Chapter 302: Counting the Spoils of War
After killing the legendary kobold, Richard ordered the soldiers of Haaland's territory not to be afraid of hardship, bravely pursue, and annihilate the orc army with all their might.
In just seven or eight days, Haaland led the army to cooperate with the Grizzly Legion to recover and annihilate 20,000 orcs.
Of course, among the 20,000 orcs, the number of sheep bodies exceeded 15,000, and the main force of the orcs was only 5,000.
Harland has been using sheep slaves for many years, and found that sheep captives are easier to use, and Richard used captives such as boar people, werewolves, and dragon vein kobolds to exchange them for sheep people from the Grizzly Legion, which is a win-win for both parties.
The Grizzlies will get more bounties, Haaland will get more sheep, and the number of people in the livestock industry will be greatly increased.
After the death of the legendary kobold, in addition to the high-level enchanted longsword in his hand, he also captured a piece of space magic equipment.
It took Sophia more than ten days to crack this high-level space bag, and the gains inside surprised Richard.
The bag has about sixty cubic meters of space and is made using Magic Kingdom Makholm technology. Like the enchanted longsword used by Kiram, it is a very valuable magic item, although not legendary. Not counting the internal seizures, just this space bag, if sold, can sell at least 50,000 gold coins.
After unlocking the space bag, Sophia first discovered that there were more than 5,000 magic crystals in the space bag.
Whether for humans or orcs, magic crystals are strategic materials and very precious items.
Among these crystals, there are about a few dozen crystals that are medium.
Generally speaking, the ones circulating in the market are basically standard magic crystals, and the standard magic crystals contain relatively little magic energy, and the mining volume is relatively large, even in remote places like the Grant Kingdom, there is a large circulation in the market.
Even small nobles and merchants often treasure a part of the magic crystal in their hands.
As far as Richard knew, the Kingdom of Grant had discovered five magic crystal mines, two of which were near Nolan, one in the Duke of Jonathan in the east, one in the Duchy of Fox, and the last one in the county of Paulus, near the coast.
However, the output of these magic crystal mines is not large, and the six mines together produce about 20,000 magic crystals per year.
Today, the Orc Empire has not broken through the defense line of the Grant Kingdom on a large scale, and has not collected a large amount of loot, nor has it captured the magic crystal mines of Jonathan and the two dukes of Fox. The magic crystal inside the Kiram space bag must have come from the Orc Empire, and it is likely to be replenished by the base in the northern part of the Eagle Mountain Range.
The medium shard contains ten times more magic energy than the standard shard, and a medium shard can fill a four-ring mage with magic energy in three hours. And if the magic energy is exhausted and wants to recover naturally, it will take at least half a month to meditate.
In the Grant Kingdom market, it is rare to see medium magic crystals.
Richard has successively purchased tens of thousands of discarded magic crystals, and none of them are medium-sized magic crystals.
When Sophia was working at the Magic Kingdom of Makholm, she used a few medium magic crystals, according to her story. In the Magic Kingdom of Macholm, one medium shard can be exchanged for twelve standard shards.
Converted to gold according to this standard, a medium magic crystal is worth one hundred and twenty gold coins.
But in the Grant royal family, there is no market for medium magic crystals. According to the rumors that Richard heard, almost all the great nobles who possessed medium magic crystals hoarded this precious resource and kept it for their own use. Even if it is a trade, it will basically trade the precious goods of the Southwest Magic Kingdoms.
Haaland's territory has mastered the magic crystal charging technology, and the research on the magic energy steam engine is also underway, and this batch of magic crystals is very useful for the development of the territory.
In addition to the magic crystal, a large amount of blood steel, orichalcum, mythril, and pure gold were also found in the space bag. These magic metals add up to about 30,000 catties, ninety percent of which are the most common blood steel, and the remaining nine percent are orichalite. The amount of Mithril was about three hundred catties, and the pure gold was packed in a precious wooden box, which added up to only six catties and seven taels.
Combined, the market value of this batch of super magic metals is about 70,000 gold coins. If blood steel and mountain copper are refined into enchanted armor, 500 soldiers can be equipped.
The power in the orc empire is relatively decentralized, and it is an alliance of warlords. However, the orcs are relatively strong, and they can suppress and coordinate the contradictions of all parties, so that internal disputes can be reduced.
The northern part of the Grant Kingdom and the Grand Duchy of Starnik is the fief of three orc dukes.
More than ten years ago, the legendary boar man was killed in battle, and this duke was taken over by the orc empire, and in the last ten years, it was mainly the kobold duke that fought with the Grant Kingdom. In particular, the six orc legions directly under Kiram were defeated by the Grant Kingdom several times.
Kobold Duke Kiram is a very suspicious person, and after getting the space bag from the Magic Kingdom of Markholm, he kept a large amount of the precious resources of the entire territory in the space bag.
In addition to magic crystals and super magic metals, this space bag also contains a large number of magic ores and magic plants, some of which even the well-informed Sophia does not know.
But the things that were identified alone were worth about 40,000 gold coins.
With these magic materials, the research and procurement funds of the Harland Mage Association will be reduced a lot, and so many magic materials are enough for the Mage Association to use for two or three years.
From the legendary kobold's space bag, Richard also seized a more detailed map. This map is 160 square meters in size, and the southern part of the map shows all the towns in the northern part of the Grant Kingdom.
The text of the Magic Kingdom of Markholm is used on the map, and it appears that the people of the Magic Kingdom of Markholm are depicted.
There are a large number of harpies in the Orc Empire, and the footprints of these harpies are almost every inch of land in the northern frontier, and it seems that it is the cooperation of both sides that this fine map is drawn.
In addition to the topographic map of the northern Xinjiang region, the map maps the central and northern parts of the Eagle Mountains are very detailed, including the entire kobold duke and half of the wild boar dukedom.
According to Richard's rough estimates, the territory drawn on this map is about 3 million square kilometers, which is close to the dozen or so provinces of Richard's previous life.
Haaland led his own mapping department, because the mathematical knowledge that Richard brought with him was probably a little more detailed than the map in the hands of the legendary kobold. However, the detailed mapping of the Haaland territory is very small, including only the area around the territory, about 80,000 square kilometers.
Outside of the territory of Haaland, there are simply no detailed maps to use. Two years earlier, when he had joined the Intervention Force on an expedition to the Grand Duchy of Starnik, Richard had to rely on aerial scouts to reconnoiter the terrain.
Whether it is a griffin knight or a magic hot air balloon group, the reconnaissance radius is at most a hundred kilometers, and you can only bring back the approximate terrain. With this comprehensive map, it will be very useful for Haaland to lead his army to fight in the north.
After getting the map, Richard immediately ordered the territory surveying and mapping department to take the time to copy a few copies. They were sent to the territorial library, the government office, the Grotta River County, the Demon Hunter Guild and other departments.
Because the map area is too large, transcribing the map is also a troublesome matter. However, there are a large number of magicians in Haaland's territory, and with the cooperation of magicians, you can use visual magnification spells to see every corner of the map in detail.
In addition, the handicraft industry in Haaland's territory has developed to a certain level, and there is now a very good natural glue that can be used to glue thick parchment paper.
Although the Haaland Territory has established a paper workshop for more than ten years and is able to produce a large number of qualified papers, the quality of the paper is far less durable than that of handmade parchment.
In order to keep improving, Richard decided to do whatever it takes. Transcribing a map also requires the slaughter of thousands of lambs, which takes five or six months, not counting the labor input, and the cost of materials alone requires more than a hundred gold coins, which is a real luxury.
In order to prevent this precious map from being damaged in battle, Richard ordered the map to be sent to the rear, and as for the front-line fighting, the cartographers burned a copy of this part of the northern part of the fort.
In addition to these general items, the most precious of the Space Bags are two legendary items.
The first one was the legendary third-order dragon crystal. Legendary-level items cannot be measured in gold, and even if the Grant royal family gives Richard millions of gold coins now, it is impossible for him to trade a few legendary magic items in his territory.
Every Legendary-level treasure is precious to a family, a faction, and a kingdom.
Along with this legendary third-order dragon crystal, there is also a magic book.
This book is not very thick, but the style is very simple, and it looks like it is an antique from more than a thousand years ago.
There are also a lot of dragon vein kobold notes in the book, it seems that the legendary kobold is very attentive to this book, and a magic ritual is recorded in the book, which can use the power of this dragon crystal to transform ordinary kobold into dragon kobolds. As for the power lost by the dragon crystal, it is replenished through bloodstains.
According to this magic book, each transformation ritual involves a blood sacrifice of about 30,000 intelligent beings.
The legendary kobolds have performed dozens of blood sacrifices and slaughtered more than a million intelligent beings, most of whom are orcs of humans and other races.
In the end, Kiram found that the Blood Sacrifice Kobold had the best conversion efficiency, and could successfully transform three hundred Dragon Vein Kobolds at one time.
In the past ten years, Kiram has basically only sacrificed kobolds in blood, anyway, this race is very capable of life.
After obtaining this legendary third-order dragon crystal, Richard naturally did not study the transformation ritual and consume the energy of the magic crystal to transform into a dragon vein knight.
Compared to adding one or two thousand dragon vein knights, Richard still wanted to build this legendary third-order dragon crystal into a mage tower, and then install a magic crystal charging circle.
Consuming the energy of the dragon crystal and adding one or two thousand dragon vein knights will greatly increase the military power of the Haaland leader, but this is just a hammer deal. Even if two thousand dragon vein knights are added, the strength of the Haaland family will not be able to compete with the Jonathan family and the Grant royal family, on the contrary, it will make them jealous and consume themselves by the hands of the orcs.
And building a mage tower and installing a charged magic array can continuously bring magic crystals to the territory.
According to Richard's estimates, using this legendary third-order dragon crystal as the core to create an energy chamber, at least one magic well can be built that surpasses the Tower of Flames.
According to the current level of Magic Shard Charge of Haland's leader, this mage tower can charge a thousand magic crystals per year.
For a magical organization, the Mage Tower is the core. By coincidence, Harland has built three mage towers, more than several dukes' families, and the same as the Grant royal family.
Even within ten years, the three mage towers in the realm would be enough.
In addition, this legendary dragon crystal is also very useful to the Jonathan family, absorbing the power inside the dragon crystal, which is enough to make a ninth-order dragon vein knight advance to a legendary. Because the internal energy of this dragon crystal is powerful, it can even make the two ninth-order knights successfully promoted.
If you use this dragon crystal exchange, you can exchange it for a large number of items from the Jonathan family. It is estimated that the meditation method and breathing method can be exchanged for more than a dozen copies, and a lot of precious resources such as high-grade potions can also be exchanged, which can greatly increase the strength of the Haaland family in a short period of time.
But this exchange, in fact, is very disadvantageous. Exchanging legendary-level resources for general resources, unless there is another purpose, Richard certainly wouldn't do such a thing.
The second legendary magic item is a three-foot-long turquoise stick.
Although Richard was aware of the powerful power contained in the stick, he did not recognize the legendary item. Or the well-informed Sophia, who had seen such an item in a magic book.
This turquoise woodpipe is the heart of the tree left behind by the legendary First Order Treant.
Before the legendary ogre Greso came to the Eagle Mountains hundreds of years ago, the one who occupied the magic well in the western part of the Eagle Mountains was a legendary treeman. It's just that this legendary tree man was unruly, attacked the orc empire soldiers, and was killed by the orc legend with the army, and this legendary tree heart also fell into the hands of the orc duke.
Thirty years ago, the orc duke died of old age, and Kiram obtained this legendary tree heart through clever grabbing.
Like the Thunderbolt Staff, this Legendary Tree Heart is a natural Legendary Staff, and using this staff to unleash wood-based magic will reduce spell consumption and increase power.
Of course, this turquoise tree heart can also be made into the core of the mage tower's energy room through a special transformation magic array.
Kiram is a dragon vein dog-headed person, and he has not awakened wood-based magic in his bloodline, otherwise it would be even more difficult to deal with this legendary staff in his hand.
This staff is very useful to the Harland Collar to unleash wood spells such as Praise of Life, Vegetation Revival, and Forest Song through this staff, and promote the growth of magical plants, which is very useful for the Harland Collar's Botanical Research Institute. In addition, you can also hold a staff to unleash offensive magic such as thorns, wood thorns, and life extraction, which play a key role in battle.
To avoid attracting the attention of the Grant royal family, the legendary third-order dragon crystal Richard does not plan to use it now, and the legendary tree heart Richard is ready to leave it for Sophia to use, she is the most proficient in wood magic and can give full play to the maximum effect of this staff.
Not counting two legendary magic props, a priceless map, and two high-level magic props, from the legendary kobold space bag, Haaland received magic materials worth 170,000 gold coins. Using this part of the materials, the strength of Haaland's army will increase by a few points.
(End of chapter)