182: The Troubles of Being a Genius

"It's absolutely true, my Lord. This information was personally scouted by Sir Trump, and the Wolf Speakers have verified it multiple times."

Rehn's dispersed Magic Wolf intelligence network is now managed by Trump, the Golden Magic Wolf, a descendant of Anatolis.

In addition, Rehn also cultivated a group of Wolf Speakers to communicate with the magic wolves and sort out the intelligence they collected.

The magic wolves cannot distinguish between useful and useless intelligence; most of them just report everything they see and hear.

Rehn doesn't have that much energy to analyze this intelligence now, so the Wolf Speakers were born.

The Wolf Pack and Wolf Speakers form an important intelligence force under Rehn's command. This force has developed extremely rapidly, but Rehn now feels it is still not enough.

Recently, the situation in the Northern Territory has changed dramatically. Rehn passively received many messages, waiting only for merchant caravans traveling north from Rage Bear Fortress to bring him news.

This made Rehn feel deaf and blind, completely ignorant of the outside world and extremely passive.

"I understand. You may leave."

"Yes, my Lord!"

Rage Bear Territory and Stag Territory are at war?

This news was too shocking. The conflict between the two great dukes of the Northern Territory is a major event affecting the kingdom. Rehn didn't believe that the two grand dukes would lose their minds to challenge the authority of the Golden King.

"There must be some hidden reason I don't know about. I need to send some people to Rage Bear Fortress to inquire about the intelligence."

"Also, regarding the Swift Falcons for communication, have Master Kapdo concoct some potions to upgrade them to magic beasts. The speed of transmitting intelligence will then increase significantly."

Swift Falcons are a special type of flying eagle Rehn obtained from the Eagle Tribe in the Sub-plane. The Eagle Tribe uses these eagles as messengers to transmit information.

After training by the Eagle Tribe, Swift Falcons are already mature messengers, but Rehn feels they can be further improved because Swift Falcons are currently just ordinary beasts, not even magic beasts.

With the current foundation of Red River Territory, cultivating a batch of Black Iron Rank Swift Falcons is not difficult.

Besides cultivating Swift Falcons, Rehn also plans to expand the team of Falconers and secretly recruit a group of people as secret agents to gather intelligence for him.

Rehn decided to establish a new intelligence gathering department called the Shadow Guards, to spread these shadows throughout the Northern Territory to collect intelligence for him.

"Red River Territory needs to focus on internal development, but it cannot be ignorant of external affairs. I must first find out what the Grand Duke of the Raging Bear intends to do."

Rehn sent people to Rage Bear Fortress to inquire about intelligence, while also intensifying his own strength.

With the mass production of Wind Spirit Potions, Rehn cultivated the former Magic Wolf Knights into Gale Wolf Riders.

The cultivation method for Gale Swordsmen was also improved by Rehn, and the resulting Gale Wolf Riders had an overwhelming advantage over Gale Swordsmen.

The Gale Claw Legion was built upon the former Magic Wolf Knights of Red River Territory, and it is also the most promising of the three special legions.

The mounts of the other two, Storm Steel Feather and Frostfang Legion, are Lair Creatures, so their strength can only stop at Bronze Rank and cannot be further enhanced.

Gale Wolf Riders are different; after being enhanced by Wind Spirit Potions, the potential of these magic wolves greatly increased, and the proportion of those who will advance to Silver Rank in the future will not be low.

Wasteland Wolves and Black Wolves were already very compatible with wind elementals, and with the aid of Wind Spirit Potions, their mastery of wind elementals improved significantly. The newly born Wind Wolves are stronger than their predecessors at the same rank.

The Storm Steel Feather Legion's warriors are mainly from the former Eagle Tribe and Wind Riding Tribe, while the officers are mostly from the Red River Territory Guard Army.

The Frostfang Legion is much simpler, primarily composed of warriors from the White Wolf Tribe, with Montoya, a Gold Rank warrior, as their legion commander.

Because the Frost White Wolves are larger, significantly bigger than the magic wolves under Rehn, their carrying capacity is very strong.

The Frostfang Legion envisioned by Rehn is a heavy cavalry legion.

Montoya fully supported Rehn's plan; he absolutely loved heavy armor.

Due to a lack of resources, the White Wolf Tribe's cavalry were all light-armored units. They had an exceptionally deep love for heavy armor, and Rehn's decision made these warriors exceedingly joyful.

All of the heavy armor for the Frostfang Legion is produced by the Red River Territory Forge Workshop. In addition to this heavy armor, the Redwood long-handled great swords previously planned by Rehn have been successfully produced, becoming the standard weapons for the Gale Wolf Riders and Frost Heavy Cavalry.

For this, Rehn specifically asked Dora to bless and cultivate the Redwood Territory's redwood forest, and also used nature magic to Inducing childbirth a new Redwood Territory, expanding it by more than double.

Much of the redwood produced reached Black Iron Rank and even Bronze Rank.

These transcendent redwoods possess extremely strong battle aura conductivity, providing a very significant boost to a warrior's combat power.

Holland and Watt also added some transcendent minerals as raw materials when forging the blades, which allowed the produced great swords to reach the standard of transcendent weapons.

Holland and Watt named these great swords the crimson slashers. Rehn was noncommittal about the name and ultimately respected the wishes of the two Transcendent Blacksmiths.

Under Rehn's intentional cultivation, a large amount of resources was allocated to Holland and Watt. Watt has already reached Silver Mid-rank, and Holland has just broken through to Silver Rank.

Their forging skills have also advanced by leaps and bounds; they can now skillfully craft Bronze Rank transcendent weapons.

If it weren't for the substandard conditions of the Red River Territory Forge Workshop, both of them would have already started attempting to create Silver Rank transcendent weapons.

Rehn currently has no solution for this. The technical level required for a Forge Workshop to create Silver Rank transcendent weapons is very high, and Rehn cannot even build the furnaces needed to smelt those Silver Rank minerals.

Moreover, Rehn does not have many Silver Rank mineral raw materials to support Holland and Watt's continuous attempts.

Thinking of this, Rehn felt a bit troubled. The two forging geniuses were improving too quickly, and Rehn could no longer provide the matching forging conditions.

"Having a genius also brings troubles!"

The Red River Territory Forge Workshop has been expanded more than ten times, and the primary smelting and ordinary weapon forging workshops have been moved to Black Iron Town. Even so, the Forge Workshop still occupies a large area within Red River City.

Holland and Watt have taken on many apprentices, some of whom, with good talent, have embarked on the path of a Transcendent Blacksmith.

Rehn's idea is for all members of the three titled legions to use transcendent weapons in the future, and the weapons used by officers will need further enchantment and strengthening.

Ordinary legions will use finely crafted ordinary weapons, while officers will use transcendent weapons or enchanted weapons.

To meet Rehn's conditions, the number of Transcendent Blacksmiths and mages in Red River Territory would need to increase by dozens of times.

Speaking of mages, the forty-six Mage Apprentice recruited by the Red River Territory Mage Academy, which Rehn established earlier, have been studying for more than half a year.

Among them, the most outstanding genius, Luca, has already broken through to the Black Iron Rank peak, and his basic knowledge learning is also excellent.

A genius is a genius. Knowledge that other children need ten days, half a month, or even longer to learn, Luca can learn in about a day. He grasps any knowledge with a single point.

This made Cecilia and Alistair, who frequently taught lessons, extremely fond of Luca, and they all enjoyed teaching him. The little fellow was also very diligent.

However, one thing disappointed Rehn: Luca's talent for Potionology was average, and he had no interest in studying it. Instead, he was very interested in the Golem Manufacturing studies Rehn had once acquired, showing a considerably high talent.

Rehn had no demand for Golem Manufacturing; he hoped Luca could become a Potion Master. Unfortunately, things didn't go as planned, and Rehn couldn't forcibly change Luca's talent and preferences, otherwise, it would ruin this little genius.

In the end, he could only accept it and let Luca freely study Golem Manufacturing. However, Red River Territory had no experts in this field to teach Luca.

Kapdo and Cecilia could only teach Luca basic magic knowledge, and for Golem Manufacturing, they often had to let little Luca figure it out himself.