Richard soon after returning from Fort Imm, he met an old acquaintance.

This man was none other than Starenor, the sixth son of Archduke Starnik, who was defeated by the legendary dragon and returned to Annis Castle with the remnants of his army.

With the support of the follow-up troops, the defense line was stabilized and the attack of the legendary dragon army was blocked.

The Jonathans suffered heavy losses in this battle, with only more than 1,000 of the 6,000 army fleeing, and more than 200 professionals within the army.

The defeat at the front was a great blow to Starreno's prestige.

Seeing Richard this time, Starreno always felt a little unrefreshed.

Immediately after returning from the kobold cave, Richard wrote a letter to Macmillan, talking about the exchange of resources and information.

Especially for the exchange of resources, Richard directly singled out that he was going to exchange a batch of dragon marrow liquid for transcendent resources, and use the dragon blood treasure mirror to trade a royal seal.

This time, Starreno came to Haaland, mainly to talk about the exchange of resources.

In particular, I am ready to take a look at the Dragon's Blood Mirror for myself to see if it is worth trading this legendary item with the Seal of Royal Power.

Richard met Starreno in the living room of the City Lord's Mansion, compared to when they first met more than ten years ago, Starreno has not changed much, and he still looks very young with a good demeanor.

Richard knew in his heart that the Jonathan family's bloodline was half-dragons, and although the dragon bloodline was slowly fading, their lifespan was longer than that of ordinary people, especially the direct members of the bloodline with strong bloodlines, who often lived to be one hundred and fifty or sixty years old. People with dragon and elven bloodlines, the higher the class level, the more they can purify their bloodlines and gain a longer lifespan.

The Duke of Bryner of the Kingdom of Grant died of old age for many years, and his contemporary, Archduke Neo, was still in his prime, looking to be forty or fifty years old. It is estimated that the generation of King Roger of the Grant family will not be able to consume the Duke Jonathan of the previous generation.

When Richard first dealt with Starreno more than a decade ago, he was just twenty years old, and he looked a little more immature than Starreno.

More than ten years have passed, and Richard has gradually become a middle-aged man, a little older than Starreno.

Running a territory and directing a war is undoubtedly a draining thing, and people who face war all year round are a little older than people in peaceful areas, both mentally and physically.

Coupled with the thirty years of life experience in his previous life, Richard's mental age is close to that of an old man.

Richard exchanged a few words with Starreno, took out the Dragon Blood Mirror directly from the Starlight Bottle, and handed it to Starreno himself.

Having this item, Starreno was almost immediately sure that it was a legendary item, as he felt the power of a dragon from it, and the mirror was supposed to be made of dragon crystal smelted with a legendary magic ore.

Starreno input a large amount of magic power, and in an instant, the Dragon Blood Treasure Mirror let out a roar, and this roar was a dragon roar, with a strong coercion, spreading in Fort William.

In an instant, 100,000 people near Fort William heard this dragon roar, and countless people fell to the ground, praying to the goddess of the dawn in fear, trembling with fear.

There are only a few people who can exempt Long Wei from strong will.

"Just this dragon power spell, there is already a seven-ring level." Richard pointed to the Dragon's Blood Mirror and said to Starrenor.

"Compared with the ordinary seven-ring magic props, the mana consumed has increased by three percent."

Starreno shook his head, pointing out one of the shortcomings of the Dragon's Blood Mirror.

"The Dragon Power Spell is just an incidental skill of this Legendary Mirror, and after our identification, the biggest function of this Legendary Item is to communicate over a long distance, and the communication distance is more than 800 kilometers. It can be used to communicate with the royal capital on the front line. If I had dragon blood in my body, I would never trade this legendary item. ”

Seeing that Starreno wanted to lower the trading value of the Dragon's Blood Mirror, Richard retorted a few words and continued: "We have carefully studied the spell template of the Dragon's Blood Mirror and mastered a long-distance communication spell. This is a dragon spell that requires the power of the dragon's bloodline to be activated.

We also discovered the spiritual power of the legendary dragon from this treasure mirror, and the use of dragon power spells did not affect this power. However, if you want to activate the communication spell, you need to get rid of the legendary dragon's psychic power first, which requires the help of Grand Duke Starnik himself.

Or let the High Mage spend a lot of time draining the dragon's remaining power, and in five or six years it should be able to use it. ”

Seeing that Richard introduced the pros and cons of the legendary prop of the Dragon Blood Treasure Mirror in detail, and it was difficult to succeed in lowering the price, Starreno said with some embarrassment: "Dear Lord Duke, we are willing to trade this legendary item with the royal power seal." ”

Although the royal seal is also a legendary-level item, it can be produced continuously by consuming the power of faith, although it is very important to the nobles and is the basis for the great nobles to maintain their rule, but it is the lowest value in the legendary prop class.

Because normal nobles, as long as they are willing to queue up and consume time and resources, they can always exchange for royal seals, while other legendary props are difficult to make each one.

Getting a legendary prop is also an extremely precious heritage for the great nobles.

Normally, the value of the Dragon Blood Treasure Mirror is greater than that of the Royal Power Seal, but the trading scope of the Dragon Blood Treasure Mirror is extremely narrow, and the big nobles of several nearby countries, only the Jonathan family has dragon blood.

If Richard's asking price is too high, the legendary item may rot in his hands. In fact, this legendary prop can only play a role if it falls into the hands of the Jonathan family.

Jonathan family members live long lives and can have enough time to wait. Once Richard and other original founders of the Haaland family die, there will be no successors, and if they have this kind of prop in their hands, they will only fall into the calculations of the Jonathan family.

So Richard weighed the pros and cons and decided to exchange the Dragon's Blood Mirror for the seal of royal power. After all, the Dragon's Blood Treasure Mirror Richard is useless, and the royal seal Haaland can be used immediately.

After the deal was reached, Richard directly took out twenty-three bottles of dragon marrow liquid and placed them on the desk.

"There are twenty-three bottles of dragon marrow liquid here, which I plan to exchange for a batch of transcendent resources, how many transcendent items can you provide? The price of dragon marrow liquid is on the market, 30,000 gold coins per bottle. ”

In the last battle, Haaland received twenty-three bottles of dragon marrow fluid.

And the army led by Starreno, although they also killed a lot of earth dragon beasts, half-dragon people, and two-legged wyverns, but they found nothing, and they were empty-handed.

Because control of the battlefield fell into the hands of the legendary black dragon.

Without control of the battlefield, there is no way to clean the battlefield, and naturally there will be no loot.

Twenty-three bottles of dragon marrow fluid were obtained at one time, and the Harland Mage Guild wanted to detain a few bottles and use them as materials for magic research, but Richard did not agree.

Because the value of the dragon marrow fluid is so high, Haaland can't afford to waste it now.

Moreover, the research ideas have not been straightened out, and the principles of the research have not been figured out, even if Richard approves the research, the probability of failure is still very high, and it is not a cost-effective thing for the current Haaland.

Seeing that Richard took out twenty-three bottles of dragon marrow liquid, Starreno secretly pondered for a moment and said, "We can provide sixteen life evolution elixirs, five deep meditation elixirs, one holy glow potion, three hundred iron wildebeests, five hundred fourth-order burst arrows, one thousand bottles of Tenghui elixir, fifty bottles of morning light elixir, one thousand enchanted swords, four hundred first-order enchanted bows, three hundred first-order snake scale armor, one hundred third-order alchemy armor, and thirty fourth-order wurm skin armor." Four pieces of space bags with an interior space of ten cubic meters. ”

Richard reacted quickly and found that the sum of these extraordinary materials was roughly worth 700,000 gold coins.

The transactions between the great nobles were calculated according to the internal price.

For example, the Life Evolution Elixir requires three great merits to exchange for one in the Grant Kingdom, and the three great merits are converted into gold coins, which are worth roughly equivalent to 30,000 gold coins. Moreover, there are only a few big nobles who have mastered the refining method of life evolution elixir, and there are very few channels for exchange, only the royal family, Jonathan, York, and Guise will take out a small amount of this high-grade elixir and exchange it for the officers in the territory.

In fact, refining a life evolution potion roughly costs 12,000 gold coins, and the value of the big nobles' transactions is between 15,000 and 20,000 gold coins, fluctuating with supply and demand.

"Plus three magic crystal balls that can test qualifications."

Seeing that Richard's price increase was not high, Starreno immediately agreed.

After conquering the Grand Duchy of Starnik, the strength of the Jonathan family has increased greatly, and two years ago, Duke Jonathan personally went out and spent a year and three months to go to the Magic Kingdom of Makholm, spending 160,000 magic crystals to buy a batch of scarce transcendent items.

This time, in order to trade the dragon marrow liquid, Starreno took out a part of it.

Both sides of the transaction have space magic props, among which the precious things are carried with them, ordinary extraordinary resources, and Richard is not afraid of the Jonathan family's debts.

By the end of June, this batch of resources was sent to Haaland.

Three hundred Iron Wildebeest entered the Harland Territory, and the First Monster Cavalry Brigade was immediately expanded. The Dukedom of Jonathan sent all bad horses, geldings, which were not suitable for breeding and could only be consumed in war.

With the addition of these three hundred iron wildebeests, the number of the First Warcraft Cavalry Brigade has reached nine hundred. With the addition of the five hundred flame horse cavalry of the Second Demon Beast Cavalry Brigade, the number of Demon Beast cavalry led by Haaland has reached 1,400 people.

The Warcraft cavalry of this size is ranked ahead of the Duke of York, second only to the Duke of Edward, and is the fourth in the Kingdom of Grant.

Enchanted weapons and enchanted armor were also distributed to officers and soldiers in formation, mainly concentrated in a few main brigades.

The Tenghui Elixir, the Morning Light Elixir, and the Life Evolution Elixir are all released, which can consume the exploits of a large number of officers and soldiers.

In the system of the Haaland Domain, weapons and equipment are provided directly by the territory and do not belong to the soldiers. Unless you redeem it for battle merit when you retire, you can bring the enchanted weapon and enchanted armor home.

Potions and breathing methods also need to be redeemed for merit, but you can borrow a part of the merit. For example, a high-level warrior apprentice can borrow a small skill to learn the first-order breathing method in advance. Because of this loan system, it is easier for the soldiers of the Harland Leader to be promoted compared to the main legionaries of the Grant Kingdom.

Up to now, there are more than 6,000 professionals in Haaland's leadership.

According to the establishment of the Grant Kingdom, 6,000 professionals are enough to train four legions, expanding to 80,000 troops. But with the addition of the recruits trained this year, Haaland led only 49,000 regular troops. The proportion of professionals in the regular army led by Haaland has exceeded that of the strongest Northern Legion by a few points.

As time goes on, Haaland's dominance in this regard will become greater and greater, and the army's combat effectiveness will become stronger and stronger.

With a large amount of extraordinary resources, the Haaland Leader Mage Association immediately fell into a hurry.

After returning to the territory, Sophia and the apothecary began to refine a large number of Tenghui potions, and Richard and Wendini took the alchemists and armor makers trained in the territory to start making wurm skin armor.

In mid-July, 6,500 Tenghui Elixirs were successfully refined, and in late July, 200 pieces of fourth-order wurm leather armor were finally refined.

Combined with the 1,000 Ventec potions traded with the Jonathan family, Haaland has led the supply of 12,000 Ventec Elixir this year. The conditions for exchange are more relaxed, in addition to the share exchanged by professionals, the share left for high-level warrior students is as many as 6,000, plus the bipedal flying dragon, terrain dragon and monster meat help, as of early August, the territory has cultivated 600 professionals.

If this speed can be maintained, the number of new fighters trained by Haaland this year may exceed 1,000.

Train a thousand professionals a year, and only the Grant royal family has this level.

After the wulong leather armor was successfully refined, except for the one hundred and thirty pieces left for the middle and high-ranking officers, the remaining one hundred pieces were all equipped by Richard into the first squadron of the first brigade.

Today's first squadron is already an all-professional army, and the entire squadron of one hundred and forty officers and soldiers are all professionals, all equipped with second-order force field shields, second-order scorching ray guns, most of the soldiers are also equipped with fourth-order wurm leather armor, and the rest of the soldiers are also equipped with third-order enchanted armor. Sixty archers were also armed with third-order enchanted bows.

In addition, this squadron was also equipped with six hundred first-order alchemy bombs and fifteen fourth-order burst arrows, armed almost from head to toe, and its combat effectiveness even surpassed that of the same number of Warcraft cavalry.

After refining the wurm leather armor, Richard and Wendini teamed up to refine the minions of the terrain dragon and the bipedal wyvern into magic knives and magic daggers.

The magic props refined with the minions of the bipedal wyvern are all of the fifth or sixth order level, which is not only extremely sharp, but also comes with powerful attack spells, which can only be used by magicians and knights.

These more than 100 alchemy props were equipped with a part of the Harland Mage Association, and the rest were left to the special squadron.

The members of the special squadron were all drawn from the backbone of the whole army, and every soldier awakened to the knightly blood, and the squadron leader appointed Langton.

Langton is from the Barony of Kenyon in the province of Gascoigne, he is very talented, he awakened the knight bloodline on his own very early, he has just turned over thirty years old, and has been promoted to a fourth-order knight. With very few resources, it has been raised to a very good level.

But Langton's bloodline is far from Baron Kenyon.

In order to prevent Langton from growing up to compete with his descendants for the title, Baron Kenyon sent this rising star to Harland six years ago.

In just six years, Langton has made a lot of feats, and his knight level has also been raised to the fourth-order level, and he has also served as the captain of the 21st Brigade, which has entered Richard's sight.

Up to now, Haaland has nearly 1.5 million people, although there are relatively few with knightly blood, and most of them are ordinary people. But every year, there are also many freedmen with noble blood who defect to the Harland Territory, and there are dozens of people who awaken the blood of knights every year. Organizing a small army of knights is not a difficult task.

(End of chapter)