Chapter 228: The Book of the Damned
Chapter 228 – Book of the Curse
There were only two ways for the human scouts to get back the disadvantage.
The first was to cultivate their own aerial scouting force and establish aerial magical beast cavalry. For example, the Lion Rash Knights, the Bipedal Flying Dragon Knights, and such high flying military types.
The Kingdom of Lane was able to suppress the Hawkmen because it had cultivated the Lion Rash Cavalry Regiment.
The second method was to send Magical Beast Cavalry on reconnaissance missions, Magical Beast Cavalry’s individual combat strength was very strong, and they weren’t afraid of the Hawk-bodied people when encountered in the wild.
Even though the battlefield would still be transparent to the orcs, it would be difficult for the eagle-bodied men to obscure the battlefield and hunt the magical beast cavalry.
These two methods were difficult to do in Harland’s territory, forming a flying knight group aside, flying magical beasts would not appear in the trade market at all.
The Flying Wraith Knights were one of the most powerful fighting forces in the Morning Glory Realm, and trying to purchase Flying Wraiths was as difficult as purchasing nuclear missiles in the previous world.
Furthermore, the large forces of the Morning Glory Realm were relatively conservative and would not be able to sell Flying Wraiths to outsiders at all.
It was also very difficult to send Wraith Cavalry to perform reconnaissance missions. The number of Wraith Cavalry in Harland’s territory was only a hundred or so, and the combat task they undertook was very heavy. The power of the Wraith Cavalry was to concentrate their power and crush the enemy as if they were destroying them.
If the Wraith Cavalry was scattered out to scout for information, it would be difficult to concentrate in the middle of a war.
If one wanted to have the Magical Beast Cavalry perform scouting missions, one had to expand the number of Magical Beast Cavalry.
The Harland Territory’s current Magical Beast Breeding Base had about dozens of Iron Horned Horses in it, which partly came from Baron Harden’s Territory, and partly came from capturing the wild Iron Horned Horses from the Eagle Mountain Range.
Without affecting the breeding of magical beasts, fifteen Iron Horned Horses could be drawn from the Magical Beast Breeding Base. The rest of the shortfall Richard was prepared to purchase gelding from Duke Edward.
The Iron Horned Horse had a high IQ and was already considered an intelligent creature. Castrating intelligent creatures was a very inhumane thing to do.
The magical beast cavalry of Duke Edward’s territory did not castrate the Iron Horned Horse.
However, in order to prevent the population from spreading and breeding a magical beast cavalry regiment to compete with themselves, the iron horned horses sold by several magical beast breeding bases were castrated.
For the conservative ethos of the Grant Kingdom, Richard was also abhorred and had a huge headache.
After spending three thousand gold coins and purchasing thirty gelding horses, Richard formed forty-five magical beast cavalrymen.
This year, despite the war, the number of soldiers who were promoted to professionals from the Harland Territory’s army still exceeded twenty.
These twenty newly promoted professionals were all drawn by Richard into the newly formed Wraith Cavalry.
Most of the people in the Northern Territory could ride horses, besides, the Wraith Cavalry had a high IQ, making it easier to communicate.
With the newly formed forty-five Wraith Cavalry, Richard was prepared to spread out amongst the scouts.
When the time comes, a few people in a group, with the Wraith Cavalry as the core and the ordinary scouts assisting, it would be enough to resist the Hawkman’s attack.
After forming forty-five Wraith Cavalry, Richard also expanded two squadrons of scouts.
For these two squadrons of new scouts, Richard mobilized a portion of the backbone from the old scout squadron, and the rest were selected recruits.
The two new scout squadrons would need to be trained for at least a year or two before they could form a fighting force.
The next orc invasion, the scouting force of Harland’s territory would skyrocket.
Entering the month of November, Sophia had new results in her research on magic.
Because Richard had proposed an otherworldly version of the Periodic Table of Elements, the magicians of the Harland Territory had discovered a variety of new elements based on the guidance of this Periodic Table of Elements.
As the Periodic Table of Elements continued to be adjusted, there were already forty-eight elements recognized by humans in the Morning Glory Realm. In just one year’s time, fifteen new elements were newly discovered in Harland’s Territory.
Not only were there rare gases and unknown metals in here, but Butler had also discovered two radioactive elements.
Sophia had also discovered X-rays through her study of the particle theory written by Richard.
By drawing special magic arrays and using magic energy crystals to provide energy, Sophia invented a stable X-ray emitting device.
Just as the research reached a critical point, Sophia became pregnant once again.
Sophia got pregnant in June, because it affected her research on magic, this pregnancy Sophia was a little less happy and slightly demoralized.
In August, Sophia’s stomach gradually showed her pregnancy, and the doctors confirmed that she was pregnant with a boy based on their experience.
Richard and Sophia’s eldest daughter Margaret is already three and a half years old, after the Goddess Birthday Festival, Richard is ready to send Margaret to the Riverbank Elementary School.
Next year was the fifth year of the opening of Riverbank Primary School, and after five years of accumulation, the quality of teaching at Riverbank Primary School had slowly improved.
Starting from this year, the schools in the Harland territory can steadily send elementary school graduates to the territory every year.
The students of Riverbank Elementary School are able to write and calculate, and the long-term collective life has cultivated their discipline, and there are also courses in history and geography after the fourth grade.
Now that the territory is full of illiterates, this kind of trained readers are very welcome by all kinds of departments.
Richard and Sophia discussed, decided that their own children distinguish themselves from the tradition of the nobility, do not hire a tutor, the children grow up in the riverbank elementary school education, can be able to contact the grassroots from a young age.
Riverbank Primary School’s principal is Margaret’s cousin aunt Flora, to the school Flora will of course take care of Margaret.
Moreover, Richard will also send guards to protect Margaret’s safety.
Riverbank Elementary School was just outside the walls of Fort William, very close to the city’s main residence.
Studying at Riverbank Elementary School was a sufficient guarantee of safety.
Margaret grew up very smart, but the child’s childhood was lonely.
There were no peers for Margaret in the City Lord’s house, and Richard and Sophia were very busy every day and did not have much time for the child.
Because of the lack of communication with her parents, Margaret was obviously closest to Anne, who had taken care of her since childhood.
Children are very innocent at heart, and what they need most is companionship. But the vast majority of ordinary people, even accompanying children is a luxury thing.
Richard had seen some babies who had no one to take care of them, who were bitten to death by cats and dogs, bitten by snakes, eaten by wild beasts, as well as those who fell to death and drowned.
Most of the parents of these babies were indentured servants who needed to take on heavy work and had no time to care for their children.
Grant Territory was also not Earth, where mothers could be given maternity leave and have time to care for their children.
The indentured servants of the territory who were pregnant had to go to work for the first few days of labor, and for many of the women, their children were born in the farmland, in the wilderness, and on the construction site. Compared to the lowest class of ordinary people, Margaret was already a winner in life when she was born.
Things in the world are never perfect.
Gained superior material conditions, but lost the companionship and care of parents.
Because there is no time to accompany the child, to Margaret Richard’s heart is a bit of a debt. Being able to go to school at Riverbank Primary School is also a good thing for Margaret.
Richard knows that radioactive elements are radioactive and very harmful to the human body, and after Sophia became pregnant, she was not allowed to continue researching radioactive elements and X-rays to avoid her becoming the Madame Curie of the Morning Realm.
Although Sophia stopped the research on X-rays, she started it, and the other magicians were not afraid of the risk and chose to continue to follow it up.
Much of the research in magic came with powerful energy radiation, which was inherently dangerous.
Two people, Wendy and Heath, worked together and discovered that X-rays were so penetrating that they could actually penetrate muscles and illuminate the outline of bones.
With this discovery, Adrian from the hospital joined in and began researching the applications of X-rays.
They traced the radiating principles of X-rays and created a new ring of one-ring magic, the Detection Ray.
When this magic is used, X-rays are emitted.
This new magic was immediately used to heal people.
With this detection magic, the surgical level of the Harland Territory Hospital will also improve.
Especially for the treatment of bone injuries, the effect improved very quickly.
Being involved in the creation of a new magic was very beneficial to Adrian. The feedback from his meditation was particularly good during this time, and he completed his advancement in the winter, becoming the seventh magician in the territory.
Adrian had been studying magic for five whole years, and it took five years for him to become a full-fledged magician. His magical talent was obviously average, and normally it would be difficult to advance to the fourth ring in his lifetime.
If it wasn’t for the new results of his research, Adrian would have needed to accumulate a year or two of time if he wanted to be promoted to a full-fledged magician.
By this winter, there were five medium apprentices in the territory who had broken through, Bonova, Connie, Alizée, Harrison, and Greta had all been studying magic for two or three years, and had successfully been promoted to Higher Magic Apprentice.
The magic apprentices of the Tower of Death, because the meditation method was too extreme, Richard was not prepared to let them practice the Book of Death.
Because of the deeper and deeper understanding of the elements, the deeper Richard’s understanding of the essence of magic became. The Book of Flames that he had prepared was also becoming more and more complete, and had already penetrated to the ninth level.
This Book of Fire Attribute Meditation could already be cultivated up to the sixth ring.
A meditation book that could be cultivated up to the sixth ring was considered a precious heritage for an earl’s family.
If Richard was willing to sell it to the great nobles of the Grant Kingdom, this book of meditation ideas would be worth more than 100,000 gold coins, the same as a complete breathing method.
After the Book of Flames was deduced to the Sixth Ring, because he still didn’t know much about the higher realms, Richard gave up on continuing to deduce the Book of Flames.
Instead, he specialized in studying the Book of Death to see if there was a way to improve it?
The Book of Death, a meditation book, could be used all the way to Legend.
But at the second level of Legend, the potential of this Book of Meditation was exhausted.
The Book of Death meditation is a standard undead faction meditation. Using the Book of Death meditation would absorb and refine the magic energy particles of the undead attribute.
As more and more undead-attribute magic energy particles were refined in the spiritual energy space, the essence of the magician became closer and closer to undead creatures.
Legendary necromancers, their souls had also undergone severe mutations and could no longer be considered human.
Through his research, Richard found that the curse system magic energy particles were closest to the undead system magic energy particles.
But trying to convert two meditative thoughts with close attributes would still have many problems.
The magic energy particles also had a special volatility that was very exclusive.
The danger of switching to meditative thoughts was very high.
But there were quite a few magic apprentices who came out of the Tower of Death who longed for power boosts.
They weren’t afraid of the risks and were willing to switch to other meditation methods even if it cost them their lives.
Richard’s heart also wanted to study the problems encountered in switching to meditation.
By November, he began to deduce the Book of Curses.
Richard wasn’t very good at curse system magic, and when deducing the meditative thoughts, he sought the opinions of other magicians, and after many discussions, it was only in December that he finished deducing the meditative thoughts for the first three layers of the Book of Curses.
After completing the deduction of the apprentice level Book of Curses, the four magic apprentices who came out of the Tower of Death took the initiative to request to act as forerunners and switch to the Book of Curses.
Before making his final decision, Richard asked for their opinions one last time.
“If the four of you don’t switch to the Book of Meditations, you won’t be able to become necromancers, but you’ll be able to live your whole life peacefully. Apprentice level magical ability will also allow you to have a standard of living and social treatment that exceeds that of ordinary people. Being peaceful, marrying and having children for the rest of your life is actually a happy thing. Converting to meditation is very risky, the slightest mishap will kill you, this is something you should consider carefully before making your final decision.”
“Master Richard, our birth was very ordinary, I myself came from a serf family, my fate for the rest of my life was already doomed after I was born, it was the necromancers who changed our destiny, they killed my family but helped me push open the door to the hall of magic.
When I became a magic apprentice, at that moment I truly grasped the power, I don’t know how happy I was in my heart? I don’t know now if I should be grateful to the necromancers or resent them. Life is short, we don’t want to be mediocre like this for the rest of our lives, that’s why we became the first batch of experimenters, if we fail to convert and die, the bodies are handed over to the hospital to be dissected and used for magical medical research, I hope that our deaths will be a boost to magical research.”
Seeing that the four apprentices were very determined, Richard was a little touched inside. He turned his head and said to the other three, “I already know about Lange’s idea, what about the opinions of the three of you? This matter is a matter of life and death, it’s better to carefully consider it before making a decision!”
“There is no need to consider it, Lange and the three of us have thought about it for a long time, and our determination is very strong. We must excel and become respected magicians, unwilling to live in mediocrity for the rest of our lives.”
Seeing that the four people had a resolute attitude, they had already put life and death at risk.
Richard immediately organized a research force, and all the magicians in the territory put down the research at hand and participated in the experiment of switching to meditation.
Replacing the idea of meditation was difficult at the beginning, and the four apprentices had just switched to it, and cracks appeared in their spiritual space.
Each of them needed to be healed daily using the Requiem Technique, in addition to requiring Richard to use the Dream Entry Technique to enter the subconscious mind and correct the wrong knowledge in his thinking.
In addition Sophia had to refine some potions to treat soul damage, and give them to the four apprentices who had switched to meditative thoughts to treat the wounds on their souls.
Although Richard and the others tried their best and were very attentive during this time, only two of the four undead apprentices converted successfully. Wild magicians, hastily converting to meditative thoughts, Richard was certain that they would not be as lucky as William, and were bound to die ten deaths.
(End of chapter)