After getting dressed, everyone gathered around Alvin and listened to him plan his next move.

"Our mission is to control the Third Wing of the Second Legion stationed at the Undead Fortress, and Carralta, the deputy captain of the Third Wing, will cooperate with our actions," Alvin turned his gaze to Mina and said with a slight apology, "Mina, I have to let you participate in the mission this time, we are short of manpower. Able to disguise us as other people, we have such soldiers, but they are not as skilled as you. Moreover, the mission we have to carry out is the most crucial of our High Lord's plan! There can be no room for error. ”

"I understand, Captain Alvin," Mina looked at Alvin with a smile, "I'm no longer fighting on the front lines, but I'm also a member of the Southern Theater Army. ”

"But you're civilian, you're our agent's trainer, you're a captain." Naomi shrugged her shoulders mischievously and said with a playful smile, "Look at me, I'm still a second lieutenant after so long. ”

"Shut up! It's mission time! Alvin glared at her, who pouted and didn't speak.

"We are all elites in the security services, and this task was assigned to us directly by the High Lord. He sent us here ahead of time to intercept all the messengers who were going to deliver messages in the Valley of the Hearth! It doesn't matter where it comes from! Alvin glanced at everyone present, "We have a great responsibility to stop everything that is going to happen in the Tirisfara Glade and the Silver Pine Forest!" ”

Then, Alvin pulled a pocket watch out of his bosom, looked at the lid and said, "It's 11 a.m., and the High Lord will cross the Undead Barrier around 6 p.m. and reach the Valley of the Hearth around 8 p.m. The amount of time we will hold on to the Undead Fortress is unknown for the time being, but it is certain that as long as the High Lord does not come back and does not deliver a message to us, then we need to stay there! ”

"If the plan does work, there will be a legion of troops to join us! Be prepared for an onslaught from that side. ”

"Are we really going to break with headquarters?" Harrow Star, the only hunter in the group, asked.

"That's not something we should think about, all we need to do is carry out the order!" Alvin shook his head, he looked at the crowd and said solemnly, "Who has any doubts? Once we're out of this house, we're on to real mission time! ”

No one said anything, and Alvin nodded, "Okay, let's go!" ”

Pushing open the closed gate, it was empty outside, but on the railing next to the door, there were five horses tied to the seal of the Second Legion.

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Locke drove the lightning bolts and moved slowly through the Haru Gorge. Behind him, the knights of the cavalry legion marched as slowly as he did.

Next door, on the ruins of Lordaeron, the walls were once again filled with forsaken soldiers. In addition to the proper guarding, the soldiers just walked under their noses.

"Great Lord, what do you think of these self-aware undead?" Erigor walked beside Locke, craned his neck to look at the undead standing on the wall in the distance, and pointed to the banners of the Forsaken, "They still have banners, just like a whole society!" Don't know if you want to eat? Are there any entertainments? Can you give birth... Breed the next generation...."

"Also, what do they do with the carrion and maggots?" Erigor thought about it beside Locke, and then he shuddered and said, "The Holy Light is above!" If only I had become like that! I'm going to be in pain! ”

"Nobody wants to be like that." Locke glanced at the Forsaken banner fluttering in the wind on the city walls, and said blandly, "They were all Lordaeron people just like us in their lifetimes. They also have their own lives, their own families, and their own people and things that they care about. It is the undead who have destroyed their happy lives, and it would be unfair if we simply put all the blame on them. ”

"They fought for Lordaeron until they died in the land of Lordaeron. They have done their part for the sake of their country. As latecomers, we shouldn't make fun of them with these vulgar contents. Although they are reawakened by the Scourge after their death to work for what they resent, it is not what they want. ”

"Now, they are out of the control of the natural disaster. Claiming to be the Forsaken, they swear revenge on the Scourge. That's not a bad thing for us. On the contrary, none of this should change when we are not purging us of the remnants of natural disasters around us. ”

"In the same way, as paladins, as believers in the Light, if we fail to treat them fairly, it will be a heavy burden for our faith and for our hearts."

Locke turned his head to look at Erigor, who was a little surprised, and continued, "There are some people who, on the surface, seem to be thinking about us human beings, but are doing things behind our backs to destroy us! And some of the undead, despite their abominable faces, have a fiery heart similar to that of us humans! Running around for the cause of our humanity! ”

"Sometimes, the lines between camps can be blurred."

Locke's seemingly inconsequential words silenced Erigor for a moment. This is not Locke's intention to praise the Forsaken, it is.

On the vast continent of Lordaeron, millions of humans once lived. All kinds of people make up the most powerful kingdom in the human world, Lordaeron!

And when the order of Lordaeron was destroyed by natural disasters, many evils that could only be hidden in the sewers in times of peace also came to life in the light of light.

Theft, robbery, and murder are all over the place. And the most heinous of these is human trafficking!

The Forsaken entrenched in the ruins of Lordaeron have long lacked the population and subjects to experiment with, and although they have tried various methods to achieve this, such as stealing corpses, etc., to no avail.

But they quickly found the right solution! They exploited one of humanity's most prominent shortcomings!

Greedy!

In this dark age, the vast land of Lordaeron is inhabited by countless civilians who have escaped natural disasters and wars. They hide off the beaten track and live a life of no quarrel with the world. But they couldn't have imagined that their actions had caused greedy black hands to reach out to them!

Human traffickers!

The Forsaken in the Undercity have connected with a team of adventurers who are mainly humans. They use high sums of gold to hire adventurers who have no conscience, and use them to hunt down civilians in Lordaeron and send them to the Undercity!

At the very beginning, a gold coin! A human life was sent to the undead in the Undercity!

Earn this gang of gold coins stained with human blood! Locke's Southern Theater has already knocked out a lot! However, this specimen is not cured!

The Forsaken has increased the price of each living person to 5 gold! The high price made many deluded adventurers rush under the gallows in the southern theater of operations.

And to the deplorment of the soldiers in charge of such cases, many of these accomplices are old people and women! They completely turned their backs on their beliefs!!

Every time this kind of incident happens, a relevant report will be handed to the desktop of every official in the Southern Theater of Operations! Locke's attitude is very clear! Meet such people! It doesn't matter what race they are! It doesn't matter if they're old people or women! Tie them to the squares everywhere and scrape them into a pulp with a knife!!

And to the lament of the officials in the southern theater of operations, there will always be some civilians who escape from the heavily guarded Dark City.

At first, this seemed inconceivable to Locke and the others. However, it was as simple as that, their escape was released by many ordinary undead civilians in the Undercity who still had consciences and memories of their lives!

This is a very contradictory thing for believers in the Light. The opposite of the Light, the dead who represent evil, save the living who represent hope and light from that hellish city! And some of those who often talk about the holy light have sent their own people to hell!

How ironic!

This depressing topic silenced the talkative Errigor. Eventually, he spat at the ground in hatred!

"Phew!! This damn it... What the hell—" Erigor turned red, not knowing what to say.

Locke ignored him, and he turned his head to look behind him, where Brigitte calmly followed Hudson's side, the woman still angry about what had happened last night.

Locke looked at her again, then turned his head back, and he slowly tightened the reins in his hand.

When this is over, you will understand my painstaking efforts.

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Originally, the Undead Barrier was a narrow valley between the Tirisfal Glades and the Eastern Lordaeron region, where the Carral Mountains, which stretched for thousands of kilometers, were cut off, and the Rudot Mountains, which stretched from the kingdom of Alterac.

The Undead Fortress was built on top of this slender canyon.

At the beginning of the Scourge plague, in order to fend off the hordes of undead who were constantly roaming the Tirisfal glades in Andorhar. Under the orders of Uther, the then head of the Knights of the Silver Hand, Kurtaz Brute, one of the Four Knights of the Apocalypse today, built this bulwark against the attacks of the undead.

The rampart is a masterpiece of the Hammer Dwarves, and its main structure consists of a huge mountain castle and a massive wall connecting the two mountain ranges.

Beneath the city walls, on the side of the Tirisfal woodland, houses are built against the walls. They were used as barracks for soldiers and as shelters for some civilians who sought refuge here.

The walls are thirty feet high, and its stone is taken entirely from the mountains on both sides. The walls were as wide as ten feet, allowing soldiers to fight and run on them. On this 100-meter-long section of the wall, a total of eleven ballistae were scattered and pointed at the East Lordaeron region outside the wall.

After the fort was built, its value was fully demonstrated in previous battles.

At the beginning of the Scourge War, Uther was ambushed by the Scourge in Andorhar, and the fearless Lightbringer was beheaded by the fallen Prince Lordanon, and most of Eastern Lordaeron trembled under the control of the Scourge Legion.

But the undead barrier is still unbreakable!

Led by Kurtaz Brutehammer, the dwarves and the surviving members of the Knights of the Silver Hand, they have resisted the Scourge Legion attack after attack!

Until the Lich King arrives......

The Lich King has summoned his greatest masterpiece!

The massive frost dragon obscured the bleak sunlight, and the cold dragon's breath swept through the fortified bunker, and many dwarves and humans who did not have time to escape the bunker were forever reduced to crystal clear ice sculptures. The desperate survivors shuddered as the Scourge came up like a tidal wave.

In order to cover the evacuation of his men, who had lost the will to fight, Kurtaz Brutehammer brandished his weapon and charged at the army of the undead.

Eventually, the exhausted Kurtaz Hammer fell under the Lich King's magic and became one of the Lich King's Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse!

And this undead fortress has been preserved and continues to this day!