After crossing the portal, Valeela immediately smelled the unique fishy salty smell of the seaside.
The moist and warm sea breeze blew against her face, and the lively atmosphere of Boralus Port made Valeela quite curious.
However, she still had an important task at hand at this time, so she suppressed her inner turmoil for the time being and turned her head to look at her surroundings.
The teleportation channel between Boralus and Dalaran has just been repaired not long ago, and there have been very few people traveling through teleportation recently.
The teleportation hall in Kul Tiras is called the Temple of the Sage and is very close to the Port Authority.
The tide sages stationed in the temple were shocked when they saw Valeela, and the leading tide sage stepped forward to ask questions as usual.
"This lady, who are you?"
Valeera did not hesitate to hand over the letter of recommendation given by Ronin to the Tide Sage.
"I am from Quel'Thalas. This is a letter of recommendation from the Dalaran Councilor. I have something important to ask to see Queen Catherine."
…
As one of the seven human nations and a member of the Alliance, no matter how ignorant Catherine was about government affairs, she would not neglect Dalaran's envoy, let alone the fact that this envoy came from the mysterious Quel'Thalas.
In order to cultivate Gianna's political abilities, Catherine has been taking her with her to study during this period.
After a period of getting acquainted with each other, Catherine was ashamed to discover the fact that Gianna was more talented than herself in managing government affairs.
When she learned that a high elf was asking for a meeting, the little princess who was assisting her mother rolled her eyes and immediately thought of Sarlayan, and she told her mother her guess.
Although Catherine's talents in government affairs were very poor, she could tell what Gianna was thinking at a glance.
Raising her hand and patting her daughter's head lightly, Catherine complained angrily: "You want to run out again? You don't want to use an excuse to guide the distinguished guests to Drustvar, do you?"
"Hehe~"
Gianna blushed a little as her intentions were seen through, and took Catherine's arm and shook her coquettishly.
"Mother~ If that special envoy really came for Sharlayan, wouldn't it be appropriate for me, an acquaintance, to lead the way?"
Catherine rubbed her brows helplessly: "There's really nothing we can do about you... Let's agree first that you won't stay outside for too long this time, and don't let me go to Drustvar to capture you in person."
Jaina: "Yeah!"
'but……'
Catherine looked at the name written on the recommendation letter and gradually frowned.
'Valeera Sangunar, the center of the storm in Quel'Thalas. I didn't expect that she would find Kul Tiras. I hope that meeting her will not involve Kul Tiras in Quel'Thalas.
Internal struggle.'
…
When Valeera arrived in Boralus, Sharlayan was still practicing hard under Orfa's guidance.
Just like Orfa's preface said, except for a few outliers, the living will instinctively reject and hate death, and Sarlayan is no exception.
Under this subconscious psychological barrier of rejection, Sarlayan's progress in necromancy was very slow.
This was also expected by Olfa. There was still more than a month left, and he believed that Saryan could overcome his inner resistance.
Sarlayan did not disappoint Olfa.
A week after being exposed to necromancy, Sarlayan gradually looked down on death, and his efficiency in mastering spells skyrocketed. His adaptation speed surprised Orian.
【Look down on life and death, if you don’t accept it, do it.】
[Life and death are endless reincarnations. Either I live or you die.]
[...Wait a minute, brother in front, is there something wrong with this sentence? 】
[Grass, aren’t you the one who will die, Chip.]
Sarlayan had no time to pay attention to these barrages. He was led by Orfa to a beast's lair at the foot of the mountain.
This is the den of a brown bear. The owner happened to be out looking for food. There was no bear in the cave, leaving only some bones of the eaten animals.
"let's start."
Orfa sat in front of the cave with his big butt dangling, and Sarlayan walked over to the pile of animal bones and took a look.
"Deer? That's okay too."
Using Professor Orfa's skills to reverse the power of life, a ball of gray-black energy appeared in Sarlayan's hands.
The energy ball separated countless threads and rolled towards the bones in the cave. Sarlayan carefully controlled the power of death, and the scattered bones gradually pieced together and reorganized into a complete deer bone shape.
"Buzz!"
As the blue soul fire flashed in the deer bone's chest and eye sockets at the same time, the pile of bones began to act autonomously as if it had life.
This is the basis of necromancy, necromancy.
Necromanticism can awaken the soul of the deceased and allow it to return to its dead body... provided that its soul is not pulled away by the Shadow Realm.
Orfa has studied the power of death for many years and has dealt with both Bwonsamdi and Hela. His understanding of the Shadow Realm exceeds that of most mortals in Azeroth.
According to him, the efficiency of attracting souls in the Shadow Realm is actually not very high. It does not mean that someone will be sent over immediately when a person dies.
The people who are introduced to the Shadow Realm are blue-skinned people with snow-white wings on their backs. They call themselves Kyrian.
It is a very practical question. Kyrian will give priority to selecting high-quality souls to bring back to the Shadow Realm, and the Archon will fairly distribute these souls to the countries they should go to.
Most of these high-quality souls will be assigned by the Arbitrator to the four most important "civil servant" nations in the Shadow Realm, Revendreth, Ardenweald, Ascension Bastion and Maldraxxus.
Those less important souls have lower priority, and some souls may even linger in their home world for hundreds of years.
After souls who have done no evil and have no great achievements enter the Shadow Realm, most of them will be thrown into a mediocre ordinary country and experience the life after death peacefully.
[Is this the setting of 9.0? It’s just A in 8.2, I don’t know much about the new plot. 】
[Yes, 9.0 tells the story of the four kingdoms of the Shadow Realm, but I don’t know that there are other ordinary kingdoms besides the four kingdoms. 】
[Isn’t this nonsense? There are so many souls in the entire universe, it’s impossible to lose them all in the four major kingdoms. 】
[Ascension to Bastion will only leave behind good souls who have made contributions before, Ardenweald only accepts souls that have a connection with nature, and all Maldraxxus wants are war madness who hope to continue fighting after death.
Those who had any hope of atonement went to Revendreth.]
[Except for those hopeless souls who will be thrown into the abyss to endure endless torture, other innocent and meritless souls will naturally be assigned to ordinary countries with no characteristics. ]
[emmmm... A question suddenly occurred to me, if Sasha died and went to the Shadow Realm, he would probably join Maldraxxus, right? 】
【Grass, there is a saying, bird food.】
[Not necessarily, considering Sharlayan’s life experience, it is not impossible to go to Ardenweald.]
[If he had made many achievements during his lifetime, he might be promoted to the fortress and come to rob him. 】
Sarlayan: "You...are you just looking forward to my early death?"
"Unfortunately, as long as I don't suffer unnatural death, my lifespan should be very ~ very long."
【Gan! Can this be done in Versailles?】
[It’s sour, why do humans only have a lifespan of a hundred years? I also want to have more time to travel around the world.]
[Looking at the bright side, taking the era we live in now as an example, if you can live 10,000 years, you will need to be a social animal for at least 7,000 years and 996 years. Are you sure this is a good thing?]
【Stop it! I’m suffering from PTSD!】
[Roll up! What’s 996? Let’s go with 007!]
【Blessings are all blessings.】
Sarlayan once again ignored the unintelligible content in the second half and focused on the undead deer that he had "resurrected".
Alfre reminded earnestly: "Salayan, the ability of necromancy to recall souls may cause some people to hallucinate, thinking that they can control the ability of the dead to resurrect."
"But please remember that necromancy is not resurrection, and the summoned soul is still essentially the dead."
"Except for high-ranking individuals like Bwonsamdi and Hela who have the power of death, mortals do not have the ability to resurrect life, and at best they never will."
Sarlayan asked in confusion: "Why? Isn't it a good thing to be able to resurrect important people?"
Orfa shook his head: "Of course it's a good thing to look at it from a narrow personal perspective, but what about from a macro perspective?"
"The resources of any world are limited. If everyone who dies can be resurrected, life and death cannot form a perfect cycle. What will be the consequences of life and death?"
"Um……"
Sarlayan lowered his head and thought for a moment: "Population explosion? Accelerating resource consumption? Overdrawing the planet's potential?"
"That's right."
Orfa stretched out the bear's paw, and the soul fire from the undead deer awakened by Sarlayan was drawn out and scattered again between heaven and earth.
"The Thornspeakers need to maintain the balance between life and death, and cannot destroy the cycle of life according to their own preferences."
Olfa's bear face showed a meaningful look: "Even if one day you can completely understand the mysteries of life and death and solve the mystery of the life span of mortals, you must carefully consider how to deal with this ability."