Darkan De La Hehir is a veteran politician from the days of the Silvermoon Council to the present, and a front-runner pushed up by Quel'Salas's fading die-hard conservatives.

Of course, Darkan does not see himself as a representative of any force, he always represents only himself.

However, this did not prevent Darkan from taking advantage of the situation, after all, he could not shake Kael'thas who was already firmly established with his own strength.

After two rounds of purges in Anastria, the power of the old aristocracy suffered an unprecedented heavy blow, and the right to speak gradually fell into the hands of the still powerful Sunseeker royal family.

Beginning with the reign of Darthrema, thousands of years of stubborn old-fashioned thinking have been gradually abandoned by the people in today's Quel'Thalas.

Under Kael'thas's determined reforms, talents from various industries began to emerge among the commoners who received equal education, and gradually broke through the monopoly of the aristocratic lords on Quel'Salas at all levels of power.

Because the reform period was still short, the commoner officials were mainly concentrated in the middle and lower classes, and it was not enough to make a sufficient impact on the top-level structure that the aristocracy firmly controlled in their hands.

But anyone with a discerning eye can see that with the deepening of reforms, it is only a matter of time before the best of the common people enter the highest decision-making levels.

A country can never have only one voice, unless the ruler is an authoritarian through and through, and no one is allowed to speak out below.

Obviously, Kael'thas with a softer personality is not this kind of person, and he can't do such a thing.

To this day, the declining old aristocracy still has not given up the struggle, and they still want to recreate the "grand scene" of the noble councillors during the Silver Moon Council who covered the sky with one hand and could even wrestle with the royal family.

With the reshuffle of the cabinet, the ministers promoted by Kael'thas were deliberately selected.

Although the military minister Li Leisa came from the Windranger Duke clan, in the eyes of those traditional nobles of Silvermoon City, the Windrunner family, which had long been rooted in the southern part of the Eternal Song Forest, was just mud legs, and was not a real power at all.

Foreign Secretary Carbonia and Chancellor of the Exchequer Solan Lian are from the Sunshadow and Morningstar families of the Four Nobles.

In the eyes of those old-thinking old aristocrats, as the leaders of all nobles, they should stand firmly with themselves.

However, the reality is very different from what they imagined.

After the Battle of Quel'Salas, which repelled the Horde, the four nobles who conspired to cooperate with the forest trolls were subjected to an internal purge.

The hardliners against the royal family were completely cut off, and the members of the royal party led by Solanlian and Carbonia completely controlled the power of the family.

Not only in the cabinet, but also the Fire Wing Legion and the Firehawk Legion, which are also in power of the four major families, have completely fallen to the Sunseeker Royal Family, and these two legions are the elite troops second only to the Sunfury Legion directly under the royal family.

and the Minister of Propaganda von Delors, the Minister of Education, Beloval Salona, and the Minister of Medicine, Alia Fontaine, who were appointed after Kael'thas, were all hardcore members of the royal party.

Among the cabinet ministers with the highest authority, only Darkan, the prime minister, was deliberately thrown out by Kael Saster to appease the old aristocracy.

And anyone with a little discerning can see that the power of Darkan, the prime minister, is also under the control of Kael'thas.

This seemingly mild-mannered Sun King has used Darkan as a high-level tool man at all, and has been secretly cultivating suitable candidates who can succeed him.

If one day Darkan does something that is contrary to the development and reform of the country, the Sun King can take him to the end at any time.

Darkan himself knew that Backlight Blade, a secret intelligence agency directly under the royal family, was closely monitoring his every move.

At least on the surface, Darkan didn't ...... Or he didn't dare to do anything that was easy to cause Kael'thas to misunderstand, and in recent years, he has been honestly completing his part of the work, as a lubricant to reconcile the complicated affairs in the cabinet.

The influence of conservative forces has long been much less than before, and they are somewhat relieved to have a nominal prime minister.

In the past few years, they have not dared to jump out and blatantly do things, and have been hiding in the shadows and silently licking their wounds, waiting for the day when the time for a counterattack comes.

With the exception of Darkan, the rubber-stamp prime minister, the most powerful ministers in the cabinet are all die-hard fans of Kael'thas without exception.

If no unexpected circumstances occur, in the foreseeable hundreds or even thousands of years in the future, there will be no earth-shaking changes in the composition of power in the cabinet, and there will still be a few people who hold the core power.

Darkan is self-aware, and he himself is the one most likely to be "optimized".

The ambitious Darkan does not intend to accept his fate, and by chance, he secretly contacts an outside force, a powerful being who can satisfy his eternal and eternal power.

Regardless of Darkan's future plans, Saljan Deepshadow, a duke who is half of the dragon blood and is trusted by Kael'thas, is a big problem that can't be bypassed.

Darkan watched Sarjan climb from a mere descendant of the Viscount family to his current status in a staggering ten years.

What Sarren relied on, Darkan knew.

The ability to work hard without cheating.

In the past 10 years, Sarean has brought so many changes to Quel'Thalas.

It was with his covert help that Kael'thas was able to retire from Dalaran with dignity and return to Quel'Thalas, taking over the throne from the aged Anastria.

And so much more that Saléan has done to Quel'Thalas.

Some of them were clearly recognizable to Darkan, while others he had only heard of.

If it weren't for the fact that Sareyan himself was not here, he would have sat in the position of prime minister under Darkan's ass.

Sarren's title has risen with more and more feats, and his influence in Quel'Thalas has also risen, to the point where Darkan also feels a lot of pressure.

If he didn't get rid of Kael'thas first, no matter how ambitious Darkan was, he wouldn't be sure that he would be able to make it happen.

Although he didn't know if what Sarian said about the cultivation went wrong was true, Darkanda hoped from the bottom of his heart that it was true, otherwise he couldn't think of how to bring down a dragon descendant with the blood of a red dragon and an amazing vitality.

When Saljan arrived at the court of the Sunseeker, Valera, who was a high-ranking official of the Backlight Blade and also needed to report on her work, also sneaked into a corner of the conference hall and watched coldly, without being noticed by anyone except Velles.

Darkan's incomprehensible flickering eyes as she turned her back to Salaan were all in Valeera's eyes, and a cold color gradually appeared in her eyes.

'Darkan Drahir...... This guy seems to be murderous towards Sarren? ’

After all the cabinet members had left, Verreth and Valilla unleashed their stealth in the empty chamber.

Noticing Valeera's cold eyes, Vellais patted her shoulder in understanding.

"Don't worry, with what I know about the boy from Salian...... Who calculates, who may not know. ”

Valera had been by Sarren's side all along, and knew better than anyone what the truth about what he called "something went wrong with his cultivation".

"Heh~"

The corners of Valeera's mouth hooked up a sneer: "Perhaps, it's time to let this white-eyed wolf who can never be raised out of the game, and see how Sarren plans." ”

……

"That's what happened......"

After learning from Sarian the true cause of his injury and the series of turmoil in the Emerald Dream, Kael'thas nodded thoughtfully.

"Varosson, I read about him from the notes of Patriarch Darth Rema, who is said to be a sinister and cruel Ishara, but I didn't expect it...... Like Savis, he betrayed Ayshara and took refuge with Enzos. ”

Sarjan is not surprised: "In the eyes of many, Ayshara himself is loyal to Enzos, and there seems to be nothing wrong with Savis and Varosson, who are Aisara's subordinates, switching to Enzos. ”

"But in reality, Azhara and the Elder Gods are just using each other, and there is no clear subordination, more like allies on an equal footing."

"Since Enzos is unkind to make small gestures first, people like Aishara who have never suffered losses will naturally not give in, and the secret summoning of me to Nashatar for an audience is a clear signal."

"She wants to take sides again."

Kael'thas took over and said, "In this case, Varosson, who is still loyal to Enzos, will be a particularly eye-catching nuisance to her, and you want to kill someone with a knife?" ”

Salian nodded: "There is a preliminary plan, but the specific plan has not yet been perfected. ”

"Moreover, the 'surprise' I have in store for Varosson is not only the anger of Aishara, but also the number of people who want to kill him with their own hands."

For the ordinary people of Quel'Thalas, or even officials who didn't reach a certain level, it was not their turn to worry about what happened at the demigod level far away in Kalimdor.

But at the height of Kael'thas today, he must have a view of Azeroth.

In the case that he can't go out at will, Sarren, who often travels north and south to contact various races, is his eye for observing the world.

Darkan's guess was correct, if it weren't for the fact that Salian didn't like to squat in one place all the time to handle official business, Kael'thas would have wanted to hand him the post of prime minister of the cabinet a long time ago.

On the way back, Salian learned a lot about the alliance before and after the re-establishment through the channel of the Backlight Blade.

But after all, the information relayed by many hands is not as clear as the person concerned.

Through Kael'thas himself, Sarean learns more about the League's re-assembly meeting.

"Sure enough, Gilneth's change of attitude is Prince Liam's back......"