Azeroth Shadow Trail

Chapter 438 147. He Has Eyes Much Like Yours

The attack on Dai Lin was kept secret by his loyal grand knight and comrades-in-arms, and was not revealed.

Although after the king returned to Proudmoore Fortress in Boralus Harbor, Queen Catherine was keenly aware that her husband had something buried in her heart.

But as a woman smart enough to be a queen, she didn't choose to ask directly.

She trusts her husband very much.

If Dai Lin felt that this matter was not important and she should not be known, then Queen Catherine would never try to investigate it.

Besides, compared to the king with iron will, the weak queen has not yet come out of the shadow of her son's death.

She has been a little depressed recently, and often goes to the family cemetery alone, facing the empty tomb and the tombstone with her son's name engraved on it.

She did not blame her husband for not protecting her beloved son.

It was a war.

My son stepped onto the battlefield as a soldier, and for the soldiers, sudden death was an unavoidable occupational risk.

However, although Dai Lin didn't say anything about it, she was assassinated after all, and there should be many inspections and hunts.

To be honest, assassination in the island country of Kul Tiras is a very hopeless thing. The country is surrounded by the sea, and the only way to leave is by boat or through a portal.

But the former cannot escape the surveillance of the tidesage at all, while the latter...

Do you know how much magical fluctuations will be caused to open a portal to the eastern continent or other places in Kul Tiras?

As long as the casters of the Kul Tiras Admiralty are not idlers, it is impossible for such transmissions not to be discovered and intercepted.

The moment the assassin appeared to kill her, she had actually cut off all hope of leaving this island country, and she was not an assassin who was good at hiding, and there was no shadow to protect her.

That is a magic warrior.

Dai Lin, who was also a warrior, recognized her occupation at a glance, so His Majesty the King was not worried at all that the assassin would escape.

He handled state affairs as usual, talked with the nobles, and occasionally took his youngest son Tanred to stay on his ship.

He knew that it was only a matter of time before the elf assassin was caught.

But what Dai Lin didn't expect was that on the third day after he was assassinated, the elf assassin actually came to the door on his own initiative.

"Your Majesty, someone has sent a letter."

The loyal Grand Knight Cyrus was wearing heavy armor. The burly Kul Tiran strode up to Dai Lin who was patrolling the Wang Quan at sea.

A letter written in Salas was handed over to the king in the uniform of a naval commander.

Dai Lin nodded and gestured, and Cyrus stepped aside immediately.

Beside the king, the little prince Tenred Proudmoore, who was wearing a small sailor suit, held the dagger at his waist and watched curiously as his father unfolded the letter in his hand.

The little prince stared wide-eyed, looking at the characters and symbols that he didn't understand at all, and asked:

"Dad, what's that word?"

"This is Salas, the language of the elves, my son. It is said that every character of it contains magic power, and in the hands of powerful elf spellcasters, it can even be used as a spell."

Dai Lin sat unashamedly on the steps of her favorite ship, touched the golden hair of her youngest son, and patiently explained:

"But it takes a long time to learn this language. It is too difficult for you now."

"Will little Anna know?"

Tandred tilted his head and asked.

He seems to be thinking about comparing himself with his sister, Jaina, who is recognized as a talented girl.

"Well, she should."

The youngest son didn't hide his thoughts from Dai Lin, but the king didn't want to hurt his stupid son, so he could only say something vaguely. How could Jaina not speak Salas?

The last time she met her daughter in the cursed land, little Anna reported her studies to her father.

Not only can she speak Salas, she has even mastered troll language and dragon language proficiently.

"Then I want to learn too!"

Upon hearing that Jaina might speak Salas, Tenred folded his arms and said to his father:

"Dad, do you know the language? Can you teach me?"

"I will, of course I will teach you, my son."

Dai Lin laughed and hugged Tenrad, and kissed him on the hair.

In the past, an admiral who was as powerful and heroic as the sea would certainly not treat his son so tenderly. He is a very classical father and believes that boys should accept the wind and rain.

But after losing Drake, Dai Lin's style changed overnight.

Even a powerful man like him can no longer bear the pain of losing another child.

Drake's death was a lesson, and it taught Dailin a lesson in harsh reality.

As a father, he must become the thickest barrier for the children before they grow up, protecting them from all malicious attacks.

He will not allow any power in this world to hurt his only remaining relatives.

That disaster also taught Dai Lin another thing, that is, you must cherish every moment with your children, you never know which will come first, disaster or tomorrow.

We can only try our best not to leave any regrets when we leave unexpectedly.

pity

Dai Lin paid too much tuition for this class.

After comforting her youngest son, and making an appointment with Tenred to start learning Salas tonight, Dai Lin opened the letter casually, and read it with her proficient and superb Salas reading and writing skills. this letter.

The letter is not long.

It uses very concise language to explain this "misunderstanding" to Dai Lin.

The elf assassin clearly wrote that he came from Suramar, that Suramar was invaded by pirates, and even his fiasco and humiliation that night.

Thanks to the arc changes in the writing of Salas, Dai Lin can taste the unwillingness and loss in the assassin's heart through the curved imprint of the characters.

She also told Dai Lin that the vicious pirate used Dai Lin's name to lure her to Kul Tiras, and that's how the oolong assassination three days ago happened.

The assassin must have been an elf of noble birth.

The admiral narrowed his eyes, thinking.

Her level of wording and sentence making is extremely high even among the elves, and her words reveal an arrogance that fits the tone of the elves from time to time.

The letter reminded Dai Lin of how she felt when she received some love letters from Quel'Thalas many years ago when she was young.

He shook his head and continued to read.

After the assassin finished talking about the cause and effect, he praised His Majesty the King's solid and amazing martial arts in a crisp respectful tone among soldiers.

She said that if she had the opportunity, she would be willing to fight His Majesty the King again as a visitor and a scholar.

He also said that he would leave Kul Tiras, but he was already being targeted by the tidesages.

Unwilling to use her strength in such a wrongly caused battle, she apologized to Dai Lin and asked for forgiveness so that she could travel to the Eastern Continent on a merchant ship.

In this regard, His Majesty the King laughed twice.

This assassin is really innocent.

Although it was a misunderstanding, after all, what he said was unfounded. Besides, this was the assassination of a king! In human society, this is an unforgivable sin.

A few words of apology just want Dai Lin to let her go

Tsk tsk, the arrogance of the elves is really engraved in their bones.

He didn't intend to pay attention to it at first, and wanted the tidesage to lock the assassin's position, and then go out on his own, satisfying her desire to fight as a warrior.

After he won the victory, Torgoda's black prison was the destination of the elf assassin for the rest of his life.

Of course, if this assassin is indeed a potential warrior, if things are as she said, then Dai Lin, who is also a warrior, can't let her go.

Warriors are mostly reckless, so it's not surprising to make such an assassination that is exploited by others.

But just when Dai Lin was about to make such a decision, the few words written at the end of the letter made the admiral clench his fists. Those few sentences read like this:

"Although when I was assassinating, I immediately recognized that you were not that vicious pirate.

But with all due respect, I don't think the pirate's use of your name was just to stir up a quarrel between the Nightborne and Kul Tiras.

I think he should have something to do with you.

Because, he has a pair of eyes that are almost exactly the same as yours, sea blue, eyes like the sea. Also, even though he was wearing armor at the time, he was also very similar in size to you.

If I hadn't already inquired about the King of Kul Tiras on the way, I would even think that he is you when you were young. "

"Cyrus!"

After reading this sentence that shocked Dai Lin, the king almost stood up suddenly. As a legendary warrior, he couldn't even control his emotions for a moment.

He thought of a very surprising possibility.

A wave of ecstasy welled up in my heart.

But what followed was a terrible worry about gain and loss. He called his most loyal grand knight, and Cyrus rushed over immediately when he heard His Majesty's out-of-control shout.

But Dai Lin clenched her fists tightly, her mouth tightly shut, and her expression changed rapidly.

Such a gaffe is very rare in an admiral.

After half a minute of silence and thinking, Dai Lin took a deep breath and forced himself to calm down. He glanced at Cyrus and said to the Grand Knight:

"I have a secret mission for you, and you must complete it yourself."

"Your Majesty, please order."

The great knight accepted the task without asking about the content of the task. It seemed that even if Dai Lin asked him to die, he would fulfill it without hesitation.

"Go to Ravenholdt's stronghold in the city and issue a reward in your name."

Dai Lin touched the king's seal on his finger, and he whispered:

"There is a nasty pirate who runs amok in the cities of the elves in my name.

This is the truth about the assassination three days ago.

This is a terrible provocation to House Kul Tiras and Proudmoore.

Pay those assassins generous rewards and let them serve me. I want to know the identity and information of that pirate, as well as his origin!

The sooner the better! "

"Is it just information? Your Majesty."

Cyrus asked:

"Do you want to issue a Dag kill order?"

"Absolutely not!"

Dai Lin blurted out.

Then he coughed twice in embarrassment, to cover up his emotions, he held the sword hilt at his waist, and said in a deep voice as before:

"This is not the first time that pirates have challenged our country with such low-handed means. Since the pirates have declared war on us, we must personally respond!

The Assassins are not to be relied upon, this is a matter of Kul Tiras' naval tradition.

So, just need information.

I will do the rest myself. Dare to act mischievously in my name, hehe, I hope that pirate is ready to bear all the consequences. "

"Yes, Your Majesty."

The big knight was not surprised by this answer.

Although his majesty is a king, most of the time, he thinks in the way of a warrior. It is only with such lofty aspirations that Dai Lin becomes the most capable of fighting among human kings.

"In addition, cancel the tide sage's pursuit of assassins."

Dai Lin glanced at the letter in her hand and said to the Grand Knight:

"I'll write a reply letter in a while, you put it where you got this letter, and then, let her go. Since it's a misunderstanding, just untie it.

Kul Tiras needs to recuperate after the war, and it is not in our national interest to start a war with a group of elves who don't know their roots. "

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Two hours later, Aluriel, the Legendary Swordsman of the Nightborn who disguised himself as an ordinary lady of Kul Tiras with magic, was in a pigeon cage near the Admiralty outside Boralus Harbor. I found Dai Lin's reply.

She had sensed that the tidesages had removed the blockade of the coastline through her manipulation of magic, and she probably knew the king's response.

This made the magic swordsman, who came to the human world for the first time, feel a little more favor and kindness towards Dai Lin, the assassination target.

This human king is not bad.

None of the rumored bad habits of those kings.

But when she opened the reply letter and saw the request in the letter, the "young" magic swordsman frowned.

"Share all the information about the pirate with him, and ask me to give up hunting down the pirate? What does this mean? Is he going to personally take over the punishment of the offender?

Hehe, he is indeed a warrior king, and his response to provocation is so straightforward.

But alas, I don't intend to do that. "

The magic swordsman waved his finger and incinerated Dai Lin's reply letter into ashes.

She glanced at the sea outside the harbor in front of her, and said softly:

"I must defeat him myself to end the fear he has brought me."

"However, His Majesty Dai Lin's level of Salas language is really impressive. As a human being, he actually knows how to use some ancient allusions that only elves know.

Where on earth did he learn all this?

Do even human warriors pay so much attention to the acquisition of wisdom?

Well, it seems that the gossip is really unreliable, I have to remind the tribe to re-examine human civilization. "

(end of this chapter)