Volume Three: Turbulent Beginnings (Remastered) Chapter 14: The Hills Bled Hills

The pure sky, the gentle breeze, the rolling land is covered with all kinds of plants, the smell of grass and earth is blowing in the face, and the rabbits and marmots are leisurely eating on the fat and tender. The juice of the plant rhizomes. This is the Arathi Heights, the picturesque Arathi Heights.

Yu Bin's destination is the Hillsbrad Hills, located in the northern part of the Arathi Highlands. Ever since the Fireblade Clan began to move to the barren lands, this plain of scarce resources was no longer suitable for Bin and them to level up. The Gnolls and Boar People could not meet their needs in terms of strength or experience, and the centaurs that were originally the most suitable for leveling up were also scattered due to the elimination of the Fireblade Clan, which can be regarded as the negative impact of the Fireblade Clan after coming to the Barrenlands.

Therefore, Yu Bin set his sights on the Hillsbrad Hills and the Silver Pine Forest adjacent to this hill, compared to other neutral areas, these two places are not only rich in products, there are many monsters, and there are various forces, which is just suitable for Bin and them to fish in troubled waters.

However, if you want to reach the Hillsbrad Hills, Yu Bin can choose to start directly from the barren land and take the overland route to the Hillsbrad Hills. However, the road needs to pass through the Thousand Needles Stone Forest, then enter Firas, and from the north of Firas, bypass the Bleak Lands, follow the Carnavien Mountains into Hinterland, and from there through the Eagle's Nest guarded by the Hammer Dwarves and enter the Hillsbrad Hills.

This road is not only long, but also more dangerous, and for Yu Bin and them, it is impossible to achieve.

Therefore, Yu Bin and the others set off directly from Ratchet City, took a goblin airship, and arrived at Calavera, a small camp established by the goblins on the edge of the South China Sea, and from there, rode through the Arathi Heights and entered the Hillsbrad Hills. The only thing to worry about on this route, except for the green-skinned dwarfs, is the pirates that spread all over the coast of the South China Sea.

As an absolutely neutral goblin, in order to expand their trade routes, small towns have been set up in many parts of the continent of Entagre as trading and living, but few places are more dilapidated than Calavera.

The pirates that roam the entire South China Sea have dealt a great blow to the commercial activities of these goblins, and the camp is facing a great crisis.

This can be seen from the large wooden sign that the goblins have set up at the gate of Camp Calavera.

"A pirate's head, 1 gold, a pirate captain's head, 100 gold!"

Simple, concise, abbreviated!

And the price is clearly marked!

Typical goblin style.

These miserly greenskins will take care of each copper coin, but when they find that paying one gold coin will make them more gold, these greenskins will also become the most generous kings.

This also proves how bad the pirates of the South China Sea have had a bad impact on the business activities of these goblins.

Ignoring the goblins who rushed up and tried to sell them their goods, Yu Bin and the others quickly summoned their mounts, left Calavera, and ran towards the wall of Soradin.

At a time when humanity had just broken away from slavery and began to establish its own kingdom under the leadership of Dalaran, a short-lived human kingdom was born in the Arathi Highlands and surrounding areas, Riptide Castle.

This kingdom, which existed for less than 100 years, in its most glorious years, once ruled a territory centered on the Arathi Highlands, including the Hillsbrad Hills, Hinterland, and part of the wetlands.

Unfortunately, with Dalaran's final decision to make the capital further north in Sareliu, Fort Riptide, far from the political and economic center of humanity, rapidly declined and was eventually defeated by the Rockbreakers of Rockmodan in the south, and the kingdom of Fort Riptide became history.

However, when the kingdom was founded, the Soladin Wall, built to protect the Arathi Highlands in the heart of the kingdom, has survived tens of thousands of years, and still stands tenaciously at the junction of the Arathi Highlands and the Hillsbrad Hills.

Some historians believe that it was precisely because of the construction of the Soradin Wall, which cost a lot of manpower and material resources, that the national strength of the Riptide Kingdom quickly weakened, and finally it was unable to resist the attack of the Stonebreakers, causing the kingdom to be completely destroyed.

Although human beings themselves have never admitted this statement, when Yu Bin and the others saw the giant wall in the distance that reached into the sky and was at least hundreds of meters high, they also agreed with this statement in their hearts.

"No wonder that Riptide Castle Kingdom perished so quickly, to build such a thing, no one can afford it!" Just seeing it from a distance, Lei Guang felt a heavy sense of oppression from the huge wall, and said with feeling.

"There are a lot of places that have collapsed." Seeing the uneven height of the Soladin Wall as if it had been gnawed by something, Chen Tao also said, "But no matter what you say, at least this quality is really no problem, it has been tens of thousands of years, and it can still be so high, I have to admire." ”

"All you see is the inner wall of Soladin's Wall, the outer wall is completely gone." Yu Bin felt that these guys should be corrected, and don't think what they see at every turn.

"You say it's an interior wall?" Lei Guang took a breath and asked.

"That's right, the real Wall of Soladin, said to be nearly a kilometer high, is magically fortified enough to withstand the attacks of a giant dragon without any cracks." Yu Bin said with admiration, "The skills of ancient magic are indeed exquisite. ”

"Shhh Except for Yu Bin, several other people felt a pain in the root of their teeth.

"They deserve to be destroyed!" Keldila also changed his previous view of the majestic and magnificent, "It's just an idle egg pain, hehe, thousands of meters!" ”

Yu Bin shook his head: "I really admire the determination of the royal family of Riptide Castle when they made this decision. Think about the feeling of having to enclose yourself within thick walls in order to survive the beasts around you, and the difficulties you have to face to make this decision. ”

Hearing Yu Bin say this, Ailan and the others also let go of their contempt just now, and looked at the surviving wall of Soladin in the distance with awe.

Passing through a gap in the Wall of Soladin, Yu Bin and the others set foot on the boundary of the Hillsbrad Hills.

This is the best grain producing area around the South China Sea, the Sheen River nourishes the land, the monsoon winds in the South China Sea bring plenty of rain here, and the snow in the Alterac Mountains in the distance ensures that it will not be too hot and in danger of drying out.

The hills of Hillsbrad, which are full of greenery all year round, are home to a variety of flora and fauna, and are a favourite holiday destination for bards.

It is bordered to the north by the mysterious Tirisfara Woodlands, to the west by the abundant silver pine forests, to the south by the fish-rich South China Sea, and to the east by the magnificent scenery of the Arathi Highlands.

It has always been the place where human beings have come to freedom, and it has also been the idyllic scenery of their dreams. Countless human kingdoms have dreamed of bringing this rich land under the control of humans. However, only the Griffons had achieved this goal at their strongest, briefly ruling the Hillsbrad Hills for nearly a hundred years.

Unfortunately, with the collapse of the Griffon Dynasty, the kingdoms that inherited the dynasty's legacy relinquished control of the land of abundance in order to compete for power, and the trolls and orcs succeeded in establishing their own settlements on this hill by taking advantage of the drastic decline in human control.

Thousands of years ago, in a faction war, the trolls who occupied the Broken Ridge northwest of the Hillsbrad Hills summoned the incarnation of the evil god Haka, turning half of the Hillsbrad Hills into a sea of blood, which greatly harmed the natural environment here, and turned the beautiful and peaceful Hillsbrad Hills into this dangerous and dangerous area.

Not only are they now plagued by the undead born from the ruins of Andorhar, but also the orcs hiding in Dunhold Castle, the ruins of the Riptide Kingdom, and the pirates who roam the South China Seas see this fertile land as a place for them to take advantage of.

Humans who used to be almost all over the hills of Hillsbrad can now only roam the vicinity of Southsea Town, and further afield, belong to the territory of those wild beasts and all kinds of unfriendly creatures.

Yu Bin and the others were welcomed by these beasts, who were not at all hospitable, and entered the Hillsbrad Hills.

There are three largest forces on the Hillsbrad Hills, and the humans who still live on this hill are centered on the town of Anhai located on the coast, and have established a large number of farms and estates in the southern hills near the coast, and have their own militia organizations, the South China Sea militia is not as soft as it sounds, this group of guys with the title of militia are all skilled and powerful elite professionals, and they have practiced a good martial arts by fighting trolls and orcs all year round.

Near the Wall of Soradin, in the eastern part of the hills, Dunhold Castle is a stronghold of the Orcs, and the Bloodcave Clan occupies the ruins of the Riptide Fortress Kingdom, where orc warriors from the Bloodcave Clan often set out to attack the sentinels patrolling the South Seas Militia.

The last force is the mountain trolls of the Broken Ridge in the northern part of the hills, who have been expelled by the elves from the Mazarus Mountains to call themselves the Dark Pine Clan, a branch of the forest trolls. It is said that the Darkpine tribe was once a member of the troll empire of Zandalara, but since the tribe summoned the incarnation of the evil god Haka on the Broken Ridge thousands of years ago, the Darkpine tribe has become the minions of the evil god, ready to spread the horrors of Haka throughout the Hillsbrad Hills.

In addition to these three more powerful forces, there are also some ogres and elves living in the hills of Hillsbrad, there are two fish-man tribes and the Angry Scale Naga in the offshore area near the coast, and there is also a group of kobolds and jackals living in the South China Sea mine more than four hundred kilometers away from Nanhai Town.

It can be said that the entire Hillsbrad Hills is a pot of porridge stewed by a third-rate chef, and the smell of various ingredients is mixed together, which has long concealed the original taste of this pot of porridge.

This is also the reason why Yu Bin chose here, for them, the hills of Hillsbrad are almost full of monsters that can be used to upgrade, even the blood cave clan that occupies Dunhold Castle is also a die-hard clan that believes in the power of shadows and cultivates warlocks, these orcs of the blood cave clan will gouge out one of their own eyes when they become adults, channel the shadow power into the blood cave left behind, and obtain the innate ability of the eye of shadows, so that they can obtain better vision and perception than the enemy at night.

The chaotic relationship between the various forces has left their control areas staggered, and Yu Bin has had several battles since leaving the Walls of Soladin, with the Hill Bear and the Silvermaned Wolf being the main force of the attack, and as for the gnolls who charge with their knives, they are completely here to send experience.

Alan stabbed a bigwig beast to death with a dagger, a large and bloated quail that is common in the Arathi Highlands, but the Hellsbrad Hills are clearly more comfortable than their brethren in the Arathi Highlands.

"I hate big gooing!" Because the cry of the owl beast sounds similar to the pronunciation of "coo", so players generally refer to this kind of big quail that walks upright as coo, the ordinary coo is the big coo, the red coo is the crazy coo, the green coo is forgive the coo, anyway, it is all kinds of coo.

Many players who have high food requirements like Big Goo, because the flesh of the beast is fat, and it has some magic power, which can be used to slowly replenish life force and mana, and in the eyes of players, it is an ingredient that can temporarily replace the recovery potion. However, due to its cute appearance and unintimidating voice, most players still can't accept this inhumane cooking ingredient.

"Remove the head, the chicken flavor, crunchy!"

"Fart, why do you want to eat meat jerky as a necromancer!"

"You can't say that, the beast is full of treasures! Flesh can be used to replenish vitality and magic, blood can be used to replace some low-level magic materials, claws can be used to make arrowheads, and antlers on the head can be used as weapons to smash people! Lei Guang didn't care about cutting off the best part of the flesh from the beast with a small knife, "You have to know that it is not easy to return to the undead clan from here, it will take at least ten days to go back and forth, and if we are not careful, the supplies we bring are not enough." I can't follow you up the mountain to be a savage! It's a shame to say it! A dignified master went to drill the wild forest! ”

Yu Bin kicked Lei Guang's ass with a laugh: "You are embarrassed to say that you use the most supplies among the four of us, and you can pour a bottle of magic recovery potion at every turn, and you can only put death impact and bone teeth until now, which is simply a shame in the master!" ”

Keldila stood next to him and laughed, which made Lei Guang very unhappy: "What are you laughing at, you are also a master, my disgrace is your disgrace!" And in the mood to laugh! ”

"Don't pull me in, the magic doesn't need to consume mana, and it can be recovered as soon as twelve o'clock in the middle of the night passes, not to mention that there are already eleven kinds of magic skills I can use!"

Lei Guang, who was severely stabbed, had no choice but to turn his grief and anger into strength, oh no, for the sake of food, and stuffed the meat of those owl beasts that were still bloody into his mouth.