Azeroth’s Death Track

The Assault on the Archbishop incident in Shimmering Plains quickly spread throughout the empire.

On the one hand, it was because of the special status of the Archbishop of Chaldea. He was one of the three kingship representatives of the Stormwind Kingdom. If any misfortune happened to Chaldea, it would directly lead to chaos in the Stormwind Kingdom, one of the four pillars of the empire. , because of the identity of the attacker.

Although there were speculations about the Dark Blade Assassin among the people, and the words were well-spoken, the materials before the leaders, as well as the lifelike magic images, all faithfully pointed out the identity of the real attacker .

A bug... a mutated bug that has never been seen in other parts of Azeroth.

In New Stormwind City, SI:7, Dalaran, and the priests of the Church of the Holy Light have begun to jointly dissect the giant worm killed by the Archbishop himself, in order to get more clues. On the other hand, in the League of Assassins With the help, the center of the empire, that is, the king's council, obtained the source information of the giant worm within 3 hours after the attack.

In fact, the bug never concealed its provenance.

It comes from the large worm nest in the southernmost part of the Tanaris Desert. Of course, it may have rushed out of the Silithus Desert. It's hard to judge now, because according to the investigation team collected by the Assassin Alliance on the edge of the Tanaris Desert According to the information I have received, this is just a very ordinary high-level winged insect among those weird insect swarms.

Returning from injury, the Assassin Master Jorach Ravenholdt, whose face was still pale, distributed the information in his hands to every representative in front of him. This was a meeting held at the White Tower Port, and the kings were too busy with their own affairs to Arrived, but they all sent their most trusted subordinates as envoys.

Your Excellency Duke, you mean that the Shining Plain, including the territory of the empire, does not have such... um, winged insects infested?

King Galin's envoy, royal spy Hui Yuep frowned at the pitifully little information in his hands, while looking at his colleagues, he asked suspiciously:

And, the expedition team in Tanaris? The Kingdom of Stormgard doesn't seem to have received any news about the expedition team.

Nor do we.

The representative of the Kingdom of Lordaeron, Lord Wilton Barov nodded to Gray Yop, and also turned his attention to the Grand Assassin in front of him.

This lord is the eldest son of the old aristocratic Earl Barov who became famous for his service in escorting the people in the Battle of Northern Border. Alsace felt the old earl's contribution to the empire, and invited the old earl to participate in the affairs of the kingdom several times. , but they were all declined by the old earl. He said he wanted to take a break, but at the king's kind invitation, he still sent his two sons to serve the king of Alsace.

But I don't know if it's an illusion, Grandmaster Jorach Ravenholdt always feels that the handsome and elegant Lord in front of him seems to be hiding some secrets.

But now is not the time to talk about this.

Facing the misgivings of the representatives, Chorazi shrugged and said to them:

The expedition team is in the name announced to the outside world. It is one of our elite scouts who actually went to the Tanaris Great Desert. The reason why they appeared there is very simple, because some time ago, we were at war with the Steam Sand Consortium. Kings and generals are plotting raids on goblin cities, and we... we have to gather enough information for the war.

The master assassin put on a grim face and said to the delegates:

That's all I can say, if you don't know, you shouldn't know... Well, gentlemen and ladies, let's turn our attention to what really matters.

The meaning hidden in Qiao Laqi's words is very simple...the representatives are not high enough, and they should not explore these secrets. It has to be said that in a place like the Empire where the upper and lower ranks are extremely prominent, this is simply a universal reason.

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Under the direction of the Assassin Grandmaster, a rough map of the southern border of Kalimdor was hung on the wall of the conference room. Qiao Lazi picked up the drawing pen and drew the two most southern regions of southern border representing the desert. Circled, then pointed to the place and said to the delegates:

These bugs...they are not beasts. When you report back to your respective kings, remember to tell this. These bugs are highly intelligent. I can't judge whether they are a special civilization, but I can Certainly, there is a high degree of social behavior within these bugs.

Um...

The representatives straightened their bodies one by one. Obviously, what Qiao Laqi said made them very interested.

The base camp of the bugs is in the Silithus desert, which I have seen, and it may be one of the largest deserts in the entire Azeroth. Our scouts did not go too deep into this vast desert. The desert, but only on the outskirts of the desert, we saw objects resembling insect nests, and the number of these insects was almost as large as their reduced compatriots...

In addition, the insect nest at the southern end of the Tanaris Great Desert is very similar to a partial division of the Silithus swarm, a vanguard or a scout... I personally tend to guess the second...

The Assassin Grandmaster turned his head, put his hands on the table, and said to the representatives in front of him:

These bugs are extremely aggressive, and I don't really believe they crossed two deserts just to reproduce... Obviously, the bugs are spying on the civilized world, and I have every reason to believe that if we hadn't come, maybe a few Years, or ten years from now, the goblins and trolls in the Tanaris desert will suffer.

anything else?

Lord Wilton rested his chin on his fingers, looked at Joe Lacy, and asked:

Is that all we know about bugs?

New information has to wait for the completion of the dissection of the Stormwind Kingdom.

The Grand Master Assassin didn't hide anything, he spread his hands:

The southern desert was not the focus of our attention before. To be honest, after the archbishop was attacked, I was able to find so much information that was beyond my expectations. However, I have urgently dispatched a scout team disguised as a merchant to go to Tanaris gathers information... let's hope they don't get targeted by Darkblade's lunatics.

As he spoke, Grandmaster stretched out his fingers and rubbed his forehead. The recent retaliation operation launched by the Dark Blade Intelligence Agency caused heavy losses to the Assassin Alliance. Lacy can bear the current loss.

It is not that the imperial spies have never tried to fight back, but no matter whether it is on the side of the Federation or in the mainland of the empire, the counterattacks launched by the spies are all counted, and the success rate is even less than 30%.

That is to say, even if Qiao Laqi is reluctant, he has to admit that the level of federal agents is higher than that of imperial agents... and he is in a trance from the action patterns of those federal agents and the power they use. Suddenly, he remembered a story that was regarded as a legend in the League of Assassins.

It is said that in Kalimdor, in the mysterious night elf society, hides some of the most fearsome shadow assassins, they have existed almost as long as the elves' history, and in thousands of years, only the luckiest ones , to accidentally find traces of these shadow assassins, but no one has ever seen them.

Watchers... the shadows closest to the source of shadows in the history of all assassins...

Qiao Laqi stepped out of the conference room with a briefcase in hand. The middle-aged master assassin raised his head, looked at the mural on the wall in front of him, and muttered to himself:

Do you really exist? Or, is that just a, boring...legend?

Your Excellency Qiao Razi!

At the moment when the assassin master was wandering in the sky, a call woke him up from his daze. He looked back and saw a young man wearing a priest's robe waving at him and walking quickly towards him more than ten meters away.

Your Excellency Jorazzi, the night elves have just sent envoys...representatives from various countries invite you to go to meeting room 14 as quickly as possible!

Um?

The Assassin Grandmaster raised his brows:

The night elves sent an envoy, what does it have to do with me?

The young priest replied:

It is said that the night elves came here for the attack on the archbishop. They said that they have complete information about those bugs, and they think we may need...

Before the pastor finished speaking, Qiao Laqi's figure shook for a while, and disappeared in front of him like magic. For a master assassin like Qiao Laqi, visual deception was just a part of his rapid jump in the shadows. a side effect.

Assassins fight using the power of the shadows, the most powerful of them being able to leap silently to and fro anywhere covered by shadows, which is more powerful than the wizards' Blink spell.

But at the moment when Qiao Laqi rushed into the No. 14 meeting hall with the shadow step, and at the moment he escaped from the shadow, a whistling thorn knife wheel suddenly stopped in the air, with a kind of breeze blowing on the face With the same effect, it was quietly attached to the neck of the assassin grandmaster without a trace of trembling.

To others, it looked as if Jorach had sent his own neck to the weapon of the strange elf in green armor and owl helmet.

warder!

The feeling of being suppressed in an instant is terrible. After Qiao Laqi became the master assassin, how long has it been since he was completely suppressed like this? But after seeing the figure holding the knife wheel and the legendary owl helmet, the Grand Master Assassin immediately narrowed his eyes, and his figure disappeared under the watchman's knife wheel in an instant. Appeared in another place, and then raised his left hand.

I, without malice, actually...

Qiao Lacy looked back at the representatives behind him, he shrugged:

I'm invited.

He looked at the silent watcher in front of him, and he could feel that the night elf in front of him should not be his opponent when fighting alone, but the watcher's rumored extreme affinity for shadows, in the stealth detection just now The performance under Measurement is incisively and vividly.

Okay, Merlene.

Another voice stopped the little unhappiness between the watchman and Grandmaster Choraz. It was a gentle woman's voice. When she spoke, everyone in the conference room turned their attention to her.

It was a female druid in plain robes without any decorations. She had purple skin unique to night elves, tall and tall, with long smooth hair braided and hanging on her shoulders, looking very gentle. It has a feminine beauty unique to night elf women, and on her forehead is a symbol of a high-level druid leaf, which indicates that this is a powerful druid from the Cenarion Council.

Under the gaze of everyone, she stood up and introduced herself in a graceful manner:

My name is Moyana...Moyana Staghelmet. I have obtained the permission of the kings for my visit, and I have come here to take the information about the Qiraji that the Cenarion Council has mastered. I share all the secrets of people with you...

Before Moana could finish speaking, Jorach Ravenholdt asked in a slightly rude voice with the rationality a spy should have:

Why? I don't doubt the goodwill of the night elves, but I think that such confidential information is very important in any organization, so before we accept this help, I want to ask...

The Grand Master Assassin waved his hands behind his back to signal the representatives of various countries to calm down. He looked at Moyana and said word by word:

What do we, the Human Empire, have to pay for this precious information?

Humans, put away your little thoughts!

Myana didn't answer, but the silent watchman standing beside her said in a cold and hoarse voice:

The attack on your archbishop has been known by the Cenarion Council, because if we want to share the information we have with you, the Arch Druid of the Staghelmet even held a meeting of the Arch Druid temporarily... and we So the reason for rushing here is also very simple, Kadorei is not rare to threaten you with anything, but because you still don't know what kind of opponent you are fighting against.

You don't even know what the word Qiraji means...Humans, with all due respect, you need all support from all over the world now, otherwise...break through the barriers of Cenarion Fortress in the monstrous sea of ​​insects Afterwards, your walls, your cities, your kingdoms, and your civilizations will all be crushed in a hopeless war!

The words of the watchman named Mai Lin were very blunt, making the faces of several representatives a little ugly, but Qiao Lacy's expression was very calm, he turned his head and said something to the representatives, After a while, Qiao Laqi turned around and said to Myana and Mai Lin:

I believe Kaldorei's warning, but if things are really so bad, then I think our kings need to come here in person to share the information you have brought, so... please wait a moment moment.

You guys are just wasting your time...

The watcher Mai Lin said disdainfully: In front of the Qiraji, your blood, title, everything is meaningless.

Okay, Merlene.

The high-ranking druid Myana waved her hand to stop her companion's ridicule, and she smiled gently at the humans in front of her:

That's fine, the kings gathered here represent the importance you attach to this matter, which is very good... because you really should attach importance to it, human friends, I... I have personally experienced a thousand years of The battle of the quicksand... I experienced that horrible despair, and I still can't get over it to this day.

There was a trace of sadness in Myana's eyes, she said softly:

The Qiraji have already set their sights on your civilization, humans. Although I don't know why they launched an attack at this moment, but... the appearance of high-level winged insects already means that they are going to start a war.

Are you... are you really ready?