Chapter 95: Crossing the South

After determining the next target, Garin began to think about the candidates for the action. Amor led a group of generals to garrison in Helm's Deep and Deadbeard Gorge fortress.

At the same time, Garin formed an officer training class with Amor as the main instructor. The trainees included Omar, Varokar, Heni, Fadil, Flar, Kimir and the backbone of their team.

Garin had high hopes for the six of them. After all, as he owned the Heart of Origin base, he had no shortage of soldiers. What he lacked were senior officers, generals, and marshals.

In addition to being instilled with combat skills, the soldiers at the base are intelligent and can grow after many battles and can serve as grassroots officers. However, commanders need to learn a lot of knowledge, have talent, and need to combine theory and practice, which requires Garin's training.

The Heart of Origin absorbed the souls of the two ninth-level warriors who had been killed in the Deadwood Village before, and Garin found them at the Altar of Kings.

A new interface has appeared in the Altar of Kings to manage these heroic spirits.

The interface where the heroic spirits are placed is called the Heroic Spirit Realm by Garin.

The heroic spirit absorbed into the world of heroes appears as a glowing ball of light, with two options on the interface.

Extraction: Decompose the heroic spirit and extract its essence, which can be given to people with the same attributes to absorb, with a chance of increasing the user's talent limit.

Reshape: Spend a certain amount of resources to reshape the spirit of the hero. The hero has the memory and strength of his previous life. The hero is loyal to the host and cannot leave the Altar of Kings, otherwise the spirit will collapse.

The two abilities of the Altar of Kings were simply prepared to supplement the high-end combat power of the base. The enemy's heroic spirits could be extracted and then absorbed by their subordinates to enhance their strength.

The heroic spirits of the friendly camp can be absorbed and then reshaped, which is equivalent to having an extra high-level fighter.

Although I don't know how far the Altar of Kings is, it is not a big problem. At most, I can build an Altar of Kings in each extension, reshape the Heroic Spirit individually, and let the Heroic Spirit reside in an Altar of Kings permanently, and use it as a local garrison.

Being contented is one of Garin's strengths. Nothing is perfect, and it is a surprise that the Altar of Kings has these functions.

The only people Garin could mobilize were the base heroes Aragorn and Gandalf.

Cliff was going to take his engineering team to the Refuge Valley in Arathi Highlands to build the farm ordered by Solas. Considering that completing the work too quickly would arouse suspicion, he would not be able to return for a while. At the same time, Garin also sent 500 soldiers to him to blockade the construction site.

Logistics Chief Harmon was transferred here, and Garin formed a new transport team to transport some new specialties of Helm's Deep.

A large amount of wheat and ale, as well as some flour, are mainly used for Harmon to lead the team to the Northron Highlands to improve the favorability of the Wildhammer dwarves.

As for why they didn't go to the closer Hinterlands to find the Wildhammer dwarves in Aerie Mountain, where there are more dwarves, it's because most of the dwarves in Aerie Mountain are from the Wildhammer tribe. They are powerful, have seen the world, and are not easy to fool. Moreover, they are more official and have initially formed a national regime. Communicating with them is not only about private trade, but also about the diplomatic influence between the two countries.

Although the dwarves of the Northeron Highlands also belong to the Wildhammer faction, they were a small tribe that followed the Wildhammer northward when the dwarves split into the Bronzebeard, Wildhammer, and Dark Iron factions.

The Wildhammers abandoned the polluted Grim Batol and chose to continue northwards to find a new habitat. However, some small clans that originally followed the Wildhammers were unwilling to follow the Wildhammers and chose to go to the east of Grim Batol, which is now the Northeron Highlands, and built a new village.

The dwarf villages that have formed a certain scale on the Northeron Highlands include the village of Kurthaven in the northeast, the village of Thundermar in the north, the village of Flamebeard in the middle of the highlands, and the last one is the village of Clan Dunwald in the southwest.

The dwarves of Northeron Highlands have been separated from Aerie Mountain for more than two hundred years. Although they still belong to the Wildhammer in name, they are already an autonomous territory. Moreover, the four dwarf villages are not united. Later, Northeron Highlands was invaded by Twilight Cultists and the Old Gods. Thanks to the efforts of the Wildhammer dwarf hero Kurland, the dwarves here returned to the Wildhammer.

But this will happen at least 20 or 30 years later. By that time, Thrall's sons will be born, and the current Thrall is still in his mother's belly.

Garin and his men's target is the Flamebeard Clan in the central Highlands. They have a unit of Flamebeard Griffin Knights, whose strength is second only to the Thunderclaw Griffin Knights of Kushaven.

Harmon led the transport team from Helm's Deep and traveled overland to Northeron. In addition to kidnapping a griffon knight instructor, his mission was to discuss with the elders of the Flamebeard tribe to build a port on their eastern coast.

Although they are a large autonomous village, they still have to practice necessary diplomacy, which is a sign of due respect for the dwarves.

As for the development of the three pieces of land, the northeast and southeast islands of Northeron and the Valar Delta, Galen is ready to lead Aragorn and Gandalf to personally take charge.

There is no other way. There are not enough people, so I have to do it myself.

As early as after the battle of Kurumu Village ended, Jialin gave Heni a vacation and asked him to return to Nanhai Town to visit his aunt and bring back the ten ships that Jialin had customized before.

At the same time, Garin also placed a new order with the old mayor. He currently had 400,000 gold coins in his hands, and his mentality was so inflated that he directly spent 100,000 gold coins to purchase ten armed ocean-going battleships.

This was in preparation for the future crossing to Kalimdor. Within this month, a new batch of soldiers had been trained, a new legion was assigned to Gandalf, and the Legion of Fury was formed.

Garin put all the wizards under the command of Gandalf. His brilliant halo could speed up the wizards' mana recovery and maximize the effectiveness of the wizard troops.

Garin plans to use the Legion of Fury as a navy, so it is mostly composed of musketeers. In the future, there will be a chance to form a naval fleet, which will just cooperate with Gandalf's army of water elements.

In early March, Heni arrived at the port of Fadil Bay with the recruited sailors and ten coastal merchant ships. Garin arrived at the port in advance to wait for them.

Ten merchant ships are sailing from the northwest along the coastline of Arathi Highlands.

These human-made cargo ships are shaped exactly like those in the World of Warcraft game, with a hull width of about 30 meters and a length of nearly 100 meters.

Because Garin customized the sea boats at cost price, the high quality was the last sincerity of the old mayor. There were no weapons on the boats, and Garin used them as transport ships.

A transport ship could carry about 200 people. Garin took 1,800 soldiers on ten ships, most of whom were musketeers. There were also 200 farmers following Garin.

Their task is to go to three locations to build town halls. With the town halls as coordinates, Gandalf can use group teleportation or use teleportation scrolls to bring large troops over.

Aragorn was responsible for the construction of the island in the northeast, Garen was in charge of the second, the port planning of the Valar Delta, and the last and farthest, the military base in the southeast corner was left to Gandalf, who had the most mobility.

After reporting to his father, Garin obtained the right to develop the territory from him and boarded the ship with his troops.

Set sail! set sail!