Chapter 59: The Uninvited Guest
Seyin Pass, three days later, early in the morning.
The four-man envoy sold all the food and water from all the mounts, and it was almost consumed, and if there was no news from the fortress today, they would have to venture over the cliffs on both sides of the fortress.
Fortunately, on this day, the situation finally changed.
In the early morning, the ground first shook, and then there was a loud noise, which woke everyone up. When I stepped out of the tent, I saw a cloud of mushroom-shaped smoke rising between the mountains of Kazmodan to the east, and it seemed that a violent explosion had occurred there.
The discussion about the explosion did not last long, and another incident attracted the attention of the envoys, and not long after the explosion subsided, a team of horses, about a dozen people, appeared at the foot of the pass mountain, and was slowly moving towards this side. From a distance, they were all samurai, mostly humans, with a small number of gnomes and night elves in between.
Unlike the average group of adventurers, these people were brightly armored and well-dressed, and they were more like envoys of some faction than Isara, except that they had neither a scepter nor a flag.
Seeing this team, Yu Yu's brows furrowed, the Black Iron Dwarves are not a hospitable race, and they can even be said to be a bit rebellious and withdrawn, will there be an envoy group visiting?
"Lady Isara, something is wrong." Dorian also sees the anomaly and asks for Isara's opinion.
Isara held the scepter, and after a moment of silence, she glanced at the members of the group with a solemn face and said, "Please remember your identity, we represent the Arathi Basin, no matter what happens, as long as it has nothing to do with our mission, please do not look or listen, and never act rashly."
With that, Isarath stopped looking at the team, and walked to the door of the fortress with her scepter in her hand, and went to the ground, closing her eyes and recuperating. Rhona and Dorian took the order and walked over and sat on either side of her, in a protective manner, only Yuyu glanced at the group a few more times.
The men laughed and laughed and began to beat their horses and climb the slopes, ignoring the undead who were watching them.
Looking at these strangely behaved people, Yu Yu seemed to have discovered something, and his face began to turn blue. But she didn't say much, turned around and walked to the door and sat down behind Isara, and simply closed her eyes.
"You see that, too?" Isarah asked without looking back.
Yu Hum nodded silently, did not speak, and his face was as solemn as lead.
Soon after, the soothing sound of horses' hooves approached, and the party drove to the pass, and instead of asking for directions, they dismounted, gathered around Isara, and sat down and talked. They were so close that to outsiders, they and the four-man envoys were one team.
The average travel group will always keep a certain distance from the unfamiliar group when they are away, and their behavior is not only rude, but also a bit dangerous. However, the envoys did not argue with them, because at this time Rona and Dorian-Solomon also saw something wrong.
Since they began to cultivate the Condensing Qi Decision, not only had their physique and ability greatly improved, but their perception had also been greatly enhanced. Observing these people from such a close distance, they were shocked to find that there were at least five third-order warriors in this team, and the rest were also top masters in the second-order.
A team of this kind of strength, to say an adventurer, may not be able to be collected even by ordinary independent forces, at least not in the Arathi Basin. These strong men are so close, what are they going to do?
However, these people were just next to the envoys, and did not make any further moves, but began to talk while resting, as if the envoys did not exist at all.
"You know what? The Queen of the Black Iron Dwarves is a Copperbeard Dwarf and is the princess of Ironforge today, and the only daughter of Magni - King Copperbeard - Moella! "It was a gray-haired old human mage who spoke in an exaggerated tone and a high voice, unscrupulously unscrupulous that this was the fortress of the Black Iron Dwarves.
Ishara frowned, opened and closed her eyes, the old mage was only two meters away from her, and she could hear the words clearly.
The people in this team seemed to be more arrogant than the other, and as soon as the old mage finished speaking, a warrior with a two-handed sword on his back laughed loudly and said, "I know this better than you, that Princess Moira was robbed by Sorisen."
The noise grew louder and louder, and Dorian rested his staff across his lap, silently on guard, and Rhona glared at the fellows and touched her hand to the handle of the dagger.
At this moment, there was a "squeak" beside him, and the gate of the Thursilver Fortress, which had been closed for three days, was opened from the inside, and a neatly dressed cavalry of goats appeared in the fortress door.
Tuk-tuk.
There was a cheerful sound of hooves, and a carriage pulled by four dwarven goats approached sideways and stopped in front of the goat cavalry queue. A half-helmeted black iron dwarven warrior rode up on a goat and stopped opposite Isara.
"Honorable envoy of the Arathi Basin, I have kept you waiting, I am the captain of the Abyss Guard, Olgu." The captain of the guard, who called himself Olgu, stroked his chest and saluted, and then said in a respectful voice: "The Emperor of our country is overjoyed to learn that your envoy wants to transit through our country, and specially invites your envoy to the Dark Furnace City as a guest, to have dinner with Your Majesty, and discuss state affairs."
Rhona breathed a sigh of relief when she heard this, but she could be considered to have responded, but Isara's hand holding the scepter couldn't help but tighten.
"It won't delay your trip, I promise." Olgu was very respectful and insisted.
Isarath smiled wryly and had to stand up on her scepter.
"Please get on the legations." Olgu smiled leisurely and turned his mount to give way to the sheep cart behind him.
The four of them got into the car and sat cross-legged on the uncovered board, Ishara with a scepter at the top, the two ladies Rhona and Grace on either side, and Dorian Solomon at the end, facing backwards. As soon as he sat down, Dorian's pupils shrank, and his color changed, only to see that the team just now actually got on the horse and followed.
More than a dozen horsemen were divided into two teams, and "Hulala" rushed over, sandwiching the sheep cart in the middle, as if it were the escort of the envoy group.
Dorian was shocked and hurriedly shouted at Olgu, "Your Excellency Captain of the Guard, they are not members of the legations."
Unexpectedly, Olgu waved his hand as if he had not heard of Dorian's words, and the sheep cart began to move forward under the hostage of the gang, followed closely by a whole group of goat cavalry.
"Guys, who are you? What do you want to do?! Dorian gritted his teeth and turned to a dwarf mage beside him.
The dwarf mage looked at him and chuckled, "My lord, as your guard, we will fight to ensure the safety of the envoys, provided that you don't mess around."
The threat in these words was self-evident, and Dorian was about to attack when he was about to raise his staff when someone grabbed his wrist.
"We have our own mission, to keep the scepter, and nothing else." Yu Yu stared at Dorian and shook his head.
Dorian looked hatefully at the group of masters surrounding the sheep cart, snorted heavily, and slapped his staff on the board. Those men breathed a sigh of relief, silently let go of the hands holding their weapons, and continued to fulfill their duties as "guards".
Behind, Olgu ignored all this, and in this tense and strange atmosphere, the envoys drove down the other side of the Seyin Pass, entered the scorching canyon, and began to speed and gallop.
A question lingered in the minds of the four-member envoys, who are these? (To be continued.) )