Chapter 8: The Widow's Magic Axe, the Black Rider Recruits
Sunlight shines through the skylight of the attic, casting a golden glow on the blood-stained floor, which is bathed in a small church. After the resentment and resentment, these women who had lost their husbands and children also calmed down, and at this time they were kneeling on the ground and snuggling together, praying to the faith in their hearts.
Rorschach, on the other hand, leaned alone in front of the door, silently contemplating his next steps.
"Natsu, what are your plans next?" Hearing this, Rorschach raised his head, only to find that there was a blonde woman standing in front of him, with a dignified and graceful face, not glamorous and charming, but with a kind of resolute and strong charm, she was the unconscious woman imprisoned in the deepest part, named Shar. Fredon.
According to Rorschach's observations, this person seems to be the central figure of the family's mother, who arranges affairs and stabilizes the situation as soon as he wakes up. What impressed Rorschach was that in the case of unbearable hunger, she still stopped the gobbling behavior of the women around her, led her companions to wash first, and only after completing the prayer ritual did she eat slowly and quietly, showing a calm and unhurried demeanor in her demeanor.
At this time, of course, Shar was no longer naked and scarred, wearing a gray shawl dress, but she could vaguely see the snow-white gauze wrapped through the light skirt, she was weakly holding on to her crutches, and her sapphire eyes looked at Rorschach, waiting for an answer.
"Actually, I was on a mission to pass through here, and I had to go to a camp called 'Valgard', Lady Shar, do you know where this place is?" Rorschach thought about it, and didn't hide his purpose, and asked directly.
"I haven't heard of this place." Shar shook his head and replied suspiciously: "But as far as I know, there should be no such thing as a 'camp' here, the residents here are spontaneously gathered in villages or towns, and there is no unified kingdom governance, and the security on weekdays also relies on the local militia, how can there be a garrison of troops, are you mistaken?" ”
"No...... It should exist. Rorschach suddenly realized that he had made a mistake: he was playing a game that was more than a decade after the story of The Frozen Throne: Wrath of the Lich King. At that time, the Prince of Arthas had long since fallen, and Northrend, which was originally far away from the mainland, was also divided up by the Horde and the Alliance, and the natives in it either merged into these two camps, or were slaughtered by the Lich King and turned into zombies, but in this time period when nothing happened, most of the inhabitants of Northrend were still the descendants of the refugees, isolated from the world for a long time, and the news was closed, and it was impossible to know too much information.
This is a question of Yu Blind...... It seems that the only way to continue is to follow the quest prompts of the Book of Reincarnation. Rorschach was silent for a moment, and when he saw that the woman was still standing in front of him, with a sad and melancholy look, he realized a little, and asked aloud:
"Although the undead in the vicinity have been cleaned up by me, this is just a resource collection point for natural disasters, I'm afraid that in a few days if no wood is sent over, they will react and investigate the situation, what is Madam going to do?"
"That's ......what I'm worried about," Shar sighed as he looked at his other companions who were dazed or sobbed, "Men and children have suffered misfortunes, leaving only us incompetent women, who have been in captivity for the rest of their lives, and who are desperately ready to die, and who have not yet been rescued in their lifetimes." ”
She paused hesitantly, then suddenly looked up at Rorschach, and said with a hopeful look, "Actually...... My family was in a remote village in the southwest, and it was only because the village wanted to get wood from the Freeden family that I was married here. It's in the middle of nowhere and should be safe, can you escort us there? ”
Seeing that Rorschach was silent, she gritted her teeth and continued: "If you don't mind, which young lady you like, or even a few, can be committed to you together, the Freyden family has been logging for many years, and all the assets and property left behind are also owned by you free of charge, with your ability and the support of my family, you can completely obtain the status of lord in my village." ”
"I'm sorry." Rorschach glanced at her, shook his head, and replied coldly, "If you are worried about the undead army along the way, you don't have to, as far as I know, the main forces of the natural disaster are distributed in the direction of Hainim Town, and as for the beasts along the way, if I am not mistaken, the beasts within a radius of a hundred miles have been killed and filled with skeleton troops, and they are ......"
He looked at Sha'er's dejected appearance, and suddenly smiled again, "With your strength, Madame, as long as you don't encounter a large army of natural disasters, some obstructions along the way are not a problem at all, isn't it?" ”
In fact, Rorschach felt strange when he opened the cage, compared to the others who only symbolically put on a collar to avoid escaping, this woman except for the neck, all her limbs were fixed by iron hoops and could not move, although there was a violation under her body, but that weakness was obviously only caused by long-term hunger, and after a little eating, she was in good spirits, this kind of physical strength and recovery made Rorschach sigh to herself.
Moreover, Azeroth's humanity is similar to that of Europe, and it is not like the patriarchal rules of the Eastern feudal era, and after losing its former power, it can still make the companions around him awe-inspired, which is really not explained by the identity of a "master mother". Therefore, Rorschach cautiously used the basic function of the Book of Reincarnation to probe, although this function can only be used by the natives of the mission world, and can only make inaccurate judgments from the appearance, mannerisms, and habits of the body, but still came up with a "black iron median" evaluation, which shocked him.
You must know that the necromancer who slaughtered this land and occupied the assets of the original owner is only a black iron level upper rank. Of course, in addition to his own magic spells, he also has the support of the Scourge Legion, and his subordinates are assigned to elite ghouls whose strength is not inferior to his own.
Don't look at this woman's weak and helpless pitiful appearance, but in essence, she is a tough native who can tear apart tigers and leopards after all. If she really nodded her head and agreed, it would be okay to escort all the way, but if she really got to her territory, once the other party suddenly turned her face and a hidden role such as one or two family elders appeared, not to mention the so-called Freden's family wealth, even her own life would be worried, and how could she be a simple outcast?
Listening to Rorschach's ridicule, the woman's face changed significantly, and finally she suddenly smiled, revealing a hint of charm under her dignity, and whispered in her ear: "Since Your Excellency has your own affairs, then I won't bother, but you don't seem to be very interested in Freden's property, so it's better to give me half of it to settle everyone." And I'll give you the precious magic treasure of the Freden family's heirloom, how about it? ”
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"I always feel like I'm at a loss......" Walking in the vast wilderness, Rorschach muttered to himself wrapped in a hooded cloak with black and gold rimmed, playing with a rusty iron axe.
The wooden handle of this long, broad-bladed axe with the marks of age is inscribed with a line of letters - "Winder Fredden", which is the name of the first head of the lumberyard. And this worn-out axe is indeed a magic prop, called the "Suppression Blade", but as for whether it can be called "precious", it is a matter of opinion.
Although the two-handed axe has a dull blade on the outside, the two magic runes inside are intact, namely "Forest Buster" and "Secondary Sharp", the former can cast a cutting force field against tree structures once a day; The latter is a passive ability, and every time you slash, the quality of the item will be checked, and if the hardness is lower than the judgment, and there is no magic support, it will be directly destroyed.
It's just this so-called "judgment...... Rorschach tried a few times, but unfortunately found that it was somewhere between blunt iron and wrought steel, and it was okay to deal with things like wood or stone, but even when it came to ordinary plate armor or steel-forged weapons, it was useless.
"To put it simply...... Sure enough, it is just a civilian logging tool, and it can be invincible when the people fight with kitchen knives, no wonder the woman is so generous. Rorschach didn't mind, and casually put the two-handed axe into the death pattern bag and looked ahead.
Under the bright sun, the wide, straight road seemed long, the soil on the road was fluffy and soft, and in the distance a few figures swayed back and forth, as if some hard-working farmers were busy in the fields, and at the fork in the road ahead, a crooked wooden sign was erected.
Rorschach frowned, and walked slowly over in a single state. As he approached, the earth suddenly made a fluffy crunch like firecrackers, and several broken skeletons crawled out of the ground and gradually leaned towards him, while the farmer-like figures in the distance jumped like apes at the sound, revealing the torsos of rotting ghouls.
It's just that after these skeletons and corpses approached the range of Rorschach's ten meters, they suddenly stood blankly as if they had lost their purpose, while the slightly intelligent ghouls showed a look of fear and slowly retreated backwards, clearing a path for him to pass.
This is the effect of the Cursed Cult's standard cloak on Rorschach's body, and the inferior brainless undead do not have the intelligence to distinguish between friend and foe, so each Cursed Cultist's clothing has a trace of the Upper Scourge branded on it. The effect is similar to the pauper's version of the "Fear Aura", which has a certain deterrent and dispel effect on the lower undead of the side, so as not to cause jokes about accidentally killing one's own people.
Rorschach stopped in front of the fork in the road, looked at the road sign soaked in black blood, and after identifying the direction of "Henim", he thought for a moment and carved a lingua franca warning with the blade of his axe, so as not to send the natives who did not know the situation to death, and then continued on his way.
Strictly speaking, he didn't want to go to the town that had been reduced to a demon cave, but his mission in this world was stuck at this level, and he had to go there to get to the next step.
After he breached the lumberyard, the mission of the Book of Reincarnation took a new turn.
"The second phase of the side quest is triggered
Name: Clearing
Content: Travel to the battlefield in front of 'Heinim Town', join the Alsatian side, and assist in clearing the town's undead forces.
Reward: 1000 Survival Points, Favor of Arthas. ”
With Rorschach's meager strength, even with the addition of two corpses, recklessly entering a town with heavy troops and hoarding is definitely dead. According to the Softbone Mage, the permanent strength of this town is 2,500 skeleton soldiers, 600 skeleton mages, four elite teams of 100 ghouls with standard configurations, and ...... A veteran undead lich.
After this period of adaptation and the information he received from the necromancer, Rorschach basically understood the division of power in this world. Although there may have been gods such as the ancient Titans in this plane in ancient times, the power of the mortal world today is not exaggerated, and the powerless civilian class can be roughly divided into three stages.
Ninety percent of them are trained human veterans and apprentices, while in the Scourge forces are basic ghouls and acolytes, although they are slightly stronger in physique and martial arts than ordinary civilians, they also have no supernatural powers, and their combat methods are simply hand-to-hand combat. Even the caster can only unleash some tricks with almost zero lethality at this stage, according to the standard of infinite space, that is, the level of the black iron level that fluctuates up and down.
Further, there are professionals who have mastered supernatural powers, that is, paladins who are proficient in summoning holy light, mages who have mastered the power of frost and fire, and druids who have three forms of free-transforming beasts, etc., some of which are similar to the midstream forces that players play in the game, in fact, the vast majority of Azeroth's professions stay at this level; As for the higher top level, it is not Schiller. Small people like Cohen can know, but Rorschach thinks that it should be legendary heroes or big demons who are famous in the continent, such as the Great Lich Kel'thugad and Uther Lightbringer, the LinkedIn heroes who are sung in their respective camps in the game.
"I just don't know if Alsace has reached the third level now? However, according to the fact that he was teased by the Dreadlord of 'Melganis' during the Battle of Stratholme, he did not show any more than the level of his mentor Uther, and should only belong to the powerful paladin. Rorschach suddenly sighed to himself, and a wisp of longing came to his heart.
"I really want to get that kind of power...... One man becomes an army, and one enemy is a hundred individual strength. ”
It's just that before he could finish his envy, the ground suddenly shook out of place, and Rorschach was stunned for a moment, and quickly dodged to a corner of the roadside, and then poked his head out to look into the distance.
At the end of the road, in the direction of the small town of Heinim, the sound of more and more rapid trampling came from nothing, and the sound of horses' hooves became louder and louder. Suddenly, as if thousands of troops were charging, the entire ground roared like thunder, and the figures of dozens of cavalry galloped like ink-colored arrows.
"Could it be that the Alsace army has arrived?" Such a thought flashed through Rorschach's mind, but he rejected the speculation in the next second. Because as the distance suddenly narrowed, the two knights leading the team in front showed scarlet eyes, and the horses they were riding on were covered in inky black heavy armor, exuding a cold and solemn smell all over their bodies, and at the end of this group of black cavalry, there were several cursed cultists who were dressed like Rorschach at this time.
"Damn...... Is this a Death Knight? Schiller's intelligence doesn't have any of these guys...... Didn't they build it after the fall of Alsace? How did this time come about? Rorschach's heart jumped, and he suddenly found that these black cavalrymen were holding the reins and walking slowly straight towards him, and he realized that at some point, the skull marks on the cloak he was wearing were flashing with a faint red glow.
"Damn...... Could it be that the Scourge still has a remote location function, and I have been discovered? Rorschach was startled, but helplessly found that he couldn't escape. After all, he is just a modern high school boy with mediocre physical strength and not a flying man, not to mention that even if it is Liu Xiang Bolt, it is impossible to run long distances faster than these four-legged cavalry, Rorschach had to stay put, quietly brushed the bag on his waist, ready to take out the corpse Ji at any time and fight to the death.
The knights, apparently aware of Rorschach's presence, paused slightly, and slammed the reins in front of him, showing a superb ride from movement to stillness, but did not burst into attack, but fell silent like rows of iron statues.
After a few moments, a knight leaped out of them, staring at it with a scarlet gaze for a moment, and suddenly there was a jerky sound in his throat like a piece of iron rubbing against him.
"It's Schiller. Priest Cohen? ”
"This question...... Hasn't this guy seen him himself? Rorschach thought so in his heart, so he had to reply in a vague tone: "It's me...... The lumberyard task was completed ahead of schedule, so I simply came over early to complete the handover. ”
"On the orders of Lord Sareddin, all natural disasters go to the town of Henim to participate in the defense." The knight didn't hear it, and said directly.
"What's the matter?" Rorschach's eyes narrowed, and he quietly took a few steps back, procrastinating for time to ask.
"On the orders of Lord Sareddin, all the Scourge soldiers went to the town of Henim to participate in the defense."
Defense...... That is, a big battle is taking place in the town of Henium? And it can force the Scourge Legion to gather troops...... Who else could it be but that person?
Thinking of that answer, Rorschach couldn't help but look up and down at these cold-looking knights, and immediately found that the black armor on their bodies was densely cracked, revealing large wounds with black blood, and the few black knights in the back were even incomplete and could only move on horseback. However, even so, under the detection of the Book of Reincarnation, even the worst wounded still have the evaluation of the black iron superior, counting the two knight captains in front of him who led the bronze median, even if he took out the corpse Ji and resisted desperately, in the face of this kind of legion-style enemy with more and more people, it was just a matter of a charge.
His heart moved, and he suddenly asked a question that was not related to cattle and horses.
"Do you have enough supplies there?"
"On the orders of Lord Sareddin, all natural disasters will go to the town of Henium to participate in the defense" The tone and answer that were exactly the same as those just now sounded again.
"This is not a Death Knight! Or at least, a semi-finished product of the second class. He doesn't have a complete intellect, but he seems to have basic logical questions and answers, if he follows a predetermined procedure...... So," Roschaden's eyes flickered, and after a moment's thought, he tried to ask again, "What if I refuse?" ”
This time they didn't make a sound, but just touched the hilt of the long black sword in their hands, and their eyes shone red, but the next moment they stopped abruptly, because Rorschach's face did not move, and he replied calmly:
"Please lead the way, and I'll go over."
"Judging by the injuries of these guys, the town should have suffered a terrible battle...... It had reached the point where the lich had summoned all the crappy apprentices around him......" Rorschach, who was following behind, had a gloomy face, never expecting such an unfortunate thing, and took a deep breath.
"You can only take one step at a time...... saw if the town could slip away, and ...... If that guy's notes weren't lying, maybe this was a chance! ”
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PS: Okay......
By mistake, the protagonist was abducted and trafficked to the Natural Disaster Coal Mining Group to dig coal because he coveted a warm suit...... Thus began a tragic life in the coal mine.
With this sudden ending, I would probably be killed, right?
The words of the logging axe...... Well, I'm just a little nostalgic for the dota days of years ago.
I bet you don't know who the aforementioned "Wende Fredden" is alluding to.
Back then, Xiong was also known as a professional dragon knight who stole the little prince of the tower......
I hope you will enjoy watching it, and collect and recommend it. )
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