When: 10/12/23/Kuromon / Location: Redpass Mansion

The deserted village and ancient house, the rainstorm disappears, the moon hangs high, the morning star falls, and the dawn finally comes.

In the morning, Darwin woke up early and counted everyone's luggage. I had been sleepless and very depressed, and last night's meeting with Monroe had left me with a lot of thoughts. The power of the guardian is indeed dangerous, and the word guardian in the guardian not only means to protect Azeroth, but also to protect the divine power given by God. This huge responsibility should not be carried by a six-year-old girl, and I am a little conflicted, in fact, there is a little truth in what Monroe said, if Pamela is killed and her power is taken away by the bad guys, then the guardian will be converted into destruction.

However, as a human being, the priority is to uphold the most basic morality, and I cannot do the slaughter of girls, and I will not tolerate anyone doing it.

The only solution I can think of is to forcibly bring her back to Karazan, and when there is a dispute with a child, her priority is to confront her and resort to force. A man with the power of mythology is furious, and we are by no means opponents.

The damage to the siren can now be postponed as a minor problem, after the first operation, his injuries have been greatly relieved, his life is no longer in danger, the siren itself is not strong as a normal fish, the muscle tissue is stronger than steel, but his nervous system is about the same as that of a normal person, so he has not yet recovered.

In addition, the most pressing issue of the moment is the few lost companions, and the heavy rain of this night may have obscured most of the road signs I have left for them. I learned this mark from Minna, who taught me to draw a simple bird, with two forms of beak and tail, and different combinations represent different directions, for example, when the tail is high, it is based on the direction of the beak to indicate the path. This near-cipher mark can prevent the enemy from easily finding our position, and is generally used for spy troops on both sides of the war.

Minna would never misread the code she had studied, but she didn't return all night, which was worrying. Princess Yuna traveled for the first time as a monk, and although she was very responsible and very intelligent, she was only fourteen or fifteen years old after all, and if there was any mistake in my hands, Zandalar would use the power of the trolls in the world to ask for guilt. Among the three groups of people, the most disturbing to me are Abby and Best, not to mention Abby's cranial nerves, just Best's maverick worldview and his poisonous tongue left a clear cause for the disaster long before the disaster.

I explained the reason to the people in the meeting room, and asked everyone to go out to look for it, and Narfik felt that as a soldier of the tribe, carrying out orders was the first priority, but since the allies were in practical difficulties at the moment, it was an act of honor to take the necessary help. So, as full command, I asked Mta to stay behind in the mansion, one to watch over the dwarven captives, and the other to guard the badly wounded sirens and two terrified silver crusaders.

Nalfik and Zuta searched the east of the town, Kador the Minotaur and Darwin searched the south of the town, Carlin and I went north of the town, and Chromie and Xiaoxiao searched the west of the town.

Formerly the military town of Lordaeron and the largest producer of grain, Talon County was connected to the frontier city of Stratholme and the trading city of Andorhar, and was the last town to fall due to the presence of the Redpass family for generations, and it was also the last town to fall when the plague struck. The army of the undead first captured Stratholme, then took the royal city of Lordaeron in three days, and then spent half a year to break through all the defenses of the magical capital of Dalaran, and then completely turned Andoral into a dead city in the subsequent northward advance, and finally broke through the defenses of Talon County with all its military strength. The battle was also extremely tragic, with waves of undead armies storming the fortifications of the Iron Guards of Talonshire, fighting from early morning to dusk, turning human walls into mountains of corpses, and wilderness and farmland eventually turning into graveyards.

Carlin and I were walking on a deserted street at this time, and the town was very modern, with drainage wells clogged with minced meat on the side of the road, and mailboxes and street lights in front of every house. Most of the buildings are ground floors no more than 10 meters high, which are very similar to my house, but much larger than mine. It is also a city of faith, with statues of angels, large and small, decorated as buildings, some independent of the square, and the relief paintings on the walls tell the story of the Father and the Holy Spirit.

The arrival of two living people makes the dead city awkward and very different.

Passing by a fire station, Carlin asked expressionlessly, "Pastor, has Heavenly Father forsaken us?"

"The first of the Ten Commandments is not to be suspicious, but I have also been confused, and when I first saw the sea of corpses, when I crawled out of the ground with my hands on the cold coffin, when I saw a skeleton or a talking human head, I had doubts. But I'm relieved now, there are so many real people, emotional stories, that tell me that the world is not as miserable as it appears before our eyes. ”

Carlin: "You accepted it, but I didn't. Look... They... Look... Pamela. ”

"Happiness for everyone will come. Each of us has a God-given responsibility, and all we need to do is do our part well. I know you want revenge and destroy the scourge. But this is not something that can be done alone, and your responsibility in the process may seem insignificant to you, but that is your responsibility. Just like the siren who sacrificed his life to protect you, although I have not known him for a long time, I know him, he is not upright in the ordinary sense, he knows his own responsibilities better than ordinary people, and the responsibilities of the people he shelters, and the responsibility of me who heals him. Everyone dies, and the tragedy of your family is not death, but the inability to go to heaven after death. You have to believe that I can fulfill my responsibility to transcend all beings. ”

Carlin: "I don't want to believe God anymore, but I believe in Darien, and I believe in you too." I have seen the Scourge soldiers slain by the Ashbringers, their souls soaring to heaven with incomparably holy spirits. ”

"By the way, does Darien have any clues?"

Carlin: "He disappeared on a secret mission, and only Commander Maxwell and Darion knew about the specifics of the mission. After Darien did not return to his life at the appointed time, the commander showed extreme concern, so he sent the Seventh Brigade out to secretly search for his whereabouts. The Scourge corpses burned by the Ashbringers continued all the way to the town of Cowling, and just as we focused on these clues, we encountered the remnants of Skeletron's Scourge. ”

"Darien and the Ember Bringer can play a vital role in this war, and I have met Kel'thugad in Andorhar, and he is eager to obtain the Holy Sword and use it to open a treasure trove of souls. You said that you had encountered the trapped Scarlet Crusaders in Skeletron's pursuit, and that Darien's brother Renaud had also held a key position in them, so there are probably only two possibilities for Darien's whereabouts, one is to be captured by the Scourge, and the other is to be imprisoned by the Scarlet Crusaders. If it had been a natural disaster, Skeletron Hogus would not have continued to expend his troops to search for the town of Kaurin. ”

Carlin: "You mean Darien's disappearance has something to do with the Scarlet Crusade?"

"Chances are, we don't know if Renault told the other members of the Scarlet the Ashesbringer the secrets of the Ashes Bringer before his death, and if those madmen knew, they probably destroyed the Holy Sword and even killed Darien in order to thwart Kel's plans. That's the big deal, but I still want to know how Darien got ambushed. ”

Carlin: "We don't know about this, it's true that the clue disappeared in Cowling, but we didn't have time to study the specific details. ”

Before we knew it, we were out of town, and the place we had searched before was completely deserted. As soon as I walked to the outskirts of the city, I found a series of footprints, which were obviously the footprints of trolls, the trolls are ashamed to wear shoes, they like to wear ankle rings or toe nails to decorate, trolls only have two toes, and the feet of the people who left the footprints are small, so it can be temporarily determined that they were left by Yunna. Carlin and I followed the trail until we came to a large tomb.

It is a family cemetery, with a small six-pillar shrine at the entrance, with a descending stone staircase leading to the burial chamber between several columns, and a sacred word carved into the opposite wall. It is clearly written that the burial here is [Gavinrad Doom], one of the five great paladins.

We cautiously paced down the stone steps to prevent an ambush, but as soon as we reached the tomb, we saw Yuna who had just gotten up.

She was surprised to see us, and couldn't help blurting out, "Ahhh

"Are you waiting for someone?" I quipped.

Yuna returned to her normal grinning normality: "I'm sorry, I'm worried about everyone." But look at this. "She pointed to an empty coffin, and at the bottom of the coffin was a passage written in blood, the first of which was: 'Kill me!'

'I'm the troll warlord Hamiya, and the famine has been going on for half a year, and my husband and I have been forced to leave the altar and go out to forage for food. While crossing Zumashal, my husband and I ate some spoiled meat. We have changed! We have been infected! Now I can feel the words of the Lich King lingering in my ears, the voice urging me to go to Zumashar and infect more of my countrymen. I knew I couldn't resist his orders, so I wrote this in my husband's blood before I lost everything. Kill me!' or it'll be too late!'

The most important sentence appears at the beginning and then at the end, and the details implied in it are all moving, Hamiya is a female troll warlord of the Rotten Moss tribe, who lives with her husband in hunger and eats 'dirty meat' in desperation. Kel'thugad asked them to infect their compatriots, and the husband committed suicide, but he could not bear to kill his wife. Hamia was already unable to kill herself, so she could only write these words, and she did not want to hurt her people until she died.

"It's another human tragedy. "I gave Carlin a look and told him that there are people who can be tough and strong in the face of all this.

Yuna: "Yesterday, I hid in this tomb to avoid the rain, and then I found this passage. ”

"What about her husband's body?"

Yuna: "No, I'm afraid he's already joined the Scourge." ”

"What about Gavin Rad's body?"

Yuna: "Not either. ”

"Where's Hamia?"

Yuna: "I didn't see it. ”

"Alas~~! We can't fulfill our last wish for her. ”

Yuna: "Not necessarily! I have a way to track her whereabouts, but it rained last night, so it may not be that easy." ”

"Oh, what's the solution?"

Yuna: "The rotten moss trolls have a primitive moss smell, or stinky, so the women in them usually wear voodoo perfume. Voodoo magic will eventually form a small amount of arcane energy, which I can track down with [Arcane Traction]. ”

"Do all spells contain arcane powers? I hadn't heard of that word before I met you. ”

Yu Nai: "There are only two spells that do not produce arcane reverberations, and these two kinds of mana are also reflected in one person, big brother, who do you guess this person is?"

"Soul power and divine light?"

Yuna: "By the way, this person is you, big brother." ”

"So what's going on now, do you need to prepare?"

Yuna: "No, let's go now." With that, Yuna held up a purple arcane ball in her hand and led her arm slowly forward, and we followed curiously.

After walking for about 30 minutes, we came to a mountain col, Talons, surrounded by mountains on three sides, and we arrived at a corner of the mountains to the east.

There was still no one here, and a large tree not far away hung a full human skin, and the fangs that fell to the ground and the red inch hair hanging on the top of the human skin's head proved that she was the troll.

Yuna looked shocked and immediately put away the magic guide ball. I was also surprised. Only Carlin said very calmly, "This is the ghoul's first molt, and we can only pray that he can rely on his mental power to free himself from the control of the Lich King's actions, just like you and those guys in the Undercity." ”

"Ghouls are weak. I had a ghoul friend. ”

Carlin said with a solemn face: "Ghouls do have a very low rank in the Scourge Force, and they can be said to be the lowest level of undead. But molting is terrible, getting rid of the skin is equivalent to getting rid of the personality, and under the extreme pain of the soul, many ghouls will greatly increase their strength in a short period of time. And the original physique is closely related to the final level of strength, she was a troll warrior before her death, and her own fighting skills and brawn strength must be off the charts, and now we don't know if her husband is still by her side. So, if we run into her, we'd better run away. ”

"You don't have to judge too early. I possess the Archangel's Spell of Dispelment, which can reverse the Lich King's spiritual domination. ”

Karin and Yuna were taken aback by what I said, and shouted in unison, "You can completely crush the Undead Scourge?"

"Oh, I didn't make it clear, the spell of dispel only works for those who have been transformed within three months... ”

As they were talking, the three of them were shocked at the same time when there was a slight sound of smacking lips not far away.

I hurriedly shut up, made a 'shhh' gesture to them, and carefully discerned the direction of the sound. The col was overgrown with shrubs and yews, and the few leaves had withered, and the sound came from one of the low trees, as strong as a cactus in the desert, and the bushes trembled with the sound. We crept closer, and he seemed to spot us, as he chewed louder and the shaking of the bushes suddenly became violent.

I instantly pulled out a [Holy Light Net], pulled it with both hands, and prepared to cast it, and Yuna also tied a knot with magic silk thread to create a rope sleeve, with the front hand at the eyebrow, and the back hand cut off the waist, ready to shoot at any time. Carlin drew his sword at his waist, ready to find the perfect position to stab into the trees.

Before Karin could insert a sword, something flew out of the bushes, and Yuna threw the rope noose out with a flick of his hand, which happened to be around the neck of the thing, and my emergency response was exactly the same as that of Yuna, and the light net also hit the blood-red corpse at the same time. Carlin swung his sword wildly, covering his vital point.

The thing seemed lifeless, and fell from the air to the ground. It was a corpse in the truest sense of the word, maybe a few hours ago she was a moving ghoul, but now she's just a large mutilated piece of flesh. I immediately realized that the body had been thrown by something in the bushes, and hurriedly loosened the light net in my hand. We didn't have time to do anything else, and a black figure had already burst out of the bushes.

This 'man' has no epidermis, but the musculature that covers the bones is bloodless, and his muscles are dark black in color. Two stubborn hairs grew on the top of his head, making the 'man' look a little mischievous.

"What the hell?" I uttered the usual cry of surprise for normal people, and Carlin went even further, flying straight out of his sword and slashing at the thing's head. The ghoul ducked and tried to knock Karin away with his shoulder, whose light saber pulled a sword flower and poked it down from top to bottom, his back pierced with a rapier with a 'poof', but he was unconscious, and as his upper body straightened, the sword in Carlin's hand was pulled back and pouted, and he had to let go.

The moment he straightened up, Yuna and I yelled at the same time, "Don't hurt him!"

The thing was stunned for a second when it saw us, and then immediately cried like a leaky shower, and he cried as he cried, "Baby... Can you imagine how a completely incapable ghoul survives in the wild. Why did you abandon me? The sky was so red that day! Actually, I don't recognize what you think of as road idiots, it's just a slight prejudice. Even if you don't think it's a prejudice. I didn't know what to eat, so I had to rummage around looking for very old corpses. Again, I'm not a grave robber. Most of the food I eat is food from the garbage dump... ”

Carlin looked at us both with a confused look in his eyes filled with irrepressible contempt, and I guess the reason was simply because we knew the creature.

"Wait, wait... Shut up, Kifer, why are you still alive?"

Keefer said that he had forgotten the sadness and surprise of the beginning because of the frequent shift in thinking, and that he liked to be asked questions the most, so he happily replied, "It's too complicated for anyone to imagine." But I've figured it all out with my ingenuity, and I'm proud of myself! You just saw the dead Kifo and forgot the living but ripe Kipfer. ”

"How is it possible that I collected the corpse for you personally?"

Kiefer: "Have you forgotten the Transfiguration Treasure summoned by Huller?" In the Headmaster's Office, it was originally the three of us who were facing Ellsbeth at the same time... ”

"Wait, now that you've escaped, then Elocya... ？？”

Kiefer: "I'm going to talk about it one by one, but I'm going to break it out in advance, Miss Elucia is completely steamed by the heat, so please don't have any strange illusions." ”

"Damn, I don't want to hear about her death... Forget it, then you can go on, but try to be as complete as possible! Keep it as short as possible!"

Kiefer: "Then I'll start with the beginning, Miss Xiao and I went into the Death Knight's room, it was a rare big scene! We were immediately surrounded by the group of apprentices, Miss Xiao used [Spirits Spray] to stun most of the students, there was a big fish tank in the room at that time, the scene was very chaotic, one of the apprentices was drunk, threw the sword and shield in his hand together, right on the edge of the fish tank, the whole room immediately like a flood. A male Naga Siren warrior swam out along the current, and he immediately took the heavy sword in his hand and fought the black knight. I hid to the side and took a closer look, and the Excalibur that each of them held completely attracted me. Those lines ... Sorry for the digression. Then there is the scene you saw, Mr. Hadley, the decisive battle between [Grave Digger] and [Crucian King Stone] is not something that ordinary people can see.

After you left, the two swordsmen quickly decided the winner, and the black knight, who relied on the blessing of soul power, still struggled to compete with the big fish with his unique skills. I was afraid that the big fish didn't know that my position was on his side, so I escaped ahead of time and wanted to find you. But you've disappeared into that rotunda. At this time, I heard the sound of conversation coming from the principal's office... ”。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。 (Rabbit pen Kang slugging cow)

PS: The next chapter will recreate the battle in the principal's office, so stay tuned. In addition, after writing for so long, the author will often blame himself for the slow progress, in fact, I don't want to make any money from writing, of course, if I can make better money. I don't want to go to other authors' message boards to ask for votes and attention. For me, it's a kind of 'gourping' behavior. But I also have an expectation that more friends who love the plot and words will read my novels, and they can meet the purpose of decompression, happiness, and concentration. My requirements are not high, just four words collection and then go. If you like it, please help spread the word among your friends.