The power left by Susman in the half-plane is not weak, and he has also arranged some powerful magic circles.

Under the leadership of two high-level and six middle-level magicians, they were able to rely on the advantages of geography to trap Richard in the Rubik's Cube maze.

The two sides fought for a few rounds, and they fell into a stalemate.

It is clear that Sussman's students want to stall and wait for the teacher to come and work together to suppress Richard's formidable enemy.

It's a pity that they don't know that Sussman has been exiled to the Azure Plane by Richard, although the Azure Plane is not too far from the Red Moon Plane and is in the same plane group, but to really be able to return, they still need to do a lot of preliminary work, build a plane teleportation channel, and build a simple portal.

It would take at least a few days for Sussman alone to succeed in this work.

The space above the Rubik's Cube Labyrinth suddenly distorted into a large gate, and the dazzling white light passed inside the gate, and the energy of the space suddenly escaped near the gate.

In an instant, Sophia, dressed in a court dress, walked out of the gate with Eve and Anne, and Richard rushed to reinforcements first.

Sussman was unable to return quickly, but Sophia entered the half-plane with Eve and Anne.

Even if Sophia's strength is not as good as Richard's, her spiritual power also exceeds fifty points, she has mastered a lot of nine-ring spell templates, her body has undergone elemental baptism, and her combat power is equivalent to most of the legendary mages, which is also very strong.

What's more, Sophia is not trapped in the maze.

In addition, Eve also manipulated the legendary golem to launch a frontal attack on the Mage Tower.

The Mage Tower, which Sussman placed in the half-plane, did not have the help of the Red Moon Sect warriors, and only twenty golems of different ranks provided melee protection.

Susman is a legendary magician, a person who essentially wants to explore the truth of the universe and is generally not religious in his belief in the gods.

Although the power in his possession is very strong, and he is at the top of the Red Moon Church, like Senna Walton in the Dawn Plane, he can't actually enter the core of the church.

In any church, the core position is occupied by the pastor, which is also the foundation of the church's employment.

Therefore, in the half-plane controlled by Sussman, there is no high-level Red Moon Church.

The twenty golems set up by Susman could not compete with the steel golems at all, and soon the situation was finally untenable under the attack of Richard and Sophia.

The two sides unleashed a lot of large-scale lethal spells, the magic power escaped in the half-dimensional space, the Rubik's Cube Labyrinth lost more than 18% of the room, and the mage tower arranged by Sussman was also bombarded by Richard and Sophia, and it was seriously damaged.

The battle lasted more than two hours, and almost all of the Susman students were killed or wounded. The few mages who tried to escape through the plane portal died in the attacks of Richard and Sophia.

Although the battle lasted for a short time, Richard and Sophia combined forces killed more than 160 people and captured more than 30 people.

These thirty or so people are basically mage apprentices, low-level mages, and they are not the core of the mage organization created by Sussman, and they can't get much useful information from their mouths.

Since it is worthless, Richard intends to cut these people to the roots, after all, in a plane with gods, Richard, a believer in the goddess of the red moon, does not dare to trust it at all.

Although Richard did not like to slaughter prisoners, he had to do it only when it mattered.

After defeating his opponent and disposing of the captives, Richard immediately destroyed the half-plane portal, cutting off the main passage between the Red Moon and the half-plane. After preventing Susman from returning, send a large number of reinforcements to this half-plane through the plane portal.

As for Sussman himself, he can enter this half-plane again through the plane positioning and plane travel spell.

After solving most of the troubles, Richard began to explore the half-plane that Sussman had mastered.

This half-plane parasitizes on the red moon and has an irregular shape, with a total area of about 12,000 square kilometers, which is considered moderate in the half-plane.

This half-plane has no oxygen and is not suitable for human existence. Unless you are a mid-to-high mage, you can release spatial enchantment spells and be able to create oxygen, so you can move in this half-plane for a long time.

Without oxygen and lack of light, this half-plane is naturally devoid of biological activity.

Sussman's students can only stay in the Mage Tower and the Rubik's Cube Labyrinth, two magical buildings with special life-sustaining systems that can provide spatial enchantment protection, and can also create large amounts of oxygen for humans to use through spells.

Although there are no flora and fauna, this half-plane is not barren.

First of all, there is a high concentration of magic energy particles here, which is very suitable for mages to meditate. Secondly, the half-plane contains a strong amount of elemental power, has a large number of super magic minerals, and the most important thing is a large magic crystal mine, as long as dozens of mage apprentices, more than 10,000 magic crystals can be dug up every year.

It is precisely because this half-plane is very rich that Sussman will hide it from the people of the Red Moon Church and spend a lot of effort to run it.

It's a pity that this battle failed, and this half-plane is about to fall into Richard's control.

The magic crystals that Susman had accumulated over the years fell into Richard's hands.

The total number of magic crystals seized from the energy reserve room of the Mage Tower is as high as 130,000, which is almost the same as the inventory of Haaland's territory.

You must know that Haaland itself is in an area with abundant magic power, and has discovered four magic crystal mines, and has also created magic crystal charging technology, has many magic wells, and has only reserved more than 100,000 magic crystals after years of accumulation.

And Sussman is worth about the same as Richard just by relying on a semi-plane with abundant mineral resources?

This discovery shocked Richard.

Of course, Haaland has developed magic crystal industrial technology, and he also has to face a large-scale war, and the number of magic crystals consumed every year is huge, which is not as good as Sussman's only entry and exit, which is also a fundamental reason.

For example, Haaland led the production of 21,000 magic crystals this year, and also charged 38,000 magic crystals, which is equivalent to producing 60,000 magic crystals, but it is still not enough.

Now, just the cost of opening the passage of the Red Moon Plane in one year alone costs 30,000 magic crystals to be distributed to the Haaland Collar, about 20,000 magic crystals are consumed by industry, plus 4,000 magic crystals consumed by magic research, and 38,000 are consumed by war, which consumes 30,000 stocks in a year.

If the plane passage is still opened frequently and the war is not stopped, even if the magic crystal charging technology is mastered, the Haaland Leader will not be able to support it, unless a new magic crystal mine can be found and a new magic well can be found.

The capture of Sussman's magic crystals can buy Haaland's territory more than five years, which is extremely important for the development of the territory.

According to the current situation, there is a high probability that Richard and Sophia will be promoted to Legend in five years, and there will be enough garrisons in the Red Moon plane. The three Red Moon Plane Magic Crystal Mines controlled by the Divine Radiance Empire will also hand over two to Richard, which not only reduces the consumption of opening the plane passage, but also replenishes most of them in the Red Moon Plane.

When the time comes, Haaland will have two legendary magicians with a bright future, and there will be much more room for manoeuvre.

After destroying the dimensional passage arranged by Sussman, Richard cooperated with Sofia, and Eve and Anne worked together, and soon rebuilt a new dimensional teleportation array.

The new portal is located in Beers Castle, which is controlled by Haraland, and the first batch of magicians to enter is as high as more than thirty people.

As soon as these people came in, they began to repair the Mage Tower, the Rubik's Cube Labyrinth.

After Sussman returned, he still wanted to recapture the half-plane, but he was defeated by Richard and Sophia, and had no choice but to flee the half-plane.

In order to defend against Sussman's attack, Richard decided to continue to draw elites from the Haaland Army.

At this time, the War of the Four Kingdoms was over, and the situation under the Haaland Command was no longer tense, and Richard transferred Wendy to the Red Moon plane.

In April of this year, Wendy's professional level was also improved, and she was promoted to the eight-ring magician, and her mental power is also very strong, already exceeding forty points, and her combat power can be used as a small half of a legendary magician.

The career level of Wendini who stayed behind has also improved, and she is almost the same as Wendy, and she is promoted to the Nine-Ring Magician.

Wendini is a half-elf, although she was born with a longer lifespan and is more difficult to break through the barrier of class level than humans, she has stayed in the eight-ring mage stage for fourteen years. If it weren't for the continuous opportunities after joining Haaland, I am afraid it would have been more than ten years before he could complete the promotion.

The number of mages who entered the Red Moon Plane with Wendy added up to more than a hundred, and among this group of people, there were more than sixteen mid-level mages.

Seventy percent of the mages in the Harland Mage Association are now entering the Red Moon Plane in batches.

With the completion of the repair and transformation of the Mage Tower, the Rubik's Cube Labyrinth can also be put into use, and the foundation of Haaland in the half-plane is becoming more and more stable, Sussman is finally completely discouraged. He knew in his heart that it was completely impossible to regain his half-plane, so he could only die.

After winning the Battle of Beers and taking away the half-plane space of Susman. Maybe she sensed the threat, maybe she didn't know the details of Richard, the Red Moon Goddess didn't use the Divine Descent Technique to descend, let alone risk using the body of the Sage. The situation in the Red Moon Plane finally calmed down for a while.

In the blink of an eye, time had entered February 3279 in the Dawn calendar, and Richard had reached the age of forty-three.

Because of taking the eaux-de-vie, his lifespan has increased by two hundred years, and Richard's appearance is still relatively young.

According to the economic statistics report sent by Rogge, Richard found that even though Haaland led the participation in the Four Nations War last year, the economy was still developing rapidly.

Last year's war broke out on the border, and the battle line was largely unmoved, and Wilde also relied on the powerful weapon of the magic crystal cannon to cross the Kampa River, capture seven smaller border castles, and push the front into enemy territory.

The war broke out on enemy territory, and the economic and demographic losses were not serious, but Wilde plundered more than 300,000 people from the kingdom of Lane by virtue of a small advantage.

Coupled with the small number of freedmen who voluntarily migrated into the Harland Territory, the population of the Haaland Territory reached 12.8 million in the household register at the end of the year. The number of freedmen has skyrocketed again, surpassing 10 million for the first time.

For 10 million freemen, the tax on land alone can be nearly 3.4 million, plus other taxes such as commercial taxes, customs duties, and property taxes, Haaland received 4.7 million in taxes last year, which is close to the level of the Grant royal family.

After nearly 30 years of development, the number of freedmen in the Harland territory has far exceeded the number of indentured slaves, according to the statistics of the official household registration department, there are only more than 1.6 million indentured slaves left in the territory today, and if there is no large influx of indentured slaves in five years, the Haaland Territory will lose the indentured slave class.

In addition to tax revenue, Haaland also owns a large number of government-run enterprises, although the vitality of government-run enterprises is not high, corruption and waste are very serious, and profits are not as good as private enterprises, but many state-owned enterprises are monopoly industries, and they can steadily hand over a large amount of profits every year.

Last year, Haaland's financial revenue had reached 7.2 million, which had surpassed the coastal kingdoms such as the East Coast and the Sith, and had already ranked first among the nearby kingdoms.

With sufficient financial revenues, it is natural for Haaland to continue to expand his army. Despite last year's involvement in the war and the surge in fiscal spending, Haaland's army is still expanding rapidly.

In the last year alone, Haaland has added more than 20,000 troops, bringing the total to 190,000.

Among them, the Red Moon Plane has expanded by 6,000 indigenous soldiers, and the Harland territory has expanded by 14,000 people.

As of February 3279 in the Dawn calendar, Haaland has entered the Red Moon plane with 10,000 people in the lead. Last winter, a second group of 6,000 soldiers was recruited from among the natives of the Red Moon plane.

As the army grew, the Divine Radiance Empire handed over some of its territory, this time with a portion of the rear in addition to the Frontier Castle, including a small Crystal Mine. From this magic crystal mine, Haaland can get about 2,000 magic crystals a year.

Coupled with the territory handed over this year, the territory controlled by the Haaland Territory in the Red Moon Plane has reached 90,000 square kilometers, an area equivalent to a duke in the eastern countries.

Counting the recruits, the army under Richard's control was about 22,000 men.

On 90,000 square kilometers of land, there are about 400,000 natives living in it, after all, the vast majority of the territory controlled by Richard is the front line, because of the frequent wars, there are basically no people on the front line.

The management of these 400,000 people is relatively chaotic, and they also rely on the natives of the Red Moon Plane.

After all, most of the Haaland bureaucrats are not professionals, and it is difficult for them to survive in the Red Moon plane and block special germs.

Unable to draw bureaucrats from the Dawn plane, Richard had to select talents from among the locals to straighten out the ruling order.

Of course, one of Richard's most important grasps is the families of the local garrison. These people add up to 50,000 or 60,000 people, because their family members serve in Haaland's army, and they can be relatively trusted.

Last year's war was also a great boost to Haaland's industry.

Steel production has skyrocketed again, to 380,000 tons.

The railway was also built to the city of Patin, on the western border, and Richard also wanted to build a railway in the territory of the Grand Duchy of Stanic and enter the county of Philip in the south, but depending on the meaning of the Grand Duchy of Stanik, he obviously did not want to agree.

Since the Western Railroad could not be extended, Richard planned to let the railroad department focus on the east, preparing to build the railroad to the original Duke of Jonathan.

Now that Haaland has a large financial income and enough manpower and material resources, Richard is ready to build two railways at one time, and the section from King's Castle to Easter Castle will be completed. Then continue along the East Castle until the Morning Castle at the mouth of the Black River.

In addition, in the southern foothills of the Eagle Mountains, Richard plans to build a branch line that will lead the railway from Twin Star Castle to Annis Castle and eventually to the Dragon's Lair.

With the advancement of the railway, the territory will also be more developed, and the economic foundation will be more consolidated.

Unconsciously, the great era of railways led by Haaland has quietly arrived.

(End of chapter)