Chapter 245 – Sixth Ring Magician

Chapter 245 – Six Ringed Magician

The Stopa family had been taming the Purple Headed Peak for many years, and although they were familiar with the habits of the Purple Headed Peak, they did not have the idea of researching antidote medicines because of their indifference to the lives of the beekeeping slaves.

Anyway, they had enough strength to suppress the slaves, using the beekeeping slaves as consumables, consuming the lives of the beekeeping slaves in exchange for royal jelly and honey, as long as there was a profit in raising the Purple Headed Peak without losing money, and they were able to make a large amount of profit, the Stoopa Family did not have any thoughts of changing their minds at all.

All along, the Stopa family had relied on consuming the lives of serfs in exchange for royal jelly. On the contrary, the doctors of Harland’s territory, who had treated a large number of indentured servants stung by Purple Headed Peaks in recent years, summarized some of their experience in treating them, discovered a plant that could lift the Purple Headed Peak’s bee venom, and researched antidote medicines.

In order to reduce the casualties of beekeeping indentured servants, Richard also customized very thick leather coats to be used as beekeeping suits and made gauze hats, strengthening the labor protection materials to reduce the number of stings while strengthening the medical investment.

A few years down the line, although there were indentured servants stung by purple-headed peaks, they were treated well and no one died.

Breeding purple-headed peaks was also no longer a life-threatening endeavor, and beekeepers were much more motivated, and the production of royal jelly far exceeded that of before.

In the last few years, the indentured servants who farmed purple-headed peaks have become free people.

These free citizen beekeepers had accumulated a wealth of experience and were considered special technical talents, Richard offered the beekeepers a higher income of six silver coins per month.

After the discovery of the small queen bee, the beekeepers immediately reported the news up, Sophia personally took action and relocated the new hive into Fort William, with the new queen bee, the production of royal jelly in the territory will increase, and the production of hemostatic ointment will also increase.

Purple-headed peaks are more aggressive and have a large range of activities, the two queen bees will also devour each other, the hive can’t be too close, generally speaking the distance should be placed twenty kilometers away.

The main reason why the Stopa family kept one queen bee back then was that the territory was not large enough.

Over the past five years through the three main legions of soldiers, the effects of the hemostatic ointment had spread throughout the northern border.

The production of the ointment had increased, there was no lack of sales at all, and the territory had another commodity to earn gold coins.

Selling the Hemostatic Ointment to other nobles was three times more profitable than the three main legions.

This year, the royal jelly produced by the small bee queen wasn’t a lot yet, and the hemostatic ointment increased by twenty-four thousand copies, adding two thousand gold coins to the net profit.

According to the growth rate of the queen bee, it will grow to adult level in about three years, and by then the territory will increase by eighty thousand copies of hemostatic ointment.

When the royal jelly produced by the small queen bee reaches the level of an adult queen bee, the profit from the hemostatic ointment will be close to ten thousand gold coins.

The hemostatic ointment revenue reaching ten thousand gold coins would undoubtedly be a very important piece of income for the territory.

In addition, with two hives in the territory, the probability of a new queen bee being born increased greatly, and now there was a large enough territory to avoid hives clashing with each other. When a new queen bee is cultivated in the future, the Hemostatic Ointment can also bring in more income.

Richard secretly calculated that to fully satisfy the market in the northern border, a minimum of 300,000 copies of Hemostatic Ointment would be needed, which could bring in more than 25,000 gold coins of net income. If he monopolized the large market of Grant Kingdom, he would be able to bring in eighty thousand gold coins for the territory.

Although the burn ointment developed by Connie’s market expectation was not as good as the Hemostatic Ointment, the treatment effect was not immediate, compared to the Hemostatic Ointment, it was far worse.

But with the reputation created by selling the Hemostatic Ointment, the Burn Ointment would not lack sales.

According to the hospital’s estimation, if it could be sold on a wide scale in the Northern Territory, it would be able to earn one or two thousand gold coins a year.

A profit of one or two thousand gold coins, even for the Harland Territory, was considered an important income. The hospital leadership attached great importance to Connie’s research project, and invested a large amount of resources to assist Connie in completing her research.

During this period of time will soon see the results, Connie’s mood is a little apprehensive, coupled with the recent months of falling in love, there are many words that want to pour out to her brother Jennings.

But seeing that Jennings was busy all day long, she could only hide what was in her heart.

“Brother, you can stay in Williamsburg for a few days.”

“I only took a day off, I’m going back tonight, and in a while I’m going to go to Riverside Elementary School to see your sister-in-law, and on the way, I’m going home to meet the baby. The child was born two months ago, and I haven’t seen the child yet.”

Hearing this, Connie had intended to say something about her boyfriend to Jennings. But was embarrassed, afraid of delaying Jennings’ time. After all, Jennings and Flora hadn’t met yet, and the rest of the time should be left to his sister-in-law.

Connie pushed Jennings and said, “Then go quickly, don’t keep your sister-in-law waiting.”

Looking at his sister who was already standing tall, Jennings suddenly realized that Connie was already twenty-two years old and had already reached the age of marriage.

Jennings, Connie’s family was now an upper class family second only to the lords in Harland Territory.

Even if the upper class family’s children married at a later age, twenty-two years old was already an old girl.

Thinking of this, Jennings suddenly felt a little guilty, this year or two he was busy with military affairs, whether it was to his wife and children or to his sister, rarely ever cared.

However, from the perspective of the mainstream values of the Morning Glory realm, Jennings was undoubtedly a very good husband and relative. He had outstanding qualifications and abilities, climbed to the top of the territory at a young age, and did not have any messy problems such as eating, drinking, whoring, gambling, and so on.

At less than thirty years of age, he had already accumulated two great merits, and by the time he reached middle age, he had a great chance to become a hereditary nobleman and bring his relatives to realize a leap in class.

The mainstream values of the Morning Sun Plane, power, officialdom, and self-struggle, were far more important than care, companionship, and affection; most of the people here didn’t have enough to eat, and didn’t need affection or sickness. Their greatest success is to change the fate of their class and become hereditary nobles of noble lineage.

Enhancing power and advancing to nobility is what meets the requirements of mainstream values.

“Connie, you are already twenty-two years old and have reached the age of marriage, do you have a favorite person?”

Connie smiled and said graciously, “I was just about to talk to you about this, Greta is pursuing me, and I’m still satisfied with him. Already took Greta to meet his parents. When you get a vacation, I’ll bring him for you to meet.”

Greta was a magic apprentice one term behind Connie, and had been studying magic for five years, advancing to a first ring magician a few days ago.

Normally a low level magic apprentice, if the breakthrough went well, it would take about six to ten years of meditation to advance into a full-fledged magician. Greta used five years to become a first ring magician, already considered a small talent.

Nowadays, the Harland Mage Association, already had twelve official magicians and more than thirty magic apprentices, and in the Grant Kingdom magic organization, it had ranked ninth, second only to the royal family and a few ducal families.

The great nobles of Grant Kingdom, only spreading magical knowledge to a few people, the development of magical power was very backward.

The Harland family spread magical knowledge on a large scale in the territory, and the Mage Association was still developing rapidly, with fresh blood joining every year through the channels of the Riverbank Elementary School. Because the Harland Mage Association did not communicate with the outside world, hiding in the swamp basin to develop secretly, outsiders did not understand their strength. Although it had been a few years since the establishment of the Mage Association, the news of Richard’s massive dissemination of magical knowledge and cultivation of magical power hadn’t been leaked yet.

“Since you have someone you like, I’ll take a few days off next month, so bring the person over and I’ll take a look. If it’s suitable, get engaged as soon as possible!”

After chatting with Connie for some time, Jennings left the hospital and returned home. After months of holding back at the barracks, he first sought out Flora to make out.

Releasing his desires, he entered sage time. Jennings took Flora in his arms and talked about Connie’s marriage to Flora.

Connie and Greta were both students of Riverbank Elementary School, and for students with magical qualifications, the teachers of Riverbank Elementary School were focused on them.

From the principal Flora to the ordinary teachers, what they were most concerned about was whether or not these students had sound personalities and whether or not they had any anti-human or anti-social tendencies.

A magician with an anti-social personality was a time bomb and a very big trouble for a territory.

The teachers of Riverbank Elementary School, the principal, were the first line of defense in monitoring magic apprentices.

If the teacher, principal discovered a magic apprentice with anti-social personality, Richard, Sophia and the others would focus on it and send the intelligence department’s transcendent talent intelligence personnel to focus on monitoring.

After having evidence, the top management of the Mage Association would personally take action to break the psychic space of the anti-social personality apprentice, so that the anti-social magician would not grow up and threaten the security of the territory.

“I’ve been observing this child Greta for a few years, and I know this child’s character very well. This child’s character is rather simple and his family origin is rather average, and now that he has become a full-fledged magician, if the marriage can come to fruition, he would be considered a good match for our family.”

Jennings had only taken a day’s vacation, and he would have to attend the drills himself tomorrow morning.

In fact, with Jennings’ current status, there was nothing in the sixth brigade that could supervise him, even if he didn’t go to the brigade headquarters for a few days and was found out by Richard, it wasn’t a major problem, at most, he would be fined a month’s salary. Unless serious damage is caused, then he will be severely held responsible, to make an example of him.

But if an officer wants to have prestige, leading by example and forbidding is the basic requirement.

A day’s leave is only a day’s leave.

Otherwise if the first sergeant slacks off, so will the lieutenant, and if the lieutenant carries, the soldiers will have to herd sheep.

An officer who can’t be strict with himself is certainly hardly likely to be strict with his subordinates.

Despite being very infatuated with his wife’s warm, soft and tender body, Jennings gritted his teeth and climbed up, rode his iron horn horse through the night and drove dozens of kilometers of mountain roads, and the next morning came to Flourishing Castle and returned to the brigade headquarters to cancel his leave.

Despite not having slept all night, the powerful physique of a fourth-ranked warrior allowed Jennings to not feel the slightest bit of fatigue, and easily followed the soldiers to complete the training. Only by being strict with himself could he master the troops and order his subordinates.

Time passed day by day, and in the blink of an eye it was October.

Entering the first day of October, under the prompts of the attribute panel, Richard finally advanced his Meditation Method to the ninth layer, becoming a six-ringed magician.

Having become a Six Ringed Magician, Richard had yet to learn Six Ringed Spells.

However, during the last few years, despite being very busy every day, Richard still learned quite a few new spells.

The first was the first ring magic enchanted weapon, this magic could infuse magic power into the weapon and was considered a supporting magic. For example, if Richard infused fire attribute magic into the enchanted weapon, the weapon came with fire attribute damage.

Although the structure of the first ring magic was simple, sometimes it could not withstand too much powerful magic output, and the efficiency of using magic was not as good as the high ring magic, but when used in critical times, the first ring magic was still very useful.

Even now, every time he fought with the enemy, Richard liked to use one-ring grease spells, Muten Entanglement and other control spells.

Then there were the second ring magic maniacal laughter spells, blindness spells, and spectral hands.

Maniacal Laughter can make the enemy let out a violent maniacal laughter, affecting the enemy’s mobility, Blindsight can blind someone for a short period of time, and Ghost Hand can send out an invisible ghostly hand to manipulate objects in the distance.

These three second-ring magic spells were all very practical spells, suitable for solo combat.

Third ring magic Richard learned the water breathing method, fixation.

Breathing in the water is a change system spell, can change a gill-like organ, within a short period of time in the water to move freely. Fixation is a single body control system magic, very useful when fighting alone.

Fourth ring magic Richard learned Optical Invisibility, Fire Wall, Roar, and Short Teleportation.

Wall of Fire is a strengthened version of Fireball, which is more of a defensive spell, letting out a wall of fire to stop the enemy in the middle of a battle.

The Roar spell is similar to the Lion’s Roar, and is a group sound attack spell.

Optical Invisibility, as the name suggests, allows you to optically make yourself disappear, which can sometimes be uniquely useful. However, this spell is restrained by Ultrasonic Detection, a transcendent olfactory talent. If you rely too heavily on stealth, you may suffer.

The short distance teleportation spell could teleport ten kilometers, as long as Richard was within ten kilometers of the Tower of Flame, and could not defeat the enemy he could immediately use this spell to escape.

Five-ringed magic Richard also newly learned two magic spells, Spiritual Treasure Chest and Creation Magic.

Spirit world treasure chest is a space type magic, can open a fixed coordinates of the spirit world space, will be precious items stored in this space. But this spell is not absolutely safe, because there are special spirit world creatures in the spirit world, the precious items you store in the spirit world may be taken away by the spirit world creatures.

Secondly the volume of the Spiritual Realm Treasure Chest is not very large, the standard magic is only about a third of a cubic meter, such a small volume is far inferior to the internal space of the Vase of Starburst, and it is not suitable for storing a large amount of supplies.

Creation magic was a very special magic, standard creation magic could create a piece of metal from the air by consuming magic power.

Though still unable to figure out the principle, Richard had been studying this spell all this time.

The creation of elements out of thin air was true alchemy.

When using this spell, different amounts of magic power invested would generate different metals.

(End of chapter)