Chapter 180: Magical Enchantment
The High Elves' buildings are beautifully built, and the carvings on the walls and pillars alone take a lot of effort.
But now the buildings are empty and covered with dust.
"I've heard that the elves have indeed had very little contact with humans in recent years, and that Silvermoon City withdrew from the Lordaeron Alliance shortly after the war with the orcs ended." Catherine said that she seemed to be more concerned about information related to the High Elves, and even if she was in Lordaeron, she had been keeping an eye on Quel'Thalas.
"Oh...... Do you know why they quit the Lordaeron Alliance? Song Zheng asked with some curiosity.
It would be forgivable if Gilneth and Fort Riptide withdrew from the Lordaeron Alliance, after all, Gilneth and Fort Rapids and Lordaeron had conflicts in some territories and the distribution of interests after the war, but the High Elves and Lordaeron should not have any territorial conflicts.
"Do you know how old the elven Prince Kael'thas is?" Catherine didn't answer Song Zheng's question directly, but suddenly talked about Kael'thas.
"This ...... I do not know. Song Zheng shook his head, it seemed that Kael'tham's age was not mentioned in the Warcraft game.
"His Royal Highness Kael'thas is almost a thousand years old, and now the king of Lordaeron, Terenus, is actually like a little hairy child in his eyes, as for those older elves, they have even seen humans slowly develop from small tribes to countries, in their hearts, humans can only be regarded as some kind of low-level creatures, and even inferior to those trolls, so it is absolutely difficult for elves to look at humans as equals, let alone be bound by the Lordaeron Alliance all the time." Catherine whispered.
"......" Song Zheng couldn't help but be speechless when he heard this.
However, he also had to admit that what Catherine said was very reasonable, those elves who are thousands of years old are absolutely unwilling to obey the command of humans who are only a few tens of years old, the reason why the High Elves will unite with humans at the beginning is mainly because they have a common enemy - trolls, and now the trolls are difficult to pose any threat to Silvermoon City, with the defeat of the orcs, the High Elves do not have the need to unite with humans.
After all, the cultural differences between the two sides are very large, and as for the fundamental reason, I am afraid that there is a gap in lifespan, a person who has lived for thousands of years and a person who has only lived for a few decades, whether it is in terms of knowledge or ideas and beliefs, I am afraid there will be a great difference.
"It's good to live longer." After being silent for a while, Song Zheng finally let out a sigh.
Not to mention those Night Elves whose lives are almost eternal, they can sleep for hundreds of years in one sleep, and they would have collapsed long since they were humans.
Fortunately, the Night Elves later stopped studying magic and instead advocated the indisputable Druid teachings, otherwise in 10,000 years, the Night Elves with the Well of Eternity would not know how brilliant they could be, and I am afraid that the whole of Azeroth would have been under the control of the elves, and there would be nothing to do with humans at all.
The popularity of the Church of the Curse in Lordaeron also has a lot to do with its slogan of eternal life, eternal life has too much temptation for short-lived humans, and even many nobles have joined the Church of the Damned for this reason, the most famous of which is the Barov family.
The two of them soon left the abandoned elven buildings and began to continue their journey north.
Now that they have entered the territory of Quel'Thalas, they no longer have to worry about the threat of the undead scourge, and more importantly, they no longer have to worry about food and water in the jungle.
The only thing that is frustrating is that there seems to be no road in this jungle, so I can only make a difficult way forward through thorns and thorns.
"Didn't you say that in the past, the elves and humans would make some trades, and there was no road connection from Lordaeron to Silvermoon City?" Song Zheng was a little puzzled by this, because after coming out of the north gate of Stratholme, there was still a road at first, but soon the road became narrower and narrower, and finally it was completely annihilated by the jungle.
"There should have been, at least until I left Quel'Thalas for Lordaeron...... No, we seem to be in trouble. Catherine was shocked.
"What's wrong?" Song Zheng immediately clenched the dagger in his hand.
"I just remembered that in order to prevent the trolls from harassing them, the elves seem to have arranged a defensive magic barrier on the periphery of Quel'Thalas, which, in addition to having a certain defensive ability, can also provide some illusionary effects, which can make people get lost in it and never find their way out." Catherine said with a solemn face.
"Magical enchantment? You mean it's likely that we're under the influence of that magical enchantment right now, and what we're seeing in front of us is probably just an illusion?! Song Zheng was stunned.
He had also remembered that in the history of Warcraft, the High Elves did place a powerful magical barrier on the periphery of Quel'Thalas, which caused Arthas to lead the undead scourge to Silvermoon City, but he was also blocked by the defensive barrier, and finally killed Sylvanas and got the key to open the barrier before he was able to enter it.
Now that I have broken in, I am afraid that I have been affected by the mysterious and powerful magic enchantment.
"That's true, if we don't have the permission of the elves, I'm afraid we won't be able to enter the magic barrier at all, and we won't even be able to find the road, maybe the elves have opened this defensive barrier that they abandoned the buildings they saw before, and even cut off contact with Lordaeron." Catherine said with some confusion.
The two of them finally came here, and it would be too depressing if they lost their efforts because of this magic defense enchantment.
"It doesn't matter if there are no roads, as long as we go all the way north, we should be able to cross this forest sooner or later." Song Zheng pondered for a moment and then said.
Catherine immediately shook her head and said, "No, if we force ourselves north, it is very likely that we will be lost in this jungle forever, and we will never be able to get out of the illusion brought by the defensive enchantment." ”
"And such a thing? So what do we do now? We can't call those elves here to help us get into Quel'Thalas......" Song Zheng was also confused when he heard this.
Since this magical defense barrier can stop the army of the undead led by Arthas, it is indeed difficult to break.
With his and Catherine's strength, they were naturally far from being able to compare with the High Elves and the Undead Scourge.
"I don't know, when I left here, I was only a few years old, and I was still taken away, and I didn't know anything about this defensive barrier, and now I can only see if I can be lucky enough to encounter an elf patrolling nearby."