Mystic Wizard in Azeroth

After Adrian left, Taranas immediately arranged the reconnaissance and patrol routes of the rangers and the sentry details of the camp, and at the same time tried to send the rangers to go deep along the jungle.

However, after careful calculation and arrangement, he had to admit that with the number of rangers and the strength of rangers at this sentry post, the option of "going deep into the jungle and scouting the movements of the trolls" did not exist at all.

It has no choice but to arrange for veterans to lead a team of recruits to start intensive training. Subjects include physical fitness, stealth tracking, bow and arrow shooting, forest encounters, and counterattack escape. To shoot him with a bow and arrow, he can only let the recruits cut down trees to make wooden arrows. Magic arrows are too precious, so they can only give priority to ensuring the full use of all kinds of whistles and whistles.

Aristophanes was also not idle. Apart from reading and meditating, he and Kars made a careful reconnaissance of the surrounding environment.

Every day, Aristophanes will record the terrain he has scouted using magic, and then compare and correct it with the map left by Adrian.

With the help of Kars, he first made a detailed investigation of the direction of the mountain to the west of the camp, the slope of the slope, the position of the commanding height and the degree of undulation, and made a sand table model.

Of course, with the help of magic, you don’t have to be so troublesome, just like Taranas and Kars, although they were amazed at the fineness of this small sand table, they still thought that Aristophanes was doing useless work. enough.

Aristophanes still went his own way. Except for the jungle in the south, he did not go deep. He explored the mountains in the west, the great lake in the north, and the woodland in the east. Among them, in order to see the direction of the lake clearly, he even secretly turned into a thunderbird and flew around it. After seeing the small island in the lake and noting the approximate distance, he returned the same way.

Almost two weeks later, the complete sand table was placed on the stone table in the stone house along with a terrain analysis report. Then Aristophanes summoned the veterans led by Taranas and told them about his own research report.

"...To sum up, I think there are two next tasks. First, send scouts to explore northward along the west side of Lake Arrendal to see where they end up. I can lead two rangers there. Do; secondly, there are abundant aquatic products in Lake Arendall, which can allow people to go fishing and temporarily solve the current food crisis." Aristophanes pointed to the sand table and concluded.

Taranas stared at the sand table for a while, then looked up: "As the only mage, you can't go so far away from the camp to investigate, Aristophanes, I will send rangers to explore along the Arendal Lake. As for fishing, it is completely It’s ok, but we don’t have a boat or a net, and we still need to cut down trees to build a boat, and we also need to go to Taquilin to buy fishing nets. By the way, Kars, is there a messenger from Silvermoon City?”

Kars shook his head.

"Then let's do this first. Arrange the specific fishing order yourself, and report to me after you confirm it. Kars, you stay here, and the others leave."

After everyone left, only Aristophanes, Taranas, and Kars were left in the stone house.

"It's been two weeks, and Silvermoon City still hasn't replied. Will something happen to Adrian?"

"It's only been two weeks. You have to believe in the efficiency of those officials and gentlemen in Silvermoon City." Aristophanes complained, "According to my estimation, they will only start discussing our problems in July and August, and it's only March now. ,just wait."

"I know, it's just..." Taranas smiled bitterly, "I'm really worried about the comfort, food, and weapons of the camp. It's too difficult to stick to this enclave."

"I have some ideas, but we still need professionals to identify us." Aristophanes said, "And my ideas may need your support."

"what idea?"

"Make this a front-line base for attacking trolls. In other words, build a military fortress town." Aristophanes said the shocking words.

"Be realistic," Kars seemed to be shocked by Aristophanes' thoughts, and quickly persuaded, "We are a small army with less than 250 people including you and me, and you are the only mage in it." , the old ranger is only over forty, and Silvermoon City didn't give us such a big power."

"Uh, in fact, there is." Aristophanes took out a scroll and handed it to Taranas who was silent beside him. A phoenix was engraved on the golden and red scroll, which belonged to the Sunstrider family. Signet.

"what is this?"

"A secret order from His Majesty Anasterian."

Taranas took it and opened it, quickly scanned the content, and then fell silent.

"Now I have some doubts whether your surname is Windrunner or Sunstrider..." Then Taranas uttered a sentence with difficulty, "Your rare magical talent, His Majesty the King gave you such a secret order, are you sure you Is he really not the illegitimate son of His Majesty the King?"

"What's written on it?" Kars took the scroll, but just after scanning a few lines of Salas text on it, Kars' eyes widened.

"This, this, this... must have a permanent population of over 10,000, be self-sufficient, have an elite army capable of fighting, and be able to cooperate with the Temple of the Sun to monitor trolls and launch attacks when necessary. Build a mage tower? Your majesty is crazy!"

"Keep watching," Taranas said.

"Don't look at it, what's left is His Majesty's signature and seal." Aristophanes said, and then put away the secret order.

"What does this mean, Your Majesty? Why is it so urgent all of a sudden? It even bypassed the parliament..."

Aristophanes indicated whether Kars should be dismissed, Taranas shook his head, so Aristophanes spoke directly: "Taranas, you understand the political stance of our Windrunners, right? "

"Of course," Taranas nodded, then seemed to understand something, "You mean this is for Prince Kael'thas?"

"Yes," Aristophanes took a sip of water from his glass, "The dispute between His Majesty and the council has become more and more serious, especially over the use of the Sunwell."

"It's no wonder that the trolls are showing signs of resurgence recently. This is His Majesty's intentional indulgence!"

"Prince Kael'thas was pressured by the council and went to Dalaran for a study tour, but he won't be able to return for a short time. Now, this is the opportunity for us Windrunners."

"Aristophanes, what do you mean?" Taranas was startled.

"Don't get me wrong, Taranas," Aristophanes laughed, "I mean, with Windrunner as the main body, and several ranger families to build this place into a military fortress, no one can tell For some reason, isn't it?"

Taranas gave him a deep look, and Kars understood what Aristophanes meant.

"But none of us has no money, and this place is remote, how do you build a fortress out of nothing?"

Aristophanes smiled, and he reached out and pointed to the north of the sand table, and the phantom of the blue Ellendal Lake on the sand table fluctuated.

"lake?"

"Yes, the lake. I took a look at it before. Whether we can succeed depends on how to use this huge lake."

"You mean water transport?"

Aristophanes nodded.

"But the water is very unsafe. Adrian mentioned to me before that he was also attacked by water elements."

"Just kill it." Aristophanes said, "Jungle warfare can't be carried out for the time being, and trolls can't be killed, but water elementals can always be killed! Kill while fishing, not to mention the core of water elementals is a good thing. It’s also worth a lot of money. I’ll do some more research, maybe I can get us some new gadgets.”

Taranas nodded slightly, this is a good idea.

"Then it's settled, clear the waterway while fishing, and then send scouts to scout the north."