Heroes of Might and Magic: Knight Chapter 598: Promote

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 enter the sea to intervene. Part of the army simply does not have the 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 no choice but to use rat-proof weapons.

After a long time, when the fleet is formed and Hai Long recruits 180 people, the Hai Clan will have to be destroyed even if they still have any intention. That is when Richard can firmly control the Hai Clan. , when the time comes, the choice of Sea King will not be decided by the Sea Clan themselves through internal strife.

The word "king" sounds harsh to Richard. From now on, the King of the Sea will be demoted to the title of Marquis of the Sea. It is best to divide it into the Marquis of the South China Sea, the North Sea, the East China Sea, and the West Sea. All of them must be canonized by Richard's nod and approval in order to count, otherwise there will be no For the orthodox status, the right to use the clam field will be divided among the princes. If any family is disobedient, the trade will be blocked and the use of the clam field will be blocked. Then other families will be summoned to join the expedition. Even as a land race, this sea tribe will have to be destroyed. The tube is obedient and obedient.

Of course, these are just things for 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 them The low strength of the sea warriors does not provide much experience, but there are not enough of them. Moreover, there are many patrol guards among them, whose experience value is equivalent to that of the orc warriors. The experience provided by them will exceed the experience bar of Richard Tian Pushed halfway forward.

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 times in a row. Level, Sandro, who was already 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.

"Name: Sandro

Race: Undead

Level: 30

Strength: 19

Agility: 18

Physique:*

Spirit: 55

Specialty: Spiritualism

Skills: Spiritualism (Grandmaster Level), Financial Management (Advanced), Offense (Advanced), Defense (Advanced), Logistics (Advanced)

Treasure 1: Shield of the Dead

Effect: Defense of hero and soldiers +2

Introduction: One of the artifacts that makes up the artifact cursed armor.

Treasure 2: Cloak of the Ghost King

Effects: 1. Significantly increase the probability of summoning spirits. 2. There is a certain probability of summoning stronger undead warriors. (The strength of the undead warrior is affected by his strength in life.)

Introduction:....

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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 since he returned to the Holy Order. 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. Sandro has not felt the grievance of being mentally weak for a long time. Now that he has returned to the holy level, although he is still far from his peak, he can no longer have any problem controlling three to four hundred thousand like a low-level undead army. There are also more backbone troops in the army, so there is no need for Catherine 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 the number of zombies with stronger combat power has reached 20,000. These zombies transformed from tall patrol guards are slightly stronger than ordinary zombies. Regardless of their slow movements, they can be used as zombies. Used by third-level soldiers.

The bigger gain is still in the mid-to-high-level arms. The corpses of blood warriors and sea priests provide 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. However, thanks to Sandro's extraordinary spiritualism and the bonus of the Ghost King's cloak, the number of black warriors and corpse witches has exceeded a hundred each, which is also the beginning of a healthy accumulation for the undead army. As long as there is a war, Sandru will continue to fight. The undead army controlled by Drew will become stronger and stronger.

Richard glanced at Sandro, who was somewhat proud, and shook his head:

"These skeleton soldiers are still too weak. They are only in numbers. 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. As long as there is a war, there is soil for the undead to breed. If you follow my way, I guarantee to pull out an army of millions of undead." Army, 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.

What is Sandro's method? Richard also knows very well. Spread the plague, create dead cities and desolate lands, and raise undead legions like poison from dead cities. According to the undead natural disaster, there is no If you set the lower limit, you can improve the quality of the undead army by adding just a few cities, 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 he is severely warned by Richard. Although the power of the undead is powerful, it will cause too many consequences. It is because its raging may induce serious plagues and cause a large amount of desolate land that makes Richard cautious in using the undead army. After all, he is not a person with psychological problems and does not want the world to become a withered and desolate place. world.

"Let the army stand by outside the city and come with me back to the North."

"Yes, Lord Richard."

Richard tries to take Sandro with him wherever he goes now. In the past, his bodyguard Natalis and the Protector Sword Master would act independently from time to time. It’s not that Richard has much respect for Sandro. But he was really afraid that this guy would break away from his control for a long time and secretly do something. Fortunately, judging from the current situation, although Sandru was constantly making tricks in his heart, he had not dared to disobey Richard's orders. He just kept trying to bewitch Li Cha. It's just a matter of observation. As long as Richard himself doesn't waver, the other party won't dare to take a step beyond him.

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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. Ships carry goods from the North 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 of 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. , where there is consumption, there will naturally be a market. As the Northland economy becomes more prosperous, businessmen from all walks of life also 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 does President Laurent ask questions knowingly? All the green wheat has been collected in advance and stored in grain depots. Now the grain depots are only inaccessible. How can we still harvest grain? We can only try our luck in the Northland and 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, also stockpile grain. If you are reluctant to sell, there is basically no possibility of selling it, and the ordinary people can't even make ends meet.

Only the north and the river valley were not affected by the kingdom's tax increase, nor were the orc attacks that disrupted the normal production order. Grain production doubled. Not only the nobles, but almost all small households had surplus grain. Although the official warehouses in the North were only accessible under Richard's instructions, private transactions were not yet banned. Even though these grain merchants from the royal capital were buying them at high prices, there were still people willing to sell grain to them.

As soon as the grain leaves the river valley, the price will increase by 40 to 50% when transported to the capital. It is no wonder that even the big grain merchants in the capital have come to the north to collect grain.

"It's just the people in the North who haven't reacted yet. If this battle continues, I'm afraid there won't be any food anywhere."

"In that case, why did your grain ship put the grain in the grain store for sale as soon as it arrived in Jinlongdu? If you had stocked it for a longer time..."

"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 eaten to death 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 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 after this business trip, you can also take some of your possessions to the North to buy some property and settle down there? It would be great if I could buy a side courtyard outside Miracle City. The houses in Miracle City were so expensive that they were almost the same as the land prices in the Royal Capital. But staying in the royal capital makes me feel more and more insecure....

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. Lin Special, Egger, and Catherine are all better than Richard in terms of actual operation. With so many people under his command, there is no need for Richard to take charge of it himself. How to manage the increasing number of businessmen coming from the south and recruiting fleeing civilians? Dealing with people is much more effective than Richard doing it himself.

After a month in 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 Stone Castle.

"Mission: Lord of the Ocean (Completed)"

"Confirm to claim 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

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Level 1 can only be better than nothing for Richard at this time, with only a very weak increase in various attributes, and a few skill points can only be stored there, and he does not know when he can use them again.

The most important thing is the treasure 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 deep-sea giant whales in the ocean 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 giant whale in the deep sea, Richard finally figured out how the elves controlled the sea people in the past. The methods of this group of elves and holy magicians were much more brutal than his. Without marine troops, they created the ocean themselves. The unit, the Deep Sea 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. , its significance to Richard can only speed up the progress of controlling the ocean, and Richard now 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 step up. Although the rewards for this mission were generous, the rewards obtained were not what Richard desperately needed.

After directly picking up the drawing and using it to build the abyssal whale's lair underwater in 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 has passed, and I heard Grandet’s iconic drake voice again...