Claudia was currently waiting at the Mage Tower for the arrival of Gianna Prodimore, the princess of Kurtilas, who, as an archmage, could use teleportation to teleport directly from Dalaran to Stormwind.

Teleportation is a unique ability of archmages, and even hero-level archmages can not only teleport themselves, but also teleport others over short distances, of course, this ability is also a great burden on mages, the farther the distance of teleportation, the heavier the burden on mages, so usually mages will choose to use pre-set portals for teleportation.

Gianna walked out of the portal, dressed in a sexy purple and white mage robe, wondering what the last scene she saw before the portal: the prince of Queldore was chasing into the room with a twisted and angry face, yelling at the figure she was about to step into the portal, there were not many things that could make Prince Queldore, who had always paid attention to grace and grace, so angry, what had happened.

Soon Gianna stopped thinking about it, and in front of her, a blonde girl in a major's uniform and a number of guards behind her were waiting for her arrival.

She bowed to Gianna and said, "Your Royal Highness the Princess of Kul Tiras, I am Your Majesty's new aide-de-camp, Major Claudia Seberchel, and I have been ordered to meet you. Please come with me, Your Majesty is waiting for you at the Royal Palace. ”

Such a young major? Looking at the girl who was much younger than herself, Gianna couldn't help but feel a little curious in her heart, and observed her while walking out with the girl, and then Gianna found that the girl's side face was a little familiar, and she asked suspiciously:

"Major Thurberchel, have we met somewhere?"

Claudia didn't expect Gianna to remember her, although she had the experience of serving in the army together, but Gianna was a veritable princess, and her status was too different, and the two had not even spoken to each other before today.

"Yes, Your Highness, I am a paladin, and last fall, I had the privilege of working with you to investigate the plague events in the kingdom of Lordaeron, from Brill to Andohar, and finally to Stratholme."

Uther's paladin, the archmage's beautiful face suddenly showed a sudden look, and then she was depressed again, the events of last autumn were a painful memory for her, but she still put aside a lot of unnecessary emotions and replied:

"It's a pleasure to meet my comrade-in-arms here, Major Thurberchel, who once fought side by side."

"Me too, Your Highness."

Claudia and Gianna soon arrived at the Stormwind Fortress, where they met King Varian, and after a brief welcome and greeting, Varian and Gianna went to the reception room to discuss business, and named the maiden to accompany them:

"Claudia, you come in with me."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Claudia entered the reception room with Gianna and Varian, and the two first discussed the refugees, as Kurtilas had an equally large fleet and was located at a transit point on the route, so Varian wanted Kurtilas to help carry some of the refugees and provide some supplies along the way.

Gianna and King Daylin had already known about the specific matter in the previous communication, but Gianna proposed another solution after communicating with King Dalein: "Your Majesty Varian, my father is near the shores of the Silver Pine Forest at the moment, so I want our Kul Tiras to accept the refugees under the Walls of Greymane, and the Kingdom of Stormwind to accept the South Sea Town and Riptide Castle, what do you think?" ”

Listening to Gianna's words, Varian asked suspiciously, "If you can help the Stormwind Kingdom share some of the pressure, I will definitely agree, but with the area of Kurtiras, can you feed so many disaster victims?" ”

In response to Varian's question, Gianna explained: "In fact, Kurtilas has decided to build a new city on the western continent, which requires a large population, and even a considerable part of our native population will settle in the New World. ”

Varian's doubts deepened: "Why go to the Western Continent, that land we humans don't know anything about. ”

Gianna explained again: "After Stratholme, I met a prophet who told me that the destruction of Lordaeron was inevitable and that the real hope of this world was in Camlido, so I intended to take another part of the people to the West in search of hope. ”

Varian frowned, "Prophet? I've never believed in prophecy, but now that you've decided, I can't say anything, but I have a different opinion about the destruction of Lordaeron. ”

Varian then introduced Claudia to the audience: "Your Highness Gianna, Claudia is one of my best assistants, and I think you should have known her before. ”

Gianna didn't understand why Varian had introduced her lieutenant instead, but she politely replied, "Yes, Your Majesty Varian, Major Thurberchel was with me last fall in the investigation of the plague in Lordaeron. ”

King Varian turned his head to the knight maiden, "Claudia, I hear that you have traveled to the Northern Rift with Prince Arthas, and I think you have more say in the matter of Lordaeron's scourge than the so-called prophets. ”

Gianna immediately let out a low exclamation and turned to look eagerly at the knight girl.

Facing the gazes of Varian and Gianna, Claudia replied, "Yes, Your Majesty, because I was a direct vassal of His Majesty Terenus at the time, after Stratholme, I did not leave with the other members of the Knights of the Silver Hand, but followed Prince Arthas to the Northern Rift. ”

After receiving the confirmation, Gianna immediately asked her most concerned question: "Can you tell me what happened to Arthas in the Northern Rift?" Why did he become that ...... Appearance? Why destroy Lordaeron? ”

Claudia pondered for a moment, then briefly recounted what had happened to her in the Northern Rift: the prince met Muradin, learned of the frost grief from Muradin, King Terenus ordered the withdrawal of the army, but the prince burned the fleet due to treason, and then she left the prince's camp with Count Fenris, and finally said:

"Now it seems that the Prince of Arthas has found Frost Grief, and that the Northern Rift is just a trap."

"And since last year, all the disasters that have happened have been caused by the plans of the creature known as the Lich King."

After hearing what Claudia had to say, Varian asked, "Why the hell did the Lich King, do that?" ”

"Your Majesty, from what I know, he should want to destroy Quel'Thalas and Dalaran and summon the Burning Legion."

"The Burning Legion?" At this time, Gianna, who had been holding her head down and suppressing her sadness after hearing Claudia's story, also raised her head, and faced Varian, who was still puzzled, Gianna explained: "The Burning Legion is a group of demons and wants to destroy this world, some time ago a paladin came to Dalaran to warn my mentor about something similar, and the Council of Six has recently been investigating and watching the Scourge Legion's every move. ”

King Varian also looked solemn, but soon everyone in the room was attracted by the sound of violent running in the hallway.

There was a knock on the door, and when Claudia opened it, she found a panting guard delivering a magic letter, the appearance of the letter was crimson for urgency, and Claudia hurriedly handed it to King Varian, who opened it and immediately turned extremely grim after a cursory reading.

Gianna got up and said goodbye, "Your Majesty Varian, shall I go outside and avoid for a while?" ”

King Varian kept her: "No need, speaking of which, this is not our country's internal affairs, and you have something to do with Your Highness Gianna." Claudia, come over too, let's take a look. ”

The king then showed the information he had received: "The elves were defeated in the battle between the Elves and the Scourge in the Eternal Song Forest, the Elven King Anastarian was killed in public in a duel with Arthas, Silvermoon City fell, the Silvermoon Council was killed, the Well of the Sun was captured and corrupted by the Scourge Legion, and the remaining strength of Quel'Thalas was just over 4,000 at present." ”

After seeing the information, Claudia immediately understood what was going on with the source force shift sensed by the Silver Hand the day before yesterday, and Gianna said in surprise:

"How could Arthas have the power to defeat Anastarian, who is a demigod with an artifact."

Varian and Gianna cared for something completely different: "It shows that he is no longer the prince we know." Compared to this, the elves' losses this time were probably far more serious than the letter, and if they still had 4,000 elite soldiers, it would be impossible for Arthas to take even their holy land. ”

Gianna thought for a moment, then got up and took her leave, "It seems that Claudia, what you said to the paladin before is true, I feel that I need to return to Dalaran immediately to warn my mentor, and I will have to go to the Western Continent in the near future." ”

Varian did not keep Gianna who wanted to return to Dalaran immediately, and before Gianna left, the two of them reconfirmed the refugee treatment, Kul Tiras was in charge of the refugees under the Greymane Wall, and the Stormwind Kingdom was in charge of the refugees near Southsea Town and Fort Riptide, and finally, King Varian thought of the conversation he had with the girl in the morning, and handed the information he had just received to Gianna and said:

"When you go to the Wall of Greymanne to fetch the refugees, bring this to King Greymane, and tell him that this is the information I forwarded to him, and if he has a reply, please bring it to me."

"Yes, Your Majesty Varian." Gianna immediately understood Varian's thoughts and took over the information.

Claudia was once again ordered to take Gianna to the Mage's Tower, and on the way back, the archmage kept saying nothing, but she still didn't say what she wanted to say until she stepped through the portal.

Looking at Gianna as she stepped through the portal, Claudia sighed in her heart, she could probably guess what Gianna wanted to ask, it was nothing more than Arthas's affairs in the Northern Rift.

Claudia never agreed with Gianna's approach in Stratholme, and as a politician, Gianna was undoubtedly successful, and she left in silence avoiding all possible risks and making her best choice.

However, how can all the choices be directly selected to choose the optimal solution?

How can a person be as emotionless as a cold machine when making decisions?

For people, what is the point of living if they give up some important feelings?

Claudia turned to leave, her work was not over, and the king was still waiting for her to return in Stormstormhold.