Remember [New] in a second! The scenery of the King City of Lordaeron is very beautiful. In the higher palace garden, you can directly overlook the whole city.

The solemn and solemn Cathedral of the Holy Light, the magnificent Central Opera House, the bustling trade area, and the vitality and antique heritage of the city can be seen all over the place.

Princess Calia Menethil of Lordaeron has long been used to coming to the garden every afternoon, enjoying afternoon tea while admiring the magnificent view of the city.

Ten years as one day.

Since Calia was sensible, her king's father Terenas has been instilling a concept in her.

"You were born for the Kingdom of Lordaeron and the Menethil family. While enjoying the privileges, you must also shoulder your responsibilities as a child of the royal family."

The responsibility of "children" sounds really good.

The responsibilities of sons and daughters in Terenas' mouth are completely different.

Calia is the eldest princess of the Kingdom of Lordaeron. According to the rules of the feudal dynasty, she should have the right to inherit the throne, and the order of succession is very high.

However, Terenas never intended to train Calia as the heir, but pinned all his hopes on Alsace who was born 2 years later than Calia.

The queen of Terenas died of illness not long after giving birth to Alsace, and the direct blood of the Menethil royal family is only two siblings, Calia and Alsace.

She has never been out of the royal city... Even the royal palace, Jialiya can't contact the outside world in person, but through the legends and stories heard by the palace maids from the mouth of the court bard, a doubt was planted in Jialiya's heart when she was young.

Since there is a queen in these stories, why did her father never teach her any way of governing the country, but only let her show her charm as a woman at the banquet?

Since childhood, Calia has participated in countless banquets, and she feels like an artificial landscape placed in the center of the banquet hall for people to watch.

There is no need to think, no need for ego, just maintain a fixed graceful posture and a fixed smiling expression.

Jia Liya, who was born 5 years before the Gate of Darkness, is just 17 years old this year, which is the age when her flowers are just blooming.

After countless generations of bloodline optimization, the descendants of the royal family of Menethil are handsome and beautiful.

Since three years ago, in the Kingdom of Lordaeron alone, dozens of young nobles, large and small, have asked Terenas to marry him, hoping to marry the more beautiful and charming Princess Calia.

Terenas was well versed in the principle of bargaining for a price, and he did not agree to any nobleman in the country.

Starting from his heart, he hoped to rely on Calia's marriage to obtain a strong claim of a human kingdom, and help him unify the seven human kingdoms and reproduce the great cause of Emperor Thoradin.

But no one is a fool, least of all the kings of the great kingdoms.

Terenas' ambitions are obvious, and no other prince is willing to marry a Lordaeron princess who may explode at any time and come back as a confession.

At the level of the royal families of various countries, appearance and figure are no longer the primary criteria for choosing a wife. The most important thing is whether the princes can provide help after they succeed to the throne.

The Princess of Lordaeron has a strong background, but the price to be paid to gain support from Lordaeron is too high, so big that no human kingdom is willing or able to bear it.

At the end of the Second Orc War, 5 years ago in the 7th year of the Black Gate, Terenas once had the idea of ​​marrying Calia, who was only 12 years old at the time, to the heir of the Alterac Kingdom.

At that time, there were two families closest to this position, one was Lord Daval Prestor who jumped out of the cracks in the stone, and the other was the Barov family who had received Terenas' promise.

According to legend, the Prestor family is a distant relative of the Perenold family, but this identity is actually fabricated from beginning to end. It is a false identity created by the rebellious black dragon headed by Deathwing using illusion.

After Deathwing was seriously wounded and escaped, the black dragon prince Nefarian inherited this identity.

Due to all the troubles, Nefarian gave up Deathwing's original plan, hid back in Blackrock Spire to concentrate on his own colorful dragon research, and handed over the name of the Prestor family to his sister Onyxia to manage.

As we all know, Onyxia was abducted by Sharlayan several years ago.

In desperation, Nefarian sent a female black dragon to replace her, but in the end, Sharlayan and others jointly killed her in Stormwind City, and completely exposed the identity of the Prestor family as a black dragon.

After Daval Prestor (Nefarian) voluntarily withdrew from the heir contest, Alterac's succession to the throne seems to be a certainty, and it is destined to fall into the hands of the Barov family, the in-laws of the Perenold family.

Many people still haven't figured out why Terenas would give up the more secure marriage and annex Alterac forcibly.

Alex Barov has a happy family and has two sons and a daughter with his wife Yin Lucia.

Moreover, according to the investigation of Lordaeron's intelligence department, the two sons of the Barov family, Alex and Weldon, are out-and-out dudes, very easy to control.

No matter who among them Calia marries, Lordaeron's ministers are sure to take this opportunity to intervene in the internal affairs of the Alterac Kingdom and gradually bring Alterac into their pockets.

But Terenas chose the most radical method, which drew strong condemnation from Stormgard and Gilneas.

Five years passed in a hurry, and Princess Jialia still failed to get married.

But through the recent internal changes in the Barov family, some ministers found a way to clean up Terenas' radical move.

The Barov family has publicly announced the abolition of Alex's inheritance rights, and chose the youngest daughter, Jandis, who has always been quiet, to inherit the family business.

However, as the person who almost reached a marriage, Calia herself knew very well that Terenas hadn't considered that far at all at the time.

He just didn't want Stormgard and Gilneas to intervene to dismember Alterac, so he used his status as the leader of the alliance who was in full swing after the victory of the war to force his move, which left endless troubles.

The older Terenas became, the more stubborn he became. No matter how the nobles and ministers in the country tried to persuade him, he still controlled Calia's marriage and tried to marry princes from other kingdoms. He was unwilling to give up his unrealistic dream of unification. .

Obsessed with personal ambition, Terenas, who is becoming more and more stupid, did not notice that his daughter has gradually grown up and started to have her own ideas, and she is no longer willing to be a tool for marriage and childbirth.

In the garden of the Royal Palace of Lordaeron, Princess Calia, who was in her prime, had a gentle smile on her face, half-closed her eyes and listened to the new story the maid had heard from the court bard.

Most of the stories of bards have been artistically processed and beautified, and the stories of court bards have a lot of political purposes.

The latest story is based on the Battle of Alterac (randomly made up), which highlights the military skills of Alexandros Mograine and Uther the Lightbringer, as well as their strong personal strength.

Having heard all kinds of stories since she was a child, Calia has long been used to extracting really important information from a lot of nonsense legends.

"Salayan Earl Deep Shadow?"

After the maid with a nice voice stopped telling the story, Calia opened her slightly closed blue eyes, smiled and nodded encouragingly to her.

Sending off the court maid who was responsible for telling the story, Jia Liya took a black tea cup and walked gracefully to the edge of the garden, standing in front of the railing of withered flowers, overlooking the familiar scenery of the royal city thoughtfully.

In the stories of the court bards, the name of Earl Deep Shadow does not appear many times, and only a few sentences mention his identity.

The representative of the evil high elf kingdom Quel'Thalas went to Alterac to win over the Alterac rebels for the sun king Kael'thas Sunstrider and create chaos in the rear of the Kingdom of Lordaeron.

After Crown Prince Alsace was put under house arrest in his bedroom, Princess Calia gained the trust of Terenas who had not yet recovered, and finally began to have the opportunity to get in touch with state affairs, and thus met a group of ministers and nobles with similar positions.

Nothing is unachievable.

Princess Jialiya is that caring person. When she tried to play the role of vase over the years, she never gave up her exploration of state affairs.

Most of the maids in the palace of Lordaeron come from various noble families.

Not only Lordaeron, but all major kingdoms including Quel'Thalas have adopted this set of selection rules.

Through her personal maid, she has contacted some nobles who are willing to help~lightnovelpub.net~ Jialia has secretly obtained a lot of information from home and abroad over the years.

Naturally, this information will inevitably mention the neighbor who has become more and more present—the Kingdom of Quel'Thalas.

Sharlayan Deep Shadow's name rarely appears in official documents, but he is mentioned from time to time in some unreported intelligence, which attracted Calia's initial attention more than 2 years ago.

As the main peace faction, Princess Calia secretly gained a lot of support in this internal political struggle, and because of this, she connected with the Barov family, and accidentally heard it again in this behind-the-scenes peace negotiation. Sharlayan's name.

"Are you going to personally go to Lordaeron in the near future to have an interview with your pen pal, Princess White Rose...?"

"Oh~"

Princess Calia shook her head with a broken smile, took a sip of her black tea, and said to herself nonchalantly: "As a high elf, it's not easy to slip into Lordaeron's royal city silently."

"Oh? Does Her Royal Highness think so?"

A pleasant deep laughter suddenly sounded beside Jia Liya: "Actually, I don't think it's too difficult."