The silver moonlight pierced through the layers of dense foliage and sprinkled on the square, making the cold square not seem to be much less colorful than during the day. Standing on the terrace of the town hall overlooking the mountains and forests of the southern realm in the quiet of the night, four months later, Valhalla has completely taken the shape of a small town, this towering giant tree is rooted in the northern mountains of Shavlund, and its open shade is more than a kilometer in diameter, covering the city below, but now it is inhabited only by tree elves, the villagers of Green Village, and some humans, most of whom are members of the Valhalla Windshooter Guard, Another group of new residents were the Cruz people, and the young people of the Knights of the Folding Sword also lived in the lower town.

Valhalla's huge root system divides the urban area distributed around it into four areas, southeast, northwest and northwest, and the newly built barracks area of the Lights is located in the west area, at this time, looking down from the square at the top, the west side has begun to take shape, and the streets and buildings are divided in an orderly manner, I have to say that Oldum still has some level as a descendant of rune dwarves, at least this talent for urban planning seems to be innate. The West Side is divided into two blocks, North and South, and a major street runs through the entire West Side to separate the North and South Blocks, in fact, this street runs through the city, wrapping around the entire lower part of Valhalla, and is jokingly called the Bypass by Brando, but no one knows what this term means except him, but it just goes up and down, and over time everyone follows suit.

This ring highway was also designed by Oldham, in fact, it is to imitate the upper and lower two loops of Valhalla, which he himself calls the third loop, but this loop is indeed well designed, in fact, Brando knows that the old dwarf is working with Monica Kindness to get through the bottom of Valhalla, and then build a criss-shaped street through the center of Valhalla's trunk. In this way, the whole downtown can be truly connected, and the benefits of such a design can be understood by Brando, who has experienced modern urban design planning firsthand, but Oldham is still focused on defensive purposes, because it is much easier to cooperate with each other when several areas of Valhalla are connected.

Monica didn't object to this, after all, Valhalla is very large. Digging a passage from the center isn't really a big deal, and after all, it's not really a big tree, it's a magical city in itself. In the north and south blocks of the entire West District, the main building in the north block is a military barracks, in addition to some buildings similar to humans, where are the newly built noble barracks - the aristocratic barracks of the Eruin Kingdom are no different from the aristocratic barracks of most human countries, there is a training ground and camp inside, which is a functional building that can significantly improve the speed of training soldiers and the morale of the garrison troops in the game. The effect here is similar, but not as conspicuous.

Brando thought that it might be the improvement of discipline brought about by the centralized management of the army, but it was just a matter of making it count in the game.

The White Lion Guards are stationed in this barracks, and the vast urban area is still relatively empty as it is the two main functional buildings in the opposite distance from the Wind Shooter Camp to the south, but it is much better than the other three areas that have not yet been built. Brando is planning to move the entire fir city to Valhalla, after all, the city under the giant tree can't be kept secret forever. In fact, after Oldham ordered the workers to build the outer fortresses, many people had already guessed what their lord was going to do. However, it is impossible for them to guess that this is the legendary fortress, and Brando claims that this is a giant elven tree planted by the tree elves, and with his relationship with the druids, no one can find fault with it, after all, there are many such towering trees in the Black Forest, and the druids' cities are built on them.

Perhaps one day this lie will finally be exposed as Valhalla continues to grow. However, Brando believes that he has nothing to hide back then, but at least for now, Valhalla still looks fragile and needs to be protected. In fact, with the exception of a very small number of people close to him, most people believe this statement. Veronica, who had been to Valhalla herself, thought it was just a gift from the druids, and didn't lean on the legendary fortress at all, because it was outrageous, and she had seen with her own eyes that the fortress had completely fallen silent in the Ring of Trade Winds.

As for the others, including the young men of the Knights of the Broken Sword, they were amazed when they were brought into the city by Brando, and some of them had heard the eldest lady of the Flower Leaf Leader talk about the grandeur of the Druid's City of Trees, but they did not expect to be able to see it with their own eyes and live here as a guest for a while, and they all expressed interest. The scholar had come to him more than once to ask for permission to visit the city, and although Monica didn't like these outsiders very much, Brando, in addition to not allowing Shiduo to enter the core area of Valhalla, still opened up the right to visit her from the lower area to the uppermost square, and his generosity further dispelled the suspicion of everyone, including the eldest son.

Now the young people of the Knights of the Broken Sword are still temporarily living in the northern city, where they have set up many tents, but the military camp and supporting buildings for them are also being planned, and in the past four months, Monica's clan has increased to nearly five hundred, and now those little goblin-like lights can be seen flying between the branches at any time on the entire canopy, and under their control, the construction of Valhalla is also getting faster and faster.

But the city's own growth has slowed, and according to Monica, it will take at least a few years for it to move from one stage to the next. One aspect is that the supply of mana has begun to keep up, Valhalla's demand for mana is a bottomless pit, in fact, almost two-thirds of the ore produced from the crystal mine in the Black Forest has been supplied to this territory, but it can only maintain its daily maintenance, Tonigel's income from relying on the magic crystal trade in recent months has been greatly reduced, Antitina reminded him several times for this, but the merchant lady is very optimistic about this, In her opinion, the trade in magic crystals is not a long-term business in itself, the point is that the commodity is too sensitive and easy to attract pretenders.

Generally speaking. The high-purity crystals produced by a crystal mine will be quickly depleted in the first few months, followed by a long and difficult mining, but the production will decrease year by year, such as the discovery of this crystal mine in the Black Forest is extremely rare, if Toniger has been exporting a large number of high-purity magic crystals, it is not difficult for people to guess that a high-reserve crystal mine may have been found in the territory. As for the decrease in income, in fact, the development of other minerals and specialties in the Black Forest has gradually made up for this in the past few months.

The point is that many of the resources in the territory are now self-sufficient, so the financial dependence on trade has been greatly reduced.

On the other hand, the number of Spirits is also an issue, Monica's five hundred clansmen have steadily shortened the time for Valhalla to grow from the first stage to the second stage in less than half a year, but the next stage will take at least five years according to her words, if he wants to shorten this time to a year. It takes at least two to three thousand Lights, but the production of the Light Vortex is still only twenty per month, and the Moon Tower is now serving the Mage Tower in the Charr in the Fir Castle, contributing to the training of the first wizard apprentices in Toniger, not to mention that it is unlikely to be used to increase the production of the Light Vortex at this time, and even if the production of Light Spirits is doubled, it will still take several years to reach that number, and the gains outweigh the losses.

The only way now is to build a territory first. Let Valhalla at least achieve self-sufficiency, with inputs proportional to outputs, and then continue to find a way. There are many ways to increase mana and production, but you just need to take it step by step. Currently, there are only Crystal Pools, Mage Towers, Vortex of Light, and Moon Towers in the realm, but Brando is also aware of some high-level buildings that can greatly speed up the construction of the territory.

But one needs drawings. Second, there is still a need for more mana pools.

As he pondered these thoughts, Brando took a deep breath and withdrew his gaze from the quiet few towns below, and he turned back and walked back from the terrace back to the hall, where Valhalla's Hall of Trees was much more lively than during the day, except for Calglis. Almost all the officers of the White Lion Guard gathered here, and they were opposed by more than a dozen non-commissioned officers of the Knights of the Folding Sword, while Metisa, Hipamela, Antitina, Charles, and several mercenary captains were on the other side, forming a circle of their own as his old subordinates and henchmen, and the remaining smaller circle was the eldest son of the emperor and Shiduo, as well as the Laurena couple and the little prince Haruzer who were following them, and it was a little strange that the eldest son of the emperor did not seem to intend to mingle with the young people of the Knights of the Folding Sword.

However, after a little thought, he understood the other party's thoughts, and the other party seemed unwilling to have an opposing position with him here, which was a statement, on the one hand, as a guest, and on the other hand, it was unnecessary, because Leinaret knew very well that he Brando could not really control these people, these young people from Cruz had roots in the Empire, and their families, futures, and futures were all in that homeland, and if Eruin was a behemoth like the Empire, he might even be attractive to some people, But Eruin was a small kingdom, and he didn't have to worry about the young men of the Knights of the Broken Sword being truly loyal to him, Count Tonigel.

Therefore, there was no need for him to mingle with these young middle- and lower-ranking officers, he was a member of the royal family, and he had to maintain his transcendent status.

His Royal Highness must have been very sober-minded, and he had already figured this out, and understood that if he wanted to control this Knights, he had to give him enough respect, because the Knights of the Broken Sword were also nominally loyal to His Royal Highness. Although anyone with a discerning eye knows what is going on, this layer of skin between nobles is very important, and no one will take the initiative to tear it off, and maybe even the young people of the Knights of the Folding Sword Order have seen this, but they have not brought it up.

And it is precisely because of this that he also has to follow the rules. Veronica, Mangrove must have thought the same thing, so he would be relieved to hand over these young people to him.

Brando suddenly found that he was taking it for granted, but he shook his head, it was enough, he didn't really plan to take these people into his pocket, he just needed such a group of people to help him fight against Madara, the country under the shadow of the East is becoming stronger day after day, and the White Lion Guards he cultivated can only be said to be an outstanding force in Eruin, but it is still far from the next generation of generals carefully cultivated by the Cruz people-the Knights of Broken Sword.

The point is that he doesn't have much time left. This army belonging to Eruin must be armed before the Second War of the Black Roses arrives, or else it will be completely lost under the blooming black roses.

One Freya is not enough.

And what about a knight order with a broken sword?

When he entered the hall, the hall was still in contention, and it was bustling with contention, and the two sides of the dispute revolved around the undead who had attacked Count Jean Denel or Mardala first. Brando looked up at the huge map of Eruin hanging on the wall, on which Sylman's place had been crossed with a red cross—

The Knights of the White Wing have been defeated.

Exactly the same as in history. This time, however, he had even alerted the Goran-Elson side, but the rigid aristocratic officers still made the same mistake. In fact, there was a dispute between him and the royal party about whether or not to warn Archduke Goran-Elson beforehand, because Macaro thought that if they wanted to lure the blood rod into the target area to ambush and encircle it according to the original plan, it must not be alerted. But if the Golan-Elson side is not warned, on the one hand, it is likely that the princess will lose the hearts of the people afterwards, and more importantly, the people of Silman and the Buch region will suffer heavy losses as a result.

Finally, it was Her Royal Highness the Princess herself who wrote a letter to the Grand Duke to explain the matter, because Brando found the reasons of some members of the royal party to be ridiculous, and now, a year later, both Madara and Eruin are wary of each other. If one side is preparing for a war and the other side is still unresponsive, it will arouse the alarm of the Blood Staff, knowing that this is not the year of flowers and summer leaves, but the last season of the year of the sword.

But unfortunately, what happened at the moment made him very annoyed, and at the same time, he became more and more disdainful of the old aristocratic system of the kingdom, the descendants of those ancient nobles. They don't deserve their current position at all.

He sighed, and there was no doubt that the Blood Staff would go straight for Viero. As in history, it was in collusion with Jean Denel, but it had a different purpose than Jean Denel, which was to completely occupy the Golan-Elson and Vieiro in order to cut off Karasu from the rest of Eruin, and only such a feat could justify the war it had started privately in the eyes of the supreme man of Madara. To earn it a higher position, it should be well aware that it has aroused the jealousy of the Most High, and if it cannot take the initiative, then it will have to close its eyes and die.

But unlike Count Jean Denel, Count Jean Denel's goal should be to rely on Madala to lay a solid territory for himself to attack and retreat. He now said that he had completely broken with the royal party, and the best he expected would be to become independent from Eruin and become a neutral dominion between Eruin and Madara. But if it doesn't work, then at least be able to flee to Madara.

So the Silman and Sloffawen regions are his targets, but he has a common goal with the Blood Staff, which is Kerkullburg.

And Jean Denel should attack Fort Kekul before the Blood Staff. He should find a way to deceive the gates of Kkul Fort in the name of reinforcements before the news of his collusion with Madara leaks out, which is the easiest way to do so. But even if it was revealed, it would have been very easy to besiege the city, and now that there was no obstacle in front of the Blood Staff, the nobles of Kekul Fort would have ordered the Van Mill Legion to continue south from Pragus to stop this army of the undead, and at that time the rear was empty, and it was impossible to stop Rang Denel.

But that's just if.

There are still unexpected enemies waiting for Denel to throw himself into the net, and the outcome of this war has long been doomed for Jean Denel and the Blood Staff, but now it is only necessary to plan how to defeat them.

He interrupted his train of thought and came to Nimesis, who was studying a small detailed topographic map on the table, and she noticed Brando's arrival, looked up at him, and whispered, "Back from the Dead Frost Forest, you are stronger again." Brando was slightly stunned, it seemed that this was the first time that the 'senior sister' had spoken to him privately since returning from the Dead Frost Forest, he nodded, and did not deny that the experience of the last battle with Milos was almost shared between him and Freya, although it was not known if anyone else could benefit from the experience, but at least for him, it was a huge income, not inferior to the income he received from the Ring of the Trade Winds.

The ranks of the Templar and Mercenary have all been promoted to the apex of their needs, and there is basically no need to upgrade these two classes in the future, and the opportunity to take up the position of the Frost Guard he got from Sebes has also been unlocked, but he has not yet invested experience in it, because there are many branches of skill selection for advanced classes, and Brando is still considering it.

Nimesis looked at him quietly, and then asked, "Did you leave the dark and the good for Isis?" ”

Brando was stunned for a moment, and then she realized that this was what she really wanted to ask.

"You feel it?" He asked.

"It's not the same as in the game." The knightess replied:

"The future of this world—"

…… (To be continued......)