Chapter 20: The Fire of Order
Although Claudia and Gianna agreed to visit Theramore once soon, it was already the end of November of that year when Claudia officially finished learning teleportation and arrived in Theramore.
The reason why it was so late was because Claudia had a young child pestering, and it took a lot of time to learn to teleport, so the learning course of teleportation was adjusted by Claudia to the last learning content of the Book of Order in desperation, and Claudia only began the formal study of teleportation after Claudia weaned little Geralt early a few days ago.
Although Claudia has not learned to teleport in the past eight months, she has not been idle, in addition to completing the task of purifying the fragments of the Eye of Sargeras in June, Claudia also completed another time-related ability of the Book of Order in September.
Although it sounds like the ability of time is quite high, but Tyr's power is given by the Titan Agrama, and Agrama is not the supreme father Almansur after all, and he has very little understanding of the power of time, and all Claudia can do is to slightly distort and accelerate the flow of her own time, so that she can move faster in a short period of time.
"Ahem, ahemβ."
Claudia held the cold wall of the Theramore Mage Tower with one hand and retched with the other on her abdomen, her voice quickly caught the attention of another person, and the High Mage of Theramore walked into the teleportation room --- the white-haired and blue-eyed Izuria, incredulously:
"Daylight, Your Majesty Queen Claudia, how did you end up here? And are you hurt? β
It's not entirely unreasonable for Izulia to be stunned, Claudia is known to be a top-tier paladin, and the current mage's portal simply can't be used by classes other than mages.
"I'm fine," Claudia replied, pushing back the churn in her stomach, "I just didn't expect this to be the kind of feeling it was to teleport over long distances, but after only a second, the world seemed to be turned upside down hundreds of thousands ......of times." β
"Your Majesty, I didn't expect you to really teleport, you wait for me a while, and I will help you relieve it immediately."
Izulia, who was in charge of guarding the portal, obviously knew Claudia's situation very well, she quickly took a glass of water and served Claudia to eat a white medicine, after Claudia drank the medicine, her symptoms quickly improved a lot, Izulia handed over a small bag of white medicine and said to Claudia: "Your Majesty, you had better eat this kind of thing before the first few teleportations, and when you teleport more, you can get used to the sequelae of this teleportation." β
"Thank you, Izuria." Claudia rubbed her eyebrows and tried to smile at the elf, "Where's Gianna?" I wanted to surprise her. β
"Well, I'm very sorry, Your Majesty, but the Archmage isn't in Theramore."
"Huh?"
Izulia explained, "As far as I know, the Archmage teleported to Razor Ridge in the early afternoon, where she will meet with the orc, or you should wait for her in the Archmage's living room for a while, and Lady Daffy will entertain you." β
"I see, I'll go to the living room and take a break."
Claudia naturally knew who the orc was referring to, although she had experienced fighting side by side, but a large part of the human elves in Theramore did not think much of the relationship between Gianna and Sal, and some people even thought that this relationship was one of Gianna's biggest stains, and Gianna didn't like to listen to some accusations from his subordinates against Sal, so Gianna's subordinates referred to Sal as the orc, even Gianna's butler, Lady Delphi.
Lady Delphi is an elderly noblewoman, whose status on Gianna's side is somewhat similar to that of Lady Shanny, the head of the Stormwind Palace, and her personality is relatively traditional, and she treats Claudia while nagging about certain things about Gianna, including Sal:
"Your Highness has a very close relationship with that orc, as long as that orc has something, she will take the initiative to run over to meet the orc without the reserve of a lady, and now there are a lot of bad rumors in the city, I am really worried that this will affect His Highness's marriage, she is 26 years old, which woman of this age does not have a few children ......."
Claudia tasted the dessert while smiling politely at the lady's nagging, after nearly 3 years of queenship, Claudia is very aware of this traditional noblewoman mentality, in their opinion, Gianna's behavior is simply a treachery, and finding a good husband to marry and give birth to a child as soon as possible is what Gianna should do.
Correspondingly, Claudia is currently a successful model among women in their eyes, Claudia married the king and became queen, and before the age of twenty she had three children, two of whom were a future king and a future archduke.
Just as Mrs. Deffy was chattering, a burst of arcane fluctuations flashed in the living room, Gianna's figure appeared nearby, Claudia smiled and waved hello to Gianna, and Deffy also turned to look at Gianna: "Your Highness, Queen Claudia has been waiting for you for a while, how did you negotiate with that orc today?" β
Gianna was slightly stunned when she saw Claudia, then she smiled and nodded in response to Claudia, and then she corrected Defe and said, "Don't use that orc to refer to Sal, he has his own name, Defe." The result of today's negotiations is not ideal, I think we are in trouble, Defey, you have to go and call Christopher to discuss it, and by the way, send someone to inform Colonel Lorena and ask her to take a team to the northern fortress to investigate. β
"Send a woman? IMHO, the bunch of guys in the northern fortress won't be convinced to let a woman investigate their ...... Well, I'll go right away. Defe decisively chose to obey the order under Gianna's increasingly stern gaze.
After Delphi left, Claudia asked, "What happened?" Is Thrall going to attack Theramore? β
Gianna was a little tired and had a headache: "Don't worry, you can't fight, it's just that according to Sal, an orc merchant ship was attacked, and it is likely that the warships of the northern fortress and the pirates colluded to do it, I need to send someone to the northern fortress to find out about this matter and give Sal an ...... explanation." β
"That's good," Claudia breathed a sigh of relief, on the one hand, she was reluctant to fight the orcs, and on the other hand, now that the Alliance's forces were concentrated in the Eastern Plaguelands, she could not draw troops to aid Gianna in the short term.
"Gianna, since you're busy here, I'll go back today, and contact Stormwind City at any time if I have anything else."
Gianna and Claudia had a very good relationship, and they didn't stay polite: "I will, I'm really sorry today, I'll treat you well when I'm free in two days." β
That night, Stormwind.
After taking care of the children, Claudia took a shower and lay down next to Varian to talk about the day, and Varian had the same attitude as Claudia on the issue of Theramore, not wanting to go to war.
After the Talen Mir Agreement, Varian's entire mind was on recovering and rebuilding Lordaeron, needless to say that Lordaeron has not been completely recovered yet, even if Lordaeron is regained after recovering Lordaeron, it will be a very long process, and it will cost a huge amount of manpower and material resources, in this case, Varian has no interest in taking the initiative to attack the Horde at all, but if the Horde bullies the door, it is another matter.
"The battle in the Eastern Plaguelands is in its final stages, and we can't afford to fall short," Varian said, "but we'll have to keep an eye on the situation in Theramore, make a delaying plan in case the situation escalates, and if we do, we'll need to find a way to get through the first half of the year." β
"Okay, I'll ask the lady to relay what you just said to the adjutant," Claudia got out of bed and walked to the table, wrote down what Varian had just meant, and went to the door and called Selena, the lady of the dormitory, to ask her to pass the note to Arthur, the adjutant of tonight's vigil.
After dealing with the affairs of Theramore, Varian remembered something and worried, "Are you going to start the ceremony tomorrow?" Are you sure you won't be in danger? β
"Don't worry, Varian." Claudia smiled and comforted the other party, "The ceremony will be over in half a day at the shortest, three days at the most." β
"I just think...... This is a bit too rushed," Varian said with rare hesitation, "You've only been promoted to hero for over three years, so why don't you wait a few years for the ceremony to take place when you're completely perfect in every way?" β
Claudia explained, "The Silver Hand can't wait, the news that Varian, Tavard, and the adventurer I hired Heatriaa has brought back is very bad, the tentacles of the Faceless and Yogsaron have appeared in the underground tunnels of the Northern Rift, and the giant of the Dragonbone Wilderness has also been confused by Yogsaron...... By all indications, Yugsaron is not far from escaping, and the Silver Hand needs me to be promoted as soon as possible to fulfill my mission. β
Varian was still a little worried, Claudia hugged the other and said softly, "Okay, don't worry, although I am in a hurry, the Silver Hand must be completely sure that I will perform the ceremony, and for it, this ceremony is also very important." β
Varian also knew this, he no longer hesitated, and instead said solemnly: "Okay, I will always be outside your door from tomorrow when you hold the ceremony." β
"Thank you, Varian." Claudia didn't refuse the other party's offer, kissed Varian and hugged him to sleep.
The next morning, Claudia had breakfast with the children as usual, and then she went to the ashram where she practiced on weekdays, accompanied by Varian, who guarded the next room, and Claudia kissed Varian goodbye and stepped into the room, making a final communication with the Silver Hand before the ceremony.
The Silver Hand hovered in the air, projecting the silver-armored giant, and the giant asked, "Are you ready, Claudia?" β
"I've memorized all the processes of the ritual, and I understand how to condense the Order Seal." Claudia said.
"That's good," the silver-armored giant told Claudia again, "I will use the divine power left by Tyr to light the first silver fire for you, and you must make good use of this silver fire, let it grow and begin to condense runes, and finally forge the order sigil with the royal power as the center." β
"Don't worry, I will." Claudia nodded.
The ritual began shortly after, and 80,000 years later, the Flame of Order reappeared in the world and would burn throughout Azeroth.