Chapter 34: Nolan, the Capital

Chapter 34: Nolan, the King’s Capital
When Richard joined the Wild Lion Legion, an important reason was for the subsequent breathing method.

Now that the Attribute Panel had a new function, killing a professional would reward you with experience points. As long as the experience was constantly added, the skills could continue to progress.

Although it wasn’t known if one could rely on experience value to advance to a fourth ranked professional without the follow-up breathing method.

But with the complete meditation method, Richard could already take the path of a more powerful magician.

Although there were still quite a few benefits to joining the Berserkers Legion, being able to exchange some precious potions with battle credits. But relying solely on potion resources, the Wild Lion Legion had already lost its attraction to Richard.

The most crucial issue, the attribute panel was very special.

What the essence of this thing was, Richard could not figure out even now. For such a mysterious thing, Richard didn’t dare to expose the abnormality.

There were gods in this world, even though the Seven Gods were still asleep. If the attribute panel was known by a power like the Church, what kind of outcome Richard was unsure of.

So he didn’t dare to gamble on it, he must keep this secret to do so.

Being an officer in the army, one’s personal space was small, and there were quite a few people staring at it every day.

Richard’s career and skill enhancement could not be hidden from the people who had a heart.

Last year, when Richard upgraded a number of skills and promoted his career level twice, it got people talking.

Taking advantage of the fact that his career level was not high and he was still not attracting attention, quitting the Wild Lion Legion before it was too late would be more beneficial for the subsequent development.

In one’s own territory, not only were there very few restrictions of all kinds.

As a Northern Noble, there were also many opportunities to honor the war. There were more options than civilians.

Moreover, Richard was also an excellent officer, and as long as he was willing to join the army, the Wild Lion Legion would welcome him at any time. When the time came, he could also obtain the follow-up breathing method from the Wild Lion Legion.

After William returned from the baronial investiture ceremony, Richard resigned from the military in mid-December and returned to Fort Black River.

December 29th was the Birthday of the Morning Goddess, one of the most important festivals in the Morning Continent.

Because there really is a deity, the status is far more important than the Western Goddess Birthday in the previous world, and the festival is celebrated with great pomp and circumstance.

After having a full Goddess Birthday Festival with his family in Black River Fort, Richard, the male members of the Harland family, started to get busy.

The marriage of his sister Wendy was over before it even began.

Kevin of the Ronald family had the good fortune of joining the Cavalry Regiment of the Knights Academy of the Kingdom of Grant during the war and survived safely until after the war.

But his father, Richardson Ronald, had the bad luck to be heavily wounded by orcs during the war and retired from active duty. His maternal grandfather, Baron Barton, was killed in battle, and the succeeding baron was Kevin’s uncle.

If marrying Wendy to Kevin before the war was high on the Harland family’s list.

Now that the Harland family is a hereditary baron, Wendy is the baron’s first daughter, and marrying Kevin is undoubtedly marrying down.

Both sides were not engaged before the war either, and although the elders of both families had that realization, the Ronald family did not unify their opinions.

Now Richardson commissioned to propose marriage, but William was a little unhappy, expressing a clear refusal.

This time, returning to Black River Castle, Richard carried a large number of books. By the way, he told the rest of the family about the harvest of Vic Castle.

Hearing that Richard had gotten a magical magic book, Wendy showed great excitement and took a feather quill to transcribe it on the spot.

Without guidance, Wendy surprisingly learned the meditation method and became an elementary magic apprentice.

With the gift of magic, Wendy is able to make her own decisions about her marriage.

This world is so realistic.

Now that Wendy had mastered transcendent powers, her opinion was something even William had to consider carefully. Although Wendy’s combat power was still low, her potential had already unfolded, and in the family status, she was second only to Richard over Hayden and Ron. From now on, Wendy was no longer a Harland family marriage tool. Rather, she is a family member with inheritance rights, an important figure in a noble family.

Took the noble title enrollment instrument, Richard filled his name in the heir column.

Noble title succession law is a very important law in Grant Kingdom.

According to the provisions of this law, only those who became professionals and mastered transcendent powers would have the right to inherit a noble title.

Hayden hadn’t become a professional yet, Baron had died in battle, and Richard had been promoted to be the second successor of the Harland family.

Powell is third in line of succession and Bernie is fourth in line of succession.

When Hayden and Wendy become professionals, the three Richards will have to come later in the order of succession.

For the nobles in the Morning Glory Continent, not only the first son has the right to inherit, but the concubine son also has the same.

Although because of the Morning Glory Church, all the major kingdoms on the continent are monogamous. But the power of the king is not weak, hereditary nobles have legitimate courtesans around them, and the children of the courtesans also have the right to inherit.

The female nobles, who would have guardian knights around them, could likewise legally keep lovers.

Only illegitimate children born in secret would not be protected by the law.

William had just been promoted to Baron, and there were no courtesans around him yet, and the Harland family’s life right now didn’t really change much, not much different from the past.

The Goddess Birthday Festival had just passed five days ago, and the kingdom envoy had already arrived at Black River Fort. This time, the main task of the kingdom envoys entering the northern border was to divide the territory for the newly promoted barons and set up boundary markers.

After the territorial division was over and the boundary markers were struck, some paperwork still needed to be processed. After all the formalities were completed, the Harland family would be able to take over the territory, develop its resources, and utilize its wealth.

The matter of dividing the territory was mainly handled by Powell, and the paperwork was watched over by William. Richard didn’t do nothing, but took a merchant team to the royal capital.

The most important thing in running a territory was the population.

Baron Harland’s territory is still barren, and I’m afraid there are only a very small number of mountain hunters living in the territory.

The humans living in the primitive forest were either runaway slaves from the nearby territories or criminals from the Grant Kingdom, and such people would easily not obey the lord’s discipline.

The Northern Territory lacks population, and if you want to develop the territory, you have to buy slaves in large numbers.

To buy slaves on a large scale, one could only go to the royal capital. The slave market in Fort Black River had a maximum of a few hundred slaves, which was far from enough for the Harland family.

Taking the seal that proves his identity, the customs clearance paperwork, Richard smoothly came to the royal capital Nolan. Along with him, there is also a mercenary group under the command of uncle Soros, responsible for protecting the mission along the way.

Compared to the coldness of Black River Fortress, Nolan was a larger city.

Counting the outskirts of the city, Nolan had a population of several hundred thousand.

Looking from afar, one could see Nolan’s towering city walls. In the center of the city, there were also mage towers standing up to several dozen meters high.

Nolan’s city defense, with its complete facilities, was very sturdy.

Not only were there two full legions in the city, there was also a powerful Royal Knights stationed there. It hadn’t experienced a war in the last hundred years.

Richard was merely a baron’s son, and when he came to the royal capital of Nolan, he simply could not meet the big names of Grant’s Kingdom.

However, he was already a noble and received a lot of favorable treatment along the way.

Especially the hereditary nobles in the North, the kingdom gave a lot of subsidies from the economy and reduced a lot of taxes. The tax soldiers at the city gates were obviously a few degrees more polite to Richard.

(End of chapter)