In the middle of the night, on the twilight forest road.

"For Stormwind!"

"For the Alliance!"

The deafening battle cries of the royal knights resounded across the land, accompanied by the earth-shattering sound of horses' hooves.

"Run!"

Upon hearing the movement of the human knights, thousands of trolls cried like dead parents, turned and ran.

This is naturally not the effect of Domka, in fact, Domka's deterrent effect on trolls can only last for two minutes, and only the first time has the best effect, the second time can only deter less than ten seconds, these existing trolls have been exposed to Stommka's deterrence several times today, and they are already immune to it.

But the trolls are still crying and crying and running away, because the current troll army has been completely frightened in several engagements today, no matter what the wind and noise, they can be terrified--- in this case, even Claudia, who has little experience in commanding operations, knows what to do in this situation, and she leads her royal knights to start taking care of the troll guests as masters.

Since the morning decisive battle in which she threw off hundreds of heads of the trolls like rabbits, Claudia and her royal knights took off the enchanted heavy armor and horse armor on the spot, and her royal knights changed from a group of ironclad heavy cavalry to a group of light cavalry wearing only chain mail.

After a brief meal and rest, Claudia led the light cavalry to raid the trolls with her sword, and it was lunchtime, and although the trolls were far more exhausted and had just cried than they had eaten after holding their companions, they had no will to resist, so they could only turn around and run away while cursing the despicability of humans.

And at noon, Claudia led the army to the trolls to have a "lunch greeting", she invited the trolls to have "afternoon tea" in the afternoon, and at dinner time she also went to see if the trolls had a good dinner, and in the middle of the night she specially caught up with the trolls and said "good night", and now in the middle of the night she caught up again, intending to see if the trolls slept soundly, as the host, she and her royal knights were not unhospitable.

But this way of hospitality is a little strange, hundreds of human royal knights wielding long swords slashing in the back, and thousands of trolls crying and screaming in front of them.

But to the trolls' slight consolation, Claudia still gave them a way out, the human cavalry only killed and dared to turn around and resist (there are not many such fools, and there is no one left in the back), and the slowest runner (this gives the trolls great comfort, it doesn't matter if you can't run a four-legged royal knight, just run past your own people who are also two-legged).

In this case, in order to escape faster, especially faster than their own people, the trolls threw away all the things that added weight such as shields, armor, weapons, etc., completely lost their ability to resist and formed a conditioned reflex--- as soon as the royal knights appeared, they turned around and ran.

This conditioned reflex is deadly, and the number of trolls has been getting smaller and smaller in the pursuit and slashing, from nearly 5,000 troops in the morning to just over 2,000 in the middle of the night.

"Damn! Damn it! ”

Mandogir cursed as he turned his head and ran, although he was heartbroken for the death and injury of his own people, he didn't want to die here, Mandogir also had a question in the escape center: "Where did they get such strong physical strength, even if people can withstand the exhaustion, the horses can't stand it." ”

Half an hour later.

The trolls once again threw down hundreds of corpses of their clansmen and fled, while the royal knights began to clean up the battlefield, collecting valuable items from the trolls' corpses and cutting off the heads of the trolls' corpses one by one, which completely shattered the attempts of some trolls to play dead, and the screams of the undead trolls rang out from time to time.

The screams also reached Claudia's ears, and the compassion in her heart flashed with it, she had no choice today, she could not keep the captives, she had to use those bloody troll heads to deter those with ulterior motives at home and abroad, and eliminate the weak and deceitful image of herself in the hearts of outsiders.

Two members of the Tyr Guard--- Tavard and Evrina, were standing beside Claudia, and they looked at Claudia with the same eyes as the other royal knights, not only with the love they had before, but also with respect in their eyes, and the Queen Regent had decided the victory on her own today.

As the royal knights neared the end of their cleaning of the battlefield, Claudia ordered, "Let the royal knights gather beside me with their horses, just as they did in the evening." ”

Knowing what Claudia wanted to do, Everina gave her a worried look and tried to remind her:

"Your Majesty, do you want to use that spell again? That spell cost is so great that you could use it again tomorrow morning. ”

Claudia had a smile on her face: "Thank you for your concern, Efrina, don't worry, I'm recovering quickly, now go and carry out the order." ”

Soon after Everina gave the order, the royal knights gathered around Claudia with their horses, forming a circle, and Claudia was in the center of the circle.

When everything was ready, Claudia looked at Trawad, who handed Claudia the Silver Hand, an artifact that had lost most of its power but still amplified Claudia's Holy Light spell.

After holding the silver hand, Claudia began to chant a prayer slowly.

Her voice was gentle and beautiful at first, but as the prayers were sung, her voice became strong and powerful.

A visible divine light shield began to appear around Claudia, and gradually enveloped all the royal knights in it, even though it was midnight, everyone in the light mask was bathed in brilliant holy light, their wounds healed quickly in the holy light, and most of the exhaustion in their bodies disappeared.

The spell ends.

The royal knights all fell to their knees on one knee and looked at Claudia with reverent fervor and fanaticism, and Claudia smiled and amplified her voice with a spell.

"Get up, let's start to rest now, and in two hours, we'll get up and catch up again to say good morning to the trolls."

Hearing the word good morning, the knights burst into laughter, and before the battle broke out, they were all ready for a bitter battle, and no one could have imagined that this battle would be so easy, so painful, not so much a battle as a pleasant hunt.

One by one, the knights scattered and slept, and Claudia did not take special treatment, she found a place, pulled a marching blanket from the package on the back of the war horse Ormont, wrapped herself tightly, and lay down on the spot with her silver hand in her blood-stained military coat.

With the sight cut off from the marching blanket, she could now finally show a weak and tired expression.

Everena's worries were not unreasonable, even Claudia would be exhausted from using this level of powerful magic one after another, but what Evelyna didn't know was that Claudia could only fall asleep when she was extremely exhausted, and only the Holy Light could temporarily soothe the pain in her heart.

After a short and restful night's sleep, Claudia led the knights to their feet again and greeted the trolls with "Good Morning", "Good Morning", and "How's Lunch" for the new day, and successfully expelled the Gulabash Trolls from the territory of the Stormwind Kingdom during the "Afternoon Tea".

Compared to when they set out, the Gulabash trolls were miserable, with only a few hundred trolls left to escape the territory of the Stormwind Kingdom and leave a lifelong shadow on the royal knights and Claudia for the rest of their lives.

Claudia didn't continue to pursue the trolls, she had already won enough brilliant victories, the Gulabash trolls had already scared their hearts, and the hot rainforest of the Valley of Thorns was not suitable for human life, so there was not much point in pursuing them, it was better to go north in time to fight the Blackstone Orcs.

Claudia led the knights back along the road to the north, and the militia had already collected the troll heads that had been cut off by the royal knights and piled up on the side of the road, and transported them to Nighttown, where Claudia and the tired royal knights not only saw the thousands of piles of troll heads, but also received heroic treatment and cheers from the people of Nighttown.

The crowd was enthusiastic, and I don't know who started, and they cheered Claudia's name with a feverish cheer:

"Claudia Ureon! Our Great Queen! Claudia Ureon! Our great savior! ”

Claudia didn't like the cheers, but she understood that people's enthusiasm needed catharsis, and as a ruler, she needed it to stabilize people's hearts, so she replied to the crowd's frenzy with a smile on her face.

The Grand Nobleman of the Twilight Forest, Duke Elo Eberlock, stepped forward and bowed to Claudia, with visceral respect in his eyes, and said in a loud voice, "Salute you, Your Majesty Wryon!" Hail to you, Defenders of the Twilight Forest! We are willing to swear allegiance to you, your majesty! ”

"Swear allegiance to Your Majesty!" The people responded to the duke with cheers.

After the revelry, Claudia and the tired royal knights enjoyed food, hot water, and plenty of sleep, and when she woke up, she found Gianna and another uninvited guest in Nighttown, waiting for her to wake up.

"Boreth," Claudia called out the identity of the uninvited guest, and asked Duke Vyshak with interest, "Why are you in such a hurry to see me, and even spend a lot of money to trouble Her Highness Gianna to teleport you over." ”

The Duke bowed his head deeply, took out a stack of bank checks from his bosom and presented them, and said respectfully: "Your Majesty, the Council of Nobles has convened an emergency meeting yesterday and approved an emergency grant to support Your Majesty's previous and future battles, in addition to this, we are also willing to contribute our own personal guards to assist you in the war against Red Ridge Mountain. ”

Claudia took the stack of bank cheques and asked with a little meaning: "But I remember, Bores, you seem to have said the other day, 'We noble councils cannot pay for a terrible military adventure'. ”

"I'm sorry, Your Majesty, the minister was deceived by the villain at that time, and the minister was willing to be punished for this." Duke Visak was talking nonsense without changing his face.

Claudia didn't ask who the villain was, and she didn't continue to investigate, for a big nobleman like Duke Visak, it didn't make much sense to continue to pursue it, after all, rulers are not free to exist, Claudia finally said:

"Bores, you are an important minister of the kingdom, there is no need for punishment, you need to be cautious in the future, and the noble council will have to trouble your assistance."

"The minister has thanked Your Majesty, and the minister will do his best to assist Your Majesty."

Duke Visak withdrew, and only Claudia and Gianna were left in the room, Claudia took out most of the bank check, handed it to Gianna, and said with a smile:

"Thank you, Gianna, it looks like we won the bet."

Gianna laughed too, and two beautiful dimples hung over her beautiful face.

"You're welcome, it's just expected, when are you going to go north?"

"Come on, the knights are tired enough for the first two days, and they have to march next, so they need to rest well."

Gianna nodded, and then said, "Before I came, Egwene gave me a token, she said that we can find a legendary archmage in a location in the Twilight Forest, and that archmage can greatly help us in the next battle. ”

"The legendary archmage?" Claudia wondered, "What's his name?" ”

Gianna had a look of yearning and longing on her face.

"His name is Merry Winterwind, and he is the first archmage in the history of mankind, a powerful mage who once participated in the troll war three thousand years ago!"