After the battle against the dragon, Wilde refined the Elixir of the Heart of the Holy Spirit and was promoted to the rank of Eighth-Order Golden Knight, taking his combat effectiveness to the next level. Anne and Butler were also quickly promoted to the Five Rings, and the young elf mage Eve was also successfully promoted to the Sixth Ring, which slightly improved the strength of the Harland Mage Association.

Because of the many precious magic plants obtained from the dragon's nest, Sophia refined a batch of precious potions, and in just over a month, the Haaland Mage Association added more than twenty magicians. Counting this year's normal advanced magic apprentices, the official members of the Mage Guild have exceeded one hundred and eighty.

One hundred and eighty magicians, more than half the number of the royal mage. Haaland has been leading the development for less than two decades, and he is about to catch up with the Grant family's millennium.

The fact that Haaland's territory can develop to its current scale is entirely due to Richard's tolerant mind, and the core reason for liberating indentured slaves and expanding the scope of talent selection is the core.

After Sophia successfully refined the Styx Elixir, Richard began to focus on Snow Crystal Lake.

From August to October every year, the snow crystal fish will swim upstream and enter the snow crystal lake to spawn, which is very dangerous during this period, and even a powerful professional like Richard does not dare to set foot easily.

August to October is the season for Haaland's territory to hunt snow crystals, and during this season, the territory professionals can become very busy, and even need to draw manpower from the army.

According to the information left by Shao Gongyuan, the key to open the dimensional passage was left in the Lake of Life. According to the description in the Magic Book, Richard estimated that the so-called Lake of Life was most likely the Snow Crystal Lake.

After returning from Starnick, Richard was going deep into Snow Crystal Lake to find the key. It's a pity that Grand Duke Jonathan made a request to join forces to defeat the dragon. Next, because he found the dragon's blood fruit, Richard needed to take care of Sophia again, so he delayed his work for more than a month.

Now that the Snow Crystal Fish has returned to spawn, it is necessary to wait until the end of the spawning period of the Snow Crystal Fish, looking for the key to open the dimensional passage.

Haaland led the hunt for a large number of snow crystal fish, and the apothecary's life was unusually busy. Liberant potions began to be marketed in large quantities, and the soldiers of Haaland's territory also seized the opportunity to exchange for potions.

By the end of September, the number of warrior professionals had increased by about 300.

Now counting the city defense army, Haaland has more than 100,000 troops, and the scale of professionals is about 10,000.

At this moment, the orc army was once again assembled, and this time it was not the Commander of the Giant Owl who presided over the battle, but the Commander of the Grassland Governorate, the legendary third-order lion man Meronla.

Melonla's rank is also a big shot in the Orc Empire.

In addition to the territory directly under the central royal court, the orc empire has only six satrapy districts in total, and the strength of the grassland satrapy ranks second, according to the system of the orc empire, Meronla should have three legendary-level deputies under his command. It's just that five years ago, Richard killed the legendary dragon vein kobold Kiram, and the Grant Kingdom Front did not have a legendary orc to command the battle.

After all, it is not easy to promote the legend, even if it is the orc empire, the legend has a battle damage, and it will take a long time to replenish the gap.

In the past five years, the orcs have had a total of two ninth-order promotion legends, and it was not until August this year that the orc central royal court sent the deputy commander of the grassland governorate to command the battle in the direction of the Grant Kingdom.

The new deputy commander was a jackal and was not familiar with the situation in the steppe governorate.

The jackal has a cunning personality, and after taking office, it has continued to inquire about the news, and the comparison of strength in the direction of the Grant Kingdom is already very clear.

When Kiram was the commander, he commanded at most eighteen legion orc armies, but after years of war and continuous blows from the Grant Kingdom, only about fourteen orc legions remained in the hands of the gnoll commander.

Fourteen orc legions, two need to be left behind to protect the rear. There are only twelve orc legions that can attack the Grant Kingdom, and the battle line with a width of thousands of kilometers is far from enough in the face of more than 200,000 defenders.

The lack of military strength is also the reason why the orcs have become weaker and weaker over the years.

Because the Haraland Territory controlled the Eagle Mountains, it already occupied a condescending advantage, and the frontline stronghold was only about 200 kilometers away from the key city of Prillan in the northern steppe.

The orc leaders of the Prairie Front already hated the line of defense run by Haaland.

The most troublesome thing is that Haaland leads this defensive line, and half of the area is held along the river. Relying on the Samba River, a large river with abundant water, Haaland led the defensive pressure by about half.

It's just that the Haaland Territory is now fully fed, and the territory also has a fourth-order magic item, which can largely determine the outcome of a medium-sized battle.

If you want to break through this line of defense, relying on the orcs in the direction of the Grant Kingdom is far from enough.

After the commander of the jackals took office, he figured out the situation and decided that the new officer would take up three fires to change the strategic situation in the region, and made a request to the head of the governor's district, Melonla.

The gnolls demanded to strengthen their forces, to increase the number of legions by four regiments, and to strengthen the superiority in strength. and asked Mellonla to take his own guards with him to participate in the battle against Haaland's army.

The two Legends joining forces can greatly weaken the threat of the Tier 4 Legendary Item. If you can take advantage of the chaos to kill Richard and grab the Starlight Necklace, the orc's strategic situation will change immediately.

The orcs had just assembled their army, and the news immediately reached the Harland Territory.

After defeating the legendary dragon, the number of bipedal dragoons led by Haaland has been expanded to thirty.

Although the bipedal wyvern is very violent, it is an intelligent creature after all, once defeated and admits defeat, as long as you don't abuse it, it will have a high degree of obedience, and after signing the magic contract, it will basically serve humans. The reason why the bipedal wyvern captured last time did not give in was mainly because of the legendary dragon.

This time, the legendary black dragon Ramoos was defeated and lost by Richard, and the horror of the starlight bomb had been imprinted into the heart of the two-legged wyvern, and after catching the two-legged wyvern, it was quickly tamed.

By the end of September, after a month and a half of emergency training, all three bipedal Wyvern squads were ready to take to the skies. In addition to the bipedal wyvern, Haaland led forty-three griffon cavalry, and the lion cavalry was also far superior to the harpy. In addition to the bipedal wyvern and the lion cavalry, Haaland led sixteen squadrons of magic hot air balloons.

Although the Magic Balloon is not as agile as the Hippogriff and is limited by wind direction in aerial scouting, it is also a high-altitude scout and can play an important role in warfare.

Compared to the orc aerial reconnaissance force, the Harland Leader has the upper hand. Now it's the orc's turn to be careful in the air, or else they'll suffer.

Especially in the direction of Priland, it is the focus of Haraland's reconnaissance, and as soon as Mellonla and the Gnolls gathered their troops, the news reached Richard's ears.

Seeing that the orcs began to assemble a huge army, Harland immediately issued a first-level combat readiness order.

Throughout the territory of Haaland's territory, officers and soldiers began to stop their vacations and return to the barracks, and the reservists who had retired from the army also went to their respective castles for intensive training. Both auxiliaries and regular armies began to maintain their weapons and were ready to go into battle. Even the intelligence department, at this time, widened their eyes and stared at every move of the territory.

Time passed like this, and it was October, and the scouts on both sides had begun a brutal battle.

Because a large number of bipedal wyverns were thrown into the battlefield, the losses of the Harpys became very heavy. In just five or six days, the losses of the Harpys have exceeded 100, which is equivalent to a legion of Harpies being empty.

You must know that even if the Gnolls increase the number of legions by four legions, the number of Eagle Figures in the Eastern Front of the Grassland Governor's District will be more than 2,300 people.

The Eastern Front of the Orc Steppe Governorate not only undertook the battle in the direction of the Grant Kingdom, but also had to devote a certain amount of energy to staring at the dragons in the eastern part of the Orc Savannah, and undertook a part of the combat missions in the direction of the Grand Duchy of Starnik.

In previous years, they invaded the Kingdom of Grant, dispatched more than a dozen legions, and only lost thirty or forty Hippogriffs after a few months of war. Even if the losses have increased in the past few years, only seventy or eighty Hippogriffs will be lost in a major war in three years, and the losses are generally bearable.

In a few days, the loss of a hundred harpies in one battle was already very serious for the orcs and could not bear it.

Despite the heavy losses, in order to ensure the suddenness of the sneak attack, both the Legendary First-Order Gnoll and the Legendary Third-Order Meronra resisted and did not attack the Bipedal Wyvern and Lion Cavalry. Their goals are all aimed at Richard, and no matter how much sacrifice they make, they can't change their determination to kill Richard and take away the legendary fourth-order magic props.

The orcs made a lot of preparations and did not reveal the traces of the two legends.

Time flashed to the eighth day of October, two orc legions guarded the back road, the grain road, and sixteen legions of orcs appeared near the defense line of the north mountain led by Haaland.

From the No. 1 station to the No. 14 station, on the battlefield with a width of 600 kilometers, 100,000 Harland led the army to meet the attack of more than 300,000 orcs, and the number of orcs has reached about 450,000 including the auxiliaries who maintain the grain route.

Now that the Royal Central Army has moved south, there are only more than 20,000 reinforcements from the Wild Lion Legion near Haaland.

Duke Edward and Duke Fox combined have a total of 100,000 troops, but they are in competition with Duke Haaland, and they may not be willing to focus on the overall situation and send reinforcements to help Richard defend.

The defeat of Haaland, the retreat of Richard to the Eagle Mountains, and the heavy losses of the orcs were in their favor. If Richard defeats the orcs and swallows a large part of the territory of the Steppe Governorate, Haaland's power will become more and more powerful.

The bigger the neighbor, the more worried the two dukes Edward and Fox will be, and if it is Richard, he will not lose his strength and help the neighbor.

Although the orcs were attacking like a black cloud, Richard still had the confidence to hold the line.

The orcs on both wings approached the No. 1, No. 2, No. 3, No. 4, No. 14, and No. 13 military stations, and the five orc legions contained 30,000 soldiers of Roman and Soros.

The four orc legions attacked the seventh, eighth, ninth, eleventh, and twelfth stations, which also put Jennings and Wilde under heavy pressure.

The orcs mobilized an army of 100,000 at one time, making the naval army blocking the Samba River useless, after all, Haaland's naval army was only two or three thousand people, and it was impossible to compete with the main force of the orcs.

Although the Samba River is a large river, the width is only about two or three hundred meters.

Orcs can block the river by setting up a water village by the river. In the face of an army dozens of times the number of troops, although the navy has the advantage of troops, it is not an opponent of the orcs.

However, Haaland led a navy to roam outside, and the orcs must garrison a large army in the water village along the river, otherwise they will be cut off by the navy.

There was a naval army to pinn it down, and although the enemy had four legions, Jennings and Wilde could easily hold it.

After discovering the orc army, Harland not only fully mobilized, but also wrote letters asking for help to the two archdukes, the Lion Legion, Edward, and Fawkes.

Due to the urgency of the situation and the inability to report to Nolan, Pizarro, the commander of the Legion of the Wild Lions, immediately made a decision and sent troops through the Kailania Valley into Martins Castle, where they appeared near Station 14.

With the strong army of the Wild Lions as a backup, it was enough to help Roman hold this line of defense.

Jennings, Loss, Martin, Vito, Morgan, Davey, Grumand and other seven barons near the second military station, also organized a coalition of 3,000 nobles to act as surprise soldiers, threatening the food routes of the orcs, and pinning down three large groups of orcs.

The six barons of Sharp, Ron, Kent, Bernie, Jose, and Wendy also organized an alliance of 3,000 nobles and stationed in Castle No. 2 to strengthen the defense of Castle No. 2.

With Richard sending a letter of help, the combined forces of the nobles of Heihe, Rohm, and Wright were also organized, and under the leadership of Viscount Rohm, 8,000 soldiers reinforced the eastern front, and had been stationed at the castle in the valley of West Grotta, a step away from the fourth troop station.

The cavalry regiment of the Knight Academy also completed its mobilization, and sailed up the Grota River to Barony Morgan, a day's journey from the front.

Although the eastern defense line has increased by 15,000 reinforcements, although the strength is not as good as that of the Wild Lion Army, the strength of Soros's department is more than a step higher than Roman's.

The Grotta Army led by Soros has about 20,000 regular troops led by Haaland. Although there are many orcs in the three legions, and fifteen thousand soldiers have been added, the Soros department has enough strength to hold on.

The two dukes, Edward and Fox, although they received a letter from Richard asking for help, moved very slowly, and both sides swore that they sent messengers and promised to send reinforcements, but the two were good words, and all the blank checks were issued, and none of the brigades had actual action.

The orcs are divided into five routes, the easternmost is the direction of the No. 3 military station, the strength is three legions, the main force is about 60,000 people, and the defenders plus the noble coalition army, the total number of people is 35,000.

The westernmost part is in the direction of the No. 14 military station, with two legions of orcs, with a main force of 40,000 people, and there are only more than 10,000 soldiers under Roman's command, plus 20,000 people of the Wild Lion Legion, which can also be held.

Jennings and Wilde combined had more than 40,000 men, but the defense line they were stationed on had the Samba River and the help of the navy, although they needed to face the passage of four legions of orcs, and the two divisions also had the strength to defend it.

The main force of the orcs was seven legions, and more than 150,000 troops surrounded the No. 10 military station, because of the huge strength advantage, even the No. 5 and No. 6 military stations behind the No. 10 military station were surrounded by the orcs. And the No. 10 soldier stood on this defensive line, and the defenders only had about 30,000 people including auxiliaries. The ratio of forces between the two sides has reached 1 to 5.

The orcs divided into two legions to surround the fifth and sixth military stations, pinning down 16,000 soldiers.

In the area of Station 10, the orcs concentrated 110,000 troops, while the defenders stationed in Station 10, plus the auxiliaries, were already less than 15,000. The ratio of forces is close to 1:8, and it can be said that there are different ways of strength and weakness.

(End of chapter)