Haaland has more than 10 million freemen, and the needs of the education and health sectors are staggering.

Although the newly pardoned freedmen were relatively poor in the first few years, the Territory had 80,000 new students enrolled this year. 80,000 new students account for almost 60 percent of the same age group.

After more than 20 years of development, the concept of reading and going to school has been deeply rooted in the hearts of Haaland.

More than 80,000 new students are enrolled in a year, and talents are selected from 80,000 people, and the Harland Mage Association has increased its reserve membership by more than 800 people, according to the statistics of the mage department, Haaland now has more than 600 magicians and more than 3,600 apprentices. The foundation has become stronger and stronger, and it will continue to develop for five years, surpassing the United Kingdom on the East Coast in terms of scale and growing to the first place among the eastern countries.

Over the years, Haaland has trained more than 300,000 students with five years of basic education. This group of students who have received basic education are very adaptable to the industrialized society, and some of them have gone to important positions in the Haaland Consulate, which can be said to be the elite of the Haaland Consulate.

It was precisely because of this that the freedmen of the territory realized that reading and learning knowledge was very useful.

Today, Haaland has more than 300 primary schools, more than 50 middle schools, 12 higher secondary schools, and eight junior colleges, with a total of more than 400,000 students.

When these 400,000 people enter society, the quality of the population will be further improved.

Although Richard and Sophia sent a large number of mages to the Red Moon plane last year, the research of the Harland Mage Guild on the Elemental Forge has made great progress.

The first progress came from the Alloy Research Institute, who, after many experiments, created a high-temperature and radiation-resistant supermetal.

This technology can be used on all furnaces, and it can be said that it is the basic technology for whether the floating city can fly into the sky.

During the wizarding civilization, the Dawn Plane mastered the three manufacturing techniques of the Magic Crystal Furnace, the Elemental Furnace, and the Eternal Furnace. These three furnaces can be used to build starships, floating cities, which were the most advanced technology of wizarding civilization at that time, representing the highest crystallization of wizarding civilization in the Dawn plane.

It's a pity that after the Age of the Seven Gods, the magic civilization of the Dawn Plane has declined severely, and now it is impossible to let the Floating City fly into the sky and create a powerful furnace.

Among the three types of magic furnaces, the structure of the magic crystal furnace is relatively simple, as long as you master the high temperature and radiation resistance technology, gravity well manufacturing technology, super large protective force field enchantment and other pre-technology, you have a manufacturing foundation.

However, the consumption of this kind of furnace is too large, and if you want to make the floating city fly into the sky, it will inevitably consume millions of magic crystals, and the annual maintenance cost is also an astronomical amount. Even the Divine Radiance Empire, the overlord of the Dawn Plane, would have a hard time making up his mind to build a magic crystal furnace.

The structure of the Elemental Furnace is relatively complex, based on the four elemental hearts, with the magic energy transformation technology as the core, and the consumption is relatively small, making it the most cost-effective furnace mastered by the rule wizard organization back then.

The Forge of Eternity is more complex to craft, requiring the creation of an Eternal Heart first. The Heart of Eternity needs to be transformed with a Divine Core, which requires killing a god or a powerful demigod-like creature before obtaining it.

Harland unearthed the ruins of a floating city more than twenty years ago, and found many precious magical technologies from this ruins, such as the method of making steel golems and the technology of making energy absorbing stones.

Even the method of making the Elemental Furnace, Haaland is clear.

In addition, through the seizure of the research materials of the Venus family, Haaland led to the mastery of artificial magic wells.

This is also a very high-end technology, and the entire Dawn Plane has mastered the magic organization of artificial mana well manufacturing technology, plus the Harland Leader and the Venus family, there are no more than five in total. It's just that Haaland happens to be in an area with a relatively high concentration of magic power, and has many natural magic wells, so it seems that the artificial magic well technology is a bit weak.

According to the information obtained by Haaland, in order to create an Elemental Furnace, four Elemental Hearts are required.

There are two types of elemental hearts, one is a natural elemental crystal, which is a very precious treasure in the wizarding world, and is only produced in small quantities in the four elemental planes. The other is the power core of the Legendary Elemental Lord, and if you want to get it, you must kill the Legendary Elemental Lord.

Now that the passage from the Dawn Plane to the Four Elemental Planes has been closed in the Age of the Seven Gods, spells such as summoning the fire element have become useless, and without the ability to operate across planes, it is impossible to obtain the Elemental Heart. Therefore, in the manufacturing technology of the elemental furnace, the preconditions are basically not satisfied.

Now that Haaland has the ability to operate across the plane, there are two passages to enter the heteroplane, and there is a foundation for high-temperature, radiation-resistant materials, as long as he overcomes the artificial gravity well, the super-large protective barrier, the magic energy transformation and other technologies, he can enter the four elemental planes through the red moon plane, find a way to hunt the elemental lord, and create an elemental furnace.

If these preconditions are met, Haaland will have the technical foundation to build a floating city.

Now the most in-depth research of Harland is the magic energy conversion technology, and Richard has read the report sent by the Harland Mage Guild, preparing to build a negative energy conversion furnace in Bolton Forest.

Building a negative energy conversion furnace requires an astronomical amount of investment. The first is to kill four legendary undead creatures, get four legendary soul crystals, and use seven legendary transcendent materials, a large number of high-temperature, radiation-resistant metals. These resources are converted into gold coins, at least about twenty or thirty million.

With Haaland's current level of economic development, building an experimental energy conversion furnace is not enough, let alone an elemental furnace.

The top priority at the moment is not to be too ambitious, and it is necessary to speed up the pace of economic development and have a stronger economic foundation.

In the year 3279 of the Dawn calendar, Harland ushered in several good news, first of all, Richard's warrior rank was promoted to the eighth rank.

From the perspective of the warrior profession, Richard inherited his father William's talent, and his conditions were better than William's when he was a teenager, and he was promoted to the eighth rank in his forties. But compared to a person like Jennings, who is one in a million, the gap is significantly larger.

In January of this year, Jennings had already managed to break through to the realm of legends. He chose a good time and found an opportunity that could help him break through the legend.

At last year's trade fair, a baron in a remote area took out a legendary magical plant, the Celestial Crystal Flower, and exchanged a portion of the transcendent resources with Harland.

Haaland is no stranger to the Celestial Crystal Flower, William used the potion refined by the Celestial Crystal Flower back then, plus the aid of the Water of Life, to break through the legendary realm.

After getting the Celestial Crystal Flower, Wendini entrusted Sutton to take the Celestial Crystal Flower into the Red Moon Plane and give it to Sophia to successfully refine the Celestial Crystal Elixir.

With the resources to promote the legend, the competition for the ninth-order professionals led by Haaland is extremely fierce, Jennings, Wilde, Grumand, Tylarsen, and Rand all want to get this potion and break through the legendary realm. Even Richard's uncle Soros was a little moved and wrote a letter to Richard, and the third uncle Bernie also relented to his nephew, promising to serve Harland after breaking through the legend.

After years of development, there are already ten ninth-order professionals owned by Haaland, except for Richard, Sophia, and Wendini who are magicians, the remaining seven are all eyeing the Celestial Crystal Elixir.

After all, after being promoted to a legend, not only will the career channel be opened, but the status will also be significantly different.

Among the seven members of the warrior class, Tylarsen is the eldest son of Viscount Rohman, and Grumand and Rand are all vassals of Richard. They are relatively estranged from the Haaland family and are not a priority.

Although Wilde was promoted by Richard, the promotion to the ninth order was relatively short, and the reason for leaving the Heavenly Crystal Elixir to him was not sufficient.

Jennings, Soros, and Bernie are all members of the Harland family, and in terms of blood, Bernie has the closest relationship with Richard, being his own uncle, Soros is his own uncle, and Jennings is his cousin-in-law. But in terms of feelings, Soros is undoubtedly the closest to Richard.

After Richard weighed it carefully, reason still overrode his feelings, and he decided to leave the Celestial Crystal Elixir to Jennings, because the current situation in Haaland's leadership greatly requires the legendary professional to be in charge.

Of the three, Jennings has the highest probability of promotion. Because he has the best qualifications and the youngest.

In order to avoid resentment in the hearts of Soros and Bernie, Richard wrote them a long letter explaining the reasons for such a decision.

Jennings spent all the merits he had accumulated, and signed a twelve-year free service contract, successfully obtained this bottle of legendary potion, and relied on the power of the Celestial Crystal Elixir to successfully advance to the legendary realm.

Although Jennings is a warrior by profession, even if he is promoted to a legend, he is only as strong as some powerful ninth-order knights. But after being promoted to legend, it opened the way for him to continue to rise.

If a warrior is promoted to the fourth rank of legend, the improvement of basic attributes alone is already very perverted, and the strength will reach seventy or eighty points, and the agility and physical strength will be close to thirty points. Coupled with the powerful legendary weapon, the destructive power is also very terrifying, and the combat power will not be lower than that of the legendary second-order knight.

On the whole, the status of the legendary warrior is still higher than that of the ninth-order knight, and it can be compared with the nine-ring mage.

Soon after Jennings was promoted to legend, the situation on the Red Moon plane also changed slightly, although Richard was bent on stability and did not have much intention of expansion, but last year's defeat still hit the Oro Empire hard, not only killed legendary warriors, but also more than 20,000 casualties in the army.

Seeing that the Goddess of the Red Moon had no oracle for the next step, the fleet of the Divine Radiance Empire was eyeing it again, and the Oro Empire already had plans to withdraw its troops.

From last winter to now, 40,000 troops of the Oro Empire have withdrawn to the continent of Hagen, and the two legendary warriors have disappeared from the front line.

Without the support of the 100,000 troops of the Oro Empire, the contrast between strength and weakness on the front line has obviously changed.

After entering the Dawn Calendar 3279, the Red Moon Holy See abandoned Oraar Castle and chose to level the battle line.

Richard did not choose to divide his troops to occupy because of Haaland's lack of military strength. However, the Red Moon Holy See abandoned Oraar Castle, and the buffer zone between the two sides increased significantly, which was undoubtedly a good thing for Richard, who was bent on defense.

Seeing that the situation on the front line was stabilizing, the Divine Radiance Empire handed over more than 100,000 square kilometers of land to Richard, which was basically in the rear of Richard's garrison and had a population of more than 800,000.

In the more than two years since entering the Red Moon plane, the Haaland Territory has controlled about 200,000 square kilometers of land and has a population of 1.2 million under management.

The social structure of the Red Moon Plane is similar to that of the Dawn Plane, and it is still a traditional feudal system. Because of the god of the Red Moon Goddess, whether it is the Holy Radiance Empire or the Dawn Papal State, the defense of the Red Moon natives is very serious, and the high-ranking officials and nobles are basically colonists, and the local natives are almost all serfs.

In fact, five hundred years ago, the Dawn Papal States did not discriminate against the Red Moon natives, and divided many Red Moon natives into nobles, and even the warrior breathing method was spread from the Dawn Church to the Red Moon Plane, teaching the natives nobles. It's a pity that the turmoil that broke out five hundred years ago, most of the indigenous nobles turned out to be secret believers of the goddess of the red moon.

After this turmoil, the natives of the Red Moon plane lost the trust of the Dawn Papal State, and now the Red Moon Natives can stand out in the Dawn Papal State, except for a few hardcore supporters, are some half-bloods.

Although Richard controlled more than a million people, ninety-nine percent were serfs who had no spending power.

If you want to turn this part of the population into a consumer population, you not only need to make some changes in the system, but also need to develop the economy, and the simple serf population is of little use to Haaland except for being able to provide cannon fodder.

After Richard gained a foothold on the Red Moon plane, he issued a pardon decree for all natives who joined Haaland's army, and their immediate family members were pardoned as freemen, and land and houses were allocated. In addition, Richard also gave the natives of the Red Moon Plane a higher military salary, as long as the recruit training was completed, the initial military salary was about four silver coins a month.

As the combat skills and class level increase, there will be higher subsidies.

Under all these policies, the soldiers' momentum is already very strong.

Although the Red Moon Plane is a super demon plane, and it really has gods, 99% of this plane are religious believers, but 90% of the believers are shallow believers.

The beliefs of shallow believers are not pious, and they can easily be pulled away by external material conditions.

Moreover, a considerable number of the natives recruited by Richard are followers of the Goddess of Dawn, and it is impossible for the Red Moon Holy See to openly preach within the sphere of influence of the Dawn Papal States, and some soldiers who believe in the Goddess of the Red Moon are also secret believers hidden in the dark.

Whether it is the Papal States of Dawn or the Harland Lord, the punishment for secret believers is extremely severe. In a short period of time, Richard was not worried that the Red Moon Holy See would use the power of faith to pull the indigenous soldiers away.

After February, a soldier suddenly came to report that a legendary beast had been found in the mountains south of Aura Castle.

(End of chapter)