On the main road between the towns of Nanhai and Thurberchel, a team of more than 110 people was heading northeast.

Varian is one of the group, and he is the leader of the group, and the purpose of his trip is to travel to Hinterland on behalf of the Lordaeron Alliance to make contact with the Hammer Dwarves.

Accompanying Varian and escorting them are members of the Stormstorm Guardians, who escort Varian and other Alliance diplomats outside of the Hammerhammer Clan's sphere of influence in Eagle's Nest, where they will be stationed and wait.

The rest of the escort will be done by Brad, the oldest and calmest of the four captains of the escort, and his team of sword and shield men.

She was also accompanied by Winresa and the other High Elf rangers in her squad, who were responsible for keeping Varian safe at all times, and responsible for his safety alone.

After the conclusion of the last war meeting, it was decided to immediately send official diplomats to the Hammer tribe of Hinterland.

However, the Hammer Dwarves are stubbornly closed and xenophobic.

They are distantly related to the other races, and even have little contact with the Dwarven Copperbeard Tribe.

Because of this, it is not easy to convince the Hammer Dwarves to join the Alliance.

But this is not without a chance of success, because the Hammer Dwarves who live in the Eagle's Nest Mountain have an enemy, and that is the forest trolls.

There are three forest troll clans in Hinterland, one is the Evil Branch Clan, another is the Deadwood Clan, and one is the Evil Tooth Clan.

In order to compete for living space, they all have deep contradictions with the Hammer Dwarves, but compared to the Evil Tooth Trolls, the Evil Branch Trolls and Deadwood Trolls are more dark and evil.

Moreover, all three of the troll clans were descendants of the Amani Empire created by the forest trolls, and the Amani trolls were already present in the orc tribe at this time, perhaps as a reason to persuade the Brute Hammer tribe to join the alliance.

In order to convince the recalcitrant Lordaeron Clan, the leaders of the Alliance decided to send a noble man as an emissary.

Lothar recommended Varian to the task, and several kings agreed with his recommendation.

On the one hand, the reason for this decision is that Varian is noble enough to reflect the importance that the Alliance attaches to the Hammer Clan.

On the other hand, it is because Varian's recent performance is indeed outstanding, both in terms of knowledge and handling of things, almost far surpassing other peers. The kings saw all of this and thought Varian was up to the task.

In fact, Lothar recommended Varian for another selfish reason that he couldn't declare, and that was that he wanted Varian to stay as far away as possible from the Hillsbrad Hills, which were about to become the front lines of the battlefield.

Although Lothar has agreed to let Varian raise his own army and fight on the battlefield himself, as a father who watched Varian grow up, Lothar is still very concerned about his safety and does not want to put him in danger.

Lothar had already learned through various channels that this mission to Eagle's Nest Mountain would not be dangerous, at most he would encounter a few scattered trolls on the road, and those accompanying guards would be enough to easily deal with them.

Such a task is suitable for Varian to complete, not only to ensure his safety, but also to allow Varian to quickly increase his voice in the Alliance.

As for Winlessa, as Varian's bodyguard, she was definitely going to travel with Varian to Hinterland.

And the High Elves are also one of the few races that have a reasonable relationship with the Hammer Dwarves, and while they may not really look down on this wild dwarven race, they are at least more trustworthy than humans.

When the Alliance made the decision to send Varian to Eagle's Nest Mountain, Varian had no choice but to accept the mission.

Because it was a time of war, the Lordaeron Alliance had the highest command decision-making power.

Not to mention that Varian is still just a prince of a dead country, even if he is the king of Terenus, he can't defy the alliance's decision, at least on the surface.

Varian understands that this is Lothar's covert care for him, but he will not find fault with Lothar and reject Lothar's kindness.

After all, the griffin knights of the Brute Hammer tribe are indeed very important to the Lordaeron Alliance, and the fact that the Alliance can give this task to Varian has already shown that they have all begun to regard Varian as the heir to the kingdom on an equal footing, rather than as an ordinary teenager.

Besides, going to Hinterland doesn't mean you're far from the battlefield, and Varian can also take part in the traditional troll hunting of the Hammer Dwarves.

This will not only improve the combat effectiveness of the Stormstorm Guardians, but also increase the friendship of the Brute Hammer Clan more quickly, and also help convince them to join the Alliance.

Anyway, when Varian used to play games, he was used to eating, sleeping, and fighting trolls, like the evil and savage cannibal trolls of the Evil Branch Clan and the Deadwood Clan, and Varian didn't have any psychological burden to kill them.

And Varian also has jungle warfare masters like the High Elf Ranger in his team, so as long as he doesn't die too much and goes too deep into the troll colonies like Cynsaro or Shadralo, his life won't be in danger.

The march was not very fast, as many members of the Stormstorm Guardian were not very good at riding.

Lothar was aware of the situation, but the task of making contact with the Hammer Dwarves in Eagle's Nest Mountain was not particularly urgent, and there was no need to use a small number of cavalry, and Varian's Storm Guardian was enough.

Luckily, Varian is no longer bothered by riding a horse, as he had just reached level 30 in the system dungeon not long ago, and he chose to learn the skill "Summoning a Horse" for the first time.

This skill is a Paladin-only class that can summon a military horse as his mount.

Of course, this military horse cannot be summoned out of thin air, and Varian needs to find a mount that is compatible with him, and then sign a summoning contract with it.

Once the contract is signed, the mount will automatically enter the system's phase space to sleep until Varian uses this ability to summon it again.

And after learning to "summon a military horse", Varian automatically mastered the elementary riding technique.

Although it is still some distance away from cavalry combat directly on horseback, it will require more advanced riding skills, but at least from now on, Varian will not have to worry about getting his thigh broken again when riding on horseback.