Chapter 561: Zur Grab (1/4)
Leaving Lake Naferiti, Jiang Zheng turned into a tiger again and ran wildly in the direction of Zulghab.
Except for the Nesinvari Expeditionary Force, which had already left, no one would pay attention to a tiger, especially one of the most powerful tiger kings.
When night fell, Jiang Zheng came to the mountain pass, and not far away was the huge Zurghrab.
Trolls once ruled over most of Azeroth, building countless towering cities, and Zur Grab was one of them.
It is the capital of the Gulabash Empire, and has existed for tens of thousands of years, even earlier than the appearance of the Night Elves, and is considered one of the oldest cities in the world, if not the capital of the Dark Empire.
This city of earthy yellow masonry is a real city, covering a huge area, even larger than Lordaeron.
With the collapse of the Gulabash Empire a millennium ago, the trolls largely left Zurghrub and scattered throughout the Valley of Thorns, such as the Bloodtop Trolls who lived near Zukunda, the Skullsplitter Trolls who lived near Zumawi, and the Gulabash Trolls who lived near the Southern Gladiatorial Arena.
The birthplace of the great Gulabash civilization, Zur Ghrab, located in the easternmost part of the Valley of Thorns, has been abandoned for more than a thousand years.
All along, only a handful of trolls lived there, just the Gulabash trolls who had studied and wanted to keep the ruins from the jungle, and only a handful of them.
But Jiang Zai knew that it wasn't like that.
Because he soon discovered that there were many figures who did not belong here and occupied the city.
"Atalai Troll!"
The Attalai trolls are not actually an independent clan, the Hakale is.
During the time of the Gulabash Empire, there was a clan that was the most loyal to Haka, and the original name is no longer remembered, and this clan was given the name "Hakale", which means "servants of Haka".
Later, Haka's greed grew, and he began to lose patience with the loyal priests Hakale.
Hakka orders the Hakka to try to bring his entity into the world so that he can drink the blood directly.
Most of the hakhalai were frightened, and only a part of the hakalai was determined to carry out the haka's orders, so they became independent and called themselves "Atalai".
The Zandalar clan rallied the clans to destroy the Gulabash Empire, and the Atalai trolls were banished and almost slaughtered, with only a small number fleeing to the Swamp of Sorrow and building the Temple of Atahaka.
The Hakka were also banished, and later came to the Swamp of Sorrow, where they also joined the Attalai, hoping to summon the Hakka into this world, destroy it, and avenge them.
Now, these guys are back!
There are many troll clans in the Valley of Thorns, the blood-topped trolls, the skull-splitting trolls, and the most orthodox Gulabash trolls, which are the more numerous and powerful clans among them, each with a population of thousands.
The original most powerful Gulabash troll gradually declined, and now there are less than two thousand.
The skull-splitting trolls are stronger, probably less than three thousand.
The Bloodtop Trolls are the strongest, about five thousand.
Coupled with the other small troll clans, there should be a lot of twenty or thirty thousand in total, after all, the trolls have declined.
Jiang Zai once heard Brian say that in its heyday, the Gulabash Empire should have more than a million trolls, and its territory includes the current Valley of Thorns, the Western Wilderness, the Twilight Forest, the Windward Trail, the Elwyn Forest, the Cursed Lands, and the Swamp of Sorrows, which is a powerful empire with the Zu Aman Empire.
Even if they were successively disabled by the Yaki Zerg, the Pandaren Empire, and the Night Elf Empire, there should be at least 100,000 before summoning Haka.
According to the records of the ancient troll tablets dug up by Brian, in the battle 1,500 years ago, the Zandalar clan gathered tens of thousands of trolls to attack Zurgrab and directly crippled the Gulabash Empire.
Since then, the trolls have been affected by the harsh environment of the Valley of Thorns, with all kinds of beasts everywhere, lack of food, and the birth rate has not been comparable to the death rate, so the number has been declining.
Today, 1,500 years later, that's all that's left.
Now that the three thousand Atalai trolls have returned, their overall strength should only be below the blood-topped trolls.
They have only one purpose: to summon Haka!
And if they succeed in summoning Haka, with Haka's powerful power, the strength of the Atalai trolls will inevitably be further improved, and they will become the most powerful troll clan in the Valley of Thorns, and then, just like Jiang Zai knows, they will start attacking and enslaving other clans, and even the high-level sacrifices sent by the Zandalar clan will be enslaved by Haka, and then the Zandalar clan will find the alliance and the tribe, ask for help, and finally kill Haka and destroy the conspiracy.
"Haka, it seems that he has returned to this world......"
Jiang Zai entered a stealth state, quietly climbed the tallest building in Zur Grab, and looked far away.
The whole of Zurghrab is a thriving scene, where thousands of trolls live.
Trolls believe in Loa demigods, and the Gulabash Empire even once regarded Haka as the highest faith, so at the very front of the long corridor at the main entrance of Zul Grab are two seven or eight meter-tall statues of wind snakes, which look particularly permeable.
Looking at the two wind snake statues, Jiang Zai seemed to feel that Haka had been watching him, and he felt uncomfortable for a while.
In the battle of Karazhan, Jiang Zai was stared at by Harvey across the world, and that feeling was really uncomfortable.
Even if Haka is not as good as Harvis, I am afraid that it will not be inferior to ordinary wilderness demigods, and it is definitely not a good thing to be targeted by such an existence.
Along the corridor, you can also see statues of cheetahs and tigers, all of which are statues of LOA gods worshipped by trolls. However, they are not as powerful as the gods of the wilderness, and their strength is uneven.
Jiang Zheng continued to move forward, and suddenly his face changed slightly:
There's a battle ahead!
Jiang Zai hurriedly approached, and soon found that one of the parties was obviously an Atalai troll, and there were still traces of resurrection on many of his bodies, which was the proud work of the sorcerer Jindu.
The sorcerer Jindu's voodoo skills are very strong, and he can perfectly resurrect the corpses of trolls, and those troll undead in the Temple of Atahaka should be his masterpieces.
But Jiang Zai found the characteristics of the blood-topped trolls and the skull-splitting trolls in some of the trolls, and it was obvious that Jindu not only resurrected the dead Atalai trolls, but also resurrected other trolls, so the strength of the atalai trolls must be stronger.
Hundreds of Atalai trolls are besieging a squad of trolls with only a dozen people.
The members of this troll squad were obviously smaller than the other trolls, and their arms and legs were thin and thin, and they looked as if they were malnourished.
Of course, the trolls are much taller than humans, and although they are relatively thin, they are still much taller than humans, and even a few of the female trolls are not under Jiang Zheng's height.
Although the combat power of this troll is not weak, it is obviously unable to fight against ten times the enemy, and the reason why it can still support it is mainly because there are two great beings among them:
Two Shadow Hunters with six or seven weapons on their backs and two double-ended scimitars in their hands!
They weaved back and forth through the crowd, as fast as the best thieves, and the twin knives in their hands were somewhat similar to Illidan's Aesinos Blade, far less powerful than the Aesinos Blade, but they shimmered with a cold white light, and instead appeared a touch of green, which was the color of voodoo.
They're not just Shadowhunters, they're excellent witch doctors, and among the six or seven weapons they carry on their backs, there's a Voodoo Staff!
Two Shadowhunters, one is slightly weaker, but also a master-level existence, and the other is stronger, worthy of entering the legendary level:
It turned out to be Wojin, the Wojin who led the Darkspear Clan to join the tribe!
How did he get here?
At this time, shouldn't he be in Durontar and help Thrall build Orgrimmar? How did it end up here?
Trolls are strong, very strong.
Alliance and Horde combined, so many races, individual combat power can be comparable to trolls, only Night Elves and Minotaurs, Orcs can't.
In terms of pure strength, trolls are not even much worse than orcs, not to mention that trolls also have regenerative abilities that other races do not have, and their endurance and life-preserving abilities are not comparable to other races.
Every adult troll is a veritable professional, and in human society, the proportion of professionals is less than one tenth of all adults!
The one who is now besieging the Darkspear Squad is the best among the trolls.
Although Wojin is a legend, he is only the weakest legend, and can only fight against a dozen or twenty Atalai trolls at the same time, any more of them are dangerous, and the other Shadowhunter is even weaker, and can only face seven or eight Atalai trolls at the same time.
Not to mention, among these Atalai trolls, there are also high-level sacrifices with outstanding spell-casting abilities!
What's more, there are more Atalai trolls, rushing towards this side!
The two Shadowhunters could have rushed out with their speed, but the Darkspear Trolls had already been injured, and Wojin obviously didn't intend to abandon his companions, so he kept fighting to the death, but going on like this was definitely not the way to go.
"Woking, count yourself lucky to have met me!"
Jiang Zai snorted coldly, jumped in the air, and came to the gate of Zulghrab, which was twenty meters high, and then took out the orange bow, and swished a few arrows!