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Chapter 1258 Arashi (I mean the meat dumplings are salty and not tasty)

To be honest, Nanhai Town has been having a hard time during this period. This did not start when Duanmu Huai and others arrived on this planet, but Nanhai Town was already a little stretched before that.

As can be seen from the map, to reach the Alliance's territory from here, one needs to pass through the Arathi Highlands, then go to the wetlands through the Thandor Bridge, and then reach Dun Morogh or Theramore through the Menethil Harbor.

But the problem is that not long ago, the Thandor Bridge was blown up by the Dark Iron Dwarves, and the Arathi Highlands was blocked by the Horde. As a result, the town of Nanhai was trapped in the Hillsbrad Foothills.

Nanhai Town actually thought about breaking through the blockade of Arathi Highlands again and repairing the Sador Bridge. However, they were also attacked by the Forsaken. The farms that were originally responsible for supplying food were destroyed, the Jasper Mine that produced iron ore was also seized by the Forsaken, and even the former mayor of Nanhai Town was assassinated.

  Mayor Maleb originally planned to ask for help from the dwarf stronghold of Dungalor located at the junction of Hillsbrad Foothills and Arathi Highlands. However, when he sent people over to take a look, he found that Dungalor had also been massacred by the Horde!

Now Nanhai Town is completely in trouble.

  Although there is a pier in Nanhai Town, there are only a few fishing boats here. What's more terrible is that there are no tribes on the sea, but there are Nagas on the sea! If you dare to go out to sea, your fishing boat will be sunk in minutes!

Southshore is currently under attack from all sides. If the Inquisition had not purified the Undercity and scared away the undead in Tarren Mill, Southshore would have completely surrendered to the Forsaken's salami-slicing tactics.

However, good fortune never comes alone and misfortune never comes singly. Before Nanhai Town could be happy for a few days, another undead summoned a group of skeleton soldiers to attack.

Although they defeated this group of undead with the help of Duanmu Huai, Nanhai Town also paid a huge price. Their griffin manager died in the battle, and the griffins he managed fled in all directions and disappeared.

Although this world is just an underdeveloped magic civilization, it already has many modern concepts. For example, the griffin is actually equivalent to a single-person aircraft, which can be ridden back and forth between fixed routes. In the past, Nanhai Town relied on the griffin to maintain contact with Dun Morogh and Stormwind City, and was able to obtain some material support.

Now, the last line of communication has been cut off, and Nanhai Town is completely isolated and helpless.

The arrival of Duanmu Huai and his group gave Mayor Maleb a glimmer of hope. He specially wrote a letter and asked Duanmu Huai to take it to the Alliance base to seek support from Stormwind City.

Of course, this is not an easy task. As mentioned before, the Arathi Highlands is now in the hands of the Horde, and the Sador Bridge was also blown up by the Dark Iron Dwarves. It is not easy to successfully pass through these places to reach the Alliance without some skills. Others don't say anything, at least Duanmu Huai looks like a good fighter. In addition, they are the only team of adventurers passing by here in recent times, and Mayor Maleb has no other choice.

Although the reward offered by Mayor Marebu was not much, Duanmu Huai was still very happy to take on this task. On the one hand, as the chief judge of the Tribunal, it was his duty to protect humanity. On the other hand, Marebu was officially endorsed. At least with this letter and Marebu's introduction, it would be easier for Duanmu Huai to communicate with people from the Alliance instead of just killing them.

So after resting for a night in Nanhai Town, everyone immediately set off and headed towards Arathi Highlands.

Originally Duanmu Huai was planning to see what the food here was like, but Nanhai Town hadn't had any supplies for such a long time, and there were only fish and dried salted fish left in the hotel... There was nothing he could do, so he had to grit his teeth and endure it.

Because there was no threat, the journey to Arathi Highlands was somewhat boring, but it was not boring for the girls because they were discussing a story at the moment.

A story about Stratholme.

This story was told by a bard while everyone was having breakfast in the inn this morning. This unlucky bard was trapped in Nanhai Town with nowhere to go. When he saw Duanmu Huai and others, he shamelessly came up to them and asked for rewards. Duanmu Huai also wanted to know more about this world, so he gave some of the reward given to him by Mayor Marebu to the other party.

The latter happily accepted the reward, and then sang and played music to tell everyone a story about a fallen prince.

According to the bard, a long time ago, Undercity was not called Undercity. It was the capital of a human country called Lordaeron, and Lordaeron was the most powerful human force in the Alliance at that time. At that time, Prince Arthas of Lordaeron was also a prince who was trusted and loved by everyone.

Why did that land become what it is now? The most important thing is the fall of this prince. To mention the fall of Prince Arthas, we have to mention the key event - the Stratholme Massacre.

The matter itself is actually not complicated. An evil undead cult spread a kind of plague that killed other people and turned them into undead creatures. When Prince Arthas led the army to follow the clues all the way to Stratholme, the plague had already broken out.

A big debate broke out between Prince Arthas and his mentor Uther at that time. Prince Arthas insisted that the people in Stratholme should be eliminated as soon as possible to prevent the spread of the plague. But Uther thought it was inhumane and opposed Arthas's order. So Arthas revoked Uther's position and personally led his troops into Stratholme, killing every living life there.

After that, Arthas went to Northrend under the guidance of the dreadlords and eventually fell. When he returned from Northrend, he killed his father with his own hands and turned the entire Lordaeron into the ghost it is today.

What the girls discussed was whether Arthas's choice was correct.

Of course, in Duanmu Huai's opinion, Arthas did nothing wrong. In fact, if it were the Inquisition, for the sake of safety, not to mention Stratholme, the people in the entire Eastern and Western Plaguelands would be completely slaughtered and burned to ashes to prevent the outbreak of the plague to the greatest extent.

Arthas only massacred Stratholme, which Duanmu Huai thought was too stingy!

Homura Akemi and Kisara didn't think there was anything wrong with this, but Naruse Mio and Maria were somewhat uneasy. Of course, they could understand what Arthas did, but when they thought about the prince leading his soldiers to massacre the people they were supposed to protect, they felt a little sad for him.

Duanmu Huai only had one sentence to comment on this.

"What a shame. If the Inquisition were here, we would do better."

"………………………"

Well, Duanmu Huai's words killed the argument and made the girls shut up.

Indeed, if it were the Inquisition, the deaths would not be a problem of just one city in Stratholme, because according to the bard, the other party had mixed the plague virus into the food. So from the perspective of the Inquisition, since they could not find a solution and could not let the plague spread and harm humans, the best way was to purify the entire plague land.

So the bard's statement that the beginning of Arthas's corruption was the massacre in Stratholme was pure nonsense in Duanmu Huai's opinion. The plague spreads quickly and there is no way to solve it in a short period of time. If you don't eliminate it, are you going to keep it for the New Year?

  On the contrary, Duanmu Huai was very suspicious of the man named Uther. He even suspected that Uther might be a follower of the devil. After all, the other party tried his best to stop Arthas from eliminating the spread of the plague. Could it be that Uther was also a member of an evil sect or an insider?

Well, very likely.

I don’t know what happened to the guy named Uther now. If he is still alive, Duanmu Huai will definitely catch him and torture him.

After all, according to Duanmu Huai's experience as a judge, people who behave like this are either stupid or bad, or they may be both stupid and bad.

In short, no matter which one it is, it must be the enemy of mankind. At this time, everyone had passed through Hillsbrad Foothills and came to the Thoradin Wall, which is located on the border between it and Arathi Highlands.

According to Mayor Mareb, this place was originally guarded by dwarves, but unfortunately the dwarves' stronghold Dun Garok was massacred by the Forsaken. The scouts sent by Mareb did not find any useful clues inside, but only found a badge from the dwarves. So he gave the badge to Duanmu Huai, hoping that he would tell the dwarves when he passed by Dun Morogh.

Well, he takes on two tasks at once. This mayor is quite easy to deal with.

After passing through the Wall of Soladin, Duanmu Huai and others were blocked as expected. Fortunately, they had the token of Mayor Maleb, so the other party did not fight with Duanmu Huai immediately, but took Duanmu Huai to the Alliance camp in the Refuge Valley.

Here, Duanmu Huai met Oslet, the marshal of the Arathor coalition.

"So you want to go through Arathi Highlands?"

Looking at Duanmu Huai in front of him, Marshal Oslett's expression was a little doubtful. To be honest, the big man in front of him gave him a very dangerous feeling. If there wasn't a little girl sitting on him, and the girls behind him looked harmless, Marshal Oslett would have ordered his men to take him down long ago.

"Of course I understand that the situation in Southshore is extremely critical, and the abnormality in Tirisfal Glades also needs to be investigated, but the problem is that we can't do anything right now."

Marshal Oslet sighed helplessly.

"The tribe has completely blocked off this area. Unless we can retake it, everything will be a fantasy."

"Then take it back. What's so difficult about that?"

Duanmu Huai seemed very straightforward, or perhaps to him, things were that simple.

“But we don’t have enough population.”

  Although Marshal Oslet has the title of "Marshal", his army here does not exceed 300 people, which is miserable. In fact, this is also related to the bombing of the Sador Bridge. The bridge was blown up, so naturally there is no way to transport supplies in large quantities. Although the griffin can be responsible for carrying goods, but carrying supplies for thousands of people at a time, do you intend to tire the griffin to death?

Griffins have tempers, too.

Therefore, Marshal Oslet only left behind a small number of people, who relied on the supplies from Nanhai Town to survive.

As a result, Nanhai Town was also raided by the tribe. According to the principle of "the lips and the teeth are cold", Marshal Oslet should have sent troops to help, but...

"Look."

Standing in front of the closed gate of the military camp, Marshal Oslet pointed at the land in the distance with a serious expression. From the Alliance camp, the battlefield situation in front of them could be clearly seen. This battlefield was named Arathi Basin. It was once an important stronghold of the Alliance, but now it has been completely occupied by the Horde. Patrolling soldiers of the Horde can be seen everywhere.

"According to our reconnaissance results, there are nearly a thousand people on the other side. We are no match for them at all. To be honest, I have tried to lead people to retake Arathi Basin, but failed repeatedly."

"But in this case, wouldn't these tribesmen be trapped here as well?"

Looking at the scene in front of her, Naruse Mio asked her own questions in confusion.

"Don't they have supply problems?"

"of course."

Marshal Oslet nodded seriously.

"We chose to build a base here because of the environment. There is a mine in Arathi Basin, and there is a sawmill above it. At the same time, we also built a blacksmith shop for supply needs. So from this point of view, they are not afraid of lack of supplies. As for food..."

Having said that, Marshal Oslet smiled bitterly.

"The dead don't need to eat."

"Well…………………"

Well, that makes sense. Indeed, if you become an undead creature, why would you eat?

So the Arathor coalition was pinned down here. They were short of manpower to begin with, and if they were to divide their forces further, the enemy could completely concentrate their forces to make a breakthrough. By then, not only would the Thoradin Wall fall, but South Sea Town would also be lost. Therefore, even though Marshal Oslet knew that the rear was in a critical situation, he really had no better solution than to keep his troops in place.

But this doesn't mean that Duanmu Huai will accompany him here and stare at each other stupidly. I'm here to travel, not to stay at home.

"How many people in total?"

"The tribe has deployed 300 soldiers to defend the sawmill, blacksmith shop, mine, and animal stables. Only the farm is located behind those desecrators, and the undead don't need to eat, so there are not many soldiers guarding it."

"alright, I got it."

Hearing this, Duanmu Huai nodded, then turned to look at the girls.

"Get ready, let's go and kill these heretic bastards!"