Chapter 15 Chapter fifteen

Christophe hated sitting on the throne very much. Intellectually, however, he understood that it was indispensable.Leaders need to convey such a message to their subjects: Overlooking the world, I am the only one.Thus, a giant chair with a terrifying and lofty appearance conveys this message subtly and naturally. But Christopher still didn't like sitting on it.He believed he must make some mistake, must trample its dignity.Because he knows his own flaws—he's just not made to be a leader.Over the years, he has carefully observed the leaders around him, while also painstakingly studying those who are not around him.He knows as well as those around him that what good leaders do is right and what bad leaders do is wrong.But one thing he understood early on was that a proud and conceited leader would not last long.It is inevitable for a leader to make mistakes of one kind or another, but there will never be room for a single mistake in the eyes of the proud and conceited, and a struggle destined to end in self-destruction or external destruction is bound to bring such a man to his end .Christophe's previous master - Garethos - is one such example.If the Marshal would listen to his own opinion or the opinions of the other six, he would not blindly cooperate with the exiles.As Christophe expected, the brutes of the undead betrayed Garethos and his warriors, paving the way for his defeat and death.At that time, Christopher had already left for a better future.

What an unfortunate reincarnation!Because only those who are proud and conceited will desperately pursue the position of leadership.This enigmatic conundrum also explains why there are so few great leaders in the world.Christophe was fascinated by this conundrum even as a young student. Christophe was well aware that he was a deeply conceited man.His high confidence in his own abilities was the reason why he was able to become Queen Proudmoore's most important minister, but it was also the reason why he was definitely not suitable to take her place. Still, he did as the queen bid, and stood in for her until she had finished her ridiculous errand.

Christophe hated the throne also because it was a damned piece of furniture.To be effective, the occupant must sit upright, with his arms resting on the armrest, and gaze with insightful eyes upon all who speak.But for Christophe, sitting like this was killing his back.Only by sitting bent and reclined can he avoid the pain in his spine.But in this way, he seemed to be sitting on a sofa, which was far from the solemn majesty that the throne should have. This is an extraordinary time.Christopher really didn't want the queen to go to the orc country to do those ridiculous things, as if the whole of Theramore was inferior to those rough and ugly reptiles in Durotar.

Queen Proudmoore has done many admirable things.Whether as a mage or a king, few women can match her.Although there are quite a few female rulers, they either inherited the throne through hereditary inheritance or obtained the throne through marriage. No one has taken the throne completely by their own will and perseverance like the queen.Although Medivh first came up with the idea of ​​the alliance, it is Jaina Proudmoore who to this day has achieved the great task of uniting humans and orcs without precedent.From Christopher's unique perspective, Proudmoore is the greatest leader in the world, and he is proud to be her most trusted minister.

This is why Proudmoore is desperate to protect the orcs, and Christopher can understand this.Of all the leaders he had contacted and studied, the only one who could be compared to Queen Proudmoore was Thrall.His feats - unifying the orc tribes, breaking the shackles imposed on the orcs by demonic magic, thus getting rid of the lowly status of orcs - are more remarkable than those of Queen Proudmoore. But Thrall is only one of the orcs.Essentially, orcs are just a bunch of uncivilized beasts who can barely understand language.Their customs are still barbarous and primitive, and their manners are unacceptably vulgar.Yes, Thrall was transforming them, and he taught them a set of similar civilizations he learned from the humans who raised him.But Thrall will die after all.When he died, all the learned humanity in the orcs would die with them, returning to the ranks of evil animals, and returning to the cage that Sargeras had arranged for them.

Queen Proudmoore would not hear these words, of course.Christopher had advised her, but the greatest leaders have their own blind spots, and this is her blind spot.She believes that orcs should live in harmony with humans, and she even betrayed her own father for this. It was also from that moment that Christopher had a premonition that an extraordinary action was about to take place.The Queen would rather watch her father be killed than live up to the trust of those beasts.And none of the orcs—except Thrall—would accept her. In another environment, Christopher would never have had the opportunity to do what he was already doing.Every day he wakes up, he wonders if he should do this, and every day he wakes up with fear.From the moment he set foot on Kalimdor—a land battered and rebuilt—he had lived in a base fear that all would be destroyed again.Apart from a Northpost on the Merchant Coast, all that remains of the humans in Kalimdor is a small island along the east coast.The three sides of the island were inhabited by beasts: at best, they were indifferent and indifferent to human beings; at worst, they were staring and hostile.On the other side of the island is the sea.

Despite his fears, despite his many warnings, the Queen always favored the Orcs to the detriment of the Humans.She also repeatedly claimed that this would benefit the alliance, saying that it is better to unite with them than to divide them.Even so, the greatest tragedy is that she believes them. Christopher knew them better.Queen Proudmoore could not have foreseen what was to come, but he had seen it through a lifetime of experience.He must turn the tide. Defei walked into the drawing room with his wrinkled head on his face. "Your Excellency, the divination crystal ball is glowing. I think it may have received a message."

Christopher said coldly: "Well, that's what it usually means." He stood up from behind the queen's desk and walked into the throne room, where the divination crystal ball was placed.If he was right, it should be Lorena or Davin who informed him that he had arrived, and the troops also arrived that morning.Christopher originally planned to let Lorena arrive before the troop warship, but now due to a mechanical failure of the spaceship, the departure was delayed, and the warship arrived earlier thanks to the wind direction. Christopher walked straight to the crystal ball.The crystal ball rested on a pedestal in the southwest corner of the throne room, glowing a deep crimson.This also means that the crystal ball on the side of the North Watch Fort has been activated and started to be used.

After a moment of hesitation, Christopher reached out with one hand and grabbed the crystal ball.As he expected, a shuddering force went through her arm, so painful that he almost threw it on the ground.At the same time, the red light gradually faded away, and then Major Davin's voice came.It sounded as if Davin was deep in a cave, and the sound came entirely from his throat. "Mr. Home Secretary, I am very sorry to inform you that Colonel Lorena's ship has not arrived. Air observers say they saw it heading northeast. The troops have arrived, but I don't know how the Colonel deployed them. Please show me."

Christopher sighed and put the crystal ball back in place. "Damn woman!" "Which woman?" Defei asked quickly. "Colonel Lorena, who is on the spaceship with her?" The elder butler immediately began searching his memory for answers.Although her way of thinking is a bit weird, her efficiency is surprisingly high. "Major Baker, Captain Mira, Captain Harcourt, Lieutenant Norogy, and, oh, Corporal Bravien." Christophe frowned and asked, "Why did she bring a corporal?" He had told her explicitly that she would take her senior lieutenant and leave by spaceship, and the rest of the troops would go by ship.Suddenly, a flash in his mind: "I seem to have heard this name somewhere."

Defei made a cross on his chest, stepped forward and replied: "She is what people often call a lucky beauty. She came back from the battlefield and has a very sensitive sense of smell. If I remember correctly, she can smell a hundred steps. the magic within." "Yes, that's her." Christopher remembered that Braveen-she was a private soldier during the war-she could not only detect demons invisible to the naked eye, but also identify demons controlled by the Burning Legion. people, and can always find Proudmoore, or other mages.Some generals like to use her special ability to find the Queen's trail in the noisy and chaotic battlefield. Christopher immediately realized what Lorena was up to. "Damn her!" he murmured with a long sigh, "Damn me too!" "What's the matter, sir?" Duffy asked. "It's nothing," Christopher replied immediately, he couldn't let Duffy know the whole thing, "it's nothing." Defei looked confused: "No——OK, Your Excellency." Defei looked at him strangely, turned and left. Christophe stared intently at the large window.It was so misty today that he could see only a league or two out to sea. It was too late, and Christopher knew that this was all caused by him.It was he who had allowed the Colonel's resentment and hostility toward him—she had had an opinion of him already during the war—to influence his own attitude toward her.Lorena despised him, and he despised Lorena.When they both remonstrated with the Queen, this mutual disdain had the opposite effect, and the matter was always resolved satisfactorily and satisfactorily.But when he sits on the throne, this mutual disdain is tantamount to cannibalism.The high throne symbolizes the leader's exclusive status - even the most trivial struggle in the court cannot offend the majesty of the king. The ego of Garethos, and the ego of countless leaders before him, is reflected in Christophe.If he had shown Lorena some respect, she might have done as he said.But just because he didn't, she took Bravien to Queen Proudmoore, which is why the ship headed northeast—they went to Durotar, to find the Queen of the Thunder Lizards. Although this caught Christopher off guard, there was still one last way to go.The program must continue with minor adjustments.Maybe it will be a little trouble later, but by then the dead will be long forgotten.The only way for the queen to realize that these orcs are not to be trusted is to start the inevitable war as soon as possible. Christopher grabbed the crystal ball again.This time he held it with both hands—not one.Taking this behavior as an indication to send a message, the crystal ball glowed blue. "I am Christophe, Minister of Internal Affairs. I am afraid that what we fear the most has happened. Both Queen Proudmoore and Colonel Lorena have been captured by the insidious orc followers of the Burning Blade clan. The orcs must pay the price for this." .Colonel Davin, now I authorize you to take charge of all the military forces of North Watch Fort, prepare to go to war!" Christopher put the crystal ball back on the pedestal, and the light slowly faded away.The information is transmitted through the air to another crystal ball without any error. Christopher turned and headed for the Queen's Office, ready to tackle the work he had only half done.As soon as he walked to the door of the office, a stench of sulfur began to spread in the air.Zmodor has arrived. Galtek Earrednash, debriefing, Home Secretary. Christophe sniffled at the disgusting stench and disgust.He hated dealing with demons, and if the stakes weren't so high, he'd tell the monster to fuck off right away.But another way of kingship that Christopher has learned is that in order to realize the interests of the country, an alliance with a foreign race can be considered when necessary.This is why Queen Proudmoore is so desperate to forge an alliance between humans and orcs, and why he is now so close to Zmodor.Their cooperation is only temporary, and this little devil is just a pawn in his whole plan.To put it bluntly, he was using Zmodor - he was willing to gratify his vanity and grovel before him in order for him to get things done as he wished. "Everything is going according to plan. The people of Theramore are ready to attack the orcs and destroy them." it is good.I am very happy to see these ugly traitors disappear from this world. "Me too," indeed Christopher thought.The reason why Zmodor can join hands with Kristoff is because they both have a common wish-to kill all the orcs in the world.When all these are achieved, orcs will no longer be a factor to be considered, and Christopher will prepare to eliminate Zmodor and... May our wishes come true soon.Goodbye, Home Secretary.Galtek Earred Nash. Christopher nodded and repeated the two words according to Zmodor's pronunciation.It translates to "Salute, Burning Blade Clan".