"It was originally a jewelry district, divided into two areas: a gem processing area and a commercial street, and merchants from all over the world could get permission from Dalaran to enter the city, so they could come and go to this street, and sell the gems they dug up in the wild, although most of them were useless stones, but some of them were indeed treasures, and Dalaran's mages and mage apprentices would come to the commercial street in the evening and at night to shop, screen, and choose the stones they wanted to go back to study and polish."

Walking through the ruins of Dalaran, Gianna acts like a warm guide about the city's former prosperity, and despite her best efforts to maintain grace and manners, Ares can read a trace of sadness and sadness in her eyes. After all, this bustling magical city was once her home, and Archmage Antonidas was her most beloved teacher.

"Is there any special effect on gemstone cutting?"

Ares deliberately diverted the conversation to reduce Gianna's nostalgia for the past years.

"Yes, weapons forged by elves and dwarves generally have grooves, these grooves are not carved for no reason, but have special effects, such as special shapes, special materials of gems inlaid on, can enhance the weapon, for example, the source diamond and the source soil from the North Pole can be processed into green cold stone, cut into the shape of grooves and inlaid down, so that the weapon can gain the power of ice, when the blade assassinates the enemy or prey, it can make the enemy's wound frostbitten and cannot be healed. Jade and Wild Heart from the South can be crafted into the Viper's Stone, which can be cut and embedded in a weapon to make the weapon very evil, and when it hits the prey, the prey will be poisoned and the wound will quickly fester. A favorite of hunters, but warriors generally disdain to use it. ”

Ares asked curiously, and Gianna explained patiently and meticulously, here, she was like a teacher, a young and good-natured teacher, with a gentle and delicate voice. Ares couldn't wait to ask a few more questions, so that Gianna could continue to explain like this, and it was a real pleasure to listen to her.

"It's amazing."

Ares sighed.

"Hehe, it's kind of amazing, but if you've been in Dalaran for a long time, you'll get used to it. There are very few such things in human society, so when a traveler comes to Dalaran, he is usually attracted by the wonders of the place, but Dalaran is not something that anyone can enter. ”

As they walked on, the same road under their feet as they had been in the city of Dalaran before, but there was no trace of the original one now. The ground was full of gravel and dirt. It's like an abandoned construction site.

"There, there is the inscription area, and like the jewelry area, the inscription area is also divided into two areas, a herb grinding area and a market area. Due to the relatively simple raw materials required for the inscription, most of which are some herbs and elemental items, its market scale is relatively small. I remember that before Dalaran was destroyed, there was a very beautiful garden here, and the inscriptionists would grow all kinds of herbs in it, because the price of herbs would fluctuate drastically due to the change of seasons, and in order not to affect their studies and experiments, many inscriptionists had to grow their own herbs, and this garden was at a constant temperature, but you couldn't see it, but it was a pity. ”

Gianna said, sighing softly. And Ares can only imagine the shape of the garden and the prosperity of the past.

"It's a pity. By the way, what does an inscription do? ”

Ares continued to ask. Having been in Azeroth for so long, he has been around Lordaeron and knows very little about the strange wizarding world, and even during his days as a guest in the High Elf Kingdom, he mostly stayed in Sylvanas's residence, and rarely had access to all walks of life. Crucially, at the time, the elves of Quel'Thallas did not allow other races to visit their manufacturing area. By the time Ares gained their trust, a catastrophe was imminent.

"Inscription...... Well, to put it simply, gemstone processing is to cut gemstones into special shapes and inlay them on weapons to make them play a special effect, and inscriptions are to draw a special texture on the human body to make it play a special effect, for example, if a person is good at long-distance running, then the inscriptionist engraves a special pattern on his body, and with the use of medicine, it can make the person run faster, farther, and have better physical functions. As with gemstone processing, this effect is permanent, with the difference that one is engraved on a weapon or armor and the other is carved directly on a person's body. It is usually on the arm, but there are also paintings carved on the chest or back. ”

That is, tattoos...... As soon as Gianna's words fell, Ares understood...... I just didn't expect that a small tattoo could also play a special effect.

"You've been on the road for a day, let's rest here tonight, although Dalaran has been destroyed, there are a few hotels that are still basically intact, you can stay in it for one night, I will explain what is at hand, and I will leave with you tomorrow."

After speaking, Gianna cordially and enthusiastically let her servant take Ares and his party to the resting place, and there was a dinner party waiting for everyone in the evening. It's just that Ares knows that Gianna in front of her, the enthusiasm she shows is just pretending. The magic home was destroyed, the mentor was killed, how could the young female mage be happy about all this, but her long-term aristocratic upbringing made her accustomed to showing her best side to outsiders, and those painful and sad things were hidden in her heart. This made Ares feel even more distressed.

The evening dinner was held in the banquet hall of Violet Castle. Originally, this was the place where Archmage Anthony met with foreign guests, but after the destruction of Dalaran, there were almost no foreign visitors here, and Gianna became the leader here, and this hall is still well preserved, and it has become Gianna's reception hall.

However, what Akmund destroyed was only Dalaran on the ground, and Dalaran was not destroyed underground, so that Dalaran's storage materials were basically not destroyed, and the dried food and wine were brought to light again, and they were carried up and placed on the wine table in the banquet hall.

Bacon, grilled quail, beef jerky, dwarven stout, Queldore roasted spider legs, and a wide variety of food and beverages whet Ares and Drum's appetite.

The oil lamps in the hall were lit up, and the mages played enthusiastic music with magic, and the strange instruments played themselves under the influence of magic. Gianna also sat in the crowd, talking and laughing, as if time had been turned back to the days before Dalaran was destroyed. Everyone drank the wine, which became the only consolation in the night......