In the eastern kingdom of the world of Azeroth, in the past two months, in the western wilderness area of the Stormwind Kingdom, especially near the former death mine area of Moonstream Town, a group of militants of unknown origin have begun to appear frequently, and they have also frequently attacked the soldiers and nobles of the Stormwind Kingdom.

That weird gang of thugs, they have all kinds of races!

Whether it's humans, dwarves, high elves, goblins, trolls, or some other rare and strange creatures, their composition makes outsiders or the security forces of Stormwind West feel like a group of adventurers or some vicious criminals who have accidentally wandered to the Stormwind Kingdom?

Anyway, that's how the arrest document posted by the official is judged.

It's just that the veteran paladin Grian Stallman, who has returned to his hometown of Yuexi Town in the Western Wilderness, doesn't think so! He could tell at a glance from the actions of the other party and the elusive way of organization that they were definitely not ordinary thieves or villains, but an organized and purposeful group of hostile military forces!

This matter, in fact, is not too difficult to judge......

Thinking about the distribution and changing trend of the forces in the entire Azeroth world and the northern and southern continents of the Eastern Kingdom over the years, it is not difficult to analyze the origin of that group of people, after all, the other party's methods and some of the revealed information are also too obvious!

In Grian's opinion, although the other party's actions are very secretive, their methods are inevitably too naïve and too direct.

In fact, this matter starts from the twenty-first year of the Dark Gate......

The one on the northern continent was founded by a mysterious and powerful little girl mage, and encompassed all the lands in the north, including the whole of Lordaeron, and after the fire alliance composed of fire elementals, humans, high elves, dwarves, deep sea naga, fish-people tribes, and a small number of night elves came out, the entire continent of the eastern kingdom trembled under the powerful force of the flame alliance!

In that era when powerful enough to defeat Akmund, defeat the death knight Arthas, and even easily wipe out the undead Scourge of the demigods and immortals of the Flame Queen, no force dared to face the North.

Fortunately, that little girl disappeared twenty-one years ago in the Dark Gate, and no one knows her whereabouts!

When the time came to the twenty-fifth year of the Dark Gate, unwilling to be defeated by the undead Scourge, the Lich Archlord Kel'thugad even relied on the terrifying city of Naxxramas to launch another strategic campaign against Azeroth in the northern part of the Eastern Kingdom!

However, it only lasted less than a week from his appearance to his escape! The opponent's ridiculous strategy not only caused a large number of elite undead to be slaughtered by the Flame Alliance, but even the floating castle was destroyed by the Flame Alliance's army and fell on the coastal beach east of the Eastern Plaguelands......

At that time, the Flame Alliance used their powerful military strength and unparalleled achievements to declare their strength to the other two major forces in the continent of Azeroth!

However, the good times were short-lived......

When the Angela Zerg, under the command of the ancient god Cthun, began to attack the Silissus Desert again, the entire alliance of the Azeroth tribes had to temporarily put aside the gaps and disputes between each other, and began to unite again to gather in Silissus and collectively besiege the gates of Angela!

Originally, everything went smoothly with the actions of the coalition forces, after all, their army was a combination of three major forces.

However, not long after attacking the Angela Temple, the fire elemental army under the command of the Flame Alliance, for some reason, except for a very few high-level existences, suddenly became collectively controlled by the ancient god Kthun and began to become crazy! Subsequently, most of the fire elemental army was killed in the internal strife with the coalition's own people, inflicting heavy casualties on the entire Azeroth coalition army......

In the end, although the heroes of the coalition managed to sweep through the Angela Empire and defeat the ancient god Cthun with the help of the Bronze Dragon Legion, they ...... The Fire Elemental Legion, which had suffered a severe loss in strength, along with the other armies of the Flame Alliance, was expelled by the Horde and the Stormwind Alliance before they could get any benefit, and they were embarrassmented and sailed back to the northern continent of the Eastern Kingdom.

After this battle, the military power of the Flame Alliance fell from the strongest throne of the three alliances for the first time!

Originally, this powerful alliance that shook the entire world of Azeroth, after losing most of the elite of the Flame Legion, began to become even more vulnerable than the nascent tribe! In the end, he could only choose to stick to the northern mainland and the Saldo Bridge, temporarily losing the ability to forge ahead.

However, just as the Flame Alliance was about to lick their wounds, their opponent's strength increased out of thin air......

In the twenty-sixth year of the Dark Gate, in the twenty-sixth year of the Dark Gate, an alien ship named the Delaneys crash-landed on the northern coast of the continent of Kalimdor, and soon came into contact with the Night Elves and successfully formed an alliance with the Stormwind Alliance!

This accident allowed the Stormwind Alliance to gain countless paladins and powerful priests, far surpassing those Silver Hand Knights in the New Lordaeron Kingdom! If, with the addition of that powerful Naru creature, the hard power of the Stormwind Alliance would be the first to sit firmly on the throne of the first brother in the military strength of the world of Azeroth.

Since then, for the first time, the Storm Alliance has far surpassed the nascent tribes and the Flame Alliance, which is showing signs of decline, in strength.

At the same time, when the Dark Gate was rebuilt and reopened by the Demon Lord of the Outlands, both the Alliance and the Horde began a new large-scale march into the Outlands! One is to crush the Burning Legion's plot to attack the world of Azeroth, and the other is that they all want to get enough out of the new world.

And Illidan Furywind, the leader of the Flame Alliance at the time, ignored the strong opposition of the other members of the alliance at that time, and resolutely led almost all of the Deep Sea Naga and some of the elite Flame Alliance armies to start forcibly conquering the outer regions!

After that, it was not known what the demon hunter Illidan had done in the Outlands, but soon, the Flame Alliance was resisted by the Stormwind Alliance and the Horde and severed all ties with the world of Azeroth!

Since then, there has been no news......

At this point, after losing the main force of the Fire Elemental Legion, the Naga Deep Naval Regiment, and the elite forces of Illidare and some of the Flame Alliance, the Flame Alliance, which was once incomparably powerful during the period under the command of a certain little girl, and so that all the races of Azeroth could almost only look up to it, began to gradually become embarrassed, and almost collapsed from then on!

When the Dark Gate was about to reach its twenty-seventh year when it was first opened, it was rumored that in the entire Flame Alliance in the north, even in the Flame City of the Flame Kingdom, there were only a handful of fire elementals left, and most of them were forced to retreat back to the Land of Flames! I heard that it seems that he is going to defend against a certain fire demon king Ragnaros who intends to counterattack the Fire Lands, and is busy strengthening the spatial barriers of the Fire Lands?

Anyway, the remaining Eagle's Nest Mountain Brute Hammer Dwarves, the dilapidated Quel'Salas High Elves, and the New Lordaeron Kingdom, which has not yet had time to recover its national strength, have lost the strategic Saldo Bridge and Nanhai Town in the Northern Expedition of the Stormwind Alliance one after another! Cowering in the Hillsbrad Hills of Tarummere, Fort Riptide and Hammertown in the Arathi Highlands, and Ambermere in the Silverpine Forest, they could barely contain the Stormwind Alliance's northward offensive with the air superiority of Quel'Salas and Eagle's Nest and the Fire Elemental.

But even so, all discerning people can find out: if it weren't for the Stormwind Alliance's busy attacking the Outlands and dealing with the Burning Legion that intend to make a comeback, I'm afraid that the battle line of the Northern Expeditionary Legion would have been pushed to the Tirisfal Glade......

Due to Illidan's actions, coupled with the naked interests, the nobles of Stormwind City completely abandoned the Lordan Lunn who had saved them in the first place, and classified the entire Flame Alliance in the north as an existence even more evil than the orc tribe!

Therefore, the old-eyed, experienced old paladin Grian Stallman could see at a glance at this time: the small force that is now making trouble in the granary of the Stormwind Kingdom and here in the Western Wilderness must be inseparable from the Flame Alliance!

They just want to troublesome the interior of the Stormwind Kingdom, so as to achieve the purpose of depleting and dispersing the strength of Stormwind City!

Otherwise, where did those humans, dwarves, high elves, and a small number of fire elemental creatures who have been active around Moonstream Town come from? How could such an organized and purposeful act of sabotage and assassination, as well as the rebellion and arming of the remnants of the Brotherhood of Defia, be carried out by a group of ordinary thugs?

You know, he Grian Stallman joined Uther's army after the end of the Second Orc War, and then worked and served in the holy city of Stratholme as a paladin of the Knights of the Silver Hand, and miraculously survived the slaughter of Stratholme.

Then, during the Scourge War, Grian accompanied the Knights of the Silver Hand in the northern and southern wars, and after the death of Uther, the Lightbringer of Uther in the Battle of Andorhar, he finally chose to leave Lordaeron and return to his native Western Wilderness, where he has lived in seclusion ever since.

So, although he looks like an old townsman of Yuexi Town who doesn't know anything on the outside, in fact, he is a powerful paladin general who can still go to battle! During this time, he also saw everything in his eyes!

Therefore, today, he organized and led a dozen armed militiamen from Yuexi Town that he had trained before, armed with long swords and shields, to successfully surround a short-haired black thief with a red scarf and a sharp blade in an alley.

“……”

After looking the other party up and down, it was not difficult for Grian to see that the other party should be a woman, and a very young woman! Look at the other party's appearance, that snow-white and immature complexion and oval ears, then it should be a human being!

"Humph! Red mask, a thief's outfit...... Sure enough, you must be the remnant of the Defia Brotherhood...... After a few years, you have made a comeback? Or...... Is it some people with ulterior motives who have reawakened you? ”

With just one glance, Grian roughly recognized the origin of the other party.

If it had been on another timeline, he would have started organizing the People's Army a long time ago! However, due to the influence of some butterfly effects, Van Cleef was exterminated too early, so he has been idle until now, and he barely has a group of dozens of militia under his command, and as for the People's Army or something, it is still far away.

"Lay down your arms and surrender! You are now completely surrounded by us, and it is useless to resist! ”

Dressed in civilian clothes and carrying a huge warhammer from his time as a paladin of the Silver Hand, Grian once again spoke to the female thief who looked too young and surrounded by them.

He knew that the other party might just be a misguided refugee, all for survival, or the foolish accounts of the Stormwind Kingdom in the past? Therefore, he Grian doesn't want to demand too much from the other party, as long as the other party is willing to surrender and does not commit a serious crime after being investigated, then he will definitely fight for the other party a chance to get a light shot.

Although most of the people in the western wilderness are not doing well now, and the kingdom is taxed heavily due to various military activities, as long as you can survive, it is always wrong to rebel, and it is even worse to join the Defia Brotherhood!

"Whew!"

"You lackeys of the nobles of Stormwind! You have been oppressing and killing countless innocent people in the western wilderness, and you have abused the migrant workers of our Masons Guild, do you think we will forget the blood debt of the past? ”

"I can tell you: no one has come to wake us up! As long as your oppression remains, as long as justice is not served, we will never give in! Sometimes, though, we are silent, but we are always awake! When the time is right, our blade of vengeance will cut through your necks and make you bleed that filthy blood! ”

As soon as Grian's words fell, a young and crisp female voice came out muffled from behind the red scarf, making the surrounding militia feel that this female thief surrounded by them, this member of the Brotherhood of Defia, seemed to be fifteen or sixteen years old at most.

"Sure enough...... It's the stonemasons' union again......"

The old paladin sighed with a headache, and some things he didn't want to hear, or thought had been forgotten, would always be picked up inadvertently.

"Young people, actually...... You should not be so extreme, you must know that in this wonderful world of Azeroth, there is always hope...... You shouldn't hold grudges against the Stormwind Kingdom, there are some things that are best forgotten sooner...... Believe me, as long as you have hope, everything will slowly get better. ”

With a sigh in his heart, Grian, who probably understood something, continued to persuade patiently in a rare way.

The of the Stonemasons' Guild was many years ago...... Look at the age of this little girl, she looks like she is only fifteen or sixteen years old now, and back then, she was only a little girl a few years old at most, she shouldn't remember too much.

Therefore, as long as you explain some of the negative things that the other party has been instilled in, you must still be able to win it back.

"Hahaha! What a joke! You, the lackey of the nobles of Stormwind, are ...... Telling me hope?! ”

"Hope...... Is that how I should have felt when I watched you noble lackeys cut off my father's head? I hope it's just a vicious joke in this cold world for me! Wish...... It doesn't exist, it exists, it's just Vanessa! ”

The masked female thief laughed loudly and retorted at the stupid words of the old paladin across from her with vitriolic and bitter hatred.

Back then, when she groped her way out of the mine of death in the dark, followed the unrecognizable traces all the way, and used her bare feet to go through a lot of hardships before she finally reached the gate of the evil Stormwind City, all she saw in the cold and bone-chilling storm was her father's dead head!

At that time, he was put in a small wooden cage, and he was hung by the thugs by the city gate......

That scene...... She still hasn't forgotten!!

And now, this old fellow, this lackey of Stormwind, wants to come and persuade her? Scold...... He's just wishful thinking!

Once, during the years she had been training in the land of Quel'Thalas, she had sworn that she would not compromise until the kingdom of Stormwind was destroyed by her own hands, and until the filthy nobles paid for their blood! She believes that one day, she will use her jet-black dagger to wash the blood of those filthy and greedy storm nobles!

And this is the fundamental reason why she secretly concealed her High Elf teacher some time ago, and led a group of followers who were also hostile to the Stormwind Alliance to resolutely sail south and reach the Western Wilderness, once again carrying the banner of the Brotherhood of Defia, intending to complete her father's unfinished business!

During this time, Vanessa had gathered some of the refugees in the neighborhood and the remnants of the original Masons' Guild to rally them around her, and with the help of these people, Vanessa finally got her wish to rebuild the Brotherhood of Defia.

Their current members have exceeded 3,000, and the number of people who can fight has reached 1,000, far exceeding the number of Stormwind soldiers in the Western Wilderness! Moreover, they even specially shouted the novel slogan of killing the nobles, dividing the land, and paying less taxes!

Because of this, every day, countless people quietly choose to join them, and their power is growing every moment and every second.

So, Vanessa believed that the day when those weapons they ordered from the goblins arrived, it would be the moment when the people of their western wilderness would revolt!

However, what Vanessa never expected was that today, when she was about to assassinate a corrupt aristocratic official assigned by Stormwind City in Moonstream Town, she would be blocked by these militiamen who had been ambushed here for a long time and that damn old paladin fellow.

Vanessa...... Van Cleef ...... I see...... Forget it, go up and take her down with all your might, if you resist...... Lawfully kill on sight! ”

Hearing the other party's words and names, Grian was stunned for a while, and then suddenly stopped persuading, just sighed and waved his hand, intending to let his subordinates forcibly step forward and take down the young girl.

This kind of teenage young man, especially this kind of guy who grew up under the influence of endless hatred, is particularly extreme, and ordinary persuasion is definitely useless, not to mention the revenge of killing his father! Therefore, for the sake of the stability of Moon Creek Town, for the sake of the Western Wilderness, and for the sake of less turmoil in the Stormwind Kingdom, Grian decided to take the other party directly.

"Yes!!"

Hearing the order, four militiamen from Yuexi Town, armed with wooden shields and long swords, surrounded the female thieves who were surrounded by them. These people are all wealthy families or children of aristocratic side branches in the western wilderness, and they are all vested interests with a lot of property, so they will not mix with these remnants of the Difia Brotherhood, who have no horses, no houses, no land, and think about rebellion all day long, and they will not sympathize with each other.

In their opinion, whether it is those outcasts or the remnants of the stonemasons' union, they are actually some outsiders, who are struggling to survive and the most miserable existence in the western wilderness, and they are not very worthy of them!

"Humph! Want to catch me?! ”

Knife fan!!

Since the other party had a murderous intent, Vanessa, as a female thief, of course, was not merciful, and directly and simply took the dozens of sharp flying knives enchanted with shadow energy on her body, and turned around with a special way and force, and instantly poured them out wildly in all directions, so that they instantly formed a violent knife fan covering a radius of more than ten meters, and directly poured it on all the militia involved in surrounding her!

Because she knew that there were a lot of Storm King militias and security forces here in Yuexi Town now, plus that old knight made her very jealous, once she really delayed, then she might not be able to escape!

So, she has to give it her all!

Or, kill all the soldiers who stand in your way and find an opportunity to evacuate; Or, you will be caught and die in aggrieved terms!

"Not good! Spread out!! ”

Seeing that this female thief was so ruthless, and those weapons seemed to have black toxins on them, Gerry was in a hurry, so he quickly shouted loudly! Then, he quickly used the Holy Light in front of him to unleash a layer of divine barrier, successfully slashing all the knives that shot at him!

However, he had no better way to shoot out in all directions and shoot at the militia.

The next moment, he was stunned to see that the dozen or so militiamen he had brought with him had fallen to the ground screaming one after another! They were either killed or wounded, and in the lighter cases, at least one or two black blades were stuck in their arms or thighs, which were not protected by armor, and fell to the ground wailing......

And those heavy ones simply broke their shields, were stabbed more than a dozen times, and lay directly on the ground and never moved again.

"What a cruel little girl, how dare you do this!!"

Finding that the other party was so ruthless and merciless, the angry Grian immediately activated the war hammer in his hand and burst out with golden holy light, and flew towards the enemy like an angry old lion.

"Humph!"

Disappear!!

After glancing at her results with satisfaction, Vanessa sneered, and didn't pay attention to the other party or plan to fight hard at all, but disappeared directly, and instantly entered a state of stealth, and disappeared directly.

"Here!"

Dealing with thieves, how can it be difficult to stop Grian, an old paladin?

Therefore, after feeling the slightest change in his surroundings, he directly forced a turn in the middle of the attack, raised his warhammer infused with holy light high, and swooped in the other direction!

"Accept the judgment of the Light!!"

The warhammer, glowing with intense golden light, slammed into a clearing without anyone or anything like a small golden sun!

Rumble!!!

When his warhammer collided with the masonry floor and debris splattered, Grian was surprised to find that his attack had missed.

“！！”

Sure enough, the enemy ...... It's gone now......

The blow that he thought he was going to win would be missed, which made Grian very embarrassed! However, he was 100% sure that the enemy was standing here just now!

But how did she disappear?

When he began to perceive it carefully, he found that there seemed to be no trace of any enemy here, except for some faint remnants of shadow energy.

"Wait......"

"This seems to be, Shadow Energy? That young enemy could be a thief with pure shadow energy?! ”

When Grian silently pulled out a dark-black blade from one of his dead militiamen, he was surprised to find that it was indeed a pure shadow energy? However, if you have this kind of talent, instead of learning the Light or becoming a Shadow Priest, you have to learn the Way of Thieves, is that really good?

He, Grian, knows that there are not many boundaries between holy light and shadow, just like the ash messenger of a fellow knight of the Silver Queen in the Northern Flame Alliance! The artifact is said to have been crafted from a Shadow Crystal before the Scourge was defeated.

"Alas...... The Western Wilderness, I'm afraid I'm going to be in big trouble! ”

Looking at the dead and wounded men around him, Grian sighed heavily.

He knew that the other party must have used some kind of Shadow Priest's tactics to forcibly escape from his attack.

Now, after many years, the Defia Brotherhood is back again......

Although, two years ago, King Varian had returned and uncovered the identity of a certain countess and successfully chased him away, but ...... The of the past has finally begun to brew here in the Western Wilderness once again, and as for when it will erupt, then he doesn't know very well......