Chapter 356: Alchemy: From Initiation to Entering the Earth
After returning to Azeroth from Draenor, Salaen had not found time to contact the Temple of the Dragon's Sleep and learn about the follow-up to the return of the Black Dragons.
Now that you have decided to go into retreat, you must take care of other things before doing so, eliminate all distractions, and concentrate on training the paladin.
The affairs of the territory can be temporarily handed over to Valera and Vellais to help take care of them, and the affairs related to the dragons can only be handled by Sarean himself.
When she said goodbye to Valera in front of the Unicorn Village, she pulled Stella Goussa and whispered for a while, not knowing what the two of them were muttering in private.
The Temple of Dragon's Sleep was far away in the Dragonbone Wilderness in central Northrend, and neither Sareen nor Stellagossa had ever been to the cold Arctic continent before.
Under normal circumstances, only Kul Tiras's icebreakers can travel between the Eastern Continent and Northrend, and there are not always departures, so you have to wait patiently for the last batch of icebreakers to return.
Saren didn't have the time to set off on a slow boat like Lordaeron, and he planned to use teleportation to cut corners.
Teleportation has an important rule that cannot be violated, the person initiating the teleportation must know the detailed spatial coordinates of the destination, and must have enough magic to open a stable portal.
There is no need to worry about the problem of mana, Sarjan has reported it to the Sun King in advance.
In order to allow him to return as soon as possible, the old king temporarily gave him the permission to call on the energy of the sunwell.
The next thing that needs to be done to solve the energy problem is to find a mage who has been to Northrend and knows the local spatial coordinates.
This person is Melia Starling.
Don't look at Melia's appearance is still youthful and beautiful, like a child who has not grown up and mischievous, in fact, she is more than 1,000 years old and is a contemporary of Saljan's father Julian.
Compared to the old-school elven mages who like to work behind closed doors, Melia was very active in her youth.
Although she didn't dare to say that she had traveled to every corner of Azeroth, she had explored many places, including the icy continent of Northrend.
Melia hadn't been to the Dragonbone Wilderness, after all, this area was the dragon's own land, and ordinary people really didn't dare to go in and wander around.
To explore the ruins of the ancient Night Elf city, Melia sailed from Bullaras to Howling Fjord, southeast of Northrend.
She then made her way through the relatively peaceful Grizzly Bear Hills, carefully bypassing the frosttroll-infested Zudak, and finally arrived at the ancient night elf city of Sandara's Crystal Song Forest.
Sandara had been destroyed by the death of the upper elves many years ago, and the local magic web was extremely disorganized, and the vast number of trees in the forest had been crystallized by twisted arcane power.
According to Melia, although the scenery of the Crystal Song Forest was very dreamy, her investigation did not yield any tangible results, and only found some muddy upper elf ghosts in the local area, the kind that could not be communicated.
"Northrend?"
When Sarren and Stellagosa were taken to the Tower of the Morning Star to find Meria, the whimsical archmage was trying to craft the core of a high-level arcane golem, seemingly drawing some inspiration from the one Salaan had taken back from Sulama.
Putting down the alchemy equipment in her hand, Melia asked curiously while washing her hands with spells, "Why do you suddenly want to go to Northrend?" It's not a good place to visit. ”
"Hmmm......"
Salian hesitated for a moment, and decided to tell the truth to the elder who had taken care of him since he was a child.
"I have some things to attend to the Temple of the Dragon's Sleep."
"Temple of the Dragon's Sleep...... Sure enough, that's the case. ”
Melia wasn't particularly surprised by Sarren's answer, but rather looked like she had expected it.
"You know?"
"Don't be so surprised."
Melia laughed and poked her index finger in Sarren's forehead.
"Your blood, which is different from ordinary people, has revealed a lot of information, you don't think I'm just playing with your blood, do you?"
Melia removed a vial of blood that had been frozen forever with a spell from the nearby alchemy display.
"Julian, who wandered around like a prodigal son, actually brought a woman back to Quel'Salas to settle down, and I was very curious since I was a child, of course, I wanted to investigate the reason behind it."
"Although I didn't know Inas's true identity at the time, the long period of time she was pregnant was obviously abnormal, and no matter how stupid people were, they would find something abnormal."
Salian sighed, "So, you've been secretly investigating my mother's identity?" ”
Melia shrugged her shoulders and didn't answer positively: "It's good that Julian is also a playmate who grew up with me, I can't just watch him being cheated out of money and sex by bad women, right?" ”
"As it turned out later, Inas was undoubtedly a good wife and mother, despite her eccentric personality."
"About the ...... of Genetic Engineering"
A meaningful expression appeared on Melia's face: "Inas has had some communication with me, and although I'm not sure what she wants to do, I think it has something to do with your delay in being born. ”
"Out of curiosity, I became interested in the origin of the other half of your half-blood, which is why I asked you for blood many times to study."
Knowing that Meria was such a research maniac, Salian smiled and shook his head.
"You've come up with a conclusion?"
"Pretty much."
Melia glanced with interest at the beautiful blue-haired girl standing beside Saljan.
"This little beauty should also be your kindred, right? Can Valeera's possessive little guy tolerate her? ”
"Ah, this ......"
Sarren's expression became a little embarrassed: "I don't know either, the two of them often hide on the side and whisper, and I don't know what exactly they communicated. ”
Melia smiled disapprerovingly: "Forget it, it's none of my business anyway, I'll just wait to watch the show." ”
[Grass, old fun people. 】
[This eating melons and watching a play is a beautiful thing. 】
"You wait first, I'll go look up the information, and by the way, set up the teleportation array."
A good memory is better than a bad pen, and after not going to Northrend again for many years, Melia has long forgotten about the local spatial coordinates.
Fortunately, she has a habit of writing travelogues when she travels, and by looking at the records, she can turn up the coordinate information that Sarean needs.
Melia's Mage Tower has a large number of Arcane Golems of various sizes.
The big bodyguard-type puppets were all placed by her in the lower level of the tower to guard the house, and the puppets in the laboratory were relatively small and delicate.
Even in Melia's own absence, these miniature puppets in human form are still doing their jobs.
Stella Gosa curiously observed the assembly line in the laboratory.
After several simultaneous branching processes, all the materials are stacked on a fixed platform, waiting for Melia herself to put them together.
"Is this alchemy?"
Salaan nodded, "Melia's attainments in alchemy are very profound, even if you zoom in to the entire Quel'Thalas, she is one of the best. ”
Strictly speaking, the Arcane Golem is a combination of engineering and alchemy, half mechanical and half magical.
Melia's talent is crooked, and engineering is only a single function in her hands.
Explode.
After several fruitless attempts, Melia gave up making the puppet body by herself and directly purchased the finished product, and was only responsible for the most critical arcane core.
This is just the tip of the iceberg of Meria's alchemy achievements, if it weren't for living in the south of the forest in solitude, even if it was just a little more social ability, she would have already become famous in Silvermoon City.
In the past, Melia had persuaded the young Sallian countless times to let him follow her to learn alchemy.
But when he was a child, Salian's mindset was more ...... Well, everyone who understands understands.
Let him calm down and nibble on boring theoretical books that he is not interested in, it is even more difficult than climbing to the sky.
Now that time has passed, Salaan is a little curious about Melia's alchemy of Quel'Salas.
With nothing to do, he and Stella Gosa found an alchemy primer book from the bookshelf and flipped through it to pass the time.
However, the name of the book made the barrage want to complain high, and a large number of subtitles flew through Sarren's eyes.
Alchemy Puzzles: From Beginner to Soil