16. Battle of Ironforge. Friends
Tails swore that if he was given another choice, he would never go to Kazmodan, a hellish place to go.
The League of Assassins is a truly large organization, and every member of it has tasks that cannot be completed as long as they want to make money, many of which are well-paid but also very dangerous adventures, such as going to a kingdom's treasury to "take" something, such as going to a high-security prison to save someone, etc.
As an international organization with deep roots, the League of Assassins was not established to achieve "justice" or have some kind of sacred mission, but for the simple reason that it existed, it was for money.
After the first generation of Assassins withered over time, their descendants passed on this fine tradition, and the current League of Assassins is always collecting money, but the most unfortunate thing about being in a turbulent era is that there are many things that you can't do without doing if you want to.
Even the League of Assassins is the same, after the re-establishment of the Human Empire, the ties between countries have become closer, and the intelligence organizations of various countries have begun to communicate with each other, and the result is that the living space of the Assassin League has been greatly compressed, especially since the current Emperor His Majesty is not a decent person who likes to hire assassins to do things, which makes the Assassin League face a serious business crisis.
In this case, in the face of the olive branch thrown by the empire, the leaders of the Assassin Alliance did not hesitate for long and accepted the goodwill of the empire, and as a result, in the alliance, the tasks related to the emperor's ** matter increased rapidly.
One of them is what Tails is doing, and he is ordered to enter the battlefield of Kazmodan to gather enough information for the Imperial Center about the undead, any information about their troops, tactics, combat systems, and even logistics that may not exist at all.
It was not an easy job, but after being carried away by love and investing all his savings, the shy Assassin had to say goodbye to his girlfriend and rush to Kazmodan to offer his "loyalty" to His Majesty the Emperor.
Tails is not a lucky man, in his short young life, bad luck always happens one after another, such as now, at the moment when he completed the mission and was ready to evacuate, Tails easily crossed the ruins of the undead fortress, ready to blend in with the deserters and leave, but when he looked up, he happened to see the scene of General Danas being cut by Tyrion's throat.
Watching the splattered blood fall on the contaminated snow, that scene almost made Tails's heart stop beating.
And now, less than a minute after that, he's in even worse trouble.
"How long do you want to be there?"
"Are you coming out on your own, or will I do it" and "please" you come out? ”
Hearing Tyreon's cold but familiar voice, Tails looked at the face and the back repeatedly, and finally confirmed that the Death Knight in front of him who felt like he was blowing up just by looking at his standing posture was definitely the same guy who had traded him years ago.
Well, he'd walked past the guy with a delicate, expensive flask, but that cutie had been used up a year ago.
"I hope he isn't a grudge..."
Feeling the shadows around his body grow colder, Tails swallowed, and finally obediently stepped forward, holding his hands up, indicating that he had no malicious intent.
"Uh, I remember you, your name... Your name is Dawn or something, anyway, I've seen you, we've worked together, handsome guy, I just passed by here unintentionally... I didn't see anything! ”
Tails licked his dry lips:
"Let me go! My mouth is very strong, my friends call me "honest and reliable Tails", and I will never divulge your whereabouts! I can swear by my father's name! ”
"Hmm... I remember you. ”
Tyrion turned his head to look at the nervous Tails, his ice-blue eyes with a hint of scrutiny, and a moment later, a dark silver raven coin appeared on his fingertips, and when he saw this silver coin, Tyreon's heart finally fell, it seemed that Tyrion had no intention of killing him.
"It's always nice to see old friends, but here's the problem, I remember you saying that you can be found in the taverns of the Eastern Continent if you need anything... I've looked for you three times! ”
Tyrion's next sentence caused cold sweat to appear on Tails' forehead again, and he twisted his fingers a little nervously, and stammered:
"Well, I have a lot of tasks to do during this period of time, you know, I'm a high-level assassin, I'm very busy, besides, it must be those informants who haven't contacted me, after all, the matter of assassins, how can it be called a missed appointment... Say, what do you need me to do? I'll do it right away! ”
Tails slapped his chest and shouted, but Tyrion looked at him suspiciously, and finally shook his head:
"I don't need you anymore."
This sentence made Tails subconsciously grab the dagger on his waist, although he didn't have much contact with Tyrion, but this assassin could probably guess the mind of this kind of big guy, useless things have no value, and worthless things or people often end up miserable.
But just as he was suspiciously thinking about whether to get up or not, Tyrion said slowly:
"I'm done, but... Speaking of which, I do have a very troubled thing that I need from a good assassin like you to help me. ”
The King of the Blades narrowed his eyes and looked at Tails:
"That's a dangerous thing, only really good guys can get out of it, my only question is, are you the kind of great guy I need?"
"Uh, I..."
Tails glanced at the constantly humming magic sword behind the King of Dark Blades, he sensed that his answer was very important to his life, and after a few seconds of hesitation, he nodded:
"I am!"
"Excellent! I like confident people. ”
A smile appeared on Tyrion's face again, and he reached out and patted Tails on the shoulder, lowering his voice:
"Mograine, the great nobleman of Lordaeron, I want you to check if he took anything from the Burning Plains battlefield five years ago, if so, help me get it back, of course, I will pay you enough, a sum of money that you will never spend in your lifetime, and..."
"Your meaningless little life..."
Tyrion didn't say the blunt threat, but Tails, who was entangled in the dark red energy of death, seemed to hear it, and his body stiffened.
Tyrion didn't seem to know what kind of effect his words had on Tails, but maybe he wouldn't care if he knew, the identities of the two men had changed drastically in the past few years, and in the current situation, the high-ranking assassin Tails was not a threat in any way.
"What is this?"
The King of the Blades took a scribbled document out of Tails' bosom with great interest, and he flipped through a few pages, where there was a lot of scribbled handwriting, and even some clumsy stick figures, which could probably be seen as an Assassin's point of view, describing information about the undead legion.
And Tyers looked at Tyrion's expression cautiously, he had mobilized all his energy, once Tyrion showed a trace of killing intent, he would immediately turn around and run away, but whether he could escape or not, Tails himself was not sure, especially after seeing Tyrion kill General Danas like a chicken, Tyreon was really not confident in his escape.
"! It's all! ”
Tyrion threw the information that Tails had carefully collected for several days on the ground, and stepped on it intentionally or unintentionally, which made Tails very distressed, it was a lot of money!
"10% truth, 50% speculation, and the remaining 40% are complete nonsense."
The King of the Dark Blades looked at the high-ranking assassin in front of him with a strange gaze:
"If I didn't know your details, maybe I would have thought that you had been developed into our person by Nassa's little goblin, and with such information to fight us, the defeat of the empire was simply doomed, of course, if the secret agents of the empire were all like you and your style of acting, how much worry should I have."
"Ah, I didn't intend to finish it."
Seeing that Tyrion had no intention of killing people, Tails's nature flares up, and he leaned against the wall of the ruins, and said nonchalantly:
"You don't know how much the bureaucrats of the Empire want to know everything about you, what I have gathered is not on the table in your eyes, but it is definitely the lifeline that those bureaucrats need the most, especially after this painful defeat..."
Tails glanced at the corpses on the battlefield in the distance, he closed his eyes and said:
"Rather than being beaten blindfolded, even if it is only half true, it will be regarded as a real treasure by them, and the special form of existence of the undead is destined to make it impossible for the living to mix in with you... At least there is no way to perfectly disguise yourself as an undead now, and it is too difficult to get information from you. ”
"And you've got a lot of ghost-like creatures... I suspect it's definitely the top assassin you killed and resurrected. ”
Tails coughed lightly:
"They're our kind, and they don't have to breathe, they don't have to worry about being poisoned, they have complete autonomy over their bodies... They were simply the perfect predators of the Assassins. ”
"Thanks for the compliment."
Tyrion smiled calmly, and after a moment, he said to Tails:
"The basic combat unit of the Undead Legion is the war group, there are currently 13 war groups deployed in the eastern continent, of which 6 are newly formed, and there are 5 war groups involved in the attack on the empire, which are currently commanded by me personally, with 5 army commanders and 15 combat commanders, as well as 2 dark warlock war groups, after completely occupying Ironforge Castle, I can form 1 Kazmodan war group again, the choice of the army commander has not yet been determined, but it will definitely be the "acquaintances" of those kings. ”
Hearing these military secrets, Tails' eyes were a little glazed, and it wasn't until Tyrion stopped talking that he came back to his senses, and looked at the King of the Dark Blades in front of him, he showed a sluggish expression:
"What?"
"Isn't that the information you need to take to the mission?"
Tyrion asked, and Tails was a little frustrated:
"I mean, why are you, why are you telling me this?"
"Interesting question."
Tyrion's eyes changed for a moment, he looked at Tails, and said:
"I'm never bad to my own people, so I'll give you what you need, and I'll help you move up to a higher and more important position in your system, and of course, when I need to... I am sure that you will not refuse my request...". ”
"Huh?"
Tails immediately understood what Tyrion meant, this was to ask him to become a double agent, but the problem was that the risk was too great, and in this situation, once others found out that he was connected to the undead, he would definitely not be able to get out of the borders of the empire alive.
He wanted to refuse this "kindness", but seeing the eyes of Tyrion staring at him, the eyes that belonged to the dead, made the high-ranking assassin immediately dispel this thought.
"The empire has barely learned something, but their crude "decapitation" tactics are pointless. ”
Tyrion said slowly:
"The reason why the warband wants to use high-level knights to command lower-level knights and use lower-level knights to command undead infantry is very simple, just to reduce the pressure on the knight's soul, but when necessary, a high-level death knight can control more than 3,000 undead infantry, and the reason why they usually don't do this is just because it's unnecessary, so if the empire wants to really carry out the "decapitation", either kill the legion leader in one fell swoop, and then strip it down, or directly send someone to kill me..."
"As you can see, I can command the undead infantry of the entire battlefield by myself... And that's without using all your strength. ”
Tails took out a new text and quickly recorded the information that Tyrion said, he had already seen that what he was holding in his hand was not a document, but a bright future, of course, Tails would not be stupid enough to take out all these things at once, that would only make others doubt him, he had to seize the opportunity, but for high-level assassins, it was not difficult.
"You know exactly what this information will be, right?"
Tails glanced at the King of the Dark Blades:
"A lot of veteran assassins will get caught in the news... Your head will definitely be worth a lot, and no, the Emperor might even trade an earl title for your head! ”
Hearing the words of the high-ranking assassin, Tyrion smiled indifferently:
"Earl? This seems to me a humiliation... Of course, I welcome the Assassins to assassinate me, I lack talent, very short! Otherwise what do you think I'd tell you this? ”
The exchange between the two did not last long, and Tyrion would not be stupid enough to hand the really important information to the Empire with both hands, but the "truth" he said was enough for the Empire to digest for a while, and enough for Tails to change to an official position that was not noble, but important enough.
As the High Assassin was about to leave, Tyrion called out to him.
He took something out of his storage ring and placed it in the palm of the Assassin's hand, a thumb-sized bottle filled with a suspicious pure black liquid that seemed to be actively devouring the surrounding light as Tails picked it up.
"This is the prepaid reward, the pure blood of the shadow demigod, it will make you more loved by the shadow, it will make you the king of the shadows, but the blood of the demigods is so domineering, if you can't take the stabilizer within 1 year, you will lose the handsome appearance of a human, lose all your sanity, be devoured by the shadows, and then turn into an ugly wind snake."
The King of the Dark Blades reached out and helped Tails twist the seal on the bottle, then took a step back, drew his magic sword with his backhand, and looked at him calmly:
"So, drink it... You will be able to return to the Empire with your bright future. ”
"Or, with your beliefs and secrets, join us."