ebookland Chapter 235 The Dreadlord's Military Order
Chapter 235 The Dreadlord's Military Order
My godfather came quickly and left quickly...
Before Lorraine could react, and before her teacher could ask any more questions, Lorraine's body was suddenly back in the cold waters of Lake Lordamere...
A chilly feeling came over me, as if enveloped by the cool lake water.
No longer are there wandering, malevolent spirits lurking around...
"came back?"
"came back!"
“义父呢？”
"have no idea..."
The master and apprentice had some doubts, but the battlefield around them had already calmed down.
Not far from Lorraine, two death knights stood silently by her side.
One is the Oath of Death, the other is Yurev...
The remaining death knights and skeleton riders lined up in a row, forming an encirclement to protect their master.
Further away, the human soldiers surrounded in the middle had stopped moving.
Apart from the escaped Master Yuvel and Tyran & Fordring, there were no living people left in the arena, only corpses.
Lorraine looked up and saw several battle mages belonging to the Kirin Tor being torn apart beyond recognition by mindless undead...
The filthy blood seeping into the lake from the land drifted onto the lake surface, and the scattered debris was nauseating.
The faint cawing of crows drifted from the woods...
Lorraine then noticed that the sky was beginning to lighten with the first hint of dawn...
Before we knew it, the battle had lasted all night…
That night, many lives were lost... but the undead army in Lorraine increased several times in size.
He sensed that a portion of the undead army was advancing into the distance. The zombies and skeletons were mostly transformed corpses of ordinary people, and they had been given the order to hunt down the living relentlessly…
They marched into civilian territories, indiscriminately attacking Alliance and Horde lands...
Lorraine instinctively wanted to recall the surging tide of undead...
He didn't want to cause the deaths of more innocent people!
But the next second, several bats flew over Lorraine's head.
One of the bats hovered above his head... After hovering for a few seconds, the bat flew down.
A Forsaken warrior leaped from the bat, holding aloft a letter bound with Undercity wax as he approached Lorraine...
The messenger from Undercity signaled to the Plaguebringer Lorraine to accept the official letter...
Lorraine instinctively took it...
The forgotten messenger, who carried the message, said no more, simply mounted his bat, and rode away without hesitation…
Dare to read the letter…
The situation on the battlefield appears to be unfavorable to the Forgotten.
The letter contained reports of several lost strongholds...especially around the Alterac Mountains to the Arathi Highlands, and the battle for the islands along the northern coast was fierce.
The Forsaken's fleet was firmly tied down, while Scarlet Crusade's Admiral Barry harassed outposts along the North Sea coast...
Along the coast outside Silvermoon City, the Shattered Sun Fleet also clashed with the die-hards who supported Prince Kael'thas...
Silvermoon City is currently facing pressure from all sides and urgently needs the full support of Undercity...
Lorraine opened the order from Undercity, which stated that Varimathras, the dreadlord of Undercity, was ordered by the Queen to lead his army to attack the Alliance territory of the Eastern Kingdoms.
The dreadlord Varimathras declared that all Forsaken officers below Legion rank must proceed to the front lines to assist the main force of the Hand of Vengeance in wiping out all living Alliance soldiers... and to capture Hillsbrad Foothills as quickly as possible before advancing on Arathi Highlands.
They joined forces with the Defiler Legion and, together with the orcish wyverns, marched south...
Ultimately, in conjunction with the Horde orc expeditionary force, they advanced from both the north and south, aiming for Elwynn Forest, and ultimately meeting up in the Burning Steppes...
Reopen the gates of darkness.
The Warchief approved Undercity's battle plan, hoping that Undercity would tie down the Alliance in the Eastern Kingdoms and relieve pressure on Kalimdor.
……
After reading the letter, Lorraine immediately abandoned her plan to control the return of the undead horde…
The tide of the undead continued its advance, heading straight for Southshore!
……
Varimathras is the commander-in-chief of Undercity's operations, and his loyalty is questionable, as his teacher has pointed out multiple times.
But he's currently the second-in-command of Undercity, and Queen Sylvanas still trusts him.
His Death Hunter unit repeatedly distinguished itself in the conquest of Undercity...
The operations against the Scarlet Crusade have yielded significant results.
He was merely a Plague Messenger who had just gained some military merit and rank; it was impossible for him to report the Dreadlord as a spy...
Moreover, he has yet to personally meet Her Majesty Queen Sylvanas... to express his loyalty...
"We must return to Undercity first, and then make further plans!"
The teacher's advice was to ignore the military order... important matters needed to be addressed!
I just received instructions from my so-called godfather that the remaining body parts could be in three different locations...
One is the star-studded land across the endless sea, in central Kalimdor, which resembles a tropical savanna in the Barrens...
Another is Stratholme, located above the Plaguelands north of Undercity, once the most populous and prosperous city in Lordaeron...
There's also Outland, accessible through the Dark Portal, and Blade's Edge Mountains, located in the heart of the Shattered World, where the Sons of Gruul fought their battle against the black dragons and ogre commanders...
These three locations could potentially contain parts of the teacher's body, but the godfather didn't specify which part, where it would be located, or what special rewards might be offered...
There's no time limit; if you find any part within half a month, your godfather will be very happy...
At least that's what my godfather said just now...
Now that he has received the Dreadlord's military order, Lorraine is in a dilemma.
Should we return to Undercity, or continue to the front lines?
Stratholme is relatively close, just north of Undercity... The main route involves climbing to the top of Alterac Valley, then crossing Icewind Pass, which leads to Yorkshire, formerly the most prosperous region of Lordaeron...
but!
If you want to go to Stratholme, you have to climb the Alterac Mountains and then take the ridge to Icewind Pass, which is occupied by the Alliance.
Only by passing through the Tomb of Uther the Lightbringer and crossing the lakes and rivers to the north can one venture into the Plaguelands…
Only by facing the formidable Scourge army in the Plaguelands can one have a chance to approach Stratholme...
Even if you enter Stratholme, it's a city of the dead...
The city is not only teeming with the fanatical Scarlet Crusade army, but also swarms of ghouls... and Dathrohan, another Crusader leader possessed by a dreadlord, is also there...
That guy is also a powerful and cunning demon king...
By all accounts, the danger of going to Stratholme is greater than this adventure in Dalaran...
Given Lorraine's current skill level, going to Stratholme in the north would almost certainly be a one-way trip; he'd most likely die on the way...
So let's go to Outland...
The master told his apprentice directly, "Never even think about crossing the Dark Portal to Outland. Any one of the remnants of demonic power there is ten times stronger than the satyrs of Azeroth..."
With Lorraine's current level... going to Outland would be tantamount to suicide...
It seems that the only viable option right now is to go to the other continent across the Endless Sea, specifically the central part of Kalimdor, the orcish territory...
Although it is a desolate place, it is currently the territory controlled by the tribe.
Relatively speaking, the risk is much smaller...
The master and apprentice decided to head to Kalimdor first... a good opportunity to explore the savanna, where legends of boar-men and centaurs abound... and plenty of challenges and rewards await. Thunder Bluff, home to the Tauren, is a scenic paradise...
It's definitely worth going...
But military orders are absolute!
Members of the Forsaken must obey the orders of Undercity; the Queen's warriors' mission is to carry out the Forsaken's vengeance...
If Lorraine acts on his own, he could very well be branded a traitor by the Varimathras Dreadlord's Guard spies who have been watching him for a long time.
This military order seems to have been deliberately sent to Lorraine by the Lord of Dread...
It seems they are testing this newly appointed, incredibly powerful plague messenger…
This military order is clearly a trap to test whether he is on the same side as Undercity.
"We must return to Undercity, but military orders must also be obeyed..."
Lorraine desperately wanted a reward; he longed to give Merlin's token to Aegwynn, for only then would he truly have earned the Guardians' approval...
The teacher understands his student perfectly well...
"Got it. Let those zombies keep pushing... target Southshore and the farms and mines in Hillsbrad Foothills, as well as the Syndicate bandits who participated in our ambush. Pushing them past will accumulate more wraiths, allowing you to build up your strength before the next deadly battle. Once we return to Undercity, you'll have learned new skills and increased your power! Then we'll head to Kalimdor again! Embark on a new journey! That'll be safe..."
Lorraine pondered for a moment, then immediately nodded.
"Let's do it the teacher's way..."
He removed the Plaguebringer's emblem from his chest and hung it on Yurev's body...
Lorraine ordered:
"Go, let fear spread throughout this land of sin... let sinners return to dust and ashes."
“Yurev, I grant you command of this army… Take Stromgarde for me! I will raise the Plaguebringer's banner atop the castle…”
"Dedicated to the Queen! Let Varimathras have nothing to say..."
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