"What kind of French tabloid is this!"
Torina also complained: "Michaela, maybe you should put more pressure on "The Sun" to report positive news."
Michaela also thinks Torina is right, but what she has to do now is:
"Humphrey." Michaela looked at the other party with sincere eyes.
Humphrey asked calmly: "What's the matter, Minister?"
Michaela: "I have been troubled by a question recently, and someone said that you are the person who knows the answer best."
Humphrey spread his palms and said, "Speak, Minister."
Michaela said: "Humphrey, in yesterday's high-level meeting, I suggested that the Regent consider letting us blood elves rejoin the Human Alliance. However, whether it is the Regent, the Ranger General, or even the Archmage Rommath and the Blood Elves, Knight Lord Liadrin, they all unanimously stated that they cannot trust humans."
Bernard on the side intervened: "Minister, as we all know, the human marshal Garithos imprisoned our prince Kael'thas."
"Thanks for the reminder, Bernard."
Michaela nodded to Bernard, looked at Humphrey again and asked: "But things shouldn't be that simple, right? Is it just because the human marshal imprisoned our prince that our two races are completely at odds?" Is that so? As far as I know, politics is based on interests."
"Well, minister, it turns out you want to ask us about the relationship between elves and humans."
Humphrey pouted and seemed to be sorting out his words: "This issue is indeed more complicated. If you just look at it in front of you, it is indeed the rude behavior of that idiot Garithos to our Prince, which caused the relationship between the two clans to break down."
Just look at what’s in front of you, that is to say:
"What about before?" Michaela asked: "Did we have any quarrel with humans before?"
Humphrey looked at Michaela and asked: "Minister, do you want to understand it from the beginning? It's a long story!"
Michaela nodded and said: "It's okay, Humphrey, I'm willing to listen."
"All right."
Humphrey raised his left hand to greet Bernard, who immediately took out a map of the Eastern Continent and spread it on his desk.
Mikaela took a look and saw that the extinct Kingdom of Lordaeron and the Kingdom of Alterac were also marked on this map.
"This is an old map, Minister."
Humphrey started the online explanation. The first step was to point to the Yonge Forest in the northeast corner of the map:
"We, the elves, left Kalimdor and came to Eversong Forest to establish a kingdom. We established Quel'Thalas. Then we started a war with the barbaric and low-level Amani trolls, and during this period we got acquainted with humans."
"Well, I know this part."
Michaela then continued: "It is recorded in the history of our elves that we united with humans and finally defeated the trolls."
"The price is teaching magic to humans."
Humphrey made the point: "At the beginning, we thought that stupid humans could only master the surface of magic. Who would have thought that this group of evolved monkeys have the same potential for magic as us, and they quickly mastered it. Most magic!"
"Is this a problem?"
Michaela knew that humans on Azeroth were different from humans on Earth. They were descendants of Titan creations, so they were born with extremely high potential for arcane energy, that is, magic.
"Of course there is a problem, and it's a big problem!"
Humphrey suddenly slapped the table with his right hand, appearing a little excited: "Magic is the foundation of our elves' nation. Human beings can master magic in a short period of time, which directly shakes the foundation of our nation!"
Torina translated: "The core secret is in the hands of others!"
Humphrey's next words were even more shocking: "At that time, our plan was for humans and trolls to kill each other and both sides would lose. However, humans seemed to have seen our plan and gave us a backhand blow."
As he spoke, Humphrey pointed to Zul'Aman, the capital of the Amani Trolls, on the map, and then said: "The humans at that time had already reached the door of Zul'Aman, but they did not continue to advance, but claimed to have won. , and then withdrew the troops.”
Damn it!
Michaela understands, and so does Torina.
If the elves want to use their swords to kill people, then humans will backhand and bury nails for you. The surviving Zul'Aman has been a thorn in the side of the elves for thousands of years, and they have to accept the situation of coexistence between the two sides to this day.
Humphrey's words continued: "Because of this incident, our elven leaders have understood one thing. Humans are not as stupid as they seem. On the contrary, they are extremely cunning. They are not worthy of trust!"
"Furthermore, although humans are short-lived, they have extremely strong fertility and rapid development. In just one generation of our elves (hundreds of years), humans have rapidly expanded and developed the Seven Kingdoms!"
"The source of human civilization, the Kingdom of Arathor, Stromgarde, located in the Arathi Highlands."
"The Kingdom of Alterac centered on the Alterac Snow Mountains!"
"It used to be a magic academy where blood elves taught humans. Later, it became a bigger and stronger magical country of Dalaran."
"The Kingdom of Gilneas is located in the south of Silverpine Forest and surrounded by sea on three sides."
"The Kingdom of Kul Tiras occupies the western islands and dominates the sea."
"Go south to the Kingdom of Stormwind in Elwynn Forest."
"And the most powerful human country in the south of Quel'Thalas, the Kingdom of Lordaeron, which occupies Tirisfal Glades and the Eastern and Western Plaguelands!"
Bernard interrupted: "Well, Sir Humphrey, the Eastern and Western Plaguelands were named after the Scourge War. Those two places were not called this name at that time."
"Of course I know."
"I'm just using the current name for convenience," Humphrey said.
In fact, to this extent, combined with the old map spread out in front of Mikaela, even a layman can understand the geopolitical relationship!
Since the development speed of mankind far exceeded the expectations of the elves, when the elves became increasingly powerful and wanted to expand externally, a powerful alliance composed of the seven human kingdoms stood at the door of Quel'Thalas.
And the first one to bear the brunt is the Kingdom of Lordaeron, the most powerful in the Human Alliance, which has directly blocked the elves' way of external expansion.
It's hard to say that this isn't intentional on the part of humans.
Michaela glanced at the map, then looked at Humphrey, and asked: "Since we don't believe in humans, why did we join the Human Alliance later?"
Humphrey said "Yeah", and then leaned back tactically, with a proud smile on his face: "Minister, our closeness to humans is actually to oppose humans. All officials are gathered under this concept to ensure that A united and strong human alliance cannot be formed, so we fight in."
Faced with such a shocking answer, Michaela and Torina exclaimed at the same time: "Huh?"
Humphrey remained extremely calm and spoke eloquently: "Minister, our blood elves' diplomatic policy towards humans has never changed for thousands of years. It is to create a divided human race. Therefore, we unite with Dalaran to check and balance the Kingdom of Arathor, and unite with Dalaran to balance the Kingdom of Arathor. The Kingdom of Alterac balances the Kingdom of Lordaeron, and the Kingdom of Kul Tiras unites with the Kingdom of Gilneas to balance the Kingdom of Gilneas, divide and conquer, and it has always been very effective?"
I#￥%&!
Mikaela almost cursed, "During the Second Orc War and its aftermath, were the blood elves provoking trouble behind a series of conflicts within humanity?"
Humphrey was not ashamed but proud, and said with a nostalgic look on his face: "During the Second Orc War, we incited the Kingdom of Alterac to surrender to the Orcs, directly abolishing a country, and after the war, other humans When the kingdom divided Alterac, it used the uneven distribution of spoils to provoke conflicts, and as a result, Gilneas directly withdrew from the alliance. And we also took the initiative to withdraw from the alliance when the internal conflicts in the alliance were at their most intense, completely disrupting them."
"oh!"
When the words got emotional, Humphrey even clapped his hands happily: "At that time, we directly turned the Human Alliance into a mess from the inside. It was simply the most glorious era."
Torina's tip: Humphrey was an old bureaucrat from the old days of Silvermoon City, and he must have been involved in the above-mentioned incident.
Think about it, what does it feel like when the culprit is in front of you, talking about his criminal experience in a glowing way?
Michaela met him, and he looked at Humphrey with more complicated eyes.
"Don't be so surprised, Minister."
Humphrey, still in a state of excitement, shrugged it off: "This is politics."
Michaela's brows twitched a few times, intending to give the smug Humphrey a blow, and started the topic: "So, Humphrey, when the Scourge plague spread in Lordaeron, the blood elves did not take action!"
"of course."
Humphrey continued: "The powerful Kingdom of Lordaeron has always been a barrier to our external expansion. When the undead natural disaster ravaged Lordaeron, we held a celebration banquet in the palace!"
Torina's translation: The old Silvermoon City bureaucrats, represented by Humphrey, wish that the Kingdom of Lordaeron would be over soon...
Seeing that the other party took the bait, Michaela immediately said: "But, Humphrey, just because we did not help Lordaeron fight the natural disasters, the undead killed us after wiping out Lordaeron."
As soon as these words came out, Humphrey was immediately speechless.
As Michaela said, when the undead natural disaster first appeared, if Silvermoon City was willing to help Lordaeron, not to mention completely wiping out the undead, at least the power of the undead would not be as unstoppable as it was later.
Torina also said: "Michaela, I feel that the blood elves in the old Silvermoon City era are like the Earth's Belt Empire, a super shit-stirring stick. And in the end, I got myself splashed with shit!"
Haha, what an apt description!
As for Humphrey, after a few "Uh-huh, uh-huh," he finally admitted: "Well, I really didn't expect at the time that the undead would attack Quel'Thalas immediately after wiping out Lordaeron."
In order to save face, Humphrey added: "But with the current situation, we blood elves must not join the Human Alliance, otherwise we will be finished."
Torina said: Why?
Humphrey's next reply was:
"Minister, joining the Human Alliance is not just as simple as siding with someone. The act itself means that we blood elves must be consistent with humans in politics, economy, diplomatic relations, military and a series of other directions."
"Think about it, the lands where the undead are now rampant, such as the Eastern and Western Plaguelands, Tirisfal Glades, and Silverpine Forest, were once the territories of the human kingdom. If we join the Human Alliance, then the remaining human kingdoms will Won’t they ask us to send troops to help them regain their homeland?”
An old bureaucrat is an old bureaucrat, and he gets the point across in one sentence.
Even Michaela had to admit that Humphrey's point of view was very correct. Today's blood elves need foreign aid, but if they join the Human Alliance, humans will definitely ask the blood elves to send troops to regain the human homeland.
Haha, with the current blood elves, it is simply impossible! Therefore, blood elves must not join the Human Alliance!
At the same time, on the Salas Trail, several thin figures slowly appeared!
