After about half a month, the blade crossed most of the Alterac Mountains and successfully arrived at the Rock Camp, the main settlement of the Stonemane Clan in the western part of the Alterac Mountains.

The Rock Camp is much smaller than the Bloodclaw Camp, with nearly a third of the Stonemane Clan's population of about 10,000 living in the Rock Camp. Due to the small size of the Rock Camp, there is no huge castle like the Skull Shatterer in the camp.

In front of the camp gate of the Rock Camp, Blade revealed his identity and intention to the guards of the Stonemane Clan, and the guards immediately entered the camp to report. Marana, the patriarch of the Stonemane Clan, had been recuperating from his wounds in bed, but when he heard of the visitation of the young chief of the tribe, he got up from his bed, despite his injuries, and walked out of the camp trembling with the support of the guards, and came to meet the blade himself.

Blade had heard of Marana, but this was the first time he had seen him.

Marana's actual age was not yet fifty years old, but he did not know if he had been severely injured by the undead, but at this moment he looked like a sixty-year-old man, with an old and withered face, and many dark spots on the blue-gray hair on his body. When the blade saw those dark spots, his expression suddenly became solemn, because those dark spots were old age spots. Marana doesn't look ten years older, but he is ten years older.

Seeing the surprised appearance of the blade, Marana smiled bitterly: "Young Chief, I have been corroded by the death qi in the battle with the undead, and I was able to resist it at first, but after being injured, the death qi invaded my body in large quantities, seriously damaging the functions of various organs, causing a large amount of life to pass, and it became what I am today. But fortunately, after I escaped back to the clan, I have used my fighting spirit to force out all the dead qi in my body little by little, and I shouldn't continue to grow old in the future. Marana said as he led the blade into a three-story stone house in the Rock Camp. This three-storey stone house is the tallest building in the Rock Camp and is also the residence of Marana.

After the two of them sat down, they began to talk. Marana had learned from the guards that the blades were hunting the undead, so he recounted in great detail how he had led his warriors to encounter and fight the undead in the mountains. The plot is not much different from the version that Blade heard from Mombasa, there is indeed a high-level death knight and a high-level death horse among the undead, and Marana is indeed defeated by the combination of the death knight and the death horse, but Blade still found some clues that are not quite right from Marana's description.

"Patriarch Marana, with all due respect, although you were ultimately defeated by the Death Knight and his mount, the concentration of the aura of death you were contaminated in battle was completely abnormal. According to your description, that Death Knight and that Death War Horse are only level seven strengths, how can they exude such a strong death aura from their bodies, so that after you are injured, your injuries will deteriorate to the point of losing your life span for ten years? Among the undead warriors, I am afraid that only a Death Knight who has reached the Holy Rank can have such a strong death aura, and in addition, only a high-level necromancer can rely on necromancer magic to release such a huge amount of death qi, right?"

Marana was stunned, he hadn't thought of it. After listening to the analysis of the blade, he pondered and thought about it carefully, and his face gradually became serious: "Young Chief, do you mean that when I was fighting with the Death Knight and the Death Horse, there was a necromancer next to me who secretly cast a large amount of death qi and corrupted me unconsciously?"

"I'm not sure, but I think it's a possibility!" Blade said with a serious face.

"Young Chief, it is rumored in the tribe that although you have only recently advanced to the seventh level of a warrior, your real combat power is comparable to that of a seventh-level peak warrior. You plan to hunt down this group of undead alone, I originally agreed, but now I don't!" Marana frowned and said worriedly, "If you just face that death knight and that death warhorse, with your strength worthy of fighting a seventh-level peak warrior, it shouldn't be difficult to defeat this person and a horse." But now that there's a high-level undead hiding in the shadows, and he's a mage, I don't think your chances of winning are great. To be on the safe side, you still don't want to go it alone. When I'm healed, I'll contact the other clans living in the western part of the Alterac Mountains, and ask them to send their high-ranking warriors to join forces with me into the mountains to encircle and suppress the undead!

Blade listened to Marana's advice, and couldn't tell that the real purpose of his coming to hunt the undead this time was for his own coming-of-age ceremony. If you hunt the undead with everyone, it will make your own coming-of-age ceremony much less meaningful. And the Empire's recruitment season this year is just around the corner, and he is eager to complete the coming-of-age ceremony before heading north to join the Bloodfang Cavalry. If you wait until Marana recovers from her injuries before acting, then I am afraid that there will be a conflict.

It was inconvenient for Blade to directly refuse Marana's kindness, so he found an excuse and said, "Since the patriarch you plan to wait until your injuries are healed before gathering other clans to act together, it seems that you will have to wait for a while. Anyway, I've already arrived here, so it's better for me to go into the mountains to find out the specific whereabouts of those undead. When the time comes, when the warriors of the other clans gather, we can go straight to the Yellow Dragon in one go! Besides, that group of undead are actually hunting demonic beasts in the mountains, this matter is very strange, I will also investigate this matter first!"

Marana thought that with the strength of the blade, if he just went into the mountain to investigate, it should not be too dangerous, so he nodded in agreement.

Blade then asks Marana in detail about the details of his fight with the undead, such as whether the Death Knight and the Death Horse have any special skills, and Marana answers them one by one. After Blade asked what he wanted to know, it was already dusk, and smoke began to rise above the Rock Camp.

Marana invites Blade to dinner, and stays at Camp Rock tonight, waiting for the next morning to go into the mountains to investigate the traces of the undead. Seeing that it was getting late, the blade agreed.

Because the Stonemane Clan is located in the mountains, the location is remote, the products are scarce, and there are few caravans outside to trade, so the werewolves of the Stonemane Clan live a very poor and embarrassing life. Their food source was only demonic beasts hunted from the mountains, and nothing else to eat, not even Marana, who was the head of the clan.

When Marana's 'sumptuous' dinner for Blades was served, there was only one more bottle of liquor in addition to the usual roast. The bottle of this spirit is quite old, and the liquid poured out is also cloudy, and the quality is very poor at first glance. But this is Marana's treasure, and he is reluctant to drink it on weekdays, but this time he took it out for the sake of the blade, otherwise he was going to wait until the orc's New Year, the Day of the God of War, to drink.

Due to his injuries, Marana was not allowed to drink. But the visit of the young chief of the tribe made him very excited, so he took a drink. And Blade is also a good wine person, although the quality of this wine is not good, but it is better than nothing, a bottle of inferior spirits accompanied by barbecue, he actually drank it all.

After eating and drinking, Blade slept early in the rock camp, preparing for the next day's trip to the mountains.

The next day, as soon as Dongfang showed the whiteness of the fish's belly, Blade got up, and after leaving the wolf he was riding in the Rock Camp, he went into the deep mountains and old forests near the Rock Camp alone.