The Valley of the Hearth was once the thriving principality of Lordaeron, and its lord was Tirio Fortin, one of the original paladins of the Silver Hand.

After Tirio was exiled, the realm was inherited by the young Tyran. After the scourge destroyed the royal city of Lordaeron, and the Coalition army led by Generalissimo Garithar also failed, countless refugees poured into the city, which had never been captured by orcs.

When the High Lord Mograine founded the Crusaders, as a member of the Knights of the Silver Hand, Tyran dedicated his realm to the Crusaders as the Crusaders' domain in Eastern Lordaeron.

And today, his castle, Madenhold, will be the meeting place of the Silver Hands today.

The Knights of the Silver Hand chose to hold this emergency meeting in Tyran Fordin's castle, leaving the host of the meeting, Tyran, anxious.

He is responsible for the expenses of all the members of the Order of the Silver Hand who come here, as well as their safety. The first item alone is a headache for Tyran, and it's a huge expense.

So after seeing Locke, Tyran happily grabbed his arm...

"Ha, thank you for the Light! I thought you weren't coming because I was afraid that I would ask you to borrow money! Tyranne laughed, tapping Locke's arm. In fact, I'm just looking for you to borrow money~"

"I still know something about the troubles in your territory." Locke made a look that I understood, and he smiled and said, "Say, how much money do you need?" ”

Locke's open-mindedness made Tyran a little embarrassed, he rubbed his hands and said embarrassedly, "This number is a bit large, you know, the development of the territory involves all aspects.....

"It's okay, we can talk in detail when the meeting is over." Locke replied with a smile, "Now I'll go in first." “

Finishing his conversation with Tyran, Locke and Demytia entered the conference hall together.

Unlike enlarged councils, which included Crusader officers, the Silver Hands were referred to as brothers, and to reflect this camaraderie, the Silver Hands did not have chairs arranged in a row of seats from top to bottom. Everyone can only stand around a large square table and talk to each other to make their own arguments. Here, all people are equal. But having said that, is there really such a thing as fairness?

When Locke entered, he noticed that many members of the Silver Hand were already whispering to each other in the hall.

Erigor and Farbanks were standing beside Baron Tairossos, saying something to him. Erigor, in particular, seemed to be describing something to the baron.

Diagonally across from him, the Grand Admiral Abidis was looking at him with a serious face, and behind him Bridget turned her gaze to the side.

Last night, the woman had left Locke when she learned that her father had also arrived.

This is not surprising to Locke, Bridget will often play a little tantrum with him, and she will come back when the anger is gone.

However, to Locke's surprise, except for Thomas, no one around the Silver Hand wanted to express their intention to be close to him.

They seemed to have deliberately distanced themselves, a change that made Locke's brow furrow. This does not seem to be a good sign.

Then Locke saw the newly washed Renault and walked in with Dalyan. Unlike Renault's hateful expression when he looked at him, Dalyan, who was originally very sad, was refreshed after seeing him. He tried to come over but was stopped by Renault, and Locke smiled comfortingly at Dalyan, signaling him not to get excited.

Darlian didn't care about Renault's feelings, he struggled out of Renault's control, and stood beside Locke under Renault's gloomy gaze.

"I know that, Dalyan. We are family, and I will take revenge on the Great Lord. Locke's comfort made Dalyan's eyes suddenly red, this paladin who had just turned 18 years old, had unspeakable grievances.

Without waiting for Dalyan to say anything, Grand Commander Abydis, Attorney General Ethanlien, and Lord Tyran, the host of the meeting, walked in with the roll call of the soldiers.

Dalyan could only put away his grievances.

After a simple ceremony of the Silver Hand, the meeting began!

"Just a few days ago, the mainstay of our Silver Hand, High Lord Alexandros Mograini, died unexpectedly at the hands of the Scourge. His great achievements......."

"Let's observe a moment of silence for the High Lord Mograini!"

With Ethanlien's prayer, the silver hands in the room closed their eyes.

It wasn't until Ethan Lien spoke again that everyone opened their eyes and the meeting began.

"The unexpected death of Alexandros has cast a shadow over our cause of recovering Lordan Road, but ......"

Locke leaned against the wall beside him, looking at Dassault Khan across the large table, the old paladin was still in his middle age, expressing his opinion on the matter to everyone present.

To be honest, if you don't know this history, if someone tells him that Dassault Khan is a demon, I'm afraid I won't believe it.

At this moment, Locke suddenly felt that his behavior today was not perfect.

"His death requires justice from us, and we will not turn a deaf ear to it, but what I need to say is this!" Dassault Khan turned his head to look around at all the paladins present, and when he saw Locke, Dassault Khan nodded to him solemnly.

"We have been in the Crusaders for more than two months now, and during this time we have caught many of the spies lurking in our midst. This is a good thing, but again, there is an unexpected circumstance. ”

"We don't have enough soldiers! According to our clan feedback, most of the legions have a certain degree of shortage, and some legions will even lack two wings of soldiers! So, we are still desperately short of enough manpower to resist the invasion of the Scourge undead! We need to recruit enough people! If conditions allow! Dassault Khan glanced at everyone present with a piercing eye.

There was no sound in the room, no one rushed to make any discordant sound at this time, and the powerful aura of the Grand Commander was undoubtedly revealed!

"If there are not enough soldiers, then we will replace them with quality! It is not forbidden to recruit some people who use dark magic and join our army. For example, psychics ...."

This caused an uproar in the room, but before they could react, some people in the room objected.

"Nope! Grand Commander, I don't approve of your proposal! Baron Tairosus, who was standing opposite Dassault Khan, spoke, his hands clapped on the table and looked at Dassault Khan, not retreating because of Dassault Khan's momentum, "This will have an unpredictable negative impact on our silver hand!" All of us know what dark magic represents! It represents death! Fear! ”

"It's something that the Light hates! How do we get the opposite of the Light to join us?! ”

There was a lot of discussion in the room, and Locke could hear that many people were against the proposal. Obviously, this proposal should not be adopted.

"If it is really necessary, we can choose our soldiers from other races, or from the armies of other kingdoms." Baron Tyrosus looked at Dassault Khan solemnly, "Since we have reached the point where we are all users of dark magic, why can't we choose these normal people?" ”

"Nonsense!"

On the opposite side of Locke, the Grand General Abidis immediately objected to Tairossos's words, he glared at Tairosos and said, "You're a bullshit idiot!" Tyrosos, this is Lordaeron! Those people use dark magic, though! But they are our Lordaerons! They didn't endanger our own people! ”

"Our Silver Hand can accept flawed Lordaerons, nor will we accept handouts from foreigners!!"

General Abydis's words caused chaos in the scene, and the Silver Hand began to talk about it.

Without involving himself, Locke was reluctant to speak out. In fact, he was waiting for a suitable opportunity to attack Dassault Khan.

And for the people they say use black magic, this one is more special.

Psychic, Locke, who was poisoned by later psychics at the beginning, always thought that they were the minions of the natural disaster, but after figuring it out, he no longer rejected these people.

Throughout Lordaeron's long history, psychics have always existed. Each of them is highly accomplished in the study of souls and the dialogue of souls. Don't think that psychics are necromancers, psychics have been officially recognized as an important profession since before the birth of the Scourge Legion.

By summoning the soul of the victim, let the sheriff know who the real murderer is; Scholars seek out psychics, hoping that they can talk to those who have witnessed the historical events and learn the truths that have been hidden in the long river of time.

Of course, not every soul of the deceased will be summoned, and similarly, not everyone can become a psychic. Before the invasion of Lorda, there were no more than 100 psychics in the kingdom of Lordaeron, and each of them had a kind and peaceful heart. This is because in order to become a psychic, one must be pure at heart. And the higher the degree of kindness, the greatest success rate of summoning souls.

Today, the Lordan Psychic Association is led by its president, Nos Abraham, who are scattered throughout the city to help people do what they can.

If this group of people were to be concentrated, it would definitely be a big force.

"I think you probably forgot." Unmoved by Abydis's accusations, Tesoros continued, "The Cult of the Damned, that evil organization, many of their psychics come from the Psychic Society. And they're always trying to win over more psychics to join them! As you all know, psychics have enough energy to bring back those who have passed away..."

"Rather than negatively impact our Silver Hand, why don't we consider other races?" Stepping past the others, Tyrosus turned his gaze to Locke's body, "Our Harvey Grand Lord, who has just finished his trip to the Kingdom of Quel'Thalas, should have an opinion on me. ”

All eyes in the room were on Locke.

In response to this, Locke walked to the square table, glanced at Bridget behind Abydis, and spoke out his opinion.

"Yes, I know something about it now." Locke looked at those present and continued, "The situation faced by the elves of Quel'Thalas is much more difficult than we thought. Their regent, Lotherma Theron, has agreed to make another alliance with us Lordaeron. At the same time, in order not to let us have other ideas, he will not send formed troops to our country. ”

"Instead, they will let go of their kingdom's ban on scattered elves from going to our kingdom for revenge. In the Elven Kingdom, there are many scattered elves who want to come to Lordaeron and come to our territory to take revenge on the Scourge Legion. There is no shortage of powerful magicians among them. ”

"At the same time, with the consent of their regent, they allowed the soldiers I left there to choose from among the elves to form a legion. They won't interfere in this matter! ”

"Actually," Locke said slowly, looking at the people present, "I'm already doing that." ”