Riptide Fort in October, autumn is in full swing.

After nearly three months of rectification, the current Riptide Fort has forgotten the bloodshed and cruelty of that battle, and it is a scene of ruin.

The establishment of the School of Magic and the Templar, the establishment of the Tyr Guard, and the subsequent expansion of the Riptide Castle Guard, the number of people in Riptide Castle increased by almost two thousand, and now there are about 17,000 people, although it is only a little more than ordinary towns, but there is still a steady stream of people pouring into Riptide Castle from other places, such as the Fenris Islands, which are under great population pressure, and Talenmere.

After all, this is a city, a city of dead wood, the center of the entire Arathi Heights, the former capital of a country.

Once developed, it will inevitably prosper.

For three months, the Earth Spirits had given almost the entire city a new look.

The walls were completely restored, the gates were renovated, even the Academy of Magic was built, and the temple was further expanded.

The only thing that hasn't changed is the royal palace.

It is still the same, except that in the center of the palace square, a rock statue nearly thirty meters high has been erected, but it is not the statue of King Solas, but the statue of Soladin the Great.

The inscription on the pedestal was carved by Jiang Zai himself, recording the exploits of Soladin the Great in unifying the various clans of mankind, establishing the Arathor Empire, helping the High Elves defeat the trolls, and resealing the ancient god servant "Zakaz" at the cost of his life.

I don't know if there is a problem with the eyes, there are always people who think that this statue is a bit like Jiang Zheng.

It is said that some nobles have complained about this, thinking that Riptide Fort is now just an ordinary city, and Archduke Nicholas is only a duke of Lordaeron, how can a statue of Soladin the Great be erected, and what does this mean?

Do you still want to annex countries and rebuild the Araso Empire?

But more people choose to remain silent, because Jiang Zai has become the second Marshal of Lothar and the inheritor of the will of Soladin the Great, and Riptide Fort is the capital of the ancient Alaso Empire, so it is understandable to erect a statue of Soladin the Great.

Even if there is a problem, most people don't want to offend the kingdom's rising star. Everyone knows that Grand Duke Nicholas has a wide range of contacts, and once he offends him, it is equivalent to offending a large number of people, who dares to provoke him?

And even Her Majesty the Queen of Lordaeron did not say anything, and who else is qualified to object?

What do other people think, Jiang Zheng doesn't have to care, and there is no need to care, he still has too many things to do.

Although the Fenris Islands have a population of 100,000 and the city in the sky, Jiang Zheng has shifted his focus to Riptide Castle.

On the one hand, it is because the city is in ruins and cannot be separated, and on the other hand, it is also because it is a vast area, there is more room for development, and it is far away from Lordaeron, so he doesn't have to care about the faces of other nobles, everything is up to him.

With the construction of the Sky City, the Fenris Islands will slowly disappear, and the entire Lordamyr Lake will become a lake except for the most central World Tree "Teldashir", so it is time for the name of the Fenris People's Army to disappear.

On this day, Jiang Zai announced that the "Fenris People's Army" would be renamed the "Riptide Fort Guards", which was actually Jiang Zao's own guards, recruiting troops for the entire Riptide Fort, and at the same time, according to the merits, all the existing members were rewarded, and more than a dozen people were named "barons", each of whom owned a large piece of land in the Arathi Heights.

caused an uproar!

Everyone knows that the Riptide Guards are the most important, intimate, and even personally cultivated troops by the Duke, and every member of them is the Duke's apprentice.

Haven't you seen people's various reward fiefdoms, and there are many knights?

This treatment is much better than a magic school and a temple!

This time, it was the real national boiling, and a third of the people of Riptide Castle crowded to the palace square to participate in the test.

The aborigines of Riptide Fort are basically the ancient Alahi people, and they still maintain the heroic and indomitable spirit of the Alahi people, and Jiang Zai likes it very much.

And because Riptide Fort has been attacked by ogres and trolls all year round, the people here pay more attention to the training of physical fitness and combat skills, and the probability of warrior professionals is higher than that of other places, and the average qualification is also higher than that of other places.

"Stand up, stand up! Don't move, everybody! Walk past the Duke in a row! Yes, that's all! "As the commander of the Riptide Guard, seventeen-year-old Darien led his brothers to keep the law and order.

Seventeen years old, baron, colonel, commander of the Guards. Any title is enough to make old Mograini happy and proud. He is also the link between Ginger and Old Mograini, Fort Riptide and the Scarlet Crusaders, the sole heir to the Mograine family.

When everyone saw him, they seemed to see their own future, and their hearts were full of hope for fiefdom and knighthood.

Jiang Zheng's selection method is still the same as before, just scan and analyze the game warehouse and draw conclusions. Of course, don't be too old, preferably under 20 years old. If the talent is really high, it can be relaxed to 25 years old, which is already the limit.

The conditions have already been explained, but there are still people who are holding on to luck and looking forward to getting by.

It's nothing, it's not worth punishing, just ignore it.

But some guys, you have to take it seriously, such as......

"You, come here!"

Looking at a seventeen or eighteen-year-old young man, Jiang Zheng frowned slightly. Ivan hurriedly stepped forward and dragged him out.

"Lord Duke, did I pass the selection? Great, I have an eighty-year-old mother and an unborn son, and they are all looking forward to me passing the selection and becoming the apprentice of the Duke! By the way, shouldn't I call you a teacher now......?"

The man looked happy, as if he had won five million, but Jiang Zai didn't look at him, but said lightly: "Left shoulder." ”

Left shoulder?

When Ivan heard this, he suddenly moved.

A dagger appeared in his hand, then raised, creating an afterimage, and in less than a second, accurately cut through the man's left shoulder, picking it open, revealing a mark, which was the mark of the Cursed Sect.

This man turned out to be a member of the Cursed Sect!

The man was about to run away immediately, but in front of Ivan, he couldn't escape at all.

The flash of the knife flashed, and the sharp blade stopped at his neck. The man didn't dare to move, and hurriedly begged for mercy in pain: "Lord Duke, spare your life!" I have an eighty-year-old mother and an unborn son, and they are all counting on me......"

"Take it down and interrogate it properly." Jiang Zai commanded, with a cold smile on his face.

There are also members of the Cursed Sect, syndicates, and even demons hiding in the city, or following outsiders to this city, which is normal, and Jiang Zai also knows it.

It's just that just after the big war, everything is focused on "harmony and stability", and the current defense force of Riptide Fort is sufficient, and they can't make any trouble, so Jiang Zheng has not paid attention to it.

But that doesn't mean you'll never bother.

Now that Fort Riptide is stable and prosperous, it seems that it is time to clean up.

But you can't be in a hurry, you can't get it out of the light, just let those guys from the Assassin Regiment do it secretly.

Looking at the members of the Cursed Sect who were taken away, there were many people quietly missing from the crowd queuing up in the square, and there were people with ghosts in their hearts.

Others are more concerned about Ivan, who shoots like a ghost.

This young man of the same age as Jiang Zheng is almost comparable to a high-level assassin with such a fast speed that he is already comparable to a high-level assassin. Carlos, a vendor hidden in the crowd, thought to himself that if he went head-to-head, he might not be the match for the little boy.

If it weren't for the fact that the Duke had left him at Fort Riptide and appointed him as the leader of the Assassin Legion's Riptide Branch, and asked him to secretly form a branch of the Assassin Regiment to investigate the hidden dangers in the city, he would have abandoned everything and applied to join the Guard.

Because the scanning is non-stop, the selection is also very fast.

In the end, a total of dozens of people were selected, plus the original members, a hundred people were gathered, and then it ended.

There are not many soldiers, but fine.

The place where Jiang Zheng will go after the tribulation is the Heart of Molten Fire, the Black Stone Tower, the Temple of Angela, and the Tomb of Sargeras.

These places are too dangerous, and ordinary soldiers go purely to die, and only the elite of the elite are qualified to go.

Moreover, it is not easy to train a martial artist, it requires a lot of resources, and Jiang Zai doesn't want too many people to share the resources, causing everyone's progress to slow down.

He hoped that when he really had to visit the tomb of Sargeras one day, he would have a group of innate warriors under his hands, so that he would be much less stressed.

Among these people, the worst are all three-star qualifications, as long as the resources are enough, the time is enough, coupled with their diligence and intelligence, it is not a problem to become an innate martial artist. There are more than a dozen four-star qualifications, and they may be able to touch a higher level of threshold in the future, but in Jiang Zai's opinion, there are not many who have a greater chance of stepping into the threshold of legends.

Darien is one, Lillian is one, plus Swain.

Even Ivan, there was little hope.

The Riptide Guards only need a hundred people, and these hundred people are all Jiang Zao's apprentices, veritable warriors.

But if Chinese martial arts wants to flourish in this world, it naturally can't rely on just these 100 people.

Soon, a new order was issued, and it spread throughout the city:

In the square in front of the palace, a member of the Guards will take turns teaching martial arts every day, and anyone can learn them for free, aiming to improve the physical fitness and combat literacy of all the Arathi people, and even all of humanity, all intelligent beings of Azeroth.

This move once again caused a sensation.

As a result, the palace square was crowded every day, and Jiang Zai's reputation resounded in the Eastern Kingdom again.

On this day, Riptide Castle welcomed a group of uninvited guests.

A group of dwarves, led by Prince Brian, crossed the wide central straight and entered the palace, with four pandamen mixed in.