Although Fandral Staghelm beat his strong chest loudly, Sharlayan thought his idea was too optimistic.
Sandala is indeed one of the ancient cities of the Shadow Elves, but it is the Highborne Elves who manage this city and seek death to destroy it.
Strictly speaking, the high elves are not a group, but a class.
Everyone in the Night Empire can be counted as a night elf, and only high-level nobles can be called highborne.
Including Shandara, all ancient cities during the Dark Night Empire had this structure, with the upper elf managing a large number of night elf civilians in the city.
Due to the death-seeking behavior of the Highborne, a large number of innocent night elves civilians in Shandalar City were brutally killed. Their souls still linger in the Crystalsong Forest, and their resentment cannot be dissipated for a long time.
Since the warrior level exceeded 50 and officially entered the legendary realm, Sarlayan clearly felt that the level improvement had become extremely slow.
He finally understood why Shandris failed to reach 60 after ten thousand years.
Because the experience required to consume 50-60 is too huge, every time you advance to a level, the experience required for the next level will further increase.
It has been several months since Sharlayan reached level 50, and he has never slacked off in his daily training.
He often discusses with Valeela, Stellagosa and other family members, and occasionally goes to the island of Quel'Danas to find his mentor Salorian to learn from him.
But a few months passed before Sarlayan's warrior level reached 51.
Seeing the long experience bar required for level 51-52, Sarlayan curled his lips helplessly.
"Sure enough, it's not that easy to break through the legend and upgrade to the extraordinary."
Under the wave of involution initiated by Sharlayan, Valeera and Stellagosa did not relax their training. Little Star even reached level 51 earlier than Sharlayan.
Due to the extremely slow progress of warrior levels, Sarlayan has not made rapid progress in the past few months. He will only maintain a fixed training time every day, and the other time will be devoted to territory management, Quel'Thalas overall planning and other chores.
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If there is still free time in the future, Sarlayan will read the alchemy book presented by Melia and study the transformation of the power of life and death.
With in-depth research on the special profession of Thornspeaker, Sarlayan also learned more about the species on the side of death.
After death, the soul will inevitably leave the body.
Except for special individuals who are favored by the gods of death such as Bwonsamdi and Hela, other souls will continue to wander aimlessly in the material world, waiting for Kyrian who has been promoted to the fortress to come and pick them up.
Most ordinary souls cannot be seen by mortals. Their soul fluctuations are too weak. Only those who control the power of death can vaguely detect the existence of these weak souls.
If the deceased had a certain obsession that could not be dissipated after death, their body would be directly visible to people, but they would not be able to have any contact with living people, and they would have to turn to people for help if they wanted to fulfill their wishes.
Compared with the above two, the night elves ghosts lingering in Shandalar are not so gentle.
These ghosts wandering aimlessly in the forest are resentful spirits. They are full of resentment towards the living and will actively attack any passing creature.
Only those who have suffered great injustice before death, or die with some very strong obsessions, will be transformed into wraiths.
Not only are the wraiths highly aggressive, they are also powerful.
Once you are forcibly possessed by evil spirits, even if you can break free from their control by willpower, you are likely to become seriously ill afterwards.
This is because the resentful spirit itself carries a certain amount of death power. For the living who cannot resist this power, the death power is like a virus that enters the human body and will harm the body of the living.
Among the Backlight Blade thieves who went to Crystal Song Forest in advance to investigate information, there was a young unlucky guy who was accidentally ambushed and possessed by a wraith.
Not long after, he was trembling all over and fell ill. He was currently taking the Kul Tiras icebreaker back to Sunsail Port.
For those who control the power of death, destroying the evil spirits and absorbing their remaining power of death is also a way of practice.
After months of hard work, Sarlayan's Thornspeaker level slowly rose to level 34.
He planned to take advantage of this opportunity to go to Northrend and raise the Thornspeaker level by the way.
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After seeing off Fandral Staghelm, Sarlayan finally entered the palace to say hello to Kael'thas who was also busy, and then hurried to the Tower of Sunwrath with the Sun King's warrant.
The Tower of Sunwrath is a royal mage tower managed by the Sunstrider royal family, and has the richest human and material resources among all mage towers in Quel'Thalas.
Previously, the Backlight Blade thief who set off on a mission had recorded the coordinates of the Magic Network in Crystal Song Forest.
Through the ultra-long-distance portal opened by the royal mages, Sharlayan, Stellagosa, Tinagosa and Inas were directly transported across the ocean to Crystalsong Forest.
Compared with Yongge Forest, which is spring-like all year round and covered with greenery everywhere, Jingge Forest presents more of an autumn forest scenery.
Where the four of Sarlayan settled down, most of the surrounding trees had red or yellow leaves, and they looked golden.
This should be the outskirts of Crystal Song Forest, and is still far away from the Shandala ruins in the east of the middle of the forest.
Little Tina volunteered to take off for reconnaissance, and the others used the vision sharing function of the soul link to observe the surrounding environment through Tina's eyes.
After breaking out of the dense tree canopy, the first thing Tina Gosa saw was a giant tree rising from the ground, not far to the southwest of where the four of them were.
To the north is a small lake, and the river that meanders from it runs through most of the Crystal Song Forest.
"Tina, face north and turn your perspective upward."
"Okay~"
Under Sharlayan's instructions, Tinagosa turned around and looked due north, raising her little head up little by little.
"really."
When he saw the large ice wall above the lake following the small waterfall that flowed down, Sarlayan's eyes narrowed.
This waterfall cliff is the junction of the Icecrown Glacier that connects Crystalsong Forest, and it is also one of the strategic points that the high elves must guard against.
Sarlayan planned to build a dam fortress on top of the ice wall to monitor the movements of the Scourge in Icecrown Glacier, making this fortress the first line of defense to the north of the new Shandarara.
But it's a little too early to say this now, and I haven't even written my horoscope yet.
Sarlayan took out the flare he got from Veles from his arms and shot it into the sky. 3-5 minutes later, several Backlight Blade thieves dressed in different clothes came to join him.
"The Sun King's warrant and seal are confirmed to be correct."
The leading male thief respectfully returned the warrant to Sarlayan: "Earl of Deep Shadow, please give the order."
Sarlayan learned the identity of this person from Veles in advance. He was one of the senior members of the Backlight Blade, named Atla Sun Corona.
The characteristics of the Sun Crown family are very obvious, and their descendants all have fiery red hair.
This was obviously inconsistent with the thief's principle of keeping a low profile. In order not to attract unnecessary attention, Atla completely covered her red hair with a dark turban.
[Adol (auditory hallucination)? Red... red-haired old scumbag? 】
[Fuck, it’s Atela, and there can’t be a red-haired pervert in this world.]
Sarlayan was not busy giving the Backlight Blade team a new mission. He first learned about the situation from the thieves headed by Atla.
"How is the progress of your exploration? Have you found any valuable clues?"
"have."
Atla was of the same era as Julian and Villes. His attitude seemed quite cold and he should be a person with a more rigorous style.
"I think Count Deep Shadow has already read the encrypted information we sent back, right?"
Sarlayan nodded: "The Sun King is already aware of the changes in Icecrown Glacier. He plans to arrange engineers and arcane puppets to build a fortress on top of the large ice wall northwest of Crystalsong Forest."
Atla did not express any opinions on Kael'thas' decision and continued to report in a matter-of-fact manner.
"Except for the unusual movements in Icecrown Glacier, the area around Crystalsong Forest is relatively calm for the time being."
"There are no traces of civilized races living in the snowfields to the north. We only found some savage kobolds and mammoths under the cliffs."
"As for the cliff...according to the order of Chief Villes, we did not climb hastily to avoid disturbing the situation."
Sarlayan said approvingly: "Wise decision, that is not a place we can set foot in for the time being. Continue to monitor the storm cliffs and tell me immediately if there is any movement."
"yes."
Atla continued calmly: "The south of Crystalsong Forest is connected to the Dragonbone Wilderness. The Dragon Clan obviously has no interest in this land and has never sent anyone to patrol it."
"The last is the east side, which is also the most troublesome side."
Atla's expression became serious: "As you expected, the Drakkari trolls have always wanted to invade Crystalsong Forest. They have established an outpost at the junction of the two places in the east and are exterminating the local resentful spirits.