Chapter 174: The City of Death
The spiritual pagoda in front of me is completely made of black rock, and the height reaches thirty or forty meters.
It was like a huge black demon towering over the side of the road.
At the top of the tower was a huge crystal, and countless dark auras swirled around it, making it look like a large number of ghosts were flying.
Looking at this hideous psychic tower, Song Zheng seemed to be able to faintly hear the wail of pain in his ears.
"What's that? It feels so scary......" Catherine also instinctively leaned towards Song Zheng's side.
"It's the undead who made the psychic tower, and we go around it from a distance." Song Zheng said in a low voice.
He remembered that in the game of Warcraft, this psychic tower was a very important defensive structure belonging to the undead scourge, and it had a powerful attack power.
The best way to stay away from here is to stay away.
"Okay." Catherine nodded, she seemed to instinctively fear the tower.
The detour took a lot of time, especially avoiding the plague dogs and plague bats roaming the wilderness.
Finally, he finally bypassed the huge psychic tower safely, but before Song Zheng could catch his breath, he immediately felt a tingling in his scalp again...... In front of him stood a huge psychic tower in the midst of a plague-infested wilderness, and in the distance, there seemed to be a black tower shadow as well.
From a distance, you can see a large amount of black aura converging like a funnel from the sky in all directions towards the crystal at the top of the tower, and then swirling around this spiritual tower.
"This psychic tower seems to be able to absorb the dark power around it, how many such psychic towers have been built by the Undead Catastrophe?" Song Zheng was a little confused in his heart.
It has only been about two months since the appearance of the undead natural disaster, and I don't know how those undead built so many towering psychic towers.
"What are we going to do?" Catherine nervously held the twin swords on her back in her hands.
"Keep going around, as long as we don't get discovered by the undead in this psychic tower, there is no need for us to enter the battle." Song Zheng hesitated for a moment before making a decision.
At other times, he might have been curious to try to find out what was inside the tower, but now he was in a hurry to get to Quel'Thalas, and he didn't want to waste too much time on the road.
You must know that the side of Talonshire has been in a state of fighting, and an extra day of delay may result in thousands of deaths.
If he had delayed too long, he might have been destroyed by the time he returned with reinforcements from the High Elves.
However, as we continued to go deeper, in addition to those psychic towers, plague dogs and plague bats, there were also more undead soldiers around, and even teams of undead knights could be seen galloping along the road.
Song Zheng and Catherine had to be extra cautious and began to use the stealth technique to avoid detection as much as possible.
A day later, as the sun was about to set, Song Zheng once again saw some huge buildings appear in the distance.
But this trip is no longer a psychic tower in front of him, but a magnificent city!
That's Stratholme!
As a frontier city northeast of Lordaeron, Stratholme was built with the purpose of being a fortress, so the walls were built exceptionally tall and strong, and even had a lot of turrets.
Outside the city is surrounded by a wide river, on the left side of the city is the Sodoril River, which flows day and night, and behind the city is a tall cliff, in front of which there is only a strong stone bridge leading to the gate of the city.
The city is definitely a fortress that is easy to defend and difficult to attack!
There was also a strong garrison in the city, and the magnificent Church of the Light, one of the main garrisons of the Silver Hand, where the trial of Tirio Fortin was held in the Church of the Light in Stratholme.
It's just that no one thought that such a magnificent and fortified city would fall completely overnight.
Even if Song Zheng and Catherine stand in the distance, they can still feel the grandeur and magnificence of the city.
Due to its proximity to the territory of the High Elves and the largest city in the east of Lordaeron, Stratholme was once very prosperous, with horse-drawn carriages coming and going on the avenues outside the city, and the nearby Sodoril River was filled with boats.
But now it was all dead silent, and the only thing left was the never-ending rush of the Sodoril River and the whining of the wind like the whispers of the undead.
"This city of death has not escaped its fate after all......" Song Zheng let out a heavy sigh.
It is said that the world is impermanent, but although Song Zheng has always wanted to change the tragic ending of Lordaeron, the people of Stratholme still have not escaped the fate of death.
"I've been here before, it's a beautiful city and the people inside are very welcoming." Catherine sighed as she looked at the great, dead city in the distance.
"yes...... The people of Lordaeron don't know how much time and cost it took to build such a magnificent city, but it was completely destroyed by the Cursed Church overnight, you must know that it is hundreds of thousands of people......" Song Zheng's voice trembled a little.
If I used to feel the tragedy of Stratholme when I played the game, now I am shocked and regretted in the face of this real thing.
"You can get to Quel'Salas by going through Stratholme, and I entered the city through the border gate to the north, which was formed by a tunnel carved into the mountains to the north, and it would have been hundreds of miles to get around the city." Catherine said and couldn't help but turn her head to look at Song Zheng.
Song Zheng had never been to Stratholme and did not know the specific situation inside the real city, and his memories of Stratholme were completely left in the game's scenes.
In Warcraft, Stratholme only has the front door and the back door, but in this real world, there will definitely be a big gap from the game, and since Catherine has been here before, she must not be wrong about what she said.
"Walk through Stratholme...... There should be a lot of undead in this city. Song Zheng frowned, this city of death should now be the largest base of the undead scourge in Lordaeron, and its main army of the undead came from this city.
"It's going to get dark, so we can try stealth and sneak into the city, and then pass through the northern border gates, and then we can go straight to Quel'Thalas." Catherine said.
"Stealth...... Well, let's try. ”