The carriage suddenly stopped, and there was a commotion outside.

Locke was slightly stunned, thinking that he had met a robber who couldn't open his eyes, and just as he was about to get out of the carriage and kill all these robbers, Laurena, who was sitting opposite him, shook her head at him and told Locke not to be impulsive.

"What's wrong?"

"It's just an inspection by the Riptide Castle cavalry patrol, and recently Riptide Castle has received the support of the Stormwind Kingdom, and after having a large amount of armament, it has begun to try to restore control of the road." Laurena said calmly.

Locke only then remembered that before the Scourge broke out in Lordaeron, Riptide Castle had fallen out with Lordaeron over the issue of orc child support, and after receiving some assistance from the Stormwind Kingdom, Riptide Castle began to try to regain its territory and directly withdrew from the alliance. However, in history, all the efforts of Riptide Castle were in vain, and in the end, the arrival of Sylvanas ended Riptide Castle's hopes once and for all.

Now that Locke has been reborn, the great plague that once occurred in Lordaeron may not be able to break out, and thinking of this, Locke is somewhat relieved.

But at this moment, Locke's mind was on another matter, and he couldn't help but ask, "I heard that all the ogres in Riptide Fort have gathered in the mage tower in the right city of Riptide Castle?" ”

"I don't really know about ogres." Laurena said with a pale face: "But I heard that those strong beasts have occupied the mage tower of Riptide Castle, and they are at war with humans every day, and the perennial war not only did not destroy the ogre, but made all the people of Riptide Castle gather in the refuge canyon. ”

Locke nodded, the ogre can still confront humans in the case of a group of dragons without a leader, except for showing that humans are too weak, basically Locke has nothing to say, but he sighed a little, the priest girl in front of him is still concerned about politics, and he doesn't want to be a priest at ease.

Maybe she wants to be the queen of Riptide Castle too.

Thinking so, Locke smiled slightly, and then said: "I don't think it's very safe inside Riptide Castle, a kingdom that can't even be destroyed by ogres. ”

"That's because ......" Laurena suddenly raised her voice, then lowered her voice: "The ogre is too strong......"

Yes, the ogres are very powerful, and these beasts can crush human warriors of the same level with their innate strength alone.

According to the information in Locke's hand, the ogres who live in Riptide Castle not only have five level 9 warriors, but also several level 7 ogres, not to mention the vast number of ogres among them.

However, the ogres did not expand in Riptide Castle, and their natural concept of being rich and safe made them not too aggressive as long as they had meat to eat every day, so they gave Riptide Castle humans a chance to breathe.

The end of the carriage arrived, and here was the gate of Riptide Castle, which is now in a dilapidated state, the gate of Riptide Castle is said to have been reinforced by several elven mages of Quel'Salasd, and the gate was built with a year's tax revenue from the Arathas Empire at the time, but now it has disappeared into the dust of history.

In front of us was a deserted castle, with gravel paths lined with lamps and arched bridges hanging above the main road, but the bridges were empty. In front of Locke, on the ground were two gates made of wood.

I think that the former magic city gate has long been torn down, and the wooden doors carved out of wood are randomly placed on the ground.

Originally, horse-drawn carriages were generally not allowed in the city, but now this Riptide Fort has long been abandoned, and it is nothing. Laurina's eyes turned red for a moment, this was the place where she used to grow up, but now it was so barren that she couldn't recognize it.

Earlier, when Laurena was a child, there were fountains in Riptide Castle, citizens, and guards in the city, but now in Riptide Castle, the roar of ogres can be heard.

In the Second Orc War, these powerful ogres left a strong impression on most of the humans, and humans generally had to pay the sacrifice of six to eight warriors to defeat this creature, and after the end of the Orc War, most of the ogres were not captured, but ran to wander in the Arathi Heights.

It was also devastating to the kingdom.

Locke didn't just accompany Laurena to Riptide Castle, he also had a plan, after killing the Ogre King in the Stone Fist Hall, there was already a vacuum in the ogre's power structure, and he had already had the idea of controlling the ogre in the Arathi Heights, so naturally he would not let go of the current opportunity.

At this moment, Laurena and Locke had already disembarked and arrived in front of the castle in Riptide Castle, where there were several guards, but their lazy appearance did not seem to care much about the guests from the Stormwind Kingdom.

"I'd like to wander around Fort Riptide." Locke said.

Laurena was slightly stunned, and wanted to refuse, but after seeing the strong emotion in Locke's eyes, she turned around and said, "Then you go, be careful, there are ogres here." ”

The veteran sitting in front of the abandoned hot spring glanced at Locke coldly, he had already seen through Locke's level and the fluctuations of magic items on his body, and he said in disgust: "Don't be caught and eaten by ogres." ”

Locke didn't want to pay attention to the old soldier sitting by the spring, he looked at the sky, it was dusk.

Fort Riptide is divided into three parts, the right city is the residential area and the magic area, the middle city is the barracks and administrative buildings, and the left side is the residential area and the tombs of the ancestors of Fort Riptide.

For example, Locke is now in the residential area of the right city, and the bleak city is Locke's first impression, with dilapidated houses and randomly placed furniture, which makes Locke feel like he has arrived in the future Stratholm City.

The only difference is that there are no undead here.

The ogre's residence is still in the mage area inside, and the steps to subdue these ogres are very simple, generally speaking, first reveal their identities and make these ogres fearful, and then kill the ogres who are the ones who take the lead, and the remaining ogres will become his subordinates, whether they sincerely obey Locke or pretend to obey Locke.

These ogres are a lot of power for Locke at this moment, as long as they control the ogres, they can even clean up the orcs that have fallen into Hammertown.

This is very tempting for Locke, because the first step in building up power is to let him gain his own territory, if he only has a few strongholds in the field and does not really control an area, it is equivalent to meaningless.

Locke stepped on the abandoned house, staring silently at the mage quarter in the moonlight, the silver moonlight like silver dew, sprinkled on the long-abandoned castle.