After a burst of inner anger, Galen calmed down. What's lost is lost. It's better to have something than nothing. Besides, it's free, which is already a pleasant surprise.
The appearance of the Tree of Life conveniently solved a problem Galen had been worrying about. He was afraid that continued logging would strip the Alterac Mountains bare. Now, with a Tree of Life, the trained wisps could gather wood without harming the trees.
However, the transition of the main force for wood gathering would take some time. Galen had just calculated that the training time for wisps was slightly less than that of farmers. Farmers needed an hour, while wisps only needed thirty minutes. That meant over a year, he could train more than ten thousand wisps.
At the earliest, it would be a year before he could replace all the lumberjack farmers with wisps once the wisps reached a certain number.
He hoped the forests of the Alterac Mountains were plentiful enough to last. The appearance of the Tree of Life could be considered a contribution to Galen's environmentally friendly harvesting.
Moreover, in twenty years, Archimonde, one of the Burning Legion's lieutenants, would descend upon Azeroth, ultimately to be blown up by the leaders of the night elves using a large number of wisps in conjunction with the vast energy of the World Tree.
By that calculation, in twenty years, he could have two hundred thousand wisps. At least when facing Archimonde, who surpassed the demigod level, he would have a backup plan, wouldn't he?
Galen really couldn't say what level his strength would reach in twenty years, but at least a legendary tier was guaranteed.
When the Town Hall was upgraded to a Main City, the power of kingship from the Altar of Kings was unlocked. The blessing of the power of kingship directly elevated Galen's strength to the peak of the seventh tier. In fact, with each base unit trained, Galen's strength would increase slightly, but the increase was too subtle for Galen to notice.
When Galen was touring Dalaran, and the base population reached 30,000, Galen's strength once again broke through to level eight under the blessing of the power of kingship. This was also why he dared to face the ninth-tier troll chieftain when attacking the Witherbark Village.
Eighth-tier strength could ensure that Galen wouldn't be instantly killed by Zalas Witherbark. With the help of more than ten thousand troops, he could completely exhaust a high-level professional.
In Azeroth, no one could activate god mode. Even someone as strong as Archimonde needed the support of the Burning Legion's demons to avoid being besieged.
Deathwing, a demigod-level being and the ceiling of Azeroth's combat power, also obediently lurked in Deepholm, waiting until his twilight dragon army was formed before daring to come out and cause trouble.
Even a hero with six divine items would die under the siege of a group of high-level soldiers. No matter how high the martial power, without the protection of an army, they were just chickens delivering equipment.
Therefore, in Azeroth, anyone with a bit of ability had several thousand underlings.
This was the involution of high-level professionals!
Galen had discovered this point and was prepared to go all the way on the path of army gang fights. He would create hundreds of thousands of wisps to blow up Archimonde.
At that time, the third-tier base could train high-level troops. Under the blessing of the power of kingship, Galen should be able to reach the peak of the legendary tier!
Silently maxing out the wisp training queue, saying 'reluctantly' with his mouth, but his body was very honest. So that's what you're like, Galen!
Speaking of strength, Gandalf had reached the peak of the ninth tier after this battle, only one step away from breaking through to the legendary rank. With the end of the battle, a portion of the soldiers also increased in strength, with more than three thousand breaking through to the strength of mid-tier professionals.
Currently, among the more than sixteen thousand human footmen and musketeers, these low-tier soldiers, more than five thousand have been upgraded through battle, and they are already the elite of the elite. Galen selected them to serve as captains of the newly trained soldiers.
In less than a month, Aragorn's Silver Legion had reached Hearthglen, only two hours away from Stromgarde's royal city.
Along the way, the towns along the Kingdom Road saw this disciplined army, as well as the strong trolls being escorted forward.
Such a scene caused a great visual impact on the people of Stromgarde. The kingdom had never seen such a grand occasion. In the past, even the kingdom's victories in foreign wars had never captured so many trolls.
The Silver Legion marched all the way under the banner of the prince, letting the people of the highlands know that the prince had won another great victory. They told their friends and relatives what they had seen and heard, making Galen's reputation soar, surpassing Danath, who had been in the limelight in recent years, and becoming a military superstar.
The factor that determined Galen's early return to Stromgarde was that when clearing the caves where the troll high-level officials lived, several letters unique to the human world were found in the cave where Zalas lived.
Although the parchment in the letters was written in Trollish, it used the unique ink of human nobles, which was very rare and only wealthy nobles could afford.
After translating, Galen obtained a shocking secret from the content of the letters, enough to change the current situation of the Stromgarde Kingdom.
Along with Galen to Stromgarde, besides Gandalf, there was also Galen's logistics director, Hamon Kaven, who was responsible for selling a batch of rare materials seized from Witherbark Village in Stromgarde, turning them into the gold coins Galen needed, including jewelry, herbs, alchemical materials, raptor leather, and so on.
There were also a batch of boxes containing the gold coins of the Stromgarde Kingdom, which the trolls had plundered from passing caravans and attacking border towns for many years, about one hundred thousand coins. Galen kept this batch of gold coins for future use.
Adding the Arathi Empire gold coins from the Witherbark tribe and the one hundred and twenty thousand given by Kael'thas to the first batch, Galen had already hoarded more than three hundred thousand gold coins in his hands, in order to have extra resources to use the trump card after upgrading the castle: the Summoning of the King.
As for the gold coins from the Stromgarde treasury, Galen was no longer prepared to use them for recharging, as the disappearance of a large number of gold coins would cause the collapse of the kingdom's commerce.
Galen's early return surprised Thoras a little. According to Galen's previous plan, he should have returned after the troops escorting the prisoners toured Stromgarde's outer city.
But Galen placed the obtained letters on the desk. After Thoras read them, he and Galen fell into silence.
As a king who had fought trolls for most of his life, he was very familiar with the Trollish language.
"Child, do you know what this means?" Thoras said after a moment of silence. More than twenty years of kingship, coupled with his super-order warrior rank, had allowed him to freely control the power of anger.
"Father, this is an opportunity! The power of the Trollbane royal family will be able to rise to another level!" Galen said firmly.
"The kingdom will experience great turmoil! This will affect one-third of Stromgarde's nobles!" Thoras's tone was full of calmness. Galen felt from his tone that his father was thinking the same thing as him, and that he was testing himself by saying this.
"Stromgarde was founded on military might, but our military operations were defeated by the betrayal of our own people. The blood of the soldiers cannot be shed in vain, and the loyal people of the highlands cannot tolerate traitors!"
Galen said decisively: "Father, transfer the Highland Knights back to the country to deter the nobles, and dispatch the two legions under my command to completely minimize the control!"
"Since you discovered this matter, then you will solve it! Solve this problem before the Winter Veil Festival, and I will grant you the title of Duke in advance!"