It was not only Rand who received the news, but also other mercenaries active in northern Priland. Soon these mercenaries were massing in the woods north of Blenny, harassing and annihilating the influx of undead from the outside.

Although there are many undead who go south from the Arctic ice field, there are not many who have wisdom, this group of undead were trapped in a special magic array by the wizards of the Dawn plane thousands of years ago, this magic array can wear out self-consciousness, even if it is a legendary undead, trapped in the magic array for thousands of years, almost all memories are lost, and they can only rely on instinct to act.

Hundreds of years ago, legendary necromancers traveled deep into the Northland Ice Fields to destroy the circle in a vain attempt to control the undead and search for the lost heart of death of the Lord of the Dead.

It is rumored that the Heart of Death is smelted by the Lord of the Dead with his own soul crystals and plane cores, and it has vast space and negative energy divine power, similar to the divine kingdom of the gods of the multiverse, which can accommodate millions of undead.

There were four undead lords who invaded the Dawn Plane that year, one of them was severely injured by the rule wizard and successfully escaped, and the other was shattered, and almost died with the Orphalan rule wizard. This undead lord Richard also took a face, the heart of death was taken away by the wizard, and the soul was fused with Princess Offaland, and now it is still hidden in the mausoleum of Princess Harland.

The third fell in the Northland Ice Fields, the Heart of Death was lost, and the soul was sealed by the wizards of the Dawn Plane, leaving the mess to the present. The last one fell at the hands of the alien Seven Gods.

If there is no invasion of the undead king, it is estimated that the seven gods will not be able to defeat the five rule wizards, after all, the rule wizards are the local forces of the Dawn plane, and they have already controlled the inner world tree, and they can manipulate the rule power of the entire world, and theoretically their strength exceeds that of the foreign gods and the undead kings.

But in the god war of antiquity, the rule wizard was driven away, and the undead lord suffered heavy losses. In the end, the gods behind the humans, orcs, dragons, elves and dwarves won the victory. The reason why this is the end is that the World Tree has been dead and dormant for a period of time is the root cause.

Any transcendent life has a beginning and an end. As powerful as the World Tree would be, it would fall into dormancy every six thousand years.

During the centuries of dormancy, the World Tree will dry up, shrinking its power to its core.

During this period, the World Tree was not only easy to control, but it was not as powerful as usual.

Just when the World Tree was dormant, the wizarding era ushered in the end, the Dawn plane was first invaded by the undead king, and then entered the multiverse gods, and transcendents from other planes also poured into this world, taking advantage of the special opportunity to succeed in becoming gods.

Now there are a total of thirteen gods behind the various races of the Dawn plane, including the natural gods who have mastered the power of the rules and obtained the favor of the World Tree, the gods of the multiverse, and the gods who are indigenous to the plane and ignite the divine fire and seal the gods.

Among them, the true god behind the elves is actually the descendants of wizards and other xenomorphic elves in ancient times, and is essentially a half-elf, but this half-elf transcendent purified his elven bloodline, and was successfully crowned a god in the late era of the seven gods, and was called the son of the sun by the elves.

Because of the serious conflict between the priesthood and the god of brilliance in the multiverse, in order to compete for the belief in the plane, the two sides broke out a fierce god war more than three thousand years ago, and finally the son of the sun could not defeat the god of glory who had been a god for many years, and the injury was also relatively serious, and the kingdom of God was transferred to the center of the earth, wanting to refine the will of the world tree, but the three gods of the dawn took the lead, and in the past three thousand years, they only preached within the elven race, and did not dare to compete with the god of radiance.

In addition, there is also a legendary fourth-order golden dragon in the local area, who ignited the divine fire in the late wizard era and succeeded in sealing the gods. This golden dragon was originally just a test subject captured by the wizard in the alien plane, and found an opportunity to escape from the wizard's grasp. And in the following thousand years, combined with the knowledge mastered by wizards, he was promoted to the fourth rank of legends, and succeeded in becoming a god in the late wizard era.

Now the dragon god is married to a multiverse dragon god, and the kingdoms of the two gods have merged together, collectively known as the Dragon Kingdom. The two dragon gods once wanted to spread faith in the Dawn Plane on a large scale in the Age of the Seven Gods and completely control the Dawn Plane, but they were later severely damaged by the Seven Gods of the human race, and now they are sealed in the Dragon Country.

The Orc Twin Gods are gods from different planes, and they are reinforcements brought in by the Seven Gods to deal with the rules wizards.

Today, the orcs of the Dawn plane have both multi-dimensional orc races, as well as extraordinary races created by local wizards in order to study bloodline experiments, and their bloodlines are very chaotic.

After driving out the rule wizards and entering the age of the seven gods, the human seven gods and the orc gods turned their faces, because they couldn't beat the human seven gods, the orc gods set their sights on other multiple planes, and once reduced their activities in the morning plane.

Three thousand years ago, the two orc gods heard of the infighting among the seven human gods, and they fell into a deep sleep one after another, and once again sent the gods incarnated into the Dawn plane, provoking a racial war, wanting to test the human seven gods. As a result, the race war was lost, the god incarnation was killed, and the divinity was swallowed by the seven human gods, and the losses were extremely heavy.

The seven gods of the human race are all outsiders, among which the god of light, the god of truth, the god of fairness and justice, and the goddess of wealth are all multiverse gods, and they all operate in the Dawn plane in their avatars.

The God of Radiance has the strongest divine power, and he is a powerful god of the seventeenth level of Godhead.

The god of fairness and justice is a powerful deity of the sixteenth level of the godhead.

The Goddess of Wealth is a mid-level deity of the thirteenth rank of Godhead.

The Godhead of the God of Truth is only second-class, and he is a deity with weak divine power.

Legend has it that the God of Truth was originally a legendary fourth-order magician who ignited the divine fire tens of thousands of years ago and succeeded in sealing the gods. His life is longer than that of the God of Radiance, who has a lifespan of about 20,000 years in the multiverse.

The god of the dawn, the god of kingship, and the god of the earth, although they are life on the other plane, they have ignited the divine fire in the plane of dawn and succeeded in sealing the gods, they have mastered part of the rule power of the dawn plane, and have won the favor of the world tree, in fact, like the wizards of the ancient rules, they can mobilize part of the rule power of the dawn plane.

It's just that the ancient wizards completely controlled the World Tree and suppressed the will of the World Tree with their own will, while the three gods of Dawn could not control the World Tree, and could only use the World Tree to mobilize the power of the rules, such as causing large floods, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, etc.

Comparatively speaking, the destructive power is far less powerful than that of the rule wizard.

But because of the belief in the gods, the three gods of Dawn, Kingship, and the Earth have mastered many methods that the rule wizards did not master.

Because the three gods of Dawn have been confined for a relatively short time, most of them are asleep, and now they are only weak gods of the sixth level of the godhead.

In fact, the Godhead only represents the quantity and quality of God's followers, and the true fighting power of a god depends on his race, occupation, and authority.

For example, the two gods of the dragon clan, depending on the level of the gods, are only weak in their divine power, but their combat power can beat a group of weak, medium, or even strong gods.

Because most of their powerful combat power comes from themselves, and a small part comes from the authority they hold.

In the Age of the Seven Gods, even the four incarnations of the God of Fairness and Justice plus the God of Radiance had never beaten this pair of dragon gods, so they could only combine the power of the seven gods and try their best to seal the two weak dragon gods in the kingdom of God.

Where the gods with strong divine power are stronger than the weak gods, there are more incarnations of gods and more powerful believers, such as the god of fairness and justice, who has eight incarnations of gods, and his legendary priests operate in multiple planes, adding up to more than dozens.

And there are only two incarnations of the goddess of Dawn, there are only four legendary priests, and there are more than a dozen high-level leaders of the Dawn Church, more of whom are magicians and knights, and the faith of magicians and knights is not pious, and absolute loyalty cannot be guaranteed.

But in the Dawn plane, the Goddess of Dawn's combat power is probably a little more powerful than that of the God of Fairness and Justice, because the Goddess of Dawn can use the power of the World Tree to a certain extent, and the damage she does is extremely amazing.

But when she went to other planes, the Goddess of Dawn's combat power was far inferior to that of the god of fairness and justice.

Some of the undead on the Northland Ice Fields are soldiers who follow the Undead Lord in the Alternate Plane, and the other part are the natives of the Dawn Plane who died in the Battle on the Northland Ice Field.

Because the Lord of the Dead used regular spells such as the resurrection of the dead, countless dead beings were brought back to life as undead.

The Lord of the Dead has mastered the mysteries of life and death, and can transform living life into undead spirits, and can also transform the dead into living life. As long as he has been transformed, he will not be able to get rid of the fate of being controlled by the Lord of the Dead, and it can be said that he cannot survive or die.

Because of the long time that the ancient wizards used the soul consumption formation to wear out the consciousness, the undead who came down from the Northland Ice Fields were quite stupid.

Although the number of such stupid undead is large, the threat to the human kingdom is low. Because human armies can use stratagem to create an external environment suitable for their own battles, and annihilate the enemy with small casualties.

The Bloodtooth Mercenary Group, where Rand belongs, seized the opportunity very smoothly, fought a few beautiful battles, and barely suffered many losses, and got enough soul crystals to make up enough achievements.

In less than three months, a mercenary group had accumulated enough exploits, and although it was beyond Richard's expectations, he happily kept his promise and gave Rand 600 square kilometers of land near Blenny.

Seizing the opportunity, Rand was knighted in just three months.

After Rand was knighted, he cleared the undead in northern Blenny and sent people south into the United Kingdom on the east coast to recruit freemen.

Rand was able to be knighted in a short period of time, and hundreds of mercenaries under his command played an important role. After being knighted, Rand was given a large amount of land, most of which he generously gave to the mercenary soldiers. The least mercenaries can also get 300 acres of land, and the most backbone of the mercenary group has been allocated tens of thousands of acres of farmland, which exceeds many wealthy squires in their hometowns.

The social situation of the United Kingdom on the east coast, the squires all have aristocratic blood, and many of them are the second sons and sons-in-law of the first barons, and they are the backbone of the local barony.

Generally, after three generations of hereditary nobles, the territory is basically indivisible, even if it is a generous hereditary noble, they will not continue to divide the territory, and the second son and second daughter cannot divide the family property, so they can only get a part of the floating wealth and find a job to make a living with the help of their parents.

Near Bleni is an endless plain, and in addition to the vast grasslands in the territory, it is a cultivated land that has been developed, except for the somewhat cold climate, according to the standards of the Dawn Plane, it is a very good land.

Moreover, Richard also divided 600 kilometers of land for him, far more than the average barony.

The standard barony of the United Kingdom on the east coast is only one or two hundred square kilometers of land, and only a few barons with a background can get the standard of three hundred square kilometers.

In addition, Beretta also built a lot of houses, and when Haaland led the army to station, he built a lot of camps, and some of them used cement and stones, which allowed Rand to save a lot of money.

Richard gave excellent treatment, which made Rand realize his long-held dream and achieve a leap in class, and he was naturally willing to be loyal to Richard at this time.

According to Rand's plan, the Barony of Blenny could reclaim more than 600,000 acres of cultivated land and feed 200,000 people.

But if you want to develop this territory, you also need to invest a lot of manpower and money.

But Rand has a mercenary group that is not weak, and the family members of the mercenary group alone are as many as a few thousand.

Many of the mercenaries under Rand's command are professionals, not poor, and now the members of the mercenary group have been allocated a large amount of land, and of course their families have to migrate to this territory to participate in the management.

Coupled with the purchase of a number of serfs, according to Rand's estimates, 10,000 or 20,000 people will be able to migrate next spring.

The power of example is endless, and the success of Rand's knighthood has attracted mercenaries from many nearby countries to enter the Harland realm.

In December, Richard went on to canonize Barons Lacey and Guterre, both of whom were located near the Barony of Blenny.

Richard only paid 1,600 square kilometers of wasteland to win the allegiance of three mercenary groups that were not weak.

Although the three new baronies have just been established, Rand, the mercenary captain, already has an elite army with strong combat effectiveness under his command.

In addition, the three barons also handed over a large number of soul crystals, which were refined into potions, which could greatly enhance the power of the Harland Lord.

The orcs deliberately broke the seal and released the undead on the Northland Ice Field, but in fact did not contain too many troops of the Harland Leader, and Richard only used a knighthood policy to recruit thousands of mercenaries to work for the Harland Lord.

Richard didn't make a loss of money.

In the north of Priland, hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of land south of the Northland Ice Field, Richard could canonize more than 1,000 hereditary nobles, and there was a vast and desolate territory, and Richard was not afraid of having no land to seal.

Moreover, when the frontier aristocratic general's territory is developed, it can provide logistics for the army, so that Richard can mobilize heavy troops into the Northland wasteland and completely eliminate the undead.

(End of chapter)