Shadow Trails in Azeroth

Although the Lich King ignored this defeated army that had just retreated from the battlefield with an extremely cold and charming attitude, and had no intention of absorbing them into his natural disaster navy.

However, His Majesty still temporarily paused his progress towards the sea area where the war had just ended.

Soon an envoy came down from Lothar's death battleship, came to Jaina's battleship, and invited the little princess and Knight Cyrus to board the "Scavenger" battleship.

This ship was originally called the "Marshal of Lordaeron". It was a shipyard built by King Terenas in the Kingdom of Ku to welcome Marshal Bali Westwein, whom he had carefully "digged" from Kul Tiras. Customized battleship.

Although more than ten years have passed, the various configurations of this ship are still not out of date even in the Kul Tiran Navy.

Unfortunately, maybe it's a Kul Tiran tradition.

Every ship has the same fate as its captain. After Old Barley was reborn in a darker form, this powerful battleship was also given the characteristics of the undead.

"Are you Dai Lin's little daughter?"

When Jaina and Cyrus were escorted onto the battleship by a group of death knights wearing the emblem of the Brotherhood of the Iron Horse, she saw a king wearing black robes, a broken crown, and a sword at his waist. Waiting for her ahead.

When she saw this person, Jaina immediately curtsied in a ladylike manner.

she says:

"Yes, Your Majesty Ryan, I am my father's youngest daughter, but I also have a younger brother. In addition, I don't know if you know that Varian's current situation is very..."

"No, I don't care about that, kid."

Llane Wrynn showed a cold smile, and he interrupted Jaina's description slightly coldly. He said:

"Each king of House Wrynn had his own difficulties to deal with. My father faced a combined army of trolls and gnolls, and I died at the hands of an orc assassin.

Varian is also destined to have his own challenges. Perhaps this challenge does not come from the outside world but is in his heart.

I know he's in pain right now.

But kids.

Pain is a forge, from which one can either emerge from the cocoon and be reborn, or become a meaningless slag. Every great person has to go through this process.

Varian is like this, you are like this, your father is also like this, including your brother

You should probably learn from him. "

His Majesty Lane smiled, stretched out his hand and made a "please" gesture, and said:

"Your brother turned all the suffering he went through into one vulgar and stupid pirate joke after another, but you can't despise him just because he felt happy in those jokes.

You have to realize how much overcome desolation lies behind his cheesy smile.

I think he is definitely a common role model for your generation in facing difficulties.

Come on, follow me.

Your former mentor Antonidas wants to see you. I don’t know why he wants to see you, but I think it’s definitely not a bad thing. By the way, this shield that disgusts me is right here. "

Ryan pointed to the Shield of Aggramar that Jaina was carrying, he shook his head and said:

"This thing is very angry. As long as it falls into the hands of the right person, it can bring down fire from the sky and burn all of us evil and dark undead to death. It is not something that should appear here."

Jaina hesitated for a moment, then handed over the aegis behind her to Knight Cyrus, straightened her robe, and followed His Majesty Ryan to see her mentor.

Watching Jaina leave, before the great knight could observe the death battleship, a familiar and hollow voice sounded behind him.

"Dai Lin also lost?"

"Um."

The great knight turned around and bowed his head in salute to the old Marshal Barley who came up behind him. He said:

"Blackshaw adopted new tactics. He defeated his father with advanced war concepts. His victory was complete. He proved his power and might on the sea.

No one can say that he is just a lucky man who was pushed to the forefront of the times. "

"I guess so."

Old Marshal Barry sneered and said:

"Dai Lin really has a good son. To be honest, I also hope that he can join our increasingly powerful Scourge Legion like me. To be honest, if he is willing to command this fleet that is about to take shape, then I will be very happy. I gave up the position of commander to him and became an adjutant under his command just like in the past."

"etc!"

Cyrus suddenly heard a hidden meaning in the old marshal's words. He frowned and said:

"Your Majesty Lothar is here to receive his death fleet? In other words, the reason why this naval battle started is because..."

"Of course it was Black who boasted and was hired to provide His Majesty the Lich King with a powerful enough navy and a sufficient number of warships."

Old Barry glanced at Cyrus, and he said meaningfully in the tone of the undead that always sounded so gloomy:

"Originally, the pirate only planned to dedicate the magic fleet of Quel'Thalas to His Majesty, but after learning that Dailin appeared and took over the command I left, I knew that he was destined to 'exceed' the task this time. .

how?

Don’t you know that this is all part of His Majesty and Black’s plan?

Your appearance, your battles, your defeats. All of this has been arranged before this war begins, just like a stage.

The puppets strive to perform, but are blind to the threads that control them. "

"But the pirates also lost so much!"

Cyrus said in a somewhat incomprehensible and even excited voice:

"If this is all just an arranged war, then why would he take advantage of his own people? Ah, I understand!"

The great knight suddenly realized at this moment.

He looked at the death sailors still wearing pirate costumes on the deck of the death battleship, and he realized a possibility that he had never considered before.

While Blake was attacking the Alliance fleet, was he also taking the opportunity to weaken the pirates? That's why he was able to let the pirates confront Dai Lin's fleet head-on without any scruples.

He couldn't have known that this would cause a lot of damage.

But he still did it cold-bloodedly.

but why?

Even someone as elusive as Blake must have a reason before he does something, why would he do it?

Old Marshal Barry seemed to see Cyrus' doubts. He guessed Cyrus's question. After a few seconds, he whispered:

"You know? The undead are the best soldiers in the world. They will not be afraid, will not collapse, and will not ask for more treatment and better pay.

They will not just fight with smooth sailing, nor will they have internal strife due to uneven distribution of spoils. They will perfectly perform every task given by their superiors.

do you know?

Cyrus, perhaps in the eyes of some cruel people, dead pirates are more useful than when they were alive.

I've always heard a joke circulating on the Endless Sea, saying that Black Shaw was a humane pirate who was very generous to his men compared to his peers.

hehe.

I really don’t know what kind of stupid person would make up such nonsense.

He is the most ruthless and cold-blooded person in this sea!

His indifference makes undead people like me feel horrified. In Blake's eyes, all living beings are equal, and he will make good use of every bit of value of everyone.

Even death.

Well, Daelin has a good son. He doesn't look like a Kul Tiran in terms of being cold-blooded. Maybe I should say he's better than his predecessor? "

His words silenced Lord Cyrus.

The Lord Knight even wanted to defend Black, but he soon discovered that he had no reason to refute the old marshal's words, no matter in terms of his own identity or what had just happened before.

The discussion between the Grand Knight and the Old Marshal did not reach a result in the end, but the little mage Jaina's side was "full of gains."

No one knew what she and Antonidas talked about, but when Jaina walked out of the cold, frost-covered cabin with a complicated look on her face, there was already an extra one on her robe that once belonged to the Archmage and now belonged to her. Violet badge.

This meant that Antonidas passed on his seat on the Kirin Tor Council of Six to her.

Although this inheritance is symbolic.

If Jaina wants to truly become a member of the Six-person Council, she still needs to be recognized by other archmages, but this represents the "last wish" of Master Antonidas after all.

Moreover, now that the Archmage Modera is seriously injured and needs to recuperate, the Six-person Council is really short of people. In order to get Khadgar to return to the Kirin Tor, they even pinched their noses and recognized the existence of Garona Harfoulson.

In other words, as long as Jaina returns to Dalaran, this matter will basically be a matter of course.

But Gianna was not happy.

This unhappiness lasted until Lothar's death battleship entered the waters of Quel'Thalas with a group of ghost ships from Hades.

Jaina's mood suddenly improved as she stood on the bow of the Death Battleship.

Especially when she saw that the King of Seas was still alive, and that her brothers, sisters, father and mother were still talking on the deck of that ship.

The excitement of finally seeing her family together made Gianna almost cry.

She finally no longer had to worry about the dilemma of having to choose between her brother and her father all night long.

In fact, the little mage didn't tell anyone.

She had had nightmares for several days.

In that nightmare, she saw Blake holding his father's head and laughing wildly on the burning sea, and she also saw the desperate scene of her father holding Fenner's body and crying bitterly.

In the most outrageous dream, she saw herself holding the magic sword in the hands of His Majesty Lothar, and behind her stood her "family members" who had been killed and resurrected by her own hands.

The scene in front of her was like a ray of sunshine, which suddenly dispelled all the panic in Jaina's heart, and the fate of the Proudmoore family became clear.

All suffering and danger are over.

This feeling of happiness made the little mage couldn't help but wave her hand towards the ship, and she wanted to shout out happily.

"Look, our Majesty, the master of life and death, has finally come to take possession of his fleet."

On the side of the ship King of the Sea, Blake, who was sitting side by side with Fenner and shaking his legs, blew out a smoke ring and said to Fenner:

"Oh, I have finally fulfilled my promise to the terrible Lich King. It makes me feel relaxed. I don't have to worry about one day being blocked by the Lich King's cruel warriors and being trapped in a dark alley with a sack.

Look at our stupid sister, she looks so happy.

Gee, I don’t understand what’s so exciting about all this. "

"Gianna may have felt that she finally didn't have to deal with a family falling apart."

Fenner's face was pale now, but she was in very good spirits. She hung up her shoulders and arms that had been beaten to pieces by her biological father, winked at Blake and said:

"I could eavesdrop on her mind, and she was really thinking that, and she was almost crying because she felt like she could finally go back to her familiar home.

A majestic father, a gentle mother, a kind brother and a stupid brother, and a violent sister who was picked up from outside but she didn't hate.

Gee, is my image in this little fool’s mind so bad? "

"I didn't expect that after so much happened, she would still think that I was a kind person. The power of habit is really scary."

Blake also complained.

Behind him, Dai Lin was supported by his elf wife, looking at the familiar figure standing on the death battleship with a very complicated mood.

He came here to fight for the death of old Barry Westwin, and vowed to seek justice for his old friend.

But looking at old Barry's current appearance, he doesn't seem to resist life after death.

And where the death battleship passed, among the black ice floes, the ships that had been sunk in the fierce war were being given dark power.

Those dilapidated pirate ships, those warships that still looked majestic even if they sank, and the elves' flashy magic warships were called to the material world from the sunken death one by one by the power of the Lich King.

Just like the "Marshal of Lordaeron", it experienced a "resurrection from the dead".

There are also the dead who sank to the bottom of the sea, whether they were the smelly pirates who were burned to death and crushed, or the Alliance sailors who had traces of the war, and even the captains and commanders were summoned back from the deep sea sand.

The pirates and sailors who had been fighting to death just now no longer had any hatred after being resurrected. They were given new lives and new responsibilities.

They can no longer waste time on conflicts with each other. All their actions must be based on His Majesty Lothar's will.

They completed the trial of death

Because of their bravery, loyalty or cunning and evil, they were generously allowed to join the Scourge and became the honorary navy under the Lich King.

This death recruitment process sounds very slow, but in fact, now that Lothar and Frostmourne are working together more and more perfectly, the Lich King only took less than twenty minutes to resurrect all the dead and battleships in the entire sea area. .

So in twenty minutes, the Undead Scourge had a death navy that surpassed the entire world in terms of numbers!

This navy, composed of humans, Quel'dorei elves, Nightborne elves, dwarf sky knights and pirate scum of various races, looks uneven, and the specifications of the battleships are completely different, but in terms of quantity, it is completely The severely damaged Kul Tiran Navy can be crushed.

But Dai Lin is still confident that he can defeat Lothar's navy on the frontal battlefield.

Even a fleet composed of a group of dead people still needs constant battles to accumulate experience. Even if the opponent's commander is Old Barry, Dai Lin is not afraid at all.

But the Admiral is more concerned about another issue.

He coughed, waved to his little daughter who was so happy that she shed tears, then looked at Blake who was helping Fenna get up, and asked:

"You have prepared such a luxurious fleet for Lothar, what can he give you as a gift? I am very interested in the dark transaction between you. My son, can you explain it to your poor father?"

"Ah, you're talking about the reward I get?"

Blake curled his lips and said:

"Whoever makes me unhappy on the sea from now on, I will blow a whistle, and an army of death will immediately come to help me eradicate all the forces that I don't like.

In addition, I originally planned to talk to the kings as a prophet about their disrespect for my prophet's prophecies.

Later I discovered that this job could actually be outsourced to Lothar.

He was more than willing to teach those kings a lesson on my behalf.

I mean, the Prophet asked them to unite, and if they didn't, then the Prophet would hire terrible people to beat them up until they figured it out.

That's what I get paid, pretty shabby, right?

But considering that Lothar himself is a poor man, it is already good to get these. Speaking of which, old man, are you really not considering being loyal to Marshal Lothar now?

Fenna has privately found a partner for Mrs. Jin Jian for the rest of her life. If you don’t want your wife to fall into the arms of others after your death.

I think it would be better if you book a 'Death Admiral' resurrection package from Lothar. "

"Is this how you talk to your father?"

Dai Lin said fiercely.

Then, he let out a long breath, hugged Mrs. Jinjian, who stared at the idiot Fenner with an embarrassed expression and gritted her teeth, and said softly:

"No! A lifetime is enough for me. If I have a child like you, I would rather live ten years less. As for Gina and Salorian, I can accept it.

After all, it was the young me who interfered and ruined other people's relationships. To the elves, I was just a passerby in life who could not be forgotten.

I've been lucky enough to have Gina in my life for decades.

I don't want my beloved wife to die for me.

That's not what men should do. "