Hercules Walk

Chapter 175 The Lich King's Meeting Ceremony

During the night of the fourth day after leaving the mainland, the wind and snow suddenly intensified.The howling wind was blowing so hard that it was hard to even open your eyes.Goose-feather-like snowflakes covered the ships layer by layer, covering them with a layer of snow-white silver frost.

This abnormal phenomenon quickly attracted the attention of the Union soldiers who were on guard at night.Under the inspection of the mage, it was found that these blizzards seemed to be just natural phenomena.

But Bolvar doesn't think so.

"The Lich King knows we're coming."

Thinking about the battle plan until late at night, Grand Duke Bolvar-Fortagen put on a thick woolen cloak.The cloak was covered with a constant temperature spell, allowing him to walk on deck wearing only a shirt.

"Strengthen your vigilance. The soldiers on duty at night will change from two shifts to three shifts. Always be careful of the attacks of the undead!"

"Yes!"

Bolvar's order was quickly conveyed to every ship through the mage, including Brian Bronzebeard, which was specially designed to carry adventurers.

Brian Bronzebeard's ship is not owned by the Alliance, but by the Explorers' Guild.Except for two teams of twelve alliance soldiers, most of the others were team adventurers.

No matter how powerful the strong are, there are times when they get tired, and the number of undead natural disasters is endless.Even casual adventurers who feel that they are strong will form their own groups or join other people's teams at this time, otherwise Brian Bronzebeard will not let him board the ship.

As a veteran of the Explorers' Association, he didn't want to see ignorant adventurers fall under the crowd tactics of the undead Scourge, and even turn their swords against their compatriots after they died.

As a member of the ship, Brian Bronzebeard did not rely on his identity to refuse the night watch, but instead took turns like ordinary adventurers.

Watching the night with him are Wang Dali, Little Rascal, Matt, Erica, Dr. Doom and his newly-acquainted five-person adventure group, the thief lady Abelia who taught Erica, and the paladin who taught Matt Isiah Longbottom.

This Longbottom paladin has a square face with Chinese characters, and his almost 50-year-old face has been weather-beaten.His arms are thick and thick, with thick calluses on his palms, and he is a standard positive person at a glance.Although his reputation is not well-known in the Knights of the Silver Hand, it is still no problem to teach Matt to get started.

In the world of Azeroth, there are no entertainment activities at night, and most people go to bed at ten o'clock.The vigil starts at nine o'clock in the evening, changes every three hours, and ends at six o'clock the next morning.

Tonight, Wang Dali's vigil is from [-]:[-] am to [-]:[-] am.

The snowstorm in the sky is getting bigger and bigger, even the surrounding ships can only see a rough outline.Because the clothes were not buttoned tightly, a cold wind blew in immediately, Brian shivered, and quickly buttoned it up.

"This damn weather is really cold!"

At this temperature, if ordinary soldiers pick up weapons without gloves, their hands will be frostbitten within a minute.Under the cover of this wind and snow, there is even a thin layer of ice on the deck, which is easy to slip.

"Dali, can you really not be cold if you only wear one piece of clothing in this weather?"

Glancing at the thick coat on his body, Brian looked at Wang Dali enviously and said that he was wearing it like a big pumpkin.In this kind of weather where the saliva in his mouth would freeze even when he opened his mouth, the other party was actually only wearing a pair of trousers and a short sleeve.

"I have a special constitution and am not afraid of cold and heat."

Glancing at Brian, who couldn't even walk, Wang Dali smiled, took off the pendant around his neck and handed it to him.

"Try it on."

"what?"

Brian took the pendant from Wang Dali, looked at it twice, and hung it around his neck.From his perspective as a senior explorer, this should be a magic item, but he doesn't know what it does.

But soon, after putting on the pendant, a warm current flowed out from it, quickly spreading all over Brian's body.His icy body was like soaking in a hot spring, making Brian sigh extremely refreshingly.

"Oh, this thing is simply an artifact now!"

While talking, he took off his thick coat in threes and fives, packed it and stuffed it into his space package.

Night watch is boring, especially in this bad snowstorm.However, Little Naughty took advantage of this opportunity and simply dragged Wang Dali together to build a snowman on the deck.

Brian was also interested in it.Relying on the magic pendant given by Wang Dali, he stood motionless on the deck.The frantic wind and snow soon covered his body with a layer of hoarfrost, and the ice and snow covered this whimsical dwarf bit by bit.

Three hours later, the vigil ended, and most people on the fleet woke up from their sleep and went to the deck to breathe.Alliance leaders around quickly saw a lifelike ice sculpture of Brian Bronzebeard standing on the deck.

However, they soon discovered something was wrong, and all of them had strange expressions on their faces, shaking their heads and returning to their posts.

At this time, Brian didn't know which talent tree was lit up, but he just fell asleep standing in the ice.

……

In this kind of blizzard weather, the worst thing is not the soldiers who have to be fully armed and patrolling back and forth on the ship, but the watchmen who need to squat on the watchtower to observe the surroundings.

Slightly better than the soldiers, because of the weather, the watchman was allowed to light a small brazier on the watchtower, otherwise it would not take long to freeze.

Curtis is such an unlucky lookout.While cursing the damned Lich King secretly, he put a pot of water on his small brazier, intending to heat it up in a while, and then he had breakfast with the hard black bread in his arms that could be used as a stick.

He raised his head and looked around, and found that there was something faintly visible in the snowstorm.Strangely, he picked up the monocular telescope on the side and put it on his right eye.

"Birds? No, birds can't fly in this weather. That's... a gargoyle!"

Curtis turned pale with fright, put down the binoculars in his hand and quickly turned on the magic props beside him.

"Enemy attack!!!"

Boom!Boom boom boom boom!

The opened one-time magic prop made a loud noise, which quickly spread throughout the ship.The well-trained soldiers on the ship reacted quickly, picked up their weapons and rushed to the deck.

Above the sky, groups of gargoyles quickly appeared in their sight.

Seeing what the gargoyles were holding at their feet, the ranger-general and the high elf Vereesa were shocked and angry.

"It's a plague barrel!"

She bent her bow and set her arrows, and released three arrows at once.After aiming quickly, General Ranger let go of his hand, and the three arrows shot across the sky like meteors, hit their target, and smashed the three gargoyles in midair.

"Long-range attack! Target gargoyles, don't let them throw those plague barrels on the coalition ship!"

(End of this chapter)