Since the Princess's messenger sent back the news from Lantonilan, another half a month has passed in a flash. The Moon of Books is an important month for the Bugas of the Silver City-State, and the White Tower rings the bell in this month to announce the arrival of the month of knowledge and wisdom, and the wizards will openly examine their students in the white marble squares of Gata or Nekidi, so that the entire Silver City-State will be enveloped in an atmosphere of tension but order.

But for the Eruin countrymen in Tonigel, it's just a month that's getting hotter; The crops in the fields began to pull their leaves, and the hue of the fir collar seemed to change to a pleasing tean - even the astrologers and scholars of Praggs and Ampesel debated whether July should have a connection with man's logical faculties in the world system of Vawynd, and its supporters and opponents disagreed, but in fact had nothing to do with the production and life of the majority of the people of the kingdom.

People just stick to the laws of their own lives at this time of year, rising and setting sunset, day and night, and that's it.

And the tension between the princess and Jean Denel became more and more obvious. The coming war is gradually being put on the dinner table and has become the hottest topic after dinner.

Although the Earl has remained silent about this, everyone knows that his lord is firmly on the side of Her Royal Highness. As we all know, the lord is a young man, and the princess's beauty has long been known throughout the country, even in the Cruz generation, so some people south of Limintai and even in the Vlada region are secretly speculating about Brando's relationship with Princess Griffiin.

Of course, the most popular rumors among the people are none other than knights and princesses, counts and his noble lovers. Coupled with the fact that the battle of Ampesel is like the plot of a knight's novel, Brando does not know why the story of himself leading a group of retainers to Ampesel has spread. But all in all, most people prefer to believe it.

So much so that for some time now, the eyes of the people around Her Royal Highness the Princess have been strange to him. Griffey blushes slightly when the princess even occasionally brings up these rumors, and reduces the number of meetings he meets, much to Brando's dismay.

Fortunately, Roman doesn't seem to be jealous because of this. I listened to the bard's version of Brando's 'Knighthood' several times. Every time she heard the passage of 'Earl's Night Princess', she couldn't help but be particularly curious.

"My lord, the growth of the World Tree Fortress is even better than expected, and we built the Moon Tower a month after you left the realm. And with the Moon Tower's mana transfer, the Vortex of Light's teleportation energy increased to ten times a month. Twenty times, thirty times...... Fifty times, by the end of the summer moon, my people have now grown to a hundred, two hundred, three hundred, ten, twenty...... Three hundred and sixty-seven. ”

Monica's crisp voice interrupted Brando's thoughts. He was stunned for a moment, then looked up at the canopy above him.

Valhalla was even better than expected, the huge shade was more than ten times larger than the last time he left, and the palm-sized layers of leaves formed the shade like a piece of jade, and the sun penetrated through them, staining the edges of the leaves a warm bright yellow. Brando sat on the steps in front of the town hall and listened to Monica read the report boringly—in fact, the report itself was both concise and detailed. But Lady Bright's painful way of counting was hard to correct—but after a period of damage to his ears, Brando had grown accustomed to the natural way of counting, and he had to marvel at the great adaptability of humans.

He looked up at the moon-white minaret above the canopy, the slender body of which cut through the dense shade of the trees, and was covered with creepers, and under the shade of the greenery, there were windows with wooden lattices at intervals. It makes the whole tower look like it has a unique natural atmosphere.

At the top of the tower is a lunate-shaped resonance crystal that glows brightly, proving that it is now working. This is Valhalla's Tower of the Moon. It sat at the other end of the square, and Brando retracted his gaze, and the square between the town hall and the tower of the moon was no longer more than a hundred meters in diameter when they first met, but more than three times larger.

And compared to the last time we met, there was an extra fountain in the center of the square. The fountain shows no signs of artificiality, but looks like it grows from the trunk of a tree below. Surrounded by mushrooms. There was a statue of a maiden in the center, which Brando recognized as the symbol of the goddess of spring.

According to Monica. This statue is supposed to be Valhalla's attached building, but its function is very real, the whole fountain is like a weak magic aura, which can replenish the magic power of all Valhalla-approved creatures and machines within a hundred meters of it, although the effect of this magic aura is very weak, but its other role makes Brando value it very much.

That is to meditate near this fountain and you will get double the effect. This is great news for training wizards, meaning that apprentice wizards practice spells next to the fountain and master new magic in half the time.

In fact, Charles had already discovered this benefit, and Brando saw many apprentices in monochromatic robes casting spells such as 'magic balls' and 'fire arrows' in the square, and some of them even formed two groups to fight against each other, making the scene in the center of the square resemble a group of people setting off fireworks, which is pleasing to the eye.

"But since last month, Lord Charles has taken back the Moontower's privileges. So the number of jumps in the Vortex of Light is now back to its original level—" Monica finally finished counting, and she floated in front of Brando like a small ball of light, flapping her wings of light, and continued to reply, "According to your request, Lord Lord, we have raised Valhalla to one or two in a short period of time...... third-level territory; At the same time, tree nests were built for defense, one of them, two, three ...... Twenty-seven have grown, while another, two, three...... Forty-three are still in maturity. ”

She flew to the side. He replied, "Your Excellency, you can look at this side." ”

Brando snapped away from the translucent lord interface floating in front of him, and the sleepy numbers on it looked at him head and two. He looked up and saw that in the direction Monica was pointing, some knobs resembling knots were growing on the trunks of the trees that extended outwards from the square, and some aerial roots with the thickness of the trunk of an ancient tree coiled around them.

He had barely looked in that direction when pale green words appeared in turn on the roots that coiled around the trunk of the tree. They are:

Ancient roots, parasitic plants, life: 40, intellect, will. Perception -- 22 Strength, 20 Dexterity, 25 Constitution.

The roots of these ancient trees are almost at the peak level of black iron, but I don't know how strong the actual combat ability is. Brando couldn't help but look to the other side, not far away Haruze was fighting with Beard in a knight's training uniform, but his sword skills were a bit miserable. I saw the vines suddenly sweep horizontally across the ground. The shy and cute little prince fell to the ground one by one.

Brando couldn't help but sigh helplessly when he saw the boy get up with a red forehead covering his red forehead and looking like he was about to cry.

"As long as you overcome this root, you can rest, Your Highness." He interrupted Monica and shouted.

"I—I see, teacher." His Royal Highness the Little Prince looked grateful. Then he was whipped down on the parapet on one side of the square.

Brando rubbed his forehead, and for the first time wondered if he had seen the wrong person. He sighed and said, "Go ahead, Monica. ”

According to Monica's previous statement, each tree nest can give birth to ten of these roots, and when the seventy tree nests are fully built, there will be seven or eight hundred of these roots outside Valhalla alone. That was the combat power of the elite soldiers of the White Lion Legion of seven or eight hundred Eruin, or the flintlock musket regiment of the Black Blade Legion.

And Brando knows that this is just a comparison of strength. Not to mention that these roots, which are under the unified command of the World Tree Fortress, are many times more tacit in terms of tactical coordination than human soldiers.

"My lord, after the World Tree Fortress has been upgraded to Level 2, a new type of defensive structure has been added to the outer walls of the plaza and the second layer of the ring below. Elven Arrow Tower. Since it is not authorized, it is up to you to decide whether or not you need to build it. Monica replied.

As she answered, a number of lights flew behind her at all times, each of which greeted the patriarch whom Brando had personally appointed. In Brando's eyes, these lights flying around the World Tree were like countless fireflies, embellishing the huge canopy with a bit of magical color.

"Elven Arrow Tower?" Brando asked, "This sounds like a fortification invented by the Silver Elves." There are three rooms on the top floor of the Elven Arrow Tower that can accommodate archers. Each room has eight perforations that can be faced in all directions, and there are two magic circles in the room: Frost and Flame. You can enchant the arrows of the archers—"

"There is an ammunition room on the third floor of the arrow tower, and a ballista room on the first floor, which can accommodate two elven ballistas, am I right?" He asked, tilting his head.

"Your lord, you're amazing!" Monica's eyes widened and she exclaimed sharply, "That's pretty much it, but there's something wrong. The Silver Elf's Elven Arrow Tower is actually a Holy Spire born from the Light Race, as is Valhalla's Arrow Tower, and is slightly different from the Silver Elf's kind, but they are still parallel. ”

The Spirit Maiden replied with some pride.

"Can I see the number first?" Brando asked.

"Of course, my lord."

Monica flew into the town hall and pulled out a long drawing, and Brando couldn't help but shake his head when he glanced at the densely drawn drawing. In fact, he didn't need anything at all, because Monica said of course it was possible when a light screen appeared in front of him.

A three-dimensional model of the Elven Arrow Tower appeared on the light screen, with the various aspects of this thing marked on it.

The first is the three archery rooms, which are almost the same as those of the Silver Elf Arrow Tower, with eight shooting holes and two magic arrays clearly visible. Below is the ammo room, where arrows and ballista ammo can be teleported to the rooms above through a transmission spell, but the ballista room on the lower level is slightly different from the silver elf's arrow tower in Brando's memory.

Judging from the model, this elven arrow tower can only accommodate the next ballista, but on the label of the room staff, there is an additional magic apprentice.

"Enchanted ballista!" Brando clutched at the drawings in a pretended manner. I reacted immediately.

"Worthy of the lord." Monica complimented in surprise.

"What an ingenious design," Brando exclaimed. However, in his heart, it may not be possible to say that Valhalla's elven arrow tower is better than the silver elf, and the lethality increase brought by an enchanted ballista compared to two ordinary ballistas is actually limited, but the configuration of a ballista and a magic apprentice is a little luxurious.

He pondered slightly, and only then did he understand a little bit why all aspects of Valhalla's settings seemed to exist for the purpose of cultivating a large number of wizards. Now it seems. This realm is likely to be the true high-level magic realm of the legend.

Such a territory is certainly powerful, but the cost of cultivation is obviously also staggering.

Valhalla's Elven Arrow Tower's frontal defense is basically the same as that of the Silver Elves, with slightly weaker lateral defenses, but it has some self-healing ability, overall. Each has its own merits. However, compared to the earth and stone arrow towers of ordinary humans, this high-magic arrow tower is naturally not above the same level.

Overall, Brando is still very satisfied, once Valhalla has such a defensive facility, the defense of the entire territory can be said to be almost doubled. Brando immediately clapped his hands and asked, "Such an arrow tower needs to be supported by a mana pool, right?" ”

Monica nodded, "But don't waste it so much, the magic transformed by the crystal pool is enough to keep these towers running." One crystal pool is enough to supply one. Two, three...... Forty as many elven arrow towers keep afloat. According to your request before you left, the crystal pool was completed three months ago. ”

"So how many of these towers do you think we need? Monica? ”

"If it were built on the top floor of the plaza, there would be only eight of them to cover all the areas. To build on the second level of the ring road, twenty seats were required. And if it is built on the city of roots at the bottom. I'm afraid it will take seventy or more, and if the lord chooses the last option, it will take a lot of time because Lord Oldham is building a wall somewhere—"

The outer ring road in Monica's mouth is actually a layer of the outer layer of the trunk of the World Tree, and the entire World Tree forms three areas after it is fully matured, and the central 500-meter-diameter square is the highest and most core area. Almost all the functional buildings surround this huge square.

The square is downward, with a drop of about 30 meters, and is a ring road about 50 meters wide. This loop encircles the World Tree on two floors from top to bottom, with the lower ring leading to the upper level and the upper ring on the side of the tree wall that connects to the hollow inner hall of the World Tree.

Further down the two loops is an open area of numerous roots rooted in the ground, undulating and about two to three kilometers in diameter. Many flat spaces are formed on it, and they are connected to each other by roots as wide as avenues. It's the whole of Valhalla's Lower Town.

However, there is no such thing as a simple city in the lower town, but the descendants of some rune dwarves have a whim to build an artificial fortress in this area.

This was the first time Brando had heard of this idea, and he couldn't help but straighten up and ask, "Oldham plans to build another wall down town?" Wait, is he crazy? What if Valhalla expands further? ”

"My lord, after the core area of Valhalla reaches its current diameter, it will stabilize for a while. After all, the World Tree Fortress isn't endlessly growing. Monica replied.

"And what about the future?" Brando still felt a little unbelievable, the last time the guy later said that he was going to build an 'invincible city' without gates, he thought he should be aware of the problem, but he didn't expect Oldham to be even more lawless this time.

But Monica clearly had a different opinion than him: "My lord, the World Tree Fortress is a magical territory. Maybe you haven't seen the magic yet, but don't worry, even if it continues to expand in the future, it won't affect the old town in the slightest, and you can expand the lower town when the time comes. ”

"Really?" Brando frowned and spoke of territory. Not to mention Valhalla's level of territory, even the player's popular magic territory he has never seen, in this regard, he is still an out-and-out novice.

"Of course, every time Valhalla expands, the entire territory is overthrown. How can such a World Tree Fortress be called the strongest fortress from before the previous era. Monica replied with a proud face.

"The strongest fortress?" Brando keenly grasped the modifier. He originally thought that this somewhat natural light spirit was boasting, but he didn't expect Monica to nod seriously after listening to his question: "Your lord, you must not know the origin of this territory, once you know what it was built for, you will understand that what Monica said is true." ”

"Where did it come from?" Brando narrowed his eyes and asked curiously.

Monica was slightly stunned, and suddenly changed her appearance and replied in a mechanical tone: "Valhalla, the Golden Palace Asgard, the ideal town of Avalon, and the five fortresses of Atlas were originally copies of Babel Fortress. They were activated in turn after the Battle of Dusk, but as far as I know, the Golden Palace of Asgard and the ideal town of Avalon have been completely destroyed, and Valhalla is only one backup left, and Otras is nowhere to be found. ”

"But as a replica of Babel in the final battlefield, although it is only a backup, the surviving Valhalla already symbolizes the highest masterpiece of civilization of that era."