Silver Pine Forest.

Although the geographical location is not very far north, and is even almost at the same latitude as Dalaran, it is covered in snow and ice for most of the year, perhaps because of the special climate.

As a result, the area was sparsely populated, especially after Gilneth built the Greymane Wall to close the country, and the original commercial roads were almost completely abandoned, and only a few hunters or lumberjacks are active here.

The sound of horses' hooves broke the silence in the snow and ice.

Although it was cold and snowy all around, the faces of the knights were full of pride.

This is a group of elite soldiers who have just been selected, and they will be transferred to the capital of Lordaeron, and if they are lucky, they may be selected as royal guards, which is far better than being stationed in this deserted frontier.

Cheng Yuan is one of these knights, he is indeed very suitable for the army, after joining the army, he easily passed the initial training and assessment, coupled with his hidden warrior profession, he quickly won the favor of his superiors.

Recently, he learned that the Lordaeron royal capital needed to select some elites to supplement it, so he immediately recommended himself and tried his best to go to the Lordaeron royal capital...... You know, that's the best chance to get close to Alsace!

In his opinion, Arthas has always been the key player in this undead scourge invasion crisis, and as long as he can talk about Arthas, then he is confident that he can use his advantage of predicting the future to allow Lordaeron to defeat the undead scourge...... Even if it is difficult to change the arrival of the Burning Legion in the end, it can postpone this disaster as much as possible.

"It's Serberchel ahead, everyone hurry up and try to get to Serberchel before the sun sets." The commander of the team shouted.

But before they could spur their horses, a gust of wind swept through the forest with a large amount of snow and ice, and they could barely open their eyes.

"Is this a cold wind from Lake Lordamere...... Lordanren is windy......" Cheng Yuan looked at the sky, only to see that the sky was already faintly gloomy.

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Song Zheng is also in the ice and snow at the moment.

Perhaps the team led by Gianna was too conspicuous, and they didn't encounter half of the syndicate thieves along the way, and even some noble manors with traces of restoration were also empty, and it was likely that the syndicate thieves had already fled.

This made Song Zheng, who was bent on mending the knife and mixing experience, extremely depressed.

And in the case of not encountering the enemy, the speed of the team is very fast, especially Gianna came prepared this time, among the mages invited by it are two older old mages, who have participated in the battle of the Orcs back then, and have entered the depths of the Alterac Mountains to destroy the Alterac Kingdom, and are very familiar with the environment and roads on this snowy mountain.

"Beyond the snow-capped mountains in front of you is Shattered Ridge, where the royal capital of Alterac was originally located, but then we completely destroyed it." The old mage who accompanied him pointed to a snowy mountain in front of him with some smugness.

The sagging ranks that had been sagging because they hadn't found the enemy had finally bled up a bit, and if the most likely gathering place for the Syndicate thieves was probably this Broken Ridge.

However, Song Zheng was secretly a little nervous in his heart...... If there is no accident, there is likely to be another force on the Broken Ridge besides the Syndicate Thieves, and that is the Ogre!

Even if he hadn't experienced the orc wars of the past and hadn't seen the strength of those ogres with his own eyes, the cruelty of this race could be seen just from the name 'ogre'.

"I hope it's not so unlucky this time......" Song Zheng put away the "Concise Salas Dictionary" given by Gianna, and began to load his pocket crossbow with crossbow arrows.

Due to the high altitude they are currently in, everyone's physical strength has begun to be affected, especially those mages with poor physical strength, so it took a lot of time to climb over the snow-capped mountain in front of them.

When the group came to the Broken Ridge, it was too far away to the west, and the afterglow fell on the crystal snow-capped mountain, reflecting a particularly beautiful color.

The kingdom of Alterac was originally the weakest of the human kingdoms, and in addition to the fact that it lived in this snowy mountain, there was almost no land to cultivate, most of the food had to be purchased from Lordaeron, and its economic situation was also the worst among all human kingdoms.

Although the city on this Broken Ridge is called Wangdu, it is not even as good as Nanhai Town in terms of scale.

As far as the eyes can see, there is hardly a single intact building on the Broken Ridge today, and it is clear that the army of the Lordaeron Alliance has completely destroyed this place, and even the surrounding trees have been burned to the ground.

"We destroyed this place very completely, according to the above requirements, there is absolutely no building that can shelter from the wind and rain, and everything must be burned again, because it is difficult to light a fire on this snowy mountain, so it is entirely up to us mages to use magic to stimulate the flames." The old mage remembered the old days, and his eyes were full of pride.

In any case, this is the destruction of a kingdom after all!

"Look at the traces of human activity here, the remnants of this campfire have not been covered by snow and ice." A follower who is good at tracking suddenly shouted in surprise.

Everyone hurried over, and sure enough, they saw a bonfire, and it seemed that the scale of the bonfire was not small, and it could accommodate at least one or twenty people to sit around.

"Everyone, search this ruin, there must be syndicate thieves hiding here!"

"There are footprints here! Wrong...... This footprint...... Not human! The follower, who was good at tracking, screamed again, but this time the voice was unusual.

Song Zheng was not far away, and after running over a few steps, he immediately saw that there were a few footprints in the snow that had not been completely covered by the ice and snow...... Although it was covered in snow and ice, the remaining footprints were still twice the size of normal human footprints!

"It's an ogre!" Song Zheng immediately reminded loudly.

However, as soon as he finished speaking, a beast-like roar was heard not far away.

A ruined stone wall was slammed open with a roar, and a hideous, burly figure appeared in front of them.

"What an ogre!" Quite a few people made frightened noises.

The ogre was four or five meters tall, his muscles were bent, and his arms alone were thicker than the waist of an ordinary person.

The hideous ogre rushed out and slammed the ground with the stick in his hand, letting out an extremely angry roar, as if to reprimand the people for trespassing on his territory, and then rushed at them with the club.

Of course...... The so-called 'stick' in his hand looked more like a whole tree, with only a few branches and leaves removed.