While everyone else in the family was busy with the work they needed to be responsible for, only Jaina had been in retreat, trying hard to break through the last threshold that blocked her from becoming an archmage.
In the large family centered on Sarlayan, according to high elf standards, except for the two ancient dragons Yinnas and Onyxia who are "relatively" older, even Sarlayan's father Zhu Leanne is also still in the prime of his life.
Not to mention the younger generation of Sarlayan and Valeela, they have not even passed their first hundred years as high elves and are properly young people.
As dragons, the two sisters Stella Gosa and Tina Gosa are only in their early 100s and are still in a young age where they can make rapid progress.
Even among this young and energetic family, Gianna is undoubtedly the youngest.
To this day, Jaina still has vivid memories of being held up high by Sharlayan and Valeela as a child. From that time on, little Jaina has become the undisputed favorite of the family.
As the years go by, these precious memories will remain deep in Gianna's heart forever.
However, as time went by and she grew up, the anxiety in Jaina's heart also increased day by day.
As we all know, high elves are a very long-lived race. As long as they do not suffer accidental death, their natural life span can usually reach about 3,000 years.
As a high elf, Sarlayan also possesses extremely pure dragon blood. His lifespan is as endless as that of the dragons.
In comparison, Jaina, as a human, only has a lifespan of a mere hundred years. Even if the arcanist's life extension methods are included, the lifespan will not exceed 200 years at most.
The most typical example is one of Jaina's mentors, former Kirin Tor Chancellor Antonidas.
Antonidas, who put down his responsibilities and retired, is already over 170 years old, which is definitely considered a long life among the short-lived race of humans.
However, Jaina will not be satisfied with a mere 200 years of life. She wants to stay with her family members such as Sharlayan, Valeera, and Stellagosa for a longer period of time.
According to the prediction of the Red Dragon Queen Alexstrasza, theoretically, when Sharlayan breaks through and becomes a demigod, he will be able to give the essence of his life force to others and extend their lifespan.
But doing so will undoubtedly greatly deplete Sarlayan's own vitality.
Valeela, Jaina and others had already discussed it secretly and reached a tacit agreement.
Unless their life span is about to reach the natural limit, this last resort must not be used.
A philosophical statement that Sharlayan said before was very consistent with the state of mind of Jaina and others.
Heaven is in good health, and a gentleman strives to constantly strive for self-improvement.
Instead of placing the hope of extending your life on your partner who is already busy with everything, it is better to find a way to break through the limits of mortals and truly live as long as heaven and earth.
To this day, Sarlayan, who has made the most progress, and Stella Gossa, who has taken the first step, are both stuck at the peak of mortals. As long as they have an epiphany, they can officially enter the realm of demigods.
No one knows how long it will take to wait for this opportunity of enlightenment. No dragon has ever chosen this step-by-step method to break through before.
As an extraordinary race blessed by the Titans, once the dragons reach adulthood, their strength will automatically be elevated to the realm of demigods.
This method of overthrowing the seedlings will have a certain impact on the further growth of the Dragon Clan in the future, and will limit the upper limit of the Dragon Clan to a certain extent.
At least so far, no dragon clan, including the five guardian dragons, has been able to break through the limitations of demigods and reach the realm of true gods.
When Alexstrasza learned that Stellagosa planned to take this simpler but more promising route to break through, she, who already knew the limits of her own growth, encouraged Little Star with great expectations.
The four guardian dragons all look forward to her becoming the first pure-blood dragon to advance to the level of true god by exploring her own potential.
After Sharlayan and Stellagosa, Valeela is not far behind. With diligent practice, she should be able to reach the pinnacle of mortals in the last 1-2 years.
Compared with her brothers and sisters at home, Gianna felt that her progress was not fast enough, and she wanted to catch up with others as soon as possible.
...Although from an objective point of view, Jaina's growth rate has left 99.9% of the people in Azeroth behind, she is still not satisfied with this.
Breaking through and becoming an archmage is the first staged goal Jaina has set for herself.
Only by advancing to Legend and becoming an Archmage can Jaina truly take over the political "legacy" left by her mentor Antonidas and provide greater help to Sarlayan.
In order to help Jaina take this step, Stellagosa made a special trip back to the Nexus not long ago.
After obtaining the consent of the blue dragon king Malygos, Stellagosa took out a long-sealed artifact from the blue dragon treasury in the Demonic Nexus—the Staff of Aluneth.
The Staff of Aluneth is an artifact staff made by the former guardian of Tirisfal, Aegwynn, which contains an arcane entity named Aluneth.
Aluneth has self-awareness and is used to being free. It is very dissatisfied with being restricted to the staff.
Since the creation of this artifact staff, Aegwynn has spent hundreds of years trying to tame Aluneth for her own use, but she has never been able to do so.
After the battle between two generations of guardians more than ten years ago, the defeated Aegwynn was exiled from Karazhan. Not long after, she heard the sad news of Medivh's death.
The frustrated Aegwynn entrusted the blue dragon clan to seal the Staff of Elunes, and went to the continent of Kalimdor to live in seclusion alone. From then on, she never wanted to care about the world again. She only wanted to resurrect Medivh whose soul entered the star realm. .
In order to save her only son, Aegwynn used up the last bit of her guardian power to maintain her youth.
Although Aegwynn still looks young and beautiful on the outside, those who know the inside story know that this is just an illusion she unleashed on herself.
Aegwynn's body and mind have grown old, and she no longer has the unruly spirit that dominated the world when she was young.
Aegwynn originally planned to spend the last few years of her life peacefully in Dustwallow Marsh if it weren't for Sharlayan's persuasion to continue working for Azeroth.
Aegwynn can no longer go to the battlefield like this, and she has no intention of taking out the staff of Aluneth that was given to the blue dragon for safekeeping.
Sharlayan specifically sought Aegwynn's opinion when she went to Dalaran before, and she readily agreed to pass on the staff of Aluneth to her named apprentice Jaina.
A netizen from the different world, Shatuo, once said a very reasonable saying, which is that people of the same sex repel each other.
Neither Aegwynn, who has a strong personality, nor Aluneth, who also has a stubborn temper, can conquer the other, which is why they have never been able to achieve a perfect harmony in the true sense for hundreds of years.
Compared with Aegwynn, Jaina has a relatively gentle personality. Sharlayan believes that she may have a chance to reach a cooperation agreement with Aluneth, and let Aluneth take the initiative to provide herself with all the help she can.
Before being captured by Aegwynn, Aluneth used to travel freely between the stars. Later, he followed Aegwynn to master a large amount of knowledge and accumulated rich experience in all aspects.
All joking aside, if she can gain Alunes' recognition and help, Jaina will be equivalent to having a knowledgeable personal advisor who can help her answer many questions that are difficult for her to solve on her own.
When Stellagosa rushed back from the Demon Nexus and handed Alunes to Jaina, this arcane entity that yearned for freedom did not get along well with Jaina at first. It thought that this was another person who wanted to conquer by force. One's own so-called "master".
But Jaina did not take the tough measures like Aegwynn, but softened Alunes little by little with a gentle and gentle attitude.
After some running-in and bargaining, Jaina and Alunes came to an agreement.
As long as Aluneth serves her wholeheartedly for 100 years, she will let Aluneth regain his freedom.
At this point, Jaina will have Aluneth's unreserved help for at least the next 100 years.
As Aegwynn's former partner in love and death, Aluneth's understanding of the ways of the arcanist was far greater than that of young Jaina.
Under Aluneth's explanation and guidance, Jaina, who had been in low-key retreat recently, finally seized the opportunity to break through before Sharlayan and his party left for Kalimdor.
When Sharlayan and Stellagosa temporarily put down their work and hurried back to the gate of Deep Shadow Mansion in Silvermoon City, Sun King Kael'thas and President of the Royal Arcane Society Rommath had already rushed there first. Come over.
In addition to these two elders, there were also many high elf archmages known to Sarlayan standing outside the Deep Shadow Mansion, which was under martial law by the Spellbreaker.
Obviously, these archmages also felt the mana tide caused by Jaina's breakthrough.
After noticing the arrival of Sharlayan and Stellagosa, Kael'thas smiled and nodded to them.
"I didn't expect that." Kael'thas said with some emotion: "I originally predicted that it would take 2-3 years for Jaina to advance to Legend. This child once again refreshed my inherent knowledge."
According to the barrage, Kael'thas in the original history was very obsessed with Jaina as an adult, and was often jealous of Arthas in Dalaran.
In this timeline, Kael'thas became Jaina's mentor when she was still young. Kael'thas, who was entangled in national affairs, did not think about that at all.
When he was teaching Jaina in his early years, Kael'thas saw that his apprentice had expectations for her "Shalayan brother" that went beyond the relationship between brother and sister.
In order to further close the relationship with Sharlayan, Kael'thas was also happy to see this happen, and even encouraged it behind the scenes.
It is said that when Sharlayan and Jaina finally became consummated, Kael'thas invited Vilrath to have a drink with them in the Sunstrider Court to celebrate.
"it's time."
Seeing that the chaotic arcane tide around the Deep Shadow Mansion gradually became condensed and controllable, Kael'thas crossed his arms over his chest and waited expectantly for the moment when the final result would be revealed.
"Boom~"
As Jaina withdrew the arcane power that had unconsciously leaked out, a thunder-like roar briefly exploded over Silvermoon City.
No matter what the residents of Silver Moon City were doing at this moment, everyone subconsciously turned their heads to look in the direction of the roar.
"At this juncture, has a new Archmage finally been born in the Kingdom?"
"Great!"
"Long live Quel'Thalas!"
