Chapter 8 Widow Magic Axe, Black Knight Recruitment
The sun shone through the skylight of the attic and sprinkled a golden glow on the bloody floor. This attic bathed like a small church. After anger and resentment, the women who lost their husbands and children were also calmed down. They were kneeling on the ground and snuggling together, praying to their inner faith.
Roxar leaned alone in front of the door, silently thinking about his next plan.
"Xia, what are your plans next?" Hearing this voice, Rochelle raised his head and realized that there was a blonde woman standing in front of her. She had a dignified and beautiful face, not beautiful and charming, but had a kind of firm and strong charm. She was the coma woman imprisoned in the deepest part, named Shael Freden.
According to Rorschach's observation, this person seemed to be the central figure of the family's mistress. He arranged various affairs as soon as he woke up, stabilizing the situation. What impressed Rorschach was that when she was extremely hungry, she still stopped the women around her from eating voraciously, led her companions to clean themselves first, and then she ate slowly and quietly, showing a calm demeanor in her behavior.
At this time, Shar was no longer naked, with a scarred look, wearing a long gray shawl dress, but he could vaguely see the tied snow-white gauze through the thin gauze. She weakly held the crutch, and looked at Rorsch with her sapphire eyes, waiting for an answer.
"Actually, I received the above task and passed by here. I had to go to a camp called 'Valgard'. Mrs. Shar, do you know the location of this place?" Rorschach thought for a while, without hiding his purpose, and asked directly.
"I have never heard of this place." Shaer shook his head and replied in confusion: "But as far as I know, there should be no such thing as 'camp' here. The residents here spontaneously gather in villages or towns, and there is no unified kingdom governance. The security of daily life also relies on local militias. How could there be troops stationed? Are you mistaken?"
"No...it should exist." Rorschach suddenly realized that he made a mistake: the time period of the game he played was more than ten years after the plot of "The Frozen Throne: The Wrath of the Lich King". At that time, Prince Alsace had long fallen, and Northrend, who was originally far away from the mainland, was also divided up by the tribe and alliance. The natives in it either integrated into these two camps or were slaughtered by the Lich King and turned into zombies. However, during this period when nothing happened, most of the residents of Northrend were descendants of fugitives, who were isolated from the world for a long time and had no news. It was impossible for them to know too much information.
"This is because I ask Yu Bing... It seems that I can only continue according to the task prompts of the Book of Reincarnation." Luo Xia was silent for a moment, and saw that the woman was still standing in front of her, looking sad and melancholy. She had some insight and asked out loud:
"Although I have cleaned up all the undead nearby, this is just a resource collection point for natural disasters. I am afraid that if there is no wood to be sent over in a few days, they will react to investigate the situation. What should the wife do?"
"This is exactly what I worry about..." Shahr looked at the other companions who were confused or sobbing, and sighed, "The men and children suffered misfortune, leaving only us, the incompetent women. During the days when we were imprisoned, everyone was actually ready to die in despair. Unexpectedly, they could be rescued in their lifetime."
She paused hesitantly, suddenly looked up at Roxar, and said with hopeful eyes: "Actually... my family is in a remote village in the southwest. It was just because the village wanted to obtain the wood supply from the Freddon family that I got married here. It is located in a remote place and should be in a safe situation. Can you escort us there?"
Seeing Roche remained silent, she gritted her teeth and continued, "If you don't mind, which lady or even a few of them can be devoted to you together. The Frieden family has been logging wood for many years and the assets left behind will be owned by you for free. With your abilities and the support of my family, you can completely gain the status of lord in my village."
"Sorry." Rorschach looked at her, shook his head, and replied coldly, "If you are worried about the undead army along the way, there is no need. As far as I know, the main forces of the natural disaster are distributed in the direction of the town of Heinim. As for the beasts along the way, if I am not wrong, all the beasts within a hundred miles will be killed and filled with skeleton troops, and..."
He looked at Shahr's insanity and suddenly smiled again, "With your strength, as long as you don't encounter the large army of natural disasters, some obstacles along the way are no problem, right?"
In fact, Rorschach felt strange when he opened the cage. Compared to others who only symbolically wore a collar to avoid escaping, this woman's limbs were fixed by iron hoops and could not move. Although there was a mess under her body that was violated, the weakness was obviously caused by long-term hunger. After a little food, she became energetic. This physical fitness and responsiveness made Rorschach feel uneasy.
Moreover, Azeroth's humanities are similar to Europe, and it is not like the patriarchal rules in the Eastern feudal era. After losing its former power, it can still make the companions around him respectfully and intertwined. It is really not explained by the identity of a "miss mother". Therefore, Rorschach carefully used the basic function of the Book of Reincarnation to detect. Although this function can only be used by the indigenous people of the mission world, and can only make inaccurate judgments based on the appearance, behavior, and habits of the body, but still came up with an evaluation of "black iron level median", which shocked him.
You should know that the necromancer who slaughtered this land and occupied the assets of the original owner was just a black iron-level superior. Of course, in addition to his own magic spell, he also had the support of the Scourge Legion, and his subordinates also gave elite ghouls who were not inferior to him. Adding them to the real power, then it would be different.
Although this woman is now weak and helpless, she is essentially a powerful native who can tear tigers and leopards. If she nodded her head silly, she would have to let go of her labors all the way. But if she really got to her territory, once the other party suddenly turned against her, one or two hidden characters such as family elders appeared, let alone the so-called Freden's family fortune, even her own life would be worrying. How could she be a simple refugee who could open up a foundation on this primitive and cold continent?
After hearing Roxa's teasing, the woman's face changed significantly. Finally, she suddenly smiled, showed a glimpse of charming posture under her dignity, and said softly: "Since you have your own affairs, I won't disturb you. But you don't seem to be interested in Freden's property, so why not give me half of it to everyone. And I will give you the precious magic treasure, the heirloom of the Freden clan, to you, how about?"
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"I always feel like I'm at a loss..." Walking in the vast wilderness, Roxa was wrapped in a black gold-edged hood, playing with a rusty iron axe, and whispering to himself.
This wide-blade long axe full of traces of time, with a line of letters engraved on the wooden handle - "Wend Forreden", which is the name of the first head of the logging farm. This worn-out axe is indeed a magic prop called "Blade of Suppression", but whether it can be called "precious", it depends on one's opinion.
Although this two-handed axe is curled and blunt on the outside, the two magic runes inside are intact, namely "Forest Nemesis" and "Second Sharp". The former can use a cutting force field against the tree structure once a day; the latter is passive. Each chopping will conduct a quality check on the item. If the hardness is lower than the judgment and there is no magic protection, it will be directly destroyed.
But this so-called "judgment"... Rorschach tried several times, and unfortunately found that it was probably between blunt iron and cooked steel. It was OK to deal with things like wood or stones, but even if it was encountered with ordinary plate armor or steel-cast weapons, it was useless.
"Simply put... it turns out that it is just a civilian logging tool, which can be used to fight with kitchen knives. No wonder that woman is so generous." Luo Xia didn't mind and casually put the axe in the death pattern and looked ahead.
Under the bright sun, this wide and straight road seemed long and far away. The soil on the road was fluffy and soft. There were a few figures staggering back and forth in the distance. It seemed that some hard-working farmers were busy in the fields, and a crooked wooden sign was erected at the fork in the road ahead.
However, Roxa frowned and stepped slowly over alone. As his steps approached, the soil suddenly made a crisp sound like firecrackers. Several broken skeletons crawled out from the ground and gradually leaned towards him. The few farmer-like figures in the distance also jumped like monkeys when they heard the sound, revealing the torso of the rotten ghoul.
However, after these skeleton corpses approached the ten meters of Rosha, they suddenly stood up in a daze as if they had lost their target. The slightly intelligent zombie ghoul showed a look of fear and slowly retreated backwards, leaving a road for him to pass.
This is the effect of the Curse Cult cloak on Rorschach. The lower-level brainless undead does not have the intelligence to distinguish between me, so each curse cult is attached with a mark of the upper natural disaster to the costumes. The effect is similar to the "Haven of Fear" of the poor version, and has a certain deterrence and dispersion effect on the lower-level undead on this side, so as not to cause a joke of killing one's own people by chance.
Rorschach stopped in front of the fork and looked at the signpost soaked in black blood. After identifying the direction of "Heneme", he thought about it and then used an axe blade to carve a warning in a common language, so as not to avoid the indigenous people who were not aware of the situation and then continue to move forward according to the instructions.
Strictly speaking, he didn't want to move forward to the town that had become a demon cave, but his mission in this world was stuck at this level, and only by going there can we move to the next step.
After he broke through the logging field, the mission of the Book of Reincarnation took a new change.
"Side-level task phase 2 triggered
Name: Purge
Content: Go to the battlefield in front of the 'Henim Town', join the Alsace side's camp, and assist it in clearing out the undead troops in the town.
Reward: Survival points 1000, Alsace's favor."
With Roxa's little strength, even if two corpse girls are added, they will definitely be alive if they recklessly enter the town where heavy troops are hoarded. According to the explanation of the cartilage mage, the permanent troops in this town are 2,500 skeleton soldiers, 600 skeleton mages, four standard 100 zombie elite troops, and... a veteran undead lich.
After this period of adaptation and the information obtained from the necromancer, Rorschach basically understood the division of strength in this world. Although there may be gods like the ancient Titan gods in this plane in ancient times, the power of the mortal world is actually not an exaggeration. Excluding the powerless civilian class, it can be roughly divided into three stages.
Among them, 90% of them are trained human veterans and trainees. In addition to natural disaster forces, they are the basic ghouls and acolytes. Although their physical and martial arts are slightly stronger than ordinary civilians, they also have no supernatural powers. The fighting style is simply close combat with blood. Even the caster can only release some tricks with almost zero lethality at this stage. According to the standard of infinite space, that is, the level of floating up and down of the black iron level.
Going further, there are professions who have mastered supernatural powers, that is, paladins who are familiar with summoning holy lights, mages who master the power of frost flames, and druids of free-transformed beasts, etc., some are similar to the mid-level powers that players play in the game. In fact, most professions of Azeroth stay at this level; as for the top level, it is not something that a small person like Schiller Cohen can know, but Rorschach thinks that they should be legendary heroes or great demons famous on the continent, such as the Great Lich Kelthuzad, Uther The Envoy of Light, and the leader heroes who sing in their respective camps in the game.
"I just don't know if Arthas has reached the third level now? However, according to his terror devil who was teased by the "Merganis" in the Battle of Stantam's massacre, he did not show that he was above his mentor Uther. He should be just a powerful paladin." Rorsch suddenly sighed secretly, and a hint of desire appeared in his heart.
"I really want to gain that kind of power... One person becomes an army, and one against a hundred individual power."
But before he could finish his envy, the ground suddenly started to shake inappropriately. Luo Xia was stunned and quickly dodged to a corner of the roadside, then poked his head out and looked into the distance.
At the end of this road, that is, the direction of the town of Heinim, the more rapid trampling sounds from scratch, and the sound of horse hooves became louder and louder. Suddenly, as if thousands of troops were charging, the entire ground roared like thunder, and dozens of cavalry figures galloped over and over like ink arrows.
"Is it because of the Arthur army?" Rorschach's mind flashed with such an idea, but he rejected the guess the next second. Because as the distance suddenly approached, the two knights leading the team in front showed their scarlet eyes, and their bodies were covered with black heavy armor, and their bodies emitted a cold and solemn smell. At the end of the group of black cavalry, there were several cursed cultists dressed exactly like Rorschach at this time.
"Damn... This is the Death Knight? There are no these guys in Schiller's information... Didn't they build it after Arthas fall? Why did it appear at this time?" Rorschach's heart thumped, and suddenly found that these black cavalry had tied the reins and walked slowly towards him. Only then did he realize that at some point, the blood-red skeleton mark on the cloak he was wearing was flashing with a faint red light.
"Damn... Does the Scourge Legion have a remote positioning function, and I was discovered?" Luo Xia was shocked, but helplessly discovered that he could not escape. After all, he was just a modern high school boy with mediocre physical strength, not a flying man. Moreover, even if it was Liu Xiangbolt, it would be impossible for him to run long distances to be faster than these four-legged cavalry. Luo Xia had to remain motionless and quietly brushed the bag on his waist, ready to take out the corpse girl and fight to the death at any time.
These knights obviously also noticed Rorschach's existence, paused for a moment, and suddenly tied the reins in front of him, showing off his superb riding skills from movement to static, but did not start a sudden attack, but fell silent like rows of iron-cast statues.
After a moment, a knight jumped out of it, and his scarlet eyes were fixed for a moment, and suddenly agitated sounds like iron sheets rubbing in his throat.
"Is it Mr. Schiller Cohen?"
"This question...has this guy never seen him?" Roxia thought so in his heart, and had to answer in a vague tone: "It was me... the task of the logging farm was completed ahead of time, so I simply came here to complete the handover in advance."
"According to the order of Lord Saredin, all natural disasters will go to Heinim Town to participate in defense." The Knight said directly without hearing this.
"Is there anything wrong?" Luo Xia narrowed his eyes, then took a few steps back, and asked as he delayed the time.
"After the order of Lord Sareding, all the natural disaster soldiers went to Heinim Town to participate in the defense."
Defense... In other words, a big battle is taking place in Heinim Town? And who else can force the Scourge to gather troops... besides that person?
Thinking of that answer, Rorschach couldn't help but look up and down at these cold-looking knights, and immediately found that their black armor was cracked, revealing a large piece of black blood-scattered wound. The few black knights behind were even incomplete and could only ride on horseback. However, even so, even under the detection of the Book of Reincarnation, even the worst wounded still had the evaluation of Black Iron as the top black iron. Including the two Knight captains leading the team in front of him, even if he took out the Corpse Girl to fight to the death, facing such a legion-like enemy with more and stronger people, it would be just a charge.
He felt a little moved and suddenly asked a question that was unrelated to the cow and horse.
"Do you have enough supplies?"
"After the orders of Lord Sareding, all natural disasters go to Heinim to participate in the defense" and the same tone and answer as before sounded again.
"This is not the Death Knight! Or at least it is a second-class semi-finished product. It does not have complete intelligence, but it seems to have basic logical Q&A. If you act according to the set program... Then" Rosha's eyes flashed immediately, he thought for a while, and tried to ask again: "What if I refuse?"
This time they did not make a sound, but they just stroked their hands on the long black sword hilt, and their eyes were red, but they stopped abruptly the next moment, because Rorschach's face was still, and he replied calmly:
"Please lead the way, I'll go there now."
"From the injuries of these guys, the town should have encountered a fierce battle... It was so much that the lich had urgently summoned all the crappy apprentices around him..." Rossie, who was following behind, looked gloomy. He never expected to encounter such a bad thing and took a deep breath.
"I can only take one step at a time... I saw if the town could slip away, and... if that guy's notes didn't lie, maybe this would be an opportunity!"
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PS: OK...
By chance, the protagonist was abducted to the Tianshao Coal Mine Group for mining coal... From then on, he began his tragic life in the coal mine.
If this sudden ending, you might be beaten to death?
For the logging axe...well, I just miss the dota years from many years ago.
I bet 50 cents, you don’t know who the metaphor of “Winder Forreden” mentioned above is.
Back then, Xiong was also a professional dragon knight who claimed to be the little prince of the tower stealing...
Chapter completed!