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

The next morning, the sky gradually turned pale, and the sea breeze blew gently from the long beach, making people feel cool and relaxed. The occasional bird calls on the mountain seemed to wake up the people who were still immersed in their dreams. The sun began to slowly penetrate the clouds and sprinkle on the mountains, giving Dagger Ridge a layer of golden color.

Varian stood on the roof of the castle, overlooking the entire Dagger Ridge, feeling the incomparable magnificence and vastness. The farms and meadows in the distance, under the sunshine, looked particularly peaceful and beautiful.

It makes people feel relaxed and happy.

At this time, people began to arrive at the base one after another. Soon, the base was crowded with residents of Yuexi Town who came for job interviews.

Apart from mines and farms, Yuexi Town has basically no other industries. Many residents do odd jobs and have low incomes. At this time, the recruitment of Dagger Ridge Fortress is very attractive.

There were too many people, so Varian quickly called Gavinrad and Gryan Stoutmantle to assist in the interview.

Gavinrad is responsible for interviewing crew members, sailors, and fishermen; Gryan Stoutmantle is responsible for interviewing crabbers, cooks, and market salesmen; if someone is interviewing the captain, he will do the interview.

The interview took place in the lobby on the first floor of the castle. The soldiers asked the residents to be interviewed to line up in two rows. The interview line stretched for several hundred meters, from the castle all the way to the grass outside, like two long dragons.

In order to prevent queue-jumping, Gryan Stoutmantle also arranged several soldiers to maintain order at the scene.

The interview went relatively smoothly because Yuexi Town has a large number of residents with relevant work experience.

For example, there were too many people with relevant work experience as chefs. Some residents worked as chefs in the Moonbrook Inn, and Gryan Stoutmantle had even seen him. Some residents worked as chefs in the Moonbrook Mine. Some residents worked as chefs in the lumberyard, so the chef team soon recruited twenty people.

Varian's initial plan was to place ten chefs in the Dagger Ridge base and ten chefs at the dock, and recruit more if they were not enough in the later stage.

Recruiting crab catchers is also very simple. In the past, many residents went to Long Beach to catch crabs by themselves. It doesn't matter if you have no experience. As long as you are strong and willing to endure hardships, you will receive relevant training after being recruited.

As for the crew members and sailors, most of them are residents who have returned home from Stormwind Port to buy property, and some are even soldiers who have retired from warships.

The income of crew members and sailors will be higher. After all, a fishing boat goes out to sea for at least a week and at most ten days to half a month, which requires people who can endure loneliness to be competent.

No one had applied for the captain position for a long time, so Varian had to watch Gavinrad and Gryan Stoutmantle interview.

After all, not everyone can be a captain!

Just as Varian was watching the interview with great interest, someone finally came to interview the captain.

"Your Highness, good day. I'm here for an interview with the captain." A tall young man, wearing an old but neat captain's uniform and a signature captain's hat, looked very professional.

"Good day, please introduce yourself." Varian could see that this man had been a captain before, but not now, because his captain's uniform was rather old.

"My name is Grayson. I am from Stormwind Kingdom. I used to be a fishing boat captain for two years and a merchant ship captain for one year in Stormwind Port."

Captain Grayson! He knew the name very well.

In the original novel, after World War II, the famous fishman Old Blind scared away the entire family of the lighthouse keeper in the Western Wilderness. No one lit the lighthouse at night and the coast was pitch black. Captain Grayson was driving his Wave, but without the guidance of the lighthouse, he could not find the direction and thus ran aground on the coast of Long Beach. The Wave sank immediately, and Captain Grayson, the first mate on the ship, and more than 20 crew members died on the spot.

There were more than thirty crew members who thought they had escaped death when they floated to the shore holding on to broken wooden boards, but they were all killed by the fishmen on the shore.

Later, Captain Grayson's soul kept floating around the West Wilderness Lighthouse, asking everyone to kill the blind murloc.

But at this time, Grayson was still very young. He had just been a captain for three years and did not have his own wave number. There was not even a lighthouse in the Western Wilderness. The old blind man was still a young blind man.

Varian knew that he had found a treasure. Grayson not only had excellent seamanship, but also had a calm and decisive personal quality, making him very suitable to be a captain.

So Varian said, "Okay, you passed. You are the captain of the Wave, the first fishing boat in Daggerridge Fortress."

Since he knew enough, there was no need to waste time asking questions, so Varian made the decision on the spot.

Gregson was also slightly stunned, because he found out that the interviewer was His Royal Highness the Prince. He had carefully prepared the interview words all night last night, and he tossed and turned and couldn't sleep at night. As a result, he only said one sentence in the interview today.

I still have a lot of self-introductions that I have carefully considered in my mind!

"What are you standing there for? Now that you've passed, you can go to the back and find the staff to register, and then you'll be free. We're still recruiting crew members today, so you don't have to go out to sea. You can walk around Dagger Ridge Fortress or go to the shipyard to see the new ship, Wave." Varian felt amused when he saw Grayson's uncomfortable expression.

Varian had not yet named the newly purchased ship, but after seeing Grayson, he suddenly decided to name the first new ship he bought the Wave.

After hearing this, Grayson grinned and said to Varian, "Understood, Your Highness. Thank you for your trust. I will go and register now."

After Grayson registered, he got the dormitory key. The captain's and crew's dormitories were all arranged in the castle on the other side of the dock, so he was not in a hurry and could also stroll around the Dagger Ridge base.

Varian's current plan is to buy a ship from the shipyard first, and arrange 200 crew members and fishermen to go fishing in the sea first to see if the profit is good. If so, he will buy a second ship.

We had originally planned to buy another ship and use it as a merchant ship to try ocean trade, but there is really nothing to sell at the Dagger Ridge base right now, and we don't have enough funds, so we have to wait for now.

A lighthouse needs to be built in the western fertile plains. Varian looked at it and found that it would cost 2000 gold coins and 10 units of stone.

After the Western Fertile Lighthouse is built, it will be able to guide passing ships, expand the popularity of the Dagger Ridge Port, and attract more ships to the dock to stay, consume, and trade, so the lighthouse must be put on the agenda as soon as possible.

In the original novel, Captain Grayson's Wave ran aground and sank because there was no lighthouse to guide it at night. In order to ensure the safety of passing ships, a lighthouse is essential.