After the arrival of Illucia, the changes in Covenant City increased day by day, and the city that was originally full of ruins quickly became popular.
Covenant City was the first to flourish as a commercial area specially prepared for merchants who came here to do business. This area is opposite the Paladin camp, where the Altar of the Lynx God was originally located. The space here is wide enough, and it will be easy to expand if needed in the future.
Furthermore, this area is very close to the city lord's palace, making it very convenient for tax collection and management.
After the landless farmers Illucia asked his parents to recruit from Alterac arrived, Covenant City became more and more lively. In order to manage these people, Aaron went to Tyr's Fall and asked Tavard to borrow a group of Tyr's Guard to serve as city guards.
Ever since Aaron helped solve the Old Gods minions inside Tyr's Tomb, Tyr's Guard has always been grateful to him. Tavard naturally agreed to his request. Anyway, they are just helping Aaron manage the market, and there is no danger.
After all these things were resolved, Aaron started planning to move the company here. For this matter, Illucia became even busier.
There is no way, the construction of a new territory is already complicated. Although Illucia has learned a lot of skills in managing a territory from his parents, this is the first time he has actually practiced it.
After a busy day's work, Illucia returned to her room. Although the territory was first established, she could only live in the room in the Hex Lord's Hall, but who was she? The eldest lady of the Barov family, how could she have wronged herself.
In his spare time, Illucia arranged his room well. Although it was not as good as at home, it was comfortable enough.
Anyway, Covenant City is not far from Silvermoon City. If Illucia lacks anything, just ask the Sackhoffs who were sent to take care of her to buy it. She is not short of money anyway.
After resting on the chair for a while and relieving himself from the fatigue caused by a busy day, Illucia sat down at the table and turned on the magic lamp produced by the elf craftsman. After letting the light spread evenly on the desk, Illucia unfolded a piece of beautiful letter paper and began to continue writing from where he finished yesterday.
Illucia gently put the quill pen in his hand into the ink bottle, dipped it in ink, and began to quickly write down lines of words on the letter paper:
"Dear mother, this is about it for the past few days since I came to Covenant City. By the way, I have received the letter you sent last time. You don't need to worry about me."
"As I said before, Lord Aaron is a very easy person to get along with. All the suggestions I made can basically be implemented. However, this lucky Lord is not ignorant of all kinds of government affairs. Although he does not realize it himself, many of his ideas are very forward-looking in my opinion."
After writing this sentence, Illucia turned his wrist, and the image of the lord who was several years younger than himself seemed to appear in front of his eyes.
After this period of getting along, Illucia's views on Aaron have changed again and again.
Before coming to Covenant City, Illucia had also imagined the image of Aaron. At that time, she only knew that Aaron was a lucky man who got a city as his territory because of his military exploits. She also thought that Aaron was a veteran who was about the same age as Uther and had been on the battlefield for a long time.
Therefore, when Illucia saw Aaron, he was even more surprised than Aaron. After all, Aaron was too young and not much older than Illucia's brothers.
However, Illucia's self-restraint skills are much better than Aaron. Although he was surprised, he still maintained basic courtesy.
However, Aaron's behavior after the meeting made Illucia a little disappointed. In Illucia's opinion, this young man's speech and behavior were vulgar, and the servants in his own family were much more polite than him.
Moreover, Illucia always felt that Aaron looked at him with an emotion that was almost pity, which made Illucia feel that this young lord was even more confused.
Fortunately, Aaron has a pretty good attitude towards Illucia, and the most fortunate thing about Illucia is that Aaron almost never interferes with the various plans she proposes. Even if she has any opinions, she will seriously discuss them with her. Illucia feels that this is rare.
"Mother, regarding what my father said, I think I need to think about it carefully, and I'm afraid the final result will disappoint him." Illucia wrote this, sighing, and his thoughts seemed to fly back to the night when he was suddenly informed by his father to serve as a political officer for a certain lord.
As the eldest daughter in the family, Illucia has a clear understanding of the Barov Family's current situation, so when she saw her father's long-lost smiling face, Illucia was very surprised.
According to his father's explanation, the greedy Lordaeron actually relented on the issue of his own territory and reclassified Tarren Mill under the name of the Barov Family.
Although Barov Family will be loyal to House of Menethil from now on, he has finally not fallen into the tragic situation of only Lake Caer Darrow's heart island remaining.
However, in exchange, Barov Family also needs to pay a price, and Illucia is part of the price - Illucia also knows very well that in the eyes of others, he is definitely not worth the value of a Tarren Mill.
The reason why Illucia devotes himself so dedicatedly to his work as a political officer is because he wants to prove that his value is far greater than a town. Of course, the more important thing is because of another thing his father told him.
The greedy Terenas hoped to completely win over Aaron to the side of Lordaeron, so he chose Illucia to serve as the Covenant City's political officer, after all, Lordaeron has many capable ministers and officials. It is naturally necessary to choose a twenty-year-old young woman to be this political officer because of some reasons that are difficult to explain.
Illucia was naturally extremely resistant to this matter, but the pressure from both Lordaeron and her father was beyond her ability to bear, so she had no choice but to agree.
Illucia has no intention of following Terenas's idea. Anyway, she is far away from Covenant City, and Terenas is beyond her reach.
Now Illucia only wants to use the opportunity of serving as a political officer in Covenant City to prove her worth. She believes that as long as she can achieve good enough results, some things that cannot be said openly will naturally pass away.
Instead of worrying about these things, it is better to think about how to persuade Aaron to give up his unrealistic idea.
Illucia couldn't help but sigh when he thought of this. Illucia had mentioned before that he wanted to expand the simple seaport developed by the Bear God. If Covenant City could have its own port, then the city would not have to worry about development.
The only problem is that Alliance countries are basically rebuilding at present, so it may not be easy to find manpower to clean and expand the ports.
Illucia originally thought about waiting for this period of time to pass before considering the port matter, but Aaron suddenly came up with an idea that stunned her. "I remember that Lordaeron should be holding many Orcs prisoners of war. We might as well ask them to help."