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

The next day, under Varian's instructions, the Dagger Ridge Guards gathered early in the Moonbrook Town Square, preparing to go to the Sentinel Ridge Lumberyard.

The cavalry team of thirty people was neat and tidy and looked majestic.

The common people of Yuexi Town seldom saw such an elite force, and they all gathered around to watch.

How could it not be impressive? Even though there were only thirty knights, they were the elites among the Storm Knights, and they were elites in the entire Storm Kingdom.

Seeing so many people watching around, Varian wanted to give an impassioned speech, but then he remembered that he was not going to fight a war, so he swallowed the words back.

Under everyone's gaze, Varian was silent for a while, then waved his hand and said, "Let's go!"

The team set off in a mighty manner. Varian rode on his horse, but began to check the Dagger Ridge base in his mind.

Of course, 1000 gold coins arrived on time.

According to the established plan, as long as the blacksmith shop is built today, the Interior Department can upgrade the parliament tomorrow.

So I quickly checked the system's blacksmith shop.

systems mannual:

The Blacksmith can provide Ballistae to your army.

The prerequisites for constructing this building have been met.

Price: 1000 gold coins, 5 units of wood.

Varian arranged the blacksmith shop not far from the market. A white light flashed, and a house similar to the blacksmith shop in Goldshire appeared in the base.

Varian checked out the blacksmith shop. Not only did the blacksmith shop sell crossbows, it could also make armor and weapons.

Of course, this is limited to ordinary weapons and armor. If you want to create high-quality equipment, you also need to provide the blacksmith shop with design drawings and corresponding materials.

After exiting the Dagger Ridge base in his mind, Varian breathed a sigh of relief.

In order to speed up the progress, the group did not take the main road, but a straight path. However, they did not expect that there were wild beasts everywhere along the way.

The main ones are blood-tusked wild boars, carcass-chopping birds, mountain dogs, etc.

Varian thought about it and asked the Dagger Ridge Guards to clear out the beasts on the path and on both sides of the path. The first purpose was to clear out these beasts to make it safer for passers-by, and the second was to pick up some materials to sell for money.

After walking for half a day, I have collected a lot of wild boar heads, wild boar meat, vulture claws, feathers, etc. Although they are not very valuable, they are just what I needed. It's like adding some to make a tower.

The price was that the speed was one-third slower than the normal march. In this way, two days later, the team arrived at the logging site.

It seems that the problem of wood source has also been solved.

The system initially has only 20 units of wood and 20 units of stone. Now there are 15 units of stone and only 5 units of wood. If no more wood can be found, the base will soon be shut down.

At this time, the logging site was surrounded by big trees, and many lumberjacks were constantly cutting trees. In the middle of the logging site was a huge gear cutting tool.

After negotiation, the price of wood is 30 silver coins per cubic meter, which needs to be transported by yourself. If it needs to be transported, because the journey is long, it will cost extra to transport it to Yuexi Town, so the total cost is 1 silver coins per cubic meter.

Varian immediately ordered 100 cubic meters of wood and asked for it to be delivered to the old warehouse of the lumberyard in Moonbrook as soon as possible.

After the matter was settled, the group began to return to Yuexi Town.

They killed a lot of wild animals along the way, and it was two days later when they arrived at Yuexi Town.

Varian asked Gavinrad and the others to take the pig head and other materials to the Moonbrook Town market to sell them. After they came back and counted the money, they found that they had made five gold coins.

Immediately afterwards, Varian couldn't wait to go to the warehouse to collect stone and wood. After emptying the warehouse, the system showed that stone and wood had increased by 100 units each.

In the two days on the way back, the parliament and the fortress had been built. The parliament could harvest 2000 gold coins every day, and the fortress was the defense facility of the base, like a fortress + a city gate. Varian placed the fortress at the entrance of the Daggerridge Valley, blocking the valley intersection tightly, so that one man could guard the pass and ten thousand men could not get through.

A fortress is also a prerequisite for building a watchtower, which means that a watchtower can be built today.

So I immediately checked the requirements of the guardhouse.

systems mannual:

The Watchtower allows you to recruit Lancers.

The prerequisites for constructing this building have been met.

Price: 1000 gold coins, 5 units of wood.

Varian placed the watchtower on the west side of the base. After a flash of light, a building resembling the West Spring Fortress appeared on the west side of the base, but it was square.

After Varian concentrated his mental power on the watchtower, he found that he could recruit 14 spearmen every week, and the price of each spearman was 60 gold coins.

After some calculations, it would only cost 14 gold coins to recruit all 840 spearmen.

That's not a lot! Varian decided to recruit all the spearmen. After confirming the recruitment, 14 spearmen appeared in front of the guardhouse in an orderly manner.

Varian observed these recruited spearmen. They were all young soldiers, generally about 1.8 meters tall and looked very strong.

Their armor is very similar to that of Stormwind infantry, all of which are silver-white plate armor. If they were not holding spears in their hands, they would be unrecognizable.

This is simply too good to be true. It would be best if he couldn't recognize it, so that he could pass himself off as the real thing.

Varian had 14 spearmen patrolling throughout the base.

A watchtower can only produce 14 lancers per week. If the fortress is upgraded to a base camp, the output can be increased by 50%. If the base camp is upgraded to a castle, the output will double the basic output, which means that 28 lancers can be produced in a week.

If you want to increase the number of troops, you can. Varian checked the system and found that the base now allows the construction of multiple identical buildings as long as you are willing. If you build two guard towers, you can recruit 28 spearmen in a week.

But there is no need for that now. We are just starting out and have some low-level troops.

Varian also saw a tavern building, but it was always gray and could not be built. It also did not mention what conditions were required. If a tavern could be built, heroes could be summoned, but let's ignore it for now.

After arranging the base, Varian took a rare break and ordered a cup of okra juice drink, which is very famous in Moonbrook Town, but the taste is hard to describe.

The hurried footsteps of a team member interrupted his leisure: "Your Highness, not far to the northeast of Dagger Ridge, we found traces of the River Claw Jackals."

This team member was arranged by Varian to patrol around Dagger Ridge. His purpose was to discover the traces of the River Claw Gnolls in advance and prevent them from approaching Dagger Ridge.

"Tell me the details." Varian asked hurriedly.

The team member took a deep breath and said, "I was patrolling in the Dust Plains just now and found a group of River Claw gnolls moving towards Dagger Ridge. I followed them for five or six kilometers, and now they are about ten kilometers away from Dagger Ridge."

Ten kilometers! That's definitely not possible. No other forces can appear within a twenty-kilometer radius of Dagger Ridge, no matter if they are gnolls, kobolds, or anything else.

"How many gnolls?" Varian was already mentally prepared to attack the Riverpaw gnolls.