In the eastern kingdom of Azeroth, in the past two months, a group of militants of unknown origin have begun to frequently appear in the wilderness areas of the western Storm Kingdom, especially near the original death mine area of ​​Yuexi Town, and frequently attack the soldiers and nobles of the Storm Kingdom.
That group of strange thugs, they actually have all kinds of races!
Whether it is humans, dwarves, high elves, goblins, trolls, or some other rare and strange creatures, their composition makes outsiders or the security forces in the western Storm City feel like a group of adventurers or some vicious criminals who accidentally wandered to the Storm Kingdom?
Anyway, this is the judgment on the arrest documents posted by the official.
However, Grian Storman, a veteran Paladin who returned to his hometown in Yuexi Town, a wilderness in the western region, didn't think so! He could tell at a glance from the other party's actions and the elusive organizational method: they were definitely not ordinary thieves or evildoers, but a group of organized and purposeful hostile military forces!
This is actually not difficult to judge...
Thinking about the distribution and changing trends of the entire Azeroth world and the northern and southern continents of the eastern kingdom over the years, it is not difficult to analyze the origin of the group of people. After all, the other party’s actions and some of the exposed intelligence are too obvious!
In Grian's opinion, although the other party's actions were very secretive, the techniques were too naive and too direct.
This matter actually starts with the 21st year of the Gate of Darkness...
The northern continent was established by a mysterious and powerful little girl mage, and included all the lands in the north, including the entire Lordaeron. After the fire alliance composed of fire elements, humans, high elves, dwarves, deep-sea Nagas, fishman tribes and a small number of night elves came out, the entire eastern kingdom was trembling under the powerful soldiers of the flame alliance!
In that era when the demigod Immortal Flame Queen, who was strong enough to fight Archmond, defeated the Death Knight Arthas and fled in panic, and even easily destroyed the undead natural disaster, no force dared to face the north.
Fortunately, the little girl disappeared in the 21st year of the Dark Gate, and no one knew her whereabouts!
When the time came to the 25th year of the Dark Gate, the undead natural disaster that was unwilling to fail, the Lich Commander Kel Thuzad even relied on the terror city of Naxsamas to launch another strategic battle against Azeroth in the north of the Eastern Kingdom!
However, it only lasted less than a week from his appearance to his escape! The ridiculous strategy of the other party not only allowed a large number of elite undeads to be slaughtered by the Fire Alliance, but even the floating castle was destroyed by the Fire Alliance's army and fell on the coastal beach east of the Eastern Plagueland...
At that time, the Fire Alliance declared their strength to the other two major forces in the Azeroth continent with their strong military strength and unparalleled record!
However, good times don't last long...
When the Anqira worms began to launch another attack on the Silitus Desert under the command of the ancient god Cthun, the entire Azerothian alliance had to temporarily put aside the gaps and disputes between them, and began to unite again to gather in Silitus and collectively siege the Anqira Gate!
Originally, everything went smoothly in the coalition's operations. After all, their army was a combination of three major forces.
However, shortly after attacking the Temple of Anqira, the Fire Element Army under the Fire Alliance, for some reason, except for a very small number of high-level existences, suddenly they were collectively controlled by the ancient god Cthun and began to become frantic! Subsequently, most of the Fire Element Army were killed in internal strife with the coalition forces, causing extremely heavy casualties to the entire Azeroth coalition...
In the end, although with the help of the Bronze Dragon Legion, the heroes of the coalition successfully swept the Anqira Empire and defeated the ancient god Cthun,... the Fire Elemental Legion, which suffered serious losses in strength, together with the armies of other countries of the Fire Alliance, was united by the Horde and Stormwind Alliance and drove back to the northern continent of the Eastern Kingdom without any benefit.
After this battle, the military power of the Fire Alliance fell from the strongest throne of the three alliances for the first time!
Originally, this powerful alliance that was terrifying the entire Azeroth world began to become more fragile than the new tribe after losing most of the elites of the Flame Legion! In the end, he had to choose to stick to the Northern Continent and the Saldo Bridge, temporarily losing the ability to make progress.
However, when the Fire Alliance was planning to lick the wound, their opponent's strength increased out of thin air...
In the second year of extermination of the Anqira Empire and crushing the plot of the ancient god Cthun, in the 26th year of the Dark Gate, a group of alien spacecraft named Delaneys landed on the northern coast of the Kalimdo continent, and soon came into contact with the night elves and successfully formed an alliance with the Stormwind Alliance!
This accident allowed the Stormwind Alliance to gain countless paladins and powerful priests, far surpassing the Silver Hand Knights of the New Lordaeron Kingdom! If, coupled with that powerful Naru creature, the hard power of the Stormwind Alliance will hold firmly on the throne of the world's military strength for the first time.
From then on, the Storm Alliance far surpassed the new tribe and the Fire Alliance with signs of decline for the first time in terms of strength.
At the same time, when the Dark Gate was rebuilt by the Demon Lord Kazak of the Outlands and opened again, the Alliance and the Horde both began a new round of large-scale advances in the Outlands! One was to smash the conspiracy of the Burning Legion's attempt to attack the Azeroth world, and the other was that they all hoped to gain enough benefits from the new world.
The then leader of the Fire Alliance, Yilidan Wufeng, ignored the strong opposition from other members of the alliance at that time, resolutely led almost all the deep-sea Nagas and some elite Fire Alliance army to forcefully conquer the foreign territory!
After that, I don’t know what the demon hunter Illidan did in the outer realm of the world. Anyway, soon, the Fire Alliance was jointly resisted by the Stormwind Alliance and the Horde and cut off all ties with the Azeroth World!
From then on, there was no news...
At this point, after losing the main force of the Fire Elemental Legion, the elite power of the Naga Deep Sea Legion, Ilidare and some of the Fire Alliance, the Fire Alliance, which was once unparalleled in its time under a little girl and made all the races of Azeroth almost only look up to, began to gradually become embarrassed and almost never recovered!
When the gate of Darkness was about to reach the 27th year, in the entire Flame Alliance in the north, it was rumored that even the Flame City of the Flame Kingdom was left with only a very small number of fire elements, most of them were forced to retreat back to the Flame Land! I heard that it seemed to be to resist a certain flame demon king Ragnaros who was planning to counterattack the Flame Land, busy strengthening the space barriers of the Flame Land?
Anyway, the remaining Eagle Nest Mountain Wild Hammer Dwarves, the broken high elves of Quelthalas, and the New Lordaeron Kingdom, which had not yet had time to recover their national strength, lost the strategic locations of Saldo Bridge and South Sea Town in the northern expedition of Stormwind Alliance! They could only hide in Tarenmill in the Hillsbrad Hills, the Rapids and Hammer Town in the Arashe Highlands, and the Ambermere defense line in the Silver Song Forest. With the advantages of Quelthalas, Eagle Nest Mountain and Fire Element, they could only barely curb the offensive of Stormwind Alliance northward.
But even so, all discerning people could find that if the Stormwind Alliance had not been busy conquering the foreign land and dealing with the Burning Legion that was planning to make a comeback, I am afraid that the front line of the Northern Expedition Legion would have been pushed to the Tirisfalinland...
Due to Illidan's behavior and in the face of naked interests, the nobles of Stormwind City completely abandoned the Lordaeron benefactor who had saved them, and classified the entire Fire Alliance in the north as an existence that was even more evil than the orc tribe!
Therefore, the old Paladin Grian Storman, who has a mature and experienced look, could see at a glance: the small force that is now in the granary of the Stormwind Kingdom and the small force that is making trouble in the western wilderness, must be inseparable from the Fire Alliance!
They simply want to disrupt the interior of the Storm Kingdom, so as to achieve the purpose of consuming and dispersing the strength of Storm City!
Otherwise, where did the humans, dwarves, high elves and a small number of fire element creatures that have recently been active near Yuexi Town? How could an ordinary thug be able to do something like the organized and purposeful destruction and assassination operations, as well as the remnants of the Difia Brotherhood?
You know, after the Second Orc War, Grian Storman devoted himself to Uther's army, and then worked and served in the holy city of Standsom as a Paladin of the Knights of the Silver Hands, and miraculously survived the massacre of Standsom.
Then, during the Natural Disaster War, Grien followed the Knights of the Silver Hand to fight north and north. After Uther, the envoy of Light in Andoral died in the battle, he was frustrated and finally chose to leave Lordaeron, return to his hometown, the western wilderness and lived in seclusion until now.
So, although he looked like an old town citizen of Yuexi Town who knew nothing outside, in fact, he was a powerful Paladin general who could still go to the battlefield! During this period, he still took everything in his eyes!
So, today, he organized and led more than a dozen armed militias from Yuexi Town that he had trained before, holding long swords and shields, and successfully blocked a black short-haired thief covered in a red face towel and holding sharp blades in an alley.
“…”
After looking up and down, Grien could see that the other party should be a woman, and a very young woman! Then look at the other party's appearance, his snow-white and tender skin and oval ears, he should be a human being!
"Hmph! Red mask, thief's outfit... Sure enough, you should be the remnant of the Difia Brotherhood back then... After a few years, you have rekindled? Or... some people with ulterior motives have awakened you again?"
With just a glance, Grian roughly recognized the other party's origin.
If it were on other timelines, he should have started organizing the People's Army long ago! However, due to the influence of some butterfly effects, Van Cliff was wiped out too early, so he has been unemployed until now, with barely a group of militias of dozens of people under his command. As for the People's Army, it is still far away.
"Let down your weapons and surrender! You are now completely surrounded by us, and resistance is of no use!"
Wearing plainclothes and holding a huge warhammer from the time of the Paladin of the Silver Hand, Grian once again persuaded the female thief who looked overly young and looked overly young.
He knew that the other party might just be a refugee who went astray, and everything was for survival or the confusing accounts of the Storm Kingdom in the past? Therefore, Grien did not want to demand too much from the other party. As long as the other party was willing to surrender and did not commit serious crimes after being investigated, he would definitely seek a chance for the other party to be lenient.
Although most people in the western wilderness are not doing well now, and the kingdom is also very taxed due to various military activities, as long as they can survive, it is always wrong to rebel, and it is even worse to participate in the Difia Brotherhood!
"Bah!"
"You lackeys from the nobles of Stormwind City! You have been oppressing and damaging countless innocent people in the wilderness of the western region. You have once abused the migrant workers of our stonemason union. Do you think we will forget the blood debts we used to do?"
"I can tell you: no one will wake us up! As long as your oppression is still there and as long as justice has not been fulfilled, we will never surrender! Although sometimes we will be silent, we are actually always awake! As long as the time is right, our sharp blade of revenge will cut through your neck and let you shed those dirty blood!"
As soon as Grien finished speaking, a tender and crisp female voice came out from behind the red face towel, making the militia around him feel that the female thief surrounded by them, a member of the Difia Brotherhood, seemed to be only fifteen or sixteen years old at most.
"Sure enough... it's the broken things of the stonemason union..."
The old paladin sighed with a headache, and some things he didn't want to hear or thought they had been forgotten would always be picked up inadvertently.
"Young people, in fact... you shouldn't be so extreme. You should know that in this beautiful Azeroth world, as long as you or, there is always hope... You should not be resentful to the Storm Kingdom. For some things, forgetting early is the best choice... Please believe me, as long as you have hope, everything will get better slowly."
Grian, who had probably understood something, continued to persuade him patiently, and said with a rare slightest sigh.
The mess of the stonemason union was a lot of years ago... Looking at the age of this little girl, she looks only fifteen or sixteen years old now, but back then, she was only a girl of a few years at most, so she shouldn't remember too much.
Therefore, as long as you explain some negative things that the other party has been instilled with, you can definitely fight back.
"Hahaha! This is such a joke! You, the lackey of the Stormwind City nobleman, are you... talking to me about hope?!"
"Hope...is that the feeling that I should feel when I see you noble lackeys chopping off my father's head? Hope for me is just a vicious joke in this cold world! Hope...it doesn't exist, and only Vanessa!"
The masked female thief laughed loudly with sarcastic words and unforgettable hatred, refuting the stupid words of the old paladin opposite.
Back then, she groped in the dark and climbed out of the mine of death with difficulty, followed the unrecognizable traces, and finally walked to the gate of the evil Storm City with her bare feet and going through hardships. When she was young, she saw only her father's head in the cold and bone-breaking storm!
At that time, he was put in a small wooden cage and hung by the evildoers at the edge of the city gate...
That scene...she has not forgotten yet!!
And now, this old guy, this lackey from Stormwind City, actually wants to come and persuade her to surrender? Haha... he is simply dreaming about it!
In the years she was trained on the land of Quelthalas, she swore that she would never compromise before the storm kingdom was destroyed by her own hands, and that she would never compromise before the squalid nobles paid their blood! She believed that one day, she would use her dark dagger to bloodshed the dirty and greedy storm nobles!
And this is the fundamental reason why she secretly hid her high elf teacher some time ago, leading a group of followers who also hated the Stormwind City Alliance to the west by boat, and once again carried the banner of the Difia Brotherhood, intending to complete her father's unfinished career!
During this period, Vanessa had gathered some nearby refugees and the remnants of the stonemason union, so that they could unite closely around her. Using these people, Vanessa finally got what she wanted to rebuild the Difia Brotherhood.
Their current members have more than 3,000 people, and the number of soldiers who can fight is as many as 1,000, far exceeding the number of soldiers in Stormwind City in the western wilderness! Moreover, they even specifically shouted novel slogans of killing nobles, dividing land, and paying less taxes!
Because of this, every day, countless people quietly choose to join them, and their power is growing every moment and every second.
So Vanessa believes that by the day when the weapons they ordered from the goblins arrive, it is the moment of the people's uprising in the wilderness of the west!
However, what Vanessa never expected was that when she was planning to assassinate a corrupt noble official assigned to Yuexi Town in Stormwind City, she was blocked by these militia who had long been ambushed here and the damn old paladin guy.
"Vanessa...Van Cliff...so that's the case... Forget it, you guys, take her with all their might. If you resist... kill me!"
After hearing the other party's words and names, Grien was stunned for a while and suddenly stopped persuading him. He just sighed and waved his hand, intending to let his subordinates come forward and take down the young little girl.
This kind of teenager, especially a guy who grew up under endless hatred, seems particularly extreme. Ordinary persuasion is definitely useless, let alone a revenge of killing his father! Therefore, for the stability of Yuexi Town, for the western wilderness, and for the less turmoil in the Storm Kingdom, Grian decided to take down the other party directly.
"yes!!"
Hearing the order, four Yuexi Town militiamen holding wooden shields and long swords surrounded the female thieves who were surrounded by them. These people were all wealthy families or children of noble families in the western wilderness, and were vested interests with many industries. They would not mingle with the remnants of the Difia Brotherhood who had no horses, no houses, no land, and thought about rebelling all day long, and would not sympathize with each other.
In their opinion, whether it is the refugees or the remnants of the stonemason union, they are actually some outsiders. They are struggling to survive and the most miserable existence in the western wilderness, and they are not very much looked down upon!
"Hmph! Want to catch me?!"
Knife fan!!
Since the other party was determined to kill, as a female thief, Vanessa was certainly not ruthless. She simply turned around with dozens of sharp flying knives enchanted with shadow energy on her body, and instantly poured them out crazily around them, causing them to instantly form a violent knife fan covering more than ten meters in a radius, and poured directly onto all the militias involved in surrounding her!
Because she knew that there were many militias and security troops in Yuexi Town now, and the old knight made her very afraid. If she really delayed, she might not be able to escape!
So, she must do her best!
Either kill all the soldiers blocking the road and find an opportunity to evacuate; or you will be captured and die in a frustration!
"Not good! Spread it apart quickly!"
Seeing that the female thief was so fierce and seemed to have black toxins on their weapons, Griance was anxious and quickly shouted loudly! Then, he quickly used the holy light in front of him to release a layer of sacred barrier, and successfully shot all the knives at him!
However, he had no better way to shoot out around and at the militia.
The next moment, his eyes were filled with bloodshot eyes: the dozens of militias he brought actually fell to the ground screaming! They were either dead or injured, and at least one or two black blades were inserted into the arms or thighs and other non-armored places, and fell to the ground and wailed...
Those heavy ones simply had their shields broken, and they were stabbed by dozens of knives. They lay directly on the ground and would never move again.
"What a cruel little girl, you dare to do this!!"
Discovering that the other party was so cruel and ruthless, the angry Grien suddenly stimulated the war hammer in his hand and burst out a golden holy light, and rushed towards the enemy like an angry old lion.
"Hmph!"
disappear!!
After looking at her own victory with satisfaction, Vanessa sneered, and ignored the other party or the plan to fight hard. Instead, she disappeared directly, and instantly entered a state of stealth, and disappeared directly.
“Here!”
How could it be difficult to deal with thieves, a veteran Paladin, Grian?
So, after feeling the slight changes around him, he forced himself to turn in the middle of the attack, raised his war hammer filled with holy light, and pounced in another direction!
"Accept the judgment of the Holy Light!!"
The war hammer shining with strong golden holy light, like a small golden sun, violently smashed towards an open space without anyone or object!
boom!!!
When his warhammer collided with the brick and stone floor and the debris splashed, Grian was surprised to find that his attack had just failed?
“!!”
Sure enough, the enemy... is gone now...
The attack he originally thought that he would win would fail, which made Grian very embarrassed! However, he dared to be 100% sure that the enemy was standing here just now!
But, how did she disappear?
When he began to perceive again, he found that there seemed to be no trace of enemies here except for some vague residual shadow energy.
"etc……"
"This seems to be, shadow energy? That young enemy is actually a thief with pure shadow energy?!"
When Grien silently pulled out a dark black blade from a dead militia, he was surprised to find that it was indeed a pure shadow energy? But if you have this kind of talent, you should not learn the holy light or become a shadow priest, but instead learn the path of thieves. Is this really good?
He Grien knew that there was actually not much boundary between holy light and shadow, just like the ashes messenger of a fellow Knights' Order in the North Flame Alliance! That artifact was said to be made of a shadow crystal before the natural disaster was defeated.
"Ah... the western wilderness is probably going to be in big trouble!"
Looking at the dead and injured subordinates around him, Grien sighed heavily.
He knew that the other party must have used some Shadow Priest's method to forcibly escape from his attack.
Now, after many years, the Difia Brotherhood has made a comeback again...
Although King Varian had returned two years ago and exposed the identity of a certain countess and drove him away successfully,... the ruins of that year finally began to be brewing in the western wilderness again. As for when it would break out, he was not sure...
Chapter completed!