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The strife within the Sea Clan has nothing to do with Richard for the time being. Although it is in Richard's interests that the current Sea King continues to be in power, it is difficult for Richard to interfere in the battle in the sea with his current strength.
Although the military units in Harbor City have good combat capabilities, only the first-level unit Sea Elf, the sixth-level unit Crocodile Warrior, and the seventh-level unit Sea Dragon can fight deep into the sea for a long time.
The other troops are just land troops with better water resistance. After all, Harbor City is called Harbor Force, not Atlantis. The other hundreds of thousands of troops under its command do not have the ability to intervene in the sea. Only some of the troops in Harbor City can
, there is no ability to intervene in such a battle involving millions of troops.
What Richard can do now is to control all the Sea Clan's clam fields as soon as possible. No matter which side of the Sea Clan wins, they will have to use a trap.
After a long time, when the fleet is formed and Hai Long recruits a hundred and eighty people, the Hai Clan will have to be destroyed even if they still have any intentions. At that time, Richard will firmly control the Hai Clan.
The choice of Sea King cannot be decided by the Sea Clan themselves through internal strife.
The word "king" sounded harsh to Richard. From now on, King of the Sea will be demoted to Marquis of the Sea. It is best to divide it into the Marquis of the South Sea, the North Sea, the East China Sea and the West Sea. Richard must nod and agree to order the canonization of all of them before it can count. Otherwise, there will be no legitimate status.
Then divide the rights to use the clam field among the princes. If any family is disobedient, they will block trade and ban the use of the clam field. Then call other families together to conquer. Even as a land race, they must submit to the management of the sea tribe.
Submissive.
Of course, these are just things to talk about later. For Richard, the most important thing now is to digest the gains this time. The most direct benefit is the experience gained from several battles. Although most of the sea warriors
Their low strength does not provide much experience, but there are enough of them to hold them back. Moreover, there are many patrol guards among them, which have experience points equivalent to those of orc warriors. The experience provided pushes up Richard's vast experience bar.
Half of it.
The two heroes who participated in the battle also gained a lot. Catherine has been promoted by two levels and is only one step away from the holy level. Sandro, who has been commanding the undead army in combat and gained more experience, has been promoted several levels in a row. Originally,
Sandro, who was at the peak of the Sky Level, directly broke through the Holy Level due to the qualitative change in his strength as he leveled up. He came from behind and returned to the Holy Level before several early legendary heroes.
Introduction: One of the artifacts that make up the artifact cursed armor.
Treasure 2: Cloak of the Ghost King
Effects: 1. Significantly increase the probability of summoning spirits through spiritualism. 2. There is a certain probability of summoning stronger undead warriors. (The strength of undead warriors is affected by their strength during life.)
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After entering the Saint level, Sandro's spiritual power exceeded the 50-point mark, and his signature skill Spiritualism also reached the theoretical upper limit of the system, the Grandmaster level, and his ability to create and control the undead army increased exponentially.
"Dear Lord Richard, do you want to review the new legion?"
Sandro has been in a good mood these past few days after returning to the holy level. After getting used to strong power, it is quite painful to become weak again. A few days ago, he could only control an army of more than 100,000 undead and was mentally weak.
Sandro has not felt the kind of grievance for a long time. Now that he has returned to the holy level, although he is still far from his peak, it is no problem to control three or four hundred thousand like a low-level undead army.
With more backbone troops, Catherine no longer has to lead troops to help carry out various interception tasks.
After the war, the corpses of the Sea Clan provided Sandro with a large number of soldiers. There were nearly 200,000 skeleton soldiers alone. However, the skeleton soldiers transformed from ordinary Sea Clan warriors were still short and extremely weak. But their combat power was
The number of stronger walking zombies has reached 20,000. These walking zombies were transformed from tall patrol guards. They are still slightly stronger than ordinary walking zombies. Regardless of their slow movements, they can be used as third-level soldiers.
use.
The bigger gain is still in the mid- to high-level arms. The corpses of blood warriors and sea priests have provided the undead army with dozens of special-looking black warriors and corpse witches. The conversion rate of mid-to-high-level undead is slightly lower, but the benefit is
Thanks to Sandru's extraordinary spiritualism and the bonus of the Ghost King's cloak, the number of black warriors and corpse witches each exceeds a hundred. This is also the beginning of a healthy accumulation for the undead army. As long as there is a war, Sandru will control
This undead army will become stronger and stronger.
Richard glanced at Sandro, who was somewhat proud, and shook his head:
"These skeleton soldiers are still too weak. There are only a few of them. They are not yet proud. The Sea Tribe is not your real opponent."
"Jiejie, Lord Richard, the undead army is not afraid of any opponent. Wherever there is a war, there is soil for the undead to breed. If you follow my way, I guarantee to pull out an undead army of millions, Skeleton
Warriors, zombies, wraiths, black warriors, corpse witches, terrifying knights, bone dragons..."
"Okay, don't even think about it."
When Sandro talked about corpse witches and terrifying knights, Richard was still a little excited. When he mentioned the bone dragon, for some reason, Richard suddenly lowered his head.
Sandro's method, Richard also knows very well, is to spread the plague, create dead cities and desolate lands, and raise undead legions like poison from dead cities. According to the method of natural disaster of the undead, there is no lower limit.
, just building a few cities can improve the quality of the undead army, and you will soon have an undead army with terrifying combat power.
However, Sandro has no bottom line, and Richard still has a bottom line. Sandro will be rejected every time he proposes, and is severely warned by Richard. Although the power of the undead is powerful, it will cause too many consequences, just because of its raging
The possibility of causing serious plagues and causing a large amount of desolate land in the future made Richard cautious in using the undead army. After all, he was not a person with psychological problems and did not want the world to become a withered and desolate world.
"Let the army stand by outside the city and come with me back to the Northland."
"As you command, Lord Richard."
Richard now tries to take Sandro with him wherever he goes. In the past, his bodyguard Natalis and the Guardian Sword Master would act independently from time to time. It wasn't because of how close Richard was to Sandro, but because of how close Richard was to Sandro.
I am really afraid that this guy will be out of my control for a long time and do things secretly. Fortunately, judging from the current situation, although Sandru is constantly making tricks in his heart, he has not dared to disobey Richard's orders. He just keeps trying to bewitch Richard.
As long as Richard himself does not waver, the other party will not dare to take a step beyond his reach.
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Spring comes later in the North than in the South. It was two months after the beginning of spring that the rivers completely melted. The water in the depleted rivers began to become plentiful. There were a large number of merchant ships on board.
Goods from the North are sent to all parts of the kingdom.
"President Lauren, you are the one who came to the Northland in person this year. Originally, your Chamber of Commerce never cared about the trade volume in the Northland."
Under Richard's governance, a large amount of property flowed into the Northland. The rural nobles in the Northland had much more money than before, and the common people who had little spending power actually had some money in their hands and were able to consume.
Naturally, there is a market. As the Northland economy becomes more prosperous, businessmen from all walks of life begin to enter the Northland frequently.
"Now and then, we businessmen are just seeking profit. If we can make a profit, why don't we come?"
"Mr. Ria, it's not enough for you grain merchants to guard the grain depots in the Central Plains, why do you still want to come to the north to collect grain?"
"Hey, what is the situation in the Central Plains? Why should President Laurent ask questions knowingly? All the green wheat has been collected in advance and stored in the grain depot. The grain depots are now only accessible. Where can I still harvest grain? I can only go to
Let’s try our luck in the Northland and the River Valley.”
Due to the progress of the war, half of the Kingdom's most important grain-producing area, the Central Plains, has been destroyed. Although the Kingdom has stockpiled some grain in advance, most of it is in official warehouses in various places. Most of the nobles, big and small, are reluctant to sell grain. Basically,
There is no possibility of selling it, and the people don't even have enough to make ends meet.
Only the Northland and the River Valley were not affected by the kingdom's tax increase, nor were the orcs' attacks that disrupted the normal production order. Grain production doubled. Not only the nobles, but almost all small households had surplus grain. Although the Northland
The official warehouse could only be entered and exited under Richard's instructions, but private transactions had not yet been banned. Even though these grain merchants from the royal capital were buying them at high prices, some people were actually willing to sell grain to them.
As soon as the grain leaves the river valley, the price when transported to the capital will increase by 40 to 50%. It is no wonder that even the big grain merchants in the capital have come to the north to collect grain.
"It's just that the people in the north haven't reacted yet. If this battle continues, I'm afraid there won't be any food anywhere."
"In this case, why did your grain ship put the grain in the grain store for sale as soon as it arrived in Jinlong City? If you had stocked it for a while..."
"Hey, if I stock up a little longer, I won't be able to get even a grain of rice in the North."
"We are just useful to the kingdom."
The conversation between the two did not continue at this point. The merchants of the Golden Dragon Kingdom were still being devoured by the great nobles and the royal family, and they failed to form the kind of wealthy merchants in ancient China who were truly mercenary and only tried to influence the situation.
The two of them were suddenly silent, just watching the boatmen shouting slogans and working hard to load the ships. Compared with those who were displaced by the war in the Central Plains, those who could still work as coolies in the North seemed particularly lucky.
How about taking some of your property to the North to buy some property after this business trip? It would be great if you could buy a side courtyard outside Miracle City. The house in Miracle City is really too expensive, and it has already been settled with Wang
The land prices in the capital are not much different. But the king feels increasingly insecure when staying in the capital...
At this time, Richard and Sandro had arrived directly at the Stone Fortress through the teleportation array. The general framework of governance in the North was set by Richard, but Richard no longer managed the specific affairs. Lint, Egger
, people like Catherine are better than Richard in actual operation. With so many people under his command, there is no use for Richard to take charge of it himself. How to manage the increasing number of businessmen coming from the south and the civilians who are recruited to flee. How to deal with these people.
, it is much more effective than Richard himself doing it himself.
A month after going to the South China Sea, the first thing Richard did when he returned to the North was not to see if there was any backlog of government affairs. Instead, he went straight to the Congress Hall of the Rock Castle.
"Mission: Lord of the Ocean (Completed)"
"Confirm to receive the reward!"
"Congratulations on getting 40 million reward experience points."
"Congratulations on your upgrade.
Name: Richard Hunter
Race: human
Strength:60.4
Agility:60.6
Physique:61.9
Spirit:40.7
.....”
For Richard at this time, Level 1 was only better than nothing, with only a very weak increase in various attributes, and a few skill points could only be stored there, and he didn't know when he would be able to use them again.
The most important thing is the treasures obtained from this mission.
"Congratulations on getting the reward treasure: Deep Sea Giant Whale Lair Blueprint X1.
Introduction: The giant deep-sea whales were originally biological weapons manufactured by the holy wizards during the Elf Empire. In the ocean, their combat power even exceeded that of giant dragons. They were the super force used by the elves to control the sea people. After the demise of the Elf Empire, the oceans
The deep-sea giant whales gradually lost control, began to reproduce on their own, and gradually integrated into the ocean, but they still followed their instincts, fed on the sea people, controlled the sea people's population, and objectively continued to control the sea people's population."
Effect: It can be built in a city with a port near the ocean, and a deep-sea whale can be recruited through the deep-sea whale lair every week."
Looking at the introduction about the Deep Sea Giant Whale, Richard finally figured out how the elves controlled the sea people in the past. The methods of these elves and the holy magicians were much more crude than his. If there were no marine soldiers, they would create their own marine soldiers. Deep Sea
The giant whale, a natural enemy of the sea people, was actually created by elves. This thing's combat power is even stronger than the ultimate hydra. It can be used as an eighth-level soldier in the sea. Unfortunately, it can only fight in the sea.
The significance of Richard can only be to speed up the progress of controlling the ocean, but now Richard has to face more threats on land.
The kingdom may not be able to withstand the collusion between the orcs and the Rising Sun Cult. Sooner or later, he will have to take over. Although the rewards from this mission are generous, the rewards obtained are not what Richard urgently needs.
After directly picking up the drawing and using it to build the abyssal whale's lair under the water at the harbor of Harbor City, Richard came to the market with some expectations.
"Dear Lord Richard!"
"I still want this worthless dead man."
A month passed, and I heard Grandet's iconic duck voice again...
