The Amber Sword

The silver moonlight penetrates the layers of lush branches and spills over the plaza, leaving the cool plaza with little less color than the daytime. Brando stood on the terrace of the town hall overlooking the mountains and forests in the quiet south of the night. Four months later, Valhalla was fully equipped with the prototype of a small town, rooted beneath the mountains north of Schaffrend, shaded more than a kilometre in diameter and covered the urban area below, but today only the elves, the villagers of Green Village and some of the humans, most of them members of the Valhalla Windshot Guard, and another group of new residents, the Cruz, the Knights of the Folders, lived in the lower city.

The vast root system of Valhalla divides the urban area around it into four regions, south-east and north-west, and the newly built military camp area of the Spirits is located in the western district. At this time, looking down from the top square, the western district has its initial size, the streets and buildings are orderly, and it has to be said that Odom, as descendant of the dwarf, still has some level, at least this urban planning gift seems to be born. The West Side is divided into two neighborhoods, the North and the South. A major street runs across the West Side, dividing the North and the South. In fact, the street passes through the city, circling the entire lower city of Valhalla, and is dramatically called the Around the City Highway by Brando, but nobody but him knows what the term means, it just works up and down, and all of us have been calling it that for a long time.

The roundabout highway was also designed by Odham, which is actually imitating the upper and lower two loops of Valhalla, which he called the third loop himself, but the loop was really well designed. In fact, Brando knew if the old dwarf and Monica were kind enough to get through the bottom of Valhalla and build a crossed street through the center of the Valhalla trunk, so that the whole downtown area could be truly connected. The benefits of this design would naturally be understood by Brando in modern urban design planning, but Odham's eyes were still mainly focused on defensive purposes, because it would be much easier to interact with each other once several areas of Valhalla were connected.

Monica has no objection to this matter. After all, Valhalla is huge, digging a tunnel from the center is not really a big deal, and after all, it is not a real tree, it is a magical city in itself. Throughout the north-south neighborhood of Sector West, the main building in the north neighborhood is a military camp, in addition to some other buildings similar to humans, where the newly built noble military camp - the noble military camp in the Kingdom of Eruin and the noble military camp in most human countries - makes little difference, but it has a training ground and a camp, which is a functional building that significantly improves the speed of training soldiers and the morale of the military presence in the game.

Brando thought it might be an increase in discipline brought about by centralized military management, but he only digitized it in the game.

The White Lion Guard is stationed in this barracks, far opposite the wind shooter camp to the south, and this large urban area is home to only two major functional buildings, making it seem empty, but much better than the other three areas that have yet to be constructed. Brando is planning to move the entire city of Cold Fir to Valhalla. After all, the city under this giant tree cannot remain secret. In fact, after Odom commanded workers to build the peripheral fortress, many people have guessed their Lord's plans for the future. However, it is impossible for them to guess that this is the legendary fortress. Brando is claiming to be an elf giant tree planted by the tree elves. Due to his relationship with Druid, nobody can pick anything wrong. After all, there are many such giant trees in the black forest, and Druid's cities are built on it.

Perhaps one day, after Valhalla continues to grow, the lie will eventually be unravelled, but Brando believes that he had nothing to hide then, but at least now Valhalla still appears fragile and still needs protection. In fact, with the exception of a handful of people beside him, most people believed the assertion to be true, including Veronica, who had personally visited Valhalla, that it was just a gift from Druid, and had not leaned on the legendary fortress, which, after all, was too far-fetched, and she had seen for herself that the fortress had been completely silenced in the rings of the wind.

And as for the others, including the Knights of the Folds, they were surprised when Brando came into the city, and some of them heard about the magnificence of Druid's Tree City, but did not expect to see it with their own eyes and live here as guests for some time. The scholar lady has come to him more than once for permission to visit the city, and although Monica doesn't like these foreign guests very much, Brando has given her access from the lower level to the upper level square, apart from not allowing poetry into the inner core of Valhalla, and his generous gesture has further dispelled the suspicions of everyone, including the Crown Prince.

Now the young men of the Knights of the Folds live temporarily in the North Town area, where many tents have been erected, but the military camps and supporting buildings for them are also being planned. Over the past four months, the Monica people have grown to nearly 500, and now the fairy spirits can be seen dancing among the branches all over the top of the canopy, and under their control, the construction of Valhalla is almost a day away.

But the city itself has slowed down, and according to Monica, it will take at least a few years to move from this stage to the next. On the one hand, the supply of magic has begun to fail. Valhalla's demand for magic is a bottomless hole. In fact, almost two thirds of the ore from that crystal mine in the Black Forest has now been supplied to the territory, but it can only sustain it on a daily basis. Tonigal's reliance on the trade in magic crystals has diminished considerably in recent months, for which Antitina has reminded him several times, either explicitly or implicitly, but the businesswoman is very optimistic about it. In her view, the trade in magic crystals is not a permanent deal per se. The key is that the commodity is too sensitive and easily attractive.

Generally speaking, high-purity crystals from a crystal mine will be rapidly depleted in the first few months, followed by lengthy and difficult mining, but yields will decline year by year, as if this crystal mine were extremely rare in the black forest. If Tonigal continues to export this high-purity magic crystal in large quantities, it is easy for some to speculate that a high-reserved crystal mine may have been found in the territory, and it is now just in time to take advantage of the opportunity of Valhalla's growth to reduce the amount of crystals sold out, and in fact, the development of other minerals and specialties in the black forest has gradually compensated for this piece over several months.

The key is that many resources in the Territory are now beginning to become self-sufficient, thus reducing financial dependence on trade.

On the other hand, the number of light spirits is also a problem. The 500 people of Monica have steadily shortened Valhalla's growth from the first phase to the second phase for less than six months, but the next phase will take at least five years, according to her, if he wants to shorten it to a year, at least two to 3,000 light spirits, but the output of the light swirl is still only twenty per month. The Moon Tower is now serving the magician tower in Neshar, Cold Seiburg, contributing to the development of Tonigal's first apprentices, not to mention the unlikely possibility that at this time it will be used to increase the output of the light swirl, even if the production of light is doubled, it will still take several years to reach that amount, and it will have to be lost.

The only way to do this is to build territory and make Valhalla at least self-sufficient. Inputs and outputs are proportional to each other. There are still many ways to increase magic and output, but only incrementally. At present, the only buildings in the Territory are the Crystal Pool, the Mage Tower, the Swirl of Light and the Moon Tower, but Brando also knows some premium buildings that can greatly accelerate the construction of the Territory.

But once you need drawings, you still need more magic pools.

While thinking about these thoughts, Brando took a deep breath and retrieved his gaze from the quiet parts of the city below, turning back and walking back from the terrace to the lobby, where Valhalla's tree lobby was much more lively than during the day, where almost all officers of the White Lion Guard, with the exception of Caglis, gathered, opposed to their needlework. More than a dozen Knights of the Folds, Metisa, Hippamilla, Antitina, Charles and several mercenary commanders, stood on the other side, as his old men formed a circle with their hearts and minds, leaving a smaller circle with the Crown Prince and the poems, and the Laurena couple and the Little Prince Haruze who were with them, making Brando seem a little strange that the Crown Prince did not intend to work with The young men of the Knights of the Folding Sword formed a piece of work.

But when he thought a little he understood each other's thoughts, and the other seemed reluctant to take a stand against him here, which was an expression, on the one hand as a guest and, on the other hand, unnecessary, because Leonarette knew very well that he could not really control these people, that these young men from Cruz were rooted in the Empire, and that their families, their future and their future were all on that homeland, and that if Eruin was as big as the Empire, it might appeal to some, but Eruin was just a small kingdom, and he had no reason to worry that the young men of the Knights of the Folds would truly be loyal to him, Count Tonigal.

It was therefore completely unnecessary for him to join the ranks of these young middle-aged and junior officers, who were royal and had to maintain their superior status.

His Royal Highness must have been very clear in his mind. He had already thought about this and understood that if he wanted to take control of the Order, he would have to show him full respect, because the Knights of the Folds were nominally loyal to His Royal Highness. Though bright-eyed people knew what was going on, it was important that the skins between the nobles were not pulled off, and perhaps even the young men of the Knights of the Folds could see that, just not put forward.

And that's why he had to follow the rules. Veronica, that's what Mangrove thinks, so he can rest assured that these young people are in his hands.

Brando suddenly found himself thinking, of course, but he shook his head, which was enough. He wasn't really going to put these people in the bag. He just needed this group of people to help him fight Madara. The country in the shadows of the East is getting stronger day by day, and the White Lion Guard he cultivated can only be described as a remarkable force in Eruin, but that's far worse than the next generation carefully cultivated by the Cruz - the Knights of the Folders.

The point is that he is running out of time and must arm this army, which belongs to Eruin, before the Second Black Rose War, or he will lose his claw teeth completely beneath that blooming black rose.

A Freya is not enough.

What about a Knight Folder Regiment?

As he walked into the lobby, he was still arguing in the lobby, arguably lively, and the two parties to the dispute revolved around the first attack on Count Denel or Madara's dead spirit. Brando looked up at the giant map of Eruin hanging on the wall, and there was a red fork on the map where Hillman was ——

The White Wing Knight Regiment has been defeated.

Same as in history, but this time he has even warned the Goran-Elson side, but those stereotypical noble officers still make the same mistake. In fact, there was a prior dispute between Grand Duke Goran-Elson and the Royal Party about whether to warn him or not, because Makaro believed that the cane must not be alerted if it was to enter the target area for ambush, as originally planned. But if the Goran-Elson side is not warned, on the one hand, it is likely that the princess will lose conscience afterwards and, more importantly, that the people of the Hillman and Butch regions will suffer heavy losses as a result.

Finally, His Royal Highness personally wrote a letter to the Grand Duke to illustrate the matter, because Brando found the reasons of some of the royal party ridiculous. Today, a year later, Madara and Eruin are watching out for each other. If one side prepares for a war and the other is unresponsive, it will alert the blood wand, knowing that this is not the year of flowers and summer leaves, but the last season of the year of the sword.

But unfortunately, what is happening now annoys him, and at the same time his heart is increasingly despising the archaic aristocratic system of the kingdom. The descendants of the ancient aristocracy are no longer worthy of their present status.

He sighed, and then there was no doubt that the staff would go straight to Vieira, just like in history, and although it colluded with Denel, it was different from the purpose of Jeannel, which was to completely occupy Goran-Elson and Vieira, to sever the ties between Karasu and the rest of Eruin, and that only such merit would make it possible for this privately waged war to pass in the eyes of Madara's supreme man, who had won a higher position for it, it should be clear that it had caused the consternation of the supreme, and that if it could not take the initiative, it would be left to die in silence.

But unlike Count Denel, who should rely on Madara to strike a solid territory to defeat himself, he now equates to saying that he has completely torn his face from the Royal Party, and that the best outcome he expects is to move from Eruin to independence as a neutral autonomous leader between Eruin and Madara. But if it doesn't succeed, then at the very least, it must be able to flee to Madara.

That's why the Hillman and Slovak regions are his targets, but he shares a common goal with the scepter, which is Fort Kirkur.

And Denel should have attacked Fort Kekur before the scepter. He should find a way, in the name of the reinforcements, to deceive Fort Kirkur before the news of his collusion with Madala has been leaked, which is the most cost-effective way. But even if they were defeated, it would be easy to siege the city. Now that the blood cane is unobstructed, the nobles of Kekulburg will surely order the Van Meer regiment to continue south from Pragues to block this army of the dead. At that time, the rear was empty and could not stop Denel at all.

But that's just the case.

There are unexpected enemies waiting for Denel to throw himself into the net, a war that has long been doomed to Denel and his blood wand, but now the plan is to fail them.

He interrupted his thoughts and came to Nimaisi, who was studying a detailed topographical map of the number one on the table, and she noticed Brando coming and looked up at him and whispered, “You've grown stronger since you came back from Death Frost Forest.” Brando nodded and did not deny that the experience of the final battle with Milos was almost shared by him and Freya, as if it were the first time that 'Sister Xue' had spoken privately to him since returning from the Death Frost Forest. Although it was not known whether anyone else would benefit from the experience, it was, at least for him, an enormous amount of income, not less than what he had gained from the rings of the wind.

The Holy Knight, a mercenary, has been promoted to the top of his needs, and there is virtually no need to upgrade the two professions in the future, and the job opportunities he received from Cybers for the Frost Guard have been unlocked, although he has not yet invested his experience in them, as there are many branches of advanced career skills options that Brando is still considering.

Nimais looked at him quietly and asked, “Did you leave the Dark Coward and the Good Coward for Essex? ”

Brando got stuck, and that's how it reacted. That's what she really wanted to ask.

“Do you feel that?” He asked.

“It's not the same as in the game.” The knight replied:

“The future of this world--”

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