Chapter 276: Preparation for the Northern Expedition and Capital Monopoly
Although it has not yet been widely advertised, both the Alliance and the Horde have already begun the preliminary preparations for the Northern Expedition to Northrend.
A large number of shipbuilding plans have been issued, and work is underway in the dockyards of Stormwind and Orgrimmar day and night.
Of course, the Night Empire is not lagging behind, but the elves do not need to build ships, and the Night Empire, which has a lot of money and does not lack arcane crystals, has begun to build a new floating island.
The Dark Night Empire was not ready to drive it back, but stayed directly on the Hellfire Peninsula and docked above the Night Fortress, forming a solid defense line that integrated the air and ground.
With such a large formation of the three parties, of course, it can't hide the bigwigs of other forces in the world.
Theramore in the Dust Swamp was the first to respond, and Gianna was ready to start her shipbuilding business as soon as she realized that the Alliance and the Horde were about to go on a northern expedition.
Of course, the overall strength of Theramore is there, and it is a pipe dream to build a fleet, so they only plan to start construction of two warships.
When the time comes, just follow the alliance fleet together, and Gianna also knows that the three bigwigs are not short of their own warships.
Now Gianna is no longer the innocent and naïve Mother of the past, after experiencing the betrayal of her lover, a disaster comparable to the destruction of the country and the family, this extremely talented archmage has also been smoothed out of the edges and corners, as well as those unrealistic childish ideas.
This time, Gianna was very good at being a person, and she immediately sent an envoy to Stormwind City, saying that she was willing to share the shipbuilding technology from Kul Tiras for the great cause of the Northern Expedition.
King Varian and Grand Duke Berval were immediately pleasantly surprised to accept Gianna's kindness, and Kurtilasna's countless years of shipbuilding skills and experience were exactly what the alliance needed at the moment.
In return, while Theramore did not join the Alliance, Varian stated that Theramore's expeditionary force could follow the Alliance forces.
The relationship between the alliance countries and Theramore has also been greatly eased, and they have entered a honeymoon period. The material support that was urgently needed by Theramore, which was not even thought of in the past, can now be talked about.
The former Guardian Egwene was also extremely satisfied with this, it took him so long to finally turn the little girl Gianna around.
So after feeling that Gianna could be in charge of herself, Egwen also took the initiative to let go of a lot of the power that originally belonged to Gianna and lived a semi-retired life.
Despite the sheer power of the Guardians, Egwene is still a powerful magister, and she begins to teleport to Karazhan frequently, enjoying a life with her son Medivan that she has never had before.
The current Guardian, Merry Winterwind, has no problem with this, and the Guardian Mother and Son have set their attitudes right, completely treating the Karazhan Tower, which once belonged to them, as Merry's possessions.
Moreover, during the long years of being a Guardian, Merry and Medivan have also formed a strong friendship, and Merry is happy to see her friend reunited with her mother.
The current Guardian life is relatively leisurely, and he only needs to keep an eye on the space-time rifts that may appear at any time in Karazhan, or the spatial stability around the world. You can also unhurriedly study the reflection of the shadow reverse Karazan beneath Karazhan, and the terrifying and eerie inverted abyss.
Karazhan's opera house was on track, and every now and then Merry would invite his teachers, his wife, or the leaders of the Confederate Tribes to watch the Ghost Opera Company perform.
Merry was not an introvert in the first place, and it was strange that he was not bored if he and Medivan were quiet every day, and only the huge Karazan of him and Medivan were not boring.
At the same time that all parties in the world were actively preparing for the Northern Expedition, a major event also occurred in the north of the Eastern Kingdom Continent.
Dalaran has returned.
This pearl of human magic, which was destroyed by Akmund the Tainted the One, has finally reluctantly regained its overall appearance after several years of day and night reconstruction by mages.
The hemispherical purple arcane shield slowly dissipated, and the sight of the city lined with the Dalarana Mage Tower was once again revealed to the world.
Then the archmages of the Council of Kenrito did another astonishing thing: they lifted the entire Dalaran into the sky, just like the city of Sulama.
Thanks to Merry Winterwind's research on the levitation technology in the Arathor Empire, the Mages of Dalaran took over the technology and further refined it when rebuilding the city.
Now, both magic cities are in the sky.
The Council of the Six is now led by Archmage Ronin, a half-apprentice and half-friend human archmage of the Red Dragon Crassus, completely different from the old stubbornness of Antonidas. In addition, Luo Ning participated in the ancient war with Crassus and got acquainted with the Titan God Sarodar, so the emotions and positions of Dalaran who were seriously biased towards the northern human kingdom did not exist at all in Luo Ning's leadership team.
Immediately after returning to the world, Dalaran issued a statement.
They will actively respond to the call of the Northern Expedition to Northrend, and will also float Dalaran to Northrend to contribute to the elimination of the undead natural disaster.
Soon after, they established friendly diplomatic relations between the Lordaeron Restoration Army and the Riptide Restoration Army, and reopened the mage training course to the entire human society.
Of course, the returning Dalaran is now taking the neutral route, and they say that they also welcome the mages of the tribe to come to Dalaran and jointly build the magical pearl of the Eastern Kingdom continent.
For Dalaran's high-profile comeback, the high-level elves of Sulama City did not feel threatened or robbed of their business at all.
"The young race of human beings, their magic city and magic inheritance, are completely incomparable to the upper elves. Oh, of course, I don't deny that the human race has always been good at working miracles, creating many magic-using mages that have amazed us so much, and many genius mages have emerged, such as Merry Winterwind, but that still hasn't had much of an impact on Sulama. ”
Elisander, the Elder Magus and Queen of the Night God, said this openly in interviews with various newspaper reporters.
Incidentally, newspapers are a relatively novel thing that has recently become popular. With the improvement of the quality of life of human society, ordinary people have also begun to pay attention to spiritual life and pay attention to world events, and the image crystal in the past can only let them know a very small number of world events, so newspapers and other things have been invented by businessmen who want to make money.
The newspapers controlled by the Black Rope Chaebol are basically only distributed within the Night Empire, the newspaper offices of the Rusty Water Chaebol serve the tribes, and in the Human Realm, the Black Dragon Princess, Onixia is the leader, and the major nobles jointly invest.
As a result, a new class was born in the world of Azeroth: the paparazzi.
They travel all over the world, looking for all kinds of big news, running better than good... Ahem.
In short, in Hu Feng's opinion, the world of Azeroth is completely in line with the development laws of a normal world, except for the fact that the technology tree is seriously crooked and a strange technology that mixes crystal magic and steel.
The most obvious point is that the capital giants such as the Hesuo chaebol and the rusty water chaebol have begun to slowly reveal the characteristics of capitalists and the monopoly nature of high-tech industries.
However, for the imperialist Hu Feng, as long as Hei Suo is still his loyal dog, he wants capital, so let him go.
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