Chapter 9: The Siege of Talonshire (I)
"Keep up! Teacher, you led Starf and his party to surround them from the flanks. Ogilis, take your knights, and rush up to the high ground to stop the undead from crossing the gentle slope. Sephes, let's move forward head-on together. Push them into a corner! ”
Under the dim canopy, Ares shouted, and in front of him was a small force of panicked undead natural disasters, like headless flies, constantly fleeing under the siege and interception of the Brotherhood of Light. In the past few days, Ares has led the members of the Brotherhood of Light to fight everywhere, fighting skirmishes again and again, in order to cultivate a tacit understanding between the team.
But since the Brotherhood was very small, only more than a hundred people, Ares only organized a team of about fifty people every time he went out, but it was enough for such a scale. These people are almost all the elite of the Scarlet Crusaders and the Silver Dawn.
Under the order of Ares, the knights led by Ogris were the first to move, and these heavily armed paladins rushed from the backfield, directly bypassing the undead army and rushing to the high ground in front of them.
Fred led the priest and hunter to flank the group of zombie undead. Ares and Sephes followed closely behind with a large group of men. Between the highlands and the Light Chasers, there is a huge farm and ruins, and the zombies have almost nowhere to escape.
Once the Scarlet Knights of Ogris climbed the heights, they set their sights on the undead, and if they dared to ascend, the paladins swooped down from the heights and crushed the skeletons in one fell swoop.
And Ares and Sephes, with more than thirty warriors, kept approaching. Zombies and ghouls fell under the onslaught of the swords of the Silver Dawn Warriors, turning into piles of rotten flesh and broken bones on the ground.
Ares stabbed his sword into the body of a zombie, and when he pulled out the blade again, he dragged out the disgusting internal organs. The zombie fell unconsciously, his hands still crawling, and he was cut off by Ares's sword again, until the stump on his body could no longer be twitched.
"Where is the front?"
Just when everyone thought they were winning, a thick mountain fog suddenly drifted from the other side of the hill ahead. Completely hide the undead zombies who had nowhere to hide. The highlands and plains, flanked by rivers, were an area where the undead had nowhere to hide, but now, the fog made it impossible for anyone to see their tracks.
"If I'm not mistaken, the valley and ruins ahead are Talon County."
Sepheus pursed her chapped lips and replied.
Talonshire ...... When he first heard this name, Ares didn't react at first, because it was not a particularly famous place in the history of World of Warcraft, unlike Icecrown Glacier and Stormwind, which everyone knew and had a loud name.
But this place is special...... If nothing else, there was a tear-jerking story here. Pamela, yes, Ares still remembers that classic quest, it is not an epic quest, there are no special rewards, but back then, countless players passed by here and witnessed the tragic situation of the little girl Pamela, and they all felt very sad.
To put it simply, in the days when the undead were raging by natural disasters, Talon, as an ordinary town in Lordaeron, had no reinforcements from the alliance, and the villagers in the town spontaneously formed a militia team to fight against the undead natural disasters. The little girl's father, Joseph, led the troops as the captain of the militia and left little Pamela at home, telling her to wait for his return. Don't open the door when you meet anyone, or there will be no bad corn.
The young girl, Pamela, was home alone, locking the door and waiting for her father to return home to be reunited with her after the undead had been defeated.
However, tragedy struck, and without the support of the Alliance, the militia guards of Talonshire were no match for the Scourge Legion, and after fierce resistance, the father of Pamela Jr., Joseph, was killed in battle. Moreover, the Lich contaminated its soul and became a member of the Scourge Legion. After that, the Scourge swept through the village, and even little Pamela was killed by the undead.
Poor Pamela was waiting for her father to come home, but she could never wait...... The story ends with the appearance of the bronze dragon, helping the player to change history a little bit, allowing Timmy to reunite with his father, Joseph. However, Ares knew that the Bronze Dragon would not care about such a thing in real history......
And in Dalong County, there is only endless sorrow, and a bleak elegy floats over this land.
"Go ahead, find these undead!"
After briefly recalling this history, Ares couldn't help but take a deep breath of cold air and ordered the troops to move forward, enter the abandoned village, and find the undead and kill them completely.
There was a heavy stampede on the muddy ground, and the feet of the warriors in their iron-clad combat boots trampled across the mud and splashed a little bit of water.
However, the deeper you go into the valley and the ruins, the fog gets thicker, and the cries of ghosts begin to be heard all around, as well as the sound of countless stumps and severed arms rubbing together......
"I don't think there's something right. The rancid smell in the air was getting stronger, and the grinding sounds......"
Sepheus held the great sword, a deep voice coming from his throat, his expression serious and solemn. As a battle-hardened warrior of the Silver Dawn, he felt uneasy about his surroundings. And Ares also felt that this was no longer the ordinary farm and ruins, but ...... The smell of the plague...... The strong rancid smell of zombies and ghouls. But the group of zombies just now, only two or three hundred, was not enough to emit such a strong smell.
Could it be......
Although he couldn't sense whether there was a surge of dark energy around him, Ares instinctively felt a kind of crisis, and the fog did not seem to be naturally formed, but brought about by some kind of dark energy......
As the team advanced through the village, the uneasy voices became more and more apparent. As if countless pairs of rotting hands were digging through the debris of the ground, a disgusting roar emanated from the depths of the mist.
"Sephes, stop moving. This is the end of today's encirclement and suppression, and I feel that danger is coming. ”
"Everyone, retreat immediately!"
Looking at the unbreakable fog around him, Ares shouted. However, it was too late, and just a second before Ares gave the order to retreat, countless zombies with broken bodies rushed out of the mists of the valley!
The group of zombies at the front can even see the heads in rows.
"Paladin, your pride ends here, Ember Bringer, I've been waiting for you for a long time."
A terrifying scream filled the air, and banshees and undead broke through the fog and swooped down on the paladins......