The beautiful Elwyn Forest is rich in bountiful bounty, and it has quickly come alive since human footsteps entered it. Lumberyards, mines, farms have sprung up, swearing to human ownership.

The lush forest gives the illusion of peace, and the reason for this is that if you really think of it as a place to go on an outing without danger, the beasts of the forest will quickly teach you how to behave, and even adventurers scurrying through the forest where the guards can't see will make cameos from time to time.

"On the surface, it is peaceful, but in reality it is still chaotic."

Ainan commented that he was not only talking about the Elwyn Forest, but also about the Stormwind Kingdom.

It seems that the kingdom is peaceful and the people live peacefully, but the undercurrent that swells in places that most people do not see has not stopped from the moment it was founded.

Flash Gold Town, a town that emerged after the discovery of gold mines attracted countless gold diggers, as the depletion of gold mines has gradually deserted in recent years. If it weren't for the geographical location of Shanjin Town, the town's development focus would have shifted in time, and most of them would have been abandoned.

Standing at the intersection of the town, Sloanan was telling Ainan what he had received from the innkeeper: "The road due north leads to Stormwind, the northeast leads to the North County, due east is to the direction of Red Ridge Mountain, and the west is beyond the fortress of West Springs is the western wilderness. ”

It is said that when the exiled nobles of the Rhine and Alaso empires endured hardships through the wetlands and swamps over the snow-capped Danmoro Mountains, and then crossed the dwarven territory with the tacit consent of the dwarves of Ironforge, and finally reached the northernmost point of the Elwyn Forest, their first destination was the current Stormwind City.

Northshire, located next to Stormwind, was the domain of an earl at the beginning of the kingdom, and the royal family took it back after the death of the earl without leaving an heir. Due to the long time gap, the count's name has long been forgotten and drowned in the long river of history.

The Westspring Fortress is located at the junction of the Elwyn Forest and the Western Fertile Field, across a river from the Western Fertile Field, which is said to protect the safety of the Elwyn Forest, so that the flanks of the royal city will not be empty and give careerists a chance, but anyone with a discerning eye can see that the establishment of the Westspring Fortress is the defense of the royal family of the Ureon royal family against the direct bloodline of the Emperor Soladin. For the real ruler of the Fertile West is none other than the heir of Sir Lothar.

"Our goal is ......"

Ainan pointed with his hand, and to Sloan's surprise, the direction he was pointing in was not the Western Fertile Field, but - North County.

"That's right, our target is North County."

Instead of going to see the knight's heirs first, he went to the irrelevant North County, and Ainan didn't understand what he thought.

It's not that they can't understand it, it's that they don't have frost sorrow, and they can't sense the breath of some existence, otherwise they wouldn't be strange.

"The reason why the first lord of the northern county, the unnamed earl, was forgotten is whether someone did it on purpose, I really wonder."

Fingers tapped lightly on the hilt of Frost Sorrow's sword, and an eerie smile appeared on Ainan's face.

The entrance to the northern county is surrounded by a huge wall, like an indestructible floodgate, firmly blocking the prying eyes of outsiders. This wall was built by the first owner of the Northshire, and it is not known whether the earl did it intentionally or unintentionally, and its existence separated the Northshire from the Elwyn Forest, and it is quite a position to become an independent kingdom.

Someone would do such a thing under their noses, and it is no wonder that the royal family of Ureon would resist the pressure of the noble council to return the northern county to the royal family after the death of the earl.

Slowly walking through the Beijun city wall with a height of almost thirty meters and a thickness of ten meters, Ainan pointed to the mottled wall: "See, with the protection of this wall, whether it is an enemy from outside the kingdom or he is from the kingdom, if you want to capture this place, you have to pay a lot of price." Rhine met such a guy at the beginning of the country, and he had to sleep with one eye open every day. ”

Ordinary people will be amazed by the defensive power of this wall in Beijun, but when you think about it further, how terrifying it would be to be able to build such a wall at the beginning of the kingdom and complete such a huge project, the manpower it can mobilize, and the financial resources it has?

As a king who had risen to the throne by usurping the throne, what would the Rhine think? What can Rhine think?

"At the beginning of the kingdom of the Stormwind King, Lothar was in the western wilderness, and this earl was in the east, one left and one right were like two pincers clamping Stormwind City, so that Rhine did not dare to act rashly, thinking that there was also the shadow of the noble council behind it. Otherwise, this guy Rhine would have grabbed all the power in his hands a long time ago, how could the nobles be able to compete with the royal family like now. ”

Ainan explained to Sloanan in a whisper, no matter how many people can understand it or not, they must know what they should know, they can no longer just follow orders like they used to do when they were big soldiers, many times they must have their own opinions.

As soon as he walked out of the city gate, a majestic building came into Ainan's eyes at the end of his sight. According to Ainam's vision, the building was about the size of a castle, and its main building was much taller than the wall behind it, and it was 90 meters tall if not a hundred meters high, including the tower-like top.

Walking into Ainan, he found that the whole building was made of square stones of the same specifications, such stones were extremely difficult to mine, just getting them out of the mountains was a big project, not to mention that the polishing of suitable building materials must also be the same size, which took a long time, used a lot of manpower, and spent a huge amount of money, enough to make a count-level family break their bones.

Not to mention that, the outer walls and walkways of the building were carved with a large number of colorful reliefs, and the stories told on them were not clear, he only saw that the meaning was nothing more than to persuade people to believe in the light and the like.

Religious?

Ainan raised an eyebrow, and a passerby questioned by Sloanan confirmed his suspicion that the building in front of him was the monastery of Northshire, and inside it was a group of monks who spread the faith called the Holy Light. Of course, they can also be called pastors.

"They say that if we believe in the Light, we have to believe, why?"

Marcus muttered quietly, he had never heard the word Holy Light in the Arathor Empire, and that was why the people of the Stormwind Kingdom would engage in so many tricks that he had to find something inexplicable to worship.

Ainan didn't speak, religion is something that will inevitably appear after the development of human civilization to a certain extent, and there is nothing surprising. As for why they chose the Holy Light as the object of worship, it is just that the gods take advantage of the human psychology of worshiping light and fearing darkness, and the Holy Light, which represents light and hope, is easier for people to accept, easier to promote, and can fool more people.

"May the Light always protect you."

A passer-by believer saw that Ainan was dressed in a robe that did not look like an ordinary person, and he saluted as he spoke. The latter nodded, which was regarded as a return salute, and responded casually: "May the Holy Light always fool you." ”