In a month, the magic wheat on the farm had been harvested three times, and the mining area of Galen's branch was thriving.
At this moment, the general outline of a city had been delineated in the Southern Mining District.
In Galen's plan, he designed the entire city as a city built on the mountain.
This area belonged to the southeastern remnant of the Alterac Mountains. The mountains where Galen's branch mining area was located ran from northeast to southwest, so the city he designed had its back to the southeast and faced the northwest.
It was on the other side of the Faldir Mountains from Stromgarde. If the terrain was high enough, the weather was good enough, and your eyesight was good enough, you could cast an Eagle Eye spell and you might be able to see the tall tower at the gate of Stromgarde, it could... right.
The city was situated on a high hillside at the foot of the mountain. The overall layout was arched, with a semicircular city wall forming a circle embedded in the foot of the mountain. Galen envisioned building at least three city walls for the city, using them as dividing lines to divide it into the first, second, and third ring areas.
The first ring area was the center of the circle, where the town hall was located. It was the central area and would also be where you would work and live in the future.
Behind the hall was a towering mountain. Currently, there were already two town halls located here. The two town halls had been continuously training farmers and adding to the resource collection team.
Later, Galen planned to build another town hall and then upgrade the central town hall to the second-level main city after the population reached 10,000.
The second ring area was a building for combat unit training, mainly including military barracks, the Mystery Temple, and workshops.
The road from the town hall to the city gate was the central axis of the city. So far, only two military camps had been built in the south, located south of the second ring road. Galen called this area the military zone, which was specifically used for the construction of military camps. More military camps should be built in the future.
To build the Temple of Secrets, it was necessary to upgrade the town hall to level two. Galen left an empty space in the north of this area for the Temple of Secrets. So far, only a Secret Vault had been built. Only the Secret Temple and the Secret Treasury were built here, and Galen called it the Mage Zone.
The third ring was the farm area. A boulevard in the center of this area divided the entire ring into two parts. Every nine farms on both sides of the road formed a small community, arranged in three rows and three columns, and the farms were arranged in an orderly manner.
Oh, Galen cursed his damn obsessive-compulsive disorder inwardly, but looking at the perfectly arranged farms, he felt very comfortable.
Of course, this area was on the outskirts of the city and was also the largest ring. At this time, only a small part of the area had farms built, and most of the area was still empty.
The only completed city wall was located on the outskirts of the agricultural area. The wall was located on the edge of the high slope at the bottom of the mountain. It was a simple wall made by joining the rocks collected from the mines by the farmers and the sentry towers located at the base. It would need to be repaired, raised, and thickened later.
Currently, Galen had simply implemented the building layout in these areas, all for the sake of visual comfort.
In his future vision, if it was necessary to expand the city, Galen planned to add a city wall outside the third ring area and expand it to the fourth ring area, which was simple and rudimentary.
As for why the city was built in a circle, Galen admitted that with Gandalf, he was inevitably influenced by him and thought of Minas Tirith, the circular city built on the mountain and the shocking siege battle.
In just one month, Galen had already spent the 100,000 gold units he had recharged, but fortunately, he had already built the prototype of the city.
Inside the city, just behind the town hall, was the mine in the southern mining area. Three mines had been excavated, and hundreds of farmers were collecting mineral resources in the mines, which were continuously transported to the town hall to be converted into gold energy.
Basically, the gold energy provided by the main mine and the subsidiary mine was enough to support the training of farmers in three town halls and the training of infantry and musketeers in four barracks, and there was still a small surplus to add farms.
In fact, Galen only wanted to open a secondary mine, but he accidentally built the secondary mine in his own main city, which was much larger than the first base. Galen planned to build a mountain road or tunnel in the mountains behind the two bases to connect the two areas when there was a surplus of manpower.
What made Galen feel satisfied was that nearly two months had passed since the invocation of the Origin Heart Base, and his base had returned to normal operation. At this time, the total population displayed on the base interface was close to 6,000 people, and now 72 farmers and 64 combat units came out of the training building every day.
At this rate, after the next month, he would be able to unlock the population limit of 10,000 needed to upgrade the second-level main city.
Currently, there were more than 2,300 combat personnel available at the base, including about 1,500 infantrymen and more than 800 musketeers.
After this month's rapid development, Galen was no longer afraid of the trolls in Deadwood Village. He even felt a little inflated and wanted to take the initiative to fight the Deadwood trolls.
At that moment, Galen stood on the sentry post of the northern mine, looking into the distance, where Troll Village was located.
During the past month, Galen relied on the Archmage's mass teleportation to travel back and forth between the two mining areas in the north and south. Because Galen didn't want his secret to be exposed yet, he didn't build a stable portal between the two places, which only made Gandalf feel more tired.
The geographical location of the northern mining area was much better than that of the south. It was located within a valley. To enter the interior, it was necessary to pass through a canyon more than a thousand meters long. The mountain walls on both sides were steep and difficult to climb.
Therefore, a checkpoint was built in the center of the canyon. A month ago, Earl Dabyrie rebuilt the checkpoint. At Galen's request, the original wooden wall was changed to the current stone wall, which spanned the canyon, giving it the momentum of one man blocking the pass and ten thousand men unable to pass.
Before, he only heard that the southeastern mining area was abandoned due to troll harassment, but when Galen came here and carefully observed the terrain, he found that there was more to this matter than met the eye.
The southern mining area where he was located was a high hillside without any strategic location to defend, so he had to build a city himself. Otherwise, he might not be able to hold it due to repeated troll attacks.
However, for the northern mining area in front of them, Galen estimated that The Troll Village would need to mobilize at least 10,000 troops to break through. And with the kingdom's army in the north, it would be impossible for them to turn a blind eye to such a large-scale army gathered by Kurumu Village.
Even if the exit of the canyon was blocked by thousands of trolls, whose technology was backward and the weapons of their army were very primitive, as long as you accumulated food in advance and then endured and waited for help, how could you lose?
Galen also asked Viscount Garson who was still in the mining area, but his rank was lower and he obviously didn't have access to some of the secrets of the top leaders. Perhaps Earl Dabyrie knew something, but he had already returned to his fief to conduct magical experiments.
Although Amor had served as the adjutant of the cavalry regiment, he was promoted in the past two years, and by then the mining area had already been abandoned.
Asking his father directly should give him the answer, but it would make him look incompetent, so Galen had asked Omar to investigate the official archives of the abandoned mining area to find out the truth.