"Oh my god, I've only been out for less than 10 days..."
Emperor Lothar, who returned to the Alterac Palace, looked at the battle reports piled on his desk. He rubbed his forehead with a headache. Looking at the two intelligence officers standing in the office, he picked up a battle report.
After taking a look, his brows furrowed:
"So, what happened to the empire? Why do I feel that the entire northern Xinjiang is in chaos?"
"Your Majesty, many things have happened in this one week, far more than in the past five years combined."
The leader of the Imperial Intelligence Officer and former high-level assassin of the League of Assassins, "Lone Wolf" Winston said to his Majesty:
"Various disasters, whether man-made, natural, or unimaginable, all broke out in a short period of time. The King's Council has fallen into a state of semi-paralysis, and completely different chaotic situations have appeared in various countries.
And this is even when our close enemy, the Dark Blade Undead in southern Xinjiang, has not made any actual attacks... I can only say that the current situation is very bad."
"Tell me about it."
After reading several battle reports in succession, Emperor Lothar's good mood almost disappeared without a trace. He sat in his armchair, crossed his hands on his chest, and looked at the intelligence officers in front of him.
"One by one, let me see the dilemma our empire is facing now."
"I will report to you on the situation in Quel'Thalas first."
Mr. Winston is an excellent intelligence collector. He has his own ethics and his own bottom line. That is why he was hired by Emperor Lothar with a large sum of money to serve as the leader of the imperial intelligence system. In the past few years, Winston has
Dun also proved his outstanding ability, stopping the sabotage actions of Dark Blade's agents in the empire several times.
What's even more valuable is that this intelligence officer also has a deep social network in the League of Assassins, and has a very good personal relationship with the mysterious "Duke", so he can always get a lot of highly valuable confidential information.
"I believe you have heard about the plant disaster in Quel'Thalas. Many people say that it was the handiwork of the night elves. Judging from the legend of Kaldorei and their power system, it can affect the area of two provinces.
Indeed, only they can produce activated plants in this world."
Winston, the lone wolf, looked at the emperor's expression. After he paused for a few seconds, he said:
"But we can now confirm that this matter has nothing to do with the Kaldorei. Someone is deliberately using this method to attract our attention. A few days ago, I was in Dalaran and the Assassin family Sanguna in Quel'Thalas.
I had a chat with a member of the Er family. The cause of the disaster in Quel'Thalas was because the Silver Moon Council and the royal party reached an agreement to capture an important figure..."
"Alleria Windrunner!"
When Winston said the name, Lothar raised his head suddenly, his eyes full of surprise:
"The target was Tyrion's wife? Unbelievable... They failed?"
"No, according to the baron, they succeeded, but the disaster happened the day after they succeeded."
A hint of darkness flashed in Lone Wolf's eyes:
"They made a request for support from the empire before the operation started. At that time, you had already left northern Xinjiang. Therefore, after discussion, the King's Council decided to support this operation. However, before our army reached Quel'Thalas, we came from the north.
The undead from Northrend began to attack Quel'Thalas, and then there was a large-scale life energy activity in the Sunwell complex. At an extremely fast speed, it evolved into a complex that spread throughout Quel'Thalas.
Sri Lanka’s green disaster.”
"The destruction of Quel'Thalas only lasted for one day. No matter who was behind this incident, it was obvious that they had the power to destroy a country in one day. According to my personal judgment, the Dark Blade King is
He played a very important role in this incident, although there is no evidence that he was there when the disaster occurred in Quel'Thalas."
Lothar nodded, stroking the white beard on his chin. After a moment, he raised his head and looked at Winston:
"Tell me about the natural disaster undead in the North. Can you confirm their relationship with the dark blade undead?"
"Let me explain this, Your Majesty."
The young Thales, the second-level intelligence officer of the empire, opened the report in his hand, glanced at Lothar with a deep expression, and said loudly:
"The day after the natural disaster appeared in the Northland, I took a team of imperial agents to Northrend, and talked with the Draenei's Grand Garrison Mr. Maldera in the Borean Tundra.
The Garrison Officer confirmed the existence of the undead in the North, and their base camp is on a large ice floe across a mountain from the Borean Tundra. The environment there is extremely harsh. Imperial agents and I tried to enter that area, but we failed.
.”
Thales recalled his encounter in Northrend a few days ago, and he moved his shoulders unnaturally:
"Your Majesty, with all due respect, that place is like a real hell. Our fragile bodies cannot survive there. There are bone-chilling storms and desolate land everywhere, and there is no place to replenish supplies.
The most terrible thing is that the place is filled with mindless and arrogant undead, vrykul, spider demons, even frost dragons, as well as some weird structures."
"What can be confirmed at present is that there is another force controlling those natural disaster undead, and it gives us the feeling that it has nothing to do with the Dark Blade King. Therefore, it can be initially determined that the two are not an alliance, and there is another
One thing can serve as proof."
As Thales spoke, he handed a copy of a product order to the emperor. There were a lot of munitions densely listed on it, including city defense artillery, rapid-fire machine guns and matching bullets, as well as hundreds of thousands of alchemical bombs. Among the munitions
Below the list is a shocking payment figure.
"This is?"
Lothar raised his head and looked at Thales, who pointed to the signature and seal at the bottom of the list and whispered:
"This is an arms smuggling report that we intercepted on the Eastern Front Hinterlands battlefield at dawn today. It was purchased by the Wildhammer dwarves from the goblins to resist the undead natural disasters that landed in the Hinterlands. It is worth
Please note, Your Majesty, the source of this arms is an arms company in the Burning Plains of southern Xinjiang, which is the Black Iron Business District of Dark Blade."
"Blackso Military and Future Technology Research Laboratory, according to the verification of our spies there, this is one of the several high-level cooperative arms dealers of the Dark Blade Legion. It is considered a subsidiary of the Dark Blade Legion. They sell arms to our soldiers.
, is used to fight against the undead of natural disasters. Although it may be Black Suo’s personal behavior, in a sense, maybe the senior leaders of Dark Blade are happy to see us fighting against natural disasters.”
"This proves nothing."
Lothar put the list on the table and said softly: "Maybe this is just Tyrion's old suspicion... We have dealt with him so many times, and we know very well how cunning he is."
"But what I'm going to say next may prove the relationship between the two."
Thales glanced at Winston. His superior nodded to him. The young intelligence officer took out another document and placed it on the emperor's desk:
"Your Majesty, this is top-secret information from the defense observers in Tirisfal Glades. Five days ago, when the Kingdom of Lordaeron was attacked by the plague cauldron, the werewolves of Silverpine Forest were on the edge of Tirisfal.
We went out at night, plundered 5 towns within the influence of the plague cauldron, and packed up nearly 10,000 civilians and sent them to Gilneas."
"We did not give this information to the royal family of Lordaeron because we were worried that it would cause panic, but according to the intelligence we collected in Gilneas, those werewolves... beyond our expectation, they were attacking Gilneas.
At the same time, the city will also dedicate some of its forces to try to rescue the civilians who are surrounded by the undead on the edge of the Silver Pine Forest."
A strange light flashed in Thales's eyes, and he lowered his voice:
"The werewolves in Silver Pine Forest are controlled by Tyrion's Dark Blade Legion, but they rescued our civilians from the undead of natural disasters and even fought hard. According to what we have collected so far, the two are in Silver Pine Forest.
There have been at least 30 large-scale battles in the Tirisfal region...and the civilians who were rescued are currently being placed in Burnwood Village in Gilneas, and the werewolves did not harm them."
"In other words, Tyrion doesn't want to see the natural disaster undead raging in northern Xinjiang increase in power?"
Lothar narrowed his eyes, and after a moment, he said again:
"But maybe, the Dark Blade King also wants to take this opportunity to fill in more people for the civilization system under his control. It seems that the relationship between them is really complicated. By the way, speaking of natural disaster undead, Rodan
What's the situation in the Kingdom of Ren? And Gilneas, I heard... Genn is missing?"
"King Terenas of Lordaeron has taken control of the situation. People across the country have been concentrated in several large cities with sufficient defenses. The domestic Silver Hand Paladins and Kingdom Legion have already started taking action, because in time,
The reason for taking the measures is that the situation in Lordaeron seems very dangerous, but in fact, it has not harmed the national power of Lordaeron. King Terenas seems to be planning to deal with the undead wandering in the country by himself, and from the current situation
It seems that with the help of the elves of Quel'Thalas, they have the ability to control the undead in the country. After all, those are just low-level undead, and there are few traces of high-level undead activities."
Winston breathed a sigh of relief:
"As for Gilneas... I'm sorry, Your Majesty, the situation in Gilneas is the worst. His Majesty Jean's disappearance is just a claim to the outside world. In fact, Prince Liam, who is still sticking to Gilneas City, has confirmed that,
His Majesty Jean... was unfortunately infected with the werewolf plague. In areas we haven't noticed yet, those werewolves have made potions that can hide their appearance. No one knows how many hidden werewolves there are in Gilneas."
"What's worse is that no one knows how many hidden werewolves there are in the entire northern Xinjiang."
"Fur..."
After Emperor Lothar listened to the report, he raised his head and looked at the crystal lamp floating on the top of the office. The old emperor's eyes were full of loss and confusion:
"It seems that I am really sitting on a fire. My country and I may be swallowed up by the fire at any time. Is it true that destiny is not with us? Is human civilization doomed to be destroyed?"
Seeing that the emperor seemed to have lost confidence, Thales and Winston looked at each other, and finally Winston spoke up and persuaded:
"Your Majesty, in fact, you don't need to be so pessimistic. The defense line of Arathi Highlands is very stable. The eastern battlefield has received sufficient arms support and can withstand the attack of the undead. As long as we mobilize internal forces and clear the Kingdom of Lordaeron, The raging zombies, the entire northern Xinjiang will regain stability! The occurrence of many disasters not only brings pain, it will also make our people more united."
"You are right, Winston. I also know very well that these continuous disasters will only need the passage of time to be slowly quelled, but the problem is..."
Emperor Lothar looked at Winston:
"Do you think Tyrion, who is looking at us with eager eyes, will give us this time? I am even doubting, Winston, I am even doubting that every one of these disasters is inseparable from Tyrion. He He is forcing us, pushing us to the corner of the cliff, trying to break our will, make us surrender without a fight, and make us succumb to his "new civilization"..."
"I was wrong, Winston, I was wrong from the beginning."
Lothar looked at the burning fireplace on one side, and in the dancing flames, he whispered:
"I shouldn't fight him on the battlefield he planned for us. Long before the empire was established, he had planted countless secrets on this land. They have been resisting, but we have also been walking on his side. The road arranged for us is like a spread net. The more we struggle, the tighter we are tied, until finally, having lost all ability to resist, we can only kneel at the feet of the tyrant. "
"If we want to win, we have to jump out first, jump out of the path and ending that Tyrion has arranged for us, pull his legion and our legion to a fairer battlefield, and find a more powerful one. Allies... Humanity alone cannot win this war. He has always set his sights on the world level. If we want to defeat him, we must also take a longer-term view."
The emperor played with the ring on his finger. After a moment, he breathed a sigh of relief:
"Help me contact Count Barov, Prince Liam, Prince Drake, as well as the Sun King of Quel'Thalas and King Terenas. The empire's war has entered the second phase... after being We must leave this place of death before we are crushed!"
