Richard plans to reclaim 60,000 acres of farmland this year.

The main area of development is concentrated in the Haaland Valley.

More than 6,000 indentured slaves were settled in the Haaland Valley, and an average of 10 acres of farmland were cultivated by one person.

If you were on Earth in the previous life, it would be very difficult to complete the reclamation task.

Even in river valley areas, it is necessary to pick up stones, dig up tree roots, and dig up stones deep in the fields when cultivating the fields.

In addition, the wasteland is relatively hard, and the ploughing time is long, and the ploughing cattle cannot bear it.

However, there is extraordinary power in the Dawn plane, and Richard will use a lot of demonic beasts when he reclaims the wasteland.

The strength of the iron wildebeest is several times that of a ploughing ox, and each iron wildebeest is almost equal to a small tractor.

Richard sent thirty Warcraft cavalry to participate in spring ploughing, which greatly accelerated the speed of land reclamation.

In addition to land reclamation, there is also a river dredging task this year.

River dredging is very difficult, the further upstream, the narrower the channel, the shallower the water depth, and the more serious the siltation of the river.

In particular, the upper reaches of Fort William were cut off last year.

Four or five kilometers upstream from Fort William, the current of the Powell River becomes very shallow, about a meter or so.

Richard personally measured the depth and flow of the water, and believed that the 30-kilometer stretch of the Powell River still had the conditions for water transportation.

To take advantage of the river, it is necessary to dig the river deeper and make it narrower.

This was a difficult task, although Richard transferred more than 1,000 serfs after the spring ploughing, and it would take several years to complete the dredging work

In March, Richard suddenly received news that a fire-breathing spider had been found on a hillside three kilometers away in the Haaland Valley.

Hearing this, it was immediately clear to Richard that a lair of flame spiders had been found in the territory.

Like Purple Head Peak, the Flame Spider is also a magical insect, or a low-level insect-type magical beast.

The Flame Spider is also a social creature, unlike Purple Head Peak.

Ordinary flame spiders are all first-order magical creatures, and the spider queen in the nest has reached the third level, and her IQ is far beyond that of ordinary flame spiders, which is equivalent to small animals such as cats and dogs.

Magical creatures of the insect type, which are generally of a low level, are difficult to threaten humans due to their size.

The third-order Flame Spider Queen was only the size of a human head, and if ordinary people were prepared in advance, they could even hunt this creature.

Only magical insects that have evolved to be large can hunt humans and feed on the terrifying Homo erectus.

The flame spider has a relatively powerful toxin in its body, and its toxicity exceeds that of most snake venoms.

Ordinary people are bitten by flame spiders, and unless they are detoxified with detoxification, it will be difficult to save their lives.

The flame spider was discovered by an experienced contract slave, his name was Red, who turned out to be a hunter with a high level of vigilance, and when he was taking the contract slave up the mountain to cut wood, he found the flame spider.

Like Purple Head, the Flame Spider is a valuable magical creature.

The spider silk spit out by the Flame Spider is the best fireproof material, and at the same time, it has a high resistance to fire-attribute magic, which is a precious material for making mage robes.

Of the three mages in Haaland's territory, only Sophia has a mage robe.

A low-level mage robe also costs more than a hundred gold coins. The mage robe woven with flame spider silk has a constant cleansing technique, and the price is usually around three hundred gold coins.

Spotting the Flame Spider, Richard, Sophia, and Wendy all set out with their magic apprentices to capture these magical insects.

In order to ensure the success rate, Richard also transferred the manpower of the demon hunting team.

Since the successful hunt of the Megalodon, the Demon Beast Hunters of the territory have entered the Eagle Mountain Range twice, the first time they went out for more than ten days without success, and the second time they successfully used one red blood grass and four sleeping grasses to hunt seven iron wildebeests.

These seven iron wildebeest horses are worth a total of seven hundred gold coins, excluding the red blood grass and sleeping grass, and the profit of the demon hunting team is about four hundred gold coins.

The ten pros who participated in the operation received a bonus of six gold coins, and the warrior apprentice also received an income of one gold coin.

Powell and Soros, the team leaders, each received fifty gold coins.

According to the agreement between Richard and the demon hunting team, for every successful demon hunt, the territory must share one-third of the profits to the demon hunting team.

If a demon hunter dies in the Eagle Mountains, their family territory is also obligated to take care of it.

The crowd approached the flame spider's lair.

Flame spiders have a very general sense of sight and smell, relying on the shaking of the fluff on their legs and the sense of touch to perceive the surrounding environment.

But the Spider Queen is special and has evolved super vision. The eyesight of the eight small eyes on the head is slightly more than that of the harpy.

As soon as Richard and the others approached, the Spider Queen sensed the danger and prepared to flee immediately.

Sophia reacted quickly and immediately unleashed a powerful Dense Mist Technique, releasing a large area of dense fog near the Flame Spider's lair.

Wendy also took out the ultrasonic whistle and released the ultrasonic detection spell.

Through the detection of ultrasound, the Spider Queen was accurately found in the dense fog, and then a wooden vine winding magic came to control the Spider Queen.

The members of the Demon Hunter team immediately used a special iron cage to capture the Spider Queen, who was entangled in wooden vines.

Caught the Spider Queen, the remaining dozen or so flame spiders are easy to catch.

The Spider Queen already has the simple wisdom to become a magician's magical pet.

A mage can sign a pet contract with a magical creature, and generally speaking, the mental power does not exceed twenty points, and he can sign a contract with a magical creature.

After twenty points, you can contract a second magical creature.

The contract with the third magical creature requires thirty mental power.

The average eighth-order magician has a spiritual power of about thirty points, and a high-level magician can contract three magical creatures at most.

Once you sign a contract with a magical creature, you can't change it for the rest of your life.

Although the Flame Spider Queen has a high economic value, her combat value is very average.

The three presidents of the Harland Magic Association are all promising magicians who are reluctant to sign a contract with the Flame Spider Queen.

In the end, Anne found Sophia and said that she was willing to sign a contract with the Spider Queen when she became a magician.

Although there is no magic contract, it is still possible to domesticate it for a few years temporarily.

Sophia did not sign a magical contract with the Purple-headed Queen and could also tamesticate the Purple-headed Bee.

It's just that the flame spider is highly poisonous, so you have to be extra careful when raising it. When collecting spider silk, you also need to have an official magician present before you can do it.

More than a dozen flame spiders spin about six catties of silk every year, and they can barely weave into two mage robes.

If you sell it, you can get about a thousand gold coins for a good spell.

(End of chapter)