For a while afterward, Orendo's life became calm and peaceful.
Every morning, he woke up in the bed in the fortress laboratory—after Mentor Aegwynn gave him a "massage" with one or two gnomish contraptions every night, then kicked him back to his own room to sleep.
After waking up, he spent the mornings either in Solarian's mage tower or his own laboratory, conducting arcane exploration and spell research.
Sometimes, he also spent time with friends like Kel'Thuzad, discussing academic matters and preparing various work for the magical monthly magazine and the owl training program.
At noon, he had lunch with Mentor Aegwynn while being served by the dragon maid's deadpan expression—if he was at Solarian's place, then naturally he ate lunch with Auntie instead.
After lunch, he meditated and rested briefly before going to the elves' Sun Tower to find his Uncle Kael and receive Kael'thas's Spellbreaker training.
The early stages of Spellbreaker training were incredibly dull, even duller than arcane research.
He was either training his physique or learning all kinds of swordsmanship—why swordsmanship rather than other combat techniques?
Because both the elves and Orendo thought that mages looked cooler cutting people down with swords. At worst, they could use staves as clubs; using knives or anything like that was far too beneath a mage's dignity.
Well, actually, it was because one-handed swords were better suited as Spellbreaker weapons for both humans and elves.
Orendo had not expected that Uncle Kael, besides being a master mage, possessed such profound knowledge of swordsmanship and combat techniques.
During this period, he spent every afternoon learning all kinds of Quel'Thalas court swordsmanship, ranger swordsmanship, Lordaeron military swordsmanship, Gilneas civilian swordsmanship, ancient elven battle formation swordsmanship...
Without the Eye of Truth, Orendo would have been completely lost. With its help, although he was