Time is like water, flowing endlessly, pushing the ants who are powerless to resist into the unknown distance.

Dark Gate, end of January 23, Stormwind.

The news from the north was unfavorable, and in an attack on Stratholme, the Crusaders suffered a heavy setback, and even Renaud Mograini, the son of the High Lord Mograini, was killed in the city of Stratholme.

Wearing the crown and bearing its weight, Varian, who has already received the crown of Lordaeron for his son, will not forget his obligation, and he has made a decision to stop recuperating and use the power of the whole country to aid New Lordaeron, retake the Eastern Plaguelands, purify Stratholm and destroy Naxxramas.

At the royal palace, Varian privately summoned Berval.

After Boval saluted Varian, he spoke: "Your Majesty, is it a matter of the war situation in the north?" ”

Varian also got straight to the point: "Yes, Berval, you are my most trusted friend, I need you to be the commander, lead the First Legion, the Fourth Legion, and some royal knights to form reinforcements to participate in the attack on the Eastern Plaguelands, and after you arrive in the Eastern Plaguelands, the Seventh Legion will also be under your control." ”

"But Your Majesty, there are no regular legions left in the country, and the militia and sheriffs alone will not be able to defend our country, in case the trolls of the Valley of Thorns or the orcs of the northern part of the Red Ridge Mountain attack." ”

Varian had apparently thought about this as he said, "We'll reinforce our old fortifications north of Red Ridge and build a fortress to buy time for the help and reaction of our dwarven allies, and as for the trolls, ---"

Varian glanced at Stamma and continued, "Trolls don't have to worry about it, as long as I'm still in the Stormwind Kingdom, trolls won't be able to pose any threat to our country. ”

……

Bovar was finally ordered to leave, and Varian continued to prepare for diplomatic logistics, with his personality he actually likes to lead troops into battle, but Claudia is already more than seven months pregnant, in addition to Claudia, Barathan and Angela are only more than a year old, Anduin is not very old, Varian is really not worried about leading a large army at such a time.

Judging from the current intelligence, Kel'thugad is completely bent on defending Stratholme, and in the case that the defenders do not lack troops, fortifications, supplies, morale and masters, attacking such a huge city is extremely difficult for the attackers, and the entire tribe besieging Stormwind City has fought hard for more than four years and finally relied on the assassins to take it, which shows this, so Varian basically has no hope that he can completely capture the Eastern Plague Land within half a year.

In the afternoon, Claudia's bedchamber.

"Little sister, you mean, you want to go to the front with the other priest paladins? And the bishops disagree? Claudia frowned and looked at Partris and Segrina opposite her, Segrina gave Claudia a helpless look, Claudia nodded and said, "Then my attitude is the same as that of the bishops, and I don't agree!" ”

"Why don't you agree, sister, you went on the expedition with the Prince of Arthas when you were fifteen years old, when you were just entering the professional level, and now I am at the elite level." Paltris whispered.

"Strength does not mean combat effectiveness, you are just a flower in a greenhouse now, not suitable for that cruel environment at all, even if I was still fifteen years old and professional, as long as I was willing to work hard, I would definitely be able to kill you." Claudia commented mercilessly, "I don't believe you have a game with Sally, she doesn't use a bow, see how many moves you lose." ”

Segrina spread her hands: "It's already over in the morning, one trick is enough to deal with her, she has no experience in dealing with thieves at all, and she will be locked by me every time ...... throat"

Partris had nothing to say, bowed her head and said nothing, Claudia then felt that she might be a little harsh, she pulled Partris's hand over and hugged her hands, looked at Partriss with sincere eyes and said softly: "Little sister, you know how much I love you, I really don't want you to be hurt a little, you better study with the bishop and Sally in Stormwind City for a few more years, when you can defeat Sally, I won't stop you, okay?" At your current level, how can I rest assured that you will be out? ”

"I'm sorry, sister." Paltris said embarrassedly, "You're right, I'll try." ”

Claudia breathed a sigh of relief when she saw this, this attack on the Eastern Plague Lands was naturally not only the soldiers involved, the Cathedral of Light recruited a large number of priests and paladins to fight on the front line, which led to the scene where Partris asked to go to the front line with her partners, and the reason why the bishops did not allow Partris to go to the front line was also very simple, Partris was an extremely valuable seed to the Holy Light Church, and the bishops were afraid that she would have an accident.

That evening, Claudia and Varian were chatting with Pollis again, while Varian was frowning over Anduin's education.

Anduin is already eight years old, and Varian has begun his formal martial arts training, hoping that Anduin can become a powerful warrior like him, a king who can bring courage and strength to the people of the Stormwind Kingdom, but judging by the results of his training during this time, Anduin does not seem to have much talent in close combat.

Varian said with a headache: "Our family has been the best warrior for generations, and Anduin's progress is really a little unexpectedly slow, do you think it could be that there is a problem with my education methods." ”

Claudia smiled and comforted Varian: "Anduin is so young, he has only been training for a month, what can he see, besides, I don't think he can take another career path even if he is really not talented in warriors, if you allow it, I will let Paltris come to give him the Holy Light enlightenment in the next two days." ”

Varian immediately refused, saying: "It's better to train in martial arts first, it's not too late to start training in holy light or magic until the age of twelve or thirteen, but it's best to start practicing martial arts at this age, and what you just said makes sense, I may be a little anxious for Anduin." ”

"Hmm." Claudia nodded.

In the same month, Quel'Salas.

On the site of the old Sun Well, the silver giant tree Akandol rises from the ground, and the tree is full of beautiful silver fruits, each fruit can not only cure the effect of demon addiction, but also contains powerful magic power, so it is deeply loved by the blood elves.

Although the blood elves have cured their addiction because of taking the fruit, they are only physically no longer dependent, and psychologically they still like things that contain arcane magic, so the Akandol fruit and arcane gems are still sought after by the blood elves.

Taking advantage of this mentality, the elven prince Kael'thas changed the welfare system of the elves, no longer providing the elves who could not make an effective contribution to the kingdom Akandor fruit, this policy naturally could not be opposed by the elves, but the effect was extremely effective, in the past, many elves who did not do their jobs began to be forced to practice martial arts or magic and join the army, although the elves were still sparsely populated, but they had recovered a considerable number of troops.

Prince Kael'thas was standing in front of the tree, discussing the Stormwind Kingdom's request for help with his most trusted advisor, the Grand Magister Romans.

"Your Highness, I'm not against sending reinforcements, I'm suggesting a delay for a few more months, now that Silvermoon City has not been rebuilt, and the Land of Ghosts has just been recovered, we need time, and there is also a reason to explain, doesn't Eagle's Nest Mountain also have to be delayed until summer before sending troops?"

"I know what you say, Romans." Kael'thas explained, "But unlike the Hammer Dwarves, the rest of the Alliance doesn't trust us, they're all waiting for our answer this time, so we can't hesitate to send troops immediately to prove that we're trustworthy, after all, we need the Alliance more than the Alliance needs us." ”

Romans admits that what Kael'thas said makes sense, the blood elves do need the alliance more now, the elves are not many in number and the fertility rate is extremely low, and they lost more than half of their clansmen in the massacre three years ago, and the sunwell no longer exists, the elves do need the help of the alliance, especially the humans, but this is also the reason why Romans is reluctant to send reinforcements immediately, now that the clan is so scarce, the sooner the reinforcements are sent, the greater the loss, and the loss of each additional soldier will make Romans feel heartache.

Kael'thas saw Romans' thoughts, and said: "This time, our reinforcements will be dominated by the Wizard Legion, presumably other countries will not say anything, the original alliance only needs our mages, and the probability of mages being protected in the rear is very low." ”

Romans was persuaded and agreed: "Your Highness is indeed deeper than I thought, so I will go and select the mage." ”

Dark Gate March 23.

At the beginning of the month, the army of the Stormwind Kingdom led by Bervar and the elven wizard army led by Prince Kael'thas began to join the battle in the Eastern Plaguelands, and the alliance had a complete advantage, and it seemed that they would soon be able to recover most of the fallen areas of the Eastern Plaguelands and completely encircle Stratholme.

At the end of the month, Claudia gave birth to another baby boy, and for some reason Varian did not name the child, so the child was named Geralt by Claudia alone, a very common Lordaeron name.

Jaime Sheen did not come to the Stormwind Kingdom to visit the child who was about to pass to him, and at this moment the battle in the Eastern Plague Lands was raging, he could not get out of it, but Gianna used the portal to come to Claudia the day after giving birth to congratulate her.

"He looks like you," Gianna leaned over to look at the blonde, blue-eyed baby, "what a resemblance." ”

Claudia sat on the edge of the bed, sipping chocolate to regain her energy and smiling, "He does have a lot of blood in his body, and Varian already has three children after all." ”

"This kid must be a good paladin," Gianna laughed, "just like you." ”

"I hope so," Claudia leaned over and kissed the child, and suddenly said with some surprise: "These things are not up to me, and when the child turns one year old, James may come and pick him up at any time, and then his fate depends on how James educates." ”

Gianna couldn't say much about this kind of thing, so she could only comfort Claudia and said: "This result is not bad, after all, there is no such big fief for him to inherit in the Storm Kingdom." ”

Fief? What's the point of this kind of thing? I just hope this child can live happily.

Claudia sighed in her heart, unwilling to continue the topic, and instead said, "Sister Gianna, when this child is full moon, please come and teach me the knowledge of portals, including the teleportation coordinates of Theramore and Stormwind, I may be able to learn to teleport soon." ”

"That's fine, if you learn it, you're welcome to come to Theramore," Gianna smiled and nodded, "but can you satisfy my curiosity, how did you do the teleportation?" ”

"I used the source of order, which is more basic than arcane energy, to build the teleportation model......" Claudia explained.