When Grian Stallman hurriedly announced the establishment of the Western Wilderness People's Army based on the headless body of a certain Duke and searched the streets for assassins and put the entire town under martial law, in the desolate Demont Wilderness west of Moon Creek Town, In a deserted area full of monsters, in a hidden valley farm opened by tax-evading refugees, Vanessa and Lana, who succeeded in assassinating, suddenly appeared here with a 'snap'.
Then, an acquaintance who seemed to have been waiting for them here hurried over to meet them.
"vomit……"
As soon as she emerged from the Apparition, Vanessa ignored the reaction of the person who had been waiting and responding to the situation at the farm. She threw the head of Duke Lescovar in her hand onto the dirt, and then directly I ran to the foot of a big tree on the other side of the farm yard, where I lay half-lying on the tree trunk and vomited in embarrassment.
In fact, it was not because of the head in her hand or the discomfort after killing!
Although Vanessa now can't be said to be a murderer or treat human life as nothing, killing a lot of people, especially the nobles of the Storm Kingdom, is a matter of course for her! It is completely impossible to feel nauseated or even vomit!
"Sister Lana...next time...next time I will definitely not do that Apparition with you..."
"Absolutely not... ugh..."
Before she could finish her words, Vanessa's expression changed again, and she lay down under the tree again and retched.
Vanessa had seen Lana, Queen Anne's maid, use that kind of apparation many times to go to Quel'Thalas to see her. She had always thought that this was actually just a kind of peace. The mage's portal spell is similar, but it is a faster and more efficient teleportation spell!
But who would have thought that she never expected that the result would be like this...
"Haha! My dear sister Vanessa, Apparition is just like this. You will get used to it after you experience it a few times."
"Fortunately, you didn't think about breaking free from my hand when you Apparated here. Otherwise, I, a seventh-grade student, would not be able to guarantee your safety!"
Naturally, Lana herself knows the feeling of apparating better than anyone else! And once the opponent breaks free from his hand and falls while apparating, only Merlin in the book knows what will happen.
Thinking back to when she contacted this spell herself, the feeling was really just like what was explained in the book. During the process of phantom transformation, she would feel the strange feeling of being strongly squeezed by the space. It was very strange. The ground is uncomfortable, very scary!
But, everything has a process. No matter how bad the discomfort is, it will become easier as long as you get used to it!
And Lana, who is now proficient in the use of apparation and follower manifestation, has become accustomed to this bad feeling! Just like veteran warriors are used to the pain when a sword reaches their body, and rangers are used to the sore and numb feeling when drawing a bow for a long time, they mages naturally have various things that they need to get used to.
"..."
"I...I actually thought about breaking away at that time...but, I didn't know where my hands were at all..."
"At that time... I just felt like my whole body was squeezed into a narrow passage, and then I couldn't breathe... and I couldn't see anything... all my hands and feet seemed to be squeezed together... and then He was rolled around and kneaded into a ball...finally..."
"Finally... suddenly it burst open again... vomit..."
Panting and describing for a while, Vanessa's expression suddenly changed again, and then she lay down under the tree and vomited, as if she wouldn't stop until she vomited up everything she had eaten...
Or maybe his stomach and intestines have been kneaded into a ball by that damn spell?
Fortunately...
Fortunately, when they were formulating the battle plan, Sister Lana strongly opposed doing what she said: teleport directly to kill the enemy, and then teleport back again?
If they really did that, I'm afraid that as soon as they teleported there, Vanessa, the leader of the new Defias Brotherhood, would be captured alive by the enemy on the spot after losing her fighting ability...
Then, she will be the stupidest rebel leader in this western wilderness, and even in the entire Eastern Kingdom, who will make everyone laugh out loud!
"Are you two okay? Then I'm relieved!"
"By the way, sister! This head should be that of the noble Duke Lescovar from Stormwind City, right? You actually succeeded!?"
When Vanessa Van Cleef could no longer care about anything else and was just lying under the big tree vomiting, a young warrior wearing Lordaeron's standard elite plate armor and the Flame Alliance's bear-headed tabard pressed his sword Handle, walked over and looked carefully at the head of the old man who had just been thrown to the ground by Vanessa for the first time.
The other party's beard and eyebrows are neatly trimmed. He must be a big shot? So, after kicking with his toes and observing for a while, he curiously asked his sister Lana.
That's right, this young human warrior is Annie's maid and the biological brother of the conjuration mage Lana. He is the one who dared to run out against the evil and terrifying undead with a small wood-cutting ax when he was only twelve years old, and planned to The awesome guy who sneaked into the lumberyard to steal food for his sister!
It's just that the skinny Pete back then has grown up now.
He is eighteen years old this year. Although his face still looks a bit immature and the lines are not obvious, he has grown two heads taller than his sister.
And he specializes in the way of a warrior. He seems to be extremely tall and strong, with well-developed muscles. Now he has directly become the general of the New Defias Brotherhood. He came directly from Father John in the City of Fire. A trainee second lieutenant officer under his command suddenly transformed into a general commanding nearly 3,000 ragtag militants from the Defias Brotherhood!
"Just wait a moment..."
Lana ignored her brother's question, but frowned slightly, hugged her body, and slowly curled up on a chair in the courtyard.
"I feel... the time limit for the effect of the polyjuice potion I drank is about to expire..."
Sure enough, as Lana frowned and curled up on the chair, her body began to tremble violently, and then her entire face and skin began to squirm crazily... Soon, as the potion took full effect, When it was over, she turned into another great beauty again.
Then, when everything calmed down, she finally breathed a sigh of relief, wiped the cold sweat from her forehead and stood up slightly shaking.
"call……"
"Although this polyjuice potion was made by luck after I tried a lot of medicinal materials unique to our world of Azeroth based on its medicinal properties. It tastes good...but...I don't want to drink it a second time. …”
After taking out two small bottles of polyjuice potion from her magic pocket, which was not very spacious, and looking at it twice, Lana poured them out with a little regret. This kind of thing cannot be kept for too long after being added to the hair of the two women, and it is useless to keep it.
And the formula for this transformation potion was something she found in the Hogwarts Encyclopedia of Magic Spells! There were many medicinal materials in the book that she couldn't find exactly the same, so she could only experiment slowly. Fortunately, the Fire Kingdom was very wealthy, and she could mess with the potions as she pleased, so she had these two ingredients for this operation. Bottle of Polyjuice Potion!
However, Lana prefers to call them transformation potions!
Anyway, they are very magical. They only need to throw in a little bit of material from the creature they want to change, such as a person's hair, skin scraps or nails, etc., and they can turn into the other person's appearance. Normally The magic detection method is so easy to recognize!
Of course, this potion itself has certain limitations.
That is: you cannot transform into something that is too different from your original size. It can easily make you become a dwarf, or a high elf, or even a little ogre with not too big a difference in size! However, it cannot directly transform you into a huge dragon!
Even if you throw the dragon's scales or other materials in, it will have no effect! At most, it can only turn you into a mini version of a baby dragon, nothing more.
"Sister...you haven't told me yet! Does this head belong to the great noble of Stormwind City?"
After seeing his sister finally return to normal, Peter kicked the head in the mud again, and then looked at his sister expectantly.
"Yes, Pete!"
"We both succeeded! That Duke of Leskova, he is really a fool. He easily relaxed his guard when he saw a beautiful woman, and he even stuck his head directly in front of Vanessa's sister. He was simply asking for death. road!"
Thinking of what just happened, Lana couldn't help but feel a little proud.
Because she was the one who formulated and implemented this plan at that time! For this reason, they specially sent people to secretly kidnap two women from the little noble family and use each other's hair to make polyjuice potion. Then, she and Vanessa successfully sneaked in.
But actually, we can’t just say that everything went smoothly...
Just now, when she was on the wooden platform, she was a little worried when she saw that Duke Leskova had been pestering sister Vanessa! At that time, her worried and anxious expression was not disguised at all, it was all real!
Because, at that time, according to her estimation, the effects of sister Vanessa's polyjuice potion were coming soon! And if they couldn't find a chance to quickly drink some potion to replenish their condition, the secret would be exposed directly... Fortunately, Vanessa squeezed the time just right at that time, just before the potion expired, He simply chopped off the head of the Stormwind noble who stretched his neck.
"That Duke of Leskova would not have died so easily... At that time, we were surrounded by their people!"
"So, Peter, you must remember this for me in the future: the more beautiful a woman is, the more likely she is to lie! They will often hurt you severely inadvertently! You must be vigilant at all times, Never let a woman fool you, and don’t let up!”
After saying that, Lana looked pointedly at Vanessa, who was still lying under the big tree, retching. Even though she looked soft and weak now, she could be brutal when killing people. very!
"Hmph! Did you hear that?!"
Lana squinted and looked into her brother's eyes. She knew very well that her good brother was probably attracted to this sister Vanessa! Otherwise, he wouldn't have come so actively to work as a subordinate for the other party, and kept saying that he came here to cause trouble for the Kingdom of Storm because of the Flame Alliance.
As for his true purpose, Lana, as her sister, had already seen it at a glance!
Otherwise, she would not have interrupted her spell practice in the Flame Palace, and secretly followed them to come here by boat thousands of miles away, arriving in this western wilderness far away from the City of Flame.
"Uh...well..."
After following his sister's gaze and knowing what the other party meant, Peter scratched his head a bit and didn't dare to answer.
Yes, his little sister did find out his little thoughts, but he didn't mind too much. Because Pete knows that Lana's sister, who has always cared and loved him, will definitely support him! This can be seen from the fact that the other party did not refuse or hesitate, and directly and unconditionally supported Vanessa's sister's plan, and came to the hinterland of the Kingdom of Storm together.
"Okay, sister Vanessa, stop being so squeamish. Isn't it just a disembodiment?"
"You may not know that every time I want to punish my younger brother, I always take him back and forth several times inside and outside the City of Fire, so that now he has long been used to it! So, you just need to do more After you try it a few times, you will fall in love with the refreshing feeling of being squeezed by the whole world.”
After casting an annoyed glance at her shy brother, Lana walked up to Vanessa with a smile and thoughtfully handed over a handkerchief.
At this moment, she suddenly realized that it might be a little difficult for her stupid brother to catch up with this powerful woman...
Let's see, even though Sister Vanessa is only in her early fifteen years and not yet sixteen years old, but with the foundation that the other party has built now, if she can succeed in the future, she might be able to do it again. A Wild West Queen?
And her silly brother... looking at this great opportunity in front of him, he didn't even come over to comfort him and show some courtesy to increase the friendship between the two parties. Instead, he just went there to study the dead head of the nobleman. ?
Sure enough, without the help of her sister, that idiot would definitely have no chance in this life!
"No……"
"Sister Lana... I think I will never use this kind of apparation spell with you again... It is completely different from the long-distance portals opened by the high elves' mages!"
After barely taking a breath, Vanessa leaned her body like that and sat on the ground leaning against the trunk of the big tree, just breathing heavily.
In the past, when she had passed through the various portals of the elven mages of Quel'Thalas many times in the past, when she traveled to and from various parts of the Flame Alliance for training and various tasks, she would not have been as scary as she was just now. a feeling of!
The kind of portal that high elves regular mages use is actually no different from walking through an ordinary door! Only when you pass through that kind of long-distance space door, you will feel a little bit of weightless discomfort, and it's just a little bit, there won't be too much difference.
It's not like the apparation spell Lana used just now, which almost killed her without suffocating her!
"Ha! Didn't I tell you this before?"
"The spells I learned were the instant spells taught to me by Her Majesty the Queen at Hogwarts. They are different from those learned by arcane mages or warlocks!"
"Furthermore, don't look at the apparation spell I just used. It seems inconspicuous and uncomfortable to use, but it is very effective! If it were replaced by an ordinary mage, I'm afraid they would be killed before they could guide the spell. Those guards were cut into several pieces! But my apparation is different, it only requires waving the wand and shouting a spell, it is almost instantaneous!"
Thinking about the feeling of accomplishment she felt when she escaped easily from the enemy's eyes just now, Lana couldn't help but raise her chin proudly.
After so many years of self-study, although she has only learned the seventh grade graduation level, and there are many more advanced magic spells that she has not had time to learn, she firmly believes that she will one day become a powerful mage!
As long as her magic level can be improved, she believes that it will definitely happen!
"Her Majesty the Queen...Sister Lana, do you mean Her Majesty Queen Anne?"
After hearing Lana's words, Vanessa finally froze, and inadvertently remembered the little figure who saved her at the gate of Stormwind City and then gave her the powerful shadow power.
It can be said that in this world, apart from her dead father and her mother, whom she has little memory of, the only person she respects, loves and is grateful for the most is Sister Anne, who saved her in danger. Already...
I don’t know, after all these years, where has that magical existence gone? What has it become now?
"It's a pity...she may never come back again..."
"Besides, sister Lana, you have also seen that the old guys in our Flame Alliance are so incompetent. If we are a good alliance, look at what they have done to us now..."
Thinking of the alliance, Vanessa's eyes slowly dimmed, and then not long after, she quickly cheered up again! She felt that she could definitely do something great here in the western wilderness and help those in the north. She firmly believed that!
Now she has grown up and is no longer the little girl who could only cry!
Therefore, it won't be long before she will use her own hands to bleed this despicable kingdom right here in the heart of the Kingdom of Stormwind! Then, Queen Sylvanas and Queen Kallia can be given precious time to regroup and regain their strength. Vanessa believes that she can do it.
What her father Edwin failed to do back then, she will definitely work hard to do as long as she is alive! She wants to make this great cause bigger and stronger, and then... fulfill her father's final wish, and use the hands of the Van Cleef family to personally destroy the Stormwind City built by Edwin Van Cleef and the Masons' Union. !
"Don't worry, sister Vanessa... I think the Queen will definitely come back, I firmly believe it!"
Thinking of the little queen she served back then, Lana couldn't help but sigh softly.
In the past few years without the queen, although Lana lived a leisurely life, no one took care of her, the queen's maid, and allowed her to live freely in the palace, learn magic, and live a decent life. A life of luxury better than that of Her Majesty the Queen.
But... that luxurious palace standing in the middle of the City of Fire, without Her Majesty the Queen, Lana always felt that something was missing?
"hope so……"
"By the way, Peter! How is the training of our new Defias Brotherhood's army? You are not slacking off, are you?"
Thinking of the assassination operation just now, the conscripted warriors found in the temporary military camp outside Yuexi Town, and then thinking of the Western People's Army that the other party was planning to establish, Vanessa ignored her physical discomfort and stood up forcefully. , asked Peter, who was still holding the head and studying it.
This matter is the most critical step in their next plan, and there cannot be any mistakes!
"What else can I do? It can be considered just so-so..."
"Hey! Don't look at me like that. Although I know that I am very talented, sir...you can't expect me to defeat that group of three thousand people in less than a month. Train to the level of the regular army of the New Kingdom of Lordaeron!"
"Now they basically have some discipline, and they will no longer just run out and rob houses. Just be satisfied if they can reach this level! Anyway, there are still more than half a month until the batch of weapons you ordered and equipment, they will definitely be a group of qualified reserve militiamen!"
Shrugging his shoulders, Peter said indifferently.
"At most... I can barely draw two hundred of the best soldiers from them to form your most elite guard. Probably... those two hundred people should also have the strength of our new Fire Alliance regiment, right?"
After seeing that Vanessa's face seemed not to be very good, Peter quickly added another sentence.
It would be great if those rabble could be trained by him into a group of disciplined guys with beatings and scoldings. You really can't expect too much! You know, in the Flame Alliance, a qualified recruit must go through at least one year of hard training!
And now, they have just been training for a month.
Although Peter is a talented warrior who is about to break through to the hero level, he is not a powerful demigod like the Flame Queen. He doesn't have any good solutions to things beyond his ability. And now even this method of training new recruits is a secret he learned from Father John!
"..."
Vanessa frowned a little when she heard Peter's negative reply.
She doesn't know what to do now. After all, the war in the northern continent is very tight now. The Stormwind Alliance is using troops in the Arathi Highlands north of the Saldo Bridge and the Hillsbrad Hills near Southsea Town to attack the north. , has greatly dispersed the military power of the Flame Alliance!
Therefore, at this time, it is impossible for her to borrow elite soldiers from any kingdom...
"Please relax, my leader!"
"Although our men are a bunch of rabble, those guys from Yuexi Town are also a bunch of mud-legged people who have just gathered together! And our large group of rabble against their group of militiamen has nothing to worry about. , at least...we have more people here, right?"
Compared to Vanessa's worries, Peter seemed much more relaxed.
You know, there are three thousand of them now! And when those weapons and equipment arrive, they can instantly raise a huge army of nearly 5,000 people! Although their combat effectiveness is not very good, they are more than enough to run rampant here in the Western Wilderness.
Anyway, now the Kingdom of Stormwind doesn’t have the time or energy to mobilize elite troops to come back to encircle and suppress them, right? And by the time the Kingdom of Stormwind finally couldn't help but mobilize troops from the outside world or the north, I'm afraid that the West Wilds would have become the territory of their new Defias Brotherhood.
"Okay, let's do this for now. Don't let up!"
Vanessa nodded and gave instructions. Vanessa, who seemed to be in collapse after apparating once, waved her hand, refused Lana's support, and staggered towards the farm house alone, a little stubbornly.
Now, the noble man who was domineering in Moon Creek Town was killed by her, and that Grian Stroman was also severely humiliated by her twice. Next, she can take a good rest. Rest... When the goods delivered by the goblins of the venture capital company arrive, her new Defias Brotherhood can directly rise up in Westfall and stab the heart of the Kingdom of Stormwind with a sword!
"..."
"Oh... Pete... you guy..."
Seeing her brother who was just holding the head happily, Lana covered her head speechlessly and followed Vanessa in, not even wanting to look at her stupid brother again! She didn't understand. That guy, seeing Vanessa like this, wouldn't he come over to help her?
"What's wrong with me? It's so baffling..."
He scratched his head and looked at his sister with some confusion. After realizing that he didn't seem to have done anything wrong, Peter quickly turned around and left.
He planned to take the head of Duke Lescovar of Stormwind City to their secret military camp and hang it high on the flag of the military camp to boost the morale of his subordinates!
If the situation permits, maybe he can take the opportunity to train those lazy guys for another two hours?
"Vanessa, what are you going to do next?"
"Do nothing, rest for a few days and find some monsters to practice your skills..."
"That's it...then don't you want to go to Yuexi Town to assassinate people again?"
"Wouldn't it be a trap to go there now?!"
"That's right..."
"..."
When Peter excitedly left with the head of a certain unlucky duke, the faint sound of conversation between two women could be heard in the farm house.
