Chapter 131: Detecting Evil

Chapter 131 – Detecting Evil
A very important purpose for Richard to bring his main force out this time was to take advantage of the chaos to capture the population and strengthen himself.

Purchasing 18,000 population would require more than 90,000 gold coins. With the income of Harland’s territory nowadays, I’m afraid it would take a few years to accumulate 90,000 gold coins.

Although the territory’s income is quite a lot nowadays, the expenses are also very huge, with eight squadrons of infantry and one squadron of cavalry, the expenses on the military costs are more than ten thousand gold coins per year.

Starting from next spring, more than 5,000 serfs will become free people, and the income that the territory extracts from indentured servants will be reduced by a few points.

But a war has directly destroyed two rich baronies.

Richard, the officers who led the troops to quell the rebellion, had everyone’s share, devouring the accumulations of the two baronies for more than a hundred years.

Richard was the supreme commander and rightfully got the biggest share.

After the failure of the Battle of Osma, the Brenner rebels were in shambles, and Baron Planey, with a few squadrons of soldiers, quickly drove out a small number of rebels and recovered the two lost baronies.

These two baronies are now deserted, with their population and gold coins swept away. Only the lone castle was left standing in the wilderness.

To restore the two territories, a large amount of gold coins would need to be invested, and it was not known if the new baron could afford the funds?
Apart from the share of 18,000 population, the biggest harvest was dozens of enchanted weapons, the most valuable being ten pieces of enchanted armor and sixteen enchanted bows.

This batch of enchanted weapons were all captured from the rebel clerics, and were all divided by Richard into the Wraith Cavalry.

The gold coins might have been transferred away by Golivan, only eight thousand gold coins were seized, and the many nobles divided them up, there was not much left at all.

Richard’s share was 3,000 coins, and with this windfall Richard was prepared to continue to buy Iron Horned Horses and expand the number of Wraith Cavalry.

In the Battle of Osma, the beast cavalry showed great power.

Despite the high cost of building an army, Richard was prepared to expand the Wraith Cavalry to the size of a squadron.

Three thousand gold coins could purchase thirty to forty Iron Horned Horses, doubling the number of Wraith Cavalry.

Without receiving any new military orders, Richard led the Black River County coalition army to rest and recuperate in Osma City, while Martin and Vito escorted 20,000 stragglers back to Black River County.

After sending off Martin and the others, the priests of the Morning Glory Church began to deal with the captured cultists.

Within the Morning Sun Church, a magic was researched which was called Detect Evil. After releasing this magic on a person, a special light would emerge from their body.

If the glow was golden or white, it meant that the person was a good person, if a black or red glow emerged, it meant that the person was evil.

By detecting evil this magic is able to distinguish most cultists.

Especially the followers of the God of Killing, who believed in the power of killing, basically didn’t have many good people.

After seeing this kind of magic, Richard was immediately a bit moved.

As a lord, after learning this magic, he would be able to tell the good guys from the bad guys.

Magic that could distinguish between good and evil was a very significant favor to the ruling class.

Richard approached the bishop of the Morning Glory Church in Brenner County, hoping to exchange blood typing for detecting evil.

The exchange of new spells for new spells is very fair in the world of wizards.

The bishop of Brenner County didn’t have that much authority and immediately reported it to the provincial diocese.

The bishop of the province, Dunlegin, received the correspondence and immediately agreed to Richard’s request.

The Morning Glory Church had researched this new magic and actually had the intention of spreading it.

The power of the church, although powerful, was scattered across different kingdoms. It was also a bit tired of facing the endless number of cultists messing with it.

The cultists were not only the enemies of the church, but also a major problem for the lords.

The fact that the lords had learned to detect evil was considered a good thing for the church.

Besides, Richard had exchanged blood type identification magic.

Blood type identification was a new magic in the direction of bloodlines, a direction with a very bright future.

Even though Richard created this magic just to identify blood types, it opened a new window to the magic world. For the first time, magicians discovered a new secret in blood, and that secret was blood type.

As magicians knew more and more about blood types, they would create more bloodline oriented magic.

The number of magicians within the church far exceeded the Harland territory.

The discovery of this new breakthrough was of great significance to the Church’s magicians. It was likely to start a series of blood type magic that would give the Church of the Morning Sun a huge advantage on the continent.

After both sides exchanged, they both felt that they had taken advantage of the situation and were deeply afraid that the other side would back out. The Bishop of Brenner County even left Osma City overnight.

Shortly after the end of the war, the municipal official Edelweiss organized a celebration banquet.

The vast majority of transactions between nobles were conducted through banquets and secret rooms.

Ever since the mighty Rule Wizards were defeated in battle and the Seven Gods fell into slumber, the Morning Glory Realm had entered the Age of Kingship.

The Age of Kingship was the Age of the Middle Devil.

Even if it was a powerful Legendary Magician, it was impossible to fight against a legion in a head-to-head battle.

Even a squadron of magical beast cavalry could break the shield of a legendary mage by releasing more than a hundred spells at a time.

According to the experience of thousands of years, one Legendary Warrior strength was equivalent to three regular army squadrons.

A Legendary Knight could fight against a regular army brigade.

A Legendary Magician was a bit more powerful, not only was his explosive power strong, but he also had all sorts of bizarre means.

A head-to-head encounter would require a squadron of magical beast cavalry with five squadrons of elite infantry to have a chance of winning.

If a Legendary Magician were to sneak up on them, even a kingdom would have a headache in the face of such a super terrorist.

One could only resort to prophecy mages and set traps in advance.

These were only the strength of the Legendary First Order, and the Legendary Fourth Order far exceeded the Legendary First Order. The power of the Legendary Fourth Order was enough to fight a main army head on and have strategic initiative.

A Legendary Fourth Order was enough to intimidate a human kingdom and make hundreds of thousands of troops not dare to move.

However, there were only a handful of Legendary Fourth Order in the Morning Glory Continent, and they were all leaders of super powers.

Even if they were such super powers, they would still be surrounded and killed by human kingdoms, and there were not a few Legendary Fourth Order that had fallen throughout history.

There was no one who could be invincible in the Middle Devil Era, and a Legendary Warrior couldn’t even suppress a Baronial Leader.

For example, Harland territory, nowadays the strength is a little more powerful than the legendary knights, and the power held in the hands has already exceeded a brigade of the regular army.

In this situation, compromise and exchange of benefits between nobles became eternal.

The banquet held by Edelweiss tonight was not too big and not too small, and it was held in a small building at the highest level of the castle lord’s mansion.

The small building has a total of three floors, outside the building built a fine garden, the first floor and the north side of the second floor is a large room with movable partitions, according to the use of the need to be flexibly divided into a variety of purposes of the hall, the south side of the lounge of varying sizes.

Half of the third floor is a terrace, and the roof is designed in the style of a rooftop, where you can enjoy a beautiful view.

Edelweiss is organizing this banquet today, hoping that the nobles attending the banquet will write him a joint letter of recommendation.

Edelweiss has been a municipal official in Brenner County for six years, according to the usual practice of either promotion or transfer.

The energy behind Edelweiss is not big, the chance of promotion is relatively small, and the transfer can only go to a worse place. If transferred to the front line of the orc invasion, life safety is not guaranteed.

Although the prospect is slim, Edelweiss still hopes to fight, if the nobles present wrote him a joint letter of recommendation, he can become the agent of the nobles of the two counties of Black River and Brenner.

With the support of many nobles, the royal capital would have to consider everyone’s opinions. Promote Edelweiss’s official position and elevate him to the top of the province.

Even if he couldn’t be the province consul, the vice consul was basically guaranteed.

(End of chapter)