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

Originally, Varian only wanted to buy some pumpkins to improve the food and ask the chef to make some pumpkin pies. He didn't want to buy so many, but when he saw that pumpkins were so cheap, he thought of buying some to stockpile.

Two hundred gold coins can buy 20,000 kilograms, which can be used as a strategic reserve and stored in a material warehouse. Anyway, the materials stored in the system-made material warehouse will not deteriorate. After all, there will be wars in the next few decades, so just treat it as doomsday storage.

There was also a large backlog of pumpkins at the Blackwell Pumpkin Patch, so we went back to harvest the pumpkins there as well. As for food storage, the more the better.

Varian was also very familiar with the Blackwell Pumpkin Field, which was located in the southeast of Elwynn Forest. In his previous life, there was a famous quest called "The Princess Must Die", which required killing a giant wild boar named "Princess" in the pumpkin field. He was deeply impressed.

Besides pumpkins, what else was there that had a bumper harvest? Maybe watermelons and grapes? Varian didn't know.

What are you waiting for? Go back to Stormwind City and ask the soldiers selling seafood to keep an eye out for any cheap and large quantities of food and store some.

Now the Yuexi Town mine is in his hands. There are still many abandoned mines and mine caves inside. He can make full use of these spaces. As long as he builds a few more material warehouses inside, he can store a huge amount of grain. The main idea is to dig deep holes and store up large amounts of grain.

So, after returning to Dagger Ridge Base, Varian set up three departments, one of which was a purchasing team, responsible for purchasing bumper harvests and even unsaleable grain in Stormwind Kingdom.

The other is the hunting department, which is responsible for hunting in the wilds of the West Wilderness and Elwynn Forest. The main prey are bloody boars, mountain dogs, wolves and deer.

Due to population issues, there are indeed a large number of animals in the wild of Storm Kingdom, but no one goes hunting.

The third is the breeding team. Varian decided to set aside an area within the Dagger Ridge base as a breeding base, mainly raising cattle, chickens, rabbits, etc.

These three departments all recruit personnel from Yuexi Town. After the announcement was issued, the castle welcomed another wave of interviewees.

Varian now just wants to get more money and store more food, but he is not in a hurry to increase his troops.

If he wants to increase the number of soldiers, he can build more barracks for production. It would be very efficient to have more than a dozen barracks for each type of soldier to produce together, but there is no need to stockpile so many soldiers at present.

In the final analysis, the issue of building a large number of troops is still a matter of money. A royal griffin costs 240 gold coins, and a priest costs 450 gold coins. This means that a griffon knight costs 690 gold coins.

A champion knight costs 1200 gold coins.

In fact, Varian also thought about starting to build the top-level military building, Cloud City. Resources such as crystals can be exchanged in the market.

However, building the Cloud City would cost tens of thousands of gold coins, plus a lot of resources. Even if it was built, recruiting an unupgraded angel would cost 3000 gold coins, and recruiting an upgraded archangel would cost 5000 gold coins, plus several units of gem resources.

There is really no need to recruit angels at this stage.

Of course, low-level soldiers, such as halberd soldiers and sharpshooters, can also be recruited from Moonbrook Town or even Stormwind City and sent to the barracks for training to meet the standards. This will increase the speed of troop growth, but recruitment also costs money, and maintaining the army costs even more.

There are also ballistae, which are very lethal and very useful, but one costs 2500 gold coins, and ten costs one gold coin. How many should be built? After the Dark Portal is opened, there will be hundreds of thousands of orcs invading. Will ten be enough? A hundred is not enough.

Therefore, in order to increase the number of troops, especially high-end troops, a huge amount of gold coins are needed. The 4000 gold coins per day from the Congress, plus the seafood caught by fishing boats, and the tens of thousands of gold coins from the Yuexi Town mine every year are still not enough.

Just as he was thinking about it, the guard came in and said, "Your Highness, Sir Anduin Lothar is here to visit."

"Okay, let him wait for me in the living room," said Varian.

I just met Sir Lothar a few days ago, what are you doing here now? Although I don’t know, I took a bag of chrysanthemum tea, a specialty of Yuexi Town, and went to the reception room.

"Uncle Lothar, we meet again!" Varian greeted Lothar who was sitting in the reception room.

"Yes, it's only been a few days and I'm back at Dagger Ridge." Lothar said.

After the two sat down, Varian began to brew chrysanthemum tea.

"Your fortress is well built. Last time I thought you only built a dock, but I didn't expect the fortress to be so large." Sir Lothar exclaimed.

Varian said modestly, "There are only a few barracks, and many facilities are missing. I'm sorry to make Uncle Lothar laugh."

"The barracks you have here are second to none in the entire Stormwind Kingdom, except Stormwind City."

"By the way, I heard that you also created an air force called Griffin Knights?" Sir Lothar took a sip of chrysanthemum tea and asked with gestures.

"Yes, griffins and mages, so we can fight in the air. But there are only more than twenty griffins at the moment." Varian said.

"Can you show me around?" asked Sir Lothar.

"That's no problem. The Griffin Knights are stationed one kilometer away. We can go and see them now." Varian drank the chrysanthemum tea in his hand and led Sir Lothar to the Griffin Tower.

At this moment, Karen fell from the sky on a griffin. Seeing the two of them, he quickly jumped off the griffin and said, "Your Highness! Father! You are here too."

"How is it, are griffins fun?" Varian asked.

Karen was very excited. He touched the griffin and said, "Great! It's fun and practical. I really want one."

After saying this, he looked at Varian expectantly.

"You wish, no."

Varian ruthlessly rejected Karen's little idea. He thought it was wishful thinking to get a griffin for free.

Then two more griffins were led out from the griffin tower, one of which was handed to Sir Lothar, and the techniques and precautions of riding a griffin were explained.

Then, Sir Lothar fed the griffin a piece of cheese and jumped onto it.

He pulled the reins, and the griffin flapped its wings twice and flew up.

Varian and Karen also jumped onto the griffin, and the three of them rode the griffin to the top of Dagger Ridge.

Although it was the first time for Sir Lothar to ride a griffin, he relied on his previous good riding skills and calm psychological quality to ensure that the griffin flew steadily.

When we reached the top of the mountain, we saw a group of mages practicing in the air riding on griffins.

The griffin kept circling, while the wizard on the griffin's back kept launching magic attacks on the targets on the ground.

The ball of arcane energy exploded on the stone, creating waves of shock waves.