Chapter 72 Antonidas

After wandering around the streets of Dalaran for a while, Galen was ready to follow his father's instructions and go visit Antonidas, the Speaker of Dalaran and the most honorable man in the City of Mages.

Seeing a patrol ahead, Heni stepped forward to identify himself, saying that he was the prince of Stromgarde and wanted to visit the members of the Kirin Tor Parliament to ask for their locations.

After a conversation, Herni came back and told Garin that there were four tallest mage towers in Dalaran. The tallest one was where Speaker Antonidas was located. The one next door with golden high elf style runes belonged to the high elf prince Kael'thas, and the one with purple and red belonged to Master Krasus. Garin knew the last one without any introduction. It was the Violet Castle, where the Kirin Tor held meetings. He had often visited it in his previous life in the Broken Isles.

After thinking about it, I decided to visit the Speaker first, complete the task given to me by my father, and then go to take care of my personal business.

In the reception room on the first floor of the Kirin Tor Chancellor's tower, Garen met the great wizard who had been famous for decades.

He is an energetic old man with gray hair and a long white beard like Gandalf. Except for the wizard robe he wears, his other styles are very similar to Gandalf.

Garin suddenly remembered that the prototype of the archmage in War3 was Antonidas of Dalaran, the old man in front of him.

Antonidas was already in his fifties at this time. He had entered the eighth level at the age of thirty and was now at the peak of the ninth level. He also reached the legendary level during his lifetime. This was the one in a million magical genius that Garin mentioned.

At the same time, he is also a knowledgeable person. The promotion of a mage is not as simple as that of a warrior. It requires a lot of arcane knowledge as accumulation. Antonidas began his rise when he published his first paper at the age of twelve and obtained the Kirin Tor Supreme Wisdom Sash.

However, at this moment his strength is not much different from Gandalf's. If nothing unexpected happens, Gandalf will break through earlier than him. After all, not everyone has the experience system bestowed by the Heart of Origin, which allows them to upgrade by killing monsters. Anthony's promotion requires him to break through his own mental bottleneck.

Relatively speaking, it is easier for a warrior than a mage, as long as you are willing to risk your life, as the ancient saying of our great China says, you will survive in the face of death.

Most of the few legendary humans at this stage are from the military. For example, Garin's father, Solas, was besieged by masters of the Deadwood and Evil Branch tribes when he led troops to attack the trolls. He luckily broke through the rank and escaped unscathed from the siege of the trolls' high-level combat power.

There is also Marshal Lothar of Stormwind, who is also a talented general who can fight and command.

The current king of Gilneas, the future Old Wolf King, has been at level nine for a long time. One reason is that he has not been able to break through due to his limited talent, and the other is that Gilneas does not need him to lead the charge. Not every king is as stubborn as Solas.

The future old wolf king also relied on the werewolf curse to successfully break through to the legendary level.

Talent and luck are both indispensable.

The future orc invasion, a meat grinder-like battle, created a large number of elite breakthroughs in human society. It was also this war that stimulated the war potential of the human kingdom, which had enjoyed peace for a long time, and stood out on the world stage.

Garin had seen a statement before that it was because humans had fought with orcs and accumulated a lot of elite fighting troops that humans were qualified to participate in the future defense of Mount Hyjal and the anti-magic war in the Broken Isles. Otherwise, if they fought the Burning Legion right from the start, they would be pinned to the ground in minutes and their country would be destroyed.

Holy Light! I can't defeat that opponent!

Even though the Paladin hasn't come out, Garin can imagine the combat effectiveness of the human kingdom at this stage. After all, apart from fighting trolls, the rest of the time they are bullying little kids, such as ogres, gnolls, murlocs, etc.

The meeting with Antonidas had no effect other than making him familiar. It's possible to get Gandalf to join Dalaran, but it might be a bit difficult for him to become a Kirin Tor councilor. After all, he is an outsider, not a legitimate Dalaran mage.

Moreover, although he was a foreign wild wizard with great strength and claimed to have inherited the skills from Merry Winterwind, his reputation was not very good. In the late period of the war with the trolls, he was transformed into an undead and had to live in seclusion.

According to Garin's perception, Antonidas is old, with a bad temper. This stubborn old man is a human supremacist and a strong man, a powerful spellcaster who does not like secular royal power. Garin is young and is not taken seriously.

As an elder, Jialin would respect him, but forget about any deeper communication. With some people, you could tell they were not the same kind of people the first time you met them.

But it doesn't matter. There aren't many things in Dalaran that he can be interested in, just a few high-level fighters. But what does it matter if he is strong? Once he gets involved in politics, he is no longer a good fighter. He can have as many ordinary mages as he wants in the future. At most, he can build more secret temples to blast wizards.

Since Dalaran is not the meat in their mouths, they will just watch it sink and wait for it to rebuild it again, twice, and three times. In the end, Dalaran’s thousand-year talent pool has been almost exhausted, with only two or three big and small cats left.

It's time to think about plan B.

After leaving Antonidas's tower, Garin turned his attention to the mage tower with golden runes painted on it.

The high elf prince is a person whose life's coffee table is full of tragedies. You can try to communicate with him, and if you can get along well, give him a hand.

We arrived at the foot of Kael'thas's mage tower, a tall tower called Tower of the Sun.

The high elf guards at the foot of the tower came forward and blocked Garin's way. Garin stated his identity and asked to meet their prince.

The guards sent one person to inform them and asked them to wait at the bottom of the tower.

Garin said nothing about the high elves' coldness and arrogance, but he kept it in his mind.

He knew that this was not directed at him alone, but was a common behavior of the high elves when facing foreign races. It was a typical mentality that everyone present had was rubbish. They were arrogant to the core and were just short of looking down on others.

During this period, their capital, Silvermoon City, did not welcome outsiders at all and felt that their kingdom was extremely powerful. It was not until their land was plowed by the Undead Scourge that they realized they were nothing.

Even if Jialin wanted to help them, he would only do so after they had been educated.

It’s not good to send it too early, or you may end up getting rejected. It’s really frustrating just thinking about it.

Kael'thas was relatively open-minded, because he had been in Dalaran for a long time, and had come into contact with and understood human society. There were heroes like Antonidas and Solas among humans, who could reach the legendary level in just a few decades, which took an elf thousands of years to break through. He understood that humans had infinite potential.

But he was just a prince who was squeezed out of the power center of Silvermoon City and was powerless to change the status quo.

Although the Kingdom of the High Elves is a monarchy, they have a parliament. Garin's limited political knowledge cannot be described in professional terms. He only knows that their king is also a member of the Silvermoon Council. The royal party and the parliamentary faction in the country are fighting for power, and the king cannot dominate alone.

Kael'thas's arrival in Dalaran was not voluntary, but a disguised exile, or protection. This was the result of his father's compromise with other councilors due to his political disadvantage.

So Kael'thas is also a tragic prince. Although his strength has reached the legendary level, the lifespan of the high elves is thousands of years, and they have accumulated a large number of old things. They have enough foundation and are not afraid of a legendary level.

Unlike in human countries, before you disobey a king with ceiling combat power, you have to consider whether you can withstand his anger.

Perhaps because Galen's identity was of sufficient importance and the Kingdom of Stromgarde had enough face, Kael'thas met Galen and Gandalf in the reception room of the tower.

Poor Herni, neither Antonidas nor the high elves allowed him in, and as usual he was stopped outside the door as a follower.

Therefore, in the world of Azeroth, if you want to be respected, you must have strong personal strength, or have strong power behind you.