"We wait until early in the morning before taking action. At that time, patrols are being handed over in the camp and there are the fewest people standing guard."
Thassarian leaned against the window, staring at the moon in the sky, estimating the time. Matt guarded his daughter, full of anxiety and uneasiness.
Seemingly sensing Matt's nervousness, Thassarian said, "You don't have to worry so much. As long as we can get out of the camp and enter the forest, it will be difficult for them to catch up with us."
"I know, but I just..." Matt hesitated.
"It seems like you don't have much confidence in me." Thassarian didn't mind this. Although he was very good, he was a recruit who had only been in the army for a few days. If Matt had no choice, he would definitely not come to him.
"Actually, it's more about not having confidence in myself." Matt sighed. He followed the Alliance, participated in the Orc War, and experienced many major battles, but none of them were as dangerous as this one.
When the Alliance fought against the orcs, at least there was not a big disparity in numbers, and there were also back and forths in strategy. But now, with just him and Thassarian, and his daughter with him, Matt really didn't know where to find confidence.
Not only did he doubt Thassarian's character, but the fact that Thassarian came back to look for him when he discovered something was wrong in the camp already proved that he was indeed consistent with his words and was a kind and brave Lordaeron soldier.
Matt didn't say anything more. He and Thassarian took turns to watch the night, and the room remained silent until the sky began to turn white. Thassarian checked his luggage again and nodded to Matt. .
The two climbed out of the window, Matt hugged his sleeping daughter, and followed Thassarian closely.
"etc."
Before leaving the cover of the house, Thassarian gestured for Matt to stop, and he cautiously stuck his head out to observe the situation.
To Thassarian's surprise, there was no one in the camp. The guards patrolling and standing guard had gone somewhere, and the entire camp gave people a strange sense of death.
Seeing such a scene, Thassarian did not relax at all. Instead, his instinct as a warrior made him feel that the camp had become more dangerous.
However, they had no time or opportunity to check on other people's conditions. Thassarian quickly said to Matt, "Quickly go!"
Matt and Thassarian quickly passed through the most dangerous section of the journey, but when they were about to reach the side entrance of the camp and were about to walk out, Matt's expression suddenly turned frightened.
"this……"
Thassarian was also stunned for a moment, and his spirit suffered an indescribable impact: his comrades were standing outside the camp in armor, but their no longer upright postures and skin covered with corpses showed that they had long since No more living people.
After seeing Thassarian and Matt, these undead screamed in terror, raised their weapons and surrounded the door - there was no exit for a long time, and all openings in the camp were doors to hell!
"This is necromancy!" Matt, who was well-informed, immediately reacted. This was almost exactly the same as the corpses of the psychic knights he had seen during the orc wars.
Although they had been dead for a long time, the undead soldiers were no slower than normal warriors. It was just that while the two were stunned, the sharp sword blade had already struck Thassarian.
The young warrior reacted quickly and raised his sword to block the attack. At the same time, he shouted to Matt, "Run, I'll hold them back!"
Matt made no move: run? Where to run? The number of undead was a hundred times greater than theirs, and the way out of the camp was blocked by the undead!
"Hehehehe!"
Harsh laughter sounded behind Matt, and he felt as if he was standing under a huge shadow. The doctor stubbornly protected his daughter and turned to look behind him.
"Do you think you can really leave here? The game has just begun. Hurry up and bring this cute little girl in..."
In Matt's last consciousness, he saw a tall monster fully armed with rune armor. His tone was frivolous, as if he had done something extremely pleasurable.
Seeing Matt unconscious on the ground with Sally, the father still protected his daughter tightly and did not let her get any harm. Sally seemed not to hear any sound and lay quietly. In my father's arms.
"Damn monsters! What did you do to them!"
Under the gushing rage, Thassarian swung a fast and deadly sword light, and several undead soldiers were pushed back by him. Thassarian, who pulled away, just took steps to retreat to Matt, but his center of gravity was One fell to the ground unsteadily.
He looked back and found that only half of the undead soul that he had cut off at the waist was left, and the cold right hand was firmly holding his ankle.
The rest of the undead took advantage of him to fall to the ground, swarmed up, and pressed Thassarian to the ground. Although the young man struggled hard, he was unable to resist the suppression of dozens of undead. He could only watch helplessly as the tall monster picked up the man. Te and Sally.
"Ahhh!"
Thassarian roared angrily, but in the end there was only darkness in his vision.
…
In a daze, Thassarian heard someone speaking in his ear.
"Your Highness, he is unconscious and seriously injured!"
"Soldier! Wake up, soldier!"
"Damn, his temperature is dropping - Jaina, use your magic to make a fire!"
His Royal Highness Prince? Before losing consciousness again, Thassarian felt warm, as comfortable as the warm sunshine on a sunny day in Tirisfal.
After sinking in the darkness for an unknown amount of time, Thassarian finally opened his eyes and saw a knight in black armor looking after him.
When the Privy Knight discovered that Thassarian had regained consciousness, he quickly reported the situation to Arthas.
"I...was saved?" Thassarian leaned on the temporary stone backrest built for him, unable to believe that he was still alive.
Arthas came to Thassarian, and after confirming his physical condition, asked, "I am Prince Arthas. Soldier, what happened? Why did you faint on the roadside?"
"Your Highness... I am Thassarian, a recruit from the first legion, the southern camp. Our camp... was attacked by strange magic, and everyone... everyone became undead." Thassarian endured the pain , explained the situation with difficulty.
Thassarian? I didn't expect to meet this guy here.
Alsace looked at this very young man with some surprise, probably in his early twenties. When he was discovered by the team, he fell on the roadside with wounds all over his body and was eroded by the strong smell of death, as if he had grown from the dead. Climbed out of the pile.
The facts are actually not much different from what Arthas thought. Thassarian really climbed out of the pile of "dead people".
But Thassarian didn't crawl out by himself. He was thrown out of the camp by the "monster". He fainted after being knocked down by the undead, but I don't know why the undead didn't kill him. He was dropped a few kilometers away from the southern camp.
Just as the people from Arthas arrived, they met Thassarian in a coma on the roadside, and found the emblem of the First Legion of Lordaeron on his body. This made Thassarian survive by chance, otherwise he would have been killed. The undead didn't kill him, and the injuries on his body were enough to kill him.
"The southern camp has been completely occupied... The three hundred soldiers inside and their commander Wesley have become puppets of necromancy..." Thassarian's tone was low, and he regretted why he didn't believe Mai earlier. If that's the case, maybe, maybe Matt and Sally can survive.
Why did the monster and the undead let him alone?
"I'm sorry for Dr. Matt and little Sally..."
"Doctor Matt? Little Sally?" Jaina noticed the two names specifically mentioned by Thassarian, "Are they the companions who escaped with you?"
Thassarian nodded, "Dr. Matt was the first to discover something unusual in the camp, and he was the one who alerted me... But... neither he nor his daughter Sally could escape. I don't know why they Just let me go."
Captain Farric thought this was abnormal, "Your Highness, this sounds weird. The situation in the southern camp may be more complicated than we thought."
Jaina also agreed with Farric's view, "Based on what this warrior said, he was probably deliberately released by the demon named Mal'Ganis in order to lure us..."
Halfway through, Jaina suddenly felt something was wrong. If the southern camp was a trap to lure Arthas and his troops, why should Thassarian be let out?
"This is a trap, yes, but the purpose is not to annihilate us." Alsace had already guessed the purpose of Mal'Ganis's actions, "He is forcing me to go - Doctor Matt and little Sally are very likely to Not dead yet, Thassarian was just sent by him to inform me of the news.”
It was easy for Arthas to think of this, because he knew Mal'Ganis's ultimate purpose, and working backwards from this could explain why Thassarian was allowed to survive and why Matt and his daughter were not manipulated from the beginning.
It was impossible for Mal'Ganis to be unable to hypnotize and convert even a doctor with only superficial spell-casting skills. This could only mean that Mal'Ganis did it on purpose. In order to force himself to go to the southern camp, he had to step into his trap.
It seems that the big demon has already thought up a plan and wants to use the blood of two innocent father and daughter and an entire camp of soldiers to lure him onto the path he and the Lich King envisioned.
