"Qiang!"
In the sewers of the ruins of Alterac City, Valeera relied on her better skills to sneak behind a Syndicate thief.
When she raised Quel'Sera's transformed dagger and prepared to pierce the enemy's back, a matte-finished dagger suddenly came out from the shadows and accurately blocked Valeera's dagger.
The moment the weapons met, Valeera's body paused for a moment. The well-trained Syndicate thieves seized this opportunity and planned to launch an encirclement.
Valeela took out the glitter powder from her waist with her left hand. Before she sprinkled the powder, the Syndicate thief suddenly stopped in place and could not move, and was temporarily imprisoned by the dark purple arcane light.
Yuri's face changed as he blocked Valeera's attack: "Arcane magic...be careful of the enemy mage!"
Valeela's combat experience is very rich, and her response speed is far beyond the expectations of the Syndicate thieves.
"clang!"
With the help of the reaction force of the intersection of weapons, Valeera took advantage of the situation and flew backwards.
Before her feet even landed on the ground, Valeera flexibly twisted her body in mid-air and stepped on the wall to gain strength. Her strong and slender right leg was kicking one of the thieves in the chest, and a gap appeared in the incomplete encirclement net.
Fortunately, Valeera is a thief with mainly agility. If Sharlayan had kicked him, the thief's sternum would have been kicked to pieces.
Deftly adjusting her posture, she gently used force on the pained thief's head, and before Yulia rushed over fiercely to try to take over, Valeera escaped into the shadows again.
In the dark sewers, Yuri and Yulia did not dare to let down their guard at all. Yuri used a specific whistle to order the Syndicate thieves to form a formation and increase their vigilance.
Yulia leaned close to his brother's ear and whispered: "It's difficult to deal with. The opponent is obviously a person who has experienced hundreds of battles. He responds very quickly, and..."
"Well, I discovered it too."
Yuri frowned and said, "This person is not the Earl of Deep Shadow, but a woman who is good at thieves."
Yulia: "A senior cadre of the Backlight Blade?"
"Inseparable... Be careful, the enemy is difficult to deal with, and there is a mage of unknown origin behind her."
Yuri and Yulia grew up together, and they have a perfect understanding of each other.
There was no sound in their conversation, and they could understand each other's meaning just by the vibration of the air when they exhaled silently.
Although Valeera caught some slight vibrations in the air, she did not dare to rush in and behead him because of the number of people on the other side.
"Hmph! What a disaster."
A hoarse sigh sounded in the sewer.
"Little girl, come to me. At this point, this laboratory has no choice but to give up."
Yuri was stunned for only a moment before reacting.
"Not good! The enemy wants to teleport and escape, stop..."
"too late."
At the same time as Meili's dull words were spoken, the wide-area teleportation technique that had been prepared was immediately activated.
"Boys, I hope you are lucky enough. I can't control the location of the out-of-order teleportation. Please pray that you don't fall into the ogre's pot."
"Uh-huh!"
Everyone in the sewer was enveloped by the wide-area teleportation technique launched by Merry.
Valeela, who rushed to Merry's side as soon as possible, received fixed teleportation coordinates, but others did not have this preferential treatment.
When Yulia came back to her senses, she unexpectedly found herself teleported to the top of the dilapidated Alterac Palace. The howling wind and snow made her shiver involuntarily.
Yuri was stuffed into an abandoned stable. Fortunately, there were no ogres passing by.
The other 11 people in the team had different experiences. Most of them were teleported to places where the ogres did not notice. Only one unlucky guy was sent directly to the three two-headed ogres in the castle.
Valeela was not interested in knowing what happened to those Syndicate thieves. She was thrown into a large room suspected to be a warehouse by Merry along with a lot of experimental equipment and materials.
"Hey~"
Meri sighed dejectedly: "My research project has not been completed yet. I hope I will have the opportunity to continue it in the future."
"Back to business."
After gathering her emotions, Meri turned her attention to Valeela who was dusting herself off.
"Little girl of the Sangunar family, your story is not finished yet."
…
For a person like Meili who likes to be serious, if he doesn't know the complete story of the matter, he will always feel itchy in his heart.
Under the stubborn Merry's repeated questioning, the helpless Valeera could only patiently tell him all the causes and consequences of Medivh's fall.
"That dead girl Magna..."
Meili slapped her forehead with a depressed look on her face: "I have long told her that there is heaven and there are people outside the world, but I didn't expect that she still swelled and betrayed my teachings and trust."
Merry has survived longer than the Council of Tirisfal. He knows every Guardian of Tirisfal except Medivh, including Aegwynn, who has been in power for more than 800 years.
According to Merry himself, he went into seclusion more than 600 years ago before Aegwynn defeated the clone of Sargeras and completely fell out with the Council of Tirisfal.
After Aegwynn was possessed by the ghost of Sargeras, the demon king's soul had been subtly influencing the guardian, making her increasingly suspicious of the Council of Tirisfal.
After Meili, who acted as the mediator, once again lived in seclusion due to physical reasons, the conflict between the two parties finally developed to the point where it was difficult to reconcile.
Because Aegwynn refused to return the power of the Guardian after her term ended, the Council of Tirisfal established a subordinate organization specifically to capture her - the Mystic Order of Tirisfal.
Ironically, Aegwynn eventually gave birth to the last guardian Medivh with Nielas Ellan, a member of the Mysterious Order of Tiris, and the ghost of Sargeras also took the opportunity to enter the baby's body. Inside.
What had happened could not be undone, and Merry blamed himself for missing the big event of Medivh's betrayal of the organization, but he did not spend time repenting and immediately began to think about how to rebuild the Tirisfal Parliament.
Merry's expression was a little tangled: "I really want to go out and operate it myself, but... you also know my current situation. If Cassanatil escapes, the consequences will be disastrous."
Valeera asked doubtfully: "Why did you use your own body to seal Cassanatil? Can't you just kill him?"
Merry shook his head hurriedly: "You may not know that demons cannot be completely killed. Their souls will return to the Twisting Nether after death, and they will be resurrected soon."
Valeela said with a strange expression: "I know this, but the higher the level of the demon, the longer it will take to resurrect."
"Casanatir is also considered a prominent figure among the Nasrezim, and he cannot be resurrected in a few hundred years."
Meili hurriedly shook his head: "How can a few hundred years be enough? I finally surrendered him. I would rather seal him with my own body."
"Casanatir is good at possession control. He can easily suppress the original owner of the body. He relies on the unique ability of the Dread Lord to make the fake appear real. He is an out-and-out spy master."
"If we let him escape back to the Twisting Nether and resurrect, who knows who this guy will possess next time and continue to cause trouble."
Valeela rolled her eyes angrily: "Then kill his soul so that he can't escape back to the Twisting Nether to read the resurrection message."
Meili sneered disdainfully: "Young girl is not old, but her tone is quite loud. I have lived for so many years, what have I not seen before?"
"Even I, an old lich, haven't figured out how to annihilate demon souls, so how could you..."
"Valila really can't do it, why don't you let me try?"
Merry's originally rather relaxed expression suddenly changed, and he subconsciously pulled out his staff to prop up a defensive barrier.
"who?!"
"Don't get excited, I'm one of my own."
Meili's secret warehouse was kicked open from the outside.
A girl's voice coughed and complained: "Ahem! It's so dusty. How long has this wretched place been used?"
A half-elf man with a small dwarf on his shoulder walked in carelessly. Merry, who had his back to Valeela, did not notice her sudden softening of expression. He pointed the gem on the top of his staff at the uninvited guest with full vigilance. .
"Who are you? Why do you know this secret warehouse?"
It was Sarlayan and Tinagosa who suddenly broke into the scene. Sarlayan shrugged nonchalantly and said, "You are not the only one who knows the location of this warehouse. Don't forget who is sending you the materials. "
"Let me introduce myself first."
Sharlayan smiled and saluted Merry with standard aristocratic etiquette, "My name is Sharlayan Deep Shadow, Earl of Quel'Thalas, and Valeera's nominal superior."
"It's an honor to meet you, the legendary lich who witnessed the beginning and end of the Troll War and the rise and fall of the Council of Tirisfal, His Excellency Merry Winterwind."
