It's already the end of December. Starting the campaign in November, we should be able to finish just in time to return home for… for the New Year.
Galen's heart jolted. No, I need to do something joyous to counteract this!
Lottery!
I must draw! Immediately! Right now! Since the Heart of Origin leveled up last time, I've been getting a chance to draw every time I win a battle.
This time, after defeating the Drywhisker kobolds, I got another chance to draw, but I haven't used it yet. Now that the deployment is complete, I'll wash my hands and prepare to draw.
Skillfully connecting to the Heart of Origin.
"You have won a battle, current number of draws: 1."
"Use?"
"Use the lottery!"
After Galen issued the command, he once again saw the icons of various treasures displayed on the lottery interface.
Galen was extremely eager in his heart, but he pretended not to see it. Coveting is useless, it's better to go out and win a few more battles to get more chances to draw.
"Ding! Lottery complete!"
A large mask icon appeared on the screen in front of Galen.
Artist's Mask: Increases the wearer's magic recovery speed by fifty percent. Can be stacked with the Brilliance Aura.
Oh, not bad, good stuff. Not everyone has the Archmage's Brilliance Aura buff. What do magic professions rely on for sustained combat?
Mana!
As long as the mana doesn't bottom out, we can keep casting spells!
Galen prepared to equip the Artist's Mask on Aragorn. Galen's business is not yet large enough, so Aragorn can still fight alongside Gandalf. With Gandalf's Brilliance Aura buff, his mana regeneration speed is greatly increased, maximizing his strength.
When Galen needs Aragorn to lead troops alone in the future, his mana recovery will be a big problem. Clarity potions are non-combat potions and can only be used when the fighting stops. Mana potions need a period of time before they can be used again; there is a cooldown time.
A paladin with insufficient mana in a prolonged battle will have his ability to support the army reduced by several levels. The appearance of the Artist's Mask can make up for this deficiency very well.
After the lottery was over, Galen quickly fell into worry again.
This faint melancholy has been lingering in Galen's heart since the Hall of Kings was built.
The Hall of Kings only has two heroes. This is unscientific!
There should be four, four!
The Heart of Origin has been giving itself surprises and has also shown many differences from the original game.
For example, musketeers are humans, there is no limit to the population, Gandalf and Aragorn are already high-level when they appear and do not need to level up from the beginning, and the airships in the workshop do not have gnome pilots, and the mortars do not have dwarf artillerymen, and farmers need to be arranged to operate them.
The most important point is that the Hall of Kings also comes with several divine skills that enhance Galen's individual strength, the pay-to-win divine skill of summoning a great god to possess him by spending money, and the farming-style divine skill of increasing strength by spawning troops.
Although there is still a Power of Kings that Galen doesn't understand, with the Heart of Origin leveling up once, it has also added a lottery system!
These peculiar things made Galen full of expectations for the Heart of Origin.
Moreover, the problem is not yet in front of him, and Galen is not in a hurry, just waiting for the base development to bring him those surprises.
According to the development in the game, two heroes have already been summoned. Everything is waiting for the level three castle to be upgraded to summon the third hero.
Now the units of the level three castle have also appeared in the panels of each building: the human knights of the barracks, the tanks of the workshop, the griffon knights of the griffon nest. Although they cannot be trained yet, it is also noted that the level three castle needs to be upgraded to unlock them.
Only the Hall of Kings, after upgrading the level two main city, in addition to unlocking the Power of Kings, no new heroes appeared.
So, where is the problem?
Galen couldn't figure it out.
I can only wait.
See if the Heart of Origin will have other changes after upgrading the level three castle.
The reason why he can suppress this faint melancholy, in addition to having confidence in the Heart of Origin, Galen also has a backup plan.
Lordaeron!
Lordaeron is full of talents. Among the first generation of paladins, four of the first generation belong to Lordaeron, and one comes from the southern Stormwind Kingdom.
Among these five people, some are great nobles and lords of Lordaeron, some are disciples of the Archbishop of the Holy Light Church like Turalyon, and the last one, Gavinrad, is also Anduin Lothar's confidant.
Galen cannot win over such top combat power unless he can become the Lord of the Alliance in the future, perhaps he can order these great lords.
But there is a good candidate near Hillsbrad Foothills. Galen sent Omar, who manages intelligence, to Southshore to inquire a month ago, and good news has finally come recently.
Each branch has been on the right track. The kingdom has not yet gathered the people who migrated to Hamerfall, so in these two months, Galen is going to find something to do for himself.
Galen is going to tour Hillsbrad Foothills. This is a piece of land that is no less in area than the Arathi Highlands. It is located to the northwest of the Kingdom of Stromgarde, with the Wall of Thoradin as the dividing line. Inside the wall is the Arathi Highlands of the Kingdom of Stromgarde, and outside the wall is Hillsbrad Foothills.
This land does not completely belong to one country. The Tol'baradin royal family claims that the eastern part of the foothills belongs to the Kingdom of Stromgarde, but in fact Stromgarde only owns less than one hundred kilometers of land outside the wall, and a little further west is the land belonging to the Menethil royal family, including Durnholde Keep and Naesmith Farm, as well as most of the southwestern land.
The northern part belongs to the Kingdom of Alterac, whose royal city is located on the mountains in the northern part of the foothills. The northwest corner is the most famous magic capital in the human kingdom: Dalaran.
And Dalaran is Galen's ultimate destination.
Galen bought a shop in Dalaran a long time ago, which cost the caravan's accumulated money for many years, which made Galen feel distressed.
Now he has a lot of Arcane Vault goods in stock: Clarity potions, scrolls of life, magic potions, and life potions.
Anyway, there is nothing to do. He is going to Dalaran to test the market. He has long wanted to see the famous magic capital, go out to play and relax, and do some serious things by the way. What a great plan!
Saying he would do it, Galen is also a decisive person. He called everyone and handed over all the troops in the northwest to Amor to command. Currently, there are 5,000 soldiers of the Scarlet Flame Legion gathered here, of which Aragorn is stationed in the kobold gorge, and Omar and Fadir are stationed in the north of Hamerfall, while monitoring the mountains to the north.
Galen wanted Gandalf and Varrokal to go with him, so Varrokal's cavalry and Gandalf's thousand-man team were temporarily under the command of Amor.
Aragorn and Gandalf gained a small amount of experience after defeating the Drywhisker kobolds, and their ranks only increased a little. Currently, Gandalf is almost the same as Amor. With Gandalf accompanying him, Amor no longer mentions Galen's guard duty, and under Solas's instruction, he serves as the adjutant of the Scarlet Flame Legion with peace of mind.
Of course, Galen had to bring the original guard team, after all, they were twenty-four fifth-tier guards. If they encountered bandits or gnolls, they would not have to do it themselves.
While gathering the guard team, he also brought the spider venom sacs, spider silk sacs, velociraptor skins, and other raw materials that Harmon Caven had sorted out.
A flash of white light passed, and Galen and his party teleported away from Hamerfall under Gandalf's leadership.