War of the Ancients 2(2/3)
"But we will help you fight the ancient god."
I was very angry when I heard this. After all, his tone reminded me of the help I wanted to get from him when I was confronting the tribe a few months ago, because according to the meaning of this sentence, even if I was hacked to death by an orc, I am afraid that this red dragon would not cry, and he had his own reasons for asking us to help.
"The ancient god is our common enemy, and it has nothing to do with your so-called camp." Crasus said, obviously even more impatient. I don't understand how Crasus would have such a shameless answer, but he would definitely not tell me what his queen meant, but what can I do? Should I break with him and throw it out? But obviously I won't do this. After all, he is right. If it is a real threat to this world, we still have to face it, but we are even more angry. What can I say about such a situation? This action is not a war, nor is it to engage in production politics, so they have the final say. I am only responsible for protecting them, and it has nothing to do with identity...
It was not very difficult to find that place, but Crasus did not seem to want to go there, or to go there first, but to go to another place, a place that surprised me...
A few hours later, we arrived at a place where a large castle group stood. It was hard for me to imagine what it was here. It was tall and straight, and a very strong and magnificent fortress group, because I could see that the foundation of the fortress was very deep and very wide in area, but this was not a night elves' building, because the fortresses and decorations placed in such huge rocks did not fit their style. More importantly, such fortresses were too huge for them, and even very spacious for ogres, but this was not the point. The point was that if we could occupy this place, we could build it into a central fortress in different orders and then rule the area...
I was fascinated by such a place and didn't react to Crasus's cry at all. He even launched a magical attack on me to interrupt my distraction.
Although such an attack did not cause any harm, I was still very angry at my friend's attack, but Crasus seemed to have his reasons for my anger and Gianna Ronin's confusion.
"This is a prison that traps some ancient god. Could it be that you were confused by the ancient god just now?"
"I'm not so easily confused!" I said angrily, but after all, I don't think he did this too much, especially for the dragon. "I'm just shocked that such a fortress is more majestic than Stormwind."
"No one wants to stay here except you. This is the Battle of Quicksand, where the bugs are trapped. We also think that one day we can open this fortress and completely destroy the bugs trapped inside, but now..."
"Then why did you bring me here?"
"See if someone is making trouble here." Crasus signaled us to go down, and carefully looked at the surrounding situation, and then started to talk to himself. "But now it's good to see that the seal is good. Could it be that Nozdom guessed wrong..."
In addition to Crasus, Jaina and Ronin also tried to find something. Although the directions were different, they noticed something strange and warned Crasus about his understanding.
“But there are traces of large-scale activities here!”
"They are undead...humans, trolls, dwarves, orcs, etc." Luo Ning also observed the situation here carefully and also noticed something strange. Yes, I can also see traces of life here not long ago. However, he still surprised me when he said that the appearance of these racial creatures was, because I don't believe that so many races appeared here, but should be a single camp, such as those tribes or night elves. But his statement must be a problem, but before I could question him, Crassus said something even more shocking.
"There are also some fallen bugs and powerful black dragons, but not Deathwings themselves." Crassus murmured to himself, staring at the magnificent fortress carefully. "Perhaps someone escaped!"
Crasus was about to become a dragon as he said that, and I objected to this, because in my opinion, such a thing cannot be detected overnight, and more importantly, it deviated from our main line.
"Maybe we should go back to our original mission and find the Bronze Dragon King, and we have no time to delay."
I scolded Crasus and was ready to argue with him, but the red dragon actually followed my advice at this time
"You're right." He said, then jumped onto my back and urged us to move forward.
We made some calculations on the way to move, and the result was that some escaped insects kidnapped other races, including the black dragon, during the period of the invasion of the Burning Legion, and then conducted some ritual here to release their masters. Of course, as for the real answer, it was obviously not something we could guess. After all, the development of the situation has long exceeded our expectations...
A few hours later, we found that location. We found this dark mountain that was different from the surrounding environment very easily. However, compared to us, I found that we were not the first people to arrive. The army of dozens of Taurus troops had arrived here and had been camping for a while. We were very surprised by this phenomenon, because there was no reason to say why the tribe arrived here. It happened to be stationed here.
And it can be seen that the Taurus here are absolutely elite. Although this does not mean that this team will pose any threat to us. It can be seen that the tribe attaches great importance to this place.
"They arrived first, or they were here very early, so why did they trap Nozdom or come to save him?"
I asked so many questions in a row, but Crassus did not answer, but was questioning something
"There is no tribe in the position given by Nozdom, and the queen didn't say it. But why!"
Ronning and Jaina also expressed their understanding of this.
"Maybe we should question their purpose of coming here, or invisible."
"Can't we ask directly? Our conflicts are much more eased now."
"But only if they are really tribes, not others." I continued, and Crasus continued to respond to me
"Then who do you think they are? Aren't the Taurus all tribes? Or is it that anyone who is so stupid that he pretends to be a Taurus in this place is worse than pretending to be a night elves or goblins."
"So we'll know if we go down and ask. Ronin, Jaina and Crasus and I are here to see the situation, or sneak in. If Norzdom lets us get here, we must be thinking about entering, right?"
I said this, and Crasus did not object to me, but showed me a gesture:
"Then I wish you good luck."
"You're welcome!" Instead of talking nonsense, we landed nearby, Crasus and Jaina hid, and Ronin and I entered here, and for the vigilant orcs, they had discovered us when we arrived here just after we flew, and based on our experience of fighting with us and fighting side by side with us, they also guessed that I was here.
"I didn't expect the leader of the alliance to come here, I'm so respectful!"
"I want to know how you stationed here, why, and I am not the leader of the alliance, but the king of a franchise country."
"Sorry, we arrived here by following the orders of our superiors, and we are prohibited from entering."
The guard said this, obviously only holding weapons in his hands. He knew that his statement would not make us turn back, so we would probably use coercive means, and they obviously had relevant ways of dealing with them. But to be honest, I don't want to go to war with them. After all, as we are three sides adjacent to the tribe, we don't want to be the bridgehead of the alliance battlefield. And it's because of the Dragon Clan, especially Crasus, may not interfere, but I still want to solve this problem, such as using peaceful means. Of course, if peace is not possible, you can also use force.
"I think if we communicate with each other, it may be more helpful to solve the problem. Can I talk to your captain?"
I asked this, yes, I was thinking of letting their captain come out, because if it was necessary to kill him first, it would help me completely eliminate the entire Taurus team here. But at this moment, a deep voice came out, and I knew who was coming, but I didn't expect that the tribe also sent him out, Deputy Chief Kane, the leader of the Taurus.
"Of course, Alsace, I really want to talk to you. I thought about it very early. When I first saw you facing Archmond, I thought about it. So I want to know the purpose of your coming here, probably not to talk to me, so you first talk about your coming here, okay!"
Looking at her appearance, I felt that things might be more complicated than me, and it was precisely because of him that I also cut off the idea of forcing force. After all, killing the enemy's No. 2 person is no different from starting a war, and now is not the time for war.
Time goes back to Orgrim a few months ago...
The war of the tribal alliance just ended. After the tribe lost a lot of power, the war was finally handled in a peaceful way. Although it was peace, for the tribe, the loss of the war was not only because its own tribe had crossed the status of the alliance, but more because it instantly revealed the already extremely weak economy of the tribe. It also hindered the thriving military power. Of course, it was far more than just these.
Some tribal members of the lord level, such as Thrall and Kane, summarized some lessons. He did not think that he was taking it lightly, because before the war, he had already gathered the absolute power of the tribe to attack the alliance, so he believed that the powerful mage of the alliance, the powerful night priestess, and the alliance were far more united than he had imagined. Of course, compared with these main reasons, he was still the most distressed mage. Now that he thought about the fact that Jaina and Ronin could lead some deadly priestesses to intersperse the various battlefields, this war would never end like this, and the mage's super strong combat power,
He also thought of her death. The powerful dark magic death finger made Sar crush his wooden cup. Yes, I don’t know which one is the first one, but the tribe managers have prepared a lot for him since they discovered that Sar had this habit. Although Sar repeatedly said that he didn’t need so much, the orcs who purchased them did not think so. Especially when all the tribes learned that they had raised a large amount of gold coins to buy food in the preparations for trade with the night elves, the alliance had snatched away those food and other daily necessities, and used the gold coins accumulated by the plundered goblins for hundreds of years, this frequency became even greater...
Although the current decline has emerged, it is obviously not the first time the tribe has encountered such a crisis. Moreover, compared to the last time when the tribe almost exterminated, this is really nothing, and Sar has also taken precautions. At the beginning of the war, Sar adopted his own reform plan, which is to increase agricultural investment. As for food, the corpse of the harp was used in large quantities. The assembly of the cold winter prevented the decay of the corpse. The natural wind-drying tunnel of Stone Claw Mountain made this work not very difficult. The craft of ham air-drying is itself the tribe's unique skill. At the same time, the planting of winter wheat in Durotan and the Barrens basins, and the planting of rice in the Nushui River basin was to alleviate the food crisis.
For other threats, Thrall used the method of scattering, that is, put all the troops into production. Because he believed that the Alliance and the Night Elf would not cause trouble for themselves. As for the threat of Deathwing, Thrall also believed that such things should not be considered by the tribe now. Moreover, he was very clear based on the history he had. Compared with other races, they had no conflict with this black dragon. Even when Ner's ruled, he had done many win-win businesses. If he really destroyed the world, the Night Elf and the League would definitely be the first to be affected. However, just in case, he still sent Lock Khan to deal with the investigation alone. After all, as the leader, he must have a macro understanding.
Yes, he knew what he had lost in this war, that is, his prestige and some optimistic people seemed to lack faith in honor. For example, when Magasa raided Theramore, the things that Murosa did to Murosa, coupled with the rumors of Dalin's death and the destruction of the entire Lexus clan made him doubt that the female tarot might have used any means in some things. Of course, Thrall did not think that this tauren was any other identity. After all, Thrall saw her as an existence that did not consider the extremes of honor and the interests of the tribe. This was very important to Thrall, and more importantly, the female tarot seemed to not care about personal gains and losses and performance and did not pursue a higher status, so some things she might do, such as the massacre of the Lexus clan and the assassination of Dalin, were not investigated.
And Thrall hoped that Lock Khan could divert the attention of the two powerful generals Lexa and Murosa, and put their focus all on work, rather than infighting or pursuing the answers to the questions. Fortunately, Lock Khan knew what he should do, and tried to divert the attention of Lexa and Musar, and instead focused on the answers he was looking for, an answer that he didn't know how to deal with, and he always felt that there was some force interfering with the world. It happened that Lock Khan also found something at this moment, for example, some people from various races seemed to gather towards the south and turned back the same way, that is, he had discovered the existence of the Twilight Cult. Because no force could gather all the racial forces, it was just that at this time Lock Khan did not tell Thrall this message.
In addition to Lock Khan, Sal had other loyal and brave warriors, Sarufar and Brox brothers of Kukaron, but he had high hopes in this battle, but their performance disappointed him. He was blocked by Mavi, a night elf, and the most ridiculous thing was that Mavi could still come back to command the main force of the alliance to block the final war of the tribe. They led Kukaron to come late until the end of the war. For this reason, he could only remove all Brox's position and become the captain of the guard instead of the dead Burks. As for Sa
Rufal, because he was not the commander-in-chief of the Kukaron at that time, he survived, so he continued to command the troops. For such punishment, Brocks knew that this was already Thal's great kindness, but the more merciful he was, Brocks regretted even more. Although he himself didn't know how to know this regret, he was very sure that if the enemy was a cruel demon, he would definitely kill all the enemies. But what he felt in this war was an enemy like the Alliance, and there was no reason to make him angry...
As for the other Zulkin, Gary Vix and others still complained about this war, because the war destroyed their homes, but no one of them paid compensation to them, and they had to work hard to build the tribe. However, they knew that only the tribes could fight against the alliance, and they could only continue to support Thrall and the policy of reconciliation of the alliance. Because Gary Vix hoped to defeat the alliance through trade, and as for Zulkin, as an experienced troll, he knew that he had to make such a decision first. After all, it was not the time to turn against the alliance. However, he still proposed to Thrall his own condition, or something that must be done to the tribe, that is, to restore the navy and cultivate powerful warlocks or mages, and to be able to use portals and powerful destructive magic, otherwise the tribe would have no way out.
For this reason, he took out something to his chief, a head, which was the head of Annatheron, the former second leader of the Demon King, whom Zulkin sent people to the territory of the night elves. In this regard, Thrall did not take over the head but asked the shamans to gather here, and referred to the opinions of other trusted shamans such as Drexel and Regar. However, the answers obtained made Thrall very embarrassed because the old shamans were very disgusted with such behavior. In this regard, Zulkin and their shamans almost started to do so. Because there was an absolute reason for him to do so, that is, Zulu Denik
Ruth and other warlocks were indifferent when they played with the more terrifying demon souls. In terms of effect, the shamans were indifferent. In terms of effect, the key was that Orgrim trusted these warlocks. Moreover, on the battlefield, the dark magic of the blood demon Tyrone was more loyal and practical than these so-called tribes, but now they actually stood up to stop themselves. Of course, the real reason for them to almost fight was that a shaman said that at the most critical moment, that is, Lordaeron retreated, Zulkin did not help Orgrim cut off the rear, which led to the tribe being defeated and being bitten by the alliance.
Although Thrall stopped the conflict, Zulkin cursed endlessly. They were scolded by the shamans who had no achievements in the war and were crushed by the mages, paladins and priestess of the Alliance Mages and the Moon Priestess in the face of healing and spell abilities. They didn't know that shame was over and the development of the warlocks was also blocked. The shamans were also very angry, but they had nothing to argue about. After all, they did not play any role in the war, and they cheated Zulkin's navy in disguise. However, they believed that one code was one code and one code, such dangerous behavior was not desirable. After all, the ability of fearing the demon king to bewitch people is very powerful. In this case, Thrall, as the chief, decided to take such measures, but as the shaman he trusted the most, Thrall decided to let Drexal supervise Zulkin's actions as a special envoy to prevent any accidents.
Zulkin had no obvious objection to this, after all, in his opinion, it was very necessary to have a shaman. And hard work paid off. During the months of exploration, they sought a lot of magic that the Demon King could use, such as simple teleportation spells. However, Drexel and Zulkin had a disagreement at this time. Zulkin hoped to get the most unique devil's magic, but Drexel insisted on studying teleportation and consolidated it. However, Sal did not make any statement about the attitude of the two people, because in his opinion, such competition would help him gain more power, after all, these powers were indispensable.
Unlike Drexelsal, Regaal trains some new shamans. As for some powers that can transform, Regaal found that the Taurens are very talented in this regard, and it is said that some Taurens themselves have similar beliefs and possess the power of druids. In this regard, Regaal and some shamans discussed how to introduce them to other members of the tribe through this power, and then combine some holy light and shaman power to become a new existence. Sar also supports this.
In addition, Kane was not idle either. In addition to directing production, he also recommended his son to act as a special envoy of the tribe to connect with the alliance. After handling the planting tasks he was in charge, he still expressed his own opinions to Thal. That is, he believed that the land lost in the confrontation with the alliance is not too important. After all, the alliance has no power to fully utilize the land. So they should take advantage of the alliance when the power of Kalimdo is weak.
Entering the Silitus region, and then connecting the goblins who control the original forest, Angolo and Tanaris, to the east, can completely trap the alliance and develop around them. For such a long-term plan, Sal supported him and asked him to mobilize Magasa's troops to assist him in his actions. Yes, for the Magasa tribe, after suspicion of some of their actions, Sal felt that it would be better for them to stay away from here. So Kane arrived here after dozens of days of arduous marches.
But it was also after arriving here, that is, in the northern part of Cilitus, that he seemed to remember some rumors of the quicksand war, so he did not continue to go south in Cilitus, but turned to the Angolo area with rich living resources in the east. After all, the barren Greeks obviously could not provide so many warriors of Kane. But Angelo was not the case. Although it was full of dangers, it was also rich in resources and dense vegetation. This was very important for establishing a permanent base.
As for Magasa, she had no choice but to get the Black Dragon order, and completed the mission of taking root in Angolo without humiliating her mission. Relying on their powerful domestication ability, some of the ferocious beasts here were domesticated into partners of tribal warriors. It was precisely with the addition of these animal partners that the development space of the tribe in the Angolo area became larger and larger. In addition to the integration with Gakison, Kane's plan was successfully completed without the alliance's knowledge.
Yes, these forces entrenched in the south are not just symbolic existences, because the addition of wild beasts is as complex as the terrain here. If the alliance and the tribe conflict again, this will be the same as the alliance's confidant. However, Kane did not forget Silitus because of Angolo's wealth. He still traveled back and forth between two places, thinking about how to plan the future construction of this large base...
It is also in this way that under the leadership of Thrall, the tribe continued to recover after the war and still maintained its strength to compete with the alliance. However, when something strange happened to the Great Vortex, something new seemed to have happened.
The night before I set off, Jaina and Ronin Crasus, Thrall, as a shaman, noticed something strange. Although I had felt a lot before, this time it would be fine. He felt a very powerful threat that was already disturbing the world. He was so sleepy that he decided to go to Drexel. Yes, whenever he felt something strange, the old shaman could always give him a satisfactory answer and warning. But this time it was not the case, because many doubts also appeared in Drexel. When he discovered Annatheron's memory, he discovered something that made him incredible. Although Zulkin, who opposed him, mocked him for being bewitched by something he was worried about, Drexel was sure that he had not been bewitched at all, and thought that such things were very incredible. Moreover, its memory seemed to foreshadow the arrival of this storm. Although the details were very different, of course it was not only these.
Just when he was confused, Thrall came to him. Looking at the head of the dead fear demon king, Thrall didn't like it at all, but he knew that this head was indeed very necessary for the tribe now. And Drexel couldn't help but startle Thrall. This made Thrall more alert and made him look at the older orc carefully. He didn't want him to be the second orc, Ner's orc, to be deceived by the demon, but obviously Drexel was just too focused.
"Is this dead fear demon still thinking about controlling us?"
Thrall asked with concern, his eyes full of vigilance. Yes, this was the first time Thrall had such a look at the elder, but obviously he was worried.
"Maybe not, but what I was surprised was that he seemed to know us orcs very early on."
"This is not surprising. They all have tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years of experience. At that time, we orcs had no historical records. Perhaps the Burning Legion knew about us and our habits for tens of thousands of years."
Thrall said for granted, but what Drexel said next made Thrall question.
"I also want to learn about our past history through them, but in his memory we first appeared in the world of Azeroth, not our planet Draenor."
"How is this possible? Maybe it's because his memory is confused after his death."
"But he said it very accurately about this disaster. Ten thousand years after the first Burning Legion invaded Azeroth, there will be huge changes, and this will be the ancient god making trouble! This fearful devil knew about this incident ten thousand years ago, although he did not know their failure today ten thousand years later."
"What does this mean?"
Thrall continued to ask, apparently their conversation was somewhat closer to the subject.
"If this is the ancient god who is making trouble, then we may not only face such a simple thing as the Burning Legion. I always feel that the threat to the whole world this time has exceeded the moment before the Burning Legion appeared. In the center of the Endless Sea, something must have happened."
Thrall nodded at this
"I discovered it too, so, what are we going to do now?"
Thrall asked Drexel, but just when the old shaman was about to shake his head and didn't know, a crow next to him suddenly turned into a human form and appeared in front of them. Thrall knew this figure, which was Medivh, the birdman who once bewitched him here to let the tribe and the alliance fight against the Burning Legion, but he did not directly participate in the war. And like last time he met, he also came straight to the point.
"What do you have to do, the tribe chief!"
"What are you going to do? Prophet, or Master Medivh, I heard that your mother is working for the Alliance, are you too? Let our tribe do something for your Alliance in this possible disaster, right?"
"I will not join you and the Alliance's boring political struggle. I'm here just to reveal an unknown prophecy."
"What prophecy is it?"
Thrall asked, he knew that this guy would not appear easily, and if he appeared, something would definitely happen.
"As Drexel said, he peeked at the memory of the Demon King of Fear, and I almost possessed most of Sargeras' memories, but the memory of Sargeras was also in Azeroth ten thousand years ago, not Draenor, but I am very sure that when I saw the first orc, it was already a few hundred years ago, hundreds of years after Sargeras' death...
"That is, this may be a collective mistake made by the Burning Legion?"
To be continued...