Volume 5 The Return of the King 266 Draenor Expeditionary Force
I don't know where the leader of this group of demons is, and even after the battle, I haven't seen a demon of Akmund's size, not even the size of the Dreadlord.
I survived, and of course Egwene was credited with it, and she didn't listen to me and stay there honestly, but rushed in. She said that she saw me disappear into the military formation, but she could no longer see me riding a war horse behind me.
In fact, at this time, my heart blossomed, not only because I survived, but also because of her attitude towards me. Although I would have complained about her disobedience and the like, I am happy that all other obedient words of safety have been forgotten now.
The guy who fought side by side with me just now was wounded and was being bandaged, and although I couldn't understand his words, this guy was still very reliable. I have an impression of this race, the sacrifice materials used by the orcs when they first arrived in Azeroth were this race, and the female corpses in the forest were also them.
I don't understand their language, but there are humans in it. When I found their commander, the commander looked at me in amazement and expressed his immense admiration for our luck. We are just in time for their battle to reclaim this Dark Gate.
Why recapture? Because this portal was opened somehow, no one knows how many demons went from here to the other end, but after discovering the problem, this side immediately sealed it and sent people to the other end. I knew what he said, and I asked him what he meant by recapture.
He told me that they had been waiting for a reply from the world over there since they controlled it, but the communication was not ideal, and only a part of the elven troops came to support, and there had been not much movement in Stormwind, and they didn't know what was going on.
This kind of thing is not something they can know, and then this place was attacked by demons and occupied by demons, and today it is a coincidence that they launched a battle to recapture this portal, and we happened to be here.
The commander I was talking to was named Duron, a general of the expeditionary force, and all he had to do now was wait for reinforcements and guard the place. I asked him where your commander-in-chief was, and he told me it was a bit far from here, and that it would take days to walk.
I was expecting to learn more from him, but after the fight, I was busy with work, so I didn't bother him. So I set out with the delegation under the guidance he had arranged for us.
There were humans and blue-faced men in the entourage, and the guy I was fighting alongside me was among them, his name was Gastinus, and they were draenei. The Draenei means holy in their language, and the Draenei are holy people, and their race has been extremely persecuted and is now seeking an opportunity, seeking revenge.
The first place we will go from the Dark Gate is two days away, and many sentry posts and strongholds have been built here to monitor this land, and the largest stronghold in the east is called Fort Glory, which was the first stronghold of the expeditionary force to gain a foothold in this land.
This place of red clay and red as far as the eye can see was originally a lush forest. The accompanying guide told me that the place is now called Hellfire Peninsula, and that Hellfire is because it has been completely corrupted and the earth is burning.
This place used to be called Tanaan, it is an extremely vast forest, the environment was really good when the expeditionary force came here, but the orcs were not completely polluted at that time, the largest orc tribe here is called the "Blood Ring Clan", but now the Blood Ring Clan has been defeated, they are entrenched in an area in the middle of this peninsula, that place is now being monitored by them, it is not easy for the people inside to come out, and our army will definitely not be able to kill and slaughter the city.
The orcs of the Blood Ring Clan built their castle and fortifications there before the world shattered, and it was the capital of the Blood Ring Clan, a place known as the Hellfire Fortress. But now there are not only the Blood Ring Clan here, but also some magicians, known as the Dark Moon Clan, the Broken Hand Clan had a good relationship with the Blood Ring Clan back then, and there were also people from the Broken Hand Clan, and some of the Orcs of the Fire Blade Clan also fell here, although I don't know how they survived, but they attacked several times but did not see them starve to death or collapse. This made the expeditionary forces very strange, but so far there is no answer.
And after the last attack, they found that the orcs in it were all a hundred times more energetic, and all of them became corrupt orcs after drinking the blood of demons, which means that there must be demons in the castle or something related to demons, and most of the rumors there are just speculations, and no one knows what happened inside.
I was surprised by the place where Fort Glory was built, this place was built on a cliff, the south side of the city is a cliff, and the gate is open on the north side, and because the terrain of this place is gradually rising from south to north, the whole terrain is a steep slope, and if you want to enter from the city gate, you have to go around the city to the north side of the city.
The east and west sides of the city are also craggy rocks and ravines, if you occupy the north of the city and look down at the whole city from above, it will be an excellent condition for attacking this city, but when we make a detour, we find that the ravines and cliffs on the north side are so big that people are afraid.
They told me that this place was originally surrounded by the sea on three sides, and the vegetation was thick, and the place north of the city was originally a valley, but after the world was broken, the valley was gone, and the whole valley of the land collapsed and disappeared, leaving only this abyss.
The abyss is just an adjective, and the land is like floating in the air, and the opposite side is the void. It's hard to imagine how much has changed to become this way.
The entourage entered the castle first, and we visited the surroundings before we officially entered the castle, and when we entered the castle, a middle-aged man with silver hair and a gray beard was standing in front of the castle and talking to the people of Stormwind, and they introduced me to their commander, Danas Thorbain, the supreme military commander of the Hellfire Peninsula.
Danas Torbain saw us as we rode in, and he kept looking at me as we approached, and I looked at his face, and to be honest, I can't remember what he looked like, and his face has not changed much after many years.
When he saw my face, he gradually became agitated, and I rolled off my horse, and he walked quickly in front of me. I looked at his face incredulously, and he looked at me in disbelief, "Is it really you?" He said.
"Is it really you?" Suddenly, I noticed a familiar sensation between his eyebrows.
"You haven't changed much." He was a little excited.
"You've changed a lot, Danas." I nodded and took his hand.
"I didn't expect to meet people from that world, especially you."
"I didn't expect you to be alive either, I thought you were all ......" I shook my head slightly, "It's great that you're still alive!" I looked down at his clothes, "I'll tell Varian that he'll send someone to replace you, and you can go home!" ”
"Go home...... his eyes suddenly blurred as he spoke, "is my home still there?" Is my kingdom still there? ”
I nodded, "It's still there, they're all still there." "Actually, I didn't know when I said this, and I didn't know if I was there, but Stormgard was almost in name only.
"Is the world okay over there?"
"Also...... All right. I smiled, "You've suffered." ”
"Come on! When I saw you, I suddenly had a myriad of things to say to you. He turned around and pulled me into the castle.
We talked a lot that day, this man who has entered the ranks of middle-aged and elderly people looks quite tough, he was very interested that night so he kept talking, I want Egwen to rest, I can talk to him, and Egwen sat next to me until late.
He told me the story of what happened after they came here, and it was a long story, but he probably told me about the scare process and I also knew about what happened.
In the past, after the restoration of the Stormwind Kingdom, I didn't really bother with this side of things, especially after driving the orcs to the Dark Gate and closing it. At that time, the Duke of Boward became regent and took care of almost everything, and my only task was to ensure Varian's safety, and at that time, the old MI7 unit returned and shouldered the burden of protecting the kingdom under the leadership of Bolval. At that time, there was no special danger around the king.
Later, the north intervened in the affairs of this side, especially the construction of the Watch Fortress, and some garrisons were also sent there, and the Stormwind Kingdom was in ruins, so the proportion of troops sent was not very large.
At that time, the reason for the construction of the Overwatch Fort was that Khadgar found that although the Dark Gate had been closed, the space here had been permanently destroyed, and the space had been distorted and left a serious rift, which was completely done if he wanted to open the Dark Gate again. And the energy consumed is already much lower than when it was first turned on.
So for this purpose, a fortress must be built to monitor the place. At that time, it was suggested that it would be better to tear down the door, but Khadgari ignored him.
Peace was always short-lived, and it wasn't long before the Dark Gate opened again, and despite a lot of work, it still allowed the orcs to break through the defenses, which was a matter of course, as the orc tribes that appeared at that time were far stronger than the tribes that invaded in the first place.
But this time the orcs did not attack in a big way but guarded near the dark gate, and a large number of orcs disappeared into the vast forest, although this matter was not made public, but the orcs who appeared in the forest field did cause concern among the people of the Storm Kingdom, and the kingdom has been claiming that the remnants of the orcs have not been cleared up.
At that time, Varian was already quite young, and there had been many large-scale conflicts near the Dark Gate, but Varian was forbidden to participate in the front line, so he slowly began to let himself go with his desire for revenge, and he began to ride a horse to search for traces of orcs in the wilderness and chase down the orcs in the wild.
And the magicians who really discovered the problem were the magicians of Dalaran, who discovered the energy fluctuations near Karazan, and when they arrived, they found that the place had been invaded, but that's all, there was a large-scale battle inside, and many people died, but no human remains appeared. Death is quite eerie.
Later, the terrorist attack in Dalaran left everyone confused, and the Horde's army appeared in Dalaran, killing the guards and some of the caretaker mages, and robbing it of something that was said to be very important.
At the time, we only knew that Dalaran had been attacked, but we didn't know exactly what had happened, and we were so far away that we were getting a lot of delay. But one thing we do know, it wasn't the ordinary orc troops who attacked Dalaran, it was the Death Knights!
The human knights who died in battle were resurrected and became death knights.
They were humanoid, but they weren't alive, and they were magical, so it wasn't hard for them to pretend to be someone from Lordaeron or a knight anywhere. And the appearance of this incident made Dalaran deeply affected internally, so he sent a large number of personnel to assist in the investigation, but later found that this group of guys actually ran away to Alterac.
It is said that the knights found King Pirenod, who had lost his mind, and that night he did not go mad again, but stayed peacefully until the knights left, but woke up the next day King Pirenod not only mad, but even more mad. After that, he kept claiming that he wanted to recover Alterac, that the orcs would help them, that the Burning Legion would help them, and that Alterac would be immortal.
King Pirenod died shortly thereafter, and the official announcement was that he had drowned himself by sticking his head into the toilet. That's when the kingdom of Alterac was completely dismembered.
The Dalaran Scouts, who were one step behind, then followed the Death Knights all the way to the sea, with the Death Knights running in front and the people following behind. When they tracked down an island in the sea, they found that the Death Knights had disappeared again. All that remained on the island were the corpses of orcs and ogres, and it was later reported that unimaginable dark forces had existed on the island.
The biggest achievement of the team on track was to tell the people at the Watchgate that the Death Knights were moving quickly in the direction of the Dark Gate.
However, they were always slow to move, and not only did they fail to intercept the Death Knights, but a large army of orcs who appeared out of nowhere appeared near the Dark Gate in a roundabout way, and crossed the Dark Gate back into their world.
At that time, the Dark Gate had never been taken back in the hands of the tribe, and the tribe's actions were really unclear, and then they took great difficulty to capture a Death Knight captive, and after extremely harsh interrogation, under the effect of magic, everything that the Death Knight knew in his heart was taken out.
Suddenly realized, they discovered a serious problem, that is, they had to take the initiative, if the tribe was allowed to toss over there, the tragedy of the orc's comeback was likely to be repeated.
They must go on an expedition! For Azeroth, for eternal peace!