After Thranduil left, he inspected the current state of the Heart of Origin. The original human base with a population of six million had grown by about 500,000 in the past year or so. Besides a large number of farmers, the rest were high-level troops, including 20,000 high-level knights, 10,000 priests, 10,000 wizards, and 8,000 gryphon knights. The cathedral added 146 holy knights to Galen. The growth of high-level troops was slow, but fortunately, after the Battle of Mount Hyjal, more than 20,000 infantrymen, musketeers, and more than 1,000 high-level knights had accumulated enough experience to be promoted. Thinking of his subsequent plans, Galen planned to Recall the ten senior corps from Draenor and then send new legions to train. He also wondered how Omar and the others were doing in Draenor. In the past ten years, these legion commanders had not been stationed in Draenor all the time. With the establishment of fixed teleportation gates between Minas Tirith, Crusader Fortress, and Shattrath City, they would also take vacations in Azeroth. Galen knew that most of them had married noble women from Stromgarde, but he didn't know if they had hooked up with Draenei women over there.
After finishing the population count, Galen began his inspection of the Crusader Fortress. As an important scientific research base, the Crusader Fortress can be said to be leading the technological trend in Azeroth. Although Azeroth is a high-magic world, it can still take the path of technology here and even combine technology and magic. Aegwynn had been building the Sky City here for more than ten years, and Galen had received her report not long ago that the Sky City project had been completed. Galen originally wanted to go and inspect it immediately, but Archimonde's arrival restrained all his energy, and he didn't find time until today.
Ghost Mist Peak, north of the Crusader Fortress, is the highest peak in the Golden Plains. Aegwynn's testing ground is here. When Galen arrived at the Pool of Forgetfulness, he found that the north side of the lake had lost its cover. Ghost Mist Peak was gone! Or rather, Ghost Mist Peak had been cut in half! Galen looked up along the remaining root of Ghost Mist Peak and saw a huge inverted triangular platform suspended hundreds of meters in the air. Aegwynn really did it, just as Galen had suggested, she cut a mountain in half and then inverted the peak! A flash of white light passed, and Gandalf brought Aegwynn to Galen's side.
"You did it, Aegwynn!" The strategic significance of Sky City is very important. This is a strategic fortress, and it's in the sky, and it's mobile! Imagine, Galen directly teleports Sky City to the sky above Icecrown Glacier, and then a steady stream of soldiers are air-dropped directly to strike at the heart of the enemy. With Galen's current strength of more than two million troops, he could directly cover Icecrown Citadel! I ask, what does the Lich King have to fight me with?
"Great Lord, in fact, it is not difficult to suspend objects in the air. As early as before, I could rely on Aluneth to make a sea warship fly into the sky." Aluneth, full name Aluneth, Guardian's Staff, is a staff used by Aegwynn in her later years. The staff seals a pure arcane energy entity named Aluneth, a demi-god level arcane life. The reason why Galen remembered this artifact was because, like the Skull of Xor'liath on his body, it had self-awareness, a talking weapon. "Five years ago, I created a large anti-gravity ring, but unfortunately, we lack the powerful energy to keep it running continuously!"
Galen nodded. He remembered that in the original timeline, there was also a ring at the bottom of Dalaran. Could that be the secret of Dalaran's floating? "Great Lord, I once suggested that the mages in our Crusader army form teams of a hundred people each, taking turns to charge the gravity ring, but unfortunately, the magic power of the human body is too mottled to meet the needs of the ring." Galen was still recalling Dalaran in his memory when he suddenly froze when he heard this. He raised his head and looked at Gandalf with the eyes of someone looking at a beast… I thought I was dark enough to make the miners work in two shifts without paying the soldiers military salaries, but I didn't expect Gandalf to be even darker than me! You are using our 90,000+ intermediate wizards as human batteries!
"However, when you returned a year ago, Great Lord, the Well of Eternity water you brought back solved this problem." Aegwynn glanced at Galen meaningfully. She had already confirmed that Galen had gone time-traveling during those years he was missing. Seven bottles of Well of Eternity water suddenly appeared from the long-disappeared Well of Eternity. Are you doing wholesale? There's also the Orb of Deception that I improved, and the Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker used by the night elf Grand Lord Galen'Remar, which is an artifact that I participated in forging. Seeing through but not speaking out, Aegwynn's EQ and IQ are commendable as one of the few demigods in the Crusader army who are not bound by the Heart of Origin.
"The Well of Eternity water contains huge energy. I used a bottle of Well of Eternity water as the core and spent a year creating a small energy well to lift this peak into the air."
"It's just…"
"Just what?"
Aegwynn looked distressed: "It's a bit wasteful to use the Well of Eternity as the core of Sky City. According to my assessment, the anti-gravity ring only consumes 3% of the total energy!" Well, it is indeed a bit wasteful, but Galen doesn't care. Sky City is an indispensable part of his plan. He Installed eleven bottles of pure Well of Eternity water, gave Dasrema one bottle to build the Sunwell, gave Ancagalon three bottles, Sky City one bottle, and even then, he still has six bottles left! Typical of being rich and powerful.
"The current Sky City is just a prototype. We will have to build a lot of facilities on it later. At that time, one gravity ring will not be enough, and we will also have to create a magical barrier to resist damage, various mage towers that can attack, plus some energy-consuming facilities in the city; the energy well will make the best use of everything!" Galen even wanted to build a main gun for the Sky Fortress! Galen believes that dignity is only above the blade, and truth is only within the range of artillery. Whoever dares to disobey, blast them with a cannon!
Galen used a pre-set teleportation gate through Aegwynn to send a team of construction workers to the inverted peak platform of Ghost Mist Peak. In the center of the platform, Galen directly deployed a town hall, which Galen planned to directly upgrade to the top level. Then, the military area, mage area, commercial area, and residential area were planned one by one, and a circle of arcane towers and arrow towers were arranged on the periphery as basic defense. The Sky City was basically formed.
After inspecting Sky City, Galen went to the Combat Research Center. In addition to the research and development of aerospace warships, there is also the research and development of mechas here.