The silver moonlight pierced through the lush branches and leaves and fell on the square, making the cold square not much less color than during the day. Brando stood on the terrace of the town hall overlooking the mountains and forests of the quiet south at night. Valhalla, four months later, has completely taken the form of a small town, and this towering giant tree is rooted in Surrounded by the northern mountains of Schafflund, the spreading shade of trees is more than one kilometer in diameter, covering the city below, but now the residents here are only tree elves, villagers in Green Village, and some humans, most of which are humans. They are members of the Valhalla Wind Archer Guard. Another group of new residents are Cruz people. The young people of the Knights of Folding Swords also live in the Lower City.
The huge root system of Valhalla divides the surrounding city into four areas, southeast, northwest, and the newly constructed military barracks are 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, still has a certain level, at least this urban planning talent seems to be innate. The western district is mainly divided into north and south blocks. A main street traverses the entire west district to separate the north and south blocks. In fact, this street passes through the city and surrounds the entire lower city of Valhalla. It is jokingly called the highway around the city, but no one except him knows what the term means. It only works on the upside and down on the downside. Over time, everyone also calls it that way.
This highway around the city was also designed by Oldham. In fact, it imitated the upper and lower loops of Valhalla, which he called the third loop, but this loop was indeed well designed. Lando knew that the old dwarf and Monica were kind enough to get through the bottom of Valhalla, and then built a cross-shaped street through the center of the Valhalla tree trunk, so that the entire lower city could be really connected. This design Brando, who has personally experienced modern urban design and planning, can naturally understand, but Oldham’s eyes are mainly focused on defensive purposes, because in this way, after several areas of Valhalla are linked together, It is much easier to defend each other.
Monica has no objection to this matter. After all, Valhalla is very large, and it is not a big deal to dig a passage from the center, and after all, it is not a real big tree, it is a magical city in itself. In the north and south blocks of the West District, the main building in the North District is a barracks. In addition, there are some buildings that resemble humans. There are newly built noble barracks—the noble barracks of the Eruin Kingdom and the noble barracks of most human countries. There is no difference. There is a training ground and camp. This is a functional building that can significantly improve the speed of training soldiers and the morale of the troops stationed in the game. The effect here is similar, but it is not so conspicuous.
Brando thought that it might be the improvement of 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 barracks, opposite to the wind shooter camp to the south. This huge city has only these two main functional buildings, so it is still relatively empty, but it has not been constructed at all. Compared with the other three areas, it is much better. Brando is planning to move the entire Fir City into Valhalla. After all, the city under the giant tree cannot remain secret. In fact, after Odum directed the workers to build the outer fortress, many people have already Guess their lord’s future plans, but it’s impossible for them to guess that this is the legendary fortress. Brando declared that it was a giant elven tree planted by the tree elves. With his relationship with the druids, No one can fault it. After all, there are many such towering giant trees in the Black Forest, and the cities of the Druids are built on them.
Perhaps one day this lie will eventually be revealed when Valhalla continues to grow, but Brando believes that he has nothing to hide at that time, but at least for now, Valhalla is still very fragile and still needs protection. In fact, except for a very small number of people around him, most people believed this statement, including Veronica who had been to Valhalla in person. They thought it was just a gift from the druid, not at all. Leaning on the legendary fortress, after all, it was too outrageous, and she had also seen with her own eyes that the fortress was completely silent in the ring of trade winds.
As for others, including the young people of the Knights of Folding Swords, they were amazed when Brando entered the city. Some of them heard the lady of Huayeling talk about the Druid tree. The city is magnificent, but I didn’t expect to see it with my own eyes and live here as a guest for a period of time, and they all expressed interest. The scholar lady has come to him more than once for permission to visit the city. Although Monica doesn’t like these foreign guests very much, Brando has not let Shido into the inner core area of 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 eldest son of the emperor.
Today, the young people of the Knights of the Sword Swords still live temporarily in Beicheng District, where many tents have been set up, but the barracks and supporting buildings prepared for them are also being planned. In the past four months, Monica’s tribe has increased. Up to nearly five hundred, now the entire upper layer of the tree canopy can see those little fairy-like lights flying between the branches at any time. Under their control, the construction of Valhalla is passing 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. One aspect is that the supply of magic power has begun 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. However, it can only maintain its daily maintenance. Tonigel has greatly reduced the benefits of relying on the magic crystal trade in recent months. Antitina reminded him explicitly or implicitly. Several times, but the merchant lady was very optimistic about this. In her opinion, the trade of magic crystal itself is not a long-term business. The key is that this product is too sensitive and easily attracts coveted people.
Generally speaking, the high-purity crystals produced by a crystal mine will be quickly consumed in the first few months, and then there will be long and difficult mining, but the output will decrease year by year. For example, the crystal mine found in the Black Forest is extremely Rarely, if Tonigel continues to export large quantities of this high-purity magic crystal, it is not difficult for someone to guess that a high-reserve crystal mine may have been found in the territory, and now it happens to take the opportunity of Valhalla's growth to sell it out. The decrease in crystals, as for the decrease in income, in fact, the development of other minerals and specialties in the Black Forest has gradually made up for this in the past few months.
The key is that many resources in the territory are now self-sufficient, so the financial dependence on trade has been reduced a lot.
On the other hand, the number of luminous spirits is also a problem. The five hundred people of Monica 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 the stage only relies on their efforts, according to her, it will take at least five years. If he wants to reduce this time to one year, he needs at least two to three thousand light spirits, but the output of the light vortex is every month. There are still only twenty. The Moon Tower is now serving the Mage Tower in Nechar in Fir Castle, contributing to the training of Tonigel’s first batch of apprentice wizards. It is unlikely that it will be used at this time. Amplify the output of the vortex of light, and even if the output of light is doubled, it will take several years to reach that amount, and the gain is not worth the loss.
The only way now is to build territory first so that Valhalla can at least become self-sufficient, with input and output proportional to it, and then continue to think of ways. There are many ways to increase magic power and output, but it needs to be done gradually. At present, there are only structures such as the Crystal Pool, Mage Tower, Vortex of Light, and Tower of the Moon in the territory, but Brando also knows that some high-level buildings can greatly speed up the construction of the territory.
But firstly, blueprints are needed, and secondly, more magic pools are needed.
While thinking about these thoughts, Brando took a deep breath and withdrew his gaze from the quiet areas below. He turned around and walked back from the terrace to the hall. The Hall of Trees in Valhalla is now stronger than during the day. It's much more lively. Except for Kaglisi, almost all the officers of the White Lion Guard gathered here, and they are tit-for-tatly opposed by more than a dozen non-commissioned officers of the Knights of Folding Swords, Metisa, Hippamilla, Antitina, Charles, and several mercenary leaders stood on the other side. As his veterans and henchmen, they formed a circle of their own. The remaining smaller circle was the prince’s eldest son and Shiduo, and followed The Laurenna couple and the little prince Haruze around them made Brando a little strange that the eldest son didn't seem to want to mingle with the young people of the Knights of Folding Sword.
However, he understood the other side’s thoughts after a little thought. The other side seemed unwilling to oppose him here. This is a statement. On the one hand, it is as a guest, and on the other hand, it is unnecessary, because Lenaret is very clear. It is impossible for Brando to really control these people. The roots of these young people from Cruz are in the empire, and their family, future and future are all in that homeland. If Eruin is a giant like an empire, It may also be attractive to some people, but Eruin is just a small kingdom, and he doesn't have to worry about the young people of the Knights of Folding Swords will truly be loyal to him, Count Tonigel.
Therefore, there is no need for him to fight with these young middle and lower-level officers. He is a royal family and must maintain his detached position.
The prince must be very clear-headed. He has long wanted to understand this. He knew that if he wanted to control the knights, he had to give him enough respect, because nominally the swordsman knights was also loyal to the prince. . Although anyone with a discerning eye knows what's going on, this layer of skin between the nobles is very important, and no one will take the initiative to pull it off. It may even be understood by the young people of the folding sword knights. But it didn't come up.
And because of this, he also had to follow the rules. Veronica, Mangrove thought the same way, so that these young men would be handed over to him with confidence.
Brando suddenly realized that he took something for granted, but he shook his head, that was enough, he didn't plan to actually include these people in his bag, he just needed such a group of people to help him fight Madara, Dongfang The country under that shadow is becoming stronger day by day, and the White Lion Guard he cultivated can only be said to be an outstanding force in Eruin, but compared to the next generation carefully cultivated by the Cruz people. Jiangcai—the Knights of the Folding Sword, that is still far behind.
The key is that he doesn't have much time. He must arm the army belonging to Eruin before the second Black Rose War arrives, otherwise he will completely lose his minions under the blooming black rose.
One Freya is not enough.
What about a knights of folding swords
When he walked into the hall, the hall was still arguing. It can be said that it was very lively. The two parties in the dispute were centered on the undead who first attacked the Earl of Dernell or Madara. Brando raised his head and glanced at the huge Eruin map hung on the wall. A red cross had been drawn at Sillman'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 reminded Golan-Elson, but the rigid aristocratic officers still made the same mistakes. In fact, there was a dispute between him and the royal party about whether to warn Grand Duke Golan-Elson in advance, because Macaro and the others believed that according to the original plan, if the blood rod enters the target area to ambush, it must not be caused. Alertness. However, if the Golan-Elson side is not warned, on the one hand, the princess may lose popular support after the event, and more importantly, the people in the Silman and Buchi areas will suffer heavy losses as a result.
In the end, Her Royal Highness personally wrote a letter to the Grand Duke to explain the matter, because Brando felt that the reasons of certain people in the royal party were very ridiculous. Today, one year later, both Madara and Eruin are on guard against each other. To each other, if one party is intensively preparing for a war, and the other party still has no response, it will cause the blood stick to be alert. You must know that this is not the year of the flowers and summer leaves, but the year of the sword. The last season.
But it was a pity that what happened right now made him very annoyed. At the same time, he was increasingly despising the kingdom's outdated aristocratic system. The descendants of those ancient aristocrats were not worthy of their current status.
He sighed, and then there is no doubt that the blood rod will go straight to Vieiro, just like in history. Although it is in collusion with Jean Denel, its purpose is different from Jean Denel. Its purpose It is to completely occupy the Golan-Elsen and Vieiro, so as to cut off the connection between Karasu and other areas of Eruin. Only this kind of feat can make this privately launched war justified in the eyes of Madara’s supreme man. To win a higher position for it, it should be very clear that it has caused the fear of the supreme. If it can't take the initiative to attack, it can only wait to die.
But let Earl Dernell be different, the goal of Earl Dernell should rely on Madara to lay a solid territory for him to advance, attack, retreat, and defend. Now he is equivalent to saying that he has completely broken his face with the royal party, as he expected. The best result is to separate from Eruin and become a neutral dominion between Eruin and Madara. But if it is unsuccessful, then at least one must be able to escape to Madara.
So the Silman area and the Slovak area are his goals, but he and the blood rod have a common goal, which is Kekul Castle.
And Jean Denel should attack Kekul Castle before the blood rod. Before the news of his collusion with Madara has been leaked, he should try to deceive the gates of Fort Kekul in the name of reinforcements. This is the most trouble-free way. But even if it is revealed, it is very simple to besiege the city. Now that the blood rod is no longer obstructed, the nobles of Kekulburg will definitely order the Van Mills army to continue south from Bragg to stop this undead army, that At that time, there was emptiness in the back, and Jean Denel could not be stopped at all.
But that is just an if.
There are also unexpected enemies waiting for Dnell to throw himself into the snare. This war has long been doomed for Dnell and the blood rod, but now we have to plan how to make them fail. .
He interrupted his thoughts and came to Nimesis. Nimesis was studying a detailed topographic map of the size one on the table. She noticed Brando's arrival and looked up at him and whispered. Said: "Back from the Dead Frost Forest, you have become stronger again." Brando was slightly startled. This seemed to be the first time the'Senior Sister' had talked with him privately after returning from the Dead Frost Forest. He nodded and said It is not denied that the experience of the last battle with Milos was almost shared by him and Freya. Although it is not known whether others can benefit from the experience, at least for him, this is a huge income. Not inferior to the benefits he received from the trade winds.
Templar knight, the rank of mercenary has been promoted by him to the apex of need, and there is basically no need to promote these two professions in the future, and the job opportunity of the Frost Guard that he got from Cerbers has also been Unlock, but he hasn't invested experience in it yet, because there are many branches in the selection of advanced professions, Brando is still considering.
Nimesis glanced at him quietly, and then asked: "Did you keep the dark Kouhua and the good Kouhua for Asis?"
Brando was stunned, 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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