When Duke heard this, he was stunned.
Jail? Jail? Why is Alleria in jail?
There is no record in history that Alleria has ever been imprisoned.
What on earth is going on!?
Duke's face was as gloomy as water: "Vanessa, Gavinrad, please leave for a moment."
"Sir, we..." Gavinrad still wanted to persuade Duke. After all, in his opinion, the high elves were not necessarily particularly reliable.
"I insist!" Duke said firmly.
Vanessa had never seen Duke react so intensely. She suddenly realized that this high elf named Alleria had an extraordinary position in Duke's heart.
Vanessa and Gavinrad left, but not too far. They were less than twenty meters in front of the house, staring at the window quietly.
Sylvanas flipped lightly into Duke's room. Seeing the mages in the room rustling their hands and writing down documents, Sylvanas couldn't hide her surprise.
But she quickly turned her attention back to the main person, and she saw a pair of eyes full of self-blame and regret. Those were not the eyes of a 15-year-old, carefree boy, but more like the eyes of someone who had experienced vicissitudes and pain.
Sylvanas suddenly felt that she had come to the right place.
"Go ahead and talk. I'm listening." It was not an order, but more like a plea. Duke sat behind the table, crossed his fingers and clenched his fists, with the backs of his fingers pressed tightly against his lips.
"That's because of a book called "Introduction Notes for High Elf Mage Apprentices."
Duke's heart skipped a beat and his face turned black in an instant. His ten fingers were clasped together so tightly that even his knuckles turned white. He had bitten his lip with his teeth and scarlet blood flowed into his mouth, tasting salty.
Duke couldn't help but recall that after he traveled to this world, everything started with his acquaintance with Alleria. If Alleria helped him drive away the wild boar, it was just something he could do by dragging the corpse away. Then this notebook with the secret manual of the Arcane Circuit passed down by the Sun King to Kael'thas was the key to Duke's true rise.
It is no exaggeration to say that without this notebook, Duke might still be an excellent mage. But he was only excellent, far from the current extraordinary level, easily beating the same level or even higher level mages.
Duke secretly compared himself with other mages, even those legendary masters, such as Krasus and Kel'Thuzad, and found that his Arcane Fire Magic Circuit was no less impressive.
What did he rely on? Wasn't it just this seemingly unintentional gift from Alleria?
It was hard for Duke to say what kind of attitude and feelings he had towards Alleria. But Duke knew one thing that could not be erased - Alleria was definitely his benefactor.
Now Alleria is in jail because of him... Duke is almost mad.
Sylvanas seemed not to notice Duke's reaction and continued to speak to herself. The Queen of the future, who was proud and helpful to the world, now told a slightly sad story in the tone of a girl next door:
"Originally, it was purely an accident that this notebook fell into the hands of my eldest sister. But my eldest sister didn't know that my third sister, Wen Leisha, had signed an agreement that prohibited the circulation of this notebook to anyone outside the Windrunner family. Those who violated the agreement would be severely punished."
"Vereesa forgot to tell my elder sister about this, and only asked her to return the codex to Prince Kael'thas when she passed by Dalaran. In fact, the prince would not use this codex. However, due to the confidentiality of magic, the prince, who had not received the codex for a long time, reported the matter to the country. Later, this matter alarmed His Majesty Anasterian, the Sun King."
"Originally, it wouldn't be a problem if a mere apprentice's notebook was lost. Even if there was a problem, the power of the Windrunner family could easily solve it. The bad thing is that this notebook actually contains the secret of the Sun Chaser family's arcane circuit."
"If this secret had not been cracked and used, my elder sister would still be fine. The problem is that a human boy got this notebook and discovered this secret. He even used the arcane circuit training tutorial in this notebook to complete the basic construction of the arcane fire magic circuit in one step."
"If this boy was an ordinary person, all would have been fine if the Quel'Thalas royal family had sent out a force of lawbreakers to destroy his magic circuits and stop the leakage of magic. Unfortunately, by the time this was discovered, the boy had already become an important official in the human kingdom."
"After all, this was the fault of the high elves themselves. Moreover, the Sun King's secret method of constructing magic circuits caused strong dissatisfaction from the Silver Moon Council. So in the end, the eldest sister was only sentenced to three months of imprisonment in the dark prison."
"You may think that three months is not a long time, but for a freedom-loving and casual Windrunner, this is more painful than the death penalty. My eldest sister would never let any of us sisters tell you. But I couldn't help it, because not long after my eldest sister came out, she was asking about you again. When she heard about your deeds and that you became the deputy commander of the alliance, my eldest sister, who originally planned to come alone, used all her connections and mobilized the elite of the entire Windrunner family to come to help."
"I don't know why Big Sister did this. But I only know that you owe Big Sister a lot of favors. I once suspected that you were Big Sister's lover in the human world, so I tried to test you when I got off the ship."
At this point, Sylvanas shrugged a little dejectedly: "Well, I still don't understand what your relationship is, but if you hurt my eldest sister again, it will be our turn to not let you go this time."
Duke sighed and spoke. To Sylvanas's surprise, Duke did not promise any compensation or swear any oath. He just said without thinking: "Time will prove that it is my luck to know Alleria. It is Windrunner's luck that Alleria knows me."
Sylvanas tilted her head curiously, and then her figure flashed and disappeared into the gradually darkening sky.
The room fell into silence again.
After a long while, Duke suddenly said, "Sister Alleria, shall we go out for a walk?"
In the woods thirty meters behind the wooden house, there was also deathly silence. It was only after ten full seconds that a faint response was heard.
As night fell, Duke and Alleria walked side by side in a forest far away from the refugee camp and military camp.