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

At that time, not only the Moonbrook Mine was abandoned, but the entire Western Fertile Land was abandoned and turned into the Western Wilderness.

Because Stormwind suffered heavy casualties in the First War between Orcs, it was no longer able to take care of the fertile western wilderness, resulting in the entire western wilderness being filled with gnolls, kobolds, and various thieves.

After the victory of the Second War, Stormwind was severely damaged and had no time to take care of the Westward Wilderness. Only Gryan Stoutmantle established the Westward Wilderness People's Army to protect the local residents.

At that time, Moonbrook was occupied by the Defias Brotherhood, and the Deathmines were transformed into the Defias Brotherhood's base camp.

Ryan was slightly stunned when he heard this. He thought Varian would choose to go to Redridge Mountains, where the Stillwater Lake has a nice view and Lakeside Town is also famous for its delicious food. He didn't expect Varian to go to the Western Plains.

Of course Llane would not stop him. As the only heir to the Kingdom of Stormwind, it would be a very good choice for Varian to familiarize himself with various territories, especially the fertile western plains which are important mining and grain-producing areas.

Although there are some gnolls in the western plains, some ferocious animals like the carrion-cutter, and some murmuring fishmen on the beach, these are not enough to pose a threat to a high-level wizard, but they are very good as experience.

So Ryan said, "Okay, I support you to go to Moonbrook Town. If you encounter any problems, you can ask Sir Elgadin, the mayor of Moonbrook Town, for help."

Varian's plan was to go to the Deathmines, no, it was now called the Moonbrook Mine, and investigate the surrounding areas to see which places were suitable for building Heroes of Might and Magic buildings, the more hidden the better.

Because in a year or two, the Death Mine will be abandoned due to the invasion of orcs, so I have to make preparations in advance to protect this big gold mine.

Varian was happy to see that his father agreed.

"Father, I'm ready to leave tomorrow." Varian said, picked up a piece of fragrant crocodile steak with a fork and put it into his mouth.

"Then I will arrange a guard of thirty people later. You can also choose them yourself as your personal guards. Let them get ready and follow you tomorrow." Ryan nodded slightly, picked up a piece of Stormwind cheese and started eating.

Then Ryan whispered a few words to the guard next to him. After a while, the guard came in with a map of the Western Plains. Ryan signaled the guard to hand the map to Varian.

"This is the latest map of the Western Plains. It has detailed markings and should be helpful to your training." Ryan wiped the oil from his mouth. He was full.

"Okay, Father."

After leaving the restaurant, Varian did not go to the training ground in the mage area today. He wanted to think about his next step.

Back at his residence, Varian couldn't contain his joy and opened the map of the Western Plains to study it.

This is a large map, and it is really very detailed. It even clearly marks where there are gnolls, where there are blood-fanged boars, where there are carrion-chopping birds, and even where there are murlocs on the seashore.

Varian immediately saw the mountains and hills south of Moonbrook Town. That was the location of Dagger Ridge. Just as he had guessed, the Dagger Ridge area was marked as an undeveloped area.

In other words, Dagger Ridge, which is dozens of kilometers away from Yuexi Town, is now an unowned land.

This is not surprising. In fact, due to insufficient population, many places in the entire western wilderness area have not been well developed.

There are about 50,000 to 60,000 residents in Yuexi Town, plus the miners in the mines, as well as merchants and tourists from other places, a total of an estimated 70,000 to 80,000 people.

A few tens of thousands of people is indeed too small a population for the vast western fertile land.

This means that places with slightly worse soil quality have not been cultivated, not to mention the Stone Mountain and Dagger Ridge dozens of miles away, where there are many River Claw Werewolves.

Varian remembered that there was a valley in the middle of Dagger Ridge. A long time later, there was a dwarf NPC named Grim Thunderbrew. There was a Thunder Beer quest that required five hops, which could only be dropped by defeating the robots in the wheat field. He was very impressed.

However, Grimm Thunderbrew was definitely not here at this time, and the famous stonemason Edwin VanCleef had not yet rebelled, so there would naturally be no Defias Brotherhood. There would probably only be some Riverpaw Gnolls nearby.

The valley in the middle of Dagger Ridge has a wide open area, suitable for building a large number of buildings. It is also very hidden and no one usually goes there.

In the later stages, as long as you build a fortress at the exit of the valley, it will be surrounded by stone mountains, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack. It is simply perfect.

Thinking of this, Varian felt a surge of hope in his heart.

In the original work, Prince Varian lost his country and family after the Dark Portal was opened. His father King Llane was assassinated, Stormwind City was destroyed by the orc army, and hundreds of thousands of people died in the war. He and his people fled to the northern Kingdom of Alterac by boat.

There are hundreds of thousands of orc troops, very strong orc troops. On average, three human soldiers can fight against one orc soldier.

It was really difficult to resist relying solely on Stormwind's military strength. Even after humans and dwarves formed an alliance, they still had a hard time fighting.

Now that I have traveled through time, I must work hard to change this tragic ending. This is why I have been training hard since I was a child. In the future, with the addition of the system, I can secretly build an army produced by the Heroes of Might and Magic system in Dagger Ridge.

Once the orcs invade Stormwind City, you can send troops from the Western Wilds to support them. It would be best if you can win. If you can't, you can retreat to the Dagger Ridge base.

If all goes well, you can even transform the Death Mine into an unconquerable base.

Of course, this is just a preliminary idea, and we still need to conduct an on-site investigation before we can make any decisions. In case there is a deviation from the terrain in our memory, we will have to reconsider.

After considering all this, Varian came to the Storm Knights and selected his own thirty-man guard.

A guard handed Varian the list of knights. After taking it, Varian quickly browsed through the names in the list, trying to find some young talents who would become famous in later generations.

Sure enough, Varian saw a very familiar name: Gavinrad.

Found a treasure.

Varian immediately said to the guards: "Let Gavinrad come to see me."

"Yes, Your Highness."

Looking at the guard's leaving back, Varian fell into deep thought.

Gavinrad was still a young knight in the original book at this time. He later participated in the First War of Orcs, performed brilliantly, and was appreciated by Sir Lothar.

After the fall of Stormwind, Gavinrad followed Lothavarian and others to Lordaeron, and was accepted and baptized by Archbishop Alonsus Faol to become one of the first five paladins.