The march was dull and tedious, and the beasts of the Arathi Highlands only had the wisdom to keep them away from this dangerous group.
It was already June, and the Arathi Highlands were about to welcome a hot summer, which was also the time of year when the highlands had the most intense rainfall.
A traditional festival would be held in the near future: the Summer Solstice Fire Festival.
Galen wasn't sure how this festival originated, but on this day, people remembered their ancestors and commemorated their achievements in opening up the land, defending their homes, and driving away the darkness. It was also to express the longing for light of the people of Azeroth.
The festival lasted for more than ten days. During this time, Galen could eat many midsummer delicacies, such as midsummer sausage, which was delicious, as well as toast and candied fruit cakes dipped in honey, which were sweet to the heart.
Although Galen didn't particularly like sweets, the midsummer sausages were really delicious. However, Galen and his friends had to celebrate this festival in the land outside Stromgarde.
Perhaps we could invite Harmon Kaven to the mining area around Midsummer to sell holiday specialties.
While Galen was daydreaming on the road, they arrived at the center of Kingdom Avenue, Three Forks Town.
When the team arrived in Three Forks Town, they were only a day's journey away from the southeastern 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 southeastern mining area.
And Galen planned to go to the northern mine first to see the progress of Earl Dabyrie's preparations.
In the southeastern mining area and the northern mine, hundreds of workers were working at full capacity. Two damaged outposts in the north had been repaired. Two teams of guards were on duty, and several teams of soldiers patrolled around the camp.
In the simple tent in the center of the camp, Galen met Earl Dabyrie who was looking at the blueprints.
"Good morning, Lord Dabyrie."
Earl Dabyrie looked up and saw that the person coming was Galen. He quickly put down the work in his hands, stood up, and greeted Galen with a smile.
"Your Highness, you are here."
Galen also smiled and walked towards Earl Dabyrie and replied,
"I just entered the camp and wanted to see your progress, Master."
"I arrived here ten days ago. After repairing the abandoned camp and the kingdom's watchtower, I began to clear the mine. There were many giant spiders lurking inside. It took me a lot of effort to clear the mine yesterday. Several people were injured in the process. Luckily, I brought a pharmacist and prepared the antidote in time."
After listening to Earl Dabyrie, Galen was satisfied with the progress made and informed the Earl that Viscount Garson had set off a day after Galen and was expected to arrive tomorrow.
The three groups had a clear division of labor. Earl Dabyrie was primarily responsible for the safety of the mine and the construction of the camp. Viscount Garson organized the mining equipment and rebuilt the tracks. Finally, Viscount Newo brought a large number of workers, and the mine could be officially mined.
As nobles of Thora´s generation, the three had experienced the ups and downs of the kingdom many times with Thoras. They had fought the Witherwood Trolls for half their lives and had experience. Galen didn't need to worry about them at all. They were the backbone of the kingdom.
"Master, I will leave this mine to you. I will leave most of my soldiers with you in a while. If you need anything, you can ask Omar."
After discussing with Earl Dabyrie for a while, Galen learned that the project was going well and his presence was not needed, so he left the camp to look for Omar.
This mine was in the north and would be the first to attract the attention of Troll Village, so security issues were of utmost importance. In addition, a town hall was to be built in the southern branch mine, which was a secret that needed to be kept, so Galen planned to take only 300 people from the base, leaving the remaining 700 behind.
After handing over the 700 men to Amor's command, Galen led the 300-man convoy to the southern mining area. Varokal and Omar were willing to follow Galen, but Galen refused to let them go. It would not be easy to build the town hall without their knowledge.
It was clear that the danger was in the north, and he would be safe in the south. After finally tricking some people, Galen immediately sneaked away with his convoy.
When Galen arrived at the southern mining area, Gandalf had already arrived with a team of farmers and had set up camp in an open area near the foot of the mountain, waiting for Galen's arrival.
The convoys entered the camp one after another. Gandalf was waiting for Galen at the camp gate. Galen asked him to put away the gold coins and arrange for people to guard them.
Space backpacks were too rare, otherwise Galen would have kept the gold coins in his bag and traveled light.
He entered the tent and couldn't wait to connect to the Heart of Origin. In the open space that Gandalf had specially reserved in the center of the camp, he ordered a farmer to deploy a town hall.
Initially, the first town hall was completed in an instant, but this expansion showed that it took 180 hours to build, which was equivalent to more than a week. It was the most time-consuming building of all those built by Galen.
This was too tormenting. I was stunned for 180 hours.
Just when he was about to say that life is like that and you can't resist, then, Galen suddenly remembered that human race buildings could be build slowly without waiting for the progress bar. He immediately summoned more than a dozen farmers and asked them to build the town hall together to speed up.
Hammer eighty! Small hammer forty!
More than a dozen farmers knocked on the door, and each time, Galen seemed to feel the words +40+80 gold coins floating above his head.
Looking at the resources consumed in the construction of the town hall, Galen thought it was worth it. After all, one hundred and eighty hours was a waste of time.
Then, Galen deployed barracks at the camp gate and surrounded the entire camp with dozens of farms, consuming all the extra gold stored in the base during this period in one go.
The farmers, who had no construction tasks, where asked to fell trees first and pile them up in the camp, and the farmers all over the camp got busy.
Then Galen took out a piece of parchment, took out a pen, and began to draw on the paper. While drawing, he closed his eyes and observed the scan that the base made of the surrounding environment.
He was planning the future mining area. He was going to build a city here. This would be his base in the future. Everything was for the sake of the royal road.
After a day of hard waiting, the construction of the town hall was finally completed, and the soldiers couldn't wait to move half of the gold coins into the town hall's vault.
He, Galen, the nouveau riche, the local tyrant, was going to spend money like water today.
After recharging 50,000 gold coins at once and seeing the town hall completely absorb several large boxes of gold coins and convert them into 100,000 units of gold, Galen revealed an uncontrollable smile.
The time for the base to take a big leap forward in strength had arrived.
After the recharge was completed, Galen lavishly built a second town hall just to train farmers in the double hall.
They only had more than a month to develop. When the main leaders of Troll Village returned and found that all their southern and northern scouts had never returned, they would definitely find something unusual.
Although there was an operation to eliminate scouts with Danath, having an extra smoke screen would only interfere with the trolls' judgment and delay them for a few days.
A whole month of calm reigned, but Galen knew that this was the calm before the storm, and he was prepared for a series of actions by the trolls.