The sound of ding-dong, ding-dong, the clear water of the bay carried the boat, and it was moving quickly on the lake. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

That's 10 to 15 knots...... Loria thought silently, her hair tossed by the oncoming wind, and she didn't bother to comb it, she was still agonizing about what the mysterious thing under the boat had saved her.

"It must be the elves of the lake!"

Elie Meow showed a look of yearning...... The poor little guy was a blank slate when he first met Loria, and after being taught a lot of strange things by Pink Fur, he has recently been polluted by human fairy tales and thrillers.

A crisp and melodious tinkling sounded intensively, and the mysterious thing that was carrying the boat forward seemed to like Elie Meow's words—she liked to be called the fairy of the lake.

"The Spirit of the Lake......"

Loria muttered to herself, holding the compass in her hand, correcting her direction from time to time, "Please go this way." ”

As if he could understand her words and see her hand, the bay of clear water followed Loria's fingers to adjust the direction of progress.

In just a few hours, Loria saw waterfowl, hovering in mid-air, swooping down from time to time, and when they rose up again, they probably had a small fish in their slender beaks—the appearance of waterfowl showed that they were not far from land.

The boat stopped moving abruptly, and the strange thing, which was much clearer than the water, flowed towards the place where the waterfowl were feeding, and there were countless splashes on the surface of the lake, and they got on the waterfowl, and all the birds that were preying were flying—one of them could not leave, and it had struggled on the surface of the lake beforehand, as if it had been wounded in the wings.

The strange current surrounded the wounded bird, lifted its sinking body, and returned to the boat.

Ding dong.

The small wave threw the waterfowl with injured wings into the cabin.

"O ...... of the Spirit of the Lake"

Loria sighed again, this time she really agreed with Elie Meow's assumption - at first, she thought it wanted to protect the creatures of the lake, but it saved it along with the injured predator.

What a kind elf.

At this moment, Loria no longer wondered why the elves of the lake had rescued her and Elie Meow from the fog of no return...... Thinking about it, it is so kind by nature, and it voluntarily guards every life in the Lake District.

The kind elf pushed the boat again, and it wasn't long before Loria saw the outline of Mystery Island in the distance.

……

Unsettling news came from afar.

Riots continued to erupt in orc shelters throughout the Seven Kingdoms, and even the wandering orc tribes who had hid in the mountains of Alterac after the war began to move out of the mountains.

If after nineteen years of peace, the Human Alliance was still basking in the glorious memories of its past victories over the Horde, then what happened next had brought them to their senses......

Sixty years ago.

Stannbride, the first queen of his fifteenth year reign, died, and the kingdom, which had once had the potential to swallow the other six kingdoms, gradually went into decline...... The Queen's youngest son, who was only five years old, inherited the throne, and naturally, the government was controlled by people with ulterior motives, and the evil diseases that lurked in this seemingly powerful country during the Queen's time finally broke out one by one - two enemies of Stannbrad, the remnants of the Arathi Empire, the Stormgard family and the Alterac Kingdom, united to put pressure on it; And the nobility of the country also changed their flags, either declaring independence, annexing each other, or seeking refuge from neighboring countries.

By the time the new king came of age, Steinbrad's territory was not even a tenth of what it was in the days of the previous queens...... He has spent his life fighting for the survival of the country, eradicating his internal vassals, resisting the encroachment of foreign enemies, marrying Lordaeron's side princess, signing a secret alliance contract with Lordaeron and Kurtilas, and personally leading his army in a decisive battle with the orc army...... The enemy Alterac royal family betrayed the alliance, they allowed the orcs to slaughter their own people, and opened the country for the orc army to bypass the heavily battled Republic of Dalaran and surrender the orcs once and for all; After the war, the royal family of Alterac was liquidated by the Alliance, and all but one of the remaining members of the royal family and most of the nobles were hanged under the city of Lordaeron.

With their rival neighbors collapsing overnight, Steinbrad finally has a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, albeit under the leadership of the Alliance and the greatest contributor to the victory, the Kingdom of Lordaeron.

Not to mention the fact that the old king spent several years recovering from the wounds of the war, and when he was ready to revive the kingdom, he fell ill from the hard work of the day.

Fifteen years ago.

The king summoned his son and daughter to the bed.

"Come here, Roka."

The king called out to his daughter.

The little girl with long pale pink hair walked to the bed with her head tilted, she was just four years old, and she didn't understand what the scene meant at this moment, but instinctively felt uncomfortable - her father who smiled softly but was lifeless, her mother who sobbed softly, her brother who had a terrible gloomy face, and the prime minister who frowned deeply...... She just wanted to get away from here as quickly as possible, to rummage through the maid's pocket, which was always full of sweets.

"I see in you the shadow of my mother......"

The king could not even finish a sentence, he coughed intermittently, and gently stroked the little princess's hair, "Maybe you are the most suitable to inherit the throne." ”

On the side, the king's son, Andrew, had a face so black that he seemed to be dripping ink.

However, the king did not notice the prince's expression, and only the face of the little princess remained in his eyes, perhaps trying to retrieve the memories of his distant childhood from her face?

"I can't remember what my mother looked like, I was about the same age as you when I ascended the throne."

His words seemed to be to his daughter, and they were like talking to himself, "but I still remember what she used to say...... Well, that's what I said...... Let's trample the little cockroaches of Stormgard to death, and then put the little things of the six countries in cages for the people to see...... Hahaha! ”

The feeble laughter was followed by a violent cough that anyone could tell at a glance that the king was dying.

"I ascended the throne at a young age, I know how hard it is, I hide in my room and cry every night, I don't have a strong heart like my mother...... O my daughter, I will not let you suffer such burdens and pains again...... Andrew, come here! ”

The twenty-year-old prince immediately walked to the king's bedside, and in just a few steps he tripped over his leg twice.

"When I die, you will be the new king...... I don't ask you to forge ahead, but don't forget the last wishes of the kings of the past......"

The dying king murmured, "Take care of your sister and mother." ”

"Okay, father, okay, I'll take care of Rocka and Mother!"

Finally getting the throne, the prince smiled and swore a curse.

……

The-king-is-dead，Long-live-the-king.

The first king is gone, long live the new king.

However, in just one year, the Queen Mother, who was only in her early forties, also died, and His Majesty immediately found an excuse to hastily banish his young sister to a foreign country, and she was never allowed to set foot in the motherland again in this life...... If it weren't for the ministers' fierce opposition, he would have been ready to kill his stupid five-year-old sister, who only knew how to find candy all day long.

Treachery and ruthlessness should have been excellent qualities for a king, but it is a pity that His Majesty Andrew did not use his talents in the governance of the country.

If the ambition of successive kings and queens of the Hillsbride family to reunite humanity is laughable, then His Majesty Andrew's life of staring at his own small turf and doing everything he can to get rid of those who threaten his power is disgusting.

……

Now.

"Speaking of which, this person seems to be my uncle."

Loria flipped through an outdated piece of paper that had been brought to the island by the merchants of Dalaran, and she read the front-page report to Alice, "Steinbrad has fallen, and the wandering orc tribe has stuck the last king's head in his spear...... He's a king, and he doesn't even mention his name, and I've never heard my mother talk about him, and I don't even know his name, well, I'll read it on...... The Knights of the Silver Hand, led by Uther the Lightbringer, have been ordered to move south to suppress the orcs...... His Royal Highness Arthas, Prince of Lordaeron, has also appeared in the army, and this will be his first battle, and we can perhaps look forward to the birth of another human hero. (To be continued.) )