ebookland Chapter 278 Want a Mount
Chapter 278 Want a Mount
What was the urgent military situation? Lorraine was a little reluctant to say, but just as he was about to, he suddenly noticed a bystander beside him.
It was none other than Jacob, the cunning goblin merchant who had swindled him out of 20 gold coins.
Jericho noticed the goblins.
Lorraine quickly pointed out that this guy had lied to her and recounted what had happened before.
Jerik's previously amiable expression suddenly darkened, and he kicked Jacob away.
He cursed, "Yanlin Ranch sent you to deliver goods, not to be a spy. Our cooperation is thanks to Her Majesty the Queen's leniency. You'd better not make me angry, leak military secrets, or get executed. If you still want me to buy goods from you, you'd better behave yourself."
Jacob, the goblin who was eagerly listening for secrets, was kicked to the ground and then beaten by the undead guards. A pile of gold coins was searched from his body and handed over to the quartermaster.
Lorraine took a bag of gold coins from the grinning Jerik, estimating it to be more than ten times the value of his twenty gold coins. He stood there dumbfounded, unsure of what to do.
“Take it. The undead may not need to eat. We are different. Now, even a single fermentable maggot can fetch 5 gold coins from unscrupulous merchants. Larval acid is everywhere in the Plaguelands, but no one dares to kill those terrifying giant worms.”
Lorraine accepted the more than 200 gold coins, and he couldn't help but feel moved.
The main thing is joy...
The goblins were driven away by the guards. The Forsaken guards were clearly closer to Lorraine, though few in number; they were all Yerik's assistants, elites of Undercity. The main sentries were orc guards, not all of them Frostwolf Clan orcs, but mostly Horde soldiers from Kalimdor or those left to guard the Frostwolf dens.
The Frostwolf Clan's orcish features are very distinct. They are almost all brown-skinned, wearing hats and shawls made of frostwolf skin, and even in the freezing cold, they expose their upper bodies, wearing only thin animal skin clothing.
Orcs have a hard time, whether in Outland or their new home, Alterac Valley.
Lacking food and clothing, they fought alone.
If it weren't for Thrall's deployment of reinforcements from the new Horde and the strong support from Undercity, the old shaman General Drek'Thar would have long been cornered by the Stormpike dwarves. Compared to the narrowness of the beast den, there is actually a large open space within the entire Alterac Valley.
Now that the valley is occupied by the enemy and the battle is at a stalemate, Lorraine should either enter the valley to join the fight or stay away and cause trouble.
The Frostwolf Clan members respected the strong more than the new Horde members and followed tradition. The old shaman only showed kindness to Thrall, and the help of the undead did not seem to be a very honorable thing to him.
Yerik and Lorraine discussed the situation on the battlefield, their conversation slightly awkward; the Forsaken were indeed not well-liked. Undercity needed more victories to earn the respect of the Horde members, Yerik said earnestly, referring to the current situation in Hillsbrad Foothills.
Even today, orcs are still imprisoned in human internment camps. Durnholde Keep, on the road from Tarren Mill to Arathi Highlands, used to be an orc concentration camp.
The area is now occupied by a band of bandits, who have returned to their old ways, buying and selling orcs and humans as commodities...
Due to manpower shortages, the Forsaken are preoccupied with protecting supply lines and Tarren Mill, leaving them unable to deal with the surrounding bandits or rescue more orcs. Since Lorraine is here, he can rescue the orcs captured by the bandits and hand them over to General Drek'Thar as a token of loyalty, thus facilitating Yerik's introduction...
Lorraine listened and wholeheartedly agreed, but with the military situation pressing, he could only recount the events of the previous battle at the lake, including the fact that the enemy had set up camp.
This includes the attack on Stromgarde, the Syndicate, and their connections.
The situation is dire...
Yerik was shocked. This time he realized what danger Lorraine was talking about... The humans wanted to cut off the Horde's supplies. Once the supply crates in Arathi and Alterac were cut off, the overall situation would inevitably be jeopardized.
He stopped chatting and went to find the messenger and Drektal to discuss the matter. He had released Lorraine... He felt he had missed another great opportunity.
There's no way to gain favor with the old general...
Lorraine seemed to have suffered another loss, but the fact that a level 11 lieutenant general listened to his military reports was actually a great achievement. Within Undercity and among his own people, Lorraine's status rose rapidly, and he had no complaints.
With Yerik's orders, the Frostwolf Legion guards allowed him to wander freely around the base. He could also enter a small part of the beast's den, but Lorraine, after looking left and right, could not go any further.
A female orc riding a giant wolf stood blocking the entrance to the cave.
As Lorraine approached, the female orc responsible for the security of the den stared at him and warned in Undead, "Frostwolf territory, no one other than a soldier of the Frostwolf Legion is allowed to approach."
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The Frostwolf Clan did not have a good impression of Lorraine upon their first meeting. Lorraine, whose reputation was not prominent, was treated extremely coldly by the orcs.
Since they were all allies of the tribe, the orcs did not launch an attack, but they also did not give them a friendly look.
Gaining respect from the Salmu people is not an easy task.
Lorraine had been asking around for a while when his teacher finally told him that the Frostwolf mount he so desperately wanted could only be obtained by a lieutenant general... and one had to serve multiple times in the Alterac battlefield, conquering cities and territories for the Frostwolf Legion and winning victories, be awarded a level 6 medal, and accumulate 50,000 honor points before having a chance to acquire it.
Frostwolf is not only a mount, but also a companion to the Frostwolf clan members.
The clan's totem!
The Frostwolf is a magical beast from another world brought to Alterac Valley by the Frostwolf Clan from the distant Outland. In this distant otherworld, Frostfire Ridge and Alterac Valley share similarities.
Thrall's father, Durotan, once led the Frostwolf Clan orcs in battles against other surrounding tribes, including ogres and competing tribes.
Almost every member of the Frostwolf tribe has a Frostwolf companion from childhood. Their trial to adulthood involves hunting together with their Frostwolf, establishing mutual respect and trust. Sometimes, if their master dies in battle, the Frostwolf will commit suicide after him.
Unless the partner wants the other to live.
The Frostwolf is the symbol of the Frostwolf clan. On the day the orcish homeland was destroyed, Durotan led his people and the Frostwolf clan to Azeroth. Due to disagreements with Gul'dan, he did not want to be a puppet of the Burning Legion.
Durotan and his wife were killed by Gul'dan's men, and Thrall lost his parents shortly after birth.
Thrall's mother, Draka, endured excruciating pain, cut open her own belly and placed baby Thrall in a wooden tub, letting it float downstream. The river happened to be right next to Dunholm Castle, where human sergeant Blackmore found him and trained him to be a warrior from a young age.
Sal believed that his adoptive father was treating him kindly, but in reality, he only valued Sal's innate strong physique and made him learn human language to participate in gladiatorial combat for personal gain.
After the death of their leader, the Frostwolf Clan hid in the Alterac Valley, where they were managed by the old shaman Drek'Thar and slowly established themselves there.
As Thrall grew up, he gradually discovered that more orcs were being imprisoned and manipulated, used as beasts for the entertainment of the nobles of Lordaeron.
Thrall's reputation for watching orc gladiators perform at Durnholde Keep was so great that it once attracted Prince Arthas and his girlfriend Jaina. Thrall's green color comes from the fact that the new generation of orcs in Azeroth have drunk the blood of demon lords and have been influenced by fel magic.
Fel magic is a strange green color...
Thrall also harbors a deadly vulnerability: anyone affected by fel magic is easily mind-controlled and brainwashed. Medivh, Blackhand, the first Warchief of the old orcish Horde, and the orc warlock Gul'dan, all possessed fel power.
Leaving that aside for now, Thrall started out as a gladiator skilled in human techniques and possessing the physique of an orc.
When the human woman who was close to Thrall was killed by his adoptive father, Thrall resolutely raised the banner of rebellion, rescued the orc slaves who were defeated in the Second War, and attacked the slave camps together.
During this process, Thrall gained the approval of his father's old friend Orgrim and became his second-in-command.
After Orgrim's death, he succeeded him as chieftain and also completed his journey to find his roots, finding the old shaman Drek'Thar of the Frostwolf Clan in the Alterac Mountains.
Thrall relearned the ways of shamanism, and he not only became the chieftain of the new Horde, but also joined the Earth Ring, creating the new Horde as its spiritual leader.
He himself had two Frostwolf companions, and these were two ghostly wolf spirits that were always by his side...
Lorin's desire for a Frostwolf mount won't be so easy...