The future is bright.
Galen saw a broad road appear before him, but he had only just started, and now he needed to be steady and methodical.
Forcibly suppressing the excitement that was about to overflow in his heart, the corners of his mouth still couldn't help but stretch to the back of his ears. The surprise was too great, and he couldn't control himself at all.
Keep a low profile, keep a low profile. I am going to be a king, so I must be calm in the face of both honor and disgrace. Hahaha, no, let me laugh one last time.
After finally calming down, Galen looked at the Archmage and the Paladin, and fell into a dilemma.
In his previous life, when Galen played Warcraft III, he was used to starting with the Archmage. Starting with the Paladin was not advantageous against any race.
But in the real world, Holy Knights will still be very popular in the future. In Azeroth, where the Church of the Holy Light exists, people know that those who can use the Holy Light are blessed by the Holy Light, and they must be people of noble character. This is conducive to enhancing Galen's reputation in the human world.
The Archmage is also beneficial to Galen's development. Stromgarde is a kingdom of warriors, and even King Thoras believes in the supremacy of the fist and does not value mages very much, so there are very few mages in the country.
The few court mages were killed by Medivh some time ago, including the most powerful one.
Galen has always felt that in a world with magic like Azeroth, mages are equivalent to scientists on Earth. If spellcasters can use magic in life through research, making magic popular and universal, it will promote social progress and rapid development of human society. For example, the high elves' Silvermoon City is like this.
Also, Galen urgently needs combat power. He doesn't lack master melee combat power. Omar and Varokal under his command can now do the job. A master mage, whether it's long-range attack power or using a spellcaster to deal with spellcasters, is a weakness in Galen's team now.
The Paladin can wait and be summoned before the Second War against the Orcs.
In the end, he chose to start with the Archmage.
After issuing the command to summon the Archmage, Galen looked at the remaining wood and continued to deploy farms on the open space. This is a big project, and the grain produced by the farms is very important.
Then he checked the work of the farmers and once again filled up the training queue of the Town Hall and Barracks.
Before exiting the base, he discovered that in the map scanned by the base, a route to the north was displayed in the area that was originally only explored within a hundred miles. Taking a closer look, isn't the white light spot at the northernmost point where I am?
It turns out that the base is the same as in the game. In addition to independently scanning the map, it can also rely on itself or the units in the base to go out and explore the map.
This discovery made Galen feel that his choice to start with the Archmage was really correct. The Archmage can learn Mass Teleport at level six. When the time comes, he can use this mobility to explore all the surrounding maps.
Omar and Varokal returned to the inn, interrupting Galen's operations in the base. Seeing that the five soldiers had recovered from their injuries, and coincidentally, the waiter came to tell them that the food was ready, they went downstairs together and chose a table on the side to sit down and prepare to eat dinner.
At this moment, it was eight or nine o'clock in the evening. The sky had already darkened, and the people in the town had finished their day's work and returned home for dinner.
Most of the people in the inn were outsiders such as adventurers and caravans. They had rushed to the Tristal Town before dark to rest. At this time, there were still many people in the inn's lobby.
When watching movies, TV series, or novels in his previous life, it was said that taverns are the best choice for gathering information. Galen wanted to verify it. He ate dinner while pricking up his ears, trying to collect some interesting information.
"Have you heard? The Kingdom's Highland Cavalry Regiment had another armed conflict with the Royal Guards of the Kingdom of Alterac."
"That's not surprising, brother. Stromgarde and Alterac have more than a dozen frictions every year. Let me tell you some explosive news. Do you know the court mage advisor of the Kingdom of Stormwind?"
The person speaking was wearing light leather armor and looked like a caravan guard. He deliberately paused after throwing out the term "mage advisor." In the eyes of these people, mages were synonymous with nobility, wealth, and mystery. A group of onlookers immediately fell silent and focused their attention on him.
He seemed to enjoy the feeling of being the focus of everyone's attention. He paused for several seconds. Before the clueless onlookers were about to become impatient, he opened his mouth and continued: "They're all dead. A full five mage masters died extremely tragically. The corpses were charred by unknown flames, and most of them were distorted, and even torn apart."
"Oh."
The people in the inn seemed to feel a mysterious and terrifying atmosphere from his tone, and they didn't dare to breathe loudly.
"Who killed them? Is the Kingdom of Stormwind investigating?"
"Yes, yes, what are the investigation results? Who did it?"
"Their Guardian, Medivh, is said to be the strongest human mage. Didn't he find out who did it?"
Medivh did it himself. Unexpected, right? Galen answered this question for them in his heart.
Galen whispered to Omar next to him: "After we finish, go check which caravan this person is from. The caravans that can go to Stormwind City should be quite strong and have good sources of information. See if you can find someone among them to be our informant."
Omar turned his head to show that he knew. He had always been responsible for intelligence work. The simplest way was to inquire about news from passing caravans, mainly the royal family's own caravans or the caravans of the great lords. They were strong and the news was accurate.
A deeper approach was like what Galen just said, choosing some stronger caravans and adventurers and turning them into their own informants, specifically inquiring about the news they wanted to know.
After this episode, the rest of the conversation was about how a certain viscount was caught as a thief for secretly meeting his lover, how a certain lord's wife was cheating on him, how a dragon's treasure was found somewhere in Lordaeron, which adventurer successfully slayed a dragon, and so on.
The only useful news was that the locals were discussing the newly appointed vice-commander of the militia, Danath Trollbane, who effectively blocked several attacks by the Howling Fjord Tribe on towns and villages, and rescued many villagers who had been captured by trolls.
I didn't expect Danath to be doing so well after being promoted. The people's tone was full of admiration and gratitude, showing that Danath had already established a very good reputation among these people.
After finishing dinner, the group returned to their rooms to rest for the night. Early the next morning, the group set off back to Stromgarde.
When passing through the largest town on the Royal Road, Galen left three soldiers and the baggage cart here. This town was the only way for his caravan to return, so he left them to wait for the caravan and let Harmon Caven handle the spoils.
Finally, five days later, they arrived at Stromgarde City. After entering the city, Galen went straight to the castle where King Thoras was.
"Father, I want a piece of land."