Winnington's expression was calm, he was looking at Richard, and he was watching the other girls. Walling's gaze at Richard was a little strange, as if it was mixed with unconcealed jealousy and a little hatred. The other boy is the son of the side branch, who is the same age as Wallin, but he is much more low-key. The three teenagers are obviously more interested in Daimei and Vinika, and one of the other girls is beautiful and hot, which attracts a lot of attention.

But no one paid attention to Coco, and found her as a partner, which was almost destined to be a tragic result, and in the realm of power, beauty was the least valuable.

And Vinica and Daimei not only have their own right to choose, but Daimei has also received the family's attention. At a young age, she has already shown outstanding talent, as well as a decisive and calm style, and is regarded by many as the next Ellie.

But Richard was different. In just the past two days, the topic of discussion has been whether Richard could be the next Gordon. Of course, everyone is recognized in personal force, maybe Richard can't reach the height of Gordon in his life, but a constructor, thinking about it makes people enthusiastic.

These are two prospects that are not of the same order of magnitude.

Richard no longer needs to show himself in battle, and now the identity of a constructor alone is enough to suppress all the boys and girls present, not for a year or two, but for a considerable period of time. Using a simple power comparison method, the average Builder can make two or three Tier 1 Construct Knights in a year, and if you sell one to recoup the cost, then the remaining Builder Knights can completely sweep through this group of little guys. So it's a different kind of fighting.

In fact, each of the girls in the banquet hall is quite beautiful, and the teenagers are all heroic. Vinica and Daimei exude a unique charm because of their bloodline and strength, especially Daimei, the kind of unruliness from the bottom of her heart will make men have a heartfelt conquest**. And her slender and powerful legs and curvaceous figure indicate that in another important battlefield, the bed, her appearance is not much worse than her combat talent.

Richard stood alone in the corner with a glass of wine, occasionally loosening his neckline to breathe. He was not afraid of the heat, but he did not like the smell of sulfur, and he did not like evening dresses and such occasions. His evening gown, which cost nearly a thousand gold coins, was specially sewn by the head of the family at the invitation of a top tailor, and was worn on Richard's body, bringing out his unique charm by fusing the blood of the Silver Moon Elf and Akmund. But Richard missed his magic robes even more.

Actually, he liked the magic effects attached to the magic robes. The magic robes that Richard usually wears have an added effect: mental focus. This is a secondary spell that is used in combat to increase mental concentration in chaotic situations, thereby increasing the chance of casting. Because they are permanent effects, these enchantments are very expensive, more than ten times more expensive than storing combat magic, but they don't have much actual combat effect, so there are not many people who choose them. But for Richard, this is the most important additional effect, and the fundamental reason for this is that it can further improve his accuracy in drawing magic circles!

Richard was accustomed to living and working under the effect of mental concentration, so changing his dress made him feel particularly uncomfortable, because the evening dress did not have any enchantment effect. The products of the top tailors are more than 1,000 gold coins, and Richard's robe is priced at 10,000 gold coins. This is an unbridgeable gulf between the wizarding world and the ordinary world.

Richard shook the glass in his hand in boredom, letting the scarlet liquor spin against the walls of the glass, as he began to silently calculate the time. It has only been more than half an hour since the party began, which means that there are at least two and a half hours of torment. Two and a half hours, which was already a time of meditation for Richard, represented at least 0.1 growth in total mana.

Magic power, like vindictiveness, does not have many quick means, and can only rely on perseverance and perseverance to gradually increase over a long period of time. This also means that if Richard does nothing and meditates continuously for 30 years, he can enter the realm of the Grand Magus with magic alone. Of course, no one can meditate for 30 years in a row, but the meditation technique Richard is now using is close to the top level of the Norland continent. The dark blue inheritance, at least in the realm of magic, has few rivals.

When Richard passed the level 10 level, he could really start learning the introductory chapter of Su Helen's special meditation technique, "Deep Blue Fantasy", and at the Grand Magister level, he could start cultivating "Deep Blue Dream", and in the legendary stage, it was "Deep Blue Aria". It was only after stepping out of the dark blue that Richard realized again and again the meaning of being a teacher and passing on his children.

With so much to do and the target always chasing after him, Richard had an almost paranoid appreciation for time, and the atmosphere of the banquet, and the strong purpose behind the banquet, made him not even interested in it.

Choosing a partner is actually not a big cost, many times it is equivalent to having an extra bed partner, and having offspring will go their separate ways. Richard has long been a man, and naturally he will not reject women, let alone resist, and Daimei and Vinica have their own unique temperaments, and the other girls are not far behind. As a bed object, they are too much beyond the norm. However, the biggest reason for Richard's resistance was not here, but the surname Akmund. Because now it is Gordon who represents this surname.

Just because Richard didn't make any movement doesn't mean that anyone else didn't do it. The young man from the side branch had already had a hot fight with two girls who were also sideways, and intentionally or unintentionally touched each other and rubbed the sensitive parts of each other's bodies. They were both smart enough to try the option of skipping the ranks, and the teenager could only have one partner, only to be scrambled by two teenage girls. The boy's own strength and bloodline are not weak, and they are about the same as Wolin, so they are naturally the best mate they can find.

The Akmund family has fought countless battles for hundreds of years, and many adult men have died on the battlefield. Therefore, there are fewer males than females in the clan. And because of the ancient bloodline, it was much more difficult for Akmund to breed offspring than other humans.

The average human life cycle in Norland is about 70 years, and the gestation cycle is six months. An average woman can give birth to three children in two years. However, the average Akmund people are three years to conceive a child, and with the addition of the gestation period, the whole cycle is close to four years. The difference in fertility rate of nearly six times is not obvious in a short period of time, but in the sixteen-year cycle of adulthood, it means that each pair of Akmund can only give birth to four offspring, while ordinary people will have 24 children! As the second generation grows up and enters the reproductive period, this gap will become larger and larger, and after a hundred years, it will be completely unbridgeable.

Whether it is a war between continents or planes, the number of populations is always one of the most important factors, even if the peak power can transcend the constraints of time, its effect is limited, and no matter how powerful the inheritance is, it needs to be continued through the guò bloodline. Hence the ancient and sacred First Principles of Akmund.

As a way to compensate, every Akmund man will have a large number of non-Akmund women. In this way, the probability of having offspring will be higher, but correspondingly, the ancient bloodline will also be diluted. Their hope is that when the base is large enough, there is a small probability of producing an extraordinarily strong offspring, and this hope has been proven to be delusional over time, such as Richard.

Giving birth to offspring not only takes time, but it also reduces the mother's strength a little. The better the child's talent, the more the mother's strength declines. Of course, on the other hand, the stronger the mother's strength, the lower the decline. But that was for women like Daimei and Ellijie who showed superhuman talent early on, and for ordinary Akmund women, status was mostly determined by the children born. Giving birth to a child whose talent meets the standard requirements, that is, who can awaken a bloodline talent when he becomes an adult, the family's reward can make a woman worry about food and clothing for a lifetime, and she has the right to choose a second partner.

It's a choice, not a designation. Many lucky Akmund women chose to improve their status again for the second time, or found a man who could be with them for the rest of their lives.