Oryx stood for a moment, barely dispelling the dizziness, and then looked around.

Everyone set out as soon as it was dawn, and due to the large difference in longitude, it was early in the morning in the East Lordaeron area where the Wish of Light Chapel was located, but it was still dark here, and it was the darkest time before dawn.

Everything is silent, only the cold wind howls.

The stars in the sky are shining in the distance, and it is indeed extremely beautiful, this is not a big city where the light pollution is very serious before he crosses. Ms. Bai hung on the mountain peak in the west, the bright moonlight sprinkled on the earth, and the scenery half-hidden in the darkness was hazy, not real, but there was a different kind of beauty.

Since the location is in the northwestern part of the Crystal Song Forest, close to the Lake of Weakness (technically the River of Weakness, but Oryx stubbornly believes that the small river that flows through this area can be called that, but the vast expanse of water where it originates is not. Anyway, no one has ever been to this place now, and there is no serious name, so he doesn't mind naming it), it is still a long way from the explosion six thousand years ago, so it is a pity that he has not been able to see the trees and earth crystallized by magic.

That explosion is why this place is called the Crystal Song Forest.

In ancient times, this place was originally a magical research site of the Kadore Empire, it was called Shandara, and it stored some valuable magical artifacts collected from it, and many high-level elven mages were stationed here to protect the artifacts and engage in some related research.

However, the explosion of the Well of Eternity separated them from their people forever, and they suffered like never before. Each Night Elf is deeply connected to the Well of Eternity, which spews out the origin of Azeroth's star soul, and it is painful to leave, not to say that they cannot live. This cannot be understood as a simple withdrawal reaction, after all, a healthy body without disease and eternal life are all given by this source of magic.

However, they are not as fortunate as their mainstream Night Elf relatives, as they do have a new Well of Eternity created by three bottles of water from the Well of Eternity, as well as a World Tree that was planted in the well to isolate its magical energy and transformed into a World Tree with multiple energies with the blessing of several Dragon Kings.

This is actually the earliest "demon addiction", but this kind of demon addiction is much more serious than the symptoms of demon addiction faced by the High Elves after they lost their sunwells and changed their names to the Blood Elves.

Four thousand years later, that is, around the year 6000 of the Black Gate calendar, these upper-level elf mages couldn't bear it anymore, and when they saw the novelty of the blue dragon spell, they asked him for help, trying to practice the energy extraction spell outside the control to get rid of the hardship, but they were refused, so they had to sneak into the demon hub to steal knowledge. But the bad thing is that they were greedy halfway and stole several powerful holy relics from the blue dragon.

How could the Blue Dragon Clan let these thieves get away with their own holy relics, and quickly sent members to pursue them and punish them as necessary. In order to repel the strong enemy, the upper elf mage of Shandara actually used the advanced spell that he had just stolen from the demon hub, and also used the help of those few blue dragon magic holy weapons, but the spell was out of control, causing a terrible disaster, and the energy torrent set off by the explosion swept the entire forest, the matter was annihilated, reduced to magic crystals, and even the essence of animals and plants was distorted.

Since then, the Moon Song Forest has been renamed the Jingge Forest.

There are three energetic Magic Net nodes that are ideal "anchor points" for teleportation channels, which is why the survey team is here. As for why Orix, who should have been closely guarded, the "Prophet of the Light", is also there, that's another matter.

Uther had hoped that he would stay in the Chapel of the Light's Wishes, but he claimed that he might be "touched by the situation" and recalled the useful details that he had not been able to remember in the prophecy, so the Knights had to let him come over, and specially sent a veteran paladin like Alexandros Mograini to accompany him.

The Ash Messenger in later generations has become his bodyguard in a sense, and he feels that he has not gone through this experience in vain. Of course, it is not possible to really treat others as bodyguards, you still have to obey other people's orders in everything, after all, they are the leaders of this team.

……

Illusia first used magic to clear the snow on the ground, and then used summoning magic to summon more than a dozen tents that had been prepared before the departure, and the tents erected themselves in a circle, leaving a place for cooking with a fire in the middle, and a felt cloth fixed to the vertical pole on the periphery to keep out the wind - a magic barrier to block the wind? That's too wealthy.

In just a few minutes, a simple camp for more than a dozen people was completed. Oryx was a little amazed when he watched it, thinking that the sentence "Magic changes life, and mages lead the future" is really not a lie.

Illusia looked around, and saw that several other teleporters had gone on the road with the paladins, and only Alexandros Mograini and Oryx were left in the camp, as well as a few paladins who stayed behind, so he took out a portable magic net energy detection device from his arms, glanced at it, and said to the two briskly: "Both, let's go too." There is a place that may contain strong demonic net energy. ”

Oryx looked in the direction she was pointing, which was to the southeast, and was getting farther and farther away, so he asked Mograini for advice with his eyes, and then suggested, "Miss Barov, I think we had better go to the northwest and investigate. ”

As if he didn't know magic, Illusia explained to the patron of Dalaran's magical service, "I understand that Your Excellency wants to build the exit of the teleportation channel as close to Icecrown as possible. However, according to Dalaran's previous exploration, the magic net energy in that land was relatively scarce, and the closer the teleportation anchor was there, the more effective the construction would be. If we fix the anchor point in the magical Jingge Forest, although it is tens or even hundreds of kilometers away in terms of intuitive feeling, the construction time and later maintenance costs that can be saved are far more cost-effective than this. ”

The meaning of the words is very clear, professional things are left to professional people to do, don't mix blindly if you don't understand. In fact, she was already very patient, and she saw that this young paladin was the same age, and he didn't look as dull as the other old guys, so she said a lot.

But instead of understanding her kindness, this peer pointed to the dark northwest, "But I think it's better for us to go there, and maybe we can get a surprise by crossing the terrain and looking at the foot of the mountain to the north." ”

"That's right, the naked eye can't see the energy of the magic net......"

Illusia silently labeled Oryx as "young but just as dull" in her heart, and was about to explain again patiently, when she was interrupted by Alexandros Mograini on the side.

"Miss Barov, I think so too. We should go to the northwest. ”

Illusia was confused, it wasn't that she didn't know Alexandros Mograini. Not to mention the great exploits of this paladin during the Second War, his family is also a famous family in the East Lordaeron region, not to mention that he is still a high-ranking figure of the Silver Hand Knights.

She spent her entire childhood on the island of Keldaron in the middle of Lake Daronmere, where her mother, Jandis Barov, taught her the genealogy and heraldry of the Northlands. Even today, it would be easy for her to write down the surnames of the nobles of the kingdoms of Alterac, the Andorhar, and Lordaeron regions with their main introductions.

But she originally thought that Alexandros Mograini, who came to supervise the reconnaissance operation, would have the same idea as herself, and at least listen to the advice of herself as a professional, after all, it was all about completing the erection of the teleportation channel as soon as possible, not as whimsical as the hairy boy next to her.

"If you delay the survey mission...... she asked, hesitantly.

"I'm in charge of everything." The future Ember Messenger promised.

Illusia's sad face disappeared in an instant, and the patrons were not afraid of delaying time, so what else did she have to say. The survey work is not ordinarily heavy, she is happy to be idle, not to mention going to the northwest to hide and hide, even if she is a guide for the customer, she is willing.

She had been imprisoned by her mother, Jandis Barov, for several months to study the magic of the school of illusion in Dalaran, and she was trying to distract herself - her mother, who was unique in this field, wanted her to inherit the mantle, but she was not compatible with illusion magic, so what could she do?

"Okay, then we'll go to the northwest." She happily agreed.

So she and Oryx hit the road. Alexandros Mograini, on the other hand, left one man to guard the camp, and called the remaining two paladins to follow.

For Oryx, the purpose of the trip was completely different - he wanted to see if the Scourge had taken control of the area, and if he could gather evidence of the Scourge at the base of the mountain.