The value of the eaux-de-vie is very high, and in extreme cases, one can be exchanged for a viscount, and it is impossible to sell the eaux-de-vie in one bottle.

A bottle of eaux-de-vie can increase the life span of two hundred years, and it is the least expensive life-prolonging potion, no matter who gets this treasure, they will take it by themselves first, even if there is a situation like Richard and Sophia, it will be left to the closest people.

Keeping the water of life for a long time, selling and trading this kind of thing, will face the prying eyes of many legendary magicians, in fact, it is very unsafe, and the risk is particularly high, after all, in this kind of world where extraordinary power belongs to oneself, the law of the jungle is the lowest level of logic, and many powerful legendary magicians are not reasonable people.

Moreover, most people can't afford to exchange a bottle of eaux-de-vie, not even King Roger. Unless he is willing to divide the territory and give Richard another dukedom.

But the area of the territory directly under the royal family is no longer comparable to the Haaland family, and even if the Roger Kingdom wants to exchange, the Grant family will not let him succeed in the exchange, and cut his own flesh to feed the big tiger of the Harland family. The Kingdom of Grant belongs to the entire royal family, not to Roger alone.

Roger's influence on the Grant family is far from comparable to Richard's influence on the Haaland family, because Richard is the founder of the Haaland family, and what he says is that he has a constitution in his mouth and responds to every call.

The Haaland family, under the auspices of Richard, has achieved brilliant success for 20 years, so that the family members are very blind to Richard, even if it is William and Bernie, once Richard makes up his mind, even if it touches their interests, the two will not rashly oppose it, but actively support Richard's decision.

Although the Roger Kingdom is the most powerful person in the Grant family, once he chooses to harm the collective interests of the royal family for his own interests, it may cause internal political instability. The slightest carelessness can even trigger internal political struggles.

Despite the rapid expansion of the territory of the Kingdom of Grant in the past two decades, King Roger also has a very high prestige. In addition, without the mother-in-law of Duke Breener, he is already the most prestigious person in the history of the Grant Kingdom, but there is still no comparison with the founder of a great nobility like Richard.

Moreover, Richard had a general relationship with King Roger, and he did not want him to increase his life span by two hundred years and be promoted to the legendary realm. After all, Roger is Richard's feudal lord, and in the political rules of the Dawn plane, Richard is naturally a head shorter.

Even if the Harland family is recognized by the Divine Radiance Empire in the future and becomes independent from the Grant Kingdom, Richard still needs to bow when he sees the Roger Kingdom, and the Harland territory cannot be expanded in the direction of the Grant Kingdom, let alone invaded on its own initiative.

From the dark thoughts in Richard's heart, he is not willing to live in the shadow of Roger for a long time, and when the Harland family develops for another thirty years, with a population of more than tens of millions, and successfully develops the orc savannah, Grant Kingdom Richard has the idea of annexing it.

Based on this idea, what can really increase the strength of Grant's royal family is impossible for Richard to exchange.

The value of a bottle of eaux-de-vie can no longer be exchanged for merit. Richard was reluctant to take a risk, so he had to distribute it, and the core layer of the territory was somewhat distributed.

Sutton has been promoted to the ninth order for more than fifteen years, and from the half-elf race, he is not in a hurry to advance to the legendary realm.

Although elves and half-elves have a long lifespan, it is far more difficult to break through the realm than humans, and generally speaking, half-elves have to stay in the ninth order for at least thirty years before they try to break through the legendary realm.

Sutton had planned to wait another fifteen years, but luck came too soon.

Since he and Wendini persuaded his mother to join the Harland Territory, the Sutton family's luck has become particularly good, and the Morning Radiant Elves have ushered in a rapid development. First of all, Sylph was promoted to a legend, but he didn't expect that in just five years, he would get another opportunity to take a whole bottle of water of life to break through the realm. Even the prince of a large elven clan would not have the luxury of taking a whole bottle of water of life to break through the legendary realm.

Although he was a waste of life-increasing effects because he took a water of life last time, Sutton is a half-elf with a lifespan of more than a hundred years, as long as he is promoted to a legend this time, he can also increase his lifespan by sixty years with the help of his life level.

Moreover, with the development of Haaland's leadership, Richard, Sophia, and Wendini will definitely be promoted to legendary mages, and there will be opportunities to obtain other life extension methods at that time. In the short term, Sutton still has plenty to live, and death is still far away.

After the group returned to Fort William in a magical airship, Sutton went to retreat at the Starlight Alliance headquarters, and Richard brought a bottle of eaux-de-vie to his second son, Rex.

Rex was just two years old and three months old, and compared to his brother Philip, he had better luck, not only inherited his mother's half-elf bloodline, and lived longer than ordinary people, but also took a whole bottle of water of life, with a lifespan of three hundred and sixty years.

Of Richard's three children, Philip had a worse chance after all.

After all, no one can predict the future, and it is impossible to imagine that in just five years, Haaland will once again get a large amount of water resources for life. I knew that there was today, I should have given Philip a chance last time, but this time it would be Philip and Rex's turn to take the water of life, and Sutton would need to wait for a while to become a legend.

The water of life is very similar to the elves, and although Sutton's breakthrough was not as smooth as Silf's, he still successfully broke through the legendary realm after more than ten days of retreat.

Sutton and Silf have broken through successively, plus William in the south, the Haaland family has three legends, and their strength has obviously increased a lot.

The rapid development of the Haaland family made the Grant royal family a little dumbfounded.

Who would have thought that in just fifteen years, the Haaland family would far surpass the royal family in terms of high-level combat effectiveness, and since the death of Duke Breener, the royal family has not been promoted to the second legend.

Because breaking through the legend involves a lot of risk, the Roger Kingdom has some scruples in his heart and does not dare to break through the realm easily. The nine-ring magician Pansy Grant lacks a lot of background, and it is also very dangerous to be promoted to a legendary magician. The biggest chance was actually Earl Steven, but he was unlucky enough to die in battle a few years ago.

Not counting Steven, who died in battle, the Grant family now has six ninth-order professionals, in addition to the Roger Kingdom and Pansy, there are also the Duke of York, the previous generation of the eldest prince Philip, the vice president of the Mage Guild Shane, and the new commander of the Southern Praetorian Guard, Heaton.

The situation of the Duke of York is similar to that of Roger's Kingdom, they have accumulated enough foundation, but they are high-ranking and powerful people, and they lack the determination to fight to the death, unless they get a very high-grade legendary potion that can protect their lives, otherwise they will never risk advancing to the legendary realm.

The vice president of the Mage Association, Shane, has a shallower background, he is a battle mage, although he has successively refined two high-grade Styx potions produced by Harland, and his spiritual power has increased to thirty-seven points, which is still far from the minimum standard for impacting the bottleneck of the legend.

Heaton is a rising star of the Grant family, succeeding Earl Steven as commander of the Southern Guard, and his accumulation is still a little insufficient, and he will have to wait a few years to break through the legend.

The last eldest prince, Philip, was forced by the Duke of Brennes to abdicate the throne and enter the convent of the Church of Dawn when he was young. In fact, it is equivalent to breaking away from the Grant family. This person is extremely talented, and like Richard, he is a candidate for the dual cultivation of magic and martial arts, his priest level has been promoted to the ninth order, and the knight profession has also reached the ninth order.

The promotion of priests requires a lot of faith power, and it also needs the favor of the gods to help break through the realm. Because the degree of revival of the Goddess of Dawn is relatively low, only three legendary priests can now be promoted, serving as the Pope, High Priest, and Cardinal respectively.

There are more than twenty ninth-order priests in the Dawn Church, all waiting to be promoted to legends, and Philip is ranked behind these twenty people. After Marvila's death, the Church of Dawn has elected a new cardinal and promoted the legendary priest with the help of the goddess.

Although six members of the royal family have been promoted to the Ninth Ring, and there are more than twenty Ninth Orders under their command, none of these people have been promoted to Legends, and the Haaland family has Silph, William, and Sutton Breakthrough Legends in just five years. Although there is no legendary magician in the most powerful, the high-level combat power has far surpassed that of the Grant royal family, and can be compared with the royal family of Lane.

After Sutton was successfully promoted to legend, Sylph came directly to Richard to discuss, hoping to give up his original territory and move the elven tribe to the Lost Locks to take care of the Tree of Life.

In addition to producing water of life, the leaves and branches of the Tree of Life are very good magical materials, which can make a variety of magic items, which are very rare in the market.

In addition, the fruit of the tree of life, the fruit of life, is also of great help to the development of the elven population. Long-term consumption of this fruit can not only increase the magic power in a small amount, but also has great benefits for female elves to give birth to life.

Generally speaking, an elven tribe, once it discovers the tree of life, will inevitably settle under the tree of life, and a large elven tribe of several thousand people may have an activity range of about one or two hundred miles nearby.

After discovering the Tree of Life, Richard anticipated that Sylph might make such a request. He had already thought about this issue very clearly.

"Because of Wendini, I will grant your request to hand over the Tree of Life to the Radiant Elf Clan, but you must also fulfill your promise to be loyal to the Harland family.

In the event of war, you must obey the lord's requisition, and send manpower to help Harland lead the battle, and half of the output of the tree of life will also be handed over to the lord's mansion. ”

Hearing Richard's answer, Sylph was particularly happy, she nodded and said, "Don't worry Richard, the Dawn Elf will be tied to the Harland family." I have consulted with Sutton and decided to marry Sutton's youngest daughter, Windsor, to your second son, Rex, and Sutton's granddaughter Leila will also be Philip's court lady.

I swear to you in the name of the god of elves that the elves of the Morningglow tribe will not support Rex and Philip in their struggle for the head of the Harland family. My offspring will intermarry with your offspring from generation to generation, and they will be intertwined by blood, without distinction between one another. ”

Sutton had three companions, two of whom were human and one of whom was elf. Because Sutton has half-elven blood and has a lifespan far beyond ordinary people, Sutton's first two human wives have long since run out of life. His youngest daughter, Windsor, is the child of Sutton and the female elf Rayla, and is of three-quarters elven blood.

The child's genetics basically follow the mother's, and there are particularly obvious elven characteristics.

Children with unusually strong elven blood often have a longer lifespan than ordinary half-elves, most of them can reach three or four hundred years old, which is just enough to accompany Rex who has drunk the water of life through his life.

Although Sutton's youngest daughter is sixteen or seventeen years old, she is still a child for a race with a long lifespan, and she is the same age as Rex for a long time.

Sutton's granddaughter, Lyra, who also has elven blood, is actually very thin, and this marriage is really just an addition.

After Richard negotiated with Silver, Sutton and Silvere submitted an application to the Council of Lords of Harland, giving up their original territory and pocketing 6,000 square kilometers of land near the Tree of Life. Although the elves do not like the cold climate of the Burton Forest, they can overcome all difficulties by living near the Tree of Life.

Moreover, the Elven Mystery Lock has been repaired and can still be used, and the actual security is more guaranteed than the original territory.

The population of the Radiant tribe is not large, and there are only more than 400 elves in total.

Four hundred elves only need a small amount of baggage, and only Richard and Wendini need to take a trip with space props to carry the elves to consume a year's baggage.

Although the number of elves is small, their real combat power far exceeds that of the eleven noble alliances of the Bolleni family, even if the 30,000 mercenaries in the north of Priland are combined, their combat effectiveness is not as good as the more than 400 elves and half-elves led by the two legends.

With the elves on top of the Burton Forest, Richard can rest assured that the north is safe.

After the elves migrated to the Bolton Forest, Richard could reward thirty or forty baronies with the territory handed over by Sutton Silver. With the addition of the eleven barons in northern Priland, Richard had more than sixty vassals.

Although the strength of the Haaland family has surpassed that of the Grant royal family, the vassals directly under it are only equivalent to one-sixth of the level of the royal family, and the vassals under the command of Richard can pull out an army of 20,000 or 30,000 nobles, while the royal vassals have an army of 100,000.

In addition, under the command of the Haaland family, there is also a lack of noble allegiance. Within Haaland's territory, there are only two families that have the opportunity to be promoted to the great nobles in a short period of time, Rohmon and Sutton.

The lack of loyalty of the great nobles and the small number of vassals under their command led to the very small number of troops controlled by the Harland family, only less than 200,000 people, and the Grant royal family is not counted as the Harland leader, and the national mobilization can pull out a million troops.

Although the army led by Haaland is strong in combat and has a variety of advanced magic weapons, its overall strength is still a few points behind that of the Grant Kingdom.

(End of chapter)