When she returned home in the evening, Claudia saw the so-called reward that Natalie had left her before leaving, "The Secret of the Void" and a small box containing purple gems.

Claudia had seen the book "The Secret of the Void" before, but last time she didn't read it carefully because what she wanted to know about the mind at that time, and gave it back to Natalie after a few cursory glances.

Claudia flipped through the book again, and read it carefully, the concept advocated in the book is the balance of light and shadow, where there is light, there must be shadow, and she believes that both light and shadow are part of this world, and the knowledge of the power of darkness taught is indeed very profound, and it has given Claudia a lot of inspiration, and even the Silver Hand does not know much about this knowledge.

Titan's understanding of the three source forces of order, life, and light is very deep, but the understanding of the three source forces of shadow, evil energy, and death is very general, so Claudia was quite interested in reading the knowledge related to the shadow source power in this book, but when she saw the specific spell, she instinctively became extremely disgusted.

Many shadow spells focus on how to use the power of shadow to control and dominate the hearts and souls of enemies, how to inflict pain on enemies, and how to torture enemies, which is very difficult for girls who prefer to use the Light to bring warmth and hope to others, and understand why the Shadow Theory is not very interesting in the Church of Light.

According to what she learned during her studies at Lordaeron Cathedral, there were priests who began to preach the theory of balance of light and shadow more than a decade ago, but most church members were not interested in this knowledge, except for a small number of priests who had lost their comrades and relatives in the war and were extremely angry and angry.

Moreover, not long after the first batch of priests learned the knowledge of shadows, the Northern Church of the Holy Light also issued a ban, blocking most of the materials, strictly prohibiting priests who are not at the elite level from learning shadow knowledge, even if high-level members want to learn, they must be approved by the archbishop.

The reason is because the priests who first learned the power of the shadow at that time, although there are indeed a few people who can sincerely call on the light to help their comrades while viciously cursing the enemy with the power of the shadow to spread pain, these few people have also been appointed as judges by the Church of the Light, but more priests have completely abandoned the faith of the light and are lost in the power of the shadows, and some even turn to believe in some dark creatures.

It has been more than ten years since the appearance of the first Shadow Priests, although the Shadow Priests do not have much soil to survive in human society, but the Shadow Priest inheritance has grown step by step, because the Shadow Priest has the ability to use the power of Shadow to obtain other people's memories and control other people's hearts, these two abilities are too powerful for both the kingdom and the church leaders to be reluctant to give up.

In the case of Stormwind, as far as Claudia knows, the Cathedral of Light and MI7 each have a group of Shadow Priests to participate in the torture of captives and demons, and even several bishops of the Cathedral use a few shadow spells to a greater or lesser extent.

Claudia is now reading The Secrets of the Void, not to learn shadow spells, but to get a rough understanding of the knowledge and power of shadows, which will be easier for her to deal with if she encounters such enemies in the future.

After a while, tired of reading "The Secret of the Void", Claudia put down the book, planning to study the purple gem, this purple gem looks fine, but as soon as she opened the container containing the gem and picked up the gem, she was shocked and threw the gem directly on the bed again, just in the short moment of contact with the gem, she felt a throbbing in the depths of her soul, and her spiritual power also rose a little.

Claudia picked up the Silver Hand and asked the Silver Hand to help inspect the gem as she asked, "What is this?" ”

"Don't worry, this is a gem that contains a lot of pure soul elements, and there are no other impurities." The Silver Hand replied.

"Soul Elemental Gem?"

Claudia knows the soul element, fire, earth, water, wind, soul decay are the six elements that make up the material world, but although the first four elemental gems are rare, she has also seen them, for example, many mages' staffs are inlaid with gems of the water element or fire element to increase their spell casting ability, but the last two elemental gems are just legendary things, and she has seen them for the first time.

The Silver Hand continued: "Yes, although I don't know what the motives of that 'woman' are, this gem is indeed what you need the most at this stage, and absorbing the soul elements inside can save you a large part of your promotion time, allowing your soul to complete the second transformation as soon as possible. ”

"I'll try."

Claudia put the gem into her hand again and slowly absorbed it, the feeling of soul throbbing returned, in the case that she had already found her own promotion path and a large number of pure soul elements were replenished, her soul was slowly transforming along her promotion path little by little, this process is a bit similar to the process of green worms from cocooning to cocoon breaking, and when this process is completely completed, she can successfully become a hero paladin and reach the limit that mortals can reach.

The effect of this gem is to shorten the time of her soul transformation, making the promotion time that she originally planned to take two to three years much shorter, but it cannot allow her to be directly promoted to the hero level overnight, and her daily absorption of the soul elements in the gem is limited.

Soon after, Claudia had reached her limit of absorption, and she put the gem back in the small box and put it away close to her, waiting for the next absorption tomorrow.

Over the next few days, Claudia lived to the fullest.

Every morning, she would take out the gem and absorb some of the soul elements to accelerate her strength, go to the palace in the morning to play with Anduin, have lunch with the king at noon, work on her own money-making plans in the afternoon, and spend the evening enjoying family time with her sister.

Claudia's money-making plan also went well, she could take care of hundreds of fruit trees in one afternoon, harvest tens of thousands of catties of cadore fruit, and then the fruit would be picked by the servants, part of it would be made into juice, and a large part of it would be bought directly by the dignitaries.

Each catty of Cadore fruit can be sold for a high price of one or two gold coins, which is equivalent to the income of a waiter for a year or two, but this price is not a problem for the rich merchants and nobles, for them, it is just a small amount of money, these fruits are both good and exotic, and are deeply loved by the high-class dignitaries, and the money from selling fruits alone every day can bring the girl a huge income of two or three thousand gold coins.

However, the sales momentum of the Cadore fruit will be so hot in the first few days, and after a few days of freshness from the nobles of Stormwind City, the demand for this fruit will not be so great, not to mention that many merchants in Stormwind City have discovered this business opportunity and began to seek a route to the Night Elves, I believe that with the opening of the new route in the near future, the price of the Cadore fruit will plummet.

These Cadore fruits are estimated to bring Claudia a total of more than 20,000 gold coins in income, which sounds like a lot, but it is also a quick time for Claudia, such as Segrina's five-year employment agreement, which cost Claudia thousands of gold coins.

Claudia happily signed an agreement with Segrina after getting the first share, and paid off Segrina's employment money in one lump sum, which made the elf girl who got a large sum of money excited for several days, and even claimed that sometimes she would laugh out loud when she slept at night.

Although this is a lot of money, Claudia thinks it is very worth it, Segrina is already the top mercenary, this time she is willing to travel thousands of miles from Quel'Salas to Stormwind City to continue to fulfill an expired agreement, which shows that she values the contract, and it is not a loss to exchange thousands of gold coins for her five years of service, and even if Segrina wants to sign for another five years.

The rest of the money Claudia did not spend indiscriminately, except for taking out a part of it for Partris to buy clothes and jewelry, she entrusted the rest of the proceeds to Duke Grayson's butler to help her deposit it into her account in the bank of Stormwind City on a regular basis, and there are still a lot of places where she needs to spend money, such as high-end clothes, a dress tailored by the top tailor of Stormwind City costs sixty to seventy gold coins, and a few hundred gold coins to buy a few sets of clothes, so the gold coins she earns still have to be saved a little.

The rest went by in a flash, and one day more than a week later, when she was having lunch with Varian at noon, Varian informed her of the new itinerary: "Go back tonight to get your luggage ready, come to the palace early tomorrow morning, and we will leave for Ironforge Castle, which is estimated to take five or six days." ”

"So fast? Are we going by subway? Claudia guessed that she had learned a little more about the subway in the past few days, and it was said that these were the credit of the gnome engineers of Nomorigan, and the contribution of the gnome engineers to the alliance was not only the subway, during the war of the alliance tribes more than ten years ago, the gnomes invented a large number of weapons such as muskets and cannons, and even a large number of gnomes directly participated in the war directly in helicopters and siege locomotives, so that the final balance of victory fell to the side of the alliance.

"Yes," Varian confirmed the girl's guess, "and not only is there a subway between Stormwind and Ironforge, but there is also a subway between Ironforge and Nomorigan, so we can go back and forth so quickly." ”

"Okay, I'll be there on time tomorrow, and Varian, I've recently hired a new female guard, and I want her to come with me."

"That's fine." Varian readily agreed.

The escort that Claudia wants to bring is naturally Segrina, the reason why she wants to bring Segrina is not to protect her own safety, the security of Ironforge and Nomorigen has always been good, and Varian will also bring a certain number of royal knights with him, so there is no need to worry about safety at all, it will be a relaxed and pleasant trip, the reason why she wants to take Segrina is because the royal knights are all men, and she is very inconvenient for a woman, and she just wants Segrina to accompany her.

However, will this trip to Ironforge really be as easy and enjoyable as Claudia thinks?