【9】Twilight on the Black Coast (Outpost)
It's been a month since the operation at Shadowfang Castle, but the memories of that terrible battle still haunt me...... The tower of the burning fire, the shadow of the backlash, the fierce wolf king, the heroic sacrifice of his companions...... From time to time, these memories flashed through my dreams, and they reminded me how lucky I was to be alive. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info
I have returned to Camlido from the Eastern Kingdoms, and am now in the outpost of Zorhamga in the Ashen Valley, and it is a quiet moonlit night tonight, and the outpost is built on the edge of the beach of Zoram, and I am now sitting on the soft sand, while baking a campfire, while looking at the undulating sea in front of me, the sea is rough, the sea breeze is gentle, and in the peaceful sound of the waves, I seem to hear the ethereal song from the other side of the sea.
"It's a sad voice, it reminds me of the Commander and Master Calvin." A voice beside me said, "This is my fellow troll, Gingy Fang, the troll priest of the last five to survive with me in Operation Shadowfang Castle.
"Yes, I heard from the tribal quartermaster at the outpost that this is the song of the merfolk of the sea, and they are singing for their lost homes and friends, so it sounds very sad." I replied that not only the quartermaster, but also many of the tribal warriors in the outpost were talking about the legend of the ancient mermaids in the sea north of the Ashendale.
"Alas, don't talk about these strange and sad things, come, the turtle meat has been roasted, try my craftsmanship, I added the juice of the Demon Emperor Grass to roast it, I guarantee that you will immediately enhance your physique after eating." Jin Ji handed me a skewer of barbecued turtle meat from the campfire.
The turtle meat was roasted by him to a golden brown and crispy, juicy meat, and smelled of herbs, this guy deserved to have specialized in cooking and herbalism, it was a perfect combination of these two skills, I picked up the skewer and took a big bite of the juicy turtle meat, so delicious that I immediately forgot those unpleasant memories for a while.
The two of us quickly ate a whole roasted turtle, leaving only the broken bones in the campfire, I touched my stomach and said with satisfaction: "Jinji, your roasted turtle skills are really amazing, tomorrow we should go a little north to the beach to kill more turtles, and then you can make cooking products and go back to Orgrimmar City to sell?" ”
"Alas, forget it, my roasted turtle meat has not been left for a long time, and it tastes bad when it is shipped back to Orgrimmar, so you should peel it like you, remove the armor and take it back to sell?" He said, "My cultivation is to peel and make armor and tailoring, and there are many wild beasts here in the Gray Valley that have good animal skins and shell armor, so during the time I hunted here, I have accumulated a lot of good leather to survive, and it just so happens that the military supplies here at the Zorhama outpost are relatively scarce, so the tribal quartermaster takes me very seriously, and of course I also exchange a lot of gold coins from him.
"Then I'll make you a dress, what do you need, a coat or a cape?" I asked.
Ginger looked at the equipment on his body and said: "The cloak is not needed, at this time, Queen Xi just gave it, and the clothes are also a reward for the Forsaken after the operation of Shadow Fang Castle, but the bracers are a little worse, you can help me make a leather armor bracers!" ”
"Okay~" I replied, then looked at the black cloak behind him, and then at the black cloak on my own, and suddenly remembered the day I returned to the Undercity from Shadowfang Castle, and met Sylvanas Windranger, the Queen of the Forsaken......
On that day, the last of us to survive was given the highest tribal honor, and we were able to meet the Queen of the Undercity, who greeted us in the dungeon of the Royal District, and upon seeing her, we were captivated by her magnificent appearance, dressed in heroic and sexy dark black armor, with a slender figure, a long silver-white head hanging down from thin shoulders and a full chest, and a noble and beautiful and mysterious appearance, so different from the other forgotten.
Of course, we have all heard her story, before she became the Forsaken, she was a high elf of Quel'Thalas, with a beautiful face and immortal life, but then she was defiled by the Lich King Arthas and became an undead, but because her elven soul is immortal, Arthas was unable to control her, so she united with the power of the other undead in the Undercity to overthrow Arthas's rule and drive him out of Lordaeron to the northern ice.
The row of female ghosts floating in the air behind Queen Xi is her Banshee Guard, these are the main forces for her to overthrow the undead scourge in Arthas, of course, there is another guy behind her who can't help but mention, that is a guy with a huge batwing face and a terrifying face, he is a minion of the former Burning Legion, and the last Dreadlord of Azeroth at the moment - Varimmasas, I really don't know why Queen Xi kept his life, this guy is an accomplice of the Burning Legion!
Of course, there was a lot of gossip before, saying that without the help of this Dreadlord King, Queen Xi would not have been able to defeat the Lich King Arthas, and it was because of their complicated relationship that the Queen kept his life, and the five of us had just seen the evil dark magic of Arugao, and of course we would not have a good impression of this former demon of the Burning Legion, but it didn't happen at the time.
Queen Nozomi gave the five of us a gift that she had "made" with her own hands—a cloak with her magic attached, the same black cloak that Gingy and I are wearing now, and it is said that this cloak was sewn by Queen Nozomi according to the cloak of the Night Elves in the past, and the cloak was buttoned with a black leaf, and it seems that she still remembered her race. Listening to the necromancer and undead thief among the five of us, this black cloak is attached to Queen Xi's powerful mana, which can cover the cloak in the shadows and instantly become invisible, and also has the power to resist the evil magic of the shadows......
"Hey! What are you thinking?!" Ginger patted me and pulled me back from my memories, "Did you just listen to me?" ”
"Uh, I'm sorry, I remembered the Forsaken Queen giving us this cloak......" I said embarrassedly.
"Oh, no wonder......" Jin Ji showed an understanding expression on his face, and he said again: "I was telling you just now that the Woking chief sent us here, he asked us to come here to find the scout General Talon, but Talon he has been letting us kill fishmen, crabs and turtles here for the past few days, and it doesn't matter if it matters~ We just won the honor of the pioneer of the tribe for killing Arugao, and now put it here, do you say that this is a bit overkill." ”
I thought it was true, after we returned from the Undercity, Woking, the leader of the Darkspear Trolls, sent the two of us to the Zorhamga outpost in Ashenvale to help, saying that we had a major mission to us, but we have been here for almost three days, and in the past three days, we have been helping the orc scout General Talon drive away the surrounding fishmen, and killing crabs and turtles to help everyone improve their food, and nothing very special.
"Perhaps, our current mission is also important, to ensure the stability of this outpost...... After all, Ashenvale is a territory that is being contested, and the alliance will come to harass it from time to time. I replied with reasons I didn't even believe in myself.
"Is that really the case?" Jin Ji thought for a while, and could only choose to believe my reason, sighed and said: "Alas~ In order to avoid Astrana's shadow elf troops, we came here from the south side of the Gray Valley over the mountains and mountains, so it turned out to be a miscellaneous job." ”
After Jin Ji finished speaking, he lay on his back on the beach, it seemed that he was going to sleep on the bonfire next to him and the beautiful moonlight in the sky, I looked at the calm sea in front of me again, still thinking about the things I had just talked about with him, thinking for a while, but still did not straighten out my thoughts, and the gentle sea breeze blowing on my back also blew my tiredness up, I lay on my back on the soft sand, looking at the vast starry sky, only to hear the distant sea still faintly echoing the ethereal mermaid song, my eyelids sank and fell asleep.