Sharlayan had long guessed that Varian was behind Bolvar's banquet invitation, so he was not surprised to see the king who was traveling in casual clothes.

However, Salayan still put on a surprised expression on the surface.

"Your Majesty Varian? Why are you here?"

Varian smiled wryly and shook his head: "It's a long story... Bolvar, you go back to the venue to stabilize the situation, and don't let those nobles find out the abnormality."

"As ordered."

When Sharlayan was changing his clothes, Bolvar finally noticed that his armor was in a funny shape, so he hurriedly summoned his servants to help him take off the armor, and changed into a new dress.

Sarlayan and Bolvar, who were the protagonists of the banquet, left the hall one after another, and Countess Prestor also disappeared without a trace. If no one went to the front to explain something, those nobles with very keen political sense would soon find out that something was wrong.

After Bolvar left quickly, Varian politely motioned Sarlayan to sit down and talk.

Apart from Varian himself, Sharlayan could sense the aura of at least 5 people in the room. They were all hiding in the dark, and they should be Varian's personal guards.

"Originally, I wanted to ask Earl Deep Shadow about Quel'Thalas' methods of dealing with nobles, but now it seems...the Kingdom of Stormwind has more important matters to resolve."

Varian's expression was very serious: "First of all, I want to know, how do you know that the Countess of Prestor is a black dragon?"

Sharlayan shrugged and asked back: "I'm also very strange, why do people in the Kingdom of Stormwind turn a blind eye to the many violations of the fake Countess Prestor?"

Varian froze for a moment, then touched his chin with a strange expression.

"When you say it like that... I think it's weird when I think about it afterwards. Why didn't I find out?"

Sharlayan's eyes showed thoughtfulness: "Could it be some kind of special spell?"

The answer is spiritual suggestion.

Onyxia can also use spiritual suggestion spells. Salayan actually knew the technique used by Latania a long time ago, and he just wanted to induce Varian to think independently.

"Spiritual suggestion..."

A cold light flashed in Varian's eyes: "I thought those people in Stormwind Fortress were placed by ignorant nobles. Now it seems that the truth is not that simple."

"Place people in Stormwind Fortress?"

Sharlayan froze for a moment: "No way, the nobles of the Stormwind Kingdom are so courageous, dare to intervene beside the king?"

"Oh~"

Varian smiled self-deprecatingly: "Otherwise, why do you think I hid in Bolvar's house to meet outsiders secretly?"

"If we met formally in Stormwind Fortress, believe it or not, the content of our conversation would be known to the nobles in a few minutes."

Varian leaned his head back on the back of the chair, and sighed with a complex expression: "Because the father left too suddenly, the high-level officials of the Stormwind Kingdom have been in exile in Lordaeron for several years, and the prestige of the Wrynn royal family has been affected. dealt a severe blow.”

"In the entire Stormwind Fortress, only a few people, including Queen Tiffin, are trustworthy. The others... Heh, are all spies sent in by the nobles on the grounds of filling the royal family's servants."

‘Is it so badly infiltrated? '

Even without the Countess of Prestor making trouble, Varian's problems are far more serious than those of Quel'Thalas.

This is no longer a simple struggle between the nobles and the royal family for power, but the naked nobles riding on the head of the royal family and shitting.

Sharlayan frowned slightly: "Your Majesty Varian, forgive me."

"The situation has developed to such a point, if you don't take action to show your attitude, those nobles may still make progress."

"Can you still control the military power of the Stormwind Kingdom?"

"can."

Varian said with a serious expression: "With Bolvar and Gavinrad here, the military power is still firmly in the hands of the royal family."

Gavinrad Doom, one of the five first-generation paladins enlightened by Alonsus Faol, the archbishop of the Church of the Holy Light, is also the only one from the Kingdom of Stormwind among the five.

Among the five first-generation paladins, Turalyon inherited Anduin Lothar's position as the Grand Marshal of the Alliance and voluntarily stayed in Draenor to guard the gate for Azeroth, preventing the demons of the Burning Legion from invading him again through the Dark Portal hometown.

Uther and Dathrohan were appointed as the chief and deputy leaders of the Knights of the Silver Hand, and Fording, who was born as a nobleman, returned to his territory Hearthglen to manage various affairs.

When Varian decided to leave Lordaeron and return to Elwynn Forest to restore his country, Gavin Ladd resolutely followed the young King Varian back to his country despite Terenas' repeated attempts to persuade him to stay.

Gush

As one of the heroes of the Second Orc War, Gavinrad has a great reputation in the army of the Stormwind Kingdom, and no one can shake his position.

As a member of the first generation of paladins, Gavinrad kept in mind the dogma of paladins and was always loyal to the royal family of Wrynn, turning a blind eye to the olive branches thrown by the nobles.

With him in charge, the nobles of the Stormwind Kingdom have never been able to extend their hands into the military, and can only embarrass the young and inexperienced King Varian on the political level.

"That's easy."

Sharlayan sneered and suggested: "Those nobles who survived the war without enough knowledge of lethal force, it's time to teach them a good lesson."

"This…"

Varian hesitated: "They are still my subjects after all, is it really necessary to do this?"

Sharlayan looked at Varian with a strange expression: "They have already ridden on your head, can this be tolerated?"

"That was not what I meant."

Varian scratched his head and said depressedly: "I want to ask... is there a gentler way to make those nobles settle down."

"No."

Sharlayan said decisively: "People's greed is endless. Once they taste the sweetness, they will push their noses even more. They must experience the huge price of exceeding their authority."

"At least that's what Quel'Thalas did. Your Majesty Varian, you don't think that the previous Sun King managed to subdue the nobles just by relying on gentleness?"

"...Isn't it?"

Varian asked suspiciously: "I heard that the former Sun King Anasteria didn't hit the nobles hard, and didn't shake Quel'Thalas, so he easily resolved the turmoil of the nobles violating the royal power."

"It is said that?"

Sharlayan smiled meaningfully: "Who are you listening to? Which nobleman?"

"I can tell you clearly that this is fake news."

"It is true that the power change in Quel'Thalas has not experienced much fluctuation, but it has not been smooth from beginning to end."

"You may not know that the four great nobles of Quel'Thalas still exist, but their clansmen have been reduced by more than half."

"The lost half, where does His Majesty Varian think they went?"

A flash of understanding suddenly flashed in Valeera's eyes, and then his eyes became gloomy.

"So this is the truth? I thought... Tsk! Those lawless guys."

King Ryan left suddenly. Although Varian learned a lot of tactics from Terenas, how could Terenas, who was determined to unify the seven human kingdoms, teach Varian everything.

Sharlayan speculated that what Terenas taught Varian was more ideological education, boasting that a unified human empire can better gain a foothold in Azeroth, laying a solid foundation for Lordaeron to annex the Kingdom of Stormwind in the future.

It's a pity that Lordaeron, which is so big and flamboyant, can't take care of itself now, and Sharlayan can't guarantee how many dreadlords have sneaked into this most powerful country of mankind.

If you think about it a bit more exaggeratedly, maybe even Terenas himself is pretending to be the Dreadlord, and his mind-stopping showmanship is just to provoke the battle between the countries of Azeroth.

There is no need for Varian to know about such wild guesses.

The emperor's tactics were not well learned, and his ascension to the throne was too hasty, so he failed to train enough confidants to take charge of the government.

The honeymoon period between Varian and the nobles lasted until the country's reconstruction was initially completed ~lightnovelpub.net~, and then began to fight for power and profit based on their abilities.

In Sharlayan's view, as the contemporary king, Varian was still not cruel enough, and was too tolerant of those nobles who tried to seize power.

If we go back hundreds of thousands of years, the throne of the Wrynn family was also snatched from the Lothar family, the descendants of Emperor Thoradin.

Now that the Wrynn royal family is in decline, other nobles will naturally follow suit, and at this time they are still being kind to them? I'm afraid I don't want to be exiled by the whole family to dig potatoes in Northrend.

[This is the so-called emperor taking turns, come to my house next year? 】

[Isn't that the feudal aristocratic system? Now that Varian has no heirs, if he dies suddenly, as long as there is a nobleman who can pull out a child with the blood of the Wrynn family, it will not be easy to push this puppet to the throne? 】

[Is there really? Why didn't I hear in the game that Varian had sisters and aunts who married out? 】

[It is impossible to describe all the details in the game. If it is not mentioned, it means it does not exist? The Sunstrider family also has a distant relative, Lianda, a side branch. Many people probably don't know about it. 】