Chapter 440: Duel of Honor
Chapter 439 – Duel of Honor
This time, the Delong Grand Duchy, the United Kingdom of the East Coast, and the Kingdom of Lane had practically formed an alliance, and together with the Sith Kingdom’s navy that was willing to cooperate, they had already deployed more than a million troops.
The Grant Kingdom, Grand Duchy of Starnic, and the three parties of Duke Harland’s Domain had also mobilized more than eight hundred thousand regular troops.
Although the Dukedom of Harland’s army had fewer soldiers, it actually played a greater role than the Grand Duchy of Starnic because of factors such as starlight bombs and magic crystal cannons.
Comparing the army’s combat power alone, the Triple Alliance side didn’t actually have much of an advantage.
Although the Kingdom of Lane still had spare strength, with 200,000 troops in the direction of the Silver Wolf Mountain Range, 60,000 people stationed at the capital Lane Castle, and the domestic nobles of all sizes were still able to squeeze out 100,000 troops. But the Duke of Harland can also put together 100,000 people, Grant Kingdom squeeze, can also mobilize about 80,000 soldiers, only this last 80,000 soldiers quality is not very good.
Whether it’s Lane Kingdom or Dukedom of Harland, the troops defending against the orcs can’t be easily mobilized.
Once there is a loophole in the defense line against the orcs, the orcs will surely seize the opportunity to invade, in fact, at this moment, the warring parties have already tried their best, and there are not many reserves that can be used. Failure in any one of the battlefields would inevitably result in the collapse of the whole situation.
After careful calculation, Cromis personally met with McKellen, personally heard McKellen’s account, Cromis has confirmed that the Rhine Castle defenders are afraid of not being able to withstand the Harland Duke’s leadership onslaught. After secretly deducing the situation, Kromis finally decided to go north to back to help, stabilize the situation to hold back the Duke of Harland.
Richard entered the Kingdom of Rheinland with an army of 100,000 soldiers, naturally, he had to plunder the place on a large scale and collect food and grass to maintain the logistics.
Fortunately, the southern region of Lane Kingdom is relatively affluent, Richard entered the Lane Kingdom in the first half of June, it is the season of grass and trees, you can drive a large number of livestock forward.
One hundred thousand troops need to consume three hundred tons of food a day, the destruction of the place is exceptionally serious, many local nobles, would rather burn the food, but also do not want to cheapen the Harland collar.
Nonetheless, in the newly occupied areas, the soldiers under Richard’s command still killed many bureaucrats and nobles who were not willing to cooperate.
There were two legions of soldiers in Duke Madison’s territory, one legion following Duke Madison’s southern expedition and one legion guarding the border.
Because of the ripple effects of the war, the local area was immediately in a dilemma of lack of food, creating countless stragglers.
Even Duke Madison’s family, the men were all killed, and the women were given to the officers and soldiers who had won the war.
In just six days, Richard captured three important castles, occupied part of the Madison family’s granary, and seized more than 60,000 tons of grain.
Capturing 60,000 tons of grain greatly reduced the burden of the Grant Kingdom, equivalent to saving 200,000 to 300,000 tons of grain for the rear.
Harland’s collar army cleansed the place so ferociously, relying on killing to finally maintain the local stability.
Richard crossed into the morning realm has been nearly thirty years, the three views were gradually assimilated by the natives, long ago has not just crossed the time of the sentimental, not to mention the excess sympathy.
This time Richard almost stepped on the noble manners, noble honor and noble spirit, and his style was completely like a barbarian who did not talk about rules.
After making the decision to slaughter the nobles, Richard’s popularity rating also dropped to the lowest, and he was scolded by the nobles of Lane Kingdom for having orc blood. The Harland territory army was also called the beast army.
Due to the annoyance of the enemy burned food, Richard made the order to massacre the nobles and officers under the anger, just more than ten days, Duke Madison’s territory is everywhere in the war, the local bureaucrats and nobles, as long as they participated in the wall, almost all of them were slaughtered clean by Richard.
The war lasted until June, Edward, Fox two dukes territory began to appear a large number of fugitive slaves, forced to close to the front line of the three dukes can only reduce the levy Ding.
Sixty thousand tons of food, enough to feed this army of Richard for half a year.
Especially Fox, Edward and other dukes close to the war zone, the supply of six dukes coalition army logistical pressure is very heavy, and now have to draw daughters, for the Harland collar legion escort supply wagons, the burden of the burden is almost unsupportable.
Now the legions guarding the border were directly crushed by Harland’s Collar, and legionnaire McKellen was lucky to save his life and escaped into the south road army. At this moment, the Duke of Madison’s territory has become very empty, and can’t stand up to Richard’s 100,000 troops attacking.
The three dukes reduced their labor, the pressure of the royal direct territories became heavier and heavier, Richard captured half a year’s worth of food in the front line, and the rope strangling on the neck of Grant’s Kingdom was finally able to relax and loosen up a little bit.
After conquering the Porta Castle, Richard rushed across with an army of 100,000, and in just six days, he pierced through the Duke of Madison’s territory and captured the capital city of Bourbon by hand.
However, in order to resist the invasion of the Grant Kingdom, the local nobles generally spontaneously executed the order to hold the fort. Although there were only a few defenders in Bourbon City, they still set fire to the granary, and in the end, the army of Harland’s domain only retrieved 60,000 tons of grain.
Although the Duke of Madison is not as prosperous as Harland’s, it still has a population of 1.4 million people, and the ducal treasury has more than 200,000 tons of grain in storage.
Being in the cruel battlefield, for the starving serfs Richard did not care at all. His only concern now is whether this battle can be won?
Seeing that the summer harvest is coming, Richard let Hughes, Sartain two dukes with the headquarters of 40,000 people to act as auxiliary troops, for Harland led legions to transport grain and grass, safeguard the logistics, control the occupation area, his own personally led Harland led 60,000 troops, straight to the Norwegian castle.
Novena Castle is the more affluent city in the Kingdom of Lane, the provincial consul heard that Harland’s army is approaching, has already been six gods, scared and terrified.
Novena Castle is closer to Duke Madison’s territory, and has heard of Duke Harland’s atrocities. Seeing this kind of army that leaves no room for error and has a style similar to that of the orcs, relying on the weak local defenders, the provincial consul simply does not have the confidence to hold on.
Just as the province consul Pieter was preparing to flee, Clomis finally appeared near Novena Castle with his forward troops.
After rushing, the Lane Kingdom army was ultimately a step too slow, and by the time they returned, the Duke of Madison’s domain had already fallen under Richard’s control.
Hearing that his relatives had been killed by Richard, and his wife and daughter had been given to soldiers, Duke Madison was immediately infuriated and furious. He wrote an insulting duel letter on the spot, asking Richard to fight a duel of honor with himself according to the noble tradition.
Madison was a knight of the ninth rank and was very confident in his personal strength. He took the initiative to challenge Richard, in addition to wanting to take revenge, he also pinned his hopes on killing Richard by surprise and snatching the fourth-ranked magic prop. With this level of treasure, the Madison family would be able to gain a firm foothold amongst the great nobles.
To Duke Madison’s request to send him to his death, Richard agreed very quickly.
The location of the duel was chosen outside of Novena Castle. In front of the two armies, Richard and Duke Madison crossed the crowd, and Duke Madison’s feet slammed down, taking the lead in the charge.
Seeing Duke Madison charging over, Richard took out the Flame Staff from the Bottle of Starburst and gently waved it, three large fireballs appeared in the air.
After advancing to the eighth ring of spiritual power to break through sixty points, Richard’s combat power became even more amazing, especially with the Flame Staff’s enhancement, consuming fifteen points of magical power, he was able to unleash a spell with one hundred and eighty degrees of destructive power.
The strength of such a spell was only a few points worse than the Ninth Ring Plastic Energy System magic.
The three fireballs traced a graceful arc and hit near Duke Madison in no particular order, instantly sending out a violent explosion.
After the fireballs collapsed, they blossomed with scorching energy, penetrating the protection of Duke Madison’s enchanted armor and baking his skin red.
The two had just exchanged blows, and Richard had only unleashed a Third Ring Magic Fireball Spell, which had shaken Duke Madison to the core, losing two to three percent of his vitality.
The fact that Richard released such a high magic attack power surprised Duke Madison, such a spell casting intensity was already a few points more powerful than a Legendary Magician.
Duke Madison was a great noble of Lane Kingdom, and had also mastered a part of the magic inheritance, he thought in his heart: ”Duke Harland’s mental strength must have exceeded thirty points, awakening a strong spell casting talent, and the magic staff in his hand, also had a high bonus to fire attribute spells. With this strike, Richard must have used a strong spell.
I mustn’t be deterred by the enemy, I must top Duke Harland’s magic power and quickly approach to decapitate this person.”
Knight and warrior type professionals who wanted to fight with a magician had to get close. Although there was a heavier loss of vitality, Duke Madison launched a faster charge instead.
Seeing this scene, the corner of Richard’s mouth revealed a few smiles, but in his heart, he secretly laughed at the enemy’s stupidity. With a flick of his mental power in his mind, he once again gently waved his Flame Staff, releasing a Second Ring Magic Scorching Ray.
In the blink of an eye, a thick red light slammed into Duke Madison’s face.
As the flame ray struck, Duke Madison couldn’t dodge in time and violently crossed his arms, blocking his face.
The thick red light struck Duke Madison’s arms, and in an instant, Duke Madison’s arm armor burned red, and in an instant, a white smoke even rose, and a slight smell of roasted meat appeared. Duke Madison immediately felt a strong stinging pain.
Although the Scorching Ray was only a second-ring magic, but with Richard’s strong spell casting and the enhancement of the Flame Staff, the power of the magic was already equivalent to the standard magic seven-ring level.
Although Duke Madison’s arm armor of the eighth rank had strong defense, it focused on physical defense, and the magic resistance was relatively general, and although this strike did not penetrate the arm armor, it burned Duke Madison’s arm, aggravating his injuries by a few points.
After releasing the second ring magic scorching ray, Richard waved his flame staff for the third time, this time slightly more serious, releasing the fifth ring magic flame meteor.
A streak of fire light cut through the sky, emitting a sharp cracking sound, and ruthlessly struck Duke Madison’s forehead.
Seeing this scene, Duke Madison hurriedly urged his Dou Qi and released his eighth rank force field shield.
This five-ringed magic of Richard’s, although its power was not comparable to a legendary spell, it was a few points more powerful than a standard nine-ringed magic, with the destructive power of the spell being as high as two hundred and sixty degrees. Knowing that normal legendary magic, the destructive power was often between four hundred and eight hundred degrees, where the core of the Starlight Bomb was, the destructive power was only about one thousand six hundred degrees.
A destructive power of one thousand and six hundred degrees was already able to injure a Legendary Third Order Orc and make a Legendary Dragon panic and run for its life. This spell’s destructive power of two hundred and sixty degrees was already one-sixth the level of the Starlight Bomb.
When it hit Duke Madison, it instantly pierced through the force field shield attached to Duke Madison’s enchanted armor.
The force field shield was pierced, and the enchanted armor was severely worn out, seeing this scene, Duke Madison was in disbelief.
The powerful spiritual power coupled with the legendary staff was just so overbearing and unreasonable, a ninth rank knight with not weak combat power could not even touch Richard’s skin, the enchanted armor was destroyed, and his own life force was lost by more than fifty percent.
With Richard’s combat power nowadays, he can already fight against a legendary professional, even Sylph is not his opponent, not to mention Duke Madison and the others.
After eating three consecutive magic spells, Duke Madison finally rushed near Richard, he frantically let out a loud roar and suppressed his fear, holding his sword with both hands, he jumped up and slashed at the top of Richard’s head.
The battle had come to a head, Duke Madison finally noticed the abnormality and realized that Richard did not release strong spells, but rather his own magic killing power was very amazing.
The longsword chopped, carrying more than thirty points of Duke Madison’s power, sending out ear-piercing air-breaking sounds, for which Richard was not at all moved, his expression remained relaxed.
Only to see Richard waving his Flame Staff once again, releasing a Fourth Order Magic Flame Shield.
In an instant, a shield made of flames blocked above Richard’s head, blocking Duke Madison’s attack with seemingly ease.
On the contrary, Duke Madison, who had a portion of his flame damage rebounded by the Flame Shield, the skin on his body instantly turned red and his injuries became even more serious.
Duke Madison rallied his remaining courage and used the fighting martial art Spirit Snake Sword Technique, three consecutive swords broke through the flame shield, and Richard unleashed a strong magic medium force field protection, blocking Duke Madison’s attack with ease and ease.
Only to see Richard waving his flame staff for the fifth time, releasing the five-ringed magic Flame Cage.
Instantly several magical runes appeared in the sky, forming a cage thick with fire element. Rolling magical flames were released from the Flame Cage, directly burning Duke Madison to ashes.
Because the Flame Staff could save magic power to a great extent, Richard released six magic spells, only consuming about two hundred and sixty points of magic power, and killed Duke Madison, a ninth ranked knight, with ease and ease. The one magic that consumed the most was actually the Strong Magic Force Field Shield, which alone consumed one hundred points of magic power from Richard.
In fact, if Richard had used his physical combat ability and tangled with Duke Madison, he could have consumed one hundred and twenty points of magic power to kill this person.
(End of Chapter)