Chapter 496: The Elf Suffering from Fear of Insufficient Firepower
Vanessa rubbed her shoulders. Not long ago, she had just signed an order to distribute the land of those nobles equally to the common people.

“Ah, I’m so tired!” Vanessa lay directly on the table and didn’t want to move.

Just the western wasteland was enough to keep her busy. Now she finally understood why Sister Sylvanas said it was not easy to govern a country.

“You’ve done a great job!” A familiar yet unfamiliar voice suddenly sounded in the room.

Vanessa, who was originally lying on the table, rolled over in an instant like a cat with its fur standing on end. At the same time, a dagger appeared in her left hand, and her right hand was holding a crossbow with a well-strung bow. The blue arrow head flashed with cold light, and it was obvious that it was poisoned.

But just as she was about to pull the trigger, she froze.

“Teacher!?” Vanessa exclaimed.

“Long time no see!” Richard said with a smile.

“Mentor!” Vanessa dropped her crossbow and dagger and rushed forward to hug Richard.

“Okay, okay, you’re already a grown-up girl. If you continue like this, you’ll be laughed at.” Richard smiled and rubbed her head.

“Who dares to laugh at me!” Vanessa raised her head from Richard’s arms and said. Although she said she was not convinced, she still stood up straight.

“You’ve grown up and matured. I’ve seen what you’ve done, and I have to say, you’ve done a great job.” Richard approved of what Vanessa had done.

In his opinion, the Kingdom of Stormwind was rotten from the root. King Varian was a wise ruler, but he was still unable to rectify the domestic politics.

In the past, the nobles had large armies and strong men, and they were very powerful. Even if there were civilians causing chaos, they could deal with it and suppress it easily.

But now they are facing Vanessa, who directly spreads a large amount of extraordinary knowledge, so that ordinary people can also become extraordinary people.

Now that they have the power, how could those people who were originally oppressed still allow themselves to be oppressed by them?
So the problem for Stormwind now is that if they don’t undergo thorough reforms, they will soon be swept into the dustbin of history.

Richard’s arrival basically announced the end of Stormwind Kingdom.

Stormwind City no longer had an advantage in high-end combat power, and was even more inferior in low-end combat power. Coupled with the shortage of food, the once thriving Stormwind City suddenly became a declining city.

Stormwind City.

In the King’s Hall, people were still arguing.

“Your Majesty, things are very complicated right now. It is difficult to come up with a perfect plan in such a short time. Would you like to go back and rest for a while? I will inform you when there is a result.”

Grand Duke Fortagen, who was standing nearby and not participating in the argument, said.

“No need, they should be able to come up with the results soon, just wait!” Varian shook his head and rejected the Duke’s kindness.

“Bovar, do you think we were too hasty in killing Edwin VanCleef, which led to such a big mess now?”

Looking at the magnificent city before him, and thinking about the fact that it was actually built by the Stonemason Brotherhood, and that they didn’t even pay for the labor and materials, Varian couldn’t help but sigh.

He had also heard about the greed of the nobles in the city, but as the greatest noble, he could not say anything because those nobles were the foundation of his rule.

He knew that what these nobles did was wrong, but he could not stop them. If he had been tougher and forced the nobles to give some money to the stonemasons, perhaps the later events would not have happened.

Now thinking about Vanessa, who has a deep hatred for their Stormwind City, Varian felt a headache.

The Western Wasteland was occupied by Vanessa, and Stormwind City lost a grain production area. The two sides have completely turned into a life-and-death battle, and there is no room for easing.

“Your Majesty, what we are doing is just. Those people have become bandits. You made the right choice by ordering him to be killed.”

“We did make some mistakes at the beginning, but it was all because of that abominable black dragon Onyxia who was trying to sow discord between us!”

Knowing Varian’s thoughts, Bolvar quickly tried to comfort him. Their king was good in every way, except that he had a strong sense of morality. If it were another king, he would not care whether it was the stonemasons’ fault or not, and would just kill them and be done with it.

“What you said makes some sense. Forget it, let’s see the result of their discussion first!”

Even as a king, Varian could not do whatever he wanted. After all, these nobles were all powerful aristocrats. Although the royal family was the most powerful, it could not ignore the opinions of others.

Stormwind has spread its wings too wide now. They are confronting the Alliance of Quel’Thalas and Lordaeron in the north, while part of their army has entered Outland. The rest of the army can only be stationed in Stormwind.

Now we need to wipe out the Western Wasteland. If we send too few troops, we may not only fail to resolve the rebellion, but be wiped out by them. But if we send a large army there, what will happen to Stormwind City?
Who will protect the nobles when these troops leave?
Once Stormwind is empty, what if it is attacked by others? Their property is all in Stormwind, and they will not agree as long as there is a little risk.

Finally, the king waited for the solution discussed by those people. The kingdom paid a sum of money and allowed the nobles who escaped from the Western Wasteland to recruit soldiers. The kingdom sent some instructors to train them, and then relied on these people to form a large army and launch a counterattack against the Western Wasteland again.

When Varian saw this solution, he really wanted to lead his army to wipe out the Western Wasteland, but in the end he had no choice but to agree.

Richard stayed in the Western Wasteland for two days, and then started to head to Quel’Thalas. He built a teleportation array in the Western Wasteland so that he could teleport back at any time.

It can even directly teleport an army of 10,000 people at a critical moment. With this teleportation array, there will be no problem in the Western Wasteland.

All Vanessa needs is one or two years to operate, store food, and train the army, and then launch an attack. Stormwind will not be their opponent at all.

A burst of teleportation light rose up, and the next second Richard appeared on the high tower of Silvermoon City.

Richard looked around and found that the place had not changed at all from when he left. It was very clean and tidy. It was obvious that someone cleaned the place regularly.

The teleporting light attracted the attention of others, and soon a slim figure rushed in.

“Richard, is it really you? You’re back!” The person who came was Sylvanas. Sylvanas, who was originally handling government affairs, rushed over as soon as she sensed that the teleportation array of this tower was opened.

“Yes, I’m back.” Richard said with a smile.

Sylvanas hugged Richard tightly with excitement.

Needless to say, after a battle of continuous gunfire, Richard hugged Sylvanas and lay on the astronomical platform of the tallest wizard tower in Silvermoon City, looking at the stars and chatting. He also knew the changes that had taken place in Quel’Thalas during this period of time.

The population of Quel’Thalas has now increased five times what it was before. Originally, there were only more than 20,000 elves left in Quel’Thalas. At that time, many elves fled to other places to avoid the war. Later, nearly 10,000 to 20,000 elves returned one after another.

In addition, Richard helped them transform their bloodline, allowing the high elves to give up a thousand years of life and gain stronger fertility and growth period.

As a result, almost every high elf family now has three or four elven children. It can be said that half of the population of the high elf kingdom are children.

The number of adult elves is around 50,000.

These high elf children also used blood potions, and their minds and bodies would grow and mature rapidly over a period of fifteen years.

In just a few years, the population of the High Elves would surpass its pre-war peak.

In addition to these, the High Elf Kingdom has developed very quickly in recent years. The painful lesson of being almost exterminated has given these High Elfs a sense of urgency, and everyone is studying day and night.

In the current Silvermoon City, you can no longer see the idle high elves of the past.

In order to solve the problem of insufficient manpower, Richard taught the high elves how to make puppet golems. Now there are tens of thousands of golems of various types in the high elf kingdom.

These golems are now an important labor force in the Kingdom of Quel’Thalas, and almost all reconstruction work is completed by these golems.

At the same time, what surprised him even more was that the high elves were transforming the island of Quel’Danas.

The island of Quel’Danas was originally the private territory of the Court of the Sun, but after the last war, only Kael’thas was left in the Court of the Sun, and Kael’thas decided to transform Quel’Thalas into the last bastion of the kingdom.

Originally, Richard thought that they were planning to build this island into a magical fortress, but after hearing Sylvanas’s story, he realized that he had underestimated the elves’ ambitions.

The high elves combined the anti-gravity floating rune formation, rune engraving technology, and floating tower technology left by Richard, and actually planned to turn the entire island of Quel’Danas into a floating island.

The entire Quel’Danas became a huge floating city.

Lifting a large island was not easy even in the Motera world back then, and it was even more impossible to do it relying on the technology of the high elves.

But who let the high elves have the Sunwell?

The Sunwell was transformed from the water of the Well of Eternity and possesses the same ability as the Well of Eternity, able to absorb energy from the universe and then convert it into well water.

With the Sunwell, it is equivalent to having endless energy.

In fact, the Sunwell’s operating mode is very similar to the Element Pool, but the efficiency of the Sunwell is countless times that of the Element Pool. How much energy can the Element Pool store? The Sunwell can supply energy to the entire kingdom without any effort.

The Sunwell’s energy is more powerful than its Mysore core.

It is precisely because of this Sunwell, which possesses almost endless energy, that these high elves have such bold ideas.

As the source of energy for the entire Quel’Danas, the Sunwell can supply all the energy needed by Quel’Danas.

In the past few years, the high elves have deployed a large number of rune formations throughout the island of Quel’Danas, using the technology that Richard gave them.

These high elves used hardening magic to reinforce the entire island, and the effect of the hardening magic made the ground as hard as steel.

After completing the hardening spell, they laid a huge energy array across the entire island to transmit the energy of the Sunwell to all parts of the island.

At the same time, the energy arrays were linked to each other to form a larger rune array. The entire rune array was Quel’Danas’s anti-gravity floating array.

This anti-gravity floating array can lift the entire island.

At the same time, these high elves built eighteen wizard towers on the island of Quel’Danas. These wizard towers are nodes of the energy network and also the armed forces of the entire island.

All of these wizard towers have built magic particle orbital cannons. At the top of the wizard tower, there is a silver pillar about ten meters high.

Each wizard tower can use the most powerful attack, the magic particle railgun.

This kind of spell attack, which has a power exceeding that of the tenth ring, can directly wipe out an entire legion with one shot. If used in a concentrated manner, even a legendary warrior can be defeated in one go.

If Arthas, the filial son, were to lead the Scourge again, he would not need anyone else to help. The attack of the eighteen wizard towers would kill him instantly. At the same time, the army behind him would also be annihilated.

Such a powerful force, but Richard heard what Sylvanas said, the high elves seemed to think that this was not enough, and seemed to be preparing to improve the technology to further enhance the power.

It seems that after the last time the Undead Scourge destroyed their country, these high elves lacked a sense of security and suffered from a fear of insufficient firepower, so they directly created a high-level magic particle railgun matrix.

Eighteen magic particle railguns are arranged in a certain energy matrix to attack, and their power is truly earth-shattering in the physical sense.

Not to mention the Undead Scourge, even smaller planets could probably be wiped out with a single salvo.

This powerful weapon has basically no other disadvantages except high energy consumption, complex operation and high cost.

In fact, the Supreme Arcane Council had also studied this kind of weapon, but its energy consumption was too high, and even the elemental furnace could not produce it.

Finally, it can only be sealed.

This kind of energy requires too much explosive power.

The high elves were able to do this only because they had the Sunwell, an almost endless supply of energy that allowed them to do so. If it were anyone else, it would be impossible.

The energy required by the advanced magic particle railgun matrix is ​​more than ten times that of eighteen wizard towers.

The damage dealt was basically equivalent to that of a 12th-ring spell, capable of destroying a material plane. Even the kingdom of gods might not be able to withstand it.

(End of this chapter)