"Come over some, move things to the gap and plug them up."

"That crane, ...... with that crane"

"What about those arrows, didn't the three teams go to collect the arrows that can be used, what about the people?"

There was a busy scene in the pass.

Although there was a bit of an accident along the way, the battle ended in a complete victory, with few casualties except for the Gilneth Brigade.

After the wounded were sent to the workers' quarters at the construction site for intensive treatment, the soldiers were busy cleaning up the corpses, collecting useful supplies, and piling up barricades with debris to repair the breaches of the wall that had been blasted out by spells in anticipation of the coming wave of corpses.

According to the investigation, after the fall of the pass, the Scourge army brought out about half of the walking corpses from the northern corpse tide that attacked the Ambermir defense line to recover the pass.

There were about 20,000 of them, and their arrival time, similar to the tide of corpses in Gilnes, was about two days later.

In order to open up this vital transportation artery, the Scourge Corps is imperative.

Even if the mages of Dalaran are already working on building a new teleportation channel, no less than 2,000 of the most elite soldiers will be teleported over for reinforcements in the past two days;

Even these hundreds of thousands of walking corpses are only the weakest of the resurrected;

But compared with the garrison strength of the pass, it is still a drop in the ocean, and it is not worth mentioning. At that time, the battle will be extremely difficult.

They need to hold out for at least half a month, waiting for the regular army of Lordaeron in the direction of Hillsbrad to arrive in Ambermere, and after defusing the threat of the northern corpse tide, come for reinforcements......

There is no room for error.

Otherwise, the hundreds of thousands of walking corpses in Gilneth will be able to enter the Silver Pine Forest, and there will be no easy and difficult passes like the Northern Pass to defend it, and the war will become extremely difficult.

Walking in the defensive line, Oryx, who examines the defense work, is repeatedly watched, and these eyes are full of awe.

In the battle just now, it was he who pinned down and killed most of the undead troops, like a miracle, leading the least number of troops to achieve the best results, otherwise this battle would not have ended so simply.

"Arugao?"

In the corner of the defensive line, the Dalaran mages are examining the corpses of members of the Cursed Sect in the hope of obtaining information on the other side.

Alexandros Mograini, Gianna, and Lady Jandis Barov gathered around a corpse, and a name familiar to Aurex was pronounced.

It can't be the "Arugao" I know, right?

Oryx was stunned for a moment and hurried over.

Through the gap in the crowd, I saw "Arugao" lying on the ground, wearing the black robe of the high-ranking acolyte of the Cursed Sect, the body was severely damaged, the robe and half of the body were burned, the skin and flesh were charred and rolled, and the foul smell of burnt paste was exuded, which was obviously the injury caused by the mass destruction spell of the Dalaran battle mage.

The other half of the body was withered and pale, like a corpse that had been dead for a long time. The chest was hit with a blunt object, and the entire chest was sunken in, exactly in the shape of a war hammer, apparently killed by Alexandros.

To die at the hands of a legendary paladin is also a kind of honor.

However, Oryx found that the blood that came out of the wound of "Arugao" was stinking and sticky, no different from the undead who had been resurrected by necromantic magic.

He couldn't help frowning slightly.

It's obvious.

Before being killed, "Arugor" had already died once and was resurrected as a slave to the Lich King.

If it was really the historical Arugao, how could he die so early?

"Who is the deceased?" In order to seek the truth, he asked hypocritically.

Gianna turned around and handed over the search to Lady Jandis, and replied sadly, "It's a royal mage from Gilneth." In the past few years, he has won the title of Archmage of Dalaran and has made great achievements in the field of summoning magic...... He was a model of the school of summoning magic. ”

Oryx duly reveals his grief over the loss of his predecessors.

I was thinking...... The royal mage of Gilneth and the master of the summoning magic school, all kinds of evidence gathered together, and sure enough, it was that Arugao.

"But what's going on? Did this archmage join the Cult of the Damned? After going around in circles, he finally asked the question he was most concerned about.

Arugao is the culprit behind the werewolf curse ravaging Gilneis.

At the beginning of the Third War, summon werewolves from the Emerald Dream to try to resist the Scourge Legion outside the walls of Greymane and ensure the safety of the Kingdom of Gilney.

However, he eventually lost control of the werewolves and became a slave of the head wolf Lyral Flamefang, believing himself the father of the werewolves, entrenched in the castle of Shadowfang, summoning more werewolves for his master, and plotting evil plans......

How Arugao became a member of the Cursed Sect, whether he joined actively or passively joined after failing to resist, being killed, resurrected, and controlled, he didn't care.

He was worried that it would not be good if the Cursed Sect had received werewolf research and summoning methods from Arugao.

"I don't know," Gianna sighed, "but it's a great loss for Gilneth and Darla. ”

"It depends on what 'joining' means," Mograini said, standing up meaningfully, "and it's not a human who fights me, but an undead." ”

Oryx nodded.

This is in line with his previous speculation, killed, resurrected, controlled. Unlike most members of the Cursed Sect, in order to facilitate their actions in the human world, their original life form was temporarily maintained.

However, this does not mean anything.

Gianna, on her part, seemed to have made a discovery. From Arugao's belongings, an enchanted space bag was found.

After breaking the magic of the space bag, an item fell out and spread all over the ground. Among the vast array of magical artifacts, she found a pair of shackles that emitted strange fluctuations, and a study notebook.

Hastily flipped through her research notes, she couldn't help but gasp, "What kind of monster is this?" ”

I saw a werewolf drawn on the note.

Ms. Jandis took it and looked at it carefully, and said in a deep voice, "Arugao is here...... Trying to summon such a dangerous monster, and having already achieved initial results, what a crazy guy. ”

"Why would he do that?" Oryx asked knowingly.

"As far as I know, he's not the only one to discard the rules of safe magic just to verify the truth. Maybe he saw the value of this dangerous monster and wanted to summon it to resist the Scourge Legion? Who knows. Ms. Jandis said nonchalantly, but she told the truth.

At this time, Gianna found something more valuable and showed it to the heavy man with a solemn expression.

It's a secret letter.

[Arugao is hereby appointed as Task Force, giving him the power to mobilize all resources in the country to resist the threat of the Scourge Legion.] Those who see this letter need to do their best to meet all the needs of Arugao and help him to act. 】

Underneath is the signature of Jean Greymane and the seal of the royal family of Gilness, dated the day before the outbreak of the plague.

The evidence is pieced together little by little.

Oryx sighed faintly.

It seems that the archmage has given Jean Greymane advice to summon werewolves to resist the natural scourge, and has been approved by the king. However, he was killed on the way to the north and was resurrected as a slave of the Scourge Legion.

This should be the truth.

He spoke, "Perhaps this archmage, with the approval of King Greymane, summoned this monster to resist the Scourge Legion, but died at the hands of the Cursed Sect before he could start his operation.

I think that anyone who can kill an archmage must have extraordinary combat strength. Even if it is not the likes of Kel'thugad, it should not be underestimated. They may still be near the pass, and we should be on guard in case we are caught off guard. ”

Everyone nodded in unison.

"That's how it should be. We also found the bodies of several Gilneth mages, all of whom were supposed to be his apprentices. Ms. Jandis replied.

Gianna groaned, "If I contact the Gilneth survivors, I'll ask them to confirm this." ”

Oryx then suggested, "If the Cult of the Damned gets a way to summon this terrible monster, it won't be a good thing for all of us. This matter should also be investigated as much as possible. ”

In the canon, Lordaeron was destroyed, and the werewolf curse swirled around the borders of Gilneth at most. But now it's different, the kingdom of Lordaeron still exists, and if there are really werewolves summoned and the curse of werewolves into the kingdom of Lordaeron, it will not be a good thing.

……

Just as everyone was leaving, a battle mage came running and shouted, "I received Gilneth ...... News of Gilneth Survivors! ”