Unlike an atypical genius like Kel'Thuzad, Hercula is more in line with the outside world's perception of a mage: lonely and eccentric, doing research that others cannot understand.
The blood samples collected from Noggenfogg were separated and diluted, and dropped into three different solutions in sequence. Then Hercula used different arcane changes to act on the solutions respectively and observed the changes in the test tubes.
Li De was watching Hercula's concentrated operation from the side, which made the young mage feel a little uncomfortable.
"Sir, is there anything wrong with my operation?"
Li De waved his hand.
"It's okay. You don't have to pay attention to me. I don't understand. I'm just watching for fun."
Hearing what Li De said, Hercula gained confidence and started explaining with enthusiasm.
"What I am doing is combining several completely different arcane reactions. This is the latest research result of Dalaran. We were unable to complete such an experiment until two years ago.
To be able to do this, we must thank Master Khadgar. It was he who discovered a brand-new herb. This herb has extremely strong affinity. As long as a certain amount of juice is added to the reagent, the reagent can have unprecedented properties.
stability.
And this high-quality herbal medicine was also named ‘Khadgar’s Beard’.”
Although Li De didn't understand much, he still listened with interest. Then Hercula began to record the data, and Li De was not shy about the whole process.
Seeing such a lack of confidentiality, Li De shook his head.
“Does it really matter what these important data show me?”
Hercula was stunned for a moment, then laughed a little sheepishly, and finally told the truth to Li De.
"Actually, it's not a big problem, because even I don't know what these data represent. I just collected the data according to the teacher's requirements. As for what results can be obtained from these data, and how to do the next step of research, I can only
Teacher Ersugard knows."
"Wait a moment."
Li De raised his hand to stop Hercula.
"Do you know what the subject you are working on now is?"
Hercula looked confused.
"I don't know. I guess the teacher may want to study "The Practical Application of Khadgar's Beard in Magic Experiments"?"
Li De didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Herkula had been making trouble for a long time and had no idea what he was doing. He was just responsible for drawing blood, adjusting reagents and writing data every day. Even a mage apprentice could do this kind of work. There was no need to arrange a person.
A senior mage.
Although I appreciate Kel'Thuzad's sense of confidentiality, this kind of behavior is like a mentor who exploits his students by doing projects. No, that's exactly what Kel'Thuzad did.
Hercula was still unaware that he was doing odd jobs for his mentor. After sorting out the data carefully, he tore off the page and put it in an envelope. He would later give today's data to Da
Laran's instructor sent it over.
But before Helkula could send the data, Kel'Thuzad himself came to Alterac, and Khadgar came with him.
"Teacher, today's data..."
When Hercula saw the instructor arriving, he took the initiative to hand over the data.
"Oh, okay, thank you for your hard work. You go back to Dalaran and wait for me. You have worked hard these past few days."
After Hercula left, Kel'Thuzad opened the letter and glanced at it briefly, then casually put the letter on his body.
"The data is correct. It is indeed the case. Our research on the body structure of goblins has produced results."
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Lothar prepared a secret room for several people for them to talk. In this room, Kel'Thuzad and Khadgar sat on one side, and on the opposite side were Reed and Nogfogg.
"During this period, we conducted anatomy on the remains of more than a dozen goblins and came to the conclusion that a high degree of compatibility with evil energy is a characteristic of the goblin race."
Because of the previous war, it was not surprising that there would be a considerable number of goblin remains in Dalaran. As for their research process, both Lid and Nogfogg expressed no interest in learning more about it. They were more concerned about the results.
"Then why? There has to be a reason."
Kel'Thuzad and Khadgar looked at each other, and finally Khadgar cleared his throat.
"To completely explain this matter, we may need the help of archaeology. Only by completing the research on the origin of the goblin race can we know the truth.
However, based on the existing results, we can also put forward a conjecture hypothesis: In the early days of the birth of the goblin race, evil energy, as the original force, participated in the shaping of the goblin race.
We used to think that everything in the physical world was built by arcana, but now it seems that this theory is somewhat untenable. To be precise, it should be arcana and evil energy that jointly build the material world.
It's just that arcana represents order and is much more stable than chaotic evil energy, so in most cases we can only observe the existence of arcana.
Now we know that arcana and evil energy can transform into each other, which means that in the process of shaping entities, evil energy plays a dominant role in the material transformation of the goblin race.
It's just that for some unknown reason, the arcane magic has not been completely transformed, and the entity of the goblin race has retained a certain degree of order and has not collapsed and dissipated with the absolute evil energy.
Therefore, evil energy can exist in a stable state in the body of goblins, so that if it were not for anatomical-level research, it would be difficult for us to discover that goblins and evil energy are actually related in this way."
The academic Khadgar was always very literal when speaking, and Kel'Thuzad made timely additions.
"To put it bluntly, if goblins become warlocks and master the evil energy obtained from the outside world, it will be difficult for us to observe."
This result gave Reed and Nogfogg both joy and sorrow.
Fel energy is an important source of power in shaping goblins, so it is almost harmless for goblins to use fel energy, and it is difficult for goblins with fel energy in their bodies to be observed by the outside world. This means that goblins can build warlock troops with no side effects.
But correspondingly, this matter poses a huge security risk to the entire Azeroth. Fel energy has no side effects on the goblins themselves, but it is extremely destructive to other races.
Especially if evil energy spreads among goblins, the outside world will lack the means to tell whether a goblin is a warlock, which means that evil energy is tied to the entire race of goblins.
In the mainstream view, evil energy is undoubtedly evil energy. If goblins become the representative race of evil energy, then a race like the Kaldorei that resolutely fights against evil energy is likely to use this to provoke
conflict.
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This matter did not reach a good result after the discussion. Dalaran's research on evil energy and goblins is still continuing, and Li De and Nogfogg are also thinking of countermeasures.
After all, we cannot just rely on the help of others. The Protector of Hanhai has a strong spiritual background of self-reliance. It is never the character of Hanhai people to passively wait for others to rescue them.
Noggenfogg doesn't understand fel energy and arcane magic, but he is still an excellent engineer after all.
The construction of the heavy industrial zone in Alterac is on the right track, and the financialization of the Stormwind Kingdom's ores has been promoted relatively smoothly. As the hub of the Alliance, Alterac has always had the potential to become an economic and financial center. Nogfor
The exchange established here quickly aroused the interest of businessmen groups.
The several tasks at hand were going smoothly, and Noggenfogg felt that he could devote more energy to studying the power imposed on him.
Just like when he first came into contact with engineering, he used the mechanical thinking that only belongs to engineering to study the evil energy in his body.
"The following are the effects of an equivalent amount of evil energy on various objects:
Rock and steel are most affected by evil energy... Generally speaking, inorganic matter is more susceptible to the influence of evil energy than organic matter... Is this why the water source and soil environment of Gorongas will deteriorate rapidly?
In other words, the environment in Gorongas has become unsuitable for plant growth. It is probably not because the evil energy directly transformed the local plants, but because there is no environment suitable for plant growth, which leads to widespread plant withering?
Among organic matter, inanimate ones are more susceptible to the influence of evil energy and collapse than animate ones?
The cut wood will collapse quickly... The wood that is still growing will collapse slower? Although the time is still short, it is indeed slower than the cut wood...
Animals are the most vulnerable to direct collapse under the influence of evil energy, but animals can be distorted by evil energy and turn into another kind of monster..."
In Noggenfogg's room, the walls are covered with tables of all sizes, which record in detail the time it takes for various substances to collapse or change under the influence of evil energy under a certain amount.
In this clumsy exhaustive research, Noggenfogg felt that he had found a rule, that is, life can resist evil energy.
However, after reaching this conclusion, Noggenfogg's research began to fail because he knew very little about the original power of life.
But Noggenfogg was not discouraged by this. It was true that he lacked knowledge on the power of life, but the Protector of the Vast Sea did not lack researchers on the power of life.
The power of life is very mysterious, and in the entire field of life power, the most mysterious pearl is called "soul".
But when it comes to the study of souls, in the known world of Azeroth, probably no one has gone further than the trolls. Loaben is a belief system built around the core idea of "animism".
"You can achieve so many results in such a short period of time. I think you can be called a well-deserved 'Doctor of Evil'."
Holding the more than ten centimeters thick materials compiled by Nogfuge, Li De couldn't help but praise it sincerely.
This is a very gratifying point for Nogfogg. For his blind exploration from scratch, Reed gave him absolute support. This made Nogfogg deeply realize that on the day Reed established the Light of Civilization,
The tolerance I emphasize is by no means as simple as words.
"The reorganization of the United Congress of All Races will also be put on the agenda. I promised Shandris that within these three months, we need to find a solution and get Malfurion's approval.
Next, we should return to Gadgetzan with this research result, but we don’t know what kind of help our Loa priests and several venerables can provide us."
Li De and Nogfogg expressed their thoughts on returning to the Vast Sea Protector. The economic chess player mentally estimated the various tasks on the King's Continent and then gave his own opinions.
"Everything has been properly arranged here, and we can return to the Hanhai Protector."
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In fact, even if the two of them do not plan to return in the near future, they have to return to the Hanhai Protectorate.
Because on the night when Li De and Nogfogg decided to return, a disaster occurred in the Hanhai Protectorate!
The incident happened in the deep sand plain. That night in the settlement near the ancient city of Petra, people were sleeping when they suddenly felt the world spinning!
The whole earth is like a dustpan, and people feel like they are like beans in a dustpan. They have completely lost control of their bodies and can only bump up and down with the roar of the earth.
The whole process lasted a full two minutes!
After the earthquake ended, the ancient city of Petra was surrounded by ruins, and only this wonder still looked relatively complete.
"What the hell is going on?! Haggard! Haggard! Where are you?!"
Chen Stormstout held two people on his left and right arms, and carried two more on his shoulders. In such a disaster, being able to save six people at once was his limit.
The Brewmaster stood in the ruins and shouted at the top of his lungs. The person stationed here with him to manage the wasteland reclamation group was the Minister of Civil Affairs, Haggard. Now, no matter how much he shouted, he couldn't get a response. Chen Stormstout's heart was already cold.
Half of it.
Even he could barely protect himself from such a massive earthquake, and Haggard might have been killed unfortunately.
"Master Chen, I'm here..."
Just as Lao Chen was thinking this, a feeble voice came from the distance. If Lao Chen hadn't been so smart, he might not have been able to hear the other party's cry for help.
When they came to a collapsed wall, Haggard, whose face was covered in blood, had one of his legs smashed into it, and was now struggling to move away the wall that was pressing on him with one hand.
Old Chen could tell at a glance that his other arm was dislocated. He let go and saved the man. Chen Stormstout stepped forward and moved the fallen wall away. He did not rush to help Haggard up after that.
Instead, he stroked the other person's arm with his hand and helped him take the hand with a bang.
"What exactly is going on?"
Haggard, who was helped up, said in shock that in the face of natural disasters, people will realize how insignificant they are. The impact tonight is even stronger than the orc war.
"There's no time to think about this! It's only right to save people as soon as possible!"
Chen Stormstout roared in his ears, which suddenly woke Haggard up.
"Yes, yes! Disaster relief should be organized immediately!"
Haggard's eyes were filled with ruins, and Haggard's heart was bleeding. How many casualties would there be among the people in such a disaster? Soon Haggard discovered that due to the sudden incident, the escort team also lost contact, and they may have also suffered a huge loss.
Loss, how should they provide disaster relief?!
Seeing that Haggard was a little confused, Old Chen immediately spoke quickly.
"I'll be here to guard you. Go back to Gadgetzan quickly to get in touch and report the matter to the Protector. If the disaster in Gadgetzan is not serious, please ask Niebuhr to mobilize troops for rescue immediately."
Haggard shook his head and said.
"We need to get in touch with Gadgetzan as quickly as possible. I'm injured and can't move quickly. It's better for you to go back to Gadgetzan. I'll stay here to organize disaster relief for survivors."
However, Chen Stormstout's tone was stern and left no room for argument.
"Stop dawdling! Listen to me! I have to stay here!"
As he spoke, the Brewmaster stared intently at the ancient city of Petra. On the top of the mountain of the ancient city, a red figure made of lava appeared!