Azeroth Shadow Trail

   Chapter 332 41. The past of the ghost place Asuna

  The proto-turtles finally boarded Captain Greyson's ship.

  Although this boat is also used for charging in naval battles, it is really easy to use when encountering such an inland river.

   There is even a sense in which inland raids are the natural place for such vrykul raiders.

   Ships bigger than it can't get in, and ships that can get in can't beat it.

   This time, Captain Ghost was also very excited. When he was driving his boat upstream to the largest inland lake in the land of Azsuna, he was still in the mood to scold his grievances with the Ancestral Turtles.

   "You sold me fake charts! You even lied to me that there was treasure in the fog in the South China Sea. As a result, I took my boat into the fog and was trapped in it for a month, almost dying there."

  Greyson held the hilt of the bloodletter's sword around his waist, and while drinking, he rudely complained to Nora, the Scroll Sage who was sitting beside him:

   "You turtle people don't do good things! If I hadn't been able to beat you back then, I would definitely burn down your town on the island of the South China Sea!"

   "We didn't lie to you, stupid pirate."

  Nora ignored the threat of the ghost pirates in front of her.

   She has traveled around the world as an old ancestor turtle, and I have never seen any scenes, just a ghost captain. Holding a magic scroll for detection in her hand, she said with little interest:

   "There are treasures in the fog of the South China Sea. There are treasures from an entire continent. It's just that you are unlucky and can't find them. The charts we sold to you are also real."

   "There's nothing in that fog!"

  Greyson cursed:

   "All the pirates or businessmen who have been tricked by you have found nothing. Don't think I don't know, your ancestor turtles have been spreading rumors in the South China Sea, saying that there is treasure in the fog."

   "Cough, this is not a rumor."

  Blake, holding a telescope in his hand, glanced at the land on both sides of the Azuna River in front of him. He said to the rude pirate captain under his command:

   "There are indeed good things in the fog of the South China Sea, but the Ancestral Turtles are really not at ease. The fog can't go in now. Well, let's not talk about that, let's talk about Azuna.

  This place was as desolate and dilapidated as I remembered.

  Nora, you have been here for two months, haven't you checked everywhere?

   I remember that there are many elf ruins here, and there is a place called the Palace of Depression, where a group of ghosts of high-level elves with abnormal minds live. "

"Been there."

  The Ancestor Turtle waved his claws, joy flashed in his small eyes, and said:

   "The elves there warmly received us and told me their stories, which I wrote down."

   She rummaged through the large luggage behind her, found a purple scroll, opened it, and coughed a few times. This was the posture of telling a story.

   Black wants to stop.

   But after thinking about it, he put down his raised hand.

  There is nothing stopping a prototurtle from telling the story she wants to tell, unless there is a better one in front of her.

   What's more, Natalie Selling on this ship, along with Grayson, and the ghost pirates under his command, are ready to listen to stories. As a good captain, he must meet the needs of his subordinates.

   "Tell me, I'm wrong, I'll correct it for you."

  The pirate put down the telescope in his hand, reached out and threw the little murloc dozing on his shoulders into the river, and made a gesture to it to let it go ahead to investigate.

  Bumper made a face at Blake in the water, and whistled underwater, and the ghost-legged crab, which it named "quack-quack-la", rushed up from the water.

   carried the little murloc and swam to the lake in front of the river in front of him.

   Seeing how well Pumbleba and its ghost beast got along so well, Blake showed a helpless expression, and he glanced at the bank of the wide river.

   his own ghostly wolf, Frostpaw, is hunting there.

   It is chasing and killing a strange creature with a griffin in the head, but it looks like a combination of a wolf and an eagle. The fierce beast is called the wolf eagle, which is a unique creature in the Broken Isles.

  The wolf eagle is very fierce, but it is definitely not the opponent of a soul beast.

  Frostpaw still doesn't listen to his orders very much.

  Although the pet intimacy has risen to the fourth level of "reliable", this wolf who has followed Orgrim obviously has his own ideas.

  The pirates ignored it and let it go and have fun.

   Before the intimacy of the pet reaches the highest level, it is impossible for him to take this guy to the wilderness trial.

  Black is determined to challenge the most difficult wilderness trial, he decided to strengthen his ranger skills before taming the second pet, which is also the advice given to him by Windrunner's mother.

   On the other hand, Nora has begun to describe the good stories she has collected in the land of Azsuna in the long and gentle tone of the ancestral tortoise telling stories.

   is a story about how the once prosperous Azuna became the ghost it is now.

   "Azuna, this used to be the pearl of the elven empire under the rule of Queen Azshara, well, the elves always like to call their city the 'Pearl'.

   All the cities under the entire elf empire are their pearls.

   This is their unique way of describing it. "

   The sage of the scroll is indeed a learned person. For fear that the rude pirates would not understand the meaning of the word, he explained it to them, and then continued:

"Faronaar, the elven city of Azsuna, was one of the first cities of the elven empire, and it was also the most prosperous city. It is one with Suramar in the south and the other in the north, and guards the capital of the elves, Xin Azali. .

  Because the location was so important, Queen Azshara sent a magic prince she trusted so much to rule the city.

   His name was Farodis, he was of high status, and he was closely associated with the elven nobles.

Those legendary characters, Lord Ravencrest, Great Magister Elisande, Great Noble Xavius, Magic Prince Torsedrin, Dath Remar Sunstrider, etc., all maintained a very friendly relationship with him. Relationship.

  He was loyal to his queen, and very talented, and he managed Faronaer to a prosperous day, deeply loved by the high elves here.

   It is said that there is a banquet every day in his court, and the people who come to the banquet are very important people in the elf empire.

   He also graduated from the most famous Arcanist Academy in the Elven Empire, and is the most famous graduate of the Academy of Magic in Nar'Thalas, which is our destination.

   is right on the shore of the largest inner lake in this land.

  The reason why the city of Faronaar is important, in addition to its geographical location, is because the city once stored a Titan artifact that the arcanists found for Queen Azshara.

   Gorgonath's Tidestone.

  It is said to be the relic used by the creators to shape the seas and skies of Azeroth, and one of the most valuable items in Queen Azshara's treasure. "

Nora looked at the story recorded on her scroll, and at the pirates with bright eyes. She pouted, complaining that these stinky pirates really heard the word "treasure" like dogs that saw bones. .

   I really don’t understand the stories behind those treasures.

  The ancestor turtles who like to explore history hate two kinds of people the most, one is tomb robbers, and the other is pirates. These two kinds of people only chase wealth, but always destroy the really important historical relics.

   If the mission this time hadn't been too important, she wouldn't have cooperated with a group of pirates.

   However, the story has to continue.

   "The prosperity of Faronaar continued until the eve of the War of the Ancients, and according to the descriptions of the elven ghosts of the ruined palace, the ruin of the city was caused by a shameful betrayal.

   is the master of this city and this land, who betrayed Queen Azshara and brought disaster. "

  Nora's tone also became ups and downs, the ancestor turtle pinched the scroll and said in a deep voice:

   "It is said that one day at the court banquet of Sin Azsari, Prince Farondis accidentally broke the secret of the supreme Queen Azshara.

   He tried to use this secret to intimidate Her Majesty the Queen and do something dirty.

   The result made Queen Azshara very angry.

   But she mercifully absolved Prince Farodis of his sins, but only drove him out of the court.

   It turned out that the magic prince who returned to Farona was full of twisted madness. Instead of being grateful, he wanted to launch a shameful rebellion against the queen.

   He ordered his loyal guards to transport the Tide Stone in the city to the water's edge, trying to use this titan artifact to threaten the Queen.

   This dirty trick was seen through by Her Majesty the Queen.

   On a stormy night, Her Majesty Azshara personally came to her loyal Faronaar, and she rebuked Prince Farondis for his sins in front of her subjects.

   asked him to put down the artifact immediately, but the prince had gone mad.

   His heart was filled with madness and revenge, and he, like a despicable and shameless beast, declared that he would no longer obey the queen's rule, and spoke vulgar words to the queen in front of his subjects.

   Such madness angered the Queen.

   Her Majesty Azshara shattered the Tide Stone in the hands of the rebels with her supreme magical power, and released the curse on the rebels with the help of that titan artifact.

  The Queen is so angry.

  The anger burned her sanity, leaving her without the power to control the curse.

   That night, the shameful rebel died.

   That night, the subjects loyal to Her Majesty the Queen suffered. The power of the curse shattered their bodies and imprisoned their souls in a land ravaged by the wrath of His Majesty Azshara.

   That night, the whole of Azsuna cried. "

   When Nora finished telling the story, her audience fell silent.

  The ghost pirates looked around the river, and they could clearly see the ruins of the collapsed, abandoned, elven city that seemed to be swept away by the storm.

   Those ruins are already covered with weeds and moss, like the corpse of a civilization that has been beaten by wind and rain for 10,000 years in time.

   They were astonished at the power of the legendary elf queen.

   She destroyed this land by herself, and the magic that she left here has not subsided after 10,000 years.

   And Natalie, the ship doctor, is more about the story itself.

   The priest, who almost served as the archbishop of Stormwind Kingdom, keenly sensed some weird plots in this story, and she pulled her hood.

   asked the ancestral turtle:

   "So, those elven ghosts just told you the prince's betrayal and the queen's anger, but didn't tell you why the prince betrayed?"

   "Well, this is indeed a doubt, human."

  The Scroll Sage Nora showed Natalie her scroll, and there was a big "?" on it. She said to Natalie:

   "I asked all the ghosts in the palace, and they were all just expressing their disdain and anger at the betrayer prince, but no one could tell me why the prince chose to betray Azshara.

   And they are in a very bad state.

   It's like being stuck forever on the day of the disaster, living that day over and over again, I remind them, but they don't care.

  The power of that curse is imprisoning them, making them forever complaining and angering Prince Farodis, but it is difficult to care about other things.

   I am also trying to figure out the truth, and I am very interested in this truth.

   But I can't find the protagonist in the story, that is Prince Farodis, he must still be on this earth, but no one knows where he went"

  “呱呱呱”

   Just as the pirates were talking about power, curses and treasures, and Natalie and Nora were discussing the truth, the murloc's sharp siren sounded in the distance ahead.

  Captain Greyson reacted very quickly. He picked up the binoculars and glanced forward before shouting:

   "There are Naga in front! There are a lot of them, prepare to fight!"

   "woo woo woo"

   A large group of pirate ghosts rushed out from all parts of the Jotunheim Power, all eager to try.

   They are the bound souls of the most vicious Beihai madman after his death.

   They were not afraid of the group of deep-sea soft-skinned snakes, and they were about to fight happily. Blake sat beside the boat and had no idea of ​​joining the battle.

  He will still be changing clothes.

   As Natalie and Nora watched in amazement, Blake took off his Night Killer tunic, and replaced it with the Corruptor's tunic, which he hadn't worn a few times since he got it.

   He glanced back at Natalie and said:

   "You'd better start changing too, my lady ship doctor. Put on your robes, and you won't be able to enter the Academy of Magic in Nar'Thalas now.

   That is the most famous magic academy in the ancient elf empire, and they have strict requirements on the attire of new students when they enter the school.

  What are you doing? Change clothes now.

   I won't peek.

I swear. "

   (end of this chapter)