Chapter 34: The King of Nolan
When Richard joined the Lion Army, a very important reason was for the follow-up breathing method.
Now there's a new feature in the stats panel that allows you to earn XP rewards for killing a professional. As long as you keep adding experience, your skills can continue to improve.
Although I don't know if there is no follow-up breathing method, whether I can rely on experience points to advance to a fourth-order professional.
But with the complete meditation method, Richard was already able to follow the path of a more powerful magician.
Although there are many benefits to joining the Wild Lion Legion, you can exchange your combat exploits for some precious potions. But relying only on potion resources, the Wild Lion Legion has lost its appeal to Richard.
One of the most critical issues is that the properties panel is very specific.
What the essence of this thing is, Richard still can't figure it out. For this mysterious thing, Richard did not dare to expose the anomaly.
There are gods in this world, although the seven gods are still asleep. If the attribute panel is known by a force like the church, Richard is not sure what the result will be.
So he didn't dare to gamble, and he had to keep this secret.
Being an officer in the army, there is very little personal space, and there are many people staring at it every day.
Richard's career and skill improvement can't be hidden from those who have a heart.
Last year, Richard improved a number of skills and was promoted twice to a career level, which caused a lot of discussion.
Taking advantage of the fact that the current professional level is not high, and he is not yet eye-catching, quitting the Wild Lion Legion as soon as possible is more beneficial to the subsequent development.
In your own territory, not only are there very few restrictions.
As a nobleman in the north, there are still many opportunities to make military exploits. There are more options than civilians.
Moreover, Richard is still an excellent officer, and as long as he is willing to join the army, the Wild Lion Legion welcomes him to join at any time. When the time comes, you can also get the follow-up breathing method from the Wild Lion Legion.
After William returned from attending the baron's ordination, Richard resigned from the military in mid-December and returned to Fort Black.
December 29 is the birthday of the goddess of Dawn, and it is also the most important festival in the Dawn Continent.
Because there are really gods, the status is far more important than the Western Christmas in the previous life, and the celebration of the festival is very grand.
After a full Christmas with his family at Fort Black, Richard's Harland men got busy.
Sister Wendy's marriage has ended before it has even begun.
Kevin of the Ronald family was lucky enough to join the Knights Academy Cavalry Regiment of the Kingdom of Grant during the war and survived peacefully until the end of the war.
But his father, Richardson Ronald, was unlucky and was heavily wounded by the orcs in the war and retired from active duty. His maternal grandfather, Baron Barton, was killed in battle, and he was succeeded by Kevin's uncle.
If Wendy was married to Kevin before the war, it was the Haaland family.
Now the Haaland family is a hereditary baron, and Wendy is the baron's daughter, and marrying Kevin is undoubtedly a marriage.
The two sides were not engaged before the war, and although the elders of the two families were so conscious, the Ronald family did not have a unified opinion.
Now that Richardson has commissioned someone to propose, William is a little unhappy and expresses a clear refusal.
This time back to Fort Black, Richard brought a large number of books with him. By the way, he told the rest of the family about the harvest of Vic Castle.
Hearing that Richard had obtained the magic book, Wendy was very excited and took a quill pen to transcribe it on the spot.
With no one to guide her, Wendy learns to meditate and becomes a beginner magic apprentice.
Wendy has a gift for magic, and her marriage can make its own decisions.
This is how the world is.
Now that Wendy has supernatural powers, her opinion must be carefully considered even by William. Although Wendy's combat effectiveness is still very low, her potential has been revealed, and in the family status, she is second only to Richard and surpasses Hayden and Ron.
From now on, Wendy is no longer a marriage tool for the Haaland family. Rather, it is a member of the family who has the right to inherit, an important person in a noble family.
After receiving the instrument of canonization of the title of nobility, Richard filled in his name in the heir column.
The Law of Succession to Titles of Nobility is a very important law in the Kingdom of Grant.
According to this law, only those who have become professionals and have extraordinary power will have the right to inherit the title of nobility.
Hayden had not yet become a professional, Barron had died in battle, and Richard had been promoted to second in line to the throne of the Haaland family.
Powell is the third in line and Bernie is the fourth in line.
When Hayden and Wendy become professionals, the succession order of Richard will be lower.
The nobles of the Dawn Continent not only have the right to inherit their sons-in-law, but also their concubines.
Although because of the Dawn Church, the major kingdoms on the continent are monogamous. However, the power of the royal power is not weak, and the hereditary nobles have legal court maids around them, and the children of court maids also have the right to inherit.
Female nobles will have guardian knights by their side, and they can also legally raise lovers.
Only illegitimate children born secretly will not be protected by the law.
William has just been promoted to a baron, and there are no court maids by his side, and the current life of the Haaland family has not changed much, and it is not much different from before.
Just five days after Christmas Day, the Kingdom Envoy has arrived at Blackriver Fort. This time, the envoy of the kingdom entered the northern territory, and the main task was to divide the territory for the new baron and set up boundary monuments.
After the territorial division is completed and the boundary pillars are laid, some paperwork is still required. After all the formalities are completed, the Haaland family can take over the territory, develop the resources of the territory, and use the wealth of the territory.
The division of the territory was mainly in charge of Powell, and the paperwork was kept under the watchful eye of William. Richard did not do nothing, but went to the royal capital with a caravan.
The most important thing in running a territory is the population.
The Barony of Haaland is still a barren country, with only a very small number of mountain hunters living in the territory.
Humans living in primeval forests are either fugitive slaves from nearby territories or criminals from the Kingdom of Grant, and such people will not easily obey the lord's control.
The population of the north is scarce, and if you want to develop your territory, you must buy a large number of slaves.
Large-scale purchase of slaves, can only go to the royal capital. The slave market in Fort Black River, with a maximum of a few hundred slaves, is far from enough for the Harland family.
With the seal to prove his identity and the customs clearance paperwork, Richard came to the royal capital Nolan smoothly. Accompanying him is a mercenary group under his uncle Soros, who is responsible for protecting missions along the way.
Compared to the desertion of Blackriver Fort, Nolan is a larger city.
Counting the suburbs, Nolan City has a population of hundreds of thousands.
From a distance, you can see the towering walls of Nolan. In the center of the city, there is also a mage tower that is dozens of meters high.
The city defense of Nolan is well-equipped and very strong.
Not only did there be two full legions in the city, but it was also garrisoned by a powerful Royal Knights. There has been no war in hundreds of years.
Richard was only the son of a baron, and when he came to the royal capital of Nolan, he couldn't see the big names of the Grant Kingdom at all.
However, he was already a nobleman, and received a lot of preferential treatment along the way.
Especially for the hereditary nobility in the north, the kingdom gave a lot of subsidies and reduced taxes from the economy. The tax collectors at the gate of the city were obviously polite to Richard.