17. Allies of the Sun King --- Brother Kane, the Great Salty [3/10]
Kalimdor continent, Shining Plains, New Stormwind City.
This is a city under construction, located on the coastline of the new territory of the Stormwind Kingdom. Since the Shining Plains itself is rich in white marble of extremely high quality, this new city, which symbolizes the royal power of the Stormwind Kingdom, uses a large amount of marble luxuriously.
Although only one residential area has been built in this city due to the hard work of the centaur slaves, and other urban areas are still under construction, the glorious appearance of this new city that will surely go down in history in the future has already been
It has a subtle atmosphere and a different kind of beauty.
Moreover, it will not waste people and money... After all, there are too many centaur slaves, and the wildness surging in the veins of these losers has not been smoothed out. The current form of rebuilding civilization is very good, in order to avoid future
Something will happen, and the empire will have to find a way to "reduce" the number of centaurs.
It can be said that the bones of centaur slaves are buried under the five large cities currently being built by the empire, but unfortunately, no one will fight for the injustice of these barbarians.
But tonight, in the core of the residential area of New Stormwind City, in the residences of the current rulers of the Kingdom of Stormwind, there are flashes of light from teleportation magic from time to time, which means that in the past 2 hours, at least 4 people have come from other places.
Guests from far and wide arrived at this not-so-luxurious mansion through the portal, and those who were interested could also notice that tonight, there were too many guards patrolling around the mansion.
Clearly, something important has happened and is ongoing.
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"I guess there must be something very important, otherwise you wouldn't hold this damn meeting at this time, so I won't complain."
With a loud voice ringing in the mansion, Garin Trollbane, wearing a set of casual clothes, strode out of the portal under the escort of several guards. This magical thing shining with blue light is currently the most powerful one in the empire.
Commonly used remote communication tools.
Just as the Federation began to build railway lines on a large scale, the Empire also found a transportation method suitable for itself, especially after the city-state of Dalaran was destroyed. During those chaotic days, many mages fled to various countries.
, which allowed the magical power of all countries in the rebuilding civilization to rebound.
Now, although several archmages of Dalaran are trying to rebuild Dalaran, not many mages have responded to this call to return. On the one hand, although the warlocks of the Black Scythe Council have agreed to return the floating island of Dalaran, they cannot.
Er'Thuzad's strong demand that there must be a place for warlocks in New Dalaran made many orthodox mages feel very unhappy.
On the other hand, in the past hundreds of years, the various kingdoms of the Human Empire have not supported the city-state of Dalaran's control of magical power, especially after the great changes in life, the severely damaged human civilization continued to recover.
Vitality, then the young kings will naturally think about it, if Dalaran has disappeared, why should we let it reappear?
The power of magic belongs to the entire human civilization, why should Dalaran control the most critical ones?
The most important thing is that unlike the previous archmages, Mr. Kel'Thuzad, the master warlock who currently controls Dalaran, has a gratifying attitude towards knowledge. He is willing to share the magic books that the warlocks rescued from the ruins with other countries.
...This is much better than the previous six-member council's attitude towards knowledge.
Under the influence of this faint undercurrent, the reconstruction work of Dalaran has become very, very difficult. This is natural. Even including the young Jaina, the current number of archmages is not enough to reorganize the six-member council.
Since the traditional mages themselves don't have much strength, naturally not many people will listen to their voices.
Of course, the story about Dalaran is not over yet, but at this time, let us focus on the secret talks between the kings tonight.
As the belated King Galin and the other kings took their seats jokingly, a meeting between the kings began. In the months since the end of the Westward Expansion War, the kings who have been busy rebuilding their respective kingdoms have
It had been a long time since we had sat together and chatted, and after the hardships of the war, these young people sat together again, and naturally they had a very lively chat.
Until the Chaldean bishop who convened this meeting appeared... This is not to say that this always humble bishop was disgusting. The sudden silence of the meeting was because of the person who appeared behind the Chaldean bishop.
That was a guy who no one expected to appear here.
Before he even took off his hood, someone had already guessed his identity. After taking off his hood, his long golden hair and iconic emerald green pupils proved his identity.
..The Sun King of the high elves of Quel'Thalas, Kael'thas Sunstrider.
"Hey, look who's here."
After a short silence, Tanred, who came with his brother, was the first to speak, but the tone of the young man's words was a bit strange. He glanced at Kael'thas, who was silent, and spoke in a strange tone.
arrive:
"Has the great Sun King finally finished handling his "internal affairs"? Finally has time to visit his human "friends"?"
"Tanred! Shut up!"
Drake, the elder among the kings, saw the awkward atmosphere and scolded in a deep voice:
"The high elves are loyal allies of the Human Empire. You should not have spoken to His Majesty Kael'thas like this! Apologize! Immediately!"
Tanred turned away with an unconvinced look. As a young man of the same age as the kings, his character was somewhat bohemian. He believed that he had not said anything wrong.
After a moment, Arthas also looked at Kael'thas and said:
"I think Tanred said nothing wrong. Your Majesty Drake, the premise of alliance is to make sacrifices for each other. We regard the high elves as allies, but they don't seem to think so..."
"Emperor Lothar and the high elves hold the most sacred covenant, don't they?"
King Jialin also spoke:
"But on the battlefield where Emperor Lothar died, I didn't see even a single figure of the high elves. That was their most sacred alliance, and before the Battle of Northern Xinjiang, the empire accepted the high elves with the gentlest attitude.
Exiles, three months ago, when we faced the threat of barbarians, we asked the high elves for help, how did they respond to us?"
"Being busy with internal affairs, unable to send troops to help...so busy that even an archmage or a ranger was not willing to be sent. Ms. Jaina, who went to ask for help, had the dignity of a princess, but she could not even meet the "busy" Sun King.
Less than..."
His Majesty Liam closed his eyes and said lightly:
"What a good reason and what a good ally."
Seeing that the atmosphere was not quite right, the Chaldean bishop coughed lightly and said:
"I hope we don't forget that when the human empire needed it most, when we were desperate, the fleet of the high elves brought us hope... Kings, when did we humans become so mean?"
"Humans are never mean!"
Alsace snorted:
"But our hugs are only for true friends! Not...forget it, friends, what the Chaldean bishop said makes sense, we are guests from afar, let us listen to what the Sun King has to say."
The next moment, all the kings' eyes were focused on the calm-looking Kael'thas. The latter seemed to have already foreseen this scene and did not care about the indifferent sarcasm of the kings. Kael'thas knew that,
Human kings have reason to be angry.
Three months ago, because the magic power of the westward march was insufficient, the indifference encountered by the human envoys who came to ask for help was enough to arouse the anger of the kings. That matter was indeed handled improperly by Kael'thas.
At that time, he was busy discussing the opening of Elre'Thalas with the Sindra elves, and the other high-ranking lords were busy driving away the ogres... It was an embarrassing oversight.
As for bringing up the past events of the Northern Xinjiang War, Kael'thas believed that these young kings did not mean to do so; they were just venting their pain.
Kael'thas learned a lot from the betrayal of the Syndra elves... He would not be angry at the king's anger, because he already knew from the shameful betrayal that in this strange land, who
He is the ally in Quel'Thalas that is truly worth relying on.
"Friends..."
Kael'thas started with this word. He approached the round table and did not hide the purpose of his coming. He recalled the way his father dealt with the human kings in a serious enough and not embarrassing manner.
The tone said:
"The high elves are preparing a war of revenge against the high elves of Sindra. We were fooled by the elves of Sindra, and now, we need help from true allies... In return, after the ancient city of Elre'Thalas is opened
, we are willing to share all the magical information in Syndra's Great Library, even the original magical information in Quel'Thalas, with our human friends."
"Um?"
King Jialin, who had looked indifferent just now, immediately sat up straight. He stared at Kael'thas closely and said:
"I have heard stories about the upper elves outside this land. It is said that there are precious treasures from thousands of years ago buried in that ancient city?"
"Yes, the Sindra elves have been the treasure managers of Queen Azshara as early as the Elf Empire. Although I don't know what is in that city, I can be sure..."
Seeing the light in King Garin's eyes, the stone in Kael'thas' heart finally fell to the ground. After taking an inaudible breath, he seemed more calm. He knocked on the table and emphasized his tone:
"I can be sure that it is definitely a gift that is enough to make my human friends feel that the high elves are sorry... The main attacker will be borne by the high elves. All you need to pay is an infantry regiment to cover the flanks.
, of course, it would be great if there was more support.”
These words made all the kings interested, but before the other kings could ask questions, the older Drake leaned forward. He looked at Kael'thas seriously and said:
"Can we trust you this time? Sun King? Can the alliance between humans and high elves continue? To make a living in this barbaric land, we outsiders must unite."
Faced with this problem, Kael'thas Sunstrider took out a simple but solemn scroll from the magic ring. In front of the human king, he pricked his finger and wrote his name under the scroll with Sunstrider's blood.
, and then handed the scroll to the human kings. He looked at the people in front of him with calm eyes and said:
"The sacred blood will truly bind us together... Now, it's your turn."
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"Buzz"
The light of the teleportation technique lit up in the gathering place of high elves in the wilderness of Feralas. Prince Kael'thas strolled out of it. He handed the wooden box in his hand to Lannathel beside him. He whispered:
:
"Protect it, my queen, as you would protect your own life."
"What's this?"
There were two blushes on Lannathel's cheeks because of Kael'thas's address. She carefully took the wooden box. She looked at the wooden box in her hand curiously and asked softly:
"Is it really that important?"
"certainly."
Kael'thas stretched out his finger and scraped the bridge of Lana'thel's nose affectionately. He said in a deep voice:
"What this carries is the future!"
"My Majesty..."
When Kael'thas was about to leave, Lannathel suddenly called him and whispered in his ear:
"There is something you must know. An hour ago, at the wild border of Feralas, our rangers discovered several people...including Sylvanas Windrunner and Vereesa Windrunner.
There are two more humans. They said they came back to help us. Do you want to meet them?"
"No! Missing."
Kael'thas turned to look at the Ten Thousand Years City in the dense forest in the distance, and he said softly:
"Give them a ranger unit and let them be the vanguard in the battle in three days. If the Windrunner family wants to return to the society of high elves and wash away the stains on themselves, let them prove their loyalty on the battlefield first.
