Rise of the blood elves

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Crassus and Ronin were gone.

The guards all retreated under Kael'thas's order.Only the prince of the blood elves was left in the tent. He slumped feebly on the chair, his arms resting on the heavy desk, supporting his groggy head.

The night was slightly cool, and a wisp of cool wind penetrated the open door curtain, causing the candlelight to flicker, and irritating Prince Kael'thas' fragile and sensitive nerves.

He let out a low growl and roughly overturned the desk in front of him. Books, ink bottles, and decrees sent from Quel'Thalas awaiting signature were scattered all over the floor.The ink stained the paper, and the sound attracted the guards.

After a burst of messy footsteps, a concerned voice came from the door: "Your Highness"

Kael'thas waved his hand impatiently and waved away the guards again.Then he sat on the chair without any image, leaning on his knees with his elbows and staring at the ground under his feet in silence.

died.

Angmar is dead.

Krasus said that an accident caused him and Ronin to return to ancient times, and met Angmar 1 years ago.Angmar led the ancient war that was extremely important to this world, but died before the dawn.Knowing his fate, he walked into the portal leading to the twisted void without hesitation.

Kael'thas took a deep breath and exhaled it slowly. He accidentally saw the magic crystal submerged in the ink-stained paper, and hurriedly stepped forward and picked it up.This was given to him by Luo Ning, and contained the magic stone entrusted to him by Angmar during his lifetime.

He had already predicted his fate. He said, if he fails to come back, let us give this crystal to you.

Looking at the crystal in his hand, which was completely golden and exuded warm Sunwell magic, Kael'thas heard Luo Ning's words again and could not help but shake his head and smile bitterly.

After much hesitation, he still did not activate the crystal, and finally put it into his pocket.

"Your Highness," footsteps sounded, and a familiar voice came from the door. Then someone walked in, but he seemed to be surprised by the sight in front of him, "What's wrong with you?"

Kael'thas looked up.

The travel-stained Romance had just taken off the hood that was wide enough to cover his face and looked very surprised.

"It's nothing, let's talk about it later." Kael'thas sighed, straightened the chair, sat on it, rubbed his face tiredly, and when he opened his eyes again, he had regained his former energy.Sitting upright, looking at the dusty Romance, he asked, "Have you checked clearly?"

Rommath suppressed the doubts in his heart and replied: "We have found out. We found a lot of traces of mental magic in the main aristocratic area of ​​Stormwind City. All evidence shows that in the past 12 years, Katrana has been using the profound The mental magic confuses and affects the minds of these nobles. Bolvar Fordragon is particularly severely manipulated, and the parties involved are not even aware that they are being manipulated unknowingly."

"How deep?" Kael'thas asked.

Rommath looked solemn, "Far beyond expectations, Your Highness. She is more than what she appears on the surface. I have never seen such terrifying mental magic. Looking at the history of magic in our clan and Dalaran, I can't find anything that can A mage who is comparable to her. That’s why the court mages of Stormwind Kingdom didn’t notice anything unusual.”

Among the seven human kingdoms, apart from the magical city-state of Dalaran, which has gathered the most talented human mages, Lordaeron has the most elite group of spellcasters.The rest, at least at the moment, are not ranked. If Medivh is not taken into account, the group of mages in the Kingdom of Stormwind is actually the lowest in the Seven Kingdoms.

"Not interesting," Kael'thas narrowed his eyes slightly, "continue."

"The driving force behind the riots years ago seemed to be Katrana. While she was creating espionage incidents, she slandered the Stonemasons Guild and intended to sell the key blueprints of the Stormwind City Barracks and the Royal Palace Fortress to the Gurubashi trolls in Stranglethorn Vale in exchange for Money, calling on the nobles to re-examine the intentions of the masons' union in expanding and repairing Stormwind City; while infiltrating the masons' union with their cronies, dispelling the rumors that the nobles were trying to enrich themselves and refusing to pay for the project, and inciting the masons to launch a riot. In short, she It was the Stonemasons Guild who became the main culprit of the Defias Brotherhood. They personally created a terrible enemy for the Kingdom of Stormwind. They seemed to hope that at the end of the incident, they would use their backhand to break into the Defias Brotherhood to settle everything on their own. To gain greater fame and control the Kingdom of Stormwind.”

Kael'thas nodded for Rommath to continue.

Romans took out a crystal ball that exuded strange magic and handed it to the prince.

This is a relatively rare communication crystal ball. It is a kind of ancient relic and is difficult to make with existing means.Communication crystal balls usually come in pairs, allowing real-time communication with the holder of another crystal ball, no matter how far apart the holders are, as long as they are still in Azeroth.

Rommath said: "This is the communication crystal ball discovered by the mages of Modera and Dalaran in Katlana's residence. It has heavy signs of magic circulation. The holder seems to often use it to contact another crystal ball. The holder of the crystal ball. According to our investigation, the other of the pair of crystal balls is located in the Blackstone Tower in Blackstone Mountain. This means that if Katlana is the owner of this crystal ball, then she has been fighting with the Blackstone Orcs. , or Victor Nefarios, who rules the Blackrock Orcs, or the Dark Iron dwarves in the lower levels of Blackrock Tower communicate with the elemental creatures from the elemental plane of fire."

Kael'thas asked: "Is the evidence conclusive?"

"Conclusive, enough to expose Katrana's conspiracy." Romance nodded.

"How strong do you think she is?"

Romans said without hesitation: "Very strong. Perhaps ordinary legendary mages are no match for her."

As he spoke, it seemed that even Romance himself found it unbelievable.

Where is the upper limit of human beings? They, the high elf masters, know a little bit about it.The magical talent of this race is extraordinary, as if the power of arcane magic or the more essential power of order flows in their blood.Even better than the High Elves and their ancestors. Otherwise, how could they rival the Immortals who have studied this art for thousands of years in just a few decades?

Of course, the guardians of Tirisfal, who were artificially created and gathered the magic power of many people to break through the ceiling of mortals, and thus reach a higher level and undergo transformation, certainly do not count.

But there is one exception, Khadgar.

Not long ago, when he was stranded in Outland, Kael'thas had met him several times.He was deeply impressed almost immediately. Not only did this person learn a lot of knowledge that was quite advanced for high elves under Medivh's teachings, he also got a glimpse of the truth of the universe after contacting Naaru. The understanding of arcane magic is thus heightened.

Such examples are always in the minority.

At least Rommath didn't believe that the blood elves and Dalaran's most capable investigators could not find out the past of an exotic countess. This fact itself was extremely strange.What is even more puzzling is how a woman with no past and no systematic study of magic anywhere could possess such an extraordinary ability to cast spells that could subtly influence all the nobles in a kingdom without being noticed by anyone.

Could it be that she is still the apprentice of the reclusive former guardian Aegwynn, or the first-generation mage Meili Dongfeng who continues his life in the form of an undead? This possibility is almost infinitely close to zero.

Kael'thas on the side was already deep in thought.

It is not an easy task to bring down Katrana Prestor, who is supported by everyone. Her influence is too terrifying for him, not to mention that she is the savior in the eyes of the remnants of Lordaeron, and even the Kingdom of Stormwind. A countess with a transcendent status.If anything goes wrong and she seizes the opportunity to fight back, it may endanger the blood elves and Dalaran who are involved in the investigation.

After some careful consideration, Kael'thas called the guards and made the decision to summon magisters and the most elite battle mages in the kingdom.After the guards left, he said to Rommath: "Contact the Kirin Tor Council and tell them my decision."

Rommath took the order and left, and soon returned with Modera, who currently presides over the Kirin Tor Council.

Modera expressed Dalaran's willingness to work together to capture Katrana and bring her to justice.

"Okay, without further ado, we will launch an arrest operation tonight."

Since the target of arrest was the highly prestigious Countess Katrana, the mages from Quel'Thalas and Dalaran had to be wary of her influence and tried their best to control the impact within a controllable range. He was quite constrained and unable to carry out arrest operations in the camp without restraint.

结果

Surprisingly, Katrana Presto received a letter and took a carriage to Nanhai Town with only three or five followers.

How could Kael'thas and the Kirin Tor Council let go of such an opportunity? They immediately dispatched all members to try to end the capture operation as quickly as possible.

The moon and stars are sparse, and the evening breeze is slightly cool.

It was the rainy early summer season in the Hillsbrad Hills. The roads were soaked by the rain and extremely muddy, and the air was filled with the fragrance of grass after the rain.A nail fell off the signpost on the roadside, and it was swaying in the evening wind, making a creaking sound.

A carriage engraved with the royal emblem of the Kingdom of Stormwind was parked in the middle of the road, seemingly stuck in the mud.After trying for a long time, the big horse pulling the cart had blood marks on its buttocks. The guard pushing the cart behind was so tired that he was panting, but he could not successfully get the carriage out of the quagmire.

After their efforts were in vain, the guards leaned against the car and panted.The coachman waved away the mosquitoes attracted by the kerosene lantern hanging on the top of the carriage.

What they didn't know was that a spell had covered several kilometers in radius.

A guard suddenly looked at the darkness in front of him thoughtfully. After a while, he saw a group of blood elves and mages from Dalaran emerging from it and approaching.Kael'thas, Rommath, and Modera, all the most powerful mages in the north, were all present.

"Katlana, I know you have discovered us a long time ago. Let's just surrender. There is no point in resisting." Kael'thas said loudly.

"Hehehe"

A soft female voice came from the carriage.

"Ambush me?"

"But how do you know that it was you who ambushed me, not"

"I am ambushing you"

As soon as he finished speaking, the sky and the earth turned pale. In the vast wilderness around him, magic runes lit up one after another, and everything became blurry.Kael'thas and others were shocked on the spot, but before they had time to react, they were enveloped by a sudden sense of dizziness, and then they discovered that a very powerful teleportation magic had acted on them.

When their noses were filled with the pungent smell of sulfur, they climbed up from the hard and hot ground in a daze, expelled the dizziness of being forced to travel a long distance from their minds, and regained consciousness, they were surprised to find

Here is a lava cave.The cracked ground was spitting out fiery tongues of fire.A fishy smell filled the air, and there seemed to be some cry of a cub waiting to be fed, faintly echoing in the depths of the cave.

Through the light of the lava fire, they saw the shadow cast by a huge thing on the wall in front of them.Turn your body and look back

A huge black dragon was staring at him intently from above.

"Welcome to my lair." The black dragon's eyes were full of sarcasm.