When Cataclysm occurred, Varian was attending a wedding in Darnassus, while Claudia was drinking black tea with Gianna in Karazhan.

The wedding was that of Tyrande and Malfurion, and after more than 10,000 years of love and waiting, the two of them finally came to fruition.

Many of the leaders of the Alliance Tribes would attend the wedding to congratulate them, and even the Red Dragon Queen and the Green Dragon Queen were present for Malfurion's exploits in the Nightmare, and they sent the Dragonking's blessing to Teddashir as a gift.

But Claudia and Gianna didn't go to this kind of event.

Needless to say, although some people have begun to realize the possibility that she is still alive, she does not want to resume her identity now, so naturally she will not go to Darnassus to stir up trouble.

Gianna, on the other hand, has another reason.

Gianna was not a socially active girl ever since, preferring solitude with books to books rather than noisy dance parties and the like.

Of course, as an important diplomat and queen of Theramore, she attended many social gatherings for work reasons, but she always liked to return to her nest as early as possible, and she longed for a life of relative isolation and slow pace.

In fact, this is an important reason why Gianna does not want to return to the role of Queen of Theramore, why should she stand in the foreground when Archmage Tworth can follow her policies and manage Theramore well?

Being a quiet mage apprentice in Karazhan and swimming in a sea of arcane and knowledge has been Gianna's dream since she was a child.

And during this period of time, especially in the months after the Northern Expedition was carried out and even ended, Gianna was even more dislike crowded occasions.

Her romance with Arthas has not been forgotten, and no matter where Gianna appears, she always gets a bunch of sympathetic and sympathetic looks, an experience that is simply terrible for her.

So this time, Gianna simply asked Ronin to bring her a gift, and then she continued to stay in Karazhan under the pretext that she needed to recuperate mentally injured in the Nightmare War.

And speaking of the Nightmare Battle, Gianna was indeed traumatized.

Countless times in her dreams, she returned to Stratholme, having one nightmare after another.

The first time, Gianna tried to save the fate of the world.

Gianna took part in the massacre of the city and followed Arthas to Northrend, where she did prevent Arthas from drawing her sword at the cost of pulling out Frostmourn and becoming the Lich King.

The ensuing dream was a complete nightmare, and she smirked and destroyed everything she cherished, and the Claudia sisters were made into death maidens by her.

The second time, Gianna changed her strategy.

After Stratholme, she took the opportunity to knock Arthas unconscious, kidnapping him back to Lordaeron, and doing her best to convince King Terenus and Master Antonidas to convene an alliance meeting to investigate Northrend's affairs.

Then she waited for the Muradin version of the Lich King......

Gianna struggled with nightmares time and time again, and at one point she even came close to succeeding, and the Lich King didn't get any suitable containers.

However, the next result was even more miserable, without Arthas, the Lich King did not dare to create a rebellion against the Burning Legion, and without those small actions of the Lich King, the Burning Legion finally destroyed the entire world......

Hearing this, Claudia squeezed Gianna's hand with a sympathetic look and comforted the other party, "I'm sorry, it must have been painful." ”

Gianna smiled disapprovingly, with relief in her smile, "It's okay, it's all over, and these nightmares can be regarded as helping me." ”

"I've always felt guilty all these years, thinking that I was a sinner in Azeroth, that I was responsible for the disasters that followed, and now that I've experienced these nightmares, I've finally figured it out, I don't have to take everything on myself, and I'll never regret my decision again."

"Well, that's right, you're not wrong." Claudia smiled and nodded.

Before she met Gianna, she felt that Gianna was a little ruthless when she was in Stratholme, but after the two had an in-depth exchange, she realized that Gianna's decision was understandable and there was nothing to blame.

Gianna was in a relationship with Arthas, but Gianna and Arthas had been separated for four years by the time Stratholme.

What's even more ridiculous is that the day before the breakup, Arthas kept saying that he loved Gianna, took Gianna's virgin that night, and turned his face after going to Gianna the next day, and proposed to break up with Gianna.

With this kind of holiday, Gianna's later performance is actually very generous, at least Claudia doesn't think that if she encounters this kind of scumbag, she can still talk to each other calmly when she meets again.

"You too, Claudia, you don't have to take everything on yourself." Gianna pointed.

"Thanks, I know what you mean." Claudia smiled and nodded, then raised her glass and took a sip of the fragrant black tea.

"That's good."

Gianna drew a purple rune in the air, and an arcane servant sent a box over, and inside the box was a helmet, the Helm of Domination, "I think this helmet should be useful to you, so I'm here for you." ”

Claudia didn't refuse the gift, and after looking at the helmet for a while, she looked at Gianna curiously, "I really can't hide anything from you, how did you know that I needed the law of death?" ”

"You see, that's my secret." Gianna winked at Claudia and laughed happily.

Claudia smiled wryly and shook her head, she didn't seem to be able to hide anything from the other party.

But now that it has been exposed, she will not continue to hide it in front of Gianna.

In the following time at Karazhan, Claudia took a book on psychic magic from Karazhin's collection and sat side by side with Gianna to read it, while Gianna was responsible for answering Claudia's questions and explaining the other mages' understanding of death in addition to reading the book herself.

Claudia didn't expect to learn these things anytime soon, even if she had a reference to the laws of the Helm of Domination, it would take a long time for her to learn the laws of death, she was just enjoying the learning process.

And Gianna is the same, the two girls sit side by side, and even forget the meal time because they are so absorbed in their studies together.

It wasn't until Moros, the old butler, came to remind the two of them that they found out.

"Claudia, what do you want to eat, how about sliced almond shrimp?"

"I know you like almonds, but don't be greedy for now, it's not good for your health---"

Claudia smiled and scratched Gianna's snow-white cheek with her index finger, and the beautiful archmage let her move, and said with a smile: "What are you afraid of, with you, the ---- in my body"

A low rumble interrupted Gianna's words, and the two girls changed their faces together, and felt the floor under their feet vibrate slightly, as if they were on a bumpy deck, which foreshadowed something to come---

Large earthquake.

Another voice was coming from above--- Claudia looked up to see hundreds of books in the library shaking and slowly sliding out of the shelves.

Gianna and Claudia reacted almost simultaneously.

Gianna chanted a spell, and with the flash of spell fluctuations, her books and shelves in the library immediately stopped shaking as if they were sticky, and her precious books would not be damaged.

Claudia, on the other hand, was lightning fast, and she immediately stood up and protected Gianna in her arms with her wings and arms.

After noticing that the book would not fall, Claudia breathed a sigh of relief, and she closed her eyes and began to unleash her mental power with all her might, scanning it.

Her mental power began to sweep from the upwind path, to the Elwyn Forest, to the Western Wilderness, to the entire Eastern Kingdom, and then to all of Azeroth, her face became more and more ugly, and she clenched her fists, and the killing intent naturally flowed out with anger.

"You're going to freak out the hell about us." Gianna's gentle voice rang in her ears.

"I'm sorry." Claudia quickly apologized and controlled her emotions.

After the earthquake stopped, she helped Gianna to her feet, and Gianna asked:

"Look at your face, it must not have been as simple as an earthquake just now, right?"

"That's right."

Claudia resisted the anger in her heart and remembered what had just happened, not only the upwind trail, but the whole of Azeroth was caught in the effects of the earthquake and tsunami, and large swaths of land were drastically transformed by the earthquake and tsunami.

As far as Claudia had just seen, a crater had collapsed in the Western Wilderness, the boulder dam at Lockmodan had collapsed, Treasure Bay and Gilneth had been washed away by a tsunami, the Barren Lands and the Valley of Thorns had each been torn in half by a crack that appeared in the middle, most of the Thousand Bells Forest in Tanaris had been submerged by the sea, and the Black Coast had been shaken out of several huge cracks.

I don't know how many lives will die in this disaster.

"How's Theramore?" Gianna asked nervously.

Claudia projected her spirit onto the harbor city, and her voice rang out:

"It's a miracle that Theramore wasn't so affected, not even the road leading to the Dust Swamp on Theramore Island hadn't collapsed."

Gianna's heart was relieved, but she soon saw Claudia's apricot eyes widen and fell into a state of rage again.

"I'm sorry, Gianna, I'll have to miss me for a while."

With that, Claudia was about to walk out, and then she was stopped by Gianna with her arms outstretched.

"What's going on?" Gianna asked.

Claudia's face was a little hesitant, but more anxious, and she prayed, "Gianna, the situation is urgent, I ---"

"What's going on?"

Gianna asked again, her eyes full of persistence.

In desperation, Claudia said briefly, "Deathwing is raging in Stormwind, and I need to stop his atrocities---。 ”

"You can't go," Gianna grabbed Claudia, she understood why she was anxious, but her tone was unmoved, "Deathwing did this in the hope of luring you through, and you couldn't fall into their trap. ”

"But, but ---"

"Let Varian go." Gianna gave an answer, "Don't forget what I said to you today, you don't have to take everything on yourself. ”

"Okay." Claudia sighed, she could only contact Varian with the psychic web.