Kael'thas was a slender high elf, wearing a fire-red robe with gold trim, his golden long hair very conspicuous, with three scarlet fireballs floating behind him.
This was a very handsome high elf, even among his own kind, he was the best in terms of appearance and temperament.
It reminded Galen of a movie from his previous life, Kael'thas and Thranduil from 'The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies' who turned over on a deer, were equally stunning.
"Detected that the host has come into contact with elven bloodline, blood elf mage template is starting to generate."
Galen was stunned for a moment, the hero count of the Kings' Altar he had been worried about for so long finally changed!
Kael'thas noticed that the young man in front of him was distracted, and felt that the Prince of Stromgarde was a little rude, but his good manners kept him smiling.
"Prince Galen, did you have something important to discuss with me?" Although it was somewhat against noble etiquette to get straight to the point, if he didn't speak, the guest in front of him would start wandering off into the sky.
"Cough! Cough!"
Gandalf also noticed the change in the prince, he guessed that something major had distracted the prince, but since they were visiting a prince of a country, he still had to remind him.
Gandalf's cough was a high-priority signal for Galen, and he immediately snapped out of the notification sound that suddenly rang in his Heart of Origin.
What followed was a noble-style greeting between the two princes. Many of the aristocratic etiquettes of human society were learned from the high elves. The history of the high elves was long. Three thousand years ago, humans were still a tribal society. The Troll Wars two thousand seven hundred years ago led to the establishment of diplomatic relations and alliances between the two races. The Arathor Empire learned a lot from the high elf kingdom of Quel'Thalas, and aristocratic etiquette was one of them.
After they were seated, Galen went straight to the point. He had a good impression of Kael'thas. Although he also had the arrogance of the elves, as a second-generation noble, he had the capital to be proud. He had a good family background, high strength, and it was rare that he had a gentle personality, was refined, and treated people like a spring breeze
The crimson fireball behind him looked pretty good, so don't let him change it into a green fel fireball. He should help him in the future.
"One of my caravans and a dwarven expedition team accidentally entered an ancient ruin in the southern mountains. In the end, they brought out a batch of treasures. Recently, I lack military expenses, and my father cannot support me, so I want to sell the treasures to you, Prince Kael'thas."
Galen began to make up a story in a serious manner. The underlying meaning was that you, Prince, are just the right size, like a fat sheep.
"Oh? What treasures are they?" Kael'thas became interested. The Prince of Stromgarde could be considered a member of the royal family who had seen the world, and the mage beside him was not weak, so he shouldn't bring out some ordinary things, that would be too embarrassing.
Moreover, the Kingdom of Quel'Thalas was the wealthiest country on this eastern continent. They had no shortage of treasures. What treasures hadn't the prince seen? How could he be embarrassed to call it a treasure if he didn't bring out something substantial.
Galen took out a white scroll from his arms and placed it on the table.
Kael'thas sensed it, the item had no magic fluctuations, it was not a magic item. The Prince Galen just casually took it out of his arms, making it hard for him to believe that it was a treasure, it was too ordinary.
"This is?"
Good aristocratic manners would not make him walk away in a huff, and he also believed that a prince could not have come all the way here to tease him, so he was intrigued and directly asked.
"This is called a Return Scroll, similar to your mages' portal, it can perform long-distance teleportation."
"That's it?"
Kael'thas was a little disappointed. They, the high elves, had no shortage of long-distance teleportation. They had mages who could open portals, and he himself was a mage. If he wanted to teleport, he could just cast a spell.
He didn't even need to shout in the world channel: How many Gs to ask the mage daddy to open the door.
Galen also saw Kael'thas' impatient expression, and he immediately continued: "Your Highness, don't worry, I haven't finished speaking yet, this Return Scroll can ignore any magic barriers and seals!"
Kael'thas suddenly stood up, the calm expression on his face finally changed: "That's impossible!"
This time it was Galen's turn to be calm, he responded lightly: "I'm sure!"
Looking at Kael'thas' face full of disbelief, Galen felt particularly comfortable showing off.
It's no wonder Kael'thas was so surprised, any mage with a little spatial knowledge would be like this.
As everyone knows, satisfying spatial teleportation requires many conditions. The first is energy. The longer the distance, the more people teleported, the more energy is required.
This condition is not a problem in Azeroth. As a planet that nurtured the strongest Titan, the overflowing energy is more than enough to be used for teleportation.
For example, the Dark Portal, which has not yet been completed, is one that can allow a race to carry out interstellar teleportation, which requires huge energy, while Draenor cannot. Maintaining a Dark Portal will drain the planet's energy, making the orcs think that their homeland is about to be destroyed, so they invaded other planets.
Another thing is that you need to set up a magic beacon in advance, a bit like a bomber needs to be marked to accurately bomb. If a place isolates magic, or sets up a powerful barrier, without the magic beacon positioning, teleportation cannot be performed.
What surprised Kael'thas was this point. The border of the Kingdom of Quel'Thalas was set up with a circle of barrier stones, which was the guarantee for the high elves to stand for thousands of years.
The barrier stones possess powerful magic, forming a magic barrier, like a shield protecting the entire kingdom's territory. Cooperating with the energy of the Sunwell, it not only makes their territory spring all year round, suitable for high elves to live in, but also prohibits aerial flight, and also prevents enemies from teleporting into its interior.
The kingdom spends a lot of money every year to maintain the barrier, and the rangers of the Farstrider unit patrol the kingdom's border at all times to prevent the barrier stones from being destroyed.
This magic barrier, which Kael'thas was so proud of, should have been an absolute defense, but today, he heard the human prince say that the Return Scroll in front of him could ignore the barrier and seal?
Galen saw that Kael'thas was still a little skeptical, but it was no wonder, this Return Scroll was really unremarkable, and there were no magic fluctuations, could it actually break the barrier that their kingdom was so proud of?
Saying it is useless, he still has to let him experience it himself, personally shatter the myth of their kingdom's barrier stone, so that a few years later, when their borders are jointly invaded by orcs and trolls, Silvermoon City will still confidently believe that the barrier is invincible and continue to live in a drunken dream.
Galen opened the scroll and said to the prince: "Your Highness, this scroll is divided into two parts, the small one I call the Beacon Axis, which is used for positioning, and the large one is the main scroll for storing energy."
As he spoke, Galen handed the small one to Kael'thas.
"Place the Beacon Axis in advance at the destination we need to teleport to, and then activate the Return Scroll, and you can teleport to the location of the beacon."
"Currently, I still have six Return Scrolls here. If you, Prince, are interested in my set of Return Scrolls, I can give you one to experiment with. Dalaran has a seal barrier, and Silvermoon City should also have one.
"I didn't give the scroll to Archmage Antonidas, and I chose to trade with Prince Kael'thas, this is my sincerity! I'll go back and wait for news, I'll leave the scroll with you."
"Wait!"
Galen's last words seemed to touch Kael'thas, and he stopped Galen, who was about to get up.
"Prince Galen, how many of these return scrolls do you have? I want them all."
Galen was overjoyed to hear this, the fat sheep had finally taken the bait.
He pondered for a while, then raised his head and said sincerely to Kael'thas: "Prince Kael'thas, the merchant brought back ten scrolls, one of which was damaged, and we used two for experiments, leaving seven.
My mentor, Gandalf, needs to keep one for research, leaving six, all for you."
Kael'thas wanted to buy all the return scrolls, he didn't want this kind of thing that could cross the Quel'Thalas Kingdom's barrier to spread outside, but it was someone else's thing, and he was also a prince of a country, everyone's status was equal, and the relationship was nominally an alliance.
Moreover, Stromgarde is not Dalaran, they are a nation of warriors, Kael'thas didn't believe that this white-bearded mage in front of him could crack the secret of the return scroll faster than Quel'Thalas.
Most importantly, Prince Galen did not sell such a precious treasure to Dalaran, but chose to trade with me, which is easily verifiable.
This is a kind of sincerity! This is Stromgarde, or rather Galen himself, wanting to befriend me. Kael'thas was a gentleman, gentle and refined, he couldn't do things like forced buying and selling.
"Deal!"
"Six scrolls, I'll buy them for 20,000 gold coins each, and at the same time, Galen, you must keep the scroll a secret, and ensure that the last return scroll is not given to other forces!"
"No problem, Kael!" Hearing 120,000 gold coins, Galen didn't care about anything else, he agreed first, once the money was in place, everything else was easy to discuss.
"Wait for me a moment."
Seeing Galen agree, Kael'thas turned around and went upstairs to the mage tower, and after a while, he came back with a small package, and then handed the package to Galen.
"Galen, here are 120,000 gold coins, you can take them out and count them, and this Sunstrider Backpack is also given to you."
"No need to count, no need to count, Kael, you gave me 120,000 gold coins directly without verifying the scrolls, I thank you for your trust.
I guarantee that the return scroll will definitely not disappoint you."
"Kael, we also experimented a little, the teleportation scroll can not only teleport the user, but also teleport people within a certain range around him, we haven't tested the specific distance!"
After speaking, Galen took the bag, but didn't really take the gold coins out to count, that would be too embarrassing.
Basic trust was still there.
Sunstrider Backpack: Internally has twenty cubic space, high-end space package of the High Elf Kingdom.
Good stuff, this thing alone is worth about 20,000 gold coins.
Kael'thas recognized it as the Sunstrider Backpack as soon as he took it out.
In his previous life, in order to farm the White Chicken, he entered the Mage Platform once a day to farm the dungeon.
He didn't get the White Chicken, but he did farm this twenty-slot bag with decent storage capacity at the time, second only to the then behemoth backpack.
Happily taking the huge sum of money from fleecing the fat sheep and walking out of Kael'thas's mage tower, his mouth was grinning to the roots of his ears.
A return scroll with 325 units of gold sold for 20,000 gold coins, converted into 40,000 gold, which was simply a huge profit, but this deal could only be done once, but it was enough.
If the gold coins and jewelry from the Arathi Empire era obtained from the Whisker Tribe are sold, plus the 120,000 gold coins just received, the cash on hand should be around 200,000.
A wave of wealth, a wave of wealth!
The high elves are really rich.
They have been building their country east across the sea from the continent of Kalimdor for more than 6,000 years.
Although Kael'thas is only the third generation, their long lives have allowed them to gather huge wealth.
They also have a mana source, the Sunwell, to create magical equipment and enchant weapons and equipment.
With such unique conditions, wealth has flowed into the pockets of the high elves in large quantities.
After Galen and Gandalf came out, they met Haynie and looked for the way to their shop.
On the other side, Kael'thas held the six return scrolls in his hands, his expression was very exciting.
From Galen's description, he guessed that the ancient ruins should have been built by the Titan Guardians, only the Titans had the ability to create such teleportation items that ignored seals and barriers, and without a trace of mana fluctuations.
They must be taken back to show the father, and test these scrolls by the way.
As for why not test them on the spot, one was to show trust, he had seen Galen's magic image in the intelligence from the previous period, the new troll killer of the Thoradin family, the high elves and trolls have fought for thousands of years, the two forces are potential allies, and he wouldn't mistake Gandalf's ninth-order strength fluctuations, and there wouldn't be a ninth level mage specifically to cheat him of these 120,000 gold coins.
Kael'thas left a positioning beacon in the living room, and then hurried to the Guardian Hall in the center of Dalaran, which is currently used by Dalaran to set up portals.
As a member of the Kirin Tor Six, he has the authority to release teleportation spells here.
Different from the games of the previous life, every mage only needs to spend some gold coins to learn the portal.
In reality, setting up a portal requires learning in-depth spatial knowledge, and requires one's own huge magic power to maintain the stability of the portal.
Therefore, opening a portal requires specialization, otherwise you will accidentally die in space teleportation.
Kael'thas came to the inside of the hall, greeted the guarding mage, registered the teleportation record, and then walked to an open space in the hall, took out his staff, a staff with a golden phoenix spreading its wings on top, the Quel'dorei Golden Staff.
He waved his staff, a magic power erupted from him, and then the staff also lit up, and finally a portal slowly appeared in front of him.
When the portal stabilized, he plunged into the portal.
Today, the one on duty at the Sunstrider Tower was Grand Magister Rommath, a loyal supporter of the Sunstrider family.
Kael'thas stepped forward and told Rommath about the situation, and in Rommath's suspicious gaze, Kael'thas placed a new beacon and a memory stone on Rommath's table, and then activated the teleportation scroll that matched his beacon placed in the Dalaran tower.
The rune array above Kael'thas's head flashed, and a burst of white light flashed, and the two appeared in the Tower of the Sun in Dalaran.
Rommath looked at the unfamiliar environment, his expression became much more serious, and he went out to confirm where he was.
Although Kael'thas was prepared, the teleportation scroll took them through the barrier of the Quel'Thalas Kingdom, and ignored the space restrictions of Dalaran, directly coming to Dalaran from Silvermoon City, the shock in his heart could not be erased.
Then he asked Rommath to record the whole process with the memory stone, and the two used another teleportation scroll to return to the Sunstrider Tower in Silvermoon City.
Then the two went straight to the Sunstrider Royal Court.
They met the contemporary Sun King, Kael'thas's father, Anasterian Sunstrider.
"Father, I obtained an ancient creation from Prince Galen of Stromgarde, claiming to be a teleportation scroll that can ignore all seals and barriers!"
"That's impossible!"
This would require techniques that surpass the high elves by many years to create.
Since his ancestors established the kingdom's barrier, they have not only perfected it for thousands of years, but also imagined which methods the enemy could use to break through the barrier at that time.
Violent destruction, unless the enemy's total energy exceeds the bearing capacity of the barrier stone, causing the barrier stone to overload, it is impossible to destroy the barrier, and the barrier stone contains the huge magic power of the Sunwell.
Hundreds of barrier stones combined to create a sealing barrier that even demigods cannot destroy.
Another method is to teleport to the inside of the shield and break through the kingdom from the inside.
This is also a research topic for the high elf mages for thousands of years.
Even mages with the legendary rank have not yet researched a teleportation method that can ignore barriers and seals.
What did he hear from his son today?
A teleportation scroll that ignores seals and barriers?
Obtained from the humans? Or from ancient times?
Then are the mages research teams in my Silvermoon City embezzling the annual funding?
Anasterian was, after all, a king who had been on the throne for thousands of years, and quickly calmed down.
"Kael, have you experimented with it?"
"I just tested it with Rommath, Father. I even recorded the whole process with a recording stone."
After speaking, Kael'thas took out two recording stones and placed them on his father's desk.
Anasterian stared at the two recording stones in front of him, his face gloomy.
The runestones on the border were the result of the first generation of high elves' efforts. His own father, Dath'Remar Sunstrider, led a group of mages who had experienced the era of the Well of Eternity, painstakingly establishing a barrier that had protected the kingdom for over six thousand years.
He had thought it would be impregnable, but unexpectedly, a teleportation scroll that could ignore the barrier had appeared today, and it was even for groups. If the enemy used merchants to bring in a dozen such coordinate axes, and then teleported in a legion all at once, then the barrier would be a joke.
After pondering for a while, the king, who had been in power for thousands of years, made a decision.
"Rommath, leave one of the remaining scrolls behind. Take the rest to the advisory group for research, and strive to decipher the secrets of the scroll in the shortest possible time."
"At the same time, replicate the appearance of the beacon axis and distribute it to all border checkpoints across the country. Report any similar items immediately!"
"As you command, Your Majesty!"
"Kael, return to Dalaran. The prince of Stromgarde is a rising star. You can befriend him. Although we have been closer to Lordaeron and Dalaran in recent decades due to distance, this does not prevent us from contacting other human kingdoms! After all, it was the human Arathor Empire that signed the alliance with us."
"Yes, Father."