After Kael'thas left, Galen also drafted a letter to his father, informing him that a powerful otherworldly creature had invaded Azeroth, and asked him to prepare early.
As for whether Thoras would send a warning to the Stormwind Kingdom, that was no longer Galen's concern. The destruction of the Stormwind Kingdom was already a foregone conclusion, unless the northern kingdoms could pull out an army of 100,000 men to support the south after receiving the request for help.
All Galen did was try his best and leave the rest to fate.
He had more important things to do.
He had been longing to unlock the population of the Tier 3 castle, and at this moment it was approaching the 100,000 mark. Galen was only one step away from his peak.
"Ding, the base population has reached 100,000 units, the Tier 2 main city can be upgraded!"
Upgrade Time: 720 hours
Upgrade to the Castle Age to unlock more buildings and units.
This prompt was simply music to his ears. Galen immediately closed his eyes, connected to the Heart of Origin, and selected the Tier 2 main city far away in Minas Tirith.
At this moment, in the interface of the main city, the command to upgrade the castle had already appeared.
He had finally waited for it, knights, griffins, and tanks. Galen had been looking forward to them for a long time.
Upgrade!
He immediately issued the order without any hesitation.
The progress bar didn't move at all. He would just have to wait slowly.
Galen came to the window and looked into the distance. The town hall was built on the highest point, and from this position, he could see most of Brill.
In the past six months, Galen's sphere of influence had expanded rapidly, and the cost was not small.
Since occupying the east, he had built a new town on the ruins of the Witherbark, the logistical base of Eastwind Sea on the sea, the northeastern barrier of Northpass Hold, the eastern commercial port of Brill, and the southeastern barrier of Andorhal.
The 500,000 units of gold recharged by the Kobold's ancestral property had bottomed out after the construction of these five sub-bases. Galen couldn't help but want to do greedisgood again.
But the good news was that the resources obtained from mining were slowly increasing.
Originally, the resources collected were basically on par with the consumption of spawning troops. Now, with multiple sub-bases, the mining of multiple mines had increased the resources in the resource bar. In addition, a large number of wisps trained by the Tree of Life had freed up many lumberjacks, who entered the mines to work, greatly increasing mining efficiency.
When the Tier 3 castle was completed, Galen planned to stop training low-level infantry and riflemen, and use all the barracks to train knights. The training cycle for knights was much longer than that of infantry, so the consumption of resources would be much less, and Galen could save more resources to open sub-bases.
This wait lasted a month.
"Ding, congratulations host, the Tier 3 castle upgrade is complete."
"Ding, congratulations host, the training sequence for knights, gryphon riders, and tanks has been unlocked."
"Ding, congratulations host, buildings such as the Shipyard and the Cathedral of Light have been unlocked."
"Ding, congratulations host, the skill 'Summoning of the King' has been unlocked."
Huh? There are new buildings unlocked?
Galen understood the Shipyard, after all, it had appeared in the game. What was the Cathedral of Light for? Could it train paladins?
And Galen was so angry. He had just placed an order for a battleship worth 100,000 gold coins in Southshore half a year ago. If he had known that upgrading could unlock the Shipyard, he wouldn't have bought a battleship, and it was still a converted transport ship. He had asked Aunt Hennie to speak to the old town mayor to convert the civilian ship into an armed ship.
He felt sorry for the 100,000 gold coins. He bought a batch of imitations, and they were still very expensive.
He wondered if the old town mayor would support a seven-day no-reason return? He would probably be so angry that he would have a cerebral hemorrhage.
Originally, Galen had 550,000 gold coins on hand: 70,000 spoils from the kobolds, 120,000 from selling return scrolls, 100,000 gold coins obtained from the Witherbark, 110,000 gold coins obtained from Harmmon selling the remaining spoils back to Stromgarde, 100,000 engineering funds for building the farm building in the kingdom, and 50,000 gold coins in profits from the grain and derivative wine and food trade in Hammerfall in the first half of the year.
100,000 was used to buy ships, 50,000 gold coins were left to Harmmon's logistics department, and now there were still 400,000 gold coins in hand.
Forget it, forget it, there was still some spare money on hand. He had already bought the armed sea ship. Galen was rich and powerful, and he would try to find a sucker to sell it to in the future.
The Tier 3 castle could train advanced units, and this joy was enough to offset the 100,000 gold coins of injustice.
He shifted his attention to the three high-level units that had been unlocked.
Knight
Armor Type: Heavy Plate Armor
Weapon: Broadsword, Lance
Strength: Adept
Skills: Animal Combat Training (Not Researched), Intermediate Riding, Advanced Swordsmanship
Training Cost: 245 Units of Gold, 60 Units of Wood
Consumption: 5 Units of Food per Day
Training Time: 36 Hours
Gryphon Rider
Armor Type: Light Armor
Weapon: Storm Hammer (Not Researched), Rifle, Longsword, Gryphon Claws
Strength: Adept
Skills: Animal Combat Training (Not Researched), Intermediate Flight Riding
Training Cost: 280 Units of Gold, 70 Units of Wood
Consumption: 6 Units of Food per Day
Training Time: 36 Hours
Steam Tank
Armor Type: Heavy Steel Armor
Unit Type: Mechanical
Weapon: Cannon, Giant Crushing Wheel
Skills: Barrage Shooting
Manufacturing Cost: 1950 Units of Gold, 600 Units of Wood
Power: Steam Engine
Manufacturing Time: 55 Hours
Animal Combat Training was a new skill unlocked in the barracks after upgrading to the Castle Age, which could increase the health of knights, dragonhawk riders, and gryphon riders, and increase their survivability.
Steam tanks were the best weapon for siege warfare, with thick armor and powerful firepower, a true land fortress. Galen had to select a group of farmers for training and train them to become tank drivers.
As expected, the gryphon riders should be composed of humans. In the past six months, Hammon had been leading the transport team to constantly improve their favorability, and had successfully recruited a dwarf named Mackay Firebeard. He was a squad leader of the Firebeard Gryphon Riders. With the offerring of fine wine, Galen successfully obtained a gryphon rider instructor.
After having the first dwarf as the gryphon rider instructor in Brill, another dwarf named Falstad brought his golden gryphon to join him. It was said that he was almost bankrupt because his gryphon ate too much. He agreed to be an instructor not only because he had enough fine wine, but also because his gryphon partner could eat to his heart's content.
Galen did a complete set of acting. He also selected 100 excellent cavalrymen from Varrokal's cavalry team to serve as students of the two instructors. After half a year of elimination, sixteen students barely gained the recognition of the gryphon cubs, and they could try flight training after the gryphons matured.
Everything was ready, and Galen could use the gryphon riders openly after they were trained.
What would he say if someone asked?
They are the trainees of Captain Mackay of the Firebeard Clan and the golden rider Falstad!
Evidence? They have graduation certificates issued by Mackay and Falstad's sixteen disciples, certified by the Gryphon Rider Academy in Brill.
Sixteen new instructors, newly trained students, the name of the academy was made up by Galen, and the graduation certificates were made on the spot, and the seals were not yet dry.
Whether you believe it or not, you can't disprove it.
The real reason was that the dwarves were naturally bold, sincere to their friends, and did not hide their methods of training gryphons. They lived with gryphons and knew that only by treating their gryphon partners sincerely could they become gryphon riders.
Galen planned to copy the dragonhawk rider routine according to the above, and he didn't even need to change it. He just hadn't decided whether to use it on Kael'thas or leave it to Alleria.