At night, the palace of Stormwind.

In the soft night, the hall resounded with beautiful melodies, and after the meal, the dance stage of the banquet was underway.

The ball was a celebration for the returning soldiers, and during the day, Bowal finally returned with the soldiers who had been on the expedition for a year or two.

Also arriving were Lordaeron's legacy, and at the ball, Claudia was dancing with Jaime.

Claudia rarely dances with others, especially after Varian's disappearance, and usually she asks Paltriss to stop her when invited to dance, and many guests are happy to dance with the beautiful and single Paltris.

However, Paltrius has been out of town lately, and Claudia has to say something about this occasion, in fact, before accompanying Jaime, she has already offered to invite Bolval to do a dance.

Compared to Boval, dancing with a Death Knight was no pleasure, Jaime's body was filled with a chill and terrifying death energy, which kept his flesh from rotting like the Dark Ranger, but at the same time, it also gave his flesh a chill that made Claudia's hands and arms feel piercing cold.

Claudia didn't show any discomfort, she felt guilty about Jaime, and invited him to dance to show that she didn't discriminate against the forsaken, and naturally there was no negativity on her face, and the two were chatting quietly during the dance.

"When are you going to go back to Lordaeron?"

"In three days, the living in this country are not friendly to us."

Claudia understood what Jaime meant, and she was powerless about it.

Stormwind and Lordaeron are not the same, and the humans of Lordaeron have found a way to coexist with the Forsaken under pressure from the outside world.

After the ravages of natural disasters, there are only about 200,000 human inhabitants in the territory of Lordaeron that is much larger than the Stormwind Kingdom, which is seriously sparsely populated, and the cruel living environment forces humans to huddle with the forsaken for warmth, and rely on the dedication of low-level undead to feed and clothe humans, and rely on the protection of high-level undead to get a respite in Lordaeron, where there are more and more monsters.

But in the Stormwind Kingdom, this condition does not exist, and humans still don't like these resurrected people, especially ordinary people who have not participated in the Lordaeron Restoration War, although they will not say anything on the surface due to the law and etiquette, but the hidden hostility still exists.

"Jaime, please be nice to that kid." Claudia admonished earnestly.

"I will, this kid is really good."

Jaime showed a hint of softness on his face, his first impression of the child was very good, although the child was still young, but the blue eyes and blonde hair and white skin, the facial features were beautiful, and the child would be a beautiful man when he grew up, and the child also had an extremely powerful light bloodline, and the blessing of the high-level demigods, enough to inherit the family business of the ancestors of the Sean family and multiply the Sean family.

Of course, not being biological still gives Jaime some fly in the ointment, but he has no other choice, his seed is dead, he can't reproduce, and his relatives are long dead, so he can only choose to adopt, and in all respects, this child is already the best choice Jaime can find.

"I will let the child's two personal maids follow, and when he is young, try not to let the low-level undead come into contact with him, they can't control the power of death, and they will hurt this child." Claudia continued to admonish uneasily.

"I know this, now that he is my child, I will naturally take care of him, Lordaeron City has been rebuilt, and he will grow up there with other human children."

"Hmm." Claudia nodded, Barons, the architect responsible for rebuilding Lordaeron, had returned home three months ago, and according to his description, the rebuilt city of Lordaeron was exceptionally magnificent, mainly due to the hard work of the low-level undead day and night, and even Barons made a suggestion that Stormwind City bring in a group of low-level undead as coolies.

Claudia naturally ignored this ridiculous suggestion, not only because the human environment of the Stormwind Kingdom was not suitable for the introduction of undead labor, but the key low-level undead were not real perpetual motion machines, maybe three years, maybe five years, maybe eight years, they would slowly decay after all, and this process would be slowed down by the existence of death source power and frost energy, but it would not be reversed.

In the whispered conversation between the two, it was finally time for the dance to end, and even if she was still a little uneasy, Claudia had to stop the process of admonishment, and bowed gracefully to Jaime, and then parted from each other at the party, entertaining the other nobles.

A week later, Stormstorm Fortress.

Reluctantly, Claudia bids off her children and returns to work, where the post-war schedule is very tedious and her work is extremely busy.

Claudia is busy for a reason, the number of adjutants around her is very small, and there were originally four adjutants in the adjutant's office, but Varian took two with him when he went out, and Major Samuelson, who was finally added later, was confirmed as a spy and was being interrogated after being captured in MI7, so Claudia now only has two adjutants around to assist, and there are not enough people.

However, there is another more important reason for being busy, in Claudia's opinion, there were some problems with Varian's previous way of handling state affairs, Varian has a lot of energy, and likes to do everything himself, so that almost everything below is sent to the throne room to deal with, in this case, there are naturally a lot of affairs.

And Claudia's personality is different from Varian after all, after two days of no time to read, no time to spend with the children, no time to drink afternoon tea, Claudia finally couldn't help it, she made a reform, she decided to divide most of the state affairs into categories to Duke Grayson, Duke Berval, Marshal Wendsall, Duke Visak and Archbishop Benedictas and other five high-level royal officials representing the nobility, the military, and the church respectively, and she was only responsible for the general direction.

In this way, Claudia's workload is greatly reduced, and she can spend more time on her studies, children, and other things, and in the past few days, the ministers have handled their official duties quite well, such as this morning, when Claudia was reading Bowall's "Viku Nation-Building Plan" submitted by Bowall.

This plan is part of the Northern Rift Northern Expedition's plan to completely eliminate the Scourge Legion, and there is already a consensus within the alliance that the alliance will send a large army to the Northern Rift within a year and a half to two years after the end of the break to completely solve the Lich King's threat to the Eastern Kingdoms.

The Northern Expedition is not a simple matter, the Northern Rift is extremely cold and harsh, and it is the base camp of the Lich King, sending too many troops is not only easy to lose heavily, but also easy to bring great logistical pressure, for this reason, the Alliance found the Veku, that is, the Vaudren tribe who had been in contact with Claudia, and planned to use the Veku to supplement the lack of alliance troops and relieve the pressure on the Alliance.

This plan is actually a prototype of Varian's plan a year and a half ago, and since then, the Stormwind Kingdom has begun to contact the Vaudron tribe, exchanging steel armor and weapons for cobalt ore mined by the Vikul, and sending professional advisors to help the Vikul improve their quality of life, with the help of the Stormwind Kingdom, this Vikku tribe has quickly become stronger, and has subdued several other Vku tribes in Grizzly Bear Hills, becoming a powerful force in the local area.

Today, after the Lordaeron War, the Alliance can finally devote more forces to this tribe, and the plan submitted by Boval is like this, he intends to take advantage of the two years of rest of the army to send a part of the priests to teach the Viku the teachings of the Holy Light, increase the aid to the Vaudron tribe, assist Vaudron to unify the entire Grizzly Hills, defeat the Dragon Raider clan in Howling Fjord who have defected to the Lich King, and finally establish a kingdom belonging to the Vkuku, join the Alliance, and assist the Alliance in the Northern Expedition.

Claudia approved the plan, which seemed to her to be completely feasible.

The Viku people were originally the ancestors of mankind, and the archaeological evidence has long proved that humans and the Viku people lived together for a long time, so the alliance as a whole has a high degree of acceptance of the Viku people.

Moreover, the Veku originally played the role of soldiers in the Titan Creation, they are warlike and good at fighting, extremely strong in combat, and the quality of individual soldiers is stronger than that of the Minotaurs, and if they can pull into the alliance, they can greatly help the Northern Expedition Lich King.

As for the question of whether the Veku will join the Alliance? There's really nothing to worry about.

Emotionally speaking, most of the Viku of Grizzly Hills still maintain their respect for the Titan Guardians and Valhalla, and Claudia can have a great impact on them as long as she shows up with Azadas.

In terms of interests, the Viku people of the Vaudren clan have no other choice, and the Dragon Raider Clan's Imironon has taken refuge in the Lich King for his eternal life, and if the Vaudren clan does not want to be swallowed up by the Dragon Raider Clan or become an undead, they can only choose a strong backer, and this backer can only be an alliance.

And even after the Lich King is settled, the ruling existence of this Viku kingdom is also of great benefit to the Alliance, and other members of the alliance can trade with this Viku kingdom in exchange for the specialties of the Northlands, and can also obtain the assistance of powerful Veku allies in the face of external threats, which is extremely beneficial in the long run.

After reviewing the plan, Claudia flipped through the work reports of the other ministers yesterday, and the day's official business was completed, and it was still very early at this time, Claudia planned to go to Egwen and Gianna to make preparations for the trip, and for the rest of the day, she would go to Karazhan with Gianna.