Early in the morning, Claudia woke up and was kneeling for her daily morning service, having a routine communion with the Light itself, which had been going on for four years and would continue to do so.

The Holy Light warmed her as always, making her very comfortable, and after finishing the morning class, Claudia practiced swordsmanship for a while before going to breakfast.

This is the fourth day since the King's Blade is gone, and during these days, Claudia has lived a very quiet life, waiting for news from Gianna, and in her free time, she will go to Gianna's Mage Tower to borrow some books to read.

Gianna is a mage and a scholar at the same time, and her mage tower is not all magic books, but more of all kinds of knowledge books, because she is a princess, so she can collect many books that are not available elsewhere.

Claudia stepped into the library, she was more interested in the history of other races than in spells, and the history taught by the governess was only a mutilated human part, and when Claudia was about to continue reading the Salas-written "Darth Rema, Child of the Sun" that she had read yesterday, she found that the book was already in the hands of a female elf.

The female elf has the same delicate face and slender body as the other elves, and the blue robe on her body marks her identity as a mage, and after noticing Claudia's gaze at the book in her hand, she took the initiative to greet Claudia: "Hello, I'm Shirley Chenguang, I know you, Archmage Gianna's guest, do you need to read this book too?" ”

"It's nice to meet you Shirley, you can read this book first, I'm just interested in learning some elven history, I'll go find another one." Claudia hurriedly refused, and then she found another history book in Salas and looked at it, and when she was fascinated by it, Shirley appeared next to Claudia, her face showing obvious disappointment, and her long pointed ears drooped.

Shirley handed the book in her hand to Claudia, with a hint of loss in her tone: "Excuse me, thank you, I've finished reading it now, and I don't have what I want." ”

Looking at the elf girl's dejected expression, Claudia asked with concern, "Is it convenient to tell me what you are looking for?" I also know a lot about history, and I might be able to help you. ”

Shirley's face obviously didn't have much hope for Claudia, but she sat down next to Claudia and said, "I'm looking for information about the sunwell, and I want to do my part for my people's illness." Originally, I wanted to know how His Majesty Darth Rema built the Sunwell, but in this book, there is not a word about the Sunwell. ”

Claudia was a little puzzled: "Sick? But what does this have to do with the sunwell? ”

Shirley sighed in a low voice, "Yes, a terrible disease, a disease peculiar to our Quettore. ”

She seemed to have been worried about this for a long time, so she confided in Claudia after asking:

"For so many years, the energy of the well water of the sun well has penetrated into our blood, and the energy fills the body, but now that the sun well does not exist, our connection has been cut off, so we have begun to have a strong emptiness and weakness."

"I've felt that feeling, that feeling of being forever hungry and empty, enough to drive most people crazy."

"Professions with enough strength will be less affected, and ordinary elves and spellcasters will be particularly bad, and they want to get other energy like crazy."

Listening to Shirley's words, Claudia couldn't do anything, there was no shortage of priests among the High Elves who could use the Holy Light, if the Holy Light could solve their illness, it was estimated that other priests would have done it a long time ago, she could only look at Shirley sympathetically and said:

"I'm sorry, I really can't help you with this, how are you feeling now?"

Shirley didn't expect the girl she met for the first time to solve a problem that she couldn't solve for a few days, but she still expressed her gratitude to Claudia:

"Thank you for your concern, I'm fine, but fortunately, the archmage has taken in a lot of mages like me, so that I can use the mage tower here to get enough energy. But there are a few mage towers in the world, and there are too few lucky people like me. ”

Speaking of this, the elf girl was depressed again, and Claudia understood why Gianna's mage tower had a lot of Quidore, and she could only comfort the elf girl a few more words, and then continued to read.

After reading the book for a while, a purple arcane servant appeared in front of Claudia and asked her to come with her, and Gianna would invite her to afternoon tea all these days.

Tea time is often very good, in terms of material life, Gianna will enjoy more than Varian, afternoon tea has a variety of carefully prepared snacks, small cakes and flower tea from the Eastern Kingdom, in addition to satisfying the appetite, Gianna herself is full of charm and knowledge.

In Claudia's opinion, Gianna is quite smart, when chatting with her, she can easily understand what you want to say, and give very accurate answers, and Gianna is a very good scholar, such as the Veku and Crypt Lords that Claudia has seen in the Northlands, she also knows something, and Dalaran has many archmages who have explored the Northlands and left relevant records.

The content of the conversation between the two, in addition to various daily routines, is the Stormwind Kingdom and Lordaeron-related matters, and then the matter of the Lordaeron Northern Rift Expeditionary Force that Gianna is most concerned about, she asked in detail about every detail, including the prince's words that Jaime described to Claudia later, and she also knew about the relationship between Jaime and Claudia, and the fact that Jaime has become a death knight, which makes her feel sympathetic.

Claudia and Gianna's relationship is also constantly chatting and getting to know each other, and it has been upgraded from acquaintance to friend. The content of the conversation between the two has also become varied, sometimes they will talk about history, sometimes they will express their own opinions on certain things, because of Gianna's gender and personality, so Claudia also prefers to tell her what she has seen.

Today too, after using cookies and petit fours, Claudia remembered the elf she had just met.

"Your Highness, the elves' illness, even you don't have a good solution?"

Gianna shook her head: "Elves are different from humans, they are too lucky, they can obtain enough magic power from birth, and for a long time, they only need to exercise spell-casting skills and mental power to control magic power." But this is also their misfortune, because a large part of their magic power is not accumulated little by little like us humans, so they have much less control over their own magic power. ”

Gianna picked up the milk tea, took a sip elegantly, and continued: "As for their disease, there was actually some way to do it, but now there is no more. ”

"Huh?" Claudia wondered.

Gianna elaborated: "First of all, you can replenish the missing magic through the mage tower, and Shirley and the other elven mages will have no problem with me." And Dalaran used to have the most mage towers, which could have accepted a considerable number of elves, but now ---。 ”

Gianna's expression darkened, and then quickly calmed down: "Then it is to temporarily alleviate or find other sources of energy through mana crystals, but the number of mana crystals is limited, and there are not many magic gathering points, and they are often occupied by powerful beings or mages, which are far from meeting the needs of all elves, and I am afraid they cannot be used as a solution." ”

Claudia had been listening quietly to Gianna's description, which gave her a deeper understanding of the Scourge Legion's destruction of the Sunwell, and she said worriedly, "The Lich King, or the demon behind him, is terrifying. ”

"Yes," Gianna immediately understood what the maiden meant, and she added, "every time it is a fatal blow, a direct hit." Whether it is the mighty Lordaeron, or Quel'Salas, or even Dalaran, every action has cost us a powerful nation. ”

"And they've never done anything superfluous so far, so why they're bringing most of their forces to Camrido this time, and what their plan is, we have to figure it out."

After afternoon tea, Claudia returned to the library, and was about to continue reading and studying for a while, when she heard a chaotic sound from downstairs, she found that it was a group of broken soldiers, basically all of them returned to Theramore with injuries, Claudia hurriedly rushed to treat the wounded soldiers with other priests, and in the process of treatment, she learned the truth about their injuries from the soldiers' words: the orcs actually chased the Kurtilas to this continent and captured the northernmost stronghold of Theramore.

Theramore's officers were indignant and demanded immediate retaliation, while Gianna sent reinforcements to the northern strongholds, and on the other hand, asked the army to send scouts to find out the number and motives of the orcs before deciding on their next move.

Two days later, the latest intelligence obtained by the army revealed that the orcs were no less numerous than the humans, and that some minotaurs and trolls were mixed with them, but the orcs did not continue south, but headed north.

Gianna had always hated the use of force, and the most important purpose of her coming to this continent was not war, so she finally decided to strengthen the defenses of the northern strongholds, and closely monitor the movements of the orcs without retaliation.

Another day later, Gianna summoned Claudia over, and she received another piece of news about the Prophet: the Prophet had told her in a dream last night to send her to the caves of the Stonetalon Mountains in the West, where he would tell her how to defeat the demons. ”

"Why didn't he tell us directly? Do you have to go to Stone Claw Mountain in the distance? Sounds like a trap. The knight girl asked her own questions.

Gianna said, "No, I can feel the power of him, and everything he says has been fulfilled so far. And even if it's a trap, he's our only hope. ”

This sentence immediately aroused Claudia's strong approval: "You are right, it is much better to have hope than no hope, no matter how small the hope, we have to try." ”