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

The manager of Gran Village is Duke Elro Eberlock, a polygonal talent who is also a third-level wizard and a fifth-level priest.

He is also fluent in several languages, including Common, Dwarven, and High Elven, and believes in the Holy Light.

After the Orc War, his daughter, Commander Althea Ebonlocke, was put in charge of the Night's Watch, the only defense force in Darkshire against the frequent monster attacks.

But his daughter should still be very young now.

This was also Varian's first time in Gran Village, so under the guidance of the guards, Varian soon arrived at the village chief's hall.

"Good day, Duke Eberlocke!" After Varian entered the house, he greeted the village chief, Duke Eberlocke.

"Good day, Your Highness! Please take a seat." After Duke Varian of Eberlocke sat down, he asked the guards to serve the fruit tea, a specialty of Gran Village.

"It smells so good!" Varian said after taking a sip. The tea was indeed good.

"Not bad, right? This is a specialty of the Dawn Forest. It is a unique tea made from high-quality fruits mixed with fine tea leaves." Duke Eberlock introduced.

The quality of the fruits in the Dawn Forest is indeed good. Apples, berries, persimmons, grapes and other fruits are all well-known in the Storm Kingdom.

The output is also relatively large, and Varian's purchasing team has also stored a lot of fruits here.

After the two drank tea for a while, Varian said, "Duke, I have something I want to discuss with you."

Duke Eberlock said, "Your Highness, please tell me what I can do. I will do my best."

Varian said, "It's not a big deal. I want to strengthen the national defense, improve the combat capability of the residents, and train some militia. So I want to bring all the residents of Gran Village to Dagger Ridge for military training."

Duke Eberlocke asked, "How many residents do you need to train?"

Varian said: "As many as possible, if possible, rotate all residents there for training for about fifteen days."

Duke Eberlock was filled with surprise. There were only a few dozen regular soldiers in Gran Village right now, and it was hard to imagine that they were going to drag tens of thousands of residents over for training.

Prince Varian looked at him and didn't think he was joking, so Duke Eberlock said, "It would cost a lot to train so many people. Are you sure?"

Varian said, "I've calculated that if there are 40,000 residents who meet the training requirements, and each resident is given a gold coin reward, it should be enough, that is 40,000 gold coins. In addition, I will give Gran Village another 4,000 gold coins as operating expenses to cover the expenses of recruiting and transporting residents."

Duke Eberlocke was stunned by Varian's generosity. Forty-four thousand gold coins, equivalent to the annual output of a small gold mine, was just for militia training for the residents.

It’s hard to say how much effect can be achieved through fifteen days of training, but it is definitely much better than no training at all.

His Royal Highness the Prince has a very broad mind.

Duke Eberlock also thought that if each of the residents of Gran Village brought back a gold coin after training, then Gran Village would have an additional 40,000 gold coins of wealth.

Moreover, His Royal Highness the Prince also gave 4,000 gold coins for operating expenses. We just recruited people and sent them to Dagger Ridge. There is no way we can spend so much money. I estimate that there will be 2,000 to 3,000 left for office expenses.

This kind of good thing is really rare.

Duke Eberlock immediately made the decision and said, "Militia training is beneficial to the country and the people. I, Eberlock, fully support Your Highness."

Varian said, "That's good. Let's start arranging recruitment as soon as possible in the next two days."

In fact, recruitment is very simple. Many residents may not be able to earn a gold coin in a month or two. Now, as long as you go to Dagger Ridge for training for fifteen days, you can get a gold coin.

How hard can training be? Is it harder than mining? Is it harder than logging? Is it more dangerous than hunting dire wolves? For most villagers nowadays, a little hardship is nothing.

As long as the announcement is sent out, people will definitely start queuing.

So the two sides happily reached the following agreement: two days later, the first batch of 5000 residents would be transported through the portal to Dagger Ridge for training.

After the discussion, Duke Eberlocke hosted a banquet for Varian.

After we sat down in the restaurant, the specialties of the Dawn Forest were served one after another.

Spider cake, dry grilled wolf meat kebab, mushroom soup, lean wolf steak, apple pie, dried persimmons.

There is also moonshine wine, a specialty of Glen Village.

Varian has been in Azeroth for so long, but he still hasn't overcome the nausea of ​​eating spiders. However, in order not to be impolite, he still ate a small piece of spider cake, because Varian knew that spider cake is made of two sticky spider legs and one chili.

Then he ate the wolf and the pie, and began to drink.

Varian hadn't drunk alcohol for a long time, and he didn't know how much he drank that night. When he woke up, it was already noon the next day.

There was nothing else to do in Gran Village, so Varian said goodbye to Duke Eberlocke.

"Take these two bags of dried berries and brew them with swift grass to make delicious berry tea."

Before leaving, Duke Eberlocke took out two bags of dried berries and handed them to Varian.

After thanking him, Varian used the time and space portal to return to the Dagger Ridge base.

After sitting down, I remembered that I could build a dwarf cottage today.

The Dwarf Village is a secondary military building of the Fortress Race. It can recruit dwarves. After upgrading the advanced dwarf village, it can recruit combat dwarves.

Dwarves have 20% magic resistance, and Battle Dwarves have 40% magic resistance, which is pretty good.

When I played Heroes of Might and Magic before, magic spells cast on dwarves were often ineffective.

In Azeroth, being able to recruit a troop of combat dwarves is also quite nice.

Varian had thought about it. After recruiting a certain number of battle dwarves, he would arrange for Malcolm to lead a troop of battle dwarves, pretending to be the native dwarves of Azeroth, and form the fourth largest tribe independent of the Bronzebeard Tribe, the Wildhammer Tribe, and the Dark Iron Tribe.

It feels good just thinking about it.

Varian's mind then began to check the construction information of the dwarven village.

systems mannual:

Dwarven Cottages allow you to recruit dwarves.

The prerequisites for constructing this building have been met.

Price: 1000 gold coins, 5 units of wood.

After Varian silently recited the word "build" in his mind, a flash of light appeared, and a small hill suddenly appeared on the military high ground of Thunder Bluff. In the middle of the hill, a house was hollowed out, and then on the slope of the hill, there were several doors and windows, which looked very much like the dwarf house in The Hobbit.