"Sora, long time no see."

"Yo, it's the captain!"

"After you were deported, you cut off the news, and a few days ago I learned that you had joined the National Knights of the Royal Sect in Alterac, but unfortunately we didn't meet until today, which is really not a coincidence."

"What's the wrong coincidence, I'm just hiding from you, I was blocked by you today."

"Hide from me? Why? ”

"I'm afraid you'll be embarrassed. Although Quel'Salas has a lot of stupidity, I think you are still very pleasing to the eye, captain, so I won't block you. ”

"Why, shouldn't it be a blessing for old friends to meet?"

"Yes, I'm glad to see you, Captain, but what are we going to say? Is it the embezzlement of public funds by the Silvermoon Council, or the children of the nobility buying the exploits of war, or the generalissimo, who has a deep blood feud but can only seek help from humans? ”

"Sora, are you here to block me?!"

"I've said it all, we don't have anything to talk about when we meet. I'm already desperate for Silvermoon City, and you still bless hope, I don't care if I scold Quel'Salas casually, anyway, political exile, it's good to be happy, and you have your family, you have your concerns. Captain, you don't think the two of us can sit together and talk about cosmetics and new clothes, do you? ”

"If you're not so radical, whether it's the church, the Mage Council, or the military, there's a place for you, and even the general of Silvermoon City isn't impossible."

"And then give them dogs?"

"Aren't you also working as a dog for Carlos now!"

"Yes, the former was forced by you to put a collar on me, and the latter was me kneeling and licking, and King Carlos still ignored me, so annoying!"

"Sora, what makes you so extreme?"

"Aurelia. What makes you so obsessed? ”

"Where am I obsessed?"

"You came to me just to pull allies. Quel'Salas 500,000 elves, few of them will stand out for your business, Silvermoon City is in the northernmost part, and the orcs are in the south, you expect those old things to run through the entire continent to help you find your brother? Only humans. Only the humans in the Alliance have this motivation and this strength. Captain, you know better than me that the future belongs to humanity, and it is impossible for 500,000 Queldore elves to compete with 5 million humans for the right to speak. You can actually see it better than me, the first elves who took the initiative to help the Alliance, most of the Alliance's top brass remember your favors, and I wasted too much time in Stratholme, and by the time I can see it, you will already be in a relationship with them. And now I can only choose one side to join. But captain, there is one thing that you are not as good as me, that is, you are reluctant to spend money, in order to achieve the goal, I don't even want to lose face, and the night attack on His Majesty Carlos is at least three times a week, but I can't beat him, and I am thrown out again and again. It's really embarrassing. And you, you want to use the power of others. I am reluctant to spend the capital, if I change positions with you, the queen's position will already be mine. ”

"Sora, I'm not ......"

"As I said, I spent all my free time in the corner, and I was watching the whole night from the sidelines."

"You ......"

"Aurelia. You taught me a sentence back then, and it seems that you forgot it yourself. ”

"After living for so long, who can remember every word they have ever said."

"Silver Calendar, Seventeenth July Seventeenth of the Thirteenth Year of the Bright Night Chronicle, Night. I just made the jump from the Mage Society to the Far Wanderer unit. The old ghost of Birohua greets you and asks you to take care of me, and then you take me, who doesn't even know how to hold a sword correctly, to play a night battle with the trolls. That night, you saved me three times, and then you told me how much you are capable and how much you can do, and if you can't do it, it's just because you don't work hard enough. What a perfect dismount, I was really scared at the time, the kind of trembling that stood at the forefront of life and death, mixed with fear and excitement, addictive. ”

"I'm sorry, I was young at the time, and I didn't do things in a measured way."

"Why apologize, you're not wrong. I didn't grow as fast as I did when I wasn't under you. It was also in the war between the Far Traveler and the Trolls that I realized the power of the collective and the importance of comrades-in-arms. ”

“……”

Aurelia suddenly felt that it was a mistake to come to Sora to catch up.

"If you don't have anything else to say, I'll go first, after all, the generalissimo and the exile have a secret talk, and it will be bad for you to spread the word."

As the sound of footsteps faded away, Carlos stopped holding his breath and gasped.

"Tanhime, the two of them didn't notice the outside, did they?"

"Surely you didn't find me, but you don't have to, Your Majesty. Although the breathing sound is well controlled, the heartbeat is too loud. ”

With that, Tanji grabbed Carlos' hand and put it on her chest.

"Your Majesty, you don't have the talent to be a stalker!"

, what have you learned with Brother Bald!

"Look, my heartbeat is so smooth sometimes noticed by police dogs and wolves, and those two female elves have so sharp ears, Your Majesty, you must have been discovered."

Carlos pulled his hand out without a trace.

"Forget it, if the two of them don't find out, I'll treat them as if they didn't find out, and now continue to report the situation."

"Oh, good."

It's a leeward col, and the empty underground cavern is suitable for a storehouse. Unexpectedly, his secret meeting with Tanhime would be blocked by Aurelia and Sora, and Carlos was also depressed.

But on the march in the field, there are many people and many eyes, and Carlos clearly understands that the enemy is not only orcs, but also hidden by his side with malicious intentions. Winning the Orcs is only a victory for all of humanity, and it is the victory for the Alterac and Barov families to generate more benefits after the Alliance wins. So Carlos didn't want to expose his intelligence sources, and he didn't want Tanhime's existence to be known to others.

So when Carlos came out of the cave alone, the guards had strange expressions.

"Stay on the alert, soldiers."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Seeing a gray shadow flash through the guards' blind spots, Carlos thought it would be better not to linger here, just stride away.

"What did you just see?"

The captain of the guard glanced viciously at his men.

"Your Majesty has come to inspect the garrison!"

The organic spirit ghost immediately replied.

"Well, that's good."

The captain nodded in satisfaction, then glanced at Carlos' departing back.

Good subordinate, spiritual, is an official, this loyalty table is in place, but I haven't done anything!

Carlos felt his blood and blood not go well, and his chest was tight.

The orc sweep has been going on for a week. Unlike other regions, as a landing ground for orcs and a secondary station for seaborne supplies, the tribal camp in the southwest of Hilbride has always been heavily armed, the south can suppress the Riptide Rangers at Soladin's Gate, the north can monitor the alliance movements of South Sea Town, the east can approach Dunhold Castle and threaten Hinterland's Eagle's Nest Mountain, and the west is Palatine Bay, which is the last retreat of the orcs.

In the absence of a frontal defeat of the Alliance's main force, the Southwest Camp was a must for the Horde, and Carlos was not so arrogant, thinking that he could use 10,000 troops to annihilate the 20,000 orcs with strong fortifications.

Killing the enemy is secondary, and the main goal of the battle is to uproot the many outposts erected by the orcs.

DAI Lin. Prodmore led the Alliance Navy to maintain sea fortifications, the Fort Riptide Rangers were frequently mobilized, and the true movements were unknown, and the orcs of the Southwest Battalion could not draw enough troops to fight against Carlos, so they could only defend passively.

In one week, fourteen outposts were burned, and more than two thousand orc troops were annihilated piecemeal. However, the orcs had to grit their teeth to bear these losses, and constantly sent reconnaissance teams out to find out the situation.

For although the informant reports that the enemy is only 10,000, if you lose all your eyes and become blind, who knows how many enemies there will be when you mobilize a large army to fight. Ogrimmar's death order to the Southwest Camp was not to be lost.

In this way, one side gritted his teeth and resisted, and the other side was empty, and in the continuous temptation and purging, Carlos finally waited for Solas. Bertone's unequivocal reply.

Fort Riptide mobilized 20,000 troops, hoping that Carlos would mobilize the same number of troops, and after the two turns, they would conduct a large-scale raid on the orcs in the southwest region of Hilbrand.

"It seems that Brother Lothar is also going to make a move, the north is dragging the main force of the orcs, and it is inevitable to copy the orc's hometown, Brother Lothar is not going to let an orc go back to the wetland, what a ruthless heart, such a big appetite."

Carlos, after circulating the letters from Fort Riptide to his generals, began to talk to see what others thought.

"With so many troops, what about the defense of the Saldo Bridge?"

"We can't fight it, we dwarves designed a plan to blow up the bridge at the beginning of the war, and if we can't hold it, we will blow up the bridge, and you don't have to worry about the orcs in the wetlands going north from the bridge."

Muradin. Brass whiskers patted his chest and reassured.

"The war has come to this point, everyone knows the roots, not to mention that this area is suitable for cavalry combat, the rangers of Fort Riptide and the highland cavalry of our Outlake can be said to be the two most powerful cavalry units in the alliance, 40,000 people encircle and suppress 20,000 orcs, unless the main force of the tribe comes back, we can't find any reason to lose!"

"Your Majesty, let's fight!"

"Your Majesty, the time has come to pay the blood debt!"

"Your Majesty, we are willing to be pioneers!"

"Your Majesty!"

"Your Majesty!"

In the midst of the call for battle, Carlos felt that the army was ready to use, so he gave the order to draw troops from Tarummir.

However, only three days later, as soon as the Fort Riptide Rangers were out of the walls of Soladin and their infantry was halfway through, a big news that shocked the alliance spread throughout the Hilbride theater.

Dalaran has been broken by the Horde!

An orc division broke through Dara and then moved into Lordaeron, and the northern orcs attacked Gilneth, and the alliance took a sharp turn for the worse.

"Withdraw our troops, we are ready to go north."

Standing on the top of the hill, Carlos could already see with the naked eye the large camp on the Horde coast a hundred kilometers away, but he had to give the order to withdraw his troops.

"Your Majesty, the encirclement has been completed, we ......"

"Withdraw, don't you understand! Send someone to inform the Allies at Fort Riptide that we are withdrawing first. (To be continued.) )