Arthas stared at Oryx for a moment, "What can you do?" ”

"Your Majesty will find out in a moment."

Oryx asked one of the royal guards to call Lady Jandis Barov, who had followed him to Steinbrad.

Of course, it wasn't just these battle mages who were sent to protect him to join the battle, they were only seven or eight people, and they couldn't play a decisive role. The main purpose was to ask Jandis Barov to send a message to the Kenrito Council.

While waiting for Ms. Jandis, Oriden Pirenod explains to Oryx about Steinbrad's condition.

At least a thousand orcs are currently wreaking havoc in Steinbrad, and according to the scouts, they have set up barricades at the entrance to the town facing this side, controlling the nearly 10,000 residents of the town who have not been able to escape, and have begun to perform sacrificial rituals in the central square.

On the other hand, although there are 3,000 troops formed by the rout of the shelter garrison, these shelter jailers who have been idle for more than ten years have experienced repeated defeats and are at the lowest point of morale, and they simply do not have the courage to fight the orcs.

Three hours earlier, they had learned that the town had been overrun by orcs through a few of the town's guards who had fled to this side.

As for why it was not discovered in advance......

It's not that the orc march is too hidden, but this "jailer force" is too lax, and everyone thinks that this is far from the rear, and it is impossible for the orcs to bypass the defense line of the kingdom's regular army on the front line to attack here.

The commander of this force, Oriden Pirenod, asked for the aid of the defenders of Andorhar and Tarummir through carrier pigeons, and organized several offensives.

As you can imagine, they were all beaten back by the orcs.

The heaviest casualties were the last assault on the town. As the two thousand soldiers marched into the wilderness a kilometer east of the town, the elite orcs who had been waiting for their work charged at ease, and they were scattered in a single glance, killing and wounding hundreds—mostly casualties from the stampede of the rout.

In the end, Oriden had no choice but to take his troops back to the garrison and await reinforcements.

It took nearly an hour for the distress letter to travel to other places. Tarummir was the first to respond, followed by Andohar, who sent their troops lightly and hurried in.

However, the distance between the two places was a hundred kilometres, and it would be nice to be able to arrive in the early hours of the morning by dividing small forces and concentrating all the horses on them, and letting them ride three horses without sparing any horsepower.

By that time, Steinbrad would have become a purgatory on earth.

And Arthas, who heard about this, also directly ordered the royal mage to send a magical message to the Knights of the Silver Hand investigating the Scourge Legion in Northrend, asking Mograini and other high-ranking officials to return quickly.

Then the king came to his side, ready to oversee the battle himself, and finally Oryx arrived.

That's the timeline of the attack on Steinbrad in the past few hours. A series of problems were exposed, such as the insufficient fortification of Lordaeron for such transportation hubs and the slow delivery of letters.

Compared to the afterlife, which opened super-large teleportation channels and sent hundreds or thousands of soldiers hundreds of kilometers away in an instant, Lordaeron is still too backward today—let alone in the afterlife, such a sight is rare.

In today's countries, there is generally no mage organization dedicated to serving the military, and even magic messenger services are not popular, and government orders and even military orders rely on griffin riders and carrier pigeons. In fact, after all, the phenomenon of mages everywhere does not exist in reality.

"Your Majesty, the griffon riders report that an hour ago, the vanguard of the reinforcements of Andorhar had entered the Alterac Mountain Pass. Judging by how fast they are traveling, they should be there before midnight. "A royal guard came to report.

"How many are there?" Oryx asked.

"Three hundred." The guard replied.

Oryx couldn't help but shake his head, it seemed that he couldn't count on them anymore.

He couldn't help but think that it would be nice to have a well-trained griffin unit as a rapid reaction force...... However, he also understood that this was completely unrealistic. Even if all the griffons in Lordaeron were gathered, it would be estimated that there would be more than a thousand.

Domesticating more griffons and training gryphon riders that are extremely difficult to train is not a goal that can be achieved in the short term.

"Your Majesty, Lord Mograini and some paladins with the Silver Hand have arrived." Soon another guard came to report.

If it weren't for the investigation of the Scourge with Mage Dalaran, these paladins would not have been able to return so quickly.

"Go tell them about the situation." Arthas said to Oriden, who took the order.

After a few more moments, Lady Jandis Barov came and saluted Arthas respectfully, "Your Majesty, greetings to you. ”

The attitude is lukewarm and completely routine.

What Lordaeron has done to the Barov family over the past decade or so is normal, but it is not very glorious. He has been playing on the betrayal of the alliance and humanity by King Aiden Pirinord of Alterac, and has stripped them of their ownership of Southsea Town, Brill and Talenmere on the grounds that the Barov family had supported the royal family of Pirenod.

It is said that there is a joke among the nobles of neighboring Gilneth that there may be a Minehir who does not oppress Barov, but there is no Barov who does not hate Minehir. That's what I'm talking about.

"Ma'am, I hope that Dalaran can help us defuse the crisis in Steinbrad, could you please convey this request to the Kenrito Council for consultation?" Arthas asked.

"I will, but I don't think the council will be able to give an answer satisfactory to His Majesty. As you know, most of our mages have been sent to Northrend to investigate the Scourge Corps, but they don't have many people to drive them. ”

Ms. Jandis replied very officially.

There is no element of deliberately stumbling because of personal grudges, when it comes to such an important official business, this Dalaran high-level will not do this, and her pattern is not so small.

She wasn't wrong in the slightest, the problem was that. The whole people sent Northrend to go, and they were not skilled.

It's not that Dalaran is cold-blooded enough to ignore the thousands of lives of Stein Bradley, it's the mages under the jurisdiction of the Kenrito Council who all have a work that is far more important than saving these lives.

"Ma'am, that's the ......"

He spoke.

“…… These orcs are not affiliated with, or even hostile to, Thrall's new tribe. They still serve the Burning Legion, which once enslaved the orcs, and are in some ways allied with the Scourge Legion, which also upholds the will of the Burning Legion to weaken the world. I suspect that they came to Steinbrad to start a war between the Northlands and the Orcs, leaving us in the mire of war against the Scourge Legion. ”

"If I'm not mistaken, I'm afraid that members of the Cursed Sect, disguised as regular soldiers of Lordaeron, are already doing the same to the orcs in the southeastern part of the Hillsbrad Hills as we speak.

Cause friction and war, destabilize the Northlands, and create favorable opportunities for the spread of natural plagues and the arrival of the Burning Legion. This is the beginning of a conspiracy, no less important than the detection of the Scourge Corps......

And those Blackstone Clan orc warlocks in Stein Bradry must have a lot of secrets about their demon masters. I think that catching these warlocks will also help Dalaran better establish his understanding of the Burning Legion. Please also convey to the Kenrito Council that the power behind this group of orcs must not be underestimated. ”

Jandis frowned deeply when he heard this.

She didn't know about the relationship between the Blackstone Clan and the Burning Legion, and she had only thought of these orcs as ordinary orcs before.

Needless to say, where Orix's words came from, they must have been seen in the prophecy. He foretold the existence of the Scourge Legion, the plans of the Cursed Cult, and the invasion of the Burning Legion, all of which were confirmed by the investigation.

So far, no one has dared to despise his words.

He said yes, then it was best to look it up, not to mention that it involved such an important matter.

"I will convey this to the Kenrito Council at once, Your Majesty." Jandis nodded to Arthas, and then walked away quickly, anxious as he walked, apparently startled by the shocking news.

Don't talk about her, Arthas's expression is also very solemn. Orix hadn't explained in such detail before, "Are you sure? ”

"Your Majesty means that the Cursed Sect is also causing friction on the orcs' side?"

Oryx looked at the fire-engulfed town a few kilometers away, "This is not a revelation from the Light, just my own speculation. I think the whole Hillsbrad Hills will be in turmoil these days. And what happened to Stein Bradley was only the beginning. ”

As Oryx expected, twenty minutes later, Jandis Barov returned.

He was accompanied by Lady Modra, a member of the Council of Six Kenrito, who brought with them a whole team of battle mages. In this group of mages, there is also an old acquaintance of Alsace, the high disciple of Antonidas, the leader of Dalaran, and the royal highness of Kurtiras, Gianna Prodmore.