Crossing Azeroth, starting with the Heroes of Might and Magic system

After returning to Moonbrook, Varian immediately went to the Moonbrook mine, found the foreman, ordered 300 cubic meters of stone, and asked the foreman to deliver it to the old logging warehouse as soon as possible.

He also sent someone on horseback to the sawmill to purchase 300 cubic meters of wood, which was also delivered to the warehouse.

Now everyone knows that Prince Varian is going to build a fortress in Dagger Ridge, so it is normal that a large amount of stone and wood is needed.

This is a rare opportunity to increase system resources in a legitimate way.

There is no shortage of wood and stone, but now that construction has reached a more advanced stage, a large amount of other resources is needed. Due to the lack of mercury and crystal, it is estimated that large-scale infrastructure construction has been temporarily suspended.

Varian went to the Dagger Ridge base on the pretext of an investigation, and left the Dagger Ridge Guards in Moonbrook Town, refusing to let them go no matter what.

Since the first time he ran to the Daggerridge Valley at night to build the Ministry of the Interior, Varian has never been here again. He always built it through his mind.

This time it’s a field investigation to see the architecture of the base and see how it differs from what I imagined.

When I arrived at the Dagger Ridge base, I found that the real Dagger Ridge base was more spectacular than what I had imagined. As soon as I arrived at the intersection of the valley, I saw a towering and magnificent castle blocking the intersection. The castle was much taller than the gate of Stormwind City. There were archers patrolling back and forth on the castle walls.

Varian was particularly satisfied. Just based on the appearance of the castle, it was not an exaggeration to say that Daggerridge Base was the first city in the Western Wilds or even in Stormwind Kingdom.

When he arrived at the base, Varian went into every building to take a look, and he made a surprising discovery!

First of all, there is the material warehouse. The material warehouse is particularly huge and can be used to store food for hundreds of thousands of people. More importantly, the food stored in this material warehouse will not deteriorate.

This means that Varian can secretly dig deep holes and store food during the current harvest season, making good preparations for future orc wars.

When he arrived at the Magic Guild, he discovered that the magical energy there was particularly abundant. By staying inside, his strength could slowly increase!

He didn't know whether he was the only one who would experience this effect, or whether others who entered the Magic Guild would also experience this effect. He would have to wait until the Dagger Ridge base was opened and let others try it to find out.

As for the magic of the magic guild, can others learn it instantly like him? I don't know, it remains to be tested.

After touring the entire base, Varian breathed a sigh of relief and rode back to Moonbrook.

After returning to Moonbrook Town, Varian was about to take a comfortable bath when Gavinrad came over and said, "Your Highness, the mayor, Sir Elgadin, invites you to the mayor's hall for a meeting."

Meeting? Varian felt that it must be something important. After all, if it was a small matter, Sir Elgadin would not say the word meeting.

Varian and Gavinrad arrived at the mayor's hall, where Ser Elgadin and Gryan Stoutmantle, as well as some heads of other departments, had arrived.

Logically speaking, Varian should not need to come to the meeting, but now Varian is the leader of Daggerridge Fortress and is responsible for the security of Moonbrook, so it makes sense for him to come to the meeting.

After everyone had exchanged greetings, Sir Elgadin signaled for silence and let his deputy, Gryan Stoutmantle, speak.

Gryan Stoutmantle picked up a stack of reports, handed a copy to everyone present, and then said, "According to the report from the farmers in the Dust Plains, the Riverclaw gnolls have begun to plunder the farms around the Dust Plains. Now the farms around the entire Dust Plains can no longer produce normally."

"According to the observations of the scouts I sent out, the total number of River Claw gnolls wreaking havoc this time is about four hundred."

Four hundred gnolls! Everyone present was shocked. In the past, gnolls were always in small groups, usually a dozen or so in a small group, and at most twenty or so. This time, there were actually four hundred of them! This was something that Yuexi Town had never encountered before.

"With such a large concentration of gnolls, they may have merged into a large tribe. If they are not contained, the Western Wilds will never have peace, and even Moonbrook Town may fall."

After Gryan Stoutmantle finished speaking, the scene fell into silence.

There are four hundred gnolls. It is impossible for Yuexi Town to defeat them relying on its own armed forces, unless a large number of militias are trained, but that will seriously interfere with the normal lives of the residents.

Varian thought, if he took action, then there would be no problem.

Just now, when Gryan Stoutmantle was speaking, he took stock of the current military strength at the Dagger Ridge base.

Now there are 66 spearmen, 27 archers, 21 griffins, 15 swordsmen, 9 monks, 6 knights, plus 30 knights of the Dagger Ridge Guard. In fact, we are ready for a battle.

But Varian doesn't want to use the griffin yet, as he doesn't want to expose it to the public too early.

So Varian asked, "If we attack the gnolls, how many troops can Moonbrook mobilize?"

Sir Elgadin said, "There are only 30 permanent infantrymen in Moonbrook Town. Even with the 30 cavalrymen of your Highness's guard, they are still no match for the gnolls. If we want to fight, I'm afraid we need to ask Stormwind City for troops."

"Leave this to me. I will prepare enough troops to wipe out the River Claw Gnolls and try to solve the Dust Plains problem once and for all."

After hearing what Varian said, everyone nodded. Varian was a prince, so there would be no problem if he asked Stormwind to send troops.

What they didn't know was that Varian had his own troops, and this time he planned to use only his own army to fight the Riverpaw Gnolls and would not ask Stormwind for reinforcements.

"Since His Highness Varian has taken action, I will notify the residents not to go to the Dust Plains area in the near future until the war is over," said Sir Elgadin.

Everyone present nodded.

The result of the meeting was that Varian would be in charge of leading this operation and it would be launched as soon as possible. Tomorrow, Gryan Stoutmantle would lead his 30 infantrymen to meet with Varian's troops outside Moonbrook.

After the meeting, Varian returned to his hotel room, drank a glass of juice, entered the Dagger Ridge base in his mind, and looked at the construction conditions of the third-level magic guild.

Building a level 3 magic tower requires 1000 gold coins, 5 units of wood, 5 units of stone, 6 units of sulfur, 6 units of crystal, and 6 units of gems.

Now missing 1 unit of crystal, 1 unit of mercury, and 2 units of sulfur.

Varian gritted his teeth and used gold coins to buy them from the base market. Just these few resources cost him a total of more than 10,000 gold coins. It was really too expensive to exchange them from the market. He cried out in pain.

After silently chanting "build", a flash of light appeared, and the Level 2 Magic Guild was instantly upgraded to a Level 3 Magic Guild.