Chapter 252: Quel'Thalas Reconstruction and Dalaran Crisis

Richard prepared this rapid growth potion by studying the blood of the high elves, and then let the high elves use it on their own. In fact, shortening the growth period is much more important to the high elves than a longer lifespan.

If there is no war and the world is at peace, the High Elves will have no problem maintaining their 200-year growth period. However, once a war breaks out, the 200-year growth period will basically lock up their war potential.

Such a long growth period almost means that the high elves are unable to replenish their population, and every death means one less.

Richard extended their growth period to 15-20 years, which directly raised their war potential to the same level as humans.

Quel'Thalas has an area of ​​more than one million square kilometers, but a population of just over 30,000. This is not just a vast land with few people, it's like a sesame seed in the ocean. In Richard's opinion, such a large territory would require at least a million people.

Unfortunately, it is difficult to increase the population of the High Elves to one million.

Richard planned to draw some people from the high elves of Quel'Thalas to strengthen his floating city. After all, according to his floating city design, it could accommodate at least hundreds of thousands of people.

Naturally, high-quality population such as the High Elves were also among his targets.

Richard plans to completely change the social structure of Quel'Danas through three five-year plans, transforming it from a lax, free, and extravagant society to an orderly and hard-working society.

Richard also completely changed the magic teaching of the high elves. He adopted the magic academy education of the Supreme Arcane Council.

In the past, the magic of the high elves was too scattered, there was no perfect training system, and the efficiency was extremely low. After the reform, the high elves need to enter school at the age of six, and then learn from the easy to the difficult in a step-by-step manner.

After completing five years of basic education, high elves must reach the level of formal wizards to graduate, and must reach the level of low-level wizards after adulthood. After adulthood, they can choose to continue their studies at the Intermediate Wizard Academy, or learn other professions.

However, Li Jue felt that almost all elves would choose to work part-time. After all, they did not have the disadvantage of not having enough time.

After the integration, the High Elf Kingdom can now be said to be a nation of soldiers. After several months of search and rescue, the High Elves scattered around Eversong Woods and Windrunner Tower were basically brought to Silvermoon City, and the civilians and soldiers who fled after the defeat of Quel'Danas also returned to Silvermoon City one after another.

In the end, the number of high elves in Silvermoon City barely exceeded 40,000.

After training in the Knight's Breathing Technique, almost all high elves became qualified soldiers. In order to ensure the safety of Quel'Danas, Sylvanas selected half of them to join the army. The remaining half also received military training and became militia.

Because the high elves were short of manpower, Richard gave them the technology to make clay golems and rock golems, and asked them to make clay golems and rock golems.

High-level golems require high-level soul crystals, which are difficult to obtain, but large soul crystals are easy to obtain and there is a chance that they will drop by killing undead creatures.

Clay Golem and Rock Golem are just right.

The High Elves also have their own golem technology, such as their own Arcane Guardians, which are about the same in real combat power as Rock Golems, but are more expensive and have lower intelligence.

Li Jue felt that if he could extract the soul of the Lich King, it would definitely be a demigod-level soul crystal. When he had the chance in the future, he would definitely collect its soul crystal and use it to make a more advanced construct golem.

At this time, Ner'zhul, who had been frozen into a large block of ice, suddenly sensed a malicious force penetrating deep into his soul. He used his powerful mental power to look around, but found nothing.

Ner'zhul didn't know that he had been targeted by Richard.

The reconstruction of the High Elf Kingdom was in full swing, and the island of Quel'Danas had become a large construction site. Because Richard taught the High Elves how to make clay golems and rock golems, the High Elves quickly made these golem puppets.

Then they were seen on construction sites all over Quel'Thalas. Because of the Sunwell, these golems didn't have to worry about running out of energy.

With the help of these golems, the progress of various projects was good. On the other hand, Richard began to upgrade the rune barrier of the entire Quel'Thalas.

After the betrayal of the internal personnel, the high elves were very worried about the current rune barrier. Therefore, they decided to carry out a large-scale transformation of the rune barrier. Richard saw their transformation plan and said directly, since it is such a large-scale transformation, why not just upgrade it to a puzzle lock.

The maze lock has all the abilities of the rune barrier, and also has the ability to attack independently and various spell blessing abilities, which is much stronger than the rune barrier.

Richard then gave them a set of maze lock designs for these high elves to study.

After seeing the design of the maze, all the high elves were stunned. There was only one sentence left in their minds - can magic be played like this?

"Godfather, this set of maze locks is so ingeniously designed, it's simply a miracle!" Kael'thas excitedly grabbed Richard's arm and said.

"It's OK, is there anything in the whole maze that you don't understand or that is difficult?"

"Here is the energy transmission, the permanent effects of spells, and the control center of the maze." Kael'thas asked respectfully.

"Energy transmission uses magic crystals, and energy center control is added. The spell permanent effect requires the use of the maze weaving skill. As for the maze core, a legendary soul crystal is required."

"Godfather, you still need to make the soul core yourself." Kael'thas took a look at the control core. Even he could only understand less than one-tenth of it. If you want to make this kind of soul core without a lot of time to study and research, don't even think about it.

"Okay." Richard nodded.

Next, Richard split the entire maze into tens of thousands of large and small links, and then distributed these links to the high elves for production. The entire high elf maze design blueprint was only in the hands of Kael'thas and Richard.

In this way, the confidentiality of the entire maze is raised to an extremely high level, and the elven wizards who are responsible for participating in it only know the links in their hands.

It is impossible to destroy the maze through these links. Moreover, the biggest difference between the maze and the rune barrier is that the maze has a control core, while the rune barrier does not.

The control core of the maze lock can automatically repair some damaged loopholes. Even if some parts are damaged, the maze lock can still operate. The phenomenon that the rune barrier collapses when one place is damaged will not occur. At the same time, when there is a problem with the maze lock, it will be discovered by the maze lock tower spirit at the first time, and the maze lock tower spirit will notify the person with the highest authority. The maze lock is arranged with a cross-fishing net rune chain, and the maze lock is not a net, but a network of layers.

The High Elves were well suited to building a mythal because of the Sunwell. The range of a mythal was very limited. Before the Thorium Age, the range of a human mythal was usually only 500 meters.

The main reason is the problem of energy radiation. When the floating city appeared, the range of the maze instantly expanded to several kilometers. In the era of the Arcane Empire, it expanded to dozens or hundreds of kilometers, and even covered a half-plane.

During the era of the Supreme Arcane Council, the maze was fused with the magic web, becoming even more powerful.

The high elves have the Sunwell, which is a source of infinite energy and its maximum coverage is that of the Sunwell.

The maze designed by Richard this time was designed and built around the Sunwell. The energy radiation range of the Sunwell is the range where the maze is built.

The radiation range of the Sunwell in Quel'Thalas is very large, and the range covered by this maze is also extremely amazing. The complete version of the maze needs to cover the entire Kingdom of Quel'Thalas.

However, it is impossible to complete such a large and magnificent project in a short period of time. It took the high elves hundreds of years to build the rune array barrier.

It would take a lot of time to build the maze now, so Richard and Kael'thas decided to protect Silvermoon City and Quel'Danas Island with mazes first, and still use rune barriers for the rest.

However, even the rune barrier has been modified by Richard, so upgrading the maze lock in the future only requires adding to it on this basis.

The treasury of the Kingdom of Quel'Thalas is in Silvermoon City. In fact, Silvermoon City is the capital of Quel'Thalas, and Quel'Danas Island is the back garden of the royal nobles.

So even though Quel'Danas was breached, the treasury was not looted.

The high elves had accumulated a lot of good things over thousands of years, and Kael'thas soon prepared three legendary soul crystals.

"Godfather, these three are the best soul crystals in the treasure house."

Richard took the three soul crystals and examined them. The best one was a high-level legendary soul crystal, and the remaining two were also at the bottom line of the high-level legendary level.

No one knew where the high elves got these three legendary high-level soul crystals. High-level legendaries were not so easy to kill. Richard suspected that they were most likely left behind by the troll king Azuman who was killed when the high elves established their nation.

Richard put away the three soul crystals, went to the high tower and began to engrave the soul crystals, while Kael'thas watched from the side.

This soul core production technology is very demanding, and requires extremely subtle control of mental power. After all, this carving technique is very difficult. If you make a mistake in carving, the entire soul crystal will be useless. If you are lucky, you can modify it and downgrade it for use. If you are unlucky, it will be directly scrapped.

Therefore, if you are not 100% sure about the soul core, it is best not to take action.

Because of its vast area, the Kingdom of Quel'Thalas uses legendary high-level soul crystals. The control center of the maze requires an independent tower to be built, and a separate energy supply will be drawn from the Sunwell.

Richard controlled his mental power to etch the soul crystal. Tiny runes were engraved into it with his mental power. Richard's powerful mental power was enough to allow for distraction control.

When all the runes were engraved, a rune chain was formed, and these rune chains formed a new rune array. After completing the rune engraving, Richard began to load various abilities into the tower spirit. It took two days to complete a high-level puzzle control center.

Next, Richard loaded the design of the entire maze into the maze center, and then used the soul creation spell to give it life. Finally, he installed the maze control center on the maze tower and it was done.

The next step in constructing the maze is to build it according to each link. After the construction is completed, you can link them together.

Richard also linked the modified rune barrier to the maze control center, allowing it to control the rune barrier and monitor the High Elf Kingdom through the barrier.

While the High Elf Kingdom was rebuilding, on the other side, after suffering a setback at Silvermoon City, Arthas immediately returned to Lordaeron with a huge army of undead. He then began to gather troops to prepare to deal with Dalaran.

As a human magic kingdom, Dalaran gathers a large number of wizards, and the Council of Tirisfal is also here. It can be said that this is the most powerful country for human magic.

Arthas launched a powerful attack here, and his main target was the Book of Medivh hidden here. This book was actually made by the dark titan Sargeras, which recorded a large number of high-end space arrays, contained powerful space power, and could open a portal to the outside world.

Under the order of Ner'zhul, Arthas wanted to seize the book, open the portal, and then teleport the Burning Legion over.

Therefore, after resurrecting Kel'Thuzad, Arthas led a mighty army of undead to Dalaran. After resurrecting a large number of elven mages, the undead army was extremely powerful. The endless army of undead was invincible and invincible, and it snowballed all the way.

Arthas completely forgot about the defeat in front of Silvermoon City, and was full of energy again, ready to sweep across Dalaran.

The news of the Scourge's achievements soon spread across the continent, and everyone in the eastern continent was in danger. Lordaeron, the most powerful of the human kingdoms, had been breached, and millions of people had become undead.

A large number of undead are wreaking havoc on the land of the Kingdom of Lordaeron, and other human kingdoms are not much better off. Stormwind City has never recovered since the last war with the orcs.

At this time, no human kingdom could stop the growing undead army.

Arthas gathered the elites of the Undead Army and built a large number of meat grinders. After all the preparations were completed, he began to move towards Dalaran. Hundreds of thousands of Undead Army went to Dalaran, and the Frostmourne in Arthas's hand was invincible. All the rivers and lakes along the way were directly frozen by him with Frostmourne.

The army did not take a detour, but went straight to Dalaran.

In Dalaran, on the tallest mage tower, Archmage Antonidas had just read the news from the scouts and immediately sent people to ask for help from other kingdoms.

At this time, the great wizards no longer dared to underestimate the army of the undead. After all, the last elven kingdom that underestimated them had been conquered and the king had died in battle.

(End of this chapter)