The silvery moonlight penetrated directly through the layers of dense branches and leaves and fell on the square, making the cold square not look much less colorful than it was during the day. Brando stood on the terrace of the town hall, overlooking the quiet night.
In the mountains and forests of the southern border, Valhalla four months later has fully developed the prototype of a small town. This towering giant tree is rooted in the shade of the trees surrounded by the mountains to the north of Schavlund.
It is more than a kilometer in diameter and covers the city below. However, the current residents here are only tree elves, villagers from Green Village and some humans. Most of the humans are members of the Valhalla Wind Shooter Guard. Another group of new
The residents are from Cruz, and young men from the Knights of the Broken Sword also live in the lower city.
The huge root system of Valhalla divides the urban area around it into four areas: southeast, northwest and northwest. The newly built military camp area of the Light Spirits is located in the west area. At this time, looking down from the square at the top, the west area has begun to take shape.
The scale, streets and buildings are divided in an orderly manner. It has to be said that Oldham, as a descendant of the rune dwarves, is still quite good. At least this talent for urban planning seems to be innate. The West District is mainly divided into two blocks, north and south.
, a main street that crosses the entire West District and divides the north and south blocks. In fact, this street passes through the city and surrounds the entire lower city of Valhalla. Brando jokingly calls it the beltway.
Highway, but no one except him knew what this term meant. It just worked, and over time everyone started calling it that.
This ring road was also designed by Oldham. It was actually modeled on the upper and lower loops of Valhalla, which he called the third loop. However, this loop was indeed well designed. In fact,
Lando knew that the old dwarf was talking to Monica about whether he could open up the bottom of Valhalla and build a criss-cross street through the center of the trunk of Valhalla. In this way, the entire lower city could be truly connected. This design
Brando, who has personally experienced modern urban design and planning, can naturally understand the benefits of it, but Oldham's focus is mainly on the defensive purpose, because in this way, after several areas of Valhalla are connected,
It is much easier to defend each other.
Monica had no objection to this matter. After all, Valhalla is very large. Digging a passage from the center is actually not a big deal, and after all, it is not a real big tree, but a magical city in itself.
As for the entire north and south blocks of the West District, the main building in the north block is a military camp. In addition, there are some human-like buildings. There are newly built noble barracks - the noble barracks of the Kingdom of Eruin and the nobles of most human countries.
The military camp is no different. It contains a training ground and a camp. This is a functional building that can significantly improve the speed of training soldiers and the morale of the garrisoned troops in the game. The effect here is similar, but it is not so conspicuous.
Brando thought that it might be the improvement in discipline brought about by the centralized management of the army, but it was just digitized in the game.
The White Lion Guard is stationed in this military camp, which is far away from the Wind Archer camp in the south. There are only these two main functional buildings in this huge city, so it still looks relatively empty, but compared with the one that has not been built at all
The other three areas are much better compared to each other. Brando is planning to move the entire Fir City to Valhalla. After all, the city under the giant tree cannot always be kept secret. In fact, Oldham commanded the workers to move
After the outer fortress was built, many people had already guessed the future plans of their lords. However, it was impossible for them to guess that this was the legendary fortress. Brando claimed that this was a giant elf tree planted by tree elves.
, relying on his relationship with the Druids, no one can find any fault. After all, there are many such towering trees in the Black Forest, and the Druids' cities are built on them.
Perhaps one day as Valhalla continues to grow, this lie will eventually be exposed. But Brando believes that he will have nothing to hide at that time, but at least for now, Valhalla still seems very fragile and still needs protection. Facts
Except for a very few people around him, most people in the world believed this statement to be true. Even Veronica, who had been to Valhalla in person, thought it was just a gift from the Druid and did not go there at all.
After all, it was too outrageous to rely on that legendary fortress, and she also saw with her own eyes that the fortress had completely fallen into silence in the ring of trade winds.
As for other people, including the young people of the Broken Sword Knights, they were amazed when Brando connected them to the city. Some of them heard the eldest lady from the Flower and Leaf Collar talking about the Druid tree.
The city is so spectacular, but I didn’t expect to see it with my own eyes and live here as a guest for a period of time. They all expressed their interest. The scholar lady has come to him more than once to ask for a tour around the city.
Although Monica didn't like these outside guests very much, Brando, in addition to not letting Shiduo enter the core area inside Valhalla, still gave her the right to visit from the lower area to the uppermost square.
, his generous actions further eliminated the suspicion of everyone, including the emperor's eldest son.
Today, the young people of the Broken Sword Knights are still temporarily living in Beicheng District, where they have pitched many tents. However, the military camps and supporting buildings prepared for them are also being planned. In the past four months, Monica's tribe has increased
There are nearly 500 of them, and those little fairy-like light spirits can be seen flying among the branches at any time in the entire upper canopy. Under their control, the construction of Valhalla is getting faster and faster day by day.
However, the growth of the city itself has slowed down. According to Monica, it will take at least several years for it to move from this stage to the next stage. One aspect is that the supply of magic power has begun to fail to keep up.
, Valhalla’s demand for magic power is a bottomless pit. In fact, almost two-thirds of the ore produced from the crystal mine in the Black Forest has been supplied to this territory, but it can only maintain its daily maintenance.
, Tony Geer's income from relying on the magic crystal trade has been greatly reduced in recent months. Antitina has reminded him several times explicitly or covertly about this, but the business lady is very optimistic about this.
, in her opinion, the magic crystal trade itself is not a long-term business. The key is that this kind of commodity is too sensitive and can easily attract coveters.
Generally speaking, the high-purity crystal produced by a crystal mine will be quickly consumed in the first few months, followed by long and difficult mining, but the output will decrease year by year. For example, this crystal mine found in the Black Forest is extremely
It is rare. If Tonigel continues to export this kind of high-purity magic crystal in large quantities, it is not difficult for interested people to guess that a high-reserve crystal mine may have been discovered in the territory. And now it is just taking advantage of the growth of Valhalla to sell the crystal mine.
As for the decrease in crystals and income, the development of other minerals and specialties in the Black Forest over the past few months has gradually made up for this.
The key is that many resources in the territory have begun to be self-sufficient, so the financial dependence on trade has also been reduced a lot.
On the other hand, the number of light spirits is also a problem. Monica's five hundred tribesmen have steadily shortened the time for Valhalla to grow from the first stage to the second stage in less than half a year, but the next one
If he only relied on their efforts, it would take at least five years according to her. If he wanted to shorten this time to one year, he would need at least two to three thousand light spirits, but the output of the light vortex is every month.
There are still only twenty, and the Tower of the Moon is now serving the mage tower in Fir Castle Nechar, contributing to the training of the first batch of wizard apprentices in Tonigel. Let’s not mention that it is unlikely to be used at this time.
Increase the production of light vortex, and even if you double the production of light spirits, it will still take several years to reach that amount, and the gain outweighs the loss.
The only way now is to build the territory first. Make Valhalla at least self-sufficient, with input and output proportional, and then continue to think of ways. There are many ways to increase magic power and output, but they just need to be done step by step. Currently, there is only a crystal pool in the territory.
, Mage Tower, Vortex of Light and Tower of the Moon, but Brando also knows some high-end buildings that can greatly speed up the construction of the territory.
But firstly, it needs blueprints. Secondly, it still needs more magic pools.
While thinking about these thoughts, Brando took a deep breath and looked away from the quiet urban areas below. He turned back and walked back from the terrace to the hall. The tree hall in Valhalla was now more peaceful than during the day.
It was much more lively, except for Caglis. Almost all the officers of the White Lion Guard gathered here, and facing them tit for tat were more than a dozen non-commissioned officers of the Knights of the Broken Sword, Medissa, Hipamira,
Antitina, Charles and several mercenary captains stood on the other side. As his old subordinates and confidants, they formed a circle of their own. The remaining smaller circle was the eldest son of the emperor, Shi Duo, and those who followed him.
Next to them were the Lorena couple and the little prince Haruze. Brando was a little surprised that the eldest son of the emperor did not seem to intend to get along with the young people of the Knights of the Broken Sword.
However, after thinking for a moment, he understood the other party's thoughts. The other party seemed unwilling to take an opposing position with him here. This was a statement. On the one hand, he was a guest, and on the other hand, it was unnecessary, because Lenaret knew very well
It is impossible for him, Brando, to truly control these people. The roots of these young people from Cruz are in the empire, and their families, prospects and futures are all in that homeland. If Eruin is as huge as the empire,
It may still be attractive to some people, but Eruin is just a small kingdom, and he doesn't have to worry about these young people of the Broken Sword Knights actually being loyal to him, Count Tonigel.
Therefore, there is absolutely no need for him to get involved with these young middle- and lower-level officers. He is a member of the royal family and must maintain his aloof status.
His Highness the Prince must be very clear-headed and has already figured this out. He understands that if he wants to control this knights, he must give him enough respect, because the Knights of the Broken Sword are also nominally loyal to His Highness the Prince.
.Although everyone with a discerning eye knows what is going on, this layer of skin between nobles is very important, and no one will take the initiative to pull it off. Maybe even the young people of the Knights of the Broken Sword understand this.
It's just that it wasn't brought up.
And it is precisely because of this that he has to act according to the rules. Veronica and Mangrove must have thought so too, so they can safely leave these young people in his hands.
Brando suddenly found that he had taken it for granted, but he shook his head. This was enough. He had not planned to really take these people into his pocket. He just needed such a group of people to help him fight against Madala. Dongfang
The country under that shadow is becoming stronger day by day, and the White Lion Guards he trained can only be said to be an outstanding force in Eruin, but compared to the next generation carefully cultivated by the Cruz people
The generals——the Knights of the Broken Sword are still far behind.
The key is that he doesn't have much time. He must arm this army belonging to Eruin before the second Black Rose War comes, otherwise he will completely lose his minions under the blooming black rose.
One Freya is not enough.
What about an Order of Broken Swords?
When he walked into the hall, there was still a dispute in the hall. It could be said that it was very lively. The two sides of the dispute revolved around whether to attack the undead first, Count Jean Denel or Madara. Brando raised his head and looked at the hanging on the wall.
Taking a look at the huge Eruin map, a red cross has been drawn on Silman's place on the map——
The White Wing Knights have been defeated.
It was exactly the same as in history. But this time he had even warned Golan-Elsen, but the rigid aristocratic officers still made the same mistake. In fact, he had not warned Grand Duke Golan-Elsen beforehand.
There was also a dispute with the royal party, because Macaro and the others believed that according to the original plan, if they were to lead the Blood Rod into the target area to ambush and annihilate, they must not alert it. But if they did not warn the Golan-Elson side,
, on the one hand, the princess may lose popular support afterwards, and more importantly, the people in the Silman and Butchi areas will suffer heavy losses as a result.
In the end, Her Royal Highness the Princess wrote a letter to the Grand Duke in person to explain the matter, because Brando felt that the reasons of some people in the royal party were very ridiculous. Today, one year later, both Madala and Eruin are wary of each other.
They care about each other. If one party is intensively preparing for a war, and the other party still has no response, that will arouse the blood staff's vigilance. You must know that this is no longer the year of flowers and summer leaves, but the year of the sword.
The final season.
But unfortunately, everything that happened now made him very angry, and at the same time, he became more and more contemptuous of the kingdom's outdated aristocratic system. The descendants of the ancient nobles were simply not worthy of their current status.
He sighed, and there is no doubt that the Blood Staff will go straight to Viero. Just like in history, although it colludes with Jean Denel, its purpose is different from Jean Denel.
It is to completely occupy Golan, Elson and Viero in order to cut off the connection between Karasu and other areas of Eruin. Only such achievements can make this privately launched war justified in the eyes of the Supreme Being of Madara.
.In order to win a higher status for it, it should be very clear that it has aroused the fear of the Supreme Being. If it cannot take the initiative to attack, it can only close its eyes and wait for death.
But Count Jean Denel is different. Count Jean Denel's goal should rely on Madala to build a stable territory for himself that can be advanced, attacked, retreated, and defended. He is now said to have completely broken with the royal party. He expected that
The best outcome is to become independent from Eruin and become a neutral autonomous territory between Eruin and Madara. But if it fails, then at least it must be able to escape to Madara.
Therefore, the Silman area and the Slovan area are his targets, but he and the Blood Staff have a common goal, which is Fort Kokull.
Moreover, Jean Denel should attack Kokull Fort before the Blood Staff. He should find a way to deceive the gate of Kokull Fort in the name of reinforcements before the news of his collusion with Madara is leaked.
This is the easiest way. But even if it is exposed, it is very simple to besiege this city. Now that there is no obstacle in front of the Blood Rod, the nobles of Kokull Castle will definitely order the Vanmere Army to continue southward from Braggs.
To stop this undead army, there was an emptiness in the rear at that time, and there was no way to stop Jean Denel.
But that's just what if.
There are enemies that Denel didn't expect, waiting for him to fall into the trap. The outcome of this war is already doomed for Denel and the Blood Staff, but what they have to plan now is how to make them fail.
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He interrupted his thoughts and came to Nimesis, who was studying a small detailed topographic map on the table. She noticed Brando's arrival, raised her head and looked at him, and whispered
Said: "You have become stronger again after coming back from the Death Frost Forest." Brando was slightly startled. This seemed to be the first time that 'Senior Sister' had a private conversation with him after returning from the Death Frost Forest. He nodded and said
There is no denying that the experience of the final battle with Milos was almost shared by him and Freya. Although it is not known whether other people can benefit from the experience, at least for him, this is a huge income, and there is no doubt that it is a huge income for him.
Not inferior to the benefits he got from the Ring of Trade Winds.
He has upgraded the Templar Knight and Mercenary classes to the peak they need. There will be basically no need to upgrade these two professions in the future, and the job opportunity he received from Sebos as the Frost and Earth Guard has also been
Unlocked, but he hasn't invested experience in it yet, because there are many branches of skill selection for advanced professions, and Brando is still considering it.
Nymesis looked at him quietly, and then asked: "Did you keep Dark Kouhua and Kind Kouhua here for Isis?"
Brando was stunned for a moment, and then realized that this was what she really wanted to ask.
"You feel it?" he asked.
"It's different from the game." The female knight replied:
"The future of this world——"
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