After seeing Storm Castle, not only Duke himself, but even the entire Storm Army began to boil, thinking that when they left Storm Fort in February, it was already October when they came back, and they had been away from home for most of the year, which was naturally extremely excited when they saw Storm New City for the Storm Army who had been away from home for a long time.

The Storm Fort side had already waited for the news that Duke was coming back from the logisticians and sentinels, so on the periphery of Storm New City, the Second Regiment of the Storm Army, the Dwarven Legion, and the Fish-Man Legion were all waiting in a neat line, and when the Storm Expeditionary Legion led by Duke appeared in the field of vision, the earth-shattering slogan sounded.

"Storm Army!"

"Your Lord!"

"Storm Army!"

"Your Lord!"

No matter what race, no matter what status, when facing Duke's return, there is only the slogan of the Storm Army and Lord Duke. Hearing the cheers of the brothers' troops, the thousands of people led by Duke also shouted "Storm Army" in response, resounding in the sky!

In the face of such a brilliant and spectacular scene, Duke also had an indescribable pride and excitement in his heart. In addition to the Storm Army in front, the hundreds of thousands of people in the entire Storm New City have all walked out of the city, and they want to welcome their lord, because Duke has given them everything!

After the welcome ceremony, Duke asked the Storm Legion to return to Storm Fort for repairs, while he himself stayed in Storm New City with the Storm Guard, most of the year has passed, he wants to see how Storm New City is currently being built, you must know that when Duke left before, Storm New City still had a gap of at least 50,000 people.

Passing through the crowd, Duke saw Michelangelo also standing in the crowd, looking at him with a smile on his face. Duke was a little surprised when he met Michelangelo, because as his intentions towards the Holy See became more and more obvious, Stormcastle basically had no respect for the Holy See, and Michelangelo was also a standard ascetic who left after promising to build Storm New Town.

Later, Duke also kept it again and again, but with Storm New City basically setting the tone, plus he was going to the northern defense line, Duke didn't have time to continue to keep Michelangelo, so when he saw that Storm New City was built to such a scale today, he thought that Michelangelo had left, and he didn't expect to see him at such a time.

Michelangelo bent down towards Duke and said, "Lord Duke." ”

Faced with Michelangelo's salute, Duke naturally hurriedly went over and said: "Michelangelo, you don't have to be so polite to me, it's not that the ascetic only has the god of light in his eyes, why do you still salute me." ”

"Because Lord Duke has saved tens of thousands of lives and completed the mission of the God of Light to save the world, I naturally want to thank you. ”

Originally, Duke planned to be polite to Michelangelo, but he never expected Michelangelo to come to such a show with him. These refugees and homeless people, obviously they have worked hard to settle them, and they have something to do with the god of light.

"Your Excellency Michelangelo, I have to emphasize to you once again that what I have done has nothing to do with the God of Light, and the so-called God of Light in your mouth has not saved these poor homeless, so don't come here to get the light. ”

Michelangelo was not angry at Duke's words, after all, this was not the first time this kind of thing had happened, so he just said very flatly: "Your Excellency Duke, you can't understand the omnipresence of God now, after all, there is one thing you will understand." ”

"Alright, that's the end of the discussion, tell me about the construction of Storm New City. ”

Duke directly changed the subject, discussing theology with the god stick is simply dead, because you can't change his mind, and Michelangelo can't change Zhang Nan's atheistic idea.

Michelangelo didn't force it when he heard Duke's words, and still began to introduce this storm new city to Duke in an excited tone, after all, building such a near-modern city in the Middle Ages was definitely an unprecedented achievement, and Michelangelo even felt that after a hundred years had passed, he would leave a name in the history of the world.

"Your Excellency Duke, the scale of Storm New City was 50,000 people before, but with the increasing number of displaced people in the future, especially the arrival of war displaced people, the population pressure of Storm New City has rapidly increased to the scale of 150,000 people. ”

"Wait, 150,000 people? Wasn't it 100,000 before?"

Duke directly interrupted Michelangelo's narration, because he remembered that when he left, the population pressure of Storm New City was 100,000, and the population of Storm Castle had grown to 30,000, and the remaining 70,000 people were scattered into farms in the entire Storm Castle territory.

This is mainly due to the birth of the system of recruits and logistics troops, which has actually formed a kind of tuntian, coupled with large-scale farm production, the demand for farmers has also been greatly reduced, but the demand for miners has been rising.

Faced with Duke's question, Fei Duo on the side came over directly and reported: "Lord Lord, during the period of time you left, we have not given up the action of absorbing the people, and even brought a group of people from the neighboring Milan Empire. In addition, the Storm Market has been opened on a small scale, and some poor people also want to try their luck at Storm Castle through the spread of information from merchants, so the population has increased by 50,000 during this period, and the human population of Storm Castle has increased to 250,000. ”

After Fei Duo finished saying this paragraph, the dwarf hammer on the other side also said with the mentality of not being able to bear the good news: "Tell the lord, the dwarf tribe has recently absorbed a few cave dwarves and mountain dwarf tribes, and now the number of the entire storm dwarf tribe is close to 30,000!"

The growth of the Storm population has always been the top priority of Duke's attention, and when he left before, the total number of Storm Castles was about 300,000, but he didn't expect that more than half a year later, another 60,000 people had been added. In particular, the growth of the dwarven tribe made Duke even more excited.

Because the dwarves are all born warriors, and in the previous battle attrition, it is very difficult to replenish the Storm Dwarf Army, because their population base is placed here, if it were not for the later fusion of the Rock Dwarf Tribe, the Storm Dwarf Tribe may face a situation where there are no soldiers to recruit.

But even so, the dwarf tribe was only in its early 20,000s before, but there were 4,500 storm dwarf troops of 4,500 people, and now the number of dwarf tribes has reached nearly 30,000, not to mention the recruitment of troops, at least there is no need to worry about replenishing troops in a short time.