If it weren't for the constant rain in the swamps, this trip would have been the only time I've felt the most comfortable I've felt in years.

The path of the wetland swamp is indeed difficult, but after so many years, the dwarves have finally stepped on a path in this rotten land, although it is not obvious, but it is very safe. The sign at the junction clearly states that this is the gateway to the port of Minahir. But I don't want to go there, and I can't say why, I just don't want to go there.

I left soon after arriving at Maude Fortress, which was indeed deserted. The dwarves built a bunker and barracks outside the fortress, and the place was now a military stronghold entirely.

After arriving at Maude Fortress, the weather became very good, the warm and humid and warm wind blew me to laugh, even Marl, who had accompanied me for such a long journey, felt how suitable the climate was here, and ran on the Saldo Bridge to feel the wind under his hooves, which was very cheerful.

Arathi, I'm back!

To be honest, I really like it here, especially the night here is always lovely in my mind, not only the starry night sky, but also the chirping of grasshoppers in the grass makes the night seem more quiet. There is occasional light rain, but sunny days are more frequent.

I spent only two nights in peace when I arrived in the Arathi region, and on the third day I could clearly feel the panic of the people as I passed through the village.

Yes, they are panicking now!

When I arrived in their village, everyone looked at me with a strange look, as if I were an enemy. It makes me feel bad! Even if I was willing to spend money, they were tempting and wary of me.

"I'm from the South." I told them.

They nodded, speechless.

"I heard that your country has been attacked?"

They looked at each other and still didn't speak.

"I'm here to join the army."

Some of them glanced at me a few times and then left.

I could only keep going with a very depressed mood, and I didn't believe that I couldn't find anyone who was willing to talk to me. However, the more you go in the direction of the royal capital, this situation has intensified, and everyone is like a great enemy!

While sitting by the river drinking horses, I suddenly remembered something, so I lay down on the water's edge to see how I looked. I don't know if I don't see this, I was shocked when I saw it! Although the reflection in the water is extremely unclear, the change in my face seems to be even greater than before, and much greater!

My face is a little crazy now, and I feel so ugly when I look at it myself! It's completely out of phase! Anyone who sees it is afraid! So I quickly took the food out of my pocket and ate it, maybe I would look better if I ate something.

After eating, I deliberately stayed by the river for the night, but the next day I realized that it was useless at all! Although I consoled myself in my heart that it might be of some use! But in the reflection in the water, which is not clear in the first place, the change is even more invisible.

Of course I knew that eating something alive and drinking some of their blood should make me recover as quickly as I used to, but I didn't really want to do that. I still have a little bit of a conscience. And when I think of this, a thought suddenly pops up in my heart, "Maybe I can go eat a few bad guys?" ”

But where are the bad guys? I guess I can't even get into Rapids.

That night I sat on the hill, the campfire swaying, and I wondered what to do next, whether to go straight to the front or to the wall of Soradin, where there would be the bad guys I wanted to see, so that there would be no psychological burden to eat their flesh and drink their blood.

Either it was a coincidence, and while I was in a daze, I was thrown to the ground from behind by a highland lion.

The mouth of that thing is really powerful, and it came up and bit down on my head, and if I hadn't dodged my head in time, the back of my head would have been bitten off. Fortunately, this lion is a lioness, and her weight is not very large, more than 100 kilograms. That's when I have the power to turn it around.

And the blood that was still warm after stabbing this thing to death made me feel suddenly.

Then eat it!

Raw meat is not delicious, but eating raw meat gives you far more power than eating cooked meat, at least in me. I didn't do anything that night, first mixed up with water, drank the last bit of blood left in its body, and then ate meat. But after dawn, I was amazed to find that it was much better to eat living creatures than to eat bread!

My palms, the backs of my hands and arms are not so deflated! The originally thin body was really only a piece of skin, and a trace of muscle was full. This is a phenomenon that I don't have when I drink.

I was overjoyed to find out about it, and I went hunting in the middle of nowhere. The results are very fruitful! After three days, my body was full, and my eyes were much better than before, but there was a little bit of a bad thing, that is, the gray color with a little purple and swarthy feeling in the sun...... Still not natural.

I touched my face, it seemed to be fuller than before, but if my face turned purple and gray, I guess people would still have to classify me as an abnormal person. If only there was a mirror. But as I walked, I suddenly had another thought, could it be that drinking animal blood and eating animal meat is not effective!

Thinking of this, I rode towards the wall of Soradin, and I thought it would be okay to get a few people there.

The farther west along the main road, the panic and nervousness became more apparent, and I also found the guards and patrols. Look at your skin, let's pull it down, I can't walk along the avenue.

But it's not safe to walk in the wilderness! Their patrols don't just patrol the roads. I hadn't eaten or drunk for a few days, and my skin sank again. That's a problem!

Now my life is saved, but it's a big problem that this skin can't be kept fresh. Thinking of this, I suddenly remembered Sylvanas. "How do you stay young forever?"

Yes! Other undead zombies, including me, will shrink and wither, and some of the living dead's bodies will also rot, but my body is not corrupt, which is good! But how is it that this situation is not found in that woman? Strange, you say, isn't it strange?

But then again, her skin is really not rosy anymore. The skin of the High Elves is actually very beautiful, red and pink, and the skin of those little girls is sweet when I think about it! Peach-flavored. But I remember that Sylvanas's skin was pale but with a hint of purple, and although it was very even, it was really not so rosy. I didn't think anything was there when I first saw her, but now that I think about it, it's really ...... Heck, I'll have to ask her for advice when I have a chance.

Before I saw the wall of Soladin, I saw the camp and the soldiers, and now the situation is more awkward, I am not pleasing on both sides now, I don't know whether the enemies on the wall of Soladin are undead or rebels, and now they can all fire at me from here.

So I had to go far away, dodge the patrol, and run west at night to the wall. It is said that the wall is a great wall from south to north, and it is estimated that the Greymans built their wall with reference to this thing. I don't know how this place was done, but I remember that this place has been breached twice. This kind of defense is honestly estimated to be so weak when it was built.

I didn't have the tools to climb, so I had to follow the wall all the way to find a breakthrough, and then I found a place to climb in the mountains to the north.

But when I climbed the wall, I thought there would be a garrison, but there was only a dead silence except for the black lights and blind fire. There was not a single person in the barracks on the city walls, nothing of value except for blood stains and stumps inside. And the dust on the floor on the table is obviously that no one has been here for a long time.

After a day of walking along the city walls, from morning to evening again, I finally saw a human figure! But when I pushed him to the ground, I realized that it was not a living person at all!

The guy didn't scream, his jaw was about to fall off with a long tongue hanging out. How could you find such a guy standing guard here!

The hammer in his hand still fell, may he rest in peace!

Dry wood was piled up on the beacon next to it, and an oil lamp burned half-dead in the corner. I didn't spoil all this, as a bystander, I don't want to change the situation too much, although the guy I just killed may be a flap of wings in the butterfly effect, but I still pray in my heart that my little act will not cause too much change.

Continuing to touch the area, I found more and more undead soldiers. Even though I'm the same as them, it's a big question whether they'll accept me, because I've been hanging out with living people long enough.

When I sneaked over, the group didn't notice it, they just stood there straight. The biggest good thing about these guys is that they don't have to sleep. It's important for the sentinels not to get sleepy.

As much as I would love to lurk through, the walls are not wide, and there are so many things in the passage that it is almost impossible to do. After thinking about it for a while, I decided to take a risk.

I slowly appeared in front of them, the undead soldier standing guard silently turning his head to look at me, I couldn't make out his expression except for his glowing eyes in the night, but one thing was for sure, he had no desire to attack me at all.

To be honest, I'm still a little nervous, after all, if they attack me, then my retreat is waiting for you. But thankfully he was not hostile to me at all.

"I'm looking for your general." I say.

The guy looked at me stunned: "Who are you?" ”

"I'm here to inspect the city's defenses." I say.

He stared at me for a moment and said, "Where did you come from?" ”

"If this is the case with your city defenses, Queen Sylvanas may punish your troops severely." I say.

"Come with me!" He turned his head and asked me to follow him.

Walking past the undead standing guard, they are indifferent! I knew that this was the case, so I walked straight over.

I didn't ask them who the leader of the group was, and even though the guys were dead, I felt like they weren't that stupid. Let's talk less!

He led me to a battlement, and said, "Sir, someone is looking for you. ”

The undead sitting on the wooden box looked up, and he also stared at me with a pair of shining eyes, "Who's coming?" ”

"I'm here to inspect your city defenses." I say.

"I've never heard of anyone checking this kind of thing."

"If you had fought before you lived, you should have known that there must be inspectors under the marshal to inspect the work." I say.

"Then I haven't heard of it either."

"You'll hear about it today." I say.

"How did you get up?" He finally realized the problem.

"I can come up, and so can the living."

The guy didn't speak, he jumped off the box, "Come on, friend, let's talk here!" ”

His name is Maloville.

Actually, I didn't know him at all, and I didn't remember this man at all, but he turned out to be a knight, just a small lord in the West Wilder region.

He finally believed in my coming. "We've been here for a month." "But the Queen's reinforcements have not arrived," he said. ”

"I'll naturally react to Her Majesty about this question, but my job now is to see how well you're defending." I looked him in the eye, "But apparently you're not doing what Her Majesty expects." ”

"I will rectify this, and rectify it immediately." He is also aware of the seriousness of the problem.

"What's going on on the other side now?" I asked him.

"Can you see the light over there?" He pointed into the distance, "That's the camp of the human army. ”

"I'm asking if they've been attacking lately?"

"No, we've cut off their main thoroughfare, and they won't be able to rescue the towns of Hillsbrad if it's blocked." He said, "Uh...... How's the battle going on Hillsbrad's side? ”

"It's not great!" I said, "So you have to work harder." ”

"Her Majesty will not be disappointed." He said.

"But what you just did almost disappointed her." I say.

His laughter was harsh.

From his mouth I knew about the current situation of the army of Stormgard. The human army had tried to break through this line of defense by all means in the past few days. It is unknown whether the human army did their best, but the result was that not only did they fail to take the wall, but also built a lot of people, and these dead people were turned into undead soldiers.

On the whole, the defensive pressure on this side is not very great, which should also be the reason for their relatively loose military discipline. And when I asked how they had captured the Wall, they told me their plans.

At first, Sylvanas did not let her soldiers charge brainlessly, but began to lay out the layout before the war began, and she let those who had just died and been resurrected infiltrate the kingdom of Stormga little by little, and if she had done it this way, she might not have to be so troublesome as she is now.

But the results are always unsatisfactory, for example, the first point is how to get this person who has just died. That's a big problem. There aren't many people alive in the north anymore, and if they do, most of them have found new lords and shelters, such as the Valley of the Hearths.

So Sylvanas sent an army to sneak attack and directly destroy some villages and towns, and they had to act fast!

But there are no impermeable walls, and attacks in the Hillsbrad area, especially near Talenmere, have been discovered. The people of Tarenmir fled for their lives, but sent troops to drive them east to prevent them from fleeing south.

The people of Dunhold were unaffected, and some of the panicked refugees remained in Dunhold, while others crossed the Soradin Wall and made their way to Stormgard.

Sylvanas's approach has both advantages and disadvantages, the advantage is that more undead soldiers can be mixed in, but the disadvantage is that the population of Stormgard has increased, and the supply of troops is more abundant.

Of course, there are advantages and disadvantages to this, there are more soldiers, but the housing problems and food and medical problems brought about by the rapid population increase will immediately become apparent. But that's all for later, and Sylvanas wants to open a breakthrough as soon as possible.

And as the main person in charge of this war, the surrendered Dreaddemon Lord Varimatas has specially formed an army, called the Polluters. And in order to better cooperate with the attack, the royal apothecary Guterres led his research team to participate in the battle with the weapons they had studied.

It's just that the thing Guterres studied is said to have been extracted from the decomposing corpses of dead people and the decomposing corpses of animals, some kind of malaria or something. But this thing sounds very powerful, but the effect is not good, some people have diarrhea a few times!

Still, Varimasas has a lot of praise for this guy, and in his words, it will definitely succeed!

The harassed Talummere refugees poured into Stormgard, and the undead soldiers mixed up, but somehow their undead identities were discovered. After all, dead people behave differently than living people, and even their expressions are different, and my observation is that their corpses also decay. I guess that's the reason, of course, the real situation is unknown, and then the news exploded among the refugees. And the army that is secretly lurking on the west side of the Great Wall is also waiting for the signal from the soldiers lurking inside.

This plan is said to have been conceived by Varimasas, and as a Dreadlord, this guy has a lot of bad intentions. However, it was indeed the least costly, the undead soldiers who infiltrated the camp were said to be less than a thousand, and then they gave the defenders of the Great Wall a fatal stab in the back from the rear for more than 300 people.

The gates of the Great Wall are wide open!

The army of the undead lurking outside the city immediately rushed in, and even desperate resistance as a human would be useless, so in the end, the polluters managed to take the wall. However, the Stormgard army was not vegetarian, and after losing the Great Wall, they did engage in hand-to-hand combat with the undead army on the Great Plains, and repelled the undead in their attempts.

But only that's it, the human army quickly established a defensive line after resisting the undead attack, and prevented the undead army from directly charging into the interior of the kingdom of Stormgard. The army of the undead did not expect humans to be so tenacious, although the gate was open, but the army of the undead could not break through the defense line arranged by humans. And mankind wants to retake the Great Wall, but it has never been able to attack it.

Now it's a stalemate.

But as the old saying goes, when it rains every day, a rebel army appears in Stormgard, calling itself a syndicate. They took advantage of the current war to divide most of the northern part of Stormgard, which was a great blow to the kingdom of Stormgard.

This group of syndicates not only occupies farms and towns, but also controls large populations, and their slogan is simple, eat and live! And the leader of this armed force turned out to be the nobleman of the former Alterac Kingdom, the Duke of Facurrest, known as the "White-faced Butcher". Coincidentally, a large number of refugees from the west had consciously gone to the territory occupied by Fakurest to serve as obedient citizens of the rebels. This is something I can't understand.

But the war situation is not as good as Maloville's explanation, the size of the country of Lordaeron is still very large, it is said that the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, although more than half of the people in this country have died, but the number of those who are alive is actually quite a lot! These shrunken Lordaerons are now stubbornly surviving, led by some of the former generals of the disintegrated Knights of the Silver Hand.

Yes, the silver hand that once was! The Silver Hand has been disbanded with the passing of Uther. The then Crown Prince, later King Arthas Minehir III, completely disbanded the powerful Light Forces. The Silver Hand is gone, but now a new organization has emerged, the Scarlet Crusades.

The original Scarlet Crusaders were to avenge the king, to avenge the dead people of Lordaeron, to purge the undead and restore the world it once was. The organization started out as a very pure and friendly organization, but then the organization became ...... Very radical! More and more radical!

Then suddenly a group called Silver Dawn appeared. Malovell said he didn't know exactly what was going on, but the merger of the two groups did take a huge toll on the undead, especially since the group called the Scarlet Crusade became more and more insane. So much so that parts of West Verde, the eastern part of East Wild, and the western and northern parts of Tirisfa were recovered by the Scarlet Crusade.

The main reason why the defenders of the Great Wall have been unable to receive reinforcements is that these two forces have not only launched a battle in the Tirisfad region to recover Lordaeron, but they have also sent troops to the Hillsbrad area, and it is their presence that has led to the dilemma of the undead army being cut off.

And the current stalemate is the best state. The Stormgardians did not dare to act rashly, and the defenders on the Great Wall did not dare to move, and the slightest movement could lead to the fall of the city.

Everyone is waiting, preparing, preparing for that uncertain game-breaker.