Chapter 22: Gandalf the Archmage

"Ding, it is detected that the host has named a new hero unit."

Huh? What's going on? What's the name? What happened? Walter Hi Ben?

Just when Garin was wondering three times, the great wizard who had walked down from the altar dismounted from his horse, knelt on one knee with his staff, and looked up at the sky.

"Gandalf, the seventh-level wizard, meets the master."

Oh no, the wizard named himself Gandalf.

Gandalf, the melee wizard who held a staff in his left hand and a long sword in his right hand, and who went in and out of the Orc army many times.

"Master, I don't know any martial arts and cannot use a sword." The great wizard was still half-kneeling and did not stand up.

Hey, how did he know I was wondering if he could use a sword? Isn't it tiring to look up so high? Hurry up, honey, why are you still kneeling?

Gandalf immediately stood up and stretched his neck.

"Thank you, Master."

Now Garin was embarrassed. How could the great wizard know what he was thinking?

"Yes, Master, your spiritual power is all over this land. I can feel the thoughts escaping from your spiritual power."

Then why is it that I have been observing the base for nearly half a month, and I can give them work instructions, but they don’t know what I am thinking like you?

"They are not strong enough to sense you. Master, you have not yet learned to control your mental power. You only need to focus your mental power and connect it to them, and they will be able to communicate with you."

Don't call me master, call me Garin, or you can call me prince.

Thinking of this, Jialin also tried to gather his mental power so that it would no longer spread.

During this process, Garin suddenly had an idea. When the first Farmer Cliff was built, he was able to tell him some information about the town hall. He wondered if this first hero could give him some surprises.

Upon questioning, the great wizard knew much more than Cliff.

According to the Archmage, he only remembered that a long, long time ago, he was a powerful magician, so powerful that he could travel through the void, far surpassing the strength of a hero.

Later he was chased by a horrible and indescribable horror in the void, and then he died.

After his death, his soul did not dissipate immediately. Instead, it drifted aimlessly in the void. During this drifting, the soul began to break into pieces, and the memories also continued to dissipate along with the broken soul. In the end, only the magical knowledge remained intact, and the other memories had completely dissipated.

Just as the last bit of his soul essence was about to disappear, he was brought to this land by a ray of light and absorbed into the Altar of Kings.

Then, his broken soul was constantly repaired by the energy in the altar, and he was instilled with knowledge about the Heart of Origin Base, until his body was reshaped in the last two days.

The Heart of Origin gave him authority over other combat arms, enabling him to command all arms trained at the base, and finally instilled in him the command to be loyal to the host.

In addition to the arcane knowledge that he was originally good at, he was also instilled with four innate abilities: blizzard, summoning water elements, brilliant aura, and group teleportation.

As for his originally powerful strength, it had completely dissipated. This strength of a seventh-rank great magician was forcibly enhanced by the Heart of Origin based on the host Garin. He needed some time to consolidate his current strength before he could continue to improve his rank.

Finally, Garin also learned that he could use his mental power to share the map scanned by the base with the great wizard and conduct long-distance command operations.

When Garin first got the Heart of Origin, he knew it was awesome, but he didn't expect it to be so awesome.

Go deep into the void, capture souls, instill memories, and reshape the body, all in one go and with ease.

The power of the Heart of Origin is so terrifying.

After Garin finished talking with Gandalf, he connected his mental power to the Altar of Kings and saw that the other hero in the interface had turned gray. He connected to the Paladin and was prompted that the town hall needed to be upgraded to a second-level main city before the second summoning could be carried out.

Then he transferred his mental energy to the town hall, looking for upgrade instructions.

Upgrade to the second-level main city

Requirement: Unit Gold

Unit Wood

Upgrade to the main city to unlock more buildings and units.

Currently unavailable, requires base population to reach 10,000 population units.

This last sentence "not available" poured cold water on Jialin.

Fortunately, Garin calculated that if the town hall continuously trained farmers and trained one farmer per hour, the goal of 10,000 people could be achieved in more than 400 days.

If the combat units trained in the barracks are added, then this time can be shortened by nearly half. If Garin builds two barracks, or even three or four barracks in a few days, then the population of 10,000 can still be reached within a few months.

Seeing that there was nothing wrong with the base, Garin added a few farms, maxed out the training sequences of the town hall and barracks, and prepared to exit the base perspective.

Finally, he suddenly remembered and reconnected his mental power to Gandalf. He ordered him to reorganize hundreds of combat units and plan patrol routes, and then withdrew his mental power from the base.

In the following days, Garin spent a very leisurely time. In the morning, he went to his father for morning exercises and had breakfast together. In the afternoon, he went to the Tower of Arathor to look at the kingdom's collection of books. In the evening, he used his mental power to connect with the Heart of Origin to check the situation of the base and communicate with Gandalf.

It wasn't until the fifth day that someone finally came to the door.

The visitor was Fadil Dabire, the youngest son of the current Earl Dabire. Garin had met him several times at the kingdom banquet.

The Dabire family owns the largest farm in the northern part of Arathi Highlands, which is known as the three major granaries of Stromgarde along with Northford Farm in the northwest and Geshak Farm on the southeast border.

This kid's family is extremely wealthy. Every year, they export grain to Ironforge, which is not suitable for farming. The profits earned make their family's strength flourish. Of course, in addition to Dabire Farm, their family also has a fiefdom in the northern mountains.

It's just that this kid is the second child in the family. He has an older brother, Marcel Dabiray, who is more talented in business than him, so their mother, Viscountess Conata Dabiray, prefers to let the eldest son take care of family affairs.

Then this kid became miserable, his elder brother was better than him, and his parents made the eldest brother the heir. He lost the inheritance right, and in the future he might be given some wealth or a small piece of land to be self-sufficient, but he might end up becoming a commoner, which he could not accept.

Among the contemporary young people in Stromgarde, Fadil is quite talented. Stromgarde is a martial kingdom and influenced by the environment, he has served in the militia and has some friendship with Omar and Varokal.

But he was a nobleman after all. He had been pampered since childhood. There were too many temptations around him. He could not endure too much hardship, so he retired from the militia early.

After realizing that he could not inherit the family's fief, he felt a sense of crisis and picked up martial arts again, and began to work hard. He just turned eighteen this year and finally barely reached the peak of the sixth level, just touching the threshold of a high-level warrior.

His arrival shocked Jialin, who was secretly delighted.

The reason why Omar and others were asked to spread the news that they were about to form an army was to attract the nobles of the kingdom.