In just one month, the magical wheat on the farm had been harvested three times, and Galen's branch mine area was thriving.
At this moment, the basic outline of a city had already been sketched out in the southern mining area.
In Galen's plan, he designed the entire city to be built against the mountain.
This area belongs to the southeastern spurs of the Alterac Mountains. The mountains where Galen's branch mining area is located run from northeast to southwest, so the city he designed faces northwest with its back to the southeast.
It faces Stromgarde across the Hillsbrad Foothills. If the terrain is high enough, the weather is good enough, and your eyesight is sufficient, or if you really can't manage, just cast Eagle Eye, you should be able to see the tower above Stromgarde's city gate... probably.
The city is located on a high slope at the foot of the mountain, with an overall layout in a circular arc. A semicircular city wall is embedded at the foot of the mountain like a circle. Galen envisions building at least three city walls, using the walls as boundaries to divide the city into a first ring, a second ring, and a third ring.
The first ring is the center, where the Town Hall is located, belonging to the core area, and also where he will work and live in the future.
Behind the Town Hall is the towering mountain. At this moment, two Town Halls are located here, constantly training farmers and putting them into resource gathering teams.
Later, Galen plans to build another Town Hall, and then, after meeting the population of 10,000, upgrade the middle Town Hall to a Tier 2 main base.
The second ring is for buildings that train combat units, mainly including the Barracks, Arcane Sanctum, and Workshop.
With the road from the Town Hall to the city gate as the central axis of the city, currently only two Barracks have been completed in the south, located in the southern part of the second ring. Galen calls this area the military zone, specifically for building Barracks, and more Barracks will likely be added later.
The Arcane Sanctum requires upgrading the Town Hall to Tier 2 before it can be built. Galen has left a clearing in the north of this area, reserved for the Arcane Sanctum. Currently, only one Arcane Vault has been completed. Only the Arcane Sanctum and Arcane Vault will be built here, and Galen calls this place the magic zone.
The third ring is the farm area. In this area, a main road divides the entire ring into two halves. Every nine farms on both sides of the road form a small community, arranged in three rows and three columns, with the farms arranged neatly.
Oh, Galen cursed his damned obsessive-compulsive disorder, but looking at the neatly arranged farms, he felt extremely 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 been built with farms, and most of the area is still empty.
The outer edge of the farm area has the only completed city wall, located on the edge of the high slope at the foot of the mountain. It is a simple city wall made by farmers connecting the boulders collected from the mine with the sentry towers deployed by the base, which needs to be repaired, heightened, and thickened later.
Currently, Galen has only simply deployed the building distribution in these areas, all for the sake of looking comfortable.
In the future vision, if the city needs to be expanded, then Galen plans to add a city wall outside the third ring, increasing it to the fourth ring, simple and crude.
As for why the city is built in a circular shape, Galen admits that, with Gandalf, he is inevitably influenced and thinks of Minas Tirith, the circular city built on the mountain, and thinks of the shocking siege warfare.
In one month, Galen had already squandered 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 location of the southern mining area's mine, which has already been excavated into three mines. Hundreds of farmers are collecting mineral resources in the mines, continuously transporting them to the Town Hall, and converting them into gold energy.
Basically, the gold energy provided by the main mine and the branch mine can already support three Town Halls training farmers and four Barracks training footmen and riflemen, and there is also a slight surplus to add farms.
In fact, Galen just wanted to open a branch mine, but he never thought that he would accidentally build the branch mine into his main city, which is much larger than the scale of the first base. Galen plans to build a mountain road or tunnel on the mountains behind the two bases when there is extra labor to connect the two areas.
What makes Galen feel gratified is that almost two months have passed since he summoned the Origin Heart base, and his base has entered the right track. At this moment, the total population displayed on the base interface is close to 6,000, and 72 farmers and 64 combat units are still coming out of the training buildings every day.
At this rate, after next month, he will be able to unlock the 10,000 population limit required to upgrade to a Tier 2 main city.
Currently, the base has as many as 2,300 combat personnel available, about 1,500 footmen and more than 800 riflemen.
With this month's rapid development, Galen is no longer afraid of the trolls of Deadwood Forest, and he even feels a little inflated, wanting to take the initiative to fight the trolls.
At this moment, Galen is standing on the sentry post of the northern mining area, looking into the distance, where Deadwood Forest is located.
In the past month, Galen has been shuttling back and forth between the north and south mining areas relying on the Archmage's mass teleportation. Because Galen doesn't want his secret to be exposed, he didn't establish a stable portal in the two places, so he just let Gandalf work harder.
The geographical location of the northern mining area is much better than that of the southern mining area. It is located inside a valley, and entering the interior requires passing through a canyon of thousands of meters, with steep mountain walls on both sides, making it difficult to climb.
Therefore, a checkpoint was once built in the middle of the canyon. A month ago, Earl Dabyrie rebuilt the checkpoint. At Galen's request, it was changed from the original wooden structure to the current stone city wall, spanning the canyon, with the imposing manner of one man guarding the pass, and ten thousand men unable to open it.
I had only heard that the southeastern mining area was abandoned due to the harassment of trolls, but when Galen came here and carefully observed the terrain here, he found that the matter was not simple.
The southern mining area where he is located is a high slope with no danger to defend, so he has to build his own city, otherwise it is very likely that it will be impossible to maintain due to the multiple invasions of trolls.
However, looking at the northern mining area in front of him, Galen estimates that Deadwood Forest would have to dispatch at least 10,000 troops to break through it, and the kingdom's army in the north would not turn a blind eye to Deadwood Forest gathering such a large army.
Even if thousands of trolls block the exit of the canyon, the trolls' technology is backward, and the army's weapons are still very primitive. As long as food is hoarded in advance, and then hold on for reinforcements, how can you lose?
Galen also asked Viscount Garson, who was still in the mining area, but his title was low, and he obviously could not get in touch with some secrets of the upper level. Maybe Earl Dabyrie knew something, but he had already returned to his fief to do magic experiments.
Although Amor served as the adjutant of the cavalry regiment, he was promoted in the past two years, and the mining area had been abandoned at that time.
Asking his father directly should get the answer, but it would make him seem incompetent, so Galen has already asked Omar to investigate the official archives of the abandoned mining area in those years in order to find out the truth.