After wandering around the streets of Dalaran for a while, Galen prepared to heed his father's words and visit the Antonidas of Dalaran, the most respected person in the city of mages, Antonidas.
He happened to see a patrol team ahead. Hennie stepped forward to state his identity, that the prince of his Stromgarde had something to ask of the Kirin Tor Council members, and inquired about the location of the council members.
After some conversation, Hennie returned to tell Galen that Dalaran had four of the highest mage towers, the highest of which was the residence of Archmage Antonidas. The next one, with the golden high elf-style runes, belonged to the high elf prince Kael'thas, and the purple one with red belonged to Master Krasus. As for the last one, Galen knew it without introduction, Violet Citadel, the place where the Kirin Tor held meetings. In his previous life in the Broken Isles, he frequented it.
After thinking about it, he decided to visit the Antonidas first, complete the task his father had given him, and then take care of personal matters.
In the reception hall on the first floor of the Kirin Tor Antonidas's tower, Galen met the archmage who had been famous for decades.
He was a spirited old man with white hair and a long white beard like Gandalf. Except for the mage robe he wore, his style was very similar to Gandalf.
Galen suddenly remembered that the Archmage prototype in Warcraft 3 was Antonidas of Dalaran, the old man in front of him.
At this time, Antonidas was already in his fifties. He reached level eight at the age of thirty, and now he was at the peak of the ninth level, and he had reached the hero rank in his lifetime. This was the magical genius that Galen called one in a million.
At the same time, he was also a knowledgeable person. The promotion of a mage was not as simple as that of a warrior. It required a large amount of arcane knowledge as accumulation, and Antonidas began his rise when he published his first paper at the age of twelve and won the Kirin Tor's Supreme Wisdom Sash.
However, his strength at this moment was not much different from Gandalf's. As expected, Gandalf would break through earlier than him, after all, not everyone had the experience system given by the Origin Heart, leveling up by killing monsters. Antonidas's promotion required breaking through his own mental bottleneck.
Most of the few legendary ranks in the human race at this stage were from the military, such as Galen's father, Thoras. He was besieged by masters from the Woodpaw and Bloodscalp tribes when he sent troops to attack the trolls, and he was lucky enough to break through the ranks and retreat completely under the siege of the troll's high-level combat power.
There was also Marshal Lothar of Stormwind, who was both capable of fighting and commanding.
The current king of Gilneas, the future Old Wolf King, had been at the ninth level for a long time. One was that his talent was limited and he had not been able to break through, and the other was that Gilneas did not need him to take the lead. Not every king was as stubborn as Thoras.
The future Old Wolf King was also able to successfully break through to the hero rank by relying on the Worgen curse.
Talent, luck, both were indispensable.
And the future orc invasion, a battle like a meat grinder, created a large number of elite breakthroughs in human society. It was also this war that stimulated the war potential of the human kingdom, which had been peaceful for a long time, and stood out on the world stage.
Galen once saw a statement that because humans fought the orcs, they accumulated a lot of elite troops who could fight, so humans were qualified to participate in the future Battle of Mount Hyjal and the Broken Isles Anti-Demon War. Otherwise, if they fought the Burning Legion as soon as they started, their country would be destroyed.
Holy Light! I can't beat that opponent!
The paladins haven' even come out yet, Galen can imagi t ne the combat power of the human kingdom at this stage. After all, except for fighting trolls, they are bullying children at other times, such as kobolds, gnolls, murlocs, and so on.
The meeting with Antonidas had no effect other than getting acquainted. It was okay to let Gandalf join Dalaran, but it would be a bit difficult to become a Kirin Tor council member, after all, he was an outsider, not a Dalaran mage with a good background.
Moreover, an outsider wild mage, although very strong, claimed to be inherited from Meryl Winterstorm, but his reputation was not very good. He was transformed into an undead in the later period of the troll war, and had to go into secluson later.
According to Galen's senses, Antonidas was old, and his temper was bad and stubborn. This stubborn old man was a human supremacist, and also a strong man, a powerful spellcaster, who did not like secular kingship, and Galen was young and not valued.
As an elder, Galen would respect him, but further communication was out of the question. Some people, after meeting for the first time, knew that they were not on the same path.
But it didn't matter, there were not many things in Dalaran that he could fancy, only a few high-level combat powers. But what if their strength was high? Once they were involved in politics, they would not be so pure, and they would no longer be a good thug. He would have as many ordinary mages as he wanted in the future, and he could create more Arcane Sanctums to explode wizards.
Since Dalaran was not the meat in his mouth, then he would watch it sink, waiting for it to be rebuilt once, twice, and three times. Anyway, Dalaran's millennial talent reserves would be almost exhausted in the end, leaving only two or three big and small cats.
It was time to consider plan B.
After leaving Antonidas's tower, Galen turned his attention to the mage tower with golden runes.
The high elf prince, a character whose life's coffee table was full of cups of tragedy, he could try to communicate with him, and if they could talk together, he would give him a hand.
He came to Kael'thas's mage tower, the tower called Sunspire.
The high elf guards under the tower greeted him and stopped Galen's way. Galen stated his identity and requested to see their prince.
One of the guards went to report, leaving them waiting under the tower.
Galen didn't say anything on the surface about the high elves' indifference and arrogance, but secretly remembered it in his heart.
He knew that this was not aimed at him alone, but that the high elves were generally like this when facing foreigners, a typical mentality that everyone present was trash. They were arrogant to the bone, and they were just about to look at people with their nostrils.
At this time, their capital, Silvermoon City, did not welcome foreigners at all, thinking that their kingdom was extremely strong, until their homeland was plowed by the Scourge, they realized that they were nothing.
Even if Galen wanted to help them, he would do it after they were educated, and then give them charcoal in the snow.
It would not work if he sent it too early, and he would accidentally put a hot face on a cold butt, which was worrying to think about.
Kael'thas was fairly open-minded, because he had stayed in Dalaran for a long time, had contact with human society, and also understood human society. There were heroic figures like Antonidas and Thoras among humans, who could reach the legendary rank that elves could break through in thousands of years in just a few decades. He understood: humans had unlimited potential.
Unfortunately, he was just a prince who was squeezed out of the power center of Silvermoon City, and he was powerless to change the status quo.
The high elf kingdom, although it was a monarchy, they had a council. Galen's limited political knowledge could not be described in professional terms. He only knew that their king was also a member of the Silvermoon Council. The royal party and the council faction competed for power, and the king could not be the only one to dominate.
Kael'thas came to Dalaran not voluntarily, but as a disguised exile, or perhaps protection. This was the product of his father's compromise with other council members in politics.
So Kael'thas was also a prince full of tragic colors. Although his strength reached the legendary rank, the high elves had a lifespan of thousands of years, and they had accumulated a large number of old things. Their foundation was sufficient, and they were not afraid of a legendary rank.
Unlike in the human countries, before you disobey a king with a ceiling combat power, you have to weigh whether you can withstand his anger.
Perhaps Galen's status was still valuable, and the face of the Stromgarde kingdom was sufficient. Kael'thas received Galen and Gandalf in the reception hall of the tower.
Poor Hennie, Antonidas didn't let him in, and the high elves didn't let him in either, as always, he was stopped outside the door as an attendant.
Therefore, in the world of Azeroth, if you want to be looked up to, you must have strong strength yourself, or strong strength behind you.