Volume 5 The Return of the King 264 The Withered Earth

There are many problems in this world, even if no one and only animals have their own problems, and when there are people in this world, it is not ...... It should be that after the emergence of advanced intelligent beings, there are more problems in this world.

If there is a problem, the problem will be solved, but the problem can arise, and it is not so easy to solve. The problem of animals is only to eat, mate and live, and the problem created by intelligent beings is not as simple as eating and eating.

Every lock has a key to open it, and every problem has a way to solve it, and although it can be opened in other ways, there is not only one solution to the problem. But the problem is not solved if you want to solve it, time, people, events, conditions, all accidents are inevitable, and many inevidates look like accidents.

Egwene promised the dragon to solve this problem, but no one can solve this problem for the time being, at least in the human race, there seems to be no more powerful existence than Egwene back then, how strong Medivan is anyway, I don't know, as for whether there will be more powerful people in the future, or a group of similar people can only appear in time.

But now there is at least one person who can still try to investigate, and that is Khadgar. Anyway, he's the only human who can stay with Medivan and become his apprentice.

The swamp was much better than it had been then, at least there was a road, and it was a carefully manicured road, but before I reached the Overwatch I was completely stunned by the land, this was not the place I remembered, although I had the impression that the Orcs had been plagued by the Dark Gate, but elsewhere there were still lush forests and vast swamps, but now it was completely different!

All the trees are dead! There was no grass on the ground, and the endless red earth and the blazing sun made me feel as if I had arrived in another strange world. It's just the color of the sky compared to the Windwind Canyon, and the sky here is not blue but red, a touch of pale red that makes me feel very aggrieved.

Egwen was surprised and asked me if I had come to the wrong place, but how could the road under my feet be wrong!

The further I went, the more uncertain I became, what was going on here! When I spoke to Varian, he didn't tell me that this was a big change.

It's not been burned by fire, and it's definitely not artificially cut down, and I don't think anyone has such a lot of strength to talk about pollution, but if you want to talk about magic pollution, Medivan's death shouldn't cause problems here, it's too far away.

I asked Egwene what she thought, and she stroked the warm earth and said that it was indeed polluted, that it was dead, but she didn't know why.

Knowing that the stone in our hearts fell when we saw the Watch Fort, we did not travel to another world.

The guards at the watchtower spotted us, and we were ushered into the castle, but when I entered the city, I realized that there was construction going on again, and it was still under construction.

The Supreme Commander of the Watch Fort was a burly man named Rethorn Nethervi, and he knew me, and it turned out that he had been a second lieutenant under Lothar, and he had been placed here after the restoration of the Stormwind Kingdom, and was now a colonel.

I was also very happy to meet my old comrades-in-arms, and he also received us warmly. But the food at the banquet was really not very good, and he said that there was a big problem in this place right now, and they were struggling right now, and it was good to be able to eat these things.

I was surprised to ask him if it wasn't like this before, and he nodded in acknowledgement, but it wasn't that long ago that it became like this. About ten months ago, their patrol had gone out on patrol and had not returned, and he sent someone to look for it, and when he got to the vicinity of the Dark Gate, he saw that the soldiers ran back in fright.

It's not that the dead comrades were miserable, but that the portal opened again on the huge stone door of the Dark Gate.

The soldiers didn't know what a portal was, and they hadn't seen what it looked like, but the building wasn't seen from one end to the other, but a whirling whirlpool.

Rethon Nethervi immediately sent a large number of soldiers to reconnoiter again, and the bodies of the soldiers who did not return were found, but their bodies were dry and decomposed except for the obvious open wounds, which was very abnormal.

Rethon Nethervi had also been through the Great Battle, he was there when the Dark Gate was closed, and when he saw it, he said he couldn't believe it, and only felt a chill in his back.

The remnants of the scene showed that the soldiers had been killed before they could even resist, and the footprints left behind by the killing of their things made the veteran feel bad.

He immediately sent a report to Stormwind, but there were not many reinforcements waiting for him, but he was asked to continue to monitor, continue to investigate, and there must be an order to explain.

Holding the order, he was deeply disturbed, there had been no problems here for many years, and the current situation was extremely serious, but it felt that Stormwind City didn't seem to be very concerned about this matter.

In the months that followed, the problem grew, and in some places the carcasses of various animals began to dry and decompose, and not only animals, but more and more plants died and withered. And this contagion-like situation spread rapidly across the land, and within a few months the land was visibly bare, and all the plants died!

It used to be that they had arable land, but when the corruption of the land spread to the Watchtower, all the food crops and vegetables they planted died, and all of them died overnight!

The plants were all dead, and no one dared to drink the wells they had made, so Rethon Netherway sent people out to find water, but in the end they had to dig wells to get water from the dark swamps that had not been corroded to the north.

Soon the defenders here began to have serious problems with the morale of the defenders, and Rethone Nethervi had sent reports to Stormwind for help again and again, but what he was waiting for was only the order to continue to hold on, and there was no military reinforcement, no reinforcements.

He really had no choice but to go to Stormwind in person, but the result was that Varian allowed the soldiers of the Watchweek to rotate in stages, and promised to solve the problem of military supplies for them, and the countess beside Varian said that this matter needed to be communicated with the magicians and asked them to go back and continue to monitor first.

Rethhorne brought back a rotation of soldiers, waiting for the supplies promised by the king but not waiting for the magicians who came to investigate. Their investigation was at an impasse after the land had completely withered, and they had not seen anything until a monster had escaped from the maelstrom, but no one had seen what it looked like, and there was no trace of it.

There were a lot of obstacles and other things in front of the dark door, and there were even traps, and there were so many traps that it was impossible to get close to at all, but after surrounding the dark door, I never saw anything escape from it.

Until one day, several humans came out of it.

When the report came up, Rethhorn said that goosebumps were rising on his body, and he immediately rushed to the scene, the humans were still standing in front of the dark gate, and after he went to repeatedly confirm that it was human and learned that it was the expeditionary force, he immediately protected several people.

Several people told him about what had happened there, and he realized that the expeditionary force was not completely annihilated, that they were not dead there, and that there were still people alive, and Archmage Khadgar was one of them.

Rethhorn said that he immediately remembered Marshal Tulayan, but the soldiers said that most of the generals were missing except for Khadgar, and that the other was Danas Torbairn, a member of the royal family of the kingdom of Stormgard.

These people also noticed the strangeness of the Dark Gate when they were patrolling, but they said that on the other side of the Dark Gate, the land of the world is similar to here, and the biggest difference is that the world there has been fragmented, so broken that it makes people feel that the place where they live is fake.

Rethorn couldn't understand what the soldiers were depicting in the world, but he immediately took the soldiers to Stormwind.

In his mind, this matter was a big deal, but after arriving in Stormwind, it was suppressed, and he did not see the kingdom boiling, nor did he see all the nobles angry, but only received a separate summons from the king, the countess, and Berval.

After the summons, he was sent back to the Watchgate, and it didn't take long for a few soldiers to be sent back, and then some of the magicians from Stormwind, who came to the Dark Gate again and walked inside.

But after walking in, no one came out, which made Lei Thorn frightened, not only the loss of those soldiers, but the mage is still a rare thing in the Stormwind Kingdom, and how to explain this matter to the king?

So he decided to wait, wait a few days, and after he had waited a week to send the report to Stormwind, a few figures came out of the dark gate, and the magicians returned!

When he saw the magicians, Rethhorn said that his tears were about to fall, and when he returned, the magicians were so excited that they couldn't speak, and when he learned that there was a general situation, he immediately sent the magicians to Stormwind.

More than a month later, a group of elves came to the Watch Castle, and the human soldiers who had never seen the elves were amazed, and the team of thousands of people walked into the maelstrom and never returned. The next thing he could do was wait a long time, and he wanted to know what was going on over there, but no one came out, and no one had never entered without an army, so he waited until now.

When I told him something about what happened in Stormwind, he was stunned for a long time, and then asked me what the kingdom wanted to do, and I said I'm not here, I'm going over there to see what's going on. And I corrected him, in fact, something had come out of the dark door, but he didn't see it.

He asked me what it was, and I told him that he was a bird turned into a Night Elf, and that the information contained had already been passed on.

The expression on his face seemed to be that he really didn't know about the situation, for any ordinary person, this kind of thing was as incredible as a legend, and it was indeed not easy to believe.

After thanking him, Egwene and I, who had been sent by the king, set out again, and I will wait and see what the world is like.