"I'm sorry, my child. This is the strongest force I can gather for you."
Kael'thas's face was filled with excitement. "For the sake of the Sunwell... didn't I keep sending letters to my father about the threat of the Horde a year ago?"
"All motions to prepare for war have been rejected by the parliament, on the grounds that Quel'Thalas is not at risk of being affected by the war and there is no reason to increase the defense budget. In fact, until three days ago, the parliamentarians still firmly believed that the rune stone array was invincible. Now the whole of Quel'Thalas is in chaos, and the country is seriously lacking in pre-war mobilization... We are very passive." The Sun King sighed deeply, his face filled with unremovable sorrow and resentment.
The Council! The Council! The Silver Moon Council again!
Those cancers that imprison the entire high elf race and reject all progress and change!
The resentment in Kael'thas's heart almost burst.
No matter how well-educated he was, he still had the urge to scream and vent. Why did he, a prince, want to study abroad in Dalaran for a long time? To put it nicely, it was to let His Royal Highness go out and absorb new knowledge. To put it bluntly, the Silver Moon Council, whose power was above the royal power, exiled him in order to limit the royal power.
Who knows the pain of having a home but not being able to return home?
Kael'thas's excellent self-control allowed him to suppress the anger in his heart.
Of course, Kael'thas has also gained a lot of knowledge in Dalaran over the years. Perhaps the high elves have an unparalleled talent in using magic, but the development of magic is no longer the magic world that has not changed for thousands of years in the minds of the elves.
It's bad enough that the elves' top leaders refuse to accept new things, but they are so arrogant and stupid that they don't even care about killing the enemies right in front of them. Do they want the enemies to put a knife to their necks before they exclaim "Ah! So there really are enemies?"?
Although he was angry, Kael'thas was still very sober. Having witnessed the power of the Horde, he knew very well that it was impossible for this rotten army to defeat the Horde.
But for the sake of his people, Kael'thas resolutely accepted the appointment.
No reason, just because his last name is Sunstrider! He is the only heir to the royal family of Quel'Thalas.
The perfectionist training he received from birth till now has imprinted honor and responsibility into the deepest part of his noble soul.
It is his duty to save his hometown.
Kael'thas bowed his head deeply to his father and said, "Father, for the Sunwell and for the continuation of the high elves, I am willing to sacrifice my life for Quel'Thalas."
These words were very serious, so serious that even the Sun King was shocked and felt that something was wrong as soon as he heard it.
He knew very well that his son would never say such harsh words without any special reason.
The Sun King wanted his only heir to die on the battlefield? Don't be ridiculous. Anasterian finally found an opportunity to challenge the Council. He called Kael'thas back so that Kael'thas could have a great achievement like a king's return. So that Kael'thas could inherit his throne better in the future and one day limit the excessive power of the Silvermoon Council.
"Child, is this... the Horde really that powerful?" Anasterian's energy is not as good as before. Too much of his energy has been consumed by the internal strife, causing the Sun King who ended the Troll War to become today's "tyrant" who is good at internal strife but not good at external wars.
The entire Quel'Thalas high-ranking officials would not take ordinary warriors seriously. No matter how many orc warriors there were, they would only treat them as ants.
After pondering for a while, Kael'thas finally spoke: "Apart from anything else, there is a warlock named Gul'dan among the orcs of the Horde. He fought Antonidas of Dalaran head-on and the result was a draw."
"Hiss——" The Sun King was finally moved.
Most of them, whether he or the Silvermoon Council, looked down on human mages. But there was one exception - Antonidas, the most powerful and talented archmage in Dalaran in the past hundred years.
Thirty years ago, in a semi-public competition, Anasterian and Antonidas fought to a draw. This battle also established Antonidas's transcendent status in Dalaran.
The Sun King can look down on any spellcaster, but he cannot look down on Antonidas.
The strong have no race or nationality.
It is no exaggeration to value an orc warrior as famous as Antonidas.
The Sun King stroked his chin and said, "My child, let me give you an arcane puppet brigade from the Silvermoon City garrison, plus ten mountain giants and two spellbreaker squadrons. Go and win a great victory and come back."
A look of joy finally appeared on Kael'thas' face.
At this moment, neither the father nor the son realized that they were still being cheated.
First of all, there was Gul'dan. Except for Duke, no one in the entire Alliance or even the entire world of Azeroth knew the true strength of Gul'dan. In terms of high-end military power, the elves made their first misjudgment.
The second is to understand the strength of the orc warriors.
Except for the Windrunner sisters, no high-ranking elves had ever been to the battlefield in person, and their understanding of the orcs was only on paper. They only saw the exchange ratio after the war between humans and orcs, and felt that the casualties of humans and orcs were similar, so they equated the combat power of orc warriors with that of human warriors. No one cared, this was the exchange ratio that Duke had achieved by exerting the power of his strategy to the limit.
Finally, there are the changes brought about by the rune stone.
In the elves' impression, the rune stone defense circle was broken. No one could understand how much the storm altar built of rune stones would improve the Horde.
Now all the ogres in the Horde have become two-headed. The physical fitness of ogres is at least high-level on this planet. After the biggest problem of mental retardation was eliminated, the combat power has at least doubled. Moreover, a large number of ogre mages have emerged among the thousands of ogres.
Can a single-core CPU be compared to a dual-core one?
In this way, the great Prince Kael'thas, heroically led his army to fight against the invaders, embarking on the first expedition of his life.
The army of 27,000 people stretched from the capital of Silver Moon City to the city gate. In the mighty team, every soldier's armor had exquisite carvings and patterns. Bright red background, gorgeous gold wire edges, and winged headbands that only had weak protective capabilities besides decoration...
Since the battle was being fought at home, the Chocobos pulling the carts did not carry too much baggage. Instead, they brought a large number of magic stones and various morale-boosting musical instruments.
Duke and others who were far outside the border were completely dumbfounded after seeing this scene in the magic mirror sent by a wizard who was close to Windrunner.
Even an upright young man like Reginald Windsor couldn't help but complain: "What the hell, are we going to war or an armed parade?"