Chapter 23 How can anything be smooth sailing

In order to find the carriage and empty the treasury, Tirio and Muradine led the team to kill seven in and seven out, and it took everyone a few days to completely fill more than fifty wagons, and barely moved the important and practical things in the treasury of the royal city of Lordaeron, which had been established for more than 1,200 years, and the remaining ones with lower priority could only be kept for later.

Even if Lordaeron is already strong and weak, but the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and if everything is normal, this huge wealth will be enough for Lordaeron to launch a war of more than 300,000 people with the strength of the whole country for half a year.

In the process of cleaning up the route from the treasury to the palace, Tirio found that the tomb of the royal family and the burial chamber of the royal guards were dug up, and there was no need to think that Arthas had done it, but what was surprising was that the "masters" in the tombs of the previous kings and royal families were only reawakened as brainless skeletons, and the tombs of those royal guards were completely clean, and even the weapons and equipment in front of them were missing.

This allowed everyone to obtain some information about the undead monsters that might be useful, such as the powerful people in front of them, and it is likely that they can also get great power after death, so compared to the royal family who enjoy the glory and wealth in the royal palace, those royal guards who have undergone rigorous training and selected layers are more suitable for the death army of Arthas?

Edlan didn't think much about it after sharing the information, he just sighed, Thassarian still became Arthas's executioner in this way, I hope he will wake up in the future.

After emptying the arsenal, material warehouse and other warehouses as much as possible, Princess Kalia immediately rewarded these loyal soldiers and other professionals with knight-lieutenant level suits, which are enchanted products of the same style as the major set, which can be regarded as buying some people's hearts, boosting morale, and also improving the survival chances of the entire team. Of course, before that, the clergy had checked for any evil magic, and if so, it was up to the clergy to purify it.

At the same time, Tirio proposed that the surplus food and other materials should also be militarized, and that the civilian population should also be rationed. Princess Kalia also agreed, at this time, smart people will help the high-level to appease the people, instead of thinking about how much they can share, because only by holding together, only this team can survive, and only can they have hope of living.

While Tirio and his party were carrying the treasury supplies, Adlan also led the paladins to clear the road from the palace to the city gates.

After the inexplicable layer of things in Edlan's body was cleared by the Red Dragon Queen, he now didn't use Holy Energy when facing those brainless zombies, and the Sword of the Brotherhood was as easy as slicing cream, and there was no solid touch at all. If it is infused with holy energy, it will bring a sacred flame, and the zombies' sliced corpses will be burned to ashes before they fall to the ground, and then bursts of foul, foul, and rancid ashes will drift away in the wind......

To put it simply, the unknown layer of "diaphragm" in his original body not only hindered his extraction of holy energy, but also hindered his exertion of power, and now Edlan is almost a little obstacle to be promoted to hero level without the fury of revenge, but unfortunately, it is just that little, in fact, many people on the continent of Azeroth are often unable to cross this barrier, making it a barrier to the promotion of their own strength level.

So Adelan's current performance can be said to be out of the "limelight", although the guards of the palace have been defending with the paladin before, but they don't have a high-level paladin of Adelan's level, so they are not used to Adelan's almost full "BUFF" and then rushed into the "monster" pile, except for a few cuts like a trial knife at the beginning, followed by dedication and simulated ash awakening, and a large number of people began to harvest these brainless zombies.

This made many soldiers who followed behind with almost nothing to do, but their brains were not very bright, thinking, if there were more paladins like this, would the royal city be able to recover it directly?

Hundreds of thousands of undead, Edlan burned twenty or thirty of them to death, and then what? Do you want to die of exhaustion? And who dares to guarantee that there will be no undead with new intelligence sent to command here tomorrow or the day after tomorrow? And after these "corpses" are familiar with the new bodies, the power of their concentrated bursts is not to be underestimated......

After the passage in the direction of the city gate was almost cleared, Adlane sent several daring stealth classes of the Masters to the outside to investigate the enemy, only to receive the news that the two forces that had broken through earlier had been wiped out on their way to the Undead Fortress, and the scouts reported that zombies in paladin gear could even be seen roaming......

Edlan was glad that he didn't make random suggestions to join the forces of the Undead Fortress, and after almost once dying in the war, he was already a little numb to the death of his comrades, but he was glad that he was not the one who was resurrected in the paladin armor......

But then again, Arthas's speed is faster than he imagined, and it is estimated that it should be confronted with Uther's army now, right? Edlan doesn't know how far the rifted Frost Grief can go, but looking at the tragic situation of Lordaeron's Royal City, think about it, it should not be much different from the original, and if the magic sword made by the demon is not completely cut off, it is impossible for it to have a few repair capabilities, so the current Uther is mostly facing the king of the Death Knight in his heyday......

It seems that Uther's fate can't be rewritten after all...... Adlan once naively thought that he could change his life and save Uther, a banner figure, but now it seems that with him, Tirio, Muradin, and these remnants, how can he fight Arthas, who has the support of the army of the undead of Andorhar?

In the royal city of Lordaeron, the last two thousand surviving civilians, more than six hundred wounded, more than three hundred defenders, more than fifty royal guards, thirty-four priests, twenty-three paladins, eleven assassins of the royal city's intelligence service, nine surviving ministers, a new marshal, a dwarven prince, a new general, and the last bloodline heir of the royal family of Minethir, they embarked on the path called evacuation and restoration......

This huge team attracted a large number of brainless zombies as soon as it appeared, but with the full state blessing of the paladins, and in the midst of the chopping melons and vegetables of Tirio and Muradin, who were too strong to have friends, the group withdrew from the royal city of Lordaeron, where it was still visible......

Muradin, with a few paladins and a dozen good men, left the main force, and he will go to Dalaran to report the tragedy of Lordaeron and quickly inform the allies of the tragedy, and then Muradin will go to the Alterac Valley to contact the Thunderspear Dwarves, and finally return to Ironforge to bring rescue troops.

The large army escorted the civilians and the carriages on the one hand, and made a mighty journey to the north.

Although it is not the main direction of attack in Alsace, the town of Brill is still plagued by the undead, and no one survives in the entire town, including the vast farmstead and farmland, which is roamed with zombies, and the land, crops and plants are all dead, which is really sad. After clearing the town, Tirio had his soldiers take some of the civilians with them to collect whatever was available to the living, and the bloated team set out on a journey again.

The woods on the outskirts of Brill were once a good place for hunters or nobles to hunt, and it used to be a woodland full of birds and flowers, and wild animals, but now, trees, flowers and plants have all withered and died, and those animals that were originally full of vitality have now turned half of their bodies into carrion, but they still continue to live under the maintenance of some evil force, or they can no longer be considered alive at all.

The depressing journey lasted several days, and only a few lucky people found the party of the living, who escaped from the hidden woodland and joined the group of refugees after being judged by the priests not to be infected, which was a small redemption for the grief of all.

Eventually, when everyone saw that the huge energy shield that was surging with golden light in the hazy sky and gray earth in the distance was still doing its job, everyone became excited, because all the living people saw the hope of life.

There was a slight commotion when the large and bloated group of refugees arrived on the outskirts of Anaheim City, but after Edlan himself appeared, the team was finally able to enter the dividing line between life and death made up of the Light.

At this time, the scale of Anaheim City has expanded again, but the outermost city wall is relatively low, only 3 meters high, but as a protective barrier for the spell rune nodes, the existence here is enough to cover nearly half of the territory and farmland.

After Adelan and his entourage entered the city, they could still see the inner city guarding equipment being carried to the outer city wall by the people and militia recruited from the refugees, and it was obviously not strange that there were hard-working farmers working in the fields on the farmland, ignoring the lively scene around them.

In the chaotic and death-ridden environment outside, Edlan had to admire Edwin Van Cleef and Marcus for their good cooperation and good governance.

At this time, the refugees who had been sheltered by Anaheim City and some of the paladins and soldiers who had been separated from the large army were able to meet the young paladin lord who had not been in his territory all day.

The lord's mansion in the inner city, although Adlan did not ask the brotherhood of stonemasons to make any tricks to his original small mansion, but in order to build the city, this mansion has completely become a castle in the inner city, but due to the long-term absence of the lord himself, in addition to a few institutions for external offices, it is rare to use it in other places a few times, that is, the degree to which the servants go in to clean and clean. But now it just so happened that the master bedroom and the guest rooms could be arranged for Kalia and the accompanying civil officials, and the military attachΓ©s said that they could stay in tents, but they were able to be accommodated in the vacant garrison barracks in the inner city, while the other soldiers and refugees were scattered to live in the private houses in the inner city, which had not yet been sold.

After everything was arranged, Kalia and those ministers finally felt at ease and enjoyed a slightly normal life again, after all, they could use a separate room to bathe and sleep, and they didn't have to sleep in tents with those noisy refugees, which was very rare for these high-ranking people who had experienced disasters, and even when they were eating, no one urged them to hurry up and eat well and go on the road, which made those Wenchen who had been pampered for many years still have some favorability for this little baron.

Later today, the main leaders of Anaheim City and the top of the exiled government of the Kingdom of Lordaeron gathered in the City Lord's Council Chamber to exchange information on the current form in order to plan in more detail how to survive in this difficult time in the future.

β€œ...... To sum up, we and the Abbey of the Light have contained a total of 36 paladins who were separated from the main force, 88 priests, and 1,933 soldiers who escaped from the rout of the undead fortress, and the priests are under the command of Lady Whitemayne of the Chapel, and to be honest, with their joining, all the clergy can be rotated in the work of maintaining the shield of light energy. As for the soldiers, they were recruited and scattered by us and incorporated into the garrison sequence. "In addition, we originally had 3,000 militiamen, but due to the large number of regular troops incorporated, I have temporarily canceled their training plan and added them to the production sequence such as construction and transportation." ”

As a small city of more than 30,000 people after absorbing the surrounding people after the disaster, Anaheim City is not crowded now, especially after the expansion of the outer city wall has determined the scope of the entire city, a large amount of vacant land is waiting to be carved to build new houses, and even the land in the inner city has not been sold out, and it has been used by Adlan to settle the first group of people who followed him.

Adelan was a little dissatisfied with Marcus's handling of this, you finally trained 3,000 militiamen, Adelan is worried about the source of soldiers, and now he is throwing them back to engage in production and construction, and there is no one in the territory, so many foreign refugees, and now there are more than 2,000, so he waved his hand, "The militia training will continue tomorrow, and the vacant labor force will be selected from the refugees, we are now a wartime system, and whoever does not work will have no food." ”

In response to Edlan's order, several sympathetic court ministers tried to say something, but Nunu gave up. This is a troubled time, and it is also the domain of the nobles themselves, and they have no right to dictate.

Edwin Van Cleef then briefly stated the development of the territory, "...... To sum up, the current grain per mu in our territory is no longer able to cultivate wheat due to the fact that the sky has been shrouded in plague and poison clouds, but according to the lord's wishes, we have already sent people to various places to look for crops that can survive in the harsh environment, and we should be able to carry out experimental cultivation when the caravan returns. ”

Edwin's words lit up the eyes of many of the kingdom's bigwigs, and the voices of praise came and went, making the gloomy atmosphere in the conference room a little less. After all, if there is a certain amount of self-help grain production in the occupied area, then the amount of transportation from the rear can be less, don't look at the Lordaeron treasury after it was emptied of a lot of money, but it is a sum that can be saved now, and there are too many places to spend money in the future.

Because of this, they became more and more interested in Edlan and the archon who had been poached from the Stormwind Kingdom.

After all these years of precipitation, Edwin did have the calmness of his superiors, and he would not be as happy as a stonemason before because he was appreciated by some court courtier, and after thanking him without being arrogant or humble, he continued to state, "...... In general, if there is no large-scale military operation, we will have enough food to feed our more than 30,000 people for two years, and optimistically, when those seeds prove to bring us a lot of food, then we will be able to get rid of this wartime system distribution...... Of course, if the trial fails, then the only way for us to obtain grain is to buy it from other places, which is a severe test for our fledgling sea transportation. ”

"Well, I probably understand, but don't worry, although Kul Tiras doesn't have a very good relationship with us, they still don't care about business, and the food matter can be solved as long as we have money. Adlan pondered for a moment, gestured to Kalia, and then said: "Now, I think everyone knows the situation in the kingdom, Princess Kalia will go to Stormwind City to seek refuge and support under the escort of Marshal Tirio, so as long as we can defend the city, the logistics are easy to say." ”

"Thank you for standing up as brave as you in times of national crisis, and on behalf of the royal family, I thank you from the bottom of my heart, and may the Holy Light protect you. Kalia also came out at the right time to make a statement, and then she said seriously: "Little brother Edlan...... Ahem, Baron, I want to keep most of the supplies in the treasury here for you to dispose of, they are more useful than following me to Stormwind. ”

"I second. "Tirio was the first to say it, after all, this has become the front line, and other regions don't know, how strong Arthas's troops are, just look at the tragic situation of the undead fortress, if there are not enough resources to defend the city, then what will be said about recovering the country in the future?

There are now "acting" monarchs and marshals singing and harmonizing, even if those civil servants want to fight, they also know that now is not the time to fight for these, how important this city is, even if they don't understand war at all, they can see it, and they only need enough funds to go to the Stormwind Kingdom to exercise, to move, materials or something, in addition to taking luxury jewelry away to sell or give to the nobles of Stormwind City in exchange for support, it would be better.

Therefore, under the premise of the single-mindedness of the Lordaeron government-in-exile, this resolution was successfully passed.

"Thank you for your generosity, Your Highness Princess...... I also have a proposal. Edlan raised his head, looked at these only remaining "elites" in the Lordaeron Kingdom, and said, "I hope that Her Royal Highness the Princess can give me the authorization to open the inauguration of the Paladin profession to civilians. ”

As soon as these words came out, there was an uproar.

BASICALLY, THERE IS NO NEED FOR PEOPLE TO ORGANIZE AT ALL, AND THOSE OLD MINISTERS CAN'T SIT STILL ONE BY ONE, AND THEY BEGIN TO PERSUADE EDLAN TO "BITTERLY TALK", SAYING THAT THE PROFESSION OF PALADIN IS NOBLE AND TRADITIONAL, AND IT MUST BE BORNE BY NOBLE PEOPLE, AND COMMONERS HAVE THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF COMMONERS, AND NOBLES HAVE THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF NOBLES, AND THE TWO CANNOT BE CONFUSED WITH BALABALA......

In fact, to put it bluntly, this is that the interests of the feudal aristocratic class have been directly affected.

The paladins at this point in time are an aristocratic organization, and their existence is naturally to maintain the legitimate rule of the nobles, but once this profession is opened to the commoners, the increasingly acute conflict between the nobles and the commoners will be pushed to another level, and the commoners have a powerful force that can threaten the nobles, which must not be tolerated!

None of those old ministers had any of the big money left behind in the treasury before, and that was because it wasn't their money or their interests, so Kalia, as the master, was willing to deliver these, and others couldn't say anything, but letting civilians also be paladins was a direct slap in the face of the nobleman.

The importance of the face of the nobility is self-evident, and sometimes they would rather die than save the reputation of the family, and this reputation is face. And why did old Mograini almost not regard Edlan, a hereditary baron, as a nobleman, at the beginning, because his cheap father lost all the traditions of the nobility, and even the ancestral ancestral house was mortgaged for money, which is equivalent to a nobleman being removed, so he did not recognize Adelan's aristocratic status, but later Adelan's performance was really demonic, which made the old Mograine, a traditional nobleman, ignore the aristocratic affairs.

But now, after the "bitter words" of those old ministers found that they could not change Edlan's meaning in the slightest, they began to slowly become irritable, and a lot of sarcasm and slander came out.

However, no one else in the audience could understand except for Kalia, and when Kalia looked at the former little brother who had been silent but still determined, she did not know why Adelane brought up this topic at such a time, which seemed to her to be a big rebellion.

But Adeline only glanced coldly at the old ministers who were almost impotent and furious, and he smiled cruelly and said, "Then I will invite you out of the city, and let you have a good talk with the former citizens about the traditions of the nobility and what the noble lords should do to their lowly commoners? When you're crying for mom on the ground and turning into that damn zombie, I wonder if you're still willing to talk about aristocratic traditions?"

P.S1: I don't know if writing some minutiae like this will ruin the flow of the story?, but I personally think it's more realistic, mortal warfare isn't a game where a person takes the artifact RUA and goes up and flips the opposite game, so I want to write as much as possible about it as a supplement, but it won't be much.