Duke is like a dead dog, a dead dog in spirit.
Thanks to the Red Dragon Queen's buff, Duke managed to survive.
He pressed Tyrande like this. Obviously, normal people would not like this feeling, but Tyrande seemed to like using Du as a human blanket.
Regarding the statement that he was 20 years late, Duke actually wanted to say that he was only 0.2% late, but considering that other people were living day by day, Duke decisively shut up.
"Time travel is so confusing." Tyrande sighed.
"Blame Nozdormu if you want to. I will go after him when I have time."
"Forget it. I'm already happy that you can come back. At least I can tell myself that the painful and long wait has finally come to an end."
"Huh..." Duke exhaled, "Get up, we have more things to do than the mountain."
"Chi!" Just as Tyrande stood up, her body suddenly stiffened and her blue eyebrows frowned.
"What's wrong? Does it hurt? I told you not to be so crazy." Duke took the opportunity to lecture you.
"No, I'm fine, you just pressed my hair..."
"…"
Duke suddenly wanted to cry. Damn, it's too expensive to get hurt by a female driver speeding!
Half an hour later, the radiant Tyrande was once again the holy, dignified and elegant high priestess.
Duke couldn't figure out whether he was a charlatan or Tyrande was a charlatan.
"Well, great uncrowned master of the alliance, after you have visited your beloved queens, remember to come and sign the contract with me and stay one more night."
Duke bared his teeth. Tyrande really dared to say that.
Well, Duke also knew that he couldn't promise her anything. After all, the status thing can only be given to one person. If one is given, what about the others?
If we don't handle it right, the Alliance will be in civil war before the Horde even rises!
but...
"contract?"
"Wrynn and Bronzebeard have invited me to join the Alliance several times. I have been dragging my feet. It's not that the night elves don't want to join, but mainly because I didn't dare to entrust the fate of my people to Varian Wrynn. He is still too young and lacks experience. And after he disappeared and returned, he became confused."
When Duke heard this, his heart skipped a beat. It turned out that without him, history would easily go back to its old path.
But Duke has no intention of rescuing Varian for the time being.
Whether a person is successful or not depends first on his talent. People with good talent are undoubtedly more likely to succeed than those with poor talent. In this life, Varian's adolescence was relatively smooth. Because Duke helped King Llane die a long time later, Varian's childhood was not too bad.
This, in turn, has disadvantages.
Without those miserable days of wandering and living under other people's roof, Varian in this life is obviously still too erratic and not stable enough.
In addition to talent, the key to a person's success lies in experience. Only by being truly tempered in cruel events and honing one's will and ability can one have the opportunity to become a truly strong person.
So even though Duke knew who the mastermind was, he still chose to remain silent.
Four years later, the biggest news was the death of Anduin Lothar, who died peacefully last spring after learning of Varian's return, at the age of sixty-five.
For humans of this era, Lothar was considered old. Moreover, when he dueled with Orgrim on the Scorching Plains, he was seriously injured and left with a chronic illness. It was a miracle that he could survive this long.
Moreover, he repeatedly rejected the Eternal Life that Duke obtained from Nozdormu.
"My life has been full of ups and downs. I have had failures, but I have won in the end. As a warrior, I have achieved the ultimate glory. I have no regrets to see Varian and you grow up and stand on your own. Let me die as a knight." This is what Lothar said to Duke.
Duke knew that Lothar wanted the bloodline of the Arathi royal family, which was meaningless in his eyes, to be cut off. Because a noble bloodline with a righteous reputation would not be a good thing for all human countries, or even for the entire alliance.
"Alas! The noble ones have passed away, but guys like me have gained eternal life..." Duke couldn't help but laugh at himself.
Suddenly, Tyrande held Duke's face in her hands, and her silver eyes that seemed to be able to speak shot out a reproachful look: "Duke! Don't belittle yourself! When you belittle yourself, you are also belittling me. What do you think drove me to learn those things that made me so ashamed that I wanted to die? And why do you think I had to wait for you for ten thousand years?"
"Well..."
"There is only one answer! A great hero like you is worthy of my desperate love, worthy of my madness for you, and even worthy of my falling for you! Do you understand!?"
Facing Tyrande's burning gaze, Duke couldn't hold back any longer and kissed her fiercely.
Compared to Lothar's death, Duke was more surprised that Ilucia became the queen of the new Kingdom of Alterac last year. The territory of Alterac includes the current Southsea City-State, Durnholde Castle, Tarren Mill and the Broken Ridge site of the original Kingdom of Alterac, with the former Southsea Town as its capital.
Although all of this happened without Duke, Duke was still able to sort out the context of things. His harem seems to be using this method to maintain influence within the alliance.
With Sylvanas, Jaina, Illucia, and now Tyrande, as well as Calia, who has always been a die-hard Duke fan, Duke now directly controls five kingdom votes.
In addition, Stormwind Kingdom is now ruled by Bolvar Fordragon, so it is not difficult to convince him. Duke actually still has absolute say in the Alliance.
Originally, the Alliance would have a great advantage, but the problem was that during these four years, the Horde had risen very quickly. The biggest difference was that the Horde in this life had accepted the goblins into the Horde in advance.
I don't know if it was the history of the Battle of the Burning Plains, coupled with his personal witnessing of the Battle of Mount Hyjal, but the performance of the Alliance deeply stimulated Thrall. As a result, after the goblins on both sides who wanted to make dirty money were jointly blocked by Jaina and Illucia, Thrall directly extended an olive branch to the angry goblins.
In addition, Anasterian took the Forsaken to Winterspring. As a result, the Horde has now completed a semi-encirclement of the night elves' territory.
Duke narrowed his eyes and first drew a heavy circle on the map of Kalimdor, at the place that later became Rustwater Port.
"We must not allow the Horde to surround us..."
What gave Duke the most headache was that in the report that Alleria passed on to Tyrande, there was a piece of information like this - a large number of orcs whose predecessors were the Blackrock Clan began to occupy the Blackrock Mountain area of the Burning Plains and the Scorching Canyon.
There are signs that they are merging with the Black Dragonflight.