Chapter 62 The Trolls of Stranglethorn
Walking in a tropical rainforest with lush vegetation, you must find the right direction and allocate your physical strength reasonably. This is not an easy task.
Fortunately, Lao Tang’s pure Taurus bloodline brought him an excellent sense of direction. As one of the several races in Azeroth who were born to know how to travel and migrate for a long time, Taurus was born with a biological magnetic field like a pigeon. He always knew where the north was, how to find a way, and even how to allocate his physical strength to deal with the consumption brought by long distances.
If it were Lao Tang's journey, relying on his abundant physical strength to cross the Stranglethorn Valley, it would be more than a week. Even among the Taurens who are good at long journeys and migrating, this would be a proud achievement. But now it is not Lao Tang himself, and there are all kinds of races and professions in the caravan. The caravan that had been trekking for a week in the rainforest has just arrived near the Gula Bus Arena, and it is still half the way to get out of the Stranglethorn Valley and reach the Twilight Forest.
Now after a week of painful trekking, apart from Lao Tang, a perverted guy with an endurance, he still looks energetic and energetic, and the caravan is only left with Tina * Moonlight and Babedo Atale. The dual identities of the former are natural sons and druids, making Tina * Moonlight, the dark night girl, leisurely in the jungle; the latter is a member of the defection from Zul Grab. He has lived here since he was a child, and has long adapted to the jungle life in the Stranglethorn Valley and is walking on flat ground in the jungle.
The rest of the people, not to mention that those weak casters had already suffered a lot in the journey; even those who had developed muscles and strong bodies like the magic destroyer Moragusa Chenguang and the human swordsman Huasi Lev, were beginning to lose their ability to face the extremely muddy and difficult land of the Stranglethorn Valley jungle. Except for some members with mounts to travel, most of the members were exhausted physically and mentally after a week of tossing.
This goblin caravan of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (really Hidden Dragon...) has been walking through the dense jungle for a week, avoiding the blood-topped trolls and skull-slashing trolls who kill each other, driving away some of the occasional poisonous insects and beasts, looking for a path through the jungle to the twilight forest.
Old Tang, who was walking in the front of the caravan, took out a scroll of maps from his waist provided by the boss of a profiteer, and carefully proofreaded them. The map in Old Tang's hand was similar to what he saw in the game in his previous life, but the game finally shrunk for the convenience of the players. The real Stranglethorn Valley is very huge. It is completely impossible to fly over it in just a few minutes. It takes even more time to travel to the entire dense tropical rainforest by foot.
Along the way, the ecological richness of the rainforest exceeded Lao Tang's imagination. Although there were many species in the game, due to the area of the map and the number of models designed in the game, and the gap in details, Stranglethorn Valley is just a place with about a dozen species of creatures. In the real Azeroth, the expression environment here is well preserved and the biological chain is extremely rich.
In addition to the common large beasts such as "gorillas, black panthers, tigers, crocodiles and velociraptors" that are patrolling and hunting in the jungle rivers, there are many other creatures in the jungle, such as rabbits, squirrels, and venomous snakes; insects that are difficult to detect with the naked eye; fish swimming in the river and birds in the sky; Lao Tang even found himself seeing a swamp crawler, but it just flashed by.
"Sushi" A slight sound came from the bushes not far ahead of Lao Tang, and the dense grass in the jungle showed signs of bent after being trampled by creatures. Lao Tang, who was walking at the front of the team, squatted down suddenly, clenched his fist with his right hand and raised it to his teammates behind him to warn him. Everyone behind saw Lao Tang's warning movements, and they all stopped their work, one by one, took out their weapons and prepared them for the battle. The anxious dwarf hunter Karu* copper iron even installed flares for his beloved dwarf musket, and was about to lift the barrel to aim at the sky ahead and fired it out.
Just as everyone was ready to go, this unknown creature who was approaching quietly appeared on his own. The brown-haired human stalker girl Erica Patrick appeared in front of everyone in a little embarrassed manner, and pulled it off from the leather-armored skirt and said dissatisfiedly because of the dead branches and leaves left behind when walking through the jungle:
"I hate sneaking in the jungle the most. I can't completely cover up the traces. Every time I find it, I'll make people so embarrassed! Should we change the scout!"
Everyone saw that the thief girl who had been sent out to fight for the team before, and the nervous atmosphere of fighting just now swept away. But before everyone could put their hearts back in their stomachs, the next sentence of the thief made everyone's hearts feel aroused again.
"Well, there are two piles of stinky trolls killing each other five hundred meters ahead. There are about hundreds of people on both sides, and their strength is above the fifth level..."
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Stranglethorn Valley seems to be the only area in Azeroth that was not touched by that earth-shaking war and the big explosion. As the earliest inhabitants of this land, the trolls established a majestic ancient troll civilization - the Gula Bash civilization in this jungle. Here the trolls built magnificent cities and strongholds, and the Gula Bash Arena and Zur Grab, the capital of the troll Gula Bash Empire, are among them.
More than 16,000 years ago (long before the elves foolishly brought the Burning Legion), the trolls ruled most of Azeroth (the only continent at that time), where there were two twin troll empires - the Gula Bash Empire in the southeast jungle and the Amani Empire in the central forest. In the far north, smaller tribes lived (the land is now known as Northrend), which established a small country called Gudak, but could not be compared with the size and prosperity of the Southern Empire.
There was no friendship between the two empires, but war rarely broke out. At that time, their biggest common enemy was the third empire, the Anqira civilization of insects. Anqira, who ruled the far west, was a wise insect-shaped creature. These intelligent insect-shaped creatures were very eager to expand their territory and were very evil. Anqira was committed to eliminating all non-insect creatures on Azeroth.
The trolls fought for thousands of years, but never won a true victory against Amquira. In the end, under the tenacious will of the troll, the Kingdom of Amquira was split in half, and its inhabitants fled to the insect caves in the north and south. As insect creatures were exiled, the two troll empires returned to their former lives. Although they won, neither empires expanded their territory much on their original basis. However, the ancient book mentioned that a small faction of trolls broke away from the Amani Empire and discovered their own colonies in the center of the Dark Continent.
There, these brave pioneers discovered the Well of Eternity and transformed them into creatures with powerful power. Some legends mention that these brave adventure trolls were the earliest night elves, although this hypothesis has never been proven.
In addition to their secret origins, it is well known that the night elves quickly became powerful after discovering the Well of Eternity. Although the trolls tried to prevent them from expanding their territory, the night elves still established a powerful empire on Kalimdor and quickly expanded their power to the original Kalimdor. Using powerful magic that superstitious trolls had never imagined, the elves did what the evil and cruel Anqira Zerg could not do: subverted the two most powerful empires in the world at that time.
The elves systematically destroyed the troll's defense and supply chains. The trolls could not resist the elves' destructive magic and surrendered under the fierce attacks of the elves. The war completely proved that the elves were as resourceful and easy to kill at some point as the barbaric trolls - resulting in the latter being always full of hatred and hatred for the elves. The Gurabash and the Amani Empire completely collapsed in just a few years.
In the end, the night elves were burned by the mysterious flame they had managed to control. They abused magic without any consequences and attracted the demon-burning legion to the world. These devils destroyed most of the elves' civilized society. At the end of this terrifying war, the ancient war, the Well of Eternity exploded. The oscillation waves generated by the explosion shattered the continent of Azeroth. The center of the continent was blown into the bottom of the sea, leaving only some broken and scattered land.
The bloodthirsty and cruel frost trolls in the troll kingdom were exiled by the most civilized and civilized trolls among the trolls, and the purest and oldest trolls, Zandala tribes. They lived in Northrend and Danmoro, and were the mortal enemies of the dwarves. The sand-fury trolls settled in Tanaris after the disaster of the Big Bang, and their skin color was changed by the strong sunshine. They built a city called Zulfarak and believed in a demigod named Gazra.
The indomitable trolls of the two troll empires have also begun to rebuild their ravaged cities and have begun to revive their past powerful forces
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Centuries after the Great Schizophrenia were very difficult for the trolls living in the Stranglethorn Valley. Famine and horror were just common for the broken kingdom. The desperate Gurabash trolls seek help from the mysterious ancient power. Although the two troll kingdoms enshrined the common ancient animal gods, Gurabash's fall was dominated by the darkest gods.
The despicable and bloodthirsty god, the despicable god, heard the call of the trolls and decided to help them. Haka gave his blood mystery to Gula Bash and helped them expand their territory to most of the Stranglethorn Valley and some archipelagos in the South China Sea. Although he brought them great power, the greedy evil god Haka hoped to receive more and more rewards.
This cruel God demanded that he sacrificed his soul every day. He dreamed of coming to the material plane in this way so that he could suck the blood of all living beings. Gula Bash slowly realized the face of this god they had been diligent, and thus became hostile to it. The strong tribal uprising resisted Haka and his faithful priests, Atale.
The terrifying war between the followers of Haka and the remaining Gulabashi tribes was only circulated in the whispers of the surviving trolls. The empire that had just begun to revitalize was shattered by the magic released by the angry gods and his rebellious people. Just when the battle seemed to have no hope, the trolls destroyed Haka's incarnation and exiled them from the material plane. Even the priests of the Atale tribe were eventually driven away from the capital Zurglab, forcing them to survive in the northern swamps that were not marked on the map, the dusty swamp area. In these dark swamps, they built a great temple for the fallen gods, the Temple of Atahaka, and continued to work there for their masters...
The Gula Bash Empire, who survived the Civil War, gathered trolls on different paths in their homeland that had become ruins. The Skull Tribe, the Blood Top Tribe and the Dark Spear Tribe began to set off to reclaim their large jungle territory in the Stranglethorn Valley. As the Dark Spear Tribe suffered a tragic defeat in this competition and was exiled to the broken Kalimdor, on the land that carried the most glorious history of the trolls, the remaining two powerful troll tribes, the Skull Tribe and the Blood Top Tribe, are still fighting for the space for survival and the dominance of the Stranglethorn Valley, to fight for each other's blades, until now.
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During the week when the goblin caravan traveled through the rain forest, they had encountered troll patrols of different tribes many times, but most of them were just a small team of more than a dozen people. Although these trolls had good skills, coupled with their cruelty and extraordinary self-healing ability, they could be called a force with great combat power. However, a team of just a dozen people could not cause any turmoil in front of Lao Tang’s guards, and would be destroyed in an instant.
But now when I heard the reconnaissance report of the human stalker girl Erica Patrick, even the brave old Tang was a little troubled. The more than 200 trolls with strength above the fifth level are not comparable to those of a dozen patrol teams before. Nearly twenty times the number of people in the caravan guards can easily encircle and join the members of the guards. There are many ants bite to death, and no matter how powerful they are on the battlefield, they dare not boast that Haikou is 100% guaranteed to be completely safe. Maybe a flying axe and a gun that accidentally flew from somewhere can kill you.
Although Lao Tang, who fought with the bloody racial war with the centaurs, had long been used to fighting tough battles, he had never encountered any battles with huge numbers. However, those who fought with him at that time were all strong and brave, and powerful men with many battles. Not to mention the outstanding individual combat ability of the Taurus, the tacit cooperation he had trained over the years of battles and over the years was not comparable to those of these current escort companions.
Once a battle occurs, Lao Tang cannot guarantee that those guys with their own plans can do their best, and will not expect the remaining team members to think of themselves as relaxed and happy. If they do not neglect, the caravan members will face the first battle reduction.
Although they only spent a short week together, most of the members of the guard team began to get familiar with each other. Lao Tang also met a few partners in the caravan. Now facing such a situation, Lao Tang didn't want these team members to sleep here forever or simply became trolls' supper because of negligence or decision-making mistakes.
Lao Tang turned around and discussed briefly with the members of the guard team, and everyone's opinions were roughly similar - bypassing these trolls who were fighting fiercely and choosing another way to continue the caravan's journey. After all, it's better to have less than more things. Even the two high elves in the team who had the blood feud of the trolls in the team did not clamor to participate in the battle frantically, but readily agreed to Lao Tang's proposal to choose another path. The performance of the magic destroyer Moragusa Chenguang this time deepened Lao Tang's doubts about him again.
In any case, the proposal of the caravan to bypass the battlefield and choose another path was finally passed unanimously. The distance of 500 meters was not far, so the caravan began to carefully lower his voice and slowly detour. With the cover of the dense jungle, the caravan walked cautiously for a while and passed by nearly a hundred meters away from the two trolls. If nothing unexpected happened, the caravan should have walked this section safely without disturbing both sides of the battle.
But what makes people feel helpless is that life is always full of surprises, and plans never change quickly!
Old Tang had calculated it or neglected his team, and there was a paranoid idiot with a "wild boar head"! And because of his idiotic behavior, the caravan members had to fall into danger. It was exactly the same old saying:
"I'm not afraid of opponents like gods, but I'm afraid of teammates like pigs!"
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5000 words
Too much~~~The trolls earlier were actually really nb~~~The two troll empires at that time were really strong!
Chapter completed!