Chapter 29 Building a City

The march was dull and tedious, and the beasts of Arathi Highlands had only the wisdom to keep them away from this dangerous group.

It is already June, and the Arathi Highlands are about to usher in a hot summer, which is also the time of the year when the highlands have the heaviest rainfall.

In the near future, a traditional festival - the Midsummer Fire Festival is coming.

Garin was not sure how this festival came about, but on this day people would remember their ancestors and commemorate their achievements in opening up the land, defending their homes, and expelling darkness. It was also to express the people of Azeroth's yearning for light.

The festival lasts for more than ten days. During this time, Jialin can eat many midsummer delicacies, such as midsummer sausage, which is delicious, as well as toast and candied fruit pies dipped in honey, which are sweet to the heart.

Although Garin doesn't like sweets very much, midsummer sausages are really delicious. However, Garin and his friends have to celebrate this festival in the land outside Stromgarde.

Perhaps we could have Harmon Kaven come to the mining area around Midsummer to sell holiday specialties.

As Garin was daydreaming along the way, they arrived at the hub of Kingdom Avenue, Sancha Town.

When the team arrived at Sancha Town, they were only a day's journey away from the Southeast Mine.

When leaving Three Forks, he used the Heart of Origin to remotely inform Gandalf to prepare to set off and meet at the southern mine in the southeast mining area.

And Garin plans to go to the northern mine first to see the progress of Count Dabire's preparations.

In the southeast mining area and the northern mine, hundreds of workers are working in full swing. Two damaged outposts in the north have been repaired. Two teams of guards are on guard duty, and several teams of soldiers are patrolling around the camp.

In the simple tent in the center of the camp, Garin met Count Dabirey who was looking at the blueprints.

"Good day, Mr. Dabiray."

Count Dabire looked up and saw that the person coming was Garin. He quickly put down the work in his hands, stood up with a smile and walked towards Garin.

"Your Highness, you are here."

Garin also smiled and walked towards Count Dabire and responded:

"I just entered the camp and wanted to see your progress, teacher."

"I arrived here ten days ago. After repairing the abandoned camp and sentry post of the kingdom, I started to clean up the mine. There were a lot of giant spiders lurking inside. It took me a lot of effort to clean up the mine yesterday. Several people were injured in the process. Fortunately, I brought a pharmacist with me and prepared the antidote in time."

After listening to Count Dabire, Garin was satisfied with the progress made and informed the Count that Viscount Garson had set out one day later than Garin and was expected to arrive tomorrow.

The three groups had clear division of labor. Count Dabiray was first responsible for the safety of the mine and the construction of the camp. Viscount Garson arranged the mining equipment and re-laid the tracks. Finally, Viscount Newo brought a large number of workers, and the mine could be officially mined.

As nobles of Solas' generation, the three of them have experienced the kingdom's ups and downs many times with Solas. They have fought with the Witherwood Trolls for half their lives and are experienced. Garin does not need to worry about them at all. They are the backbone of the kingdom.

"Teacher, I'm leaving this mine to you. I'll leave most of my soldiers to you in a while. If you need anything, you can ask Omar."

After discussing with Count Dabire for a while, Garin learned that the project here was in good order and his presence was not necessary, so he went outside the camp to find Omar.

This mine is in the north and will be the first to attract the attention of the Deadwood Village, so safety is the most important issue. In addition, the branch mine in the south will build a town hall, which is a secret that needs to be kept, so Jialin plans to take only 300 people from the base and leave the remaining 700 people behind.

After handing over 700 men to Amor, Garin led 300 men to escort the convoy to the southern mining area. Varokal and Omar were ready to follow Garin, but Garin was unwilling to let him go. It was not easy to hide the construction of the town hall from them.

He said that the danger was in the north and he would be safe in the south. After finally fooling a few people, Jialin immediately took the convoy and slipped away.

When Garin arrived at the southern mining area, Gandalf had already arrived with a team of farmers and set up camp in an open area near the foot of the mountain, waiting for Garin's arrival.

The convoys entered the camp one by one. Gandalf was waiting for Galin at the gate of the camp. Galin asked him to put the gold coins away and arrange for people to protect them.

Space packages are too rare, otherwise Garin would have put the gold coins in his bag and traveled light.

He walked into the tent and could not wait to connect to the Heart of Origin. In the open space that Gandalf had specially reserved in the center of the camp, he commanded a farmer to deploy a town hall.

Initially, the first town hall was completed in an instant, but this extension now shows that it took 180 hours to build, which is more than a week. It is the most time-consuming building among all the buildings built by Garin.

This is too tormenting. I was stunned by 180 hours.

Just when I was about to say that life is like xx and you can't resist it, then xx, suddenly Garin remembered that the human race's buildings can be read slowly without waiting for the progress bar. He immediately summoned more than a dozen farmers and asked them to knock on the town hall together.

The big hammer is eighty! The small hammer is forty!

More than a dozen farmers knocked, and every time, Garin seemed to feel the words +40+80 gold coins floating above their heads.

Looking at the resources consumed in building the town hall, Garin felt it was worth it. After all, one hundred and eighty hours was a waste of time.

Then, Garin deployed barracks at the gate of the camp and surrounded the entire camp with dozens of farms, using up all the extra gold stored in the base during this period in one go.

Farmer Garin, who had no construction tasks, asked them to cut down trees and pile them up in the camp first, and the farmers in the entire camp became busy.

Then Garin pulled out a piece of parchment, took out a quill pen and started drawing on the paper. While drawing, he closed his eyes and looked at the base's scan of the surrounding environment.

He is planning the future mining area. He is going to build a city here. This will be his base in the future. Everything is for the sake of the kingly road.

After a day of difficult waiting, the town hall was finally completed, and the soldiers could not wait to move half of the gold coins into the warehouse of the town hall.

He, Jialin, the nouveau riche, the local tyrant, Lin, is going to spend money like water today.

After recharging 50,000 gold coins at one time and watching the town hall completely absorb several large boxes of gold coins and convert them into 100,000 units of gold, Garin revealed an irrepressible smile.

The time has come for the base to make a great leap forward in strength.

After the recharge was completed, Garin lavishly built a second town hall just to train farmers in the double hall.

They only have more than a month to develop. When the top leaders of Kurumu Village come back and find that all their scouts in the south and north have never returned, they will definitely find something unusual.

Although there is an operation to clear out the scouts with Danas, having an extra smoke screen will only interfere with the trolls' judgment and delay them for a few days.

For a whole month, there was calm, but Garin knew that this was the calm before the storm, and he was prepared for a series of actions by the trolls.