The special squadron is a completely new formation, carrying out infiltration and assassination missions, and is divided into four squads, including the squadron commander, there are only 52 people.

The army is an all-professional team of carefully selected members consisting mainly of knights and magicians.

Each squad consists of twelve knights and two magicians.

In addition to the fourth-order Langton, the command organ also includes three deputy squadron leaders, namely the fourth-order knight Capello, the three-ring magician Bonova, and Capeson.

When performing combat missions, the special squadron also needs to strengthen magic hot air balloons, Warcraft war horses, and so on according to different situations.

The training of the special squadron is very complex and hard, not only need to learn infantry squad tactics, but also need to learn cavalry squad tactics, and to learn to operate magic hot air balloons, the tactical level of each member, their own skills, need to be very high.

Although the number of special squadrons is small, it is carefully selected by the whole army.

They were very well-equipped, all of them were wearing fourth-order wurm leather armor, and they also had fifth- and sixth-order dragon claws and dragon tooth daggers in their hands. Four Assaulters were armed with a Tier 4 Mithril Sword, and six were equipped with a Tier 3 Enchanted Bow and Crossbow, and they were armed with a Tier 3 Force Field Shield.

The special forces armed to the teeth, relying on the strength of a small team alone, can already compete with the seventh-order silver knight in combat effectiveness.

In order to facilitate the make-up reconnaissance, the squadron commander must accompany each special squad when performing the mission, and the commander also carries a ten cubic meter space bag, which can hide the equipment in the space bag.

In addition to the training of combat skills, members of the special squadron also need to learn a variety of skills, such as survival in the wild, makeup and hiding, and so on. In addition, they also need to spend a lot of time learning the languages of nearby countries, especially the languages of the United Kingdom of the East Coast and the Kingdom of Delong, and are proficient in writing the official script of the Dawn Continent. And to understand some cryptography, you can write a secret letter to the territory at an important juncture.

Through several internal exercises, a special team assassinated the Silver Knight by surprise, and the probability of success was more than five or six.

Being able to form special forces is enough to show that Haaland has accumulated a lot of foundation, and excellent talents have mastered a large part.

After Richard was promoted to duke, every year in the territory, some unambitious professionals defected, especially the nobles of Northern Xinjiang, and many branch members entered the Harland domain. Langton and Capello are such people, and among the other two three-ring magicians, Capezon is a friend of Roentgen and a person recruited in recent years, and only Bonova is a descendant of Haaland.

Now that it has grown and grown, it is necessary to have an open mind to accept outsiders.

Even if some of these outsiders are nails planted by others, they cannot be abandoned because of choking.

In addition to the special squadron, Richard also formed a squad of bipedal dragoons, and the squad leader appointed a seventh-order warrior Drifen.

Although the number of bipedal dragoons is very small, with only four official members, there are already half a squadron of soldiers who provide them with logistics auxiliaries.

Every bipedal dragoon is a mid-level warrior or above, and the level is too low to contract a bipedal wyvern.

The bipedal wyvern is an intelligent creature, so the wurm leather armor cannot be used at all, and this squad cannot get too close to the soldiers equipped with wurm leather armor such as the first squadron and the special squadron.

In order to protect the Wyvern, Richard and Wendini studied carefully, and finally used precious materials such as Mithril and Adamantite to refine the fifth-order defensive armor for the Wyvern to protect the Wyvern and the cavalry on it.

By the time this was done, it was mid-August.

After the Autumn Harvest inspection, Richard spent a lot of time making magic items and alchemical items.

With the consumption of a large amount of materials, coupled with Wendini's guidance, Richard's alchemy has improved by leaps and bounds during this time, and he has been promoted from the fourth order to the fifth order.

After entering August, a large number of magic items were refined and began to be equipped in various troops. For the next time, Richard and Wendini prepare to make the Iron Golem.

Golems are a type of refining, and in the era of ancient wizards, wizards mastered a large number of golem refining methods, and even legendary golems with artificial intelligence. It's just that the wizards are extremely cruel in creating legendary golems, and they need to slaughter a large number of intelligent creatures to refine soul crystals.

A floating city created by a legendary wizard must have a legendary golem with artificial intelligence, as well as a special alchemy creation tower spirit of the legendary level.

The Grant Kingdom also has a golem refining heritage, and the royal family has mastered a flying golem refining method, which requires the use of a special super magic ore, which is a kind of stone golem.

Due to the limitations of ores and other materials, the Grant royal family only succeeded in refining eighty flying golems, which is already a very important foundation for the royal family.

Relying on the Flying Golem troops, the royal family unexpectedly suppressed the Harpies, won the decisive battle of the Dragon Canyon, and expelled the orcs from the three northern provinces.

However, this was a hundred and twenty years ago, and since this battle, the Flying Golem unit has not appeared on the battlefield again, and according to some rumors, the Flying Golem consumes magic crystals very seriously.

When it is not critical, the Grant royal family will not use it easily.

Harland took control of the ruins of the Floating City, and Richard also mastered the ancient wizard script, sorting out a lot of magical techniques from the ruins, one method of making the Energy Absorbing Stone, and another method of making the Steel Golem.

It's just that the floating city is very old, thousands of years of wind and sun, and has experienced vicissitudes of life, and the technical information left behind is very scattered, and there are only three complete technologies to sort out.

Aside from the Energy Absorber and the Steel Golem, the last technology that is more important is the core technology of the Floating City, the Elemental Forge manufacturing method.

Crafting an Elemental Forge requires a large amount of magic materials, the first of which is the need to artificially craft Elemental Hearts.

There are two types of elemental hearts, one is the natural elemental core, which is generated almost exclusively in the four elemental planes.

In the era of ancient wizards, the passages between the Dawn Plane and the Four Elemental Planes had been completely destroyed, and now it was impossible to enter the Four Elemental Planes to find the Elemental Heart.

In addition, you can also hunt Legendary Elemental Lords and create Artificial Elemental Hearts.

Generally speaking, to build a floating city, you need to create at least the heart of the four elements of Earth Fire and Feng Shui, so that the floating city can absorb different elements and adapt to different environments.

To make the floating city rise into the air, it is not only necessary to have enough energy, but also to create gravity wells, super-large protective force fields, magic energy conversion centers, etc., which need the support of a developed magical civilization.

Even if Richard had a chance to create an elemental furnace, it would be difficult for the floating city to fly into the sky.

To make a steel golem, you need to use a lot of blood steel, although blood steel is a relatively cheap super magic metal, but refining a steel golem requires eighteen tons of blood steel.

The price of blood steel is very stable, the market price has been six silver coins a kilogram for many years, and refining a steel golem requires nine thousand gold coins just to buy blood steel.

To refine the Steel Golem, you also need to use Mithril and Adamantite.

Normally, a Steel Golem needs twenty kilograms of Mithril, and one kilogram of Mithril costs three hundred gold coins, and twenty kilograms is the cost of six thousand.

The High Iron Golem requires a well-equipped weapon, which also needs to be fused with Adamantite.

The price of adamantite gold is two thousand gold coins per kilogram, and even if two or three kilograms of adamantite gold are incorporated, it is a big cost.

In addition, the steel golem also needs a high-level magic core as the core, and the market price of a high-level magic core above the seventh order is about 12,000 gold coins, plus the cost of high-level magic potions, the refining cost is more than 35,000 gold coins. And that's not even counting the cost of inviting a high-ranking alchemist.

Counting Wendini, there are only two high-level alchemists in the Grant Kingdom, and it is not easy to invite a high-level alchemist. Inviting a high-level alchemist often requires a large hidden fee.

Normally, refining a steel golem may cost 40,000 gold coins.

If it weren't for the fact that there were several iron mines in Haaland's territory, a large amount of blood steel accumulated over the years, and more than twenty high-level magic cores, he only needed to pay more than 100,000 gold coins to buy a batch of Mithril and Pure Gold, and Richard would not have been able to afford the cost of refining high-level golems.

Due to the lack of soul crystals, the Iron Golem has no intelligence, and needs to be secretly manipulated by a mage when fighting.

Normally, a Ring Mage can control a Steel Golem and play a major role.

In fact, Richard mastered the technique of refining soul crystals from the ruins of the Floating City, but this technology required the slaughter of a large number of intelligent beings in the blood sacrifice.

This brutal technique is inconsistent with Richard's three views, and Richard is not willing to use it lightly. Even the Haaland Collar Magic Library did not include this technology, and the technical information was only hidden in Richard's mind.

Anyway, there is no shortage of magicians in the Haaland Collar, and magicians can possess the steel golem through the power of spells, and manipulate the golem with their own spiritual power, and they don't need to make the golem have simple intelligence.

Using a mage to manipulate a golem, albeit for a shorter duration, is smarter than a low-level intelligent golem and can be more useful on the battlefield.

The Iron Golem is very resistant to spells, and despite being slow and bulky, it is incredibly effective on frontal combat.

Dozens of Steel Golems charged at the same time, easily breaking through a large group of infantry.

The only thing that restricts the combat power of the Steel Golem is actually the cost of refining.

The cost of materials alone requires 35,000 gold coins, and it is also necessary to invite a high-level alchemist to help, which is also a big cost, and if it weren't for Wendini to join the Harland Collar, Richard would not be able to afford to invite a high-level alchemist.

Moreover, Richard was unwilling to give the refining method of the Steel Golem to outsiders easily.

Last year, Haaland had a surplus of 600,000 gold coins, but he had already spent nearly 300,000 yuan in the auction of the Transnational Chamber of Commerce. The treasury of the Haaland Consulate still needs to leave 200,000 gold coins in reserve, and the remaining gold coins are not enough to buy Mithril, Adamantite and other precious materials.

Hunting the bipedal wyvern, although the terrain dragon obtained more than one million gold coins, it is a pity that this resource was not exchanged for cash, but turned into potions, weapons, and enchanted armor, strengthening the territory of the foundation.

In the end, after the summer grain was put into storage, some of the grain was sold, and only then did he scrape together enough gold coins to buy a batch of pure gold and Mithril.

To refine the Iron Golem, you need to be proficient in the magic array.

Many magicians are seriously biased, only mastering the spell model, and are not proficient in the principles of magic and the magic array, in fact, there are only about one-fifth of the magicians who can do research in the Harland Territory, and there are sixty or seventy people counting the mage apprentices.

Most magicians can only act as tools and screws in a magical civilization.

The Harland Leader Mage Association attaches great importance to magic research, and the atmosphere of magic research is far beyond that of other magic organizations, normal magic organizations, only three percent of mages can engage in research, and the rest are battle mages and magic tool people.

Although Richard could not refine the high-level golem independently, he had a very solid foundation in magic and was proficient in a variety of magic arrays, which could help Wendini a lot and play an auxiliary role in the refining process.

In fact, a few low-level alchemists can also help a little, such as smelting materials, making models, concocting magic potions, and so on.

There are many ruins of ancient wizards in the Dawn Plane, as well as fallen floating cities, and magicians have even found many golems left behind by ancient times.

The Magic Kingdom of Makholm and other southwestern coastal countries and the Divine Radiance Empire have mastered some of the Golem refining methods and established a Golem army.

In particular, the Silver Golem Legion of the Divine Radiance Empire is famous in the Dawn Plane.

It is said that this kind of golem uses hundreds of kilograms of Mithril, and it costs more than 100,000 gold coins to refine one, even if it is a wealthy Divine Radiance Empire, it only has 300 silver golems.

This Golem Legion, like the Knights of the Wyvern, is the ace of the Divine Radiance Empire and an important part of the national defense.

Occasionally, there will be an outflow of high-level golems eliminated from the Silver Golem Legion, and this kind of severely worn high-level golems are often sold for more than 200,000 gold coins, and once they appear, they will cause the lords and nobles to compete and scramble.

After all, for the aristocracy, supernatural strength is fundamental to maintaining their rule.

A high golem can be passed on to the descendants of the family for many years.

A normal steel golem is divided into six parts: head, body, arms, and legs, which need to be carved by hand by a beginner alchemist.

Haaland has a well-developed steel smelting and casting process, which does not need to be made by hand, this step is relatively short and very easy, and the next step is to draw a magic circle on the body of the golem.

This is what Richard and Wendini mainly do, the golem control and operation system is very complicated, and thousands of magic runes must be drawn on one arm, and these runes cannot be made in the slightest error.

Once the drawing is wrong, the material cannot be used, so drawing runes requires careful thought and caution.

Each rune also needs to store a different mana in advance, and the process also needs to be carefully calculated and extremely careful.

Richard and Wendini teamed up, and it took half a month to successfully refine the first steel golem.

(End of chapter)