2. Yellowed memories

The House of Magic, the most famous tavern and inn in Dalaran, is where many mages who love fine wine choose to have a glass of wine at night and then go back to the Mage Tower to start meditating. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Especially for academic mages, it is definitely a thing to cheer for to be able to temporarily relieve themselves from heavy research work.

Apprentices are generally less likely to come here, the high price is on the one hand, and on the other hand, because they really don't have much time to relax, Dalaran is very strict about the teaching of magic apprentices, generally speaking, apprentices who have not been able to enter the junior mage within 3 years will be dismissed, or incorporated into Dalaran's administrative system.

Although there will be a good job, this life, probably goodbye to magic, for those who aspire to create a career in the magic arena, this is simply the most terrible torture.

But there are always people who think differently, like the girl sitting across from Kel'thugad.

The two of them sat in the box on the second floor of the Magic House, which was the place where Kel'thugad came most often, and his status determined that a box was only the most basic privilege, but what Kel'thugad thought was ordinary was a little scary in the eyes of others.

"Hey, who the hell are you? My mentor, Mr. Ronin, is in the Magic House, but he doesn't have this treatment!"

The girl looked curiously at Kel'thugad, who was sitting opposite her and reading a book, and the woman's keen senses made her more than once spot Kelthugad's sneaky glance at her, but it had nothing to do with lust, at most only a trace of appreciation, and a hint of curiosity.

This discovery made the girl happy, and at least it proved that she still had charm, but no one had discovered it before, and the thought of this made her feel for Kel'thugad immediately better.

In fact, to be precise, this girl is indeed a beauty, with a good figure and face, the only headache is her personality, Kel'thugad, who has seen too many magic apprentices, knows that this kind of personality will make it difficult for her to be valued in the apprentice group, and even be excluded by her peers.

This is Dalaran, and what is needed here is calmness and talent, not enthusiasm, and not a hint of rude boldness.

But this does not prevent him from admiring the girl opposite, although the two are only meeting for the first time, but this kind of thing, fluctuating heartstrings, may only need a meeting of eyes.

In the face of the girl's question, Kel'thugad closed his magic book, and showed a jerky smile that was not very accustomed to it,

"Me, I'm just a mage... The most common mage in Dalaran. ”

"Hypocrisy!"

Faced with this answer, the girl straightened her nose disdainfully, but soon, she was no longer entangled in this topic, everyone has their own secrets, and she has been coming to Dalaran for more than a year, which is one of the few truths she has learned, so she picked up the fruit wine in front of her, took a sip lightly, and then said to Kel'thugad,

"You know what? ”

Kel'thugad's hand holding the glass trembled a little, but soon recovered to its original form, and he cracked his mouth and smiled,

"Really? It's the first time anyone has said that about me. ”

The girl nodded seriously,

"It's magnetic and it's convincing. ”

She thought for a moment and used another metaphor, "It's exactly the same as when I talk to my father." ”

"Poof..."

The metaphor made Kel'thugad almost squirt the wine out of his mouth, and then he laughed irrepressibly, perhaps with inexplicable affection, which made him feel particularly relaxed with this grinning, unusual girl.

Then he heard the girl's next words,

"Actually, you look good when you laugh too... Why don't you laugh?"

Kel'thugad was silent, he didn't know how to answer the question, because from his memory, he entered Dalaran, from apprentice to mage, and now, it seems... It's really rare to see anyone laughing.

The girl probably didn't need an answer from Kel'thugad, but she took a sip of the wine from her glass, and said in a very emotional tone,

"You know what? It's a city that doesn't laugh... From the first time I entered here, I found that everyone was always in a hurry, they seemed to be busy, and everyone was very serious, and I remember that the mentor Luo Ning was also able to laugh at first, and then slowly became like everyone else... I don't like it, it's like a cage. ”

The girl took another gulp of wine, and put it on the table with a crisp sound,

"A prison of emotions. ”

There was a blush on her face, and she propped her chin in her hand and looked at the silent Kel'thugad,

"I'm leaving, the day after tomorrow, I'm going back to my hometown. ”

Kel'thugad jerked her head up, this action betrayed his emotions, and looking at the confusion in his eyes, the girl showed that trademark cheerful smile again,

"It's not what you think, it's not because of your studies or whatever. ”

"I just passed the junior mage exam, but I found that I still can't adapt here, my father sent me here in the hope that I would become a noble mage, but I know that he wants me to avoid the war with the orcs, my home is in Arathi, which is about to fall, I can't give up my family, so I want to go back. ”

The girl stood up and spread her arms like a dancer about to start dancing, and she turned her head to look at Kel'thugad,

"You know what? I started, since I was a kid, I actually wanted to be a traveler, to see the scenery of the world, and then to find those lost histories, and then I thought that being a mage is actually not bad, mysterious, elegant mage, that's almost every child's dream. ”

"But I... I still can't get used to it. ”

The girl leaned against the window, watched the lights of Dalaran slowly turn on, and suddenly turned her head and looked at Kel'thugad,

"What about you, what are your dreams, and why do you want to become a mage?"

Kel'thugad was dazed as he remembered his past, a memory that seemed to be filled with complex magical knowledge, awkward spells, and landscapes that seemed to be frozen in time, and he couldn't remember his dreams, or why he had become a mage.

So in the face of this question, he was silent ... He wanted to use flowery language to show himself in front of the girl he liked, as it was written in those stories, but he was silent in the end.

"I... I do not know. ”

A flash of sadness and regret flashed in the girl's eyes, and she walked behind Kel'thugad, gently placed her arm on his shoulder, and looked at the heavy black robe that seemed to separate her from the world.

"It's pathetic... You are a child with no dreams and no past. ”

"Thanks for the wine, I'm going back, good night. ”

The girl picked up her scarf, waved her hand without looking back, and saw that she was about to disappear at the door, and Kel'thugad, who did not know where the courage came from, stood up and asked in a trembling voice,

"That's... Will you come back? After the war is over. ”

The girl's footsteps also stayed in place, and the two of them were silent for a few seconds, and then a chuckle sounded,

"I don't know, do I have a reason to come back?"

Kel'thugad drank the wine from his glass in one gulp, allowing the spicy taste to pulsate in his mouth, stimulating his emotions, and he seemed to grasp the tail of something beautiful, so he exclaimed,

"I'm missing a mage assistant, I'm Kel'thugad, an alternate member of the Council of Six, I'll submit an application to the Council of Six, you... Would you say no?"

The girl turned her head, and the blush on her face looked so lovely under the magic light, and her eyes blinked slyly,

"Wow, it's really a big shot, refuse... No, why refuse?"

With that, she let out a series of laughs like silver bells and disappeared in the doorway, and Kel'thugad shouted,

"I'll wait for you to come back!"

Fifteen minutes later, Kel'thugad returned to his mage tower, his mood had never been so happy, and he even hummed a song, but looking at the pile of complex research topics in front of him, and those ghostly magic words, the young mage couldn't help but shake his head, he had a headache, tonight is probably another sleepless night.

But when he looked up and saw the moon above Dalaran, he hummed in satisfaction, sat down in his black velvet chair, stretched out, and prepared to begin the day's work.

But just as Kel'thugad picked up the quill, a loud noise suddenly sounded in his ears, startling him, and he got up from the ground in disarray, ignoring the pain of his arm, and walked to the window, and outside the window, there was chaos, and in the northern part of Dalaran, a fire had already erupted, and then there was a numbing shout of killing.

Kel'thugad hurriedly took out his wand and applied an eagle eye spell to himself, and the next moment, his vision spread rapidly, and he saw everything that was happening in the north of the city, it was fire, it was war, orcs!

Damn, how could an orc who is still in the Arathi Heights end up in the plains of Dalaran?

Are all the soldiers of the kingdom of Alterac dead?

No, those orcs!

The mage's keen perception made Kel'thugad realize that something was wrong with those orcs for the first time, especially those orcs who were riding on skeletal horses, wearing black armor, wielding rune weapons, their breath was not a living person!

It's forbidden magic!

Kel'thugad immediately sensed that something was wrong, and just as he was about to observe again and send a signal, another loud bang exploded in the city of Dalaran, and at this moment, all the glass on the windows next to Kel'thugad shattered, and the glass on the entire street shattered together.

He looked up at the sky, and in the night, the whole sky was shattered!

It's like a shard of glass!

Shields... Dalaran's city shield is broken!

The war came, and Kel'thugad's mind was still a little chaotic, but that didn't stop him from getting ready for battle at once, he took out several scrolls from under his desk, inserted them into his belt, brought several bottles of emergency potions, and finally picked up his Archmage's Staff.

The awkward magic flowed from Kel'thugad's mouth, and with the shattering of the teleportation light, his body disappeared into the magic tower.

Instead of going to Antonidas' Violet Tower, he went to another place.

"Pick up your weapons! Grab your weapons! Don't panic, get ready to follow me to the Violet Tower!"

Archmage Luo Ning waved his staff in his hand, and with the blessing of amplification, his voice spread throughout his magic tower, and the chaotic mage apprentices rushed around like headless flies, and the sudden appearance of war made these children panic.

However, this is only a small scene for Ronin, not long ago, he also fought with Deathwing, although since then, his reputation in Dalaran has changed from "mobile disaster" to hero, but in fact, Ronin knows that his foundation is still very shallow, so he took the initiative to take on the responsibility of teaching mage apprentices.

But just as Ronin was trying to silence the panicked mage apprentices, a light of teleportation appeared in his mage tower, an action that made Ronin raise his eyebrows, using teleportation at will in Dalaran?

It seems that a big man has come!

Kel'thugad's voice came out of the light, and Ronin's expression immediately became strange, of course he knew Kelthugad, in fact, there was no high-level mage in the entire Dalaran who didn't know him, this was a withdrawn weirdo, but his talent in magic research was absolutely amazing, and even the sage Antonidas was proud of his disciple.

In fact, Kel'thugad was already one of the representatives of Dalaran's academic mage, and in the face of him, a hero like Ronin had to treat mages of the same level with the same attitude, so he quickly greeted him,

"Mr. Kel'thugad, do you have anything to do here at this time?"

"I'm looking for someone!"

Kel'thugad is not good at dealing with people, so in the face of Ronin's question, he chose to go straight to the point, "One of your apprentices, a girl from the Arathi Highlands, uh... I don't know what her name is, but she has a straightforward personality and likes to go to the fountain to feed the stray cats, do you know where she is?"

Luo Ning paused for a moment, but still replied quickly,

"You're probably talking about Miss Bigworth, but she's not here, she's submitted an application to return home, and is currently staying at the Dalaran Visitor Reception Center on Magical Mall. ”

"To the north, where the battle is taking place?"

Kel'thugad's face changed drastically, and he turned around to leave, when Ronin asked curiously behind him,

"With all due respect, you and Miss Bigworth?"

"She's my scheduled assistant mage!"

Kel'thugad turned his head to look at Ronin, he seemed to want to say something, but finally shook his head, the staff in his hand touched the ground lightly, and the whole person disappeared again in the light of teleportation.

At this time, in the panicked north of Dalaran, when the orc army rushed into the city of mages along the crack in the city, the mages who reacted immediately launched a counterattack, turning a corner of the city into a battlefield where magic flew in an instant, the flames melted the buildings, the ice swept everything, and in almost five minutes, this place became a real hell.

The magical shopping street near the battlefield has also been affected by the flames of war, where the crazy orcs are rampage, destroying everything they can see, chasing down the residents of Dalaran, adding a frightening desolation to the otherwise quiet night.

The glow of fire magic reflected the sky, and in the completely ruined neighborhood, Miss Bigworth struggled to dodge the orc assassin's dagger with her magic staff, then stabbed the glittering purple ice pick in her hand into his abdomen, and flung him out of a wave of arcane blast with her staff, blasting him away.

The hideous expression of the orc assassin still lingered on his face, but life was gone.

The fight had drained Miss Bigworth's remaining magic, and she was leaning against the ruins of the wall, breathing heavily, the scorching heat of the battlefield filling her lungs with thirst, her face already clumped with sweat and ashes, and she knew that her appearance must be terrible, but now was not the time to say that.

With difficulty, she took out a small bottle of magic potion from her backpack, trembled her hands, and tried to pour it into her mouth, but the wound left by the assassin on her arm just now still exuded severe pain, and this action was difficult to complete, and just before she was about to succeed, a huge sound made the ground shake again, and Miss Bigworth's body fell out of the way, and the magic potion in her hand also fell to the ground.

"No! no, no!"

The young girl rose from the ground, but the vital potion was gone, and Miss Bigworth didn't know how to escape from this hell without it.

Filled with orcs and hunted civilians, the Magic City seemed to be a real front-line battlefield, brutal and bloody, and Miss Bigworth knew she couldn't stay here for long, she had to get to the Violet Tower, or some other safe place, before the orcs found her.

In her difficult movements, I don't know why, Kel'thugad's shadow always dangles in front of her eyes, she smiled bitterly, from this afternoon's contact, she knew that Kel'thugad was a real academic, his magical knowledge may be strong, but his actual combat ability is weak, and she only hopes now that that fool will not come here to take risks.

"Bang!"

The cost of distraction was severe, and Miss Bigworth was knocked to the ground with a punch from the orc assassin who suddenly appeared in front of her, and her mind was a little blurred, and she could only watch the orc assassin walking towards her with a dagger in his hand.

There is no hope.

In this dim, blood-filled street corner, there was no hope.

The orc assassin tilted his head to look at Miss Bigworth, bared his teeth, and then leaned down, the dagger in his hand held high, the blade gleaming with a deadly glow in the moonlight and magic, and then stabbed down as Miss Bigworth closed her eyes.

The moonlight was obscured by the black clouds, and it seemed that he could not bear to see this cruel scene, and then it was torn apart by a sharp roar.

"Give me... Fuck off!"