reached the fourth order, a crucial step towards the Grand Magus would be taken.
Seven days after the bloody battle, Richard recovered from his injuries. With his strength as strong as that of a Daxoldas, he was able to get out of bed a day later than White Night and Splash, which shows the severity of Richard's injuries.
In fact, there were many times when Richard used his body to block the weapons that stabbed at the splash and the white night during the most difficult times of the bloody battle. And afterwards, Richard only said lightly: "If you stab me, you won't die, but if you stab you, you'll die." ”
But this kind of "can't die" small injury, when it accumulates a lot, can be fatal. If it weren't for Lawrence, Richard wouldn't have recovered.
As soon as he was able to get out of bed, Richard found himself overwhelmed by the mountain of things.
The first is to repair the structure that was damaged in the bloody battle. The white night, the splash, and the many structures on his body were enough for him to be busy for three or four days, and this still meant not eating, drinking, or sleeping.
In addition, Richard also had many real friends in the city where the sun never sets, and although most of them have been immortalized in this land in the bloody battle, there are still a dozen who have survived. Most of them were ordinary sanctuaries who could not be called powerhouses, and the significance of the constructs to them was even greater than that of an artifact, because they would never be able to get an artifact in their lifetime.
The truly powerful, even the Heavenly Sanctuary, always have the ability to hunt and get more sacrifices in exchange for or buy better constructs. However, these ordinary Sanctuaries were actually the targets of hunting on the battlefield of the Peerless Domain, and in normal times, they would not dare to leave the Legion Fortress too far, and even those who would never leave the Legion Fortress alone.
These people who live at the bottom are generally attached to caravans or the military, and then take on some labor work in this Jedi where ordinary people cannot survive. They live by hard work rather than merit, and they have no ability to fight for merit, so naturally there is a huge gap between them and the real strong in terms of wealth and status. And this gap, at least until there is a major upheaval, will hardly be able to close it, and will only continue to widen.
It may be faster for them to accumulate wealth on the Peerless Battlefield than to take risks on their own plane or to participate in a plane exploration war by attaching themselves to a family, but the rules and gaps in this distribution are real regardless of the plane.
Just like the core of the wealth of the strong, the construction, for the ordinary Sacred Domain, the third-order construction is the ideal of life, but for the Heavenly Sacred Domain, the third-order construction is a bottom line. A truly strong person, such as the legendary mage Shattered Dream, will regard the third-order construct on his body as a shame.
Bloody war is like a cruel beast, filled with flesh and life, but not necessarily wealth and glory.
The demise of many Daxodas does mean an abundance of sacrifices, but let's not forget that the eternal light continues to burn, and every inch of its brilliance comes from the sacrifices. Therefore, the amount of sacrifice that each person can share will be reduced by at least half.
The battlefield of the Peerless Realm is also a place where the harvest is strictly based on the theory of contribution, and the Marshal Rundstead, the principal of the capital on which the sun never sets, is even more fair to the point of being equal to the old-fashioned, and without the results of the battle, there is no qualification for the distribution of remuneration, which is an unshakable principle.
In this bloody battle, those ordinary Sanctuaries defended the battle line with their blood, but the kill figures were often very shabby, and the battle losses were exceptionally high. In the post-war distribution, most of Richard's friends could only receive the most basic war subsidies in terms of military achievements. These grants may only be enough for them to repair their structures and buy magic potions, or they may not even be enough.
While Richard was still lying in his hospital bed, people kept coming to visit him, and there were even more posts of condolence. Knowing that Richard would be able to move, the number of visits to his home skyrocketed. Among them were Richard's friends, and there were also many surviving Heavenly Rank Sanctuary.
They came to visit for different purposes, most of the ordinary sanctuaries came to make an appointment for a drink, while most of the heavenly sanctuaries came for construction. They need to fix their most prized builds, and if possible, they want to be able to order new ones to replace them with less powerful ones.
The Holy Alliance only has two Royal Constructors, and on the other side of the portal, Luneau and his workshop are almost buried with structures waiting to be repaired. It is said that Luneau had to start trying to subcontract some of the work to other construction studios, otherwise the work left over from the royal conscription alone would take up all of his time for the next year.
Moreover, although no one has publicly discussed and compared, many strong people in the city where the sun never sets have acquiesced that Richard's repair has a better construction effect.
On the second day of Richard's activity, the old man staggered into Richard's dwelling again, looking east and west, as if he was ready to do something bad.
Richard was concentrating on the costumes at his workbench, not even looking at the old man. On his workbench, instead of a complete assembly, there are seven or eight pieces of various sizes.
These pieces were the raw materials for repairing the damaged structure, on which Richard needed to draw the relevant functional magic array, and then fuse it into the original structure. In fact, if you encounter a special point of construction, the difficulty of repair may even be on top of drawing a new structure.
If it weren't for the scarcity and cost of magic materials, especially the key materials for special builds, there is no guarantee that they will be able to buy them at any time, even if they have gold, otherwise the builders may not have made such a functional item as repair.
The old man saw a piece of paper on the table next to him, like a list, so he picked it up and looked at it. Above is a table with the names of the people, the names of the builds, and the estimated time.
The list was not long, there were only a dozen in total, and all of them were people that Lawrence recognized. The list is also very simple, and at a glance you can see that it is Richard's timeline for preparing to repair the structure. However, the people on this list make the old man look awkward.
The old man asked, "Hey, Richard, what's going on with this list, like this, and this...... Why did even the first-order structure come out?"
Richard said a little casually: "First-order construction? Aren't they all my friends? You should know. ”
"But there isn't even a Heavenly Rank Sanctuary in it. There are still a few Heavenly Rank Sanctuaries among your friends!"
"Who in the Heavenly Sanctuary will lack that little money to repair the construction? besides, they still have priority, so they don't have to wait in line. Let them toss Luneau on their own, I don't have that time. (To be continued)