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If nothing unexpected happens...
According to the map, it takes as long as 21 days to travel back and forth from here to Naxxamas. During this period, I had to deal with possible enemy attacks, so I sent spider men familiar with the terrain to patrol around. However, the worrying Ranger General also sent his own troops to investigate independently. Yes, she still did not trust those allies. Although they had achieved the result of no enemy invasion in the past two days, Sylvanas still insisted.
I can only hope that this will not affect the self-esteem of the spider people. Fortunately, those creatures don’t care, or they don’t know this yet, or they don’t express their emotions. But the only thing I can be sure of is that they follow my orders. Yes, these are all derived from the explanations of their king….
I thought of this friend who had evolved a lot compared to his kind, so I recalled my understanding of him. Those knowledge were limited to the light and shadow after he became the dead. As for why he could evolve into a wise spider-man, I knew nothing about it, so I walked into the lord who had first talked to me, and maybe he might tell me something.
"Hello Commander, can I have anything to serve?" He noticed my approach and politely communicated with me in his own language.
"I want to ask you something... there is a big difference between your king and all your fellow tribes I have seen."
"The king is no different from us, but he is bigger..."
"But he knows the language of our humans. I mean... I had this ability when I first met him. Do you still think of him in your tribe?" I stared at him, but he looked hesitant. Maybe I seemed to have asked questions I shouldn't have asked. "You don't have to answer my questions."
Seeing him silent, I was tactful and ready to turn around and leave, but just as I started, he made a sound.
"I also have questions to discuss with you..."
“What to discuss?”
"I have lived in a sympathy with my brother and served him for hundreds of years. I really don't know that he is actually friends with humans. Usually if you enter our territory, he will order us to kill him without hesitation."
"I can understand this..." I can't answer this question, so I can nod and say so...
"I understandable? But I actually use your language, and his personality is very different from before. If you were his friend, wouldn't you have seen his changes?"
"Maybe the emergence of the undead natural disaster has led to his current changes."
"Maybe, it's because of the undead..." The lord seemed to realize something, so he became calm, and it could even be said to be a confused look, which made me feel terrified. "Yes, the undead has changed us too much."
He said this and left here, and I was speechless about this. Perhaps only after our entire kingdom was invaded by the dead could I feel this way. But I always felt that there was something unspeakable about him, or that things might not be that simple...
Three more days have passed, neither the undead nor the camp of Melganier were ready to attack us. The same is true for Anubarak, but I don’t care about his safety, after all, he is a local... What worries me the most is Manic, and he has not yet heard from him since he went to the fortress with some spider-men to transport food.
I was thinking like this on the city gate in the south. Yes, although they had to pull the baggage, in terms of time, it was time to come. I knew that Mana had always been racing against time for me, so he could only explain one problem, that is, they encountered a sneak attack? Thinking of this possible result,
I couldn't help but feel nervous.
"Roning!" I called out my most capable assistant, yes, I believe he can find Mana very quickly and tell me what was going on, but I seemed to forget that he was not by my side, there was only another mage who came to me.
"I think you want him to help you find Manac."
Since Jaina realized my intentions, I felt that there was no need to hide anything from her anymore, I guess she knew what I thought.
"Yes, he should have come too, I'm worried that he will be attacked."
"I think I can use teleportation to find his place."
"But…"
Jaina volunteered to do that, but I doubted her ability, but I couldn't say that... At this moment, she seemed to have found a solution, and it was a very willing way inside.
"Maybe I don't have the ability to perceive power close-range, but I can bring a ranger with me, and her vision can help me observe the traces of his mana."
"Well, I know who you are taking. I believe that if it is your request, I think she would not refuse..."
I said this, but she refused immediately.
"No need, Alsace! You don't need to send me to find mana again."
Sylvanas walked towards me seriously and quickly and interrupted me, but compared to his seriousness, the anger in my heart was even more on my face. Yes, I didn't expect her to refuse the request to save her human comrades.
I know that although he is a little alienated from the elves compared to his other partners, he is just because he is just for some of my political purposes and has no intention of hostility, but I really didn't expect that she was indifferent to her comrades. But just when I wanted to scold her, the Ranger behind her carried the person I was looking for.
"Mana!" I quickly walked over to check my friend's injuries and used holy light to treat as much as possible. Fortunately, he quickly recovered his consciousness. It seemed that the reason for his coma was mostly due to his physical overdrawing.
"Your Highness!" He looked at me disappointed. I seemed to think that it might be more than just being robbed of food and grass.
“What the hell did you give birth?”
"It was Anubarak, who and his troops attacked us at that fortress."
"How could he be?"
"I don't want to believe it either, but that's true... I first told the defenders and the Spider-Man Alliance, so I was not wary of those creatures at all."
"Didn't he go to Naxxaras?"
"I saw me in the fortress and I said the same thing, so I had to stay for one night..." Manic closed his eyes and shook his head, his tone became fierce. "But he became an insider, and a large number of crypt demons and undead appeared in front of me. We could not resist at all, so we had to kill with a few people, wanting to report the news to you, but we encountered another chase on the way, so..."
"So, they all encountered an unexpected accident." Hearing this, my eyes were blank, covering my head and sitting on the ground. Yes, I should have paid attention to it, such as Crassus' warning and Naxxamas, which was where Anubarak, who had changed into the dead, received Kel Thujad. "That is, we were fooled by him, and the troops we left behind were wiped out."
In response to this, everyone looked at me quietly and recited these sentences powerlessly, except for Sylvanas. She held her fists tightly and scolded me angrily.
"Damn it, I've said that those spider-men are not trustworthy."
"I'm sorry, it's me that you didn't follow your opinion. If you want me to pay the price, I have no opinion."
I admit my mistake to her, but this obviously cannot calm her down, because this anger does not only come from my wrong decisions, but more about my current mentality, and I just want to make up for the current situation that I have caused to everyone.
"If punishment can change the situation, I will even execute you without hesitation, but what's the use of blaming yourself? We'll still find a way to escape."
"Okay, you lead everyone, I will hold them here." I clenched the war hammer and stood up, but before I could stand firm, I was hit on the ground by Sylvanas and completely woke me up.
"Have you been so funny? Although the situation is in a disadvantage, we have not been wiped out yet. If you want to make up for the mistakes you have made, you should lead everyone out of the predicament instead of giving up on yourself."
"You're right, I'm not calm anymore, sorry." I fell to the ground and murmured. Yes, I think I know what I should do now, at least...
"We must still have hope of escaping, at least the enemy has not surrounded us yet..." Jaina helped me up and cheered me up, but at this moment, a ranger who was patrolling the north rushed here and informed me of an urgent news, a message that should have appeared.
"General, a large number of enemy troops appeared in the north and were coming to us..."
When everyone present heard the news, everyone was silent, but few people were surprised by it. Yes, if it surprised me, Sylvanas still trusted me,
"Arsace, whether to fight or escape, you must make a decision."
"Thank you for your trust again." I nodded to her, and regained some confidence, and went back to the starting point with a complete rationality to re-examine the current situation... Yes, if I get angry or become desperate, I will definitely be hit. If I follow their arrangements, I will undoubtedly become more passive. Maybe I should deal with it in some ways that I think may be solved, such as treating our local 'allies' here first. "But before that, we must deal with the Spider-Man problem."
"Don't worry about them, take ours with you while they don't know the situation yet, and let them drag the enemy down."
"It's a good idea, but we don't know where to run." I thought of a way, yes, I could feel that these spiders can trust, of course it's just a feeling and some impression... "Call the troops and meet them together."
Chapter completed!