Chapter 30 My City, My Rules

In one month, the farm's magic wheat has been harvested three times, and Garin's branch mining area is thriving.

At this moment in the South Mining District, the general outline of a city has been outlined.

In Garin's plan, he designed the entire city as a city built on the mountain.

This area belongs to the southeastern remnant of the Alterac Mountains. The mountains where Garin's branch mining area is located run from northeast to southwest, so the city he designed has its back to the southeast and faces the northwest.

It is across the Faldir Mountains from Stromgarde. If the terrain is high enough, the weather is good enough, and your eyesight is good enough, you can cast an Eagle Vision spell, and you will be able to see the tall tower at the gate of Stromgarde, I should... right.

The city is located on a high slope at the foot of the mountain. The overall layout is arc-shaped, with a semicircular city wall like a circle embedded in the foot of the mountain. Garin envisions building at least three city walls, using the city walls as dividing lines to divide the city into the first, second and third ring areas.

The first ring area is the center of the circle, where the town hall is located. It is the core area and will also be where you will work and live in the future.

Behind the hall is a towering mountain. At present, there are already two town halls located here. The two town halls have been continuously training farmers and joining the resource collection team.

Later, Garin planned to build another town hall, and then upgrade the middle town hall into the main base of the second level after the population reached 10,000.

The second ring area is a building for training combat units, mainly including military barracks, the Mystery Temple and workshops.

The road from the town hall to the city gate is the central axis of the city. Currently, only two military camps have been completed in the south, located in the south of the second ring road. Garin calls this area a military zone, which is specifically used for the construction of military camps. More military camps should be built in the future.

The Arcana Temple needs to upgrade the town hall to level 2 before it can be built. Garin left a vacant area in the north of this area for the Arcana Temple. Now only one Arcana Treasury has been built. Only the Arcana Temple and the Arcana Treasury are built here. Garin calls this the Mage Area.

The third ring is the farm area. A road in the middle of this area divides the entire ring into two parts. Every nine farms on both sides of the road form a small community, arranged in three rows and three columns, and the farms are neatly arranged.

Oh, Garin cursed his damn obsessive-compulsive disorder inwardly, but looking at the neatly arranged farms, he felt very comfortable.

Of course, this area is on the outskirts of the city and is also the largest ring. At this moment, only a small part of the area has farms built, and most of the area is still empty.

The only completed city wall is located on the outskirts of the farm area. The wall is located on the edge of the high slope at the bottom of the mountain. It is a simple wall made by connecting the boulders collected from the mines by farmers and the sentry towers deployed at the base. It will need to be repaired, raised and thickened later.

At present, Jialin has simply deployed the building distribution in these areas, all for the sake of visual comfort.

In his vision for the future, if the city needs to be expanded, Garin plans to add a city wall outside the third ring area and increase it to the fourth ring area, which is simple and crude.

As for why the city was built in a circle, Galen admitted that with Gandalf, he was inevitably influenced by him and thought of Minas Tirith, the circular city built on the mountain, and the shocking siege battle.

In just one month, Garin had already spent all the 100,000 units of gold he had recharged, but fortunately, he had already built the prototype of the city.

Inside the city, directly behind the town hall, is the mine in the southern mining area. Three mines have been excavated, and hundreds of farmers are collecting ore resources in the mines, which are continuously transported to the town hall to be converted into gold energy.

Basically, the gold energy provided by the main mine and the branch mine is enough to support the training of farmers in three town halls and the training of infantry and musketeers in four barracks, and there is still a little surplus to add farms.

In fact, Garin just wanted to open a branch mine, but he accidentally built the branch mine into his own main city, which was much larger than the first base. Garin planned to build a mountain road or tunnel in the mountains behind the two bases to connect the two areas when there was surplus labor.

What makes Garin feel gratified is that it has been almost two months since the summoning of the Heart of Origin Base, and his base has been back on track. At this moment, the total population displayed on the base interface is close to 6,000 people, and now 72 farmers and 64 combat units come out of the training building every day.

At this rate, after next month, he will be able to unlock the 10,000 population limit required to upgrade the second-level main city.

Currently, there are more than 2,300 combat personnel available at the base, including about 1,500 infantrymen and more than 800 musketeers.

After the rapid development in this month, Garin is no longer afraid of the trolls in the Deadwood Village. He even feels a little inflated and wants to take the initiative to fight the Deadwood trolls.

At this moment, Jialin was standing on the sentry post of the northern mine, looking into the distance, where the Kurumu Village was located.

In the past month, Garin relied on the group teleportation of the archmage to travel back and forth between the two mining areas in the north and south. Because Garin did not want his secret to be exposed, he did not build a stable portal in the two places, which only made Gandalf more tired.

The geographical location of the northern mining area is much better than that of the southern one. It is located inside a valley. To enter the interior, one needs to pass through a canyon of more than a thousand meters. The mountain walls on both sides are steep and difficult to climb.

Therefore, a checkpoint was once built in the middle of the canyon. A month ago, Earl Dabire rebuilt the checkpoint. At Garin's request, the original wooden wall was changed to the current stone wall, spanning the canyon, giving it a momentum of one man blocking the pass and ten thousand men unable to pass.

Previously, I had only heard that the southeastern mining area had to be abandoned due to harassment by trolls, but when Garin came here and carefully observed the terrain here, he found that there was something more complicated behind this.

The southern mining area where he was located was a high slope with no strategic location to defend, so he had to build a city himself. Otherwise, he might be unable to maintain it due to repeated attacks by the trolls.

However, for the northern mining area in front of them, Garin estimated that the Kurumu Village would need to mobilize at least 10,000 troops to break through. And with the army of the kingdom in the north, it would be impossible for them to turn a blind eye to such a large-scale army assembled by the Kurumu Village.

Even if the canyon exit is blocked by thousands of trolls, whose technology is backward and whose army's weapons are very primitive, as long as you stockpile food in advance and then hold on and wait for help, how can you lose?

Garin also asked Viscount Garson who was still in the mining area, but his rank was lower and he obviously had no access to some of the secrets of the top leaders. Maybe Count Dabire knew something, but he had already returned to his fiefdom to conduct magic experiments.

Although Amor had served as adjutant of the cavalry regiment, he was promoted in the past two years, and the mining area had been abandoned by then.

Asking his father directly should give him the answer, but it would make him appear incompetent, so Garin has asked Omar to investigate the official files of the abandoned mining area in order to find out the truth.