In Stratholme's zoo, Uther and Hermione, who were looking increasingly irritable, as well as nearly a thousand of the most elite Silver Hand paladins, were resting their horses and waiting patiently by the fountain here.
Because, they have now lost trace of Alsace and others...
After all, the city of Stratholme is very big, otherwise it would not be called the Northern Pearl of Lordaeron! Therefore, in order not to wander around and take the wrong path, and to be considerate of the physical strength of the war horses, they had no choice but to wait in this large zoo in the center of Stratholme City, waiting for the groups of paladins who had gone out to search to come back. Make plans after reporting.
Only after confirming the location of Arthas and others can they set out purposefully to rescue each other, or wait for an opportunity to attack a certain bird suspected of spreading the plague and causing the people of Lordaeron to suffer endless suffering. Fighting and capturing Mal'Ganis's dreadlords?
Of course, what to do in the end depends on the situation. After all, sometimes plans are definitely far behind the changes, and all they can do now is just to wait patiently here.
'...'
call!
I don’t know how Alsace and the others are doing now...
"Miss Granger, do you need some water? Here! This is holy water blessed by our Paladin with holy light. Drinking it will not only quench your thirst, but also have some benefits in resisting the poisonous gas of the undead plague."
Standing next to the fountain, looking at the house not far away, and listening to some kind of 'wuwu' wailing sound coming from it, Uther sighed and took out the gun next to his saddle. The kettle sat on the chair next to the fountain. He was about to open the lid and prepare to take a sip. After thinking about it, he handed it to Gran who was standing aside and didn't know what he was thinking. Jay the little witch.
"ah?"
"No, no need, I have one myself, thank you!"
After coming back to her senses, Hermione did not reach out to pick it up, but looked towards the house where the noise came from while shaking her head and politely rejecting the other party.
Because there is indeed a lot of holy water in her embroidered deep sea bag. If she wants to drink it, she can take it out at any time. There is no need to share the pot with the Holy Knight Uther, which is not very hygienic... …
Moreover, what she was more concerned about now was obviously the house not far away and the bad noise coming from the house.
"All right……"
"If you want it, remember to tell me. Although I know that you mages usually have that magical water-making technique? But I, an old guy, must advise you that you must drink holy water when operating in Stratholme! "
Seeing that the other party rejected his kindness, Uther was not upset. After teasing the other party, he raised his head and drank heavily.
Now chaos has begun to appear in the city of Stratholme, and some of the deep infections have begun to transform. Along the way, their elite group of Holy Knights of the Silver Hand have killed at least perhaps more than a thousand undead. Zombies! However, they did not go to any of the houses they passed during the search, and just rushed here in hot pursuit.
However,
Even so, they still lost Alsace and the others in the streets of the huge Stratholme city...
Uther and others currently only know that Alsace and the others may be at the dock in the northwest, or in the urban area in the northeast. As for where they are, they may not know until the search team comes back, so , now he must maintain good physical strength and replenish water, because, he feels that a fierce battle may be coming soon.
"Well?"
"Please stop looking, Miss Granger. I can feel it. There are indeed a few undead zombies there, but they don't seem to be able to open the door, so we don't need to worry about them."
After taking several sips of the holy water, Uther turned to the little witch who was still staring at the house with some kind of low roar from time to time and persuaded with a smile.
And this is the reason why he previously ordered citizens to stay at home and strictly prohibit going out!
Now look, as expected, those poor guys who were transformed into undead due to the outbreak of the plague are really trapped in the house. Although the matter is temporary, if no one goes to help, they want to escape from the strong house. I'm afraid it will take a while to get out...perhaps, they may have to wait until they transform into more terrifying ghouls before they can easily break through the door or climb out of the window, right?
However, that will be at least many days later, so he is not in a hurry now, but he just has a lot of regret and regret in his heart.
"That's really cruel!"
"Lord Uther, how many people are like that now? Do we really do nothing and just watch?"
Watching tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people perish in the plague, watching them turn from living people into evil undead, watching the huge city gradually turn into a dead place, Hermione's In addition to anger, sadness, hesitation and sighs, her heart was also filled with all kinds of incomprehensible thoughts. She wanted to do something for those people, but at the same time, she knew that she could not do anything at the moment. can not do this……
Just like the howls and screams she heard from time to time along the way, those things that first turned into undead and then killed their loved ones in the house were really cruel to a certain extent. a little!
"Granger Witch!"
"Holy Light can testify that our people have actually carefully checked this neighborhood. There are more than 20,000 people in total, but there are only less than 300 uninfected people. Those people have been escorted outside the city for re-examination in the morning. Those who have been screened, and those who stay at home..."
At this point, David Croford, who had just interrupted suddenly, sighed and shook his head regretfully. Obviously, he couldn't bear to continue talking, and he believed that whether it was Uther or the other All witches would know the fate of those people, and he himself was even a little numb.
However, his heart is still hot, and he is still filled with boundless anger towards the demons who caused all this, the Cult of Curse, and some possible masterminds behind the scenes! He believed that whether it was himself or other Paladins, their boundless angry sacred fire would one day burn and completely purify the villains who had done evil to Lordaeron!
"..."
'The Phantom Tablet! '
After staring at the house that was attacked from the inside by the undead zombies, and the thick door panel kept shaking, I felt that the door of that house might be a little unsafe, or I couldn't bear to see the poor people rushing out from inside. The guys were killed by the Paladins in front of her eyes. Hermione thought for a moment, then waved the wand in her hand and let a strengthening spell directly hit the shaking wooden door in the distance, causing it to instantly change. It must be as hard as slate.
"??"
"Okay, that's fine. Originally, I wanted to send someone to make them 'quiet'..."
Paladin David Croft shook his head in confusion, and then he did not make any comment on the witch's behavior. He walked directly to the side of his companions who were looking curiously towards them, and asked those guys He asked for the Siabi tobacco found in Stratholme and started puffing away.
After taking control of Stratholme, they discovered a lot of 'ownerless' property and goods, such as the boxes of tobacco products stamped with the emblem of Fras Siabi found in a warehouse? And those things are now directly requisitioned by them for free!
After all, the owner of that warehouse, the businessman named Fras Siabi, has probably become an undead long ago. Even if they want to purchase or 'requisition with compensation', it is impossible.
In fact, there is now a huge amount of wealth 'hidden' in the city of Stratholme. Before, they only collected some supplies and original financial warehouses and the vaults of major banks. As for more , they are temporarily powerless.
"Ah!"
"Croford is right, Miss Granger, you'd better come and sit for a while, don't waste your magic power. There are at least tens of thousands of independent houses in this city, and you can't control that many. ."
Seeing that the banging on the door in that house was still continuing, but the wooden door suddenly became extremely tough, and now it no longer even shook, Uther moved toward the little boy who had put away his wand. The witch smiled and patted the empty space next to her to persuade again.
You know, there will be a big battle waiting for them later. He doesn't want a witch to waste her precious magic power on locking the doors of houses, because that kind of thing doesn't make much sense at all. , is doomed to be in vain.
"I know!"
"But Lord Uther, I feel that I must do something, otherwise I may go crazy!!"
After saying that, Hermione sat down directly next to Paladin Uther with some boredom, sitting on the same chair as him, just across the huge war hammer from him, and then angrily moved towards the people around the fountain. The huge cage was looked at.
Then soon, something else finally attracted her excessive attention...
"!!"
"Sir Uther, may I ask, those two...animals over there? What on earth are they?!"
Hermione rubbed her eyes and pointed at the monster trapped in the huge rockery pool like those on the earth.
Because she discovered: They have huge eagle heads, and their bodies are all covered with flat hair, but they have bodies larger than giant bears and sharp claws, and they still walk upright on their lower limbs?
"That one? Oh! Those are two eagles and bears..."
Uther glanced at it, and then quickly gave a direct answer. As a high-ranking noble of the Kingdom of Lordaeron and the leader of the Knights of the Silver Hand, he is not unfamiliar with that kind of animal, because that thing is also available in the zoo of the Royal City of Lordaeron, and it is even bigger and bigger!
"Bear and eagle?!"
"So, what about that big guy over there? Is that a walking dragon?!"
Hermione didn't quite understand the weird spelling of the so-called 'Eagle Bear' that the other party was talking about, but she roughly understood what it was, so she pointed directly to the hill-like thing inside the big slump on the other side. monster.
"Giant, giant dragon?"
"No! That's not a giant dragon, that's a 'Lightning Lizard' or a 'Thunder Lizard'! They are not a giant dragon, they are a docile large herbivorous animal that cannot be classified as a dragon!"
If it were a 'dragon', the people in Lordaeron would have to be crazy to lock them in the zoo in Stratholme!
In fact, Uther can now say responsibly: If the people in Stratholme were really crazy and kidnapped a 'giant dragon' and locked it up in a zoo for people to watch, I'm afraid the undead wouldn't be around now. The plague has come to destroy this place, and the dragon army has already razed this city to the ground with its dragon breath.
Of course, there are often people in this world who secretly hunt dragons, otherwise there wouldn't be so many dragon weapons and dragon skin armors for sale on the market, like the legendary 'Dragon Stalker'? However, no one dares to do that kind of thing openly. Whether it is a dragon eating a human or a human hunting a dragon, there are certain unspoken rules. Otherwise, the five-color giant dragon will definitely give that kind of Guys who openly seek death are a good look!
"Thunder Lizard, this is the first time I have seen such a big lizard..."
How dare such a big guy be called 'docile'?
Anyway, Hermione said that she would never get close to such a scary-looking big guy easily! Moreover, if the other person's name contains 'Lightning' and 'Thunder', it must not be aimless. Is it better for her to stay away from similar guys in the future?
"!?"
"Also! Then, where are those people over there?!"
Suddenly, Hermione pointed to a place where there was some submerged lava and fire, and inside were purple-red, twisted monsters?
She didn't understand what was wrong with the people here in Stratholme, why were they interested in that kind of tentacle monster that looked like it gave people goosebumps? Just looking at such things made people feel chills in their hearts. She couldn't imagine how they caught them and brought them to the zoo for people to watch?
"That's an ooze tentacle monster..."
"It should be regarded as a kind of undead creature, but it is different from the undead plague we are facing now. It is said that they are composed of the bones, putrid ooze and the remains of certain animals or humanoid creatures that died in specific environments. An aggregation of twisted evil spirits formed by the power of chaotic elements polluted under natural conditions?”
"Fortunately, they are not too difficult to deal with, and they are not very contagious."
If those zombies, skeletons, ghouls and patch monsters are monsters caused by the undead plague, then those ooze monsters are naturally formed undead creatures. Although they are all evil existences, their properties are not the same. Too same.
"Where did they come from? Are they native animals here in Lordaeron?"
Hermione said that in addition to all kinds of strange birds and small animals she and Harry had seen in the wild, they had only seen those terrifying elemental stone men, groups of gnolls, a small number of forest trolls, and Various fish-men and so on can be found almost anywhere there are rivers.
"It should be from the opposite continent Kalimdor or Northrend in the north, right?"
"Actually, I don't know much about it. Stratholme has always been the northern pearl of the continent of Lordaeron. The trade here used to be very prosperous. Those merchants often brought weird things from other continents. matter."
"well……"
Thinking of the grand occasion of Stratholme in the past, and then looking at everything in front of him, thinking that this huge city would soon completely decline, the bag of holy water in Uther's hand seemed to suddenly become less sweet. The hand that was originally raised lowered itself unconsciously.
"!!"
"There is really a continent called Kalimdor on the other side of the sea?!"
Hermione was obviously a little surprised when she heard Uther talking about this kind of thing, because she suddenly thought of someone because of it.
"Of course! What's wrong!?"
Uther was a little strange, not knowing what was going on with this startled little witch.
"It's like this. When I was going to Kaolin intersection, I heard the prophet say..."
"??"
However, Hermione was unable to continue talking to Uther because she saw a group of Paladins galloping towards her on horseback, and they were the same people who had been sent out to search for Al by Uther and others. The Paladin teams of Sass and others.
'Report! '
'Lord Uther! '
'In the dock area to the north, Prince Arthas' army completely defeated the Dread Lord and his undead and won a great victory. Now they leave the harbor by boat and continue to pursue the enemy! ! '
When the team of Paladins galloped forward and narrowly reined in the reins, the Paladin at the head did not even have time to get off his horse and reported loudly.
"What?"
"You said Alsace and the others won. Is this true?!"
Uther subconsciously exclaimed, because just now he was thinking about how he was going to raid after knowing the whereabouts of Arthas and others later, and knowing the location of the Dread Lord, but now, this Paladin actually Come and tell yourself that the enemy has been defeated by Prince Alsace and others? !
"!!"
"It shouldn't be right?"
"In the name of the Holy Light, I fought with that Dread Lord for several rounds. If it hadn't been for Miss Granger, I might have died! Prince Arthas seems not as powerful as me. That Potter Wizards are not as strong as Miss Granger, so how could they defeat the Dread Lord so quickly?"
However, unlike Uther's surprise, Paladin David subconsciously felt that something was wrong and unbelievable, and he commented on Prince Arthas' ability in front of everyone.
Anyway, in his opinion, unless the Dread Lord went crazy and went to fight Alsace's troops alone, otherwise, it would never have been defeated so quickly.
Or, if the paladin had just reported that Arthas was defeated miserably by the opponent, he might be more willing to believe it?
"..."
Hermione didn't say anything or think too much. She just had some doubts in her heart. She didn't know why Prince Arthas wanted to chase the demon who could only turn into a bat and escape. Moreover, she was also very worried about Harry. Safety, after all, she only has the other party as her companion now.
"not good!"
"That must be a trap. Quick, send someone to stop Prince Alsace and the others right away!"
Are Alsace and the others crazy? There are more than two thousand of them and they dare to pursue them rashly? In a hurry, Uther subconsciously felt that things might be going bad, so he ordered loudly.
However, he soon retracted his order.
"No!"
"I'd better go in person!!"
Uther knew that others might not be able to stop the prince, so he planned to go there personally to recover the crown prince of Lordaeron.
'But Lord Uther! '
'When Prince Arthas led his army out to sea to pursue Mal'Ganis, he took away all the warships and sailors. Now we have no big ships or sailors to go to sea! ! '
"What?!"
It’s over, it’s over…
After listening to the paladin's addition, Uther knew that something was really going wrong now!
'Report! '
'It was discovered that a large number of necromancers from the Cult of the Curse have appeared in the city. They are leading the undead to attack, destroy houses and convert citizens in batches. Now there is an army of at least tens of thousands of undead zombies appearing in the northwest city, and they are attacking here! '
'Report~! '
'Lord Uther! General Alfred Abedis from outside the city came to report that he discovered that the death knight Masek, who had attacked the intersection of Darrow County and Kaolin Road, was leading more than 20,000 undead towards Stanso from the southeast. Mu is coming quickly! '
'The general tells you to go back immediately! ! '
'Report! '
'Lord Uther! There were also riots in the northeastern city. There were too many undead there, and our patrol team had retreated in defeat! ! '
Almost at the same time, wretched paladins or messengers came running from a distance, one after another, and each brought worse news than the last.
"!!"
"This is indeed a trap. Quick, order all of us to retreat and leave Stratholme immediately!!"
Uther, who judged how bad the situation had become, finally had to scream in pain, threw away the bag of holy water in his hand, hurriedly picked up his war hammer and prepared to step on it. war horse.
"Lord Uther, do you still want to carry out that plan and burn Stratholme?"
David Crawford, who followed the opponent on his horse and ordered the other paladins of the Knights of the Silver Hand to quickly prepare for a breakout, asked Uther hurriedly.
"..."
"It's useless, it's too late now... Hurry! Let's all retreat immediately and get out of here first!!"
Now, he can no longer take care of the undead here, the citizens, or Alsace who just took the boat out to sea without asking, because if they go slowly, then I'm afraid all of them will be gone. Gotta die!
"Paladins!"
"Attack to the south! The Holy Light is with us!!"
Uther is not afraid of death, but he is afraid of dying worthless...
Because, just as the undead of Stratholme are growing rapidly like a snowball, under the coordination of internal and external cooperation, I am afraid that the remaining thousands of troops in Uther's hands, including the elite paladins including the Knights of the Silver Hand, will be destroyed no matter what. They are not enough for the enemy to fight. If we don't retreat now, they will probably all die here!
However, he doesn't understand why the situation has become so bad in such a short period of time? Perhaps Alsace's plan yesterday was the most correct one?
Uther, who hurriedly led the Paladins to evacuate to the southern city, couldn't help but feel a trace of regret in his mind, but soon, he had no time to think about it anymore, because a large group of black undead, that kind of terrifying, just now The 'citizens' who were transformed into zombies appeared on their way to retreat south...
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