Chapter 53: Orondo's Plan
In the following period, life in Orondo began to become calm.
Every morning, he would wake up in his bed in the fortress lab, when Mentor Egwene would "massage" him with a dwarf machine or two every night, and then kick him back into his room to sleep.
When he wakes up, he spends the morning in the mage tower of Solanlian or in his own lab, doing arcane exploration and sorcery research.
Sometimes he would spend time with friends such as Kel'thugad, engage in academic discussions, and prepare for various work on the Magic Monthly and the Owl Training Program.
At noon, in the service of the dragon maid Sima's face, we had lunch with Mentor Egwen—if it was on Solan Lian's side, of course, it would be with my aunt.
After lunch, after a little meditation and rest, he will go to the Elf's "Tower of the Sun" to find his Uncle Kaizi and receive training as a Spellbreaker from Kael'thas.
The early training of the Spellbreaker is very boring, even more boring than arcane research.
The process is either a physical exercise or a learning of various swordsmanship - why is it learning swordsmanship and not other combat skills?
Because whether it is an elf or Orondo, they all think that it is more handsome for a mage to use a sword to cut people, and it is a big deal to use a staff hammer or a knife or something to disgrace the mage's compulsion.
Well, it's actually because for both humans and elves, the one-handed sword is more suitable as a weapon for spellbreakers.
Orondo didn't expect that while Uncle Kaizi was a master of magic, he actually had a deep study of swordsmanship and combat skills.
During this time, he was exposed to various Quel'Salas court swordsmanship, Ranger swordsmanship, Lordaeron military swordsmanship, Gilneth civilian swordsmanship, and Elven Ancient Battle Array swordsmanship every afternoon......
Without the Eye of Truth, Orondo would be blind. With the help of the Eye of Truth, he was able to learn quickly and accurately the techniques that had taken Kael'thas more than 200 years to master every day, although he was tired every day.
After the afternoon, Orondo would drag his very tired body, or go to Solan Lian for comfort, or return to his fortress laboratory to let Nani, a construct who had already learned the art of massage, give him a treatment.
He wanted to let the living beauty Green Dragon maid Emalys give him physiotherapy, but he felt that Emerys would most likely take the opportunity to pinch himself to death, so he let Nani forget it.
After a massage and dinner, Orondo would take the opportunity to go to Karazan or simply read a book in his private library.
With the key given to him by Egwen, he could easily go back and forth between the Karazhan library and his bedroom.
Finally, when it was time to go to bed, he would go to the tutor's bedroom and "massage" the tutor on the bed until she kicked him down and went back to sleep.
Life is simple and boring, but it is very interesting.
This continued until the second issue of Sephorosa's Secrets was published and 11,000 copies were sold, when Moros came to the door.
It's been almost a month since he received training as a spellbreaker from Kael'thas.
Moros sought out him for two reasons.
One is that Orondo's request to capture 2,000 owls or owl cubs has been completed, and it cost Orondo 2,000 Dalaran gold coins to report on the completion of the task.
The other is that about a month ago, Orondo asked Moros to do the investigation, and the preliminary results have been obtained.
On the first floor of the fortress laboratory, in the editorial office of The Secrets of Sephorosa, Orondo met with Morros.
"Master, the things you asked me to check have already come to fruition."
"At your request, I visited most of Dalaran. In line with the situation you mentioned, there are more than 300 former Violet Academy trainee mage apprentices who are still stranded in Dalaran. ”
Orondo nodded.
A month ago, because of a chance encounter at the banquet, he sighed a little about the fate of a mage apprentice like Eero Grief, who couldn't find the mentor he wanted, and casually arranged for Moros to check how many people like Eero were.
"More than 300 people? That's a lot. ”
These more than 300 former trainee apprentices are the number of those who are not willing to be led by a mentor but still insist on staying in Dalaran. If you count the apprentice mage apprentices who left in frustration, the number is much higher.
Having lived in Dalaran for more than a year, Orondo already has a general understanding of the population of the Magic Capital.
There are almost 200,000 daily residents of Dalaran, and the number of migrants is even greater, and there are more villages attached to Dalaran outside of the glorious magical city, and the population is also very large.
There are almost half a million human inhabitants who live on Dalaran or do business in Dalaran.
As the ruler of this huge city, there are only about 5,000 people in the high-ranking mage class.
The kingdoms of the human world have never had a census. Orondo only knew that the capital of the Kingdom of Lordaeron, Lordaeron, had a larger population than Dalaran, that the capital of the Kingdom of Gilneth was said to have a population similar to that of Dalaran, and that Fort Rapids, the capital of the Kingdom of Stormgard, was also about the same as Dalaran.
In other words, the population of Kul Tiras and Stormwind City is relatively smaller.
But with the exception of these major cities and capitals, no one has detailed data on the entire human population.
Orondo estimates that the population of the entire human nation at this time may be between 7 million and 10 million. Taking the minimum total human population of 7 million, and counting the mage power of other kingdoms, the number of human mages should not exceed 7,000.
Counting the total population, it's almost 1/1000 of a mage's output.
Humans have been in contact with magic for more than 3,000 years, and Dalaran has been established for more than 2,000 years.
After developing for so long, it is only this level of magic popularization and magic education that Orondo thinks is a complete failure.
You must know that the planet is not actually poor demons, not considering the sun well, the world tree and other energy sources nearby, in fact, there are magic nets and magic veins all over the world, this is a high-energy and high-magic flute world, because there are big guys like Azeroth developing inside the planet!
The fertility rate of the High Elves is low, and the natural number of the population is relatively small. In addition, with an inexhaustible source of energy such as the sunwell by your side, it is easy to understand that you don't use the magic network and energy nodes of the planet itself.
However, Dalaran, who did not have an infinite energy source such as the sunwell, had never thought of developing and using the magic network and magic energy nodes and veins of the planet itself on a large scale, and Orondo hated iron and steel.
He remembered that in the original plot, it was not until later that Dalaran was beaten and began to think of using the energy leaked out of Azeroth to finally make the new Dalaran rise into the sky.
In fact, as long as you make good use of the arcane energy leaked out by Azeroth herself and find the nodes of the magic vein, you can easily increase the arcane power and magic popularization of humans on a large scale!
There is a high probability that this will not harm the planet itself, otherwise his brothers would not have set up so many Titan facilities in various demon web veins, if it is harmful, wouldn't it be sucking his blood?
The energy that naturally radiates when the star soul develops has made the planet vibrant. The energy leaked from a wound of the Star Soul can even open the portal that allows Sargeras and the Legion to pass through.
This planet is immensely powerful.
Orondo had long been aware of this, and he had always wanted to do something about it.
Azeroth's thick thighs are sitting here, and it would be a waste not to use them!