Shadow Trails in Azeroth

"I see a ship! A vrykul ship with a pirate flag flying on it. Damn it! What kind of force is that? I've never seen a pirate flag like this before."

On the sea north of Tol Barad, twenty nautical miles away from the main island, three large ships are heading towards the looming island.

All three ships were flying the same pirate flag.

Needless to say, the black background and skull pattern are standard features of the pirate flag. Next to the skull is a trident, which represents the origins of the three pirate ships.

They come from the North Sea.

To be precise, it is the ice-covered waters of the Northrend continent.

North Sea pirates are less well-known than South Sea pirates, but like their South Sea counterparts, these bastards who plunder the frozen sea are equally despicable, greedy, and bloodthirsty.

On the largest ship, a female pirate with a red cloth wrapped around her head, a white blouse, ship-red shorts, weird tattoos on her legs and arms, and a nose ring lowered her telescope.

She turned around and shouted to the group of lazy guys behind her:

"There are daggers and crows next to the skeleton. What kind of force is this? Does anyone know?"

No one answered her.

Probably no one knows, and no one is interested in answering.

Because the pirates on this ship were not in good condition, basically everyone on the deck was injured, and only a few had no bandages or scars on their bodies.

Apparently, they had just been through a fierce battle.

"You bunch of losers!"

The tattooed female pirate didn't hear the answer and immediately cursed.

But it still didn't spark much of a reaction.

This made the female pirate, who was the temporary first mate, very dissatisfied. She raised her telescope and looked at the Vrykul dragon-headed warship that rushed over at extremely fast speed.

After estimating the distance between the two parties, he used his sailor's knife, grabbed the cable at hand, and kicked the rudder next to him. In the next moment, his whole body was caught by the moving cable and flew into the foremast.

He also moved as swiftly as a monkey, walking through the ship's net, jumping and swinging, and rushed to the stern of the ship.

Her movements are so nimble and she walks smoothly on the rocking ship. She looks like an old pirate at first glance, but she is also very young. She may have grown up on the ship since she was a child.

"Lady Anne, there is a pirate ship from an unknown force approaching us, coming from the direction of Tol Barad."

The moment she rushed into the captain's room, the tattooed woman smelled the pungent smell of herbs. There must be wounded people here, and sitting on the captain's seat in front of her was a female pirate wearing a captain's uniform.

Wearing a pirate hat with the North Sea pirate logo, a long windbreaker and a set of red leather armor, with a dagger hanging on his waist and a sailor sword on his hand, he did not wear an eye patch.

She must be in her thirties, her weather-beaten skin is not very delicate, but her eyes are sharp and gleaming, and she is not an easy character to deal with at first glance.

However, now this shrewd and powerful female captain looked haggard. Her chest was wrapped in a thick bandage with blood oozing from it.

This meant that she had just saved her life from a fatal attack.

"A ship from Tol Barad?"

Upon hearing the first mate's report, the haggard female captain suddenly raised her head and said:

"Didn't those merchants from Lordaeron say that Tol Barad has been destroyed by the orcs? It has been abandoned there for more than a year, so why are there still pirate ships?

Did our colleagues occupy that island? Marci, can you spot their logo? "

"I don't know, Captain."

The tattooed female first mate Marci shook her head and replied with the cunningness that an old pirate should have:

"But they only have one ship, and it is a small ship that can carry dozens of people at most. We have three ships and nearly 600 people. Although there are many wounded, our firepower is strong.

They are no match for us.

Even if they capture Tol Barad, we can easily capture it, recuperate there, recruit new people on board, and then take advantage of the Kul Tirans to fight the orcs to rush into Gilneas and Arathi. Plunder some.

Before the Kul Tirans find us, we can take the loot and return to the North Sea, or find a new homeport in Kalimdor. "

Having said this, the tattooed first mate gritted his teeth and said bitterly:

"Jonah has gone crazy. The attacks he and his mad dogs launched on us will be repaid tenfold in the future!"

"Don't tell me now, cough cough later."

Captain Anne Bonn, who was sitting in the captain's cabin, waved her hand. This action affected her wound, causing her to cough several times in pain. Marci immediately sent a bottle of rum up to her.

The female captain took a swig of wine, using the comfort brought by the alcohol to numb the pain in her body.

This sip of wine also made her face look rosier.

She wiped her mouth and said to the first mate in front of her:

"We failed in the Firebinary, and now we are in urgent need of a place to rest and recuperate. Talk to those colleagues who have occupied Tol Barad.

It's best not to fight.

If they don't give face, they can only attack by force.

Send a signal to Harry and Terry to prepare their ships. If there is a fight, they will sink the opponent's ship as soon as possible! Then land at the village of Losberg.

We have the map left by Captain Elres, and decades are not enough time for the topography of that island to change.

Don’t go to Cape Lost Hope.

There are too many rocks there, and it’s difficult to get out once you get in. "

As she spoke, Captain Anne's cheeks turned pale again. She rubbed her head and said:

"This battle is for you and the three of you. I'll take a rest and settle down. I need to go to the mainland quickly and bring back a few doctors, preferably a priest.

There was something strange about the dagger that Jonah stabbed me with.

I can feel my life draining away, damn it

My head hurts. "

As she said this, she raised the bottle of wine in her hand, drank the remaining wine in one gulp, tilted her head, leaned on the seat, and soon fell asleep.

The first mate Marci looked distressed.

She was once a "trophy" after a robbery by North Sea pirates. Those stinky pirates originally planned to sell her to slave traders when she was only ten years old, but Captain Anne stopped her.

She grew up under the protection of Captain Anne Bonn, the second-in-command of the North Sea pirates. Although Anne was usually very strict with her, in Marci's heart, the captain in front of her was the only one in the entire pirate group that she could Trust people.

"Sleep, Captain. I'll find a doctor for you, and I won't let you leave me."

Marci, the tattooed woman, reached out and covered Annie with a dirty blanket. She then picked up the map in her hand and opened it to look at it.

The map shows the detailed topography of the island of Tol Barad.

This was drawn before the North Sea pirates were driven out of the island by the Kul Tiras fleet. According to Captain Grayson, in his time, more than a hundred years ago, Tol Barad was the home port of the North Sea pirates. .

Soon, the chief officer who took over the ship issued a battle order, and used tame seagulls to take his orders to the other two ships.

They agreed on a plan.

Anne asked Marcy to negotiate with the unknown pirates on Tol Barad Island first, but the first mate, who was eager to rescue the captain, skipped this process. Anne had been stabbed by a rebel and was now in dire straits.

Since our own side has the advantage, how can we have time to negotiate with these young people in the pirate world?

whispering sound.

They clearly occupied Tol Barad, but only sent a small ship without artillery to challenge them. How strong could that group of pirates with no reputation be?

How could they be a match for the brave and capable North Sea fanatics who were forged in the storms, sea monsters and severe cold of the frozen sea?

What's more, these three ships also have the "secret weapons" of the North Sea pirates.

"Six hundred against sixty"

When the strange-looking Vrykul boat in front of him came within range, the tattooed female pirate holding a torch sneered and adjusted the gun positions on the deck herself.

Then use a torch to light the cannonball fuse.

She sneered and said:

"What the hell if we can lose! I have the advantage. This battle is guaranteed!"

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"Bang, bang, bang"

The Jotunheim Force was extremely fast on the sea. With Captain Grayson personally manning the sails, this dragon-headed war hammer with a very shallow draft avoided the artillery bombardment of the three ships behind it by moving in a rather snakeskin manner.

Around this speeding ship, flying cannonballs smashed into the water and shot up water columns all over the sky. However, this kind of uncalibrated pursuit bombardment was difficult to hit small and fast targets.

"What an arrogant bastard."

The ghost captain looked back, spat to the side, and cursed:

“They didn’t even enter the gun position, but just fired forward in a sailing state. It seems that this group of North Sea pirates were confident and stupid and arrogant. They really embarrassed their predecessors.

In my time, the leader of the North Sea pirates, ‘Blackheart’ Elres and his ‘Sister of Mercy’, were the idols of all pirates!

The once invincible Beihai Madmen have not fallen in this hundred years. "

"Ah, arrogant pirate, come and fight with me head-on. I will win the laurel crown of the sea above these thousands of miles of waves and dedicate it to the girl I love most in my life."

The crazy and handsome ghost swordsman Romeo will be standing behind the side of the ship, waving his sword towards the sky and sea while shouting disgusting and earthy love words.

The orcs and trolls manipulating harpoon cannons next to them looked at each other in confusion.

But sitting on the ship, the ghost Juliet, whose brain was also not very normal, held her heart in both hands, not caring at all about the danger that the ship would be hit by a cannonball at any time, and looked at her lover's play with an infatuated look on her face. prestige.

"Uncle Pirate! Why don't you hit them?"

Little Dorothy angrily saw that her ship was able to escape from the bombardment of the three ships behind her. Then she looked up at Captain Grayson and said dissatisfiedly:

"Let's rush over and I'll let Totty bite those bad guys!"

"Oh, we are fishing as bait, you idiot."

While Captain Grayson was steering the ship's sails, maintaining a speed that was neither too fast nor too slow, and constantly changing its course amid the shelling water column, he said to little Dorothy at his feet:

"If you scare them, how can you lure them to the bait? Where's the harpoon cannon? Bastards, fight back! Let them see our weakness and let them have no doubts about our escape."

Following the captain's scolding, several harpoon cannons on the Jotunheim Force also opened fire.

However, in close combat, these large crossbows may be able to compete with the destructive power of artillery. In a chase like this, the harpoon cannot be aimed at all, and the target will be missed if launched.

"Ahahaha! Those idiots tried to hit us with harpoon cannons. Who are they? Are they primitive people? Hahahaha"

The counterattack of the small ship in front of them made the North Sea pirates laugh wildly, and it also made them more confident and bold to use the artillery pushed up from the deck. Like a cat teasing a mouse, they kept firing cannonballs to intimidate the small ship in front of them.

In this chase of three chases and one escape, the four ships approached Tol Barad Island, and when they were about to sail to the Cape of Lost Hope, the first mate Marci on the flagship sneered.

The tattooed female pirate had received instructions from Lady Anne before. When she saw the small boat taking them towards the bay filled with islands and reefs of all sizes, she immediately signaled to stop the pursuit of the other two ships.

"Want to set up an ambush? That's a good idea!"

The female pirate spat rudely, threw down the telescope on the stern of the ship, pushed the helmsman away, grabbed the steering wheel herself, and steered the ship to change course and sail toward the northeast of Losberg Village.

The coast there is very gentle and suitable for landing.

"No, they're going to run away!"

When Captain Grayson saw the North Sea Pirates' flagship change direction, he immediately realized that the bait plan had failed. The ghost captain gritted his teeth and manipulated the sails to make the dragon-head warship turn flexibly on the sea.

After changing his embarrassing escape style just now, like a brave warrior, he launched a sea charge against the nearest pirate ship.

This is his first mission to join the Immortal Fleet.

If he failed like this, he, the "senior pirate", would be embarrassed in front of a group of young people.

"Commander Black has always told me that you are the bravest fighters under his command, and you will definitely make a name for yourself on the sea in the future! But I don't really believe you landlubbers."

While charging towards the pirate ship, which was three times larger than his own ship, Grayson shouted to the undead pirates on the ship:

"When I was roaming the sea and plundering like crazy, your fathers weren't even born yet! You losers, now you have a chance to prove to me that Commander Black's compliments to you are not bragging!"

"Take up arms, immortal pirates!"

"Prepare to storm and seize the ship! Let these arrogant North Sea guys see how powerful we are!"