If there was anything unpleasant about Richard in the Battle of Sunset Plains, it was that in the final stage of the battle, a golden pillar of light rose into the sky in the middle of the battlefield!

The milky white runes fluttered around, and although there was no sound, the momentum was solemn and magnificent. That was the sign of I'o's promotion to the fifteenth level.

Richard just thought about it with his ass, and he could also know that the battle priest must have done it on purpose, even if a nineteenth-level powerhouse broke through, it would not be possible to have such a huge momentum.

However, Richard no longer takes Io to heart, although this guy has some ulterior motives about quicksand, but his role in battle is indeed unique, and he never plays tricks in war. As for this kind of limelight, let him out. Richard thought that his mind was already on how to continue to develop the Phantom Star bloodline.

The cavalry of the coalition army are the elite of the nobles, although Richard has the advantage, but it is easy to defeat the enemy, it is difficult to kill the enemy, in order to annihilate the 7,000 cavalry, he still paid more than 1,000 casualties.

However, the coalition army, which has lost all its cavalry, is like a tiger with its teeth removed, and the rest are infantry, so there is no need to worry. The only thing to worry about is that there are at least thirteen archmages in the Mage Guild.

After the Battle of Sunset Plains, Richard did not rush to march, but announced that he would accept the surrender of the nobles of the opposing camp. Even the nobles who have just met on the battlefield can be blamed as long as they are willing to join Richard's command. Richard gave the nobles three days to think about it, but if the three-day time limit passed, Richard would not guarantee the safety of those nobles who were still on the same side as the Mage Guild.

This declaration once again caused an uproar among the nobles of the Sequoia Kingdom.

In this dispute, the nobles who joined the Mage Association, except for a few who had long been involved in the Association, of course, did not really support the trade rules of the Association, so for most of the nobles, it was a hand in the throat of their expansion, but the nobles did not want to be sanctioned by the Mage Association. The strength of the Mage Guild has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the nobles in the past hundred years.

Magic items and enchanted weapons are one of the most high-end equipment in the Faro plane, and if the country's procurement channels are blocked, the comprehensive force will drop by one level, unless there is the ability and financial resources to make up for it from other sources. After all, those nobles who can maintain neutrality are strong enough not to be afraid of being troubled afterwards.

Privately, there was no shortage of aristocrats who agreed with Richard's challenge to the monopoly of the Mage's Guild. However, the position of a family is not swayed by personal likes and dislikes, and only the victor can make the rules, and only the winner's rules can be accepted by the people. At least until the Battle of Sunset Plains, Richard didn't look like he had any chance of winning. No one expected that the situation would evolve to this point in the blink of an eye.

So the nobles of the coalition army were once again in a chaotic dispute, some quarreling with each other, some accusing each other, and some quietly operating under the table. The latter, however, was destined to be disappointed, as Richard did not accept any private surrenders, except for a few nobles who were prepared to act as undercover agents.

Three days later, Richard again marched straight ahead.

This time, Richard took only cavalry and extremely mobile barbarian warriors and grenadiers, and made a one-hundred-and-fifty-kilometer advance in one day, sweeping four noble territories loyal to the Mage Guild. The garrison of the four domains, totaling thousands of troops, was defeated in one blow, and a viscount, two barons, and a knight became Richard's prisoners. The women of their families were all reduced to slavery and distributed among the nobles who followed Richard.

Regarding this decision, Richard only said one sentence: "Those who are enemies of me do not want to retain their dignity!"

It was a cruel decision, but it was also a very deterrent decision.

When Richard's decision reached the ears of the vice president of the Mage Guild, Lane, the talented archmage smashed everything that could be smashed in the office on the spot!

"This Richard! he doesn't deserve to be called a nobleman at all!" Lane's roar resounded throughout the building! He didn't expect that, as the initiator of the war, he would be much worse than Richard in provoking trouble.

Under Richard's incomparably strong shock, most of the nobles of the Sequoia Kingdom chose neutrality overnight.

The three dukes are still silent, but everyone knows that the Duke of Blue Wolf is Richard's lord at all, and Richard's attitude towards this war is so tough and ruthless, no one believes that there is no tacit approval or even support from Duke Blue Wolf behind him. And Hamilton, another Duke who has always been rumored to have a secret pact with Duke Blue Wolf, the guy known as the Fox in that kingdom, may fall to Richard's side at any time.

As for the original sworn enemy of the Duke of Glasburg, the Duke of Glasburg, although his direct vassals are neutral, some of the peripheral vassals have joined the coalition, and the relationship between the royal family and the duke cannot be simply discarded. But the Duke was in an awkward position at the moment, and for some reason Sim, an extremely important member of his family sequence, had suddenly become a diehard of Richard, and psychologists had already made all kinds of speculations about it, but it seemed somewhat absurd. But in any case, the hundred eagle knights in the Richard army sequence are real.

There were only six field nobles left in the coalition camp of the Mage Guild, with less than 20,000 troops.

Ryan's eyes were almost red, and the royal family finally gave him a glimmer of hope, breaking the long-standing silence and supporting the three thousand knights of the kingdom. The royal family's clear statement came a little late, and it barely affected the nobles who had already taken their positions, and the entire Sequoia Kingdom was waiting for the final battle.

So Lane himself went into battle, leading an army of 22,000 and Richard's 20,000 troops to a decisive battle in the Red Water Valley.

Sarenwell once said that he did not have the slightest confidence in defeating Richard with equal military strength. Ryan is a genius in magic, but he can't match Sarenwell, who has proven himself in dozens of wars, big and small. To be exact, the two are not on the same level at all. But Ryan himself never thought so, he thought that magic was higher than a qiē, and that the genius of magic had already seen the truth of the world, so there was nothing that could stump him. So Ryan brazenly led the same army to a decisive battle with Richard.

In fact, because of the presence of humanoid knights in Richard's troops, Ryan was in fact at a disadvantage.

So in the battle of the Red Water Valley, Ryan watched in amazement as Richard's iron cavalry army went straight in, and a single assault cut through his entire line!

The outcome of the whole battle was decided in the first assault.

However, it was the surprise of Countess Catherine who shone in this campaign. The Countess rode in a chariot and went into battle herself. She was tall and plump, her skin was white and delicate, and her appearance was flamboyant, and although she was nearly thirty, she looked only in her early twenties.

The Countess led her entire army and deployed on Richard's left flank. No sooner had Richard cut through Lane's central army than the Countess had already routed Lane's right flank. Then in the high-pitched and clear cry of the countess, the five thousand army descended the mountain like a fierce tiger, all the way deep, directly cutting off the back road of the entire coalition army!

Ryan was no longer incompetent, and as soon as he saw the Countess's vanguard and Richard's iron cavalry merging, he knew that the tide was turning. He is also a fierce and decisive man, and even opened the portal directly and escaped from the battlefield with random teleportation!

The Battle of the Red Water Valley ended in a complete rout of the coalition forces.

In this battle, the coalition side had two more Sanctuary powerhouses and the Grand Magister killed in battle. More than 8,000 of the 22,000 allied troops were killed and more than 10,000 were captured. Moreover, all the three thousand knights of the kingdom were killed in battle, and there was not a single prisoner! At this point, the greatest pillar of the Sequoia Kingdom, the strength of the Kingdom Knights, has been wiped out by two-thirds. The royal family's position is already in jeopardy.

Although Richard paid the lives of nearly 4,000 soldiers, he defeated all his enemies in one fell swoop, and the biggest gain was to destroy an elite army like the Kingdom Knights, which was difficult to reorganize in a short time. If it weren't for this special occasion, if it was on the official battlefield, it was the Kingdom Infantry and the Battle Mage Regiment that cooperated with the Kingdom Knights to attack, even if Richard could still defeat them, but if he wanted to encircle them all, it would be much more difficult, and he would need to pay a greater price.

At this point, Richard has become one of the most powerful figures in the Sequoia Kingdom, comparable to the three major dukes. And the royal family of the Sequoia Kingdom is not much stronger than any of the three major dukes after suffering heavy losses in a row. The structure of the Sequoia Kingdom has created a crisis as a result.

After the decisive battle, Ryan disappeared.

The president of the Mage Guild, Theodore, returned to power, and he immediately captured the two archmages of Lane's faction, and sought peace with Richard on this condition.

Archmage Hoover, despite his eighteenth-level magic, wisely chose to remain silent. No matter how powerful he was, he couldn't stand up to Richard's army alone. Even if there was a magic tower to defend it, there was no need for Richard to fight him head-on, and besieging and cutting off supplies would be enough to defeat him.

And the news that Richard held an artifact and hit the two archmages in one fell swoop, including Zaku, in the decisive battle gradually spread. This made Hoover, who thought highly of himself, have to swallow his anger. It turns out that Ryan's previous speculation was wrong, what would it be if he was not a legendary mage who could equip his disciple with an artifact?

In the face of Theodore's extended olive branch, Richard made two demands. One is that the Mage Guild gave up the franchise of magical equipment, and Richard was free to dump magical equipment in the Sequoia Kingdom. The second is that the Mage Association gives Richard the status of the dark gold mage, and Richard can hire the members of the Mage Association at will, and the mages under Richard's command enjoy the same treatment as the members of the association.

Richard himself didn't expect the president of the Mage Guild to agree to such a request, but he didn't expect Theodore to agree to it.

At this point, the war between Richard and the Mage Guild ended in a complete victory, and in the history of the Sequoia Kingdom, this war became known as the first magical war.