Three weeks later, Stormwind, the Royal Palace.

Heavy snow fell one after another, and pieces of snowflakes flew in the air with the wind, and everywhere they could be seen, they were covered in white and silver.

"It's snowing."

Claudia, who had just finished practicing the dance and was still wearing a gorgeous long dress, walked out of the ballroom and couldn't help but sigh when she saw the scene in front of her.

The maid Liz chased her from behind with a white ferretskin coat: "Miss, put it on quickly, be careful of catching a cold." ”

"Thank you, Liz."

Claudia thanked her and took her coat and draped it over her body, turning to the other side, where Ivrina, dressed in royal knight's armor, was also walking briskly.

After the Battle of the Northlands, the members of the Tyr Guard swore allegiance to Claudia under the leadership of Tavard, and at this time several paladins joined the Church, and Ivrina, as a female member, was taken with her by Claudia after asking Varian for a royal knight formation, and was responsible for assisting her with some matters.

After greeting Everena, Claudia asked about business: "Is Your Majesty still on official business?" ”

"Yes, I asked Major Arthur just now, Your Majesty is busy with business today, and it is estimated that it will be at least the afternoon when he is done."

"Your Majesty is really diligent, and in that case, I won't bother him," Claudia laughed, "but this snowy scene is not to be wasted, and we shall go to Anduin and find him to build a snowman with him." ”

"Yes, my lord." Everena said weakly, she really had no interest in playing with the children, and the maid Liz reminded Claudia, "Mademoiselle, we can't play too long, for Mr. Polillo will be here in an hour." ”

"I see."

This time it was Claudia's turn to be listless, and in the two weeks she came back, in order to make up for the progress of more than a month after leaving, and the engagement ceremony was a few days later, she basically spent a long time every day on the fabrics, accessories, styles, tailor-made, and fitting clothes, although those luxurious and elegant new clothes were indeed very beautiful, and the praise of the female officials and maids did make her a little proud, but the process was still so tiring and boring.

When Claudia arrived at Anduin's residence, she found no trace of Anduin, and Serra, the female officer in charge of Anduin's care today, blushed and stammered to Claudia, "Yes...... I'm sorry, Miss, Your Highness is ...... again It's gone, and I'm looking for him ....... ”

"Don't worry, Serra, he won't get far," Claudia comforted Serra, "I'll help you." ”

Serra thanked and became even more embarrassed, while Claudia found Anduin with ease, and with her excellent five senses and observation skills, Claudia soon led Serra to find the missing bear child and a certain panda in a hidden location on the rooftop.

"Mr. Chen, sure enough, you're making trouble again!"

Feeling embarrassed and embarrassed, Serra immediately rushed forward when she saw the culprit, and Lao Chen, who had eaten too well recently and was about to become fat, immediately stood up and turned around and ran without saying a word when she saw Serra, Claudia walked to Anduin and squatted down, the little boy was looking at her with wide eyes and asked curiously:

"Sister Claudia, how did you find us? Obviously, I have carefully checked that there is no Uncle Chen's hair on the ground this time. ”

"He's too heavy, every footprint is too obvious to me, look here---。" Claudia had an extra cloud of white light in her hand, and the unique shoe prints of Lao Chen on the ground were suddenly exposed in the light.

"I see, sister." Anduin was very excited, "Next time, I will let Uncle Chen think of other ways." ”

"Okay," Claudia almost laughed when she looked at Lao Chen, who was being chased and beaten by Serra, and reached out to Anduin with a smile: "It's snowing now, how about we go to the garden to build a snowman?" ”

"Build a snowman? That's great! Anduin happily agreed, and soon the group went to the garden to have a good time.

While Claudia and Anduin were playing in the snow with laughter, Varian was in his office dealing with everything from the resumption of production in the Wild West, to the preparation of the engagement ceremony a week later, to entertain guests from various countries, and to the military situation in the Northlands.

He couldn't help frowning when he turned over the military situation in the Northlands, according to the report of the officers of the Seventh Legion who had just arrived in South Sea Town, Marshal Garither had suddenly and unexpectedly left the Dalaran defense area with most of his army a few days ago, leaving the undead of the Western Plague Lands to fight, and went straight into the Tirisfal Glade, without contacting the crusaders of the Great Abbey.

"What the hell is Garrissus doing?"

Varian was a little strange, he really couldn't understand what Marshal Garriss' intentions were, but after all, Gallian was the front-line marshal and not his direct subordinate, so Varian could only reply to the officer of the Seventh Legion: "Be careful, but follow the command." ”

Two nights later, Lordaeron.

Jaime took Koltila, Natalie, and several Dark Ranger to the hillside outside Deserock Castle to scout the military situation, but after seeing the castle inside the castle on the high slope, several of the Forsaken were shocked by what they saw.

Koltila was stunned and said everyone's thoughts: "Why are there so many humans and dwarves in Desailok Castle, the number must be almost four thousand. ”

Jaime was also surprised, "This is clearly the main force of the Alliance, mainly Lordaeron and the Ironforge soldiers, but how could the Alliance get together with the Dreadlord?" ”

Veronara, the Dark Ranger, saluted, "My lord, why don't I sneak in and grab my tongue?" ”

Jaime agreed to her offer: "Okay, be careful not to alarm the other person. ”

Veronara, who was Sylvanas's proud subordinate before her death, moved neatly and quickly tied up a human officer, and Natalie personally went into battle to search for her memories and learned what they wanted to know: this army is the main force of the Alliance's Northern Army, but their leader Garithars and almost all the officers have been brainwashed and controlled by Deseloc, and at this time this group of Alliance main forces have become Deseloc's subordinates.

There is not much doubt about the fact that the Dreadlord can control so many soldiers, and a few forsaken people have little doubt, in fact, although the Dreadlord is not good at fighting the same, but the reason why they can be regarded as high-level demons in the Burning Legion is that with their powerful mental control ability, each Dreadlord can control thousands of units, so the previous few Dreaddemon Kings were able to take away the control of the Scourge's Legion in the hands of the Lich King, and most of the other undead and demons did not have this ability.

In the case of Jaime, he commanded the Forsaken army in a manner similar to that of a human army, appointing high-ranking undead such as Death Knights and Dark Ranger as officers, and then commanding low-level undead through the officers.

After learning that the Alliance army was under the control of the Dreadlord, Veronara had a headache about the situation: "My lord, the castle is strong, and the number of enemies is too large to fight. ”

"Not necessarily," Jaime turned to look at Natalie, "Natalie, tell me what this officer knows about the armament. ”

After Natalie complied, Koltila proposed a solution: "My lord, if this news is true, maybe we can let the banshee control the low-level soldiers to open all the city gates, and use the same means as last time to carry out a surprise attack, avoid the brigade of human guards, and directly behead Desellock." ”

"Well said, Koltila!" Jaime nodded approvingly, and then a long-lost smile appeared on his face: "If you only need to capture this castle, your plan is feasible, but after seeing today's scene, I want more than just this castle and the undead army under the Dreadlord." ”

Koltila was a little puzzled: "My lord? ”

Jaime said, "Let's go back first, and then we will have to call the Tassarians and the others together to make sure that my plan is not feasible, and if my plan works, we will have a chance to be accepted into our former alliance on this continent, and you may be able to return to Quel'Thalas to see your family and friends." ”

"Yes, my lord!"

Both Koltila and Veronara were excited about the prospect Jaime described, with human death knights such as Sasarian reluctant to be enemies of humans, and the Forsaken of the former Elven Clan of the Alliance unwilling to be enemies of their fellow elves.

On the same night, in Anduin's bedroom at the Royal Palace of Stormwind, Claudia was sitting on the bed, telling a bedtime story to little Anduin, who was snuggled up to her:

“…… When another lumberjack heard this, he also took an iron axe and threw it into the water, and the water spirit also took three axes and asked which one was his? The lumberjack said that the golden axe belonged to him, and the water spirit thought he was a greedy man, so he took the three axes and disappeared together. ”

After telling the story, Claudia patted little Anduin and said softly, "Okay, it's time to finish the story, Anduin, according to the agreement, you should go to bed." ”

"Sister, will you come and tell me a story tomorrow?"

"My sister will be very busy in the next few days of this week, okay for next week?"

"Okay." Anduin nodded obediently.

"Have a sweet dream, Anduin."

Claudia got up to say goodbye to Anduin, and Serra approached Claudia as she saw her off and whispered in protest, "Miss, you took my job again today." ”

"Hahahaha," Claudia laughed happily, "I'll come once every three days from next week, and I'm not allowed to have any more opinions." ”

"Well," said Serra reluctantly, "and Miss, Your Majesty has been waiting for you next door for a while. ”

"I saw him just now, I'll go see him now, Serra, you go back to sleep with His Highness first."

"Yes, miss."

Serra turned and went back to Anduin's room, and Claudia went to the next door, where Varian was resting on the sofa, and when she saw the girl coming, she immediately got up to meet her, and said with a gentle face:

"Thank you, Claudia, I've always ...... I don't know how to take care of Anduin all my life, thank you for helping me. ”

"Why are you so polite?" Claudia smiled and poked the other party, "Isn't that what I'm supposed to do?" ”

"You're right," Varian laughed, and after the laughter he remembered what he had just seen, he said, "You can't let Anduin call you sister anymore, it's better to be an aunt, so that he can change his mind when we get married." ”

"I don't need that," Claudia said to him, "I'm only sixteen, and Aunt Claudia sounds so old." ”

"Alright," Varian said no longer insisting, and turned to something else: "The engagement day is in four days, and when the leaders of the world come, we must all be prepared." ”

"Hmm." Claudia nodded obediently, looking forward to the arrival of engagement day.