Chapter 291: The Official Empire and the Demon Breaker Golem

The short-term occupation of Aedirn frightened the other countries. Richard did not plan to launch another attack in the short term, as he did not have enough manpower to control the country.

If you can't control it, the territory you have conquered is just data on paper. It looks good but is actually useless.

Richard did not spare the surrendered towns of the Kingdom of Aedirn. He directly ordered that one out of ten people in the town be beheaded. Don't think this is cruel. In fact, in this barbaric, ignorant, and dim light of civilization era, this is the law of the times.

Kindness is a good quality, but here it will only be regarded as cowardice. If they can surrender without being punished, they will do it without hesitation. So they must be sufficiently deterred. Tender words will not gain their respect. The witch is an example of this. Only the butcher's knife can do it.

After the occupation of Aedirn, the Kingdom of Aedirn became a thing of the past, and Richard officially changed Aedirn into the United Empire of Austrian Magic. The other countries around him were either watching coldly or preparing for defense.

As the capital of the Offa Empire, Eisenland is now on the right track. Ye Funi, a member of the Witch Mutual Aid Association, is working in the original city lord's office.

No, this should be called the CEO's Office.

Now Ye Funi is not only the CEO of Aisenlan, but also the CEO of the Offa Empire. She is also the vice president of the Witch Mutual Aid Association and an important assistant to Richard.

While Richard was busy with experimental research, she needed to handle various affairs on his behalf.

After the Offa Empire occupied Aedirn, the Offa Empire Witch Academy was established immediately. However, the Witch Academy established this time was fundamentally different from the previous Sorcerer Academy.

Not only has the scale of the academy increased several times, but the content of learning has also changed greatly. The main content is some knowledge taught by Richard, who serves as the principal of the witch academy.

At this time, Ye Funi was wearing a loose wizard robe and sitting in the office processing some official documents.

The wizard robe has been redesigned and improved, showing her perfect figure. The witches have made improvements to the wizard robe, such as waist tightening, and added a beautiful phoenix mark on the chest, with a blazing flame on the phoenix.

Coupled with her already beautiful appearance and the temperament she had just cultivated, her charm skyrocketed, and the effect of the dragon vein also manifested itself on her body, making her more like a poppy, with fatal appeal, and as beautiful as an angel.

She is now the most powerful witch and the older sister of all witches.

There was a knock on the door.

"Come in."

Ye Funi's cold voice sounded, and then she leaned back slightly in the chair, changed to a more comfortable posture, and looked at Joseph Rune who opened the door and came in.

This man was originally the secretary of Eisenland. Although Eisenland was ruled by the city lord and nobles before, he actually handled all the specific affairs. When Richard and his men came here, Joseph surrendered immediately. After seeing his good management skills, Richard continued to use him.

These days, many witches follow him to learn how to handle government affairs. As for loyalty, there is no need to worry, Richard has already given him psychological hints, and not long ago, his daughter awakened her witch talent and joined the witch mutual aid association, so he has no way out and no need to worry.

In fact, it was Ye Funi who deliberately "helped" his daughter to awaken her witch talent. For thousands of years, they have done a lot of research on the conditions for witch awakening and witch talents, and can roughly judge whether they have the chance to become a witch. Her approach only increases the probability of awakening.

"Is there anything I can help you with? Archon Joseph?" Yevni glanced at him and went back to her work.

She was very pressed for time now, having taken over a kingdom all at once, and without enough qualified officials, many things had to be handled by her. However, after the witches' training was completed, she would be able to delegate more than 80% of the tasks, and then she would have enough time to study magic.

"Lady Ye Funi! The witch academy outside the city has basically been built. When will you go to inspect it?"

Joseph lowered his head as he looked at the girl in front of him. By now he had fully recognized the reality: the rise of witches was unstoppable and the world was about to change.

"I understand!" Ye Funi didn't know if it was possible or not. During this period of time, she had sent witches to various places to search for talented girls and bring them back.

In the past, due to various reasons, many girls with awakened talents had no chance to go to witch school. Now Ye Funi would naturally not just sit there and do nothing.

"How is the construction of the palace going?" Ye Funi asked.

"The palace is still under construction. As you know, most of the slaves have been asked by His Majesty to work in the mines. We don't have enough manpower," Joseph said nervously.

Ye Funi nodded and said, "A batch of slaves will be assigned this month. I will hand them over to you and complete the construction of the palace as soon as possible."

"If there is not enough stone, we can tear down those useless churches and castles. This can also be regarded as recycling waste."

What church are you talking about? Of course, it's the Zoroastrian church. Although it has been burned, the church was built with a lot of stone. Do you think it's that easy for witches to take revenge? Women are not very cunning, and witches are even more so. In the future, witches may establish a magic cult.

It is never too late for a gentleman to take revenge, but a witch takes revenge from morning to night.

Now Zoroastrianism and even other sects that are unfriendly to witches have been banned, and Zoroastrians have become wanted criminals.

After the establishment of the Offagic United Empire, Richard abolished the checkpoint taxes, city gate taxes and many other miscellaneous taxes between various places, and integrated them into commercial taxes. In other words, in the entire Offagic Empire, only one tax needs to be paid.

The reduction in taxes naturally made business very prosperous. The Offa Empire was located in the central area of ​​the continent, and the reduction in taxes led to a rapid increase in the number of merchants coming to trade. Even though several other countries were accumulating strength and secretly connecting with each other, wanting to attack the Offa Empire together, they could not stop those merchants from coming.

The northern countries and the southern kingdom of Nilfgaard have stopped their hostility. They have been secretly communicating for some time. In particular, Zoroastrianism is trying to connect the continent's countries. They plan to unite to deal with witches and the United Empire of Arcane. At the same time, each country is also seizing the time to study their own extraordinary powers, and anti-magic metals are also being produced in large quantities, and they are used to make more powerful weapons.

The production of heavy crossbows and crossbows was being increased. At the same time, the Church of the Eternal Fire began to experiment with installing anti-magic bombs on the crossbows to increase the attack range.

They believed that the witches had mastered the art of flying and could cast spells from high above, so the magic bombs had basically lost their effect. So they used crossbows to launch the magic bombs and have them explode in the air to interfere with the witches' spells.

Under the transformation of the magical power of the Church of Eternal Fire, initial results have been achieved. At the same time, they have begun to train more knights to protect the church, and other countries have also taken the same action.

These countries destroyed the Demon Hunter Academy and obtained the training methods of Demon Hunters from the Demon Hunter Academy. After improvements, each country also possessed many extraordinary powers.

Their improved training method has greatly improved safety and has a success rate of 80 to 90 percent, but their strength is not as good as that of a demon hunter, and they no longer have the ability to cast spells.

However, for countries that win by numbers, this method is more cost-effective. How many demon hunters are there? These countries can train thousands of them.

While the Offa Empire was busy digesting the spoils, other countries on the continent were also actively preparing for war, and at the same time sent many spies to spy on intelligence. After discovering that trade was booming here, these countries came here as merchants.

After a war, the Austrian Empire not only did not wither, but became extremely prosperous. At the border pass, a large number of caravans were waiting to enter. In cities everywhere, porters and caravans were constantly coming and going.

After destroying the nobles, the witches gained a huge amount of money, and Richard asked for a re-planning of the city, so money was spent like water. The demand for various materials increased dramatically.

Those merchants swarmed in like ants smelling sweetness.

The production of anti-magic metal in the Offa Empire is very low, after all, the mineral deposits here are not abundant. After the bounty was issued, merchants from other countries began to transport anti-magic metals in various ways.

Even though these countries have banned the sale of anti-magic metals, there are still a large number of merchants transporting anti-magic metals to the Offa Empire.

For merchants, there is nothing they dare not do as long as there is enough profit. Nowadays, no one who dares to join a multinational caravan is timid.

Many times when they encountered other caravans in the wild, if they found that the other party was not strong enough, these merchants who were merchants the previous second would turn into full-time bandits and robbers in a minute.

As for whether these merchants are afraid of being punished by other countries when they return? Don't be ridiculous. Which of these merchants doesn't have nobles behind them? Many caravans are simply the white gloves of the nobles.

If you dare to investigate, you will be stabbed in the back and hang yourself that night.

Even the kings of various countries knew about this situation, but they could only turn a blind eye. Otherwise, would they have to fight a war with those great nobles first?
After Richard obtained a large amount of anti-magic metal, he prepared to make a magic destroyer golem. Originally, the magic destroyer golem was specifically designed to deal with spellcasters, and it relied more on magic defense runes and magic immunity shields to weaken magic.

Now that they have anti-magic metal, if they are made into magic breakers, their defense capabilities against magic will be further improved, and it is very likely that they will become completely immune.

Richard plans to use anti-magic metal to make the Demon Breaker, so the purity of the anti-magic metal used must naturally be very high.

The level of metal smelting in this world is very low, even the steel with the most mature smelting technology is of poor quality. Among the anti-magic metals Richard obtained, the highest purity was only 70%, and the purity of most of them was around %, or even %.

Therefore, it must be purified. Richard's requirement is to purify it to 99.999%. He has already experimented with anti-magic metals. The higher the purity, the better the anti-magic effect and the higher the resistance to magic.

If you reach this level, you will be immune to 90% of the power of ordinary spells, and even have strong immunity to legendary spells. At the same time, you will also have some resistance to domain power.

Many times, when facing a god-level enemy, there is no need to fight at all, because they can open their domain and directly change the rules to invalidate most attacks. However, this anti-magic gold attribute can still maintain its basic state. Although the magic resistance becomes very low, it can still move and attack.

This ability is very difficult to acquire, just like the battles between the Arcane Empire and the Spider Queen Rose. Ordinary legendary golems in her domain were easily "crushed" into scrap metal by Rose using the power of her domain.

This situation also occurred when the Arcane Empire and the gods were fighting. Only the legendary golems that used the powerful energy of the floating city to form their own energy field could resist.

Later, the Supreme Arcane Council improved the golem construction, and high-level legendary golems all possessed high-energy particle energy shields.

Richard was going to use this anti-magic metal to make an anti-magic coating and engrave runes on it to upgrade the legendary golem. The high-level steel golem would use an anti-metal coating with a lower purity.

Richard purified those anti-magic metals that were not pure enough. After some experiments, he successfully completed 99.999% purification in the laboratory. However, the laboratory can only purify in small batches, so after optimizing the purification process, Richard prepared to build a purification factory by hand.

It is easy to smelt low-purity antimagic metal, but it is difficult to smelt high-purity antimagic metal. The first step is to build a smelting plant to smelt the ore into antimagic metal.

It will then be refined a second time. According to the design requirements, this smelter can smelt anti-magic metals with a purity of 90% in batches.

Next is the complicated and tedious purification process, which requires the use of a lot of magic technology and can only be controlled by Richard himself. Fortunately, this purification mode can be controlled in large quantities.

In order to purify this metal in batches, Richard planned to build a wizard tower here and let the tower spirit perform fully automatic control and purification. After making the design blueprint, Richard had people build the infrastructure, and the key equipment in the smelter still needed him to rub it manually.

Richard has been staying in Wengerburg during this period, allowing others to clean up the country, but he is not indifferent to the outside world. He is very clear that other countries on the continent are preparing for war, but he does not care. No matter how those people prepare, the result will be the same when facing the Phoenix.

After the Offa Empire completes its integration and trains qualified soldiers and managers, we will completely conquer the world.

(End of this chapter)