Warcraft Fortress

Chapter 114 Goodbye, Van Cleef, Dustwallow Marsh!
Xiao En's proposal, or King Wa's proposal, is a proposal made by those in power to the subjects who oppose him. It is a proposal that is extremely tolerant and condescending in the eyes of those in power, because this proposal damages the power of the people in power. The benefit of the Va King in exchange for the allegiance of Van Cleef and the Defias Brotherhood.

Faced with such a proposal, many people would choose to agree.

Territory, military power, wealth, status, pardon, from now on, Van Cleef will become a high and powerful person with wealth and glory. glamorous.

Who would disagree?
But is that really the case?
No matter how much wealth and status, can they really erase the humiliation they have suffered?
There was a good man who was wronged and imprisoned. People told him 20 years later: Sorry, we wronged you back then. We will give you 100 million as compensation, and we will issue a public notice to clear your wrong.With this 100 million, you can start a small business, marry a wife, have two children, and have no worries for the rest of your life.

There was a good man who was wrongly murdered and sentenced to death.Ten years after his death, people told his relatives: I'm sorry, he was wronged back then, and now we will avenge him, and at the same time we will give you some compensation.Although he died, he left you a fortune. At least you can eat and drink without worrying about it.

Well, it sounds so beautiful, but... so sad!

Mistakes are mistakes, no matter how much justice is done in the future, it is a mistake that has already been made.

A broken leg cannot be connected, and a broken heart, how to mend?
Those unbearable pasts, those years of hard work, were finally in vain, and those anger and grievances accumulated in my heart day after day, how could it be possible to eliminate them all with just one sentence?

Those in power always look down on the people from a high place, but forget that the people don't like him looking down.

King Wa is a king after all, he never thinks about problems from the perspective of the people, he is not an ordinary people after all.

Therefore, Van Cleef could not accept his resolution.

"The mayor of Yuexi Town? The sheriff? The mining rights of the dead mine? Thirty percent of the income? The new masonry union? The right to build all large buildings? Varian, Varian, do you think you are giving alms? I, Fan Kry Husband, and my brothers, do you need your charity?"

Van Cleef sneered incomparably: "Death Mine is mine now, and Yuexi Town is now mine. Varian plans to reward me with everything I already have? Some of them have been castrated? It really is the face of those in power. How can I accept such a request? How can my brothers accept it?"

"Our cause is righteous, and Stormwind is evil!"

Pointing at the picture on the wall, Van Cleef said angrily, "Stormwind City is rotten, and the noble class is rotten. Even if Varian wants to fix it, how can he fix it? What's more, he is the biggest nobleman himself! His alms, I unnecessary!"

Van Cleef's words echoed the hearts of many people.

Old Grian used to be an ordinary farmer, and later he became a warrior and a paladin step by step, and was selected by the Knights of the Silver Hand.

So he understood very well everything Van Cleef said.

However, understanding does not mean acceptance.

Old Grian stared at Van Cleef, shook his head and said, "Van Cleef, the people are innocent. Maybe your resistance has your reasons, and maybe no one is right or wrong in this regard, but what you have done these years , Hurt too many people of Azeroth. Look at everything around! Westfall, Elwynn Forest, Redridge Mountains, Duskwood! Every land, your people are committing crimes! Hurt! Burn! Loot! Don't you feel ashamed, Van Cleef?"

"'Our cause is just'? Pooh! Van Cleef, you'll never be just!"

Old Grian clenched his fists: "Van Cleef, the people who were murdered in Yuexi Town will not support you; those people in exile will not support you; those people who have heard of your evil deeds will not support you! Ai All the people of Xerath will not support you! Compared to His Majesty, you are more like a loner!"

VanCleef shouted: "I have thousands of brothers! All the members of the Defias Brotherhood, with one heart!"

Old Grian sneered and said: "One heart? Think about the members of the Defias Brotherhood, how many are the masons who were humiliated with you back then? Are there a thousand? Five hundred? More Who are they? Bandits? Pirates? The Bilgewater Consortium? Ogres? Tauren? Van Cleef, how many good people do you have under your command? Will they be with you? Interests make you form a group, but the group is not for the same interest !"

Van Cleef opened his mouth, but couldn't utter a word.

Yes, old Grian was right.

What has the Defias Brotherhood been up to all these years!
They killed too many people and robbed too many people for revenge.

They've even recruited the same pirates and villains they once hated; they've become the very people they once hated.

They once thought they were righteous, but now they are stained with dirt that can never be washed away.

With blood on his hands, how can he uphold justice and light?

Van Cleef felt more depressed than ever.

Old Grian's words were too harsh.

however……

Even though I know my path is no longer bright, I can never turn back.

Van Cleef murmured: "I will restrain those under me, I can even give up bombarding Stormwind City, and I will convince those stonemason brothers who have been following me that we have a common hatred, and we can drive the Dreadnought to the dust Swamp, go fight Onyxia... But I absolutely cannot accept Varian's conferment! I can't live up to the bitterness and pain of so many years, and my brother who has died for it, for those vain things!"

Silence, still silence.

Whether it was Old Grian, Mathias, or Sean, it was already clear that this was Van Cleef's bottom line.

He absolutely can't make any more concessions, he has already made concessions to the limit.

Taking another step back, even if Van Cleef could bear it, those brothers under him would definitely not bear it.

In any case, Onyxia may be behind the scenes, but it was Stormwind City that directly led to their miserable lives for so many years.

It is impossible for them to accept the recruitment from Stormwind City.

This is already the limit!
Sean is the head of the mission and he has the final decision-making authority.

Sean sighed, shook his head and said, "Van Cleef, goodbye in Dustwallow Marsh."

(End of this chapter)