Chapter 83: The Battle of the Plague (1)
My sudden order made everyone very confused, yes, this sentence seriously did not fit the current atmosphere of the conversation, so the partners were very confused. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ο½ο½ο½Uο½Eγ ο½ο½ο½ο½
"Arthas, what's wrong?"
"Thisβ" I was embarrassed, and as I was making an excuse as usual, Gianna came to me with a word that I couldn't refuse
"Arthas, you seem to be hiding something from me. β
"This..."Yes, I have already lost one for my concealment, I don't want to lose the last one, and how much Luo Ning, who is in the know, also knows something, such as his hometown that he was talking about just now, and he will definitely think that my statement may be related to that. This means that I had better not hide anything, so I close my eyes and calm down. "Think about it, that time, under my light, the orc confessed the news that the demon was coming. β
"Your Highness, do you believe what the orc said?" said Manik, who didn't trust the orcs from the bottom of his heart, or those Black Rock Mountain orcs. I can only use excuses that I shouldn't have known to warn them.
"No, but I believe that the Time Dragon told Ronin some of the crises, and why that Karegos really left... They may have been wreaking havoc in Northrend for a long time, and now they are ready to invade our continent. β
I said this, and everyone was even more puzzled about what I said, especially the person concerned, Luo Ning, who choked up even more, maybe he immediately wanted to know the truth and wanted to cooperate too much with the 'excuses' I just mentioned about the Dragon of Time.
"It's... How do you know. β
"Because the report from the north says that he has returned, and that Kel'thugad, who had always wanted to specialize in spiritism, has returned, and that he has now established his own sect, perhaps it has something to do with it. I replied to him, and soon Gianna, who was also a mage, immediately thought of the fellow disciple I was talking about.
"Didn't he go to Stormwind?"
"Varian didn't accept him, so he had no choice but to go to the Northern Continent in the future... That outpost has always been the appearance of demons, such as the battle between Egwene and demons..."
I said this, and everyone was skeptical, but one person did believe it, and Luo Ning wanted to go home at this time to find out. In this regard, I can only warn him, if he finds something unusual, come back and report the situation quickly, instead of entangled with the possible 'demon', after seeing Luo Ning nodding and disappearing, I can only hope that he will not lose anything.
Ronin used his spell to reach his destination first, while the army could only rely on footsteps to go in the direction of the Hearthfort, yes, it was a grain and grass area, and Kel'thugad would definitely be there.
Maybe it's the things in the South that take up almost all of our energy, plus I don't know if it's because the demons are focused here, and we've even heard some rumors along the way that I didn't expect, yes, I seem to have forgotten that a guy would spread rumors before he can act on his own. But that's not all, what really worried me was that when I was inquiring about the news along the way, I was told that ogres had recently appeared in many places, and fish-people who had begun to flood for some reason.
Yes, I now realize that there may be other ancient beings who have sensed something, such as a possible chance to rise....it seems that I will have to deal with this matter anyway, if not, I think there may be more than just the Burning Legion as a threat, but also those more terrible forces waiting for the opportunity to rise....maybe.
We headed north, and at noon we came to another important town, Atrick, and found a broken bridge in the middle of the crowd, and I seemed to have some bad feelings about it. So I brought the team there.
"Has this always been a broken bridge?" I asked myself.
"Yesterday it was fine, but today it was broken. "A nearby man who was going to go there came to me, and another old man told me about another acquaintance. "It looks like someone should have destroyed this bridge, but who is so boring, could it be those new fishmen stationed on the beach?"
"It's a mage! "Before the man could finish speaking, Gianna sensed something nearby and warned me, yes, Gianna has grown into a mage who can recognize spell abilities, but at this moment I didn't feel any comfortable, but nervously said to the villagers.
"Where is the other side of the river?"
"Atrick's granary. β
"Granary!" I exclaimed, yes, that's how the plot is, on the other side of a broken bridge, and they are there! I even felt a little unsteady on my feet at the thought of this..... yes, I used to think about what I could change, but it seems, it seems to be happening again....but I have to stop it anyway "There should be another way?"
I continued to ask, and soon I had an answer that I knew.
"The eastern shoal should be passable, but a fish-man-like creature has recently appeared there. The man pointed to the shallows on the east side of the town, and his companions were a little puzzled by such an answer.
"Fish-people? Is there really such a thing as a fish-man?"
"Yes, I have often heard from my father about the fish-people, and there are specimens in Dalaran, a rare creature in the sea. β
"Rare creatures?" I shook my head at Gianna's answer, but felt that now was not the time to discuss it with her, but perhaps something else could be said. "Perhaps, but we'll feast our eyes on it today. "I didn't go on, but I wanted everyone to hurry to that place, after all, he was right in front of us, and we couldn't afford to waste time here.
We made our way down the shallows, and on the way, we did meet those strange creatures. If it weren't for the limbs to stand on, or even to hold a crude weapon, and those big eyes, I don't think anyone would think that they were any different from fish, I remember that they were all descendants of some of the High Elves, and it was because of the great maelstrom 10,000 years ago that they followed their queen Azhara into this creature, but I was a little skeptical at this time, because they didn't seem to have much intelligence like the High Elves, and they actually didn't have much of a numerical advantage to swing their knives at usγ
But I didn't want to waste time on them, so in the face of such a guy whose combat power was a little higher than that of kobolds, I only let a few people participate in the battle, and the rest of them still accelerated.
At first, many people were reluctant to accept my decision, because they wanted to choose to slaughter these strange creatures, but soon their interest came to an abrupt halt as they came ashore and saw another, more unacceptable creature appear before our eyes.
"Holy Light, what is this?"
Once upon a time, I had fantasized about what they looked like, and it still made me sick when they actually appeared in front of me. Yes, I thought about why the orc Death Knights covered their faces. It's true that no one wants to be teammates with such deformed creatures, they are indeed in human form, but their whole body is either rotten flesh, or they are pure skeletal creatures, but it is clear that none of them are intact, and it is clear that they all have painful memories at the end of their lives.
But now was not the time to hesitate, they had already surrounded some of the living guards.
"There's no time to be in a daze, our compatriots need support. β
Instead of looking at the creatures, they rushed forward. Yes, although the skeleton soldiers are less intelligent than the fishmen, and their combat effectiveness is half a pound or two, but in their distorted and unconscious faces, I believe that even the warlike warriors will not like such a fight, especially when the words of a rescued soldier make everyone feel even more frightened.
"Someone turned the corpse into a skeleton... I've seen strange-looking people who have turned human bodies into this way. He said, and the other soldiers nodded in agreement.
"Turned corpses into skeletons?, where did you get so many corpses?" Gianna wondered, and I snapped out to him if he wanted to.
"The plague, of course, the spell that turns the living into puppets. I explained, then turned to the soldier who had spoken. "Where are the mages?"
"Near the granary. β
"Damn them, they're already moving!" I yelled, and then motioned for them to hurry to the location he said. And after that, I did let me see the real undead creatures, those creatures wrapped in magic robes, yes, it should be some mage, alive once a mage, but now a member of the undead. At this point, they have taken the granary, and are manipulating the grain, and the skeletons they have created are helping them bring more corpses. Looking at the messy piles of corpses and the stench of flies, no one would want everything to happen like this, but since it happened in front of their eyes, they had to choose to eliminate it.
"In the name of the Light, destroy these filthy creatures. β
It is not very difficult to destroy these enemies with quantitative and qualitative superiority, and a single necromancer simply cannot pose the slightest threat to so many of us, and we will soon destroy them all, and Gianna instinctively studies their formations for their form.
"I think they're creatures resurrected by dark spells, and that reminds me..."
"Remembered the unstable creatures created by Kel'thugad?"
"Arthas, how do you know?"
"Because he's nearby," I said, as if something was wrong, but I didn't have time to explain to her again, "burn down these contaminated granaries and hurry up to find the next one." I ordered, but a saved local guard retorted.
"Your Highness, this is a few years of harvest in our town, and we still have to use part of them to pay taxes, is there any other way to save this grain? β
"This is food contaminated by spells, and if anyone eats the food here, it may be as simple as getting sick. I rebuked the man, but even with my temper, the man stood there and continued to ask me, yes, as if he cared about what I said.
"What will happen to you?"
"Of course it's going to be the thing we just killed," I explained, and no one was trying to stop me from having my mages burn the grain, but quite a few of them were in a cold sweat and looked at the other people differently. Yes, that means the last thing I want to see happen to me.......