To this day, the news of Dai Lin's death in battle has spread throughout human civilization.
Everyone knows that the king of Kul Tiras was ambushed by a naga in the deep sea, died a heroic death like a warrior, and fell into the icy deep sea along with his legendary ship King of the Sea.
That was news that made everyone who worshiped heroes in the entire human civilization feel heartbroken, but it was also news that made all the pirates cheer and celebrate.
When Dai Lin was still alive, Kul Tiras's invincible fleet almost single-handedly suppressed all maritime forces in the entire Azeroth civilization. Dai Lin, who came from a military family, hated the existence of pirates even more.
Second to his hatred of orcs.
There was a period of time, which lasted for about 10 years. Every year, Dai Lin would rush to the South China Sea with a fleet, just like wielding a sickle to cut leeks, uprooting the pirates. At a specific time every year
, almost all the pirates in the South China Sea disappeared, and wherever Dai Lin went, the unlucky old seals fled in all directions at a speed that was frightening.
Just like the name of his domineering ship, during that period of time, Dai Lin was the out-and-out King of the Sea.
How powerful was Kul Tiras' maritime power at that time?
During the intermission between World War I and World War II, Farewell, a general of the Kul Tiras fleet, made the wrong decision to flee without fighting when faced with the threat of continental war, because he was afraid of Dailin.
To hold him accountable, Farrewell, half forced and half deceived, fled with a quarter of the battleships of the Fourth Fleet during the return trip.
And it was this traitor who betrayed the Kul Tiran Navy. After arriving in the South China Sea, in less than 2 months, they swept away all maritime forces, including the Blackwater Pirates, and established their dominance in the South China Sea.
Dominance position.
This navy that betrayed Kul Tiras was the famous "Bloodsail" pirates.
(The real story of the Blood Sails Pirates is not like this. Since there are no three wars in this timeline, we can only let Brother Farrewell get the lunch in advance, but the process of the establishment of the Blood Sails Pirates is almost exactly the same as this story...
So, just think of it as a mysterious disturbance in the timeline.)
To be honest, if it weren't for the sudden invasion of the Darkblade Undead, General Farrewell's head would have been hung in Boralus Port for public display. But no matter what, the power of the Kul Tiras fleet is unquestionable.
And one-third of this power is due to Dai Lin's character and his strong personality.
And if Dai Lin hadn't died young, Lothar wouldn't have had such a headache over choosing a successor. If Dai Lin was still alive, Lothar would have been much more relaxed... Apart from her hatred of the orcs, Dai Lin almost
He is the perfect candidate for the second emperor of human civilization.
But the world is full of twists and turns. By chance, the betrayal of the tide sages was carried out more than ten years in advance, and directly led to Dai Lin's death. But if you think about it from another way, in fact, as early as the tide of World War II,
During the Battle of the Island, when Dailin and Drake were rescued by Tyrion, the king's current tragic experience was already predetermined.
At this moment, in the outer sea of ​​Whispering Port, the fog covering the entire sea almost tightly surrounded the ships leaving the port. The ghost battleships and the ghost sailors summoned by Dai Lin from the dark seabed were moving in a kind of way.
They looked at their prey and looked at the Kul Tiran First and Second Fleets that were surrounded by them.
In this undisguised malice, Admiral Drake clenched the command knife in his hand... He was not afraid of fighting the dead. This brave prince inherited the bravery of Dai Lin's blood, but
For him to command a battleship and have a fierce battle with his father on the sea was beyond all of Drake's nightmare imagination.
That was the person he respected the most in his life. Even when facing him, Drake would feel waves of...awe.
Jaina beside him was not much better. Compared to her brother's more realistic thinking, this only woman in the new generation of the Proudmoore family felt more emotional pain. She looked at the end of the deck of the dark giant ship.
She couldn't help but step forward and said in a sad voice:
"Father...you..."
Before Jaina could finish her words, she was interrupted by Dai Lin. The Death Lord seemed unwilling to say too much about personal feelings. His eyes glanced at Ku, who had formed a battle formation on the sea.
He saw the ships filled with civilians on the dark sea behind him. He didn't even need to use his eyes to feel the despair and pain permeating the sea.
Frankly speaking, this made Dai Lin feel a little bored. He had seen enough of this kind of scene in his life.
"Jaina, I have returned from death. It is really a pleasure to see you again. But unfortunately, on this sea tonight, you have your own mission...and I also have my own mission."
mine."
"Go back!"
The Darkblade Admiral said in a deep voice:
"Burying the meaningless courage in my heart, swallowing the roaring voice back into my throat, I would rather see the end of it all than die fighting for honor... I have seen enough of this world.
Ugly and nonsense, now I am loyal to a new mission and a system in which I see with my own eyes an alternative future."
"Go back! Children of Kul Tiras, accept the dawn of this new era. You will become a member of this new system... You will find the peace you have long dreamed of."
"Go back! Hand over your weapons, and I will protect you as before... Until the dead die on the battlefield, the living will no longer need to take up arms..."
"Go back!"
In Dai Lin's deep voice, the fog all over the sea surged at this moment. The ghost warships following the Sea King Power slowly turned their bows on the foggy sea, and the undead walked silently.
, naval guns covered with dark red icy energy were pushed out from the side strings of these tattered, gray-white battleships covered with seabed barnacles and seaweed.
On the dark and cold sea, the dark muzzles are dotted with deadly light. The silent sea undead are waiting for the ruler's orders. As long as Dai Lin gives an order, these flying undead cannonballs will be completely destroyed.
The resistance of the human fleet in front of us... and some anxious undead have already begun to roar.
"Admiral..."
The first mate of the Queen Anna, Colonel Sanders Valentine, stood behind the silent Drake. He carefully looked at the undead fleet in front of him. He asked in a low voice, as if he was in a desperate situation.
urge.
This urging woke Drake up from the long meeting. When he turned around, he saw the bewildered sailors on the entire deck looking at him.
Many of the Kul Tiran naval soldiers here had followed Daelin in the glorious legend of ruling the endless sea. Their instinct was to make them obey the orders of the dead admiral, but it was a soldier's bounden duty.
It makes them want to get permission from their current commander.
"elder brother..."
Jaina silently squeezed Drake's wrist. She looked worriedly at her brother, the admiral who was about to become the ruler of Kul Tiras. From her father's words, she had heard
There was a trace of uncertainty.
Drake patted his sister's hand. He turned around and showed a pale and reassuring smile to the worried Jaina. The next moment, Drake raised his head and looked at Dai Lin, who was hundreds of meters away.
He took a deep breath and let the cold sea breeze slap on his cheeks. Scenes from the past rotated in front of his eyes. Finally, he shouted loudly:
"Father..."
"This is the last time I call you father...Forgive me, I cannot follow your teachings and throw aside the mission given to me by the Emperor of the Empire so easily."
"Because you taught me that a general should be loyal to the mission rather than personal feelings."
"It was you who taught me that an upright Proudmoore should be loyal to a just and great cause."
"It was also you who taught me...the fleet of Kul Tiras and the captain of every ship, no matter what desperate situation they face, they will never surrender without a fight!"
"Even in the ocean of death, we must use up the last cannonball and kill the last enemy, or..."
"bass"
Drake drew out his command knife and pointed it forward. He closed his eyes and said the last words:
"Or... sink with the ship in endless glory!"
The next moment, with the blessing of Jaina's amplification magic, Drake's voice spread throughout this dead sea area surrounded by the undead. His voice was not loud, but it was full of the momentum of fighting to the end.
"Kul Tiran Fleet! Soldiers of Kul Tiran, I am Derek Proudmoore, and I am your general! Listen to my orders!"
"The enemy is at the front, prepare for battle!"
"Click, click, click, click, click"
The moment they heard the battle instructions, the Kul Tiran sailors who were still standing on the deck almost subconsciously started to move. First, the second fleet had already set up a battle formation. At this time, the sailors quickly moved
Densely packed heavy naval guns pushed out of their muzzles, and in just the blink of an eye, the two fleets turned into fearless warriors wearing armor and holding spears on the sea.
Drake looked at the silent undead fleet in front of him and the figure he called his father. Finally, he squeezed his sister's cold hand, and the command knife in his hand suddenly swung down.
"For...for Kul Tiras! For the Empire! Fire!"
"In the name of Dark Blade! Fire!"
The two father and son issued the order almost at the same moment. At this moment, the naval guns of both sides roared at the same time. The scorching shells and the cold necromancy shells alternated across the silent night sky. The light floating in the dark night,
It also illuminated the eyes of Dai Lin and Derek. Derek saw the smile on his father's skinny cheek, while Dai Lin saw another version of herself in her son.
"You have grown up... This makes me very happy..."
Dai Lin did not say this sentence. He just watched the cannonballs on the Queen Anna hit the deck where he was. The hot shells were struck by this as they approached the King Power of the Sea.
The black chain that jumped up from the deck of the dead battleship hit accurately, like a baseball being knocked away, and flew whizzing into the cold sea water on the other side.
"boom"
In the bright water column blown up by the explosion, the cold shells of the Dark Blade Fleet also hit the battleships of the Kul Tiras First Fleet. Despite the storm shields imposed by the Tide Sages on the battleships, this
The moment the strange death energy came into contact with the battleship, it still froze the battleship and the sea water below.
The soldiers who were within the range of the shell explosion were instantly frozen in the ice. Only the sky above the Queen Anna and two nearby battleships were blessed with a frost-like shield by Jaina's magic wave.
Blocked the incoming artillery fire and shells from the sky.
Several of the undead fleets in the fog were also hit by Kul Tiras' artillery. The scorching-hot shells smashed through the rotten decks, fell under the battleships, and then exploded. The firelight illuminated the sea deep in the fog. Those
The undead on the deck of the ghost ship seemed to have been ignited by the violent explosion. The broken and burning ships were slowly immersed in the water as if they were falling into the deep sea, and sparks could even be seen dancing on the surface of the water.
But these are ghost ships, and they can be repaired in the water, which means that after the naval battle continues for a period of time, they can join the encirclement and suppression of the Kul Tiras fleet.
The Kul Tiras fleet's bombardment slowed down slightly, but the numerical advantage of the Necron fleet and Dai Lin's command made the Mist fleet's Necromancer bombardment seem endless. After less than 10 minutes, Kul
Tiras's two fleets were suppressed by Dai Lin's fleet in terms of firepower. Nearly 15 battleships were completely frozen on the sea surface, and they had lost the power to fight back.
This kind of battle loss ratio can make almost any maritime general feel desperate.
The worst has yet to come. Amidst Admiral Dark Blade's deep laughter, the largest Sea King Power slowly drew an arc on the sea. The gun window on one side opened, and the 32 guns were revealed.
A single firing of the large-caliber artillery and the naval gun pushed by the undead sailors on the deck was enough to compare with the salvos of three battleships. The Sea King Power was modified... Its shells were not frozen mixed with undead energy.
bullets, but cone-shaped bullets loaded with new gunpowder.
The sharp scream of the cone-shaped cannonball flying in the air made Drake's scalp numb. He only had time to push his sister out of the bridge. The next moment, the cone-shaped cannonball penetrated the wooden battleship with full destructive force, and then
The explosion enveloped the entire Queen Anna in bright fireworks.
"Shua"
In the shattered light of the portal, Jaina's sweaty figure appeared on the distant coast. She looked desperately at the Queen Anna that had been shrouded in flames on the distant sea. At this moment, the Archmage fell into the most powerless despair.
middle.
She was born in Kul Tiras, and she knew very well that in a naval battle of this scale, the effect that an archmage could exert was extremely weak, and facing her father, the most powerful man in the history of human civilization,
The naval commander, her brother and those brave warriors could not win.
But this was not a reason for her to do nothing. The Archmage gritted her teeth and tried to open a portal again. She did not want to return to the Queen Anna, but to "jump" directly into her father's King of the Seas.
A caster's surprise attack... it was the last thing she could do now.
And just when Jaina stirred up her magic and was about to open the portal, a hoarse female voice suddenly came into her ears among the rugged water.
"Daughter of the sea...the only one who can help them now is you, but not in this stupid way of sacrificing yourself..."
"Be good... do as my sister says, but my daughter, this is not selfless help. What are you willing to do to save your relatives?"
