The next morning, the Royal Library.

The dwarves such as Muradine and Brian had already left early in the morning on the Mine Tunnel, and Claudia had finished feeding the two little babies and was going to come to her own room in the library to read books, but as soon as she opened the door, she found that there was already a person in the room.

"Varian, why are you there?" Claudia was pleasantly surprised, knowing that Varian didn't like to come to the library to read.

"I don't have much business in the morning, so I just came to your room to accompany you, and I can summon Harrison by the way later."

"Harrison?" Claudia was even more surprised, "Varian, are you also interested in archaeology?" ”

Varian explained, "No, Harrison's trip to the Northern Rift was not only archaeological but also a detailed map, with most of the forces and their tendencies, which may help us in our fight against the Lich King." ”

Claudia also became interested after hearing this: "Then I'll summon you with you, I also want to know the current situation of the Northern Rift." ”

Naturally, Varian agreed, and summoned Harrison with Claudia, who presented beautifully illustrated maps and explained the local terrain, forces, and people.

The Soracha Basin has a huge magical barrier, which the expedition team cannot enter, and in the Icecrown City, the expedition team is really powerless in the face of hundreds of thousands of undead and huge steel walls, and in the storm cliffs, the expedition team temporarily suspended the exploration because they found Muradin's eagerness to return, and the rest of the dragons, including the Khodara in the north wind tundra, the dragon bone wilderness, and many dragon holy places in the dragon bone wilderness, are not allowed to be approached by mortals, so there are still many fogs in the North Rift.

"How many undead are there in Icecrown Castle?" Varian asked with concern.

"Just as far as we can see, there are many, many, endless, we can't estimate the number of undead in the city walls, but conservative estimates are more than 100,000," Harrison whispered, "There are huge steel fortresses and steel walls, the walls are twenty meters high, all made of steel, ice dragons and gargoyles hovering in the sky day and night, huge skeleton giants four or five meters tall wear steel heavy armor and steel heavy swords patrol day and night, and there are large ...... of Veku zombies and skeleton soldiers wearing armor more than two meters high. ”

Claudia felt a chill in her heart when she heard this, and Varian also said with a grim face, "How can there be so many enemies? Could you be mistaken? And where did the Scourge get so much steel? The North Rift is full of frozen ground! ”

Harrison patiently explained: "Your Majesty, many areas of the Northern Rift are extremely cold, and the bones do not rot all year round, we have seen too many Scourge soldiers digging up the bones, and as for the second question, my description may have been a certain error just now, the Lich King does not use steel, but an evil metal, we call it Saron Evil Iron, Victor, take out the metal sample." ”

Harrison took two metal samples from his assistant, presented them to Varian and Claudia, and explained them one by one: "This is cobalt ore, which can be used to smelt alloys, greatly increasing the wear resistance and toughness of parts or weapons, and is the most precious mineral we have found in this exploration." ”

"As for this is the Saron Evil Iron, Saron is the name of this ore by the locals, and the Evil Iron is because this ore is evil, and several members of the expedition team have become crazy after coming into contact with this metal, but it doesn't seem to have much effect on the masters, this metal has a relatively low smelting temperature, and the hardness is about the same as iron."

"Although the Northern Rift is full of frozen soil, but the Saron Evil Iron is everywhere on the surface of the North Rift, the undead of the Scourge Legion are the best slaves, and the undead can work without remuneration and food, and they can continue to work without rest, so the Scourge Legion can smelt a large amount of Saron Evil Iron."

Varian tested the hardness of Saron Iron with his hand and put it aside, frowning, "This metal has really helped the Lich King a lot, fortunately the Lich King seems to have gone wrong since last year, otherwise our attack in the Western Plaguelands would definitely not have gone so smoothly." ”

Claudia also picked up the Salone ore and looked at it carefully, her eyes were flushed with more and more intense silver, the original appearance of this metal ore soon appeared under the eyes of analysis, what kind of metal is this, this is clearly a ball of coagulated blood, and it is still alive blood!

Claudia's arm holding the ore trembled violently and wanted to throw it away, but Varian noticed Claudia's performance and quickly asked, "What's wrong?" Are you feeling unwell? ”

"It's okay, I already understand why those dwarves are crazy, this is supposed to be the blood of that prisoner under the North Rift, and this blood is still alive, that's why they are crazy, Harrison, do you have any extra ore? Take a small piece and I'll show you it. ”

"This is monster blood?" Harrison was a little incredulous, where does this look like blood? But he still took a small piece of ore and gave it to Claudia, which is everywhere in the Northern Rift, so the expedition team got quite a bit of it.

Claudia took the ore, took a dagger from Varian, cut her fingers, and dropped her blood on the ore drop by drop, only to see her blood turn from red to gold and boil at the first moment it fell on the ore, and the ore was also stimulated and twisted and melted into a black liquid, the two blood fought together, and the air began to sound like a terrifying murmur, trying to drive people crazy.

Several people in the room were extremely determined, so they were naturally unaffected, and in the face of the black liquid, Harrison's scalp tingled and said: "It turns out that this is the original appearance of this metal, it's hard to believe that I have brought a shoulder armor made of Saron ore for a while, I must report this news to our dwarven compatriots as soon as possible." ”

"This kind of thing, it looks like it's really suitable for the bunch of monsters in the Scourge Legion." Varian smiled wryly, and he understood once again how terrible the prisoner was.

"I don't know if the undead will be affected, but our master should also be affected by this metal after a long time," Claudia released the healing spell on herself, took the cobalt ore and looked at it with the eye of analysis, and said to the two of them, "And there is nothing wrong with this ore." ”

Harrison breathed a sigh of relief, and in the time that followed, Harrison began to give the other two a rough explanation of the forces in each place, and combined with the biological patterns sketched by his assistant, he introduced a large number of northern rift animals and intelligent species, including walrusmen, viku, nirub, frost trolls, frost dwarves, cattle eaters, and so on.

The Viku caught the attention of Varian, who, according to Harrison, were divided into many groups and had different attitudes towards expeditions, with the expedition having made friendly deals with the Grizzly Hills Wardren Clan, and the Dragonraider Clan of Howling Fjord, who seemed to have taken refuge in the Lich King.

After Harrison's introduction, Varian praised Harrison's actions and promised on the spot that Harrison would be canonized as a knight in recognition of his merits, and Harrison was naturally grateful, and after Harrison left, Varian asked Claudia:

"I have an idea, is it possible for us to trade the steel armor weapons that the Voldren clan desperately needs for cobalt ore, build friendship through trade, and win them over to our side, so that they can unite the Viku people of Grizzly Hills against the Dragonmarer clan who have defected to the Lich King?"

Claudia thought for a moment and said: "It seems feasible at first, but I don't know much about that patriarch, and the value of cobalt ore is not very clear now, I suggest that after the evaluation report of cobalt ore comes out, I will send a special envoy to investigate and decide." ”

"Hmm," Varian nodded, intending to arrange for the lieutenant to keep an eye on the task in a moment.

On the same morning, in a house in the old town of Stormwind.

When the bald head walked into a room with a bowl of dark green things, Vanessa was quickly packing up her things, the bald head looked at Vanessa's movements, and sneered coldly: "Look what kind of things you treat as treasures, a bottle of expired mead, a broken silk handkerchief, and ...... Isn't this Abigail's idiot's necklace? Bring the necklace! ”

The black-haired little girl immediately grabbed the necklace into her arms, stared nervously at the bald head and gritted her teeth as she retreated, "This is given to me by the mentor, this is mine." ”

The bald man's face began to be unkind, Vanessa's hand holding the necklace trembled slightly but did not back down from him, and finally the bald head gave up his original plan, pouted and said coldly: "Hmph, that rotten good person." ”

Then the bald head put down the bowl and beckoned to Vanessa: "Nightingale, roll over to me and drink the contents of the bowl." ”

Vanessa saw that she would not lose the necklace in her hand, so she put away the necklace and moved over, and drank the bowl of dark green things, the taste of the thing was extremely bitter, but Vanessa still swallowed heavily, and when she finished drinking, a sharp pain began to come from her abdomen, and she fell to her knees with cold sweat on her forehead.

"It's ...... What the? ”

"Poison."

The bald head said succinctly, and looked at Vanessa's next reaction with interest, only to see that the little black-haired girl replied, "Got it." And covered her stomach and there was no other movement, which made the bald head feel bored, so he could only kick her and say:

"In our business, we must exercise our anti-drug ability, otherwise the fate of your villain dad is the most obvious example, he has not undergone special anti-drug training, so he broke the skin and ......"

"He's not...... Knave. Vanessa interrupted him in excruciating pain.

"Hahaha," the bald man sneered, sneering, "He's not a villain? If he's not a villain, do you dare let anyone else know where he's buried? Do you know how many people applauded when he died? Do you know how many bad things he and his men have done? Do you dare to let others know who you are? In the end, if it weren't for him, would you have messed up with us? I heard Abigail say that you were nearly skinned by your father's former henchmen when she found you. ”

Vanessa's pain in her abdomen was getting worse and worse, and it had spread all over her body, she bit the sheets and stopped talking, but the bald head became interested and continued: "But are the rumors true? Does your father really have a treasure left? ”

Vanessa continued to bite the sheet and did not answer, and the bald head said to herself: "Forget it, I don't think so, otherwise Master Shore would not let you go so easily." ”

"Today's medicine money is 30 silver coins, I will keep it in the account, I will keep an account of every copper coin you spend with me during the two years of training, and when you can perform the task, you will have to start paying me back, if you can't pay it back by the day you become an adult, I will tie you up to the treasure bay to sell it for a good price, those goblins can firmly believe that they can use you to squeeze out the treasure."

"In addition, I will start your formal training from tomorrow, I will teach you two hours a day, and the training course will cost 10 silver coins per day, which will be credited to your account."

When the bald head spoke, Vanessa kept biting the sheets, enduring the pain all over her body, and did not answer, but the bald head did not have the slightest idea of pity her, and kicked her hard: "Speak!" Did you hear that? ”

"I ...... Got it! The little black-haired girl was covered in sweat and curled up in a ball, gritting her teeth and popping out a few words.

The bald head nodded with satisfaction, and then kicked Vanessa again, and said coldly: "Enjoy the gift of pain, it at least means that you are still alive." ”

After saying that, the bald head turned and left the room, and in the room, Vanessa was the only one struggling alone, battling the severe pain.