Shadow Trails in Azeroth

"Leader, the elders of the walrus people in Kamagu refused our persuasion to surrender. They fed the envoys we sent to the walruses and threatened to fight us to the end."

In the "Pirate Castle" of Rogue Port, a pirate captain wearing a black turban and blue smock is reporting bad news to his leader.

It can be seen that the captain who brought back bad news will be very scared.

He stood there, holding his pirate hat in his hand and lowering his head, not daring to look at the leader sitting in front of him who was having lunch, let alone make eye contact with him.

He was afraid that the leader would suddenly go crazy and give him a knife.

This fucking thing has happened more than once in the past two months.

Ever since they, under the leadership of their leader, expelled Anne Bonn, the second-in-command of the North Sea pirates, their leader has become increasingly moody and unpredictable.

People used to call him "Mad Dog", perhaps just to describe his ruthlessness in raiding.

But what the leader is doing now is really like he is interpreting the meaning of his title. Jonah Sterling, the master of Scoundrel Harbor and leader of the North Sea pirates, is transforming himself into a madman to make himself worthy of the title "Mad Dog."

During the unbearable wait of pirate captain "Matchleg" Dan, Mad Dog Jonah finally finished his lunch.

He didn't seem to have a good appetite today, and there was a lot of bright red meat left on the plate. As if he didn't want to waste it, he threw the plate out, and the meat in it rolled down to the edge of the hall of the "castle".

In the deep roar of the beast, the white giant bear tied there by the iron chain smelled the smell of fresh meat, and woke up from his deep sleep, moved his huge body to get up, and began to devour the fresh meat in front of him.

Pirate Captain Dan, who was standing there, glanced back furtively.

He saw what was being devoured by Jonah's pet, a walrus heart, accompanied by fresh liver.

The bear bit into the fresh meat, and blood burst out from the cutting of the sharp teeth, making the pirate captain almost vomit.

This thing has not been steamed or cooked at all! And the leader in front of him was eating this raw meat just now, and he was still eating it with gusto? Is there something wrong with him?

Well, it seems the rumors among the other captains on the island who got drunk are true.

Their leader, Jonah Sterling, is really mentally disturbed.

It is said that a few days ago, Jonah suddenly went crazy, roared and rushed into the prison on the island, hacked to death more than a dozen prisoners with his own hands, and then tried to taste the human heart.

As a result, I was persuaded by the people around me.

Many pirates thought it was a joke that Jonah used to intimidate his own people and spread his bad reputation. Many old pirates would use similar methods to increase their "majesty" and make others afraid of them.

But now it seems that Jonah's words about wanting to taste people's hearts are not a joke.

The emergence of this thought made the captain in blue even more frightened. He even felt the urge to urinate. Damn it, I shouldn't have drank that bottle of rum just now.

"Dan, you are the captain I value most."

Just when the pirate captain "Match Leg" Dan was thinking wildly, a hoarse voice from the front suddenly woke him up.

Dan quickly lowered his head and listened to the leader's words.

In front of him, "Mad Dog" Jonah Sterling was sitting on an ancient, wooden Vrykul-style throne. In front of him was a human aristocratic-style dining table, decorated with beautiful tablecloths. , but now it is stained with blood and looks disfigured.

This was the loot they got back when they plundered the Gilnean colony in Grizzly Hills half a month ago.

Captain Dan, who was loyal to Jonah, moved here himself.

Jonah, who had a cold expression on his face, was playing with a dark bone dagger. He sat there leaning and said in a deliberately hoarse tone:

"I have always trusted you. I put all the old sailors in Scoundrel Harbor at your disposal. I gave you six ships! I gave you everything you need, and I only have one request.

I want you to kill all those damn walrus people! Bringing them back as slaves, you can't even do such a simple thing? "

"boom"

The dagger in his hand plunged into the dining table, and his calm tone became violent, as if he felt that this action was not enough to express his inner anger.

The next second, Jonah stood up and kicked over the table in front of him.

The distance was so close that when the table turned over, Captain Dan had no way or dare to hide. He could only let the table hit him.

The dagger stuck on the table flew out and grazed Dan's cheek, leaving another scar on his dirty face.

pain.

The dagger grazed and cut deep, causing blood to flow from Pirate Dan's cheek.

He didn't dare to wipe it for fear of irritating the crazy Yona again, but after waiting for several seconds and no more words from Yona, Dan quietly raised his head and glanced at Yona.

He found that the other party was staring at his face.

To be precise, when he was staring at the blood flowing from the wound on his face, what was even more terrifying was that Jonah's throat was still moving up and down, as if he had seen something delicious.

Dan was shocked by this discovery. He quickly reached out and wiped the blood from his face and said loudly:

“Chief, it’s not that we don’t work hard, those walrus people are difficult to deal with. They have summoned many walrus tribes in Northrend to help.

Now there are many walrus people on Kamagu Island.

Our previous raids on the Vrykul also aroused the dissatisfaction of the group of dragon-raiding Vrykul in Wagard. They sent the Ancestral Dragon Knight to help the Walrus people attack us.

We've sunk a ship, a lot of good lads have"

"I don't want to hear this!"

Jonah had no intention of listening to his subordinate's excuse.

The pirate leader, who was wearing a blood-red pirate coat, with a rapier hanging on his waist and a brass telescope hanging on his chest, waved his hands and shouted stubbornly:

"I only want the obedience of those damn walrus men! I want them to become my slaves and then plunder those damn Vrykul. Only in this way can I have enough warriors to arm my fleet.

Only in this way can we leave this ghost place of Northrend and fight back to the Eastern Continent.

We must go back.

That's what she asked for!

We must go back to the sea, and we must find the guy named 'Blake Shaw'! We must kill him, we must defeat him, and only in this way can I gain her favor.

Only then can I become the real Pirate King! "

The first half of the sentence was still yelling at Dan, but the second half turned into talking to himself.

Under the pirate's twitching gaze, "Mad Dog" Jonah, who had shown his ferocious look just now, was like a child learning to talk, repeating the name "Black Shaw" over and over again.

Although Jonah and the entire North Sea pirates had almost never heard of who the guy named Black was.

But judging from the performance of Jonah in front of him, this old pirate who was once cunning and vicious, fearing his enemies and even his own people, has regarded the unknown Black Shaw as his biggest enemy in life.

As for who is the "she" in Jonah's crazy words?

"Match Legs" Dan didn't know and didn't dare to ask.

Don't even want to think about it.

As far as he knew, after Jonah launched a pirate civil war and almost wiped out Anne Bonn and her forces, his leader locked himself in the house every night for the past two months.

Some pirates said that they heard the roar of their leader, and that he seemed to be talking to a mysterious man every night.

Jonah might be cursed if he looks like this now.

It was most likely that more than two months ago, when I went to "treasure hunt" in the ancient cemetery of the local Vrykul people, I came into contact with something that I shouldn't have touched.

He might even have been possessed by something evil.

What existed under this body was no longer the shrewd old pirate that Match-Legg Dan once served. Thinking of this, Dan couldn't help but feel a wave of fear from the bottom of his heart again.

Although in the past two months, under the leadership of Jonah, they attacked everywhere and were invincible, beating the walrus people on Kamagu Island in the north to the ground.

He also caused massacre in the vrykul village of Howling Bay.

They also went deep into the human colonies in the Grizzly Hills and plundered them. They captured many slaves and locked them up on the island. Even the ferocious Drakkari trolls plundered several villages.

Now is the time when the North Sea pirates are at their most majestic.

Which of the maritime forces in Northrend is not afraid of them?

Even a few days ago, the haunting ghost pirate Elres and his ghost ship were given a hard lesson by them when they entered and cruised around Rogue Harbor.

The ghost ship "Sister of Mercy" was just about to be captured by North Sea pirates, and they had even rushed onto the deck of the ghost ship.

Unfortunately, in the end, he was driven down by the ghost captain Alres.

But the more this happened, the uneasiness in Dan's heart became harder to suppress.

He didn't know where Jonah found a large group of gloomy, indifferent, and seemingly abnormal Vrykul to join the North Sea pirates.

I don’t know why the Kvaldir Mist pirates who came ashore from the water at night kept helping them in battles. But as a pirate captain with some brains, Dan had already guessed some of the truth.

His leader, Yona, must have signed some kind of contract with some mysterious thing. In exchange for killing the Black Shaw, whom he had never heard of, he would help Yona and the North Sea pirates fight for dominance in the Endless Sea.

Stories like this have endured for a long time in the pirate community and are considered “classic routines”.

The pirates are always the most superstitious group of people in the world of Azeroth. They firmly believe in this kind of story. While they fear the sea, they also firmly believe that the "evil power" in the story absolutely exists.

Especially the North Sea pirates.

They have seen sea monsters wreaking havoc with their own eyes countless times, and have also seen dead Vrykul people walking out of the sea. Such experiences have made them more superstitious than their counterparts in other sea areas.

In the past period of time, Dan has been leading six pirate ships to attack the walrus gathering place not far from Rogue Harbor. He is not very clear about the specific changes in Jonah.

However, after witnessing Jonah's uncontrollable madness today, Dan, who had been working for Mad Dog for more than ten years, immediately made a decision.

He's going to betray.

For such a crazy leader of the North Sea pirates, it was only a matter of time before he was finished. As an excellent pirate, he would not die here with Jonah.

As for more than ten years of loyalty

LOL.

How could an old pirate like Dan have such a thing?

He rolled his eyes, and after Jonah's soliloquy came to an end, he put on a flattering expression, put his pirate hat on his chest, nodded and bowed and said to his leader:

“You taught me a lesson, chief.

I have let you down. This is so inappropriate. I will go back to Kamagu to supervise the battle. I will defeat the walrus people in the shortest possible time and make them your slaves.

Let them fight for you and hunt down that desperate Black for you.

But I lost a ship

Can I get some more boys from the island and bring a few more boats over from the dock? There are also gunpowder, supplies and so on. I need some too. "

"Go get it yourself."

After hearing the confident and flattering reply from his subordinate, a smile appeared on Jonah's weather-beaten face. Matched with his black and messy beard, this smile looked distorted no matter how hard it looked.

He sat back on his throne, leaned there, and said to Match-Leg Dan:

"The four ships of that useless Conrad are handed over to you, let him take his own people to move with you. But I need some time, my subordinates.

You have to give me a chance to win. "

"Five days! No, three days!"

Captain Match-Legs raised his head, clenched his fists, and said firmly:

"Within three days, I will capture Kamagu for you and make those walrus people your most loyal slaves. I will spread their blood all over the sea and spread your reputation.

In fact, I have always felt that the previous title was not worthy of your current great achievements."

The eloquent pirate hesitated for a moment. He felt that what he was about to say was a bit shameless, but he finally gritted his teeth and said:

"I think everyone in the fleet should call you the 'King of the North Sea'. You conquered the Vrykul and defeated the trolls. You deserve this title!"

"Huh? Why didn't I realize you were so good at talking before?"

Dan's compliment made Mad Dog Yona feel extremely good. He stroked his scattered beard, and a look of satisfaction flashed in his crazy eyes.

He said:

"So be it. Go do it, Dan, and don't let me down again."

The pirate captain bowed respectfully, dragged his left leg with a prosthetic leg, and limped out. When leaving the "Pirate Castle", he carefully avoided the one who had just eaten. A well-drunk white bear.

Then I accidentally saw a bloody human head next to the bear, which must have been its last meal.

This made Dan's eyes tremble.

He recognized the head. It was that of Jonah's favorite mistress.

"The King of the North Sea. Bah! He's more like a madman."

The pirate cursed fiercely in his heart, quickened his pace and left this crowded place.

After Dan left, Jonah Sterling, who stayed alone in the "castle", took out a skull exuding cold air from his pocket.

He placed the skull in front of his eyes and stared at the dark eye sockets. Soon, his eyes became blurred.

It seems that the soul has left the body and gone to another world.

"Ah, Hela, I come to see you, my queen, my love. I will soon fulfill your request, and I will kill for you the ignorant who offend you.

I will prove to you my sincerity

I will become the Pirate King, I am already the King of the North Sea. "

He murmured to himself:

"I am not his substitute. I will prove it to you, ah, everything about me belongs to you."