Resting his chin on one hand, Galen habitually tapped the table with the index and middle fingers of his right hand, his mind already wandering.
After a while, he seemed to return from his thoughts, took out a flashing crystal ball and a piece of blue gemstone from his pocket.
The crystal ball had been modified, with a base added.
Galen inserted the gemstone into a groove on the base, and the crystal ball began to display an image.
Hundreds of kilometers away, Danath was sitting in a room at the inn, holding a similar crystal ball in his hand, with a mana gem already inserted into the base.
This new set of crystal balls was Gandalf's alchemical work.
Galen had been video chatting with Danath frequently during this time, much to the annoyance of Gandalf, the only mage in the camp.
Gandalf was meditating when a guard came to inform him: "Master, His Highness the Prince requests your presence."
Gandalf: "Prince, what do you need me for?"
"Please help me open a video call."
Gandalf: What the hell?
A dignified master tier grand mage, doing nothing serious all day, acting as your full-time liaison officer, a communications soldier?
After experiencing the previous battle, Gandalf not only killed the Beast Master Rak'zan, a ninth-tier professional, but also gained a lot of experience from the soldiers who killed the trolls.
After returning to the garrison, his strength stabilized at the upper master tier.
Therefore, the communication crystal that Galen was currently using was designed and manufactured by the greatly strengthened Archmage under these circumstances.
In the process, Galen also gave Gandalf some advice based on the Third Hokage's Telescope Technique from his previous life, canceling the light screen and directly displaying the image on the crystal ball.
"Galen, Galen over?"
"Hearing, hearing, Danath. Over"
Danath saw that the communication signal began to stabilize, brought the crystal ball closer to his face, and began to talk.
"I have now arrived at Three Forks Town, five days away from Stromgarde.
When are you planning to depart? Do you need me to wait for you in Three Forks Town?"
Looking at Danath's increasingly close-up face on the crystal ball, Galen felt a little disgusted.
"Danath, don't get so close, I can hear you.
You don't have to wait for me, just go straight to Stromgarde.
I'll have Gandalf take me there when the time comes."
"Tsk tsk, it's convenient to have a mage as an advisor.
After the military expenditure from the military department is issued this time, I will also think about recruiting a mage advisor."
"Not every mage is Gandalf, Danath.
Gandalf not only doesn't want money, but is also highly skilled.
I'm afraid you can't afford a master mage.
The kingdom has only raised three over the years, and the most powerful one died some time ago."
Galen thought of the high-level mage who was assassinated in his laboratory, he should be a member of the Council of Tirisfal, but he didn't know if his father knew his true identity.
"If I can't hire a master level one, an adept level one is also barely acceptable.
There are so many adept level mages in Dalaran, there must be one willing to work in my militia group."
"By the way, has Uncle returned to Stromgarde?"
"It should be in the next few days.
I asked the Marshal before, and my father is already on his way back."
"Then I have to be more low-key after I arrive in Stromgarde.
Uncle is always in a particularly bad mood after meeting with the King of Alterac, I can't run into the line of fire."
"So I plan to go back on the last day."
"Galen, you xx, you're tricking me!
You're too cunning!"
"Nothing else to say, hanging up now."
Before Danath could continue to curse, Galen took the mana gem off the crystal ball first, and the world was quiet.
Galen was still thinking about what he had just said.
The large-scale armed fight between the kingdom and the Kingdom of Alterac on the border last month caused a lot of noise.
It had already stopped, but later, because the commanders of both sides were recalled to the capital to report to the king, the legions below lost their calm commanders and lacked restraint, and clashed again during a patrol.
This incident had a great impact internationally, alarming King Terenas Menethil of Lordaeron, who came forward to mediate the matter, inviting Galen's father, Thoras Trollbane, and King Aiden Perenolde of the Kingdom of Alterac to meet in Dalaran.
After Thoras left, the kingdom's affairs were all taken care of by Kingdom Marshal Olestra.
Recently, Galen's post-war reports to Stromgarde, the application for promotion of Omar and others, and the application for the expansion of the Scarlet Flame Legion, were all approved by Marshal Olestra.
Galen felt that his father must have given Olestra some instructions when he left, and the military department passed Galen's application for expansion too quickly and easily.
Sending Omar and Varokarr out to recruit troops on their own was to cover people's eyes.
Especially Fadil and the others, they are children of nobles, with extensive connections within the kingdom, and their every move is closely watched.
When they recruit troops, all the nobles in Stromgarde know that the prince's Scarlet Flame Legion has expanded, so it is easier to explain the Scarlet Flame's extra troops, and those who don't pay attention to Galen's movements at all times will not be suspicious.
Originally, Thoras was one, and Galen was afraid that he wouldn't be able to hide it from him, and that he would expose his secrets, but who would have thought that the Kingdom of Alterac would make a good assist, diverting Thoras's attention.
In any case, it's a good thing for me.
Anyway, the Kingdom of Alterac only has six years of national fortune left, and Aiden Perenolde won't be jumping around for many years.
In the original timeline, the Kingdom of Alterac betrayed the human countries and was sanctioned by the Human Alliance.
The Kingdom of Stromgarde and the Kingdom of Gilneas both wanted to get a share of the pie and get part of its territory.
Who would have thought that Terenas would annex all of its territory, which was too ugly.
Galen is not willing to suffer this kind of dumb loss in this life.
The human kingdoms bordering the Kingdom of Alterac, Dalaran is a mage city-state, they are not interested in expanding their territory, increasing their population, and strengthening their rule.
During the Second War, the Kingdom of Gilneas, because the future Wolf King Genn was negative about joining the Human Alliance, only sent a small number of soldiers to participate in the war, and its contribution was small in itself.
After the war, it also wanted to divide the territory of Alterac, and was rejected by Terenas, the leader of the Alliance at the time.
Thinking about it, it's also true that if you always paddle in team battles, and you want to get rich spoils, your teammates will definitely not want to.
If Galen was the leader of the Alliance, he would also reject such an unreasonable request.
But Stromgarde is different, actively joining the Alliance, sending most of the kingdom's army to fight, resisting the orc invasion, and serving the Alliance wholeheartedly.
The Stromgarde army participated in the Battle of the Thandol Span and the Battle of Hillsbrad Foothills, blocking the orcs from landing on the Northern Continent.
Raiding the traitorous Alterac guaranteed the safety of the Alliance's rear, and later blocked the returning Ogrim's army at the Wall of Thoradin, killing a large number of orc troops, but also led to the kingdom's hinterland being penetrated.
Later, Danath liberated Khaz Modan and helped the Alliance establish orc containment facilities after the war.
Stromgarde can be said to have made great achievements.
For such a reliable teammate as Stromgarde, who has made such a great contribution and such a great sacrifice, what's wrong with sharing a little of the territory of the Kingdom of Alterac?
What's wrong?
In Galen's view, it was Terenas who bullied Stromgarde for its heavy losses in the Second War, and the kingdom's army was crippled, while his Kingdom of Lordaeron relied on its deep foundation, large population, and rapid recovery to dare to annex all of the territory of the Kingdom of Alterac.
If Stromgarde still had an army of 100,000, would he dare?
The more Galen thought about it, the more angry he became, the more he thought about it, the more he lost, and he had already put himself into the events that hadn't happened yet.
He doesn't want to change the fate of the Kingdom of Alterac.
I want their eastern territory, and Terenas can shove it!