Shadow Trails in Azeroth

Next to a bonfire in the center of the ruins of the town.

Blake raised his hand, and five or six candies landed accurately in the arms of the three children.

With this thing as a gift, no matter how stupid the children are, they know that it is the pirates who are teasing them, and they immediately relax.

Facing Blake's gentle inquiry, the little girl eating fruit candy in her mouth felt the sweetness coming from her taste buds that she had not felt for a long time.

Being held in Blake's arms again, I felt so safe at this moment that I burst into laughter and answered in a timid voice:

"My name is Althea Aberlock, sir."

"Aberlock?"

Blake blinked when he heard the last name.

He looked at the two little boys opposite, his eyes falling on the thin black-haired boy, and said:

"Then you must be Camrisard Aberlock?"

"Huh?"

The thin black-haired boy who was tearing open the candy wrapper and putting the candy into his mouth raised his head in surprise, looked at Black, and said:

"Sir, how do you know my name?"

"I want to say that I am a magician, do you believe me?"

Blake let go of the little girl in his arms and let her sit on the wood next to him. He took out a few pieces of bread bought in Booty Bay from his bag and distributed them to the three hungry children.

He looked at the three of them and said softly:

"As for me, I just passed by here tonight. This is my first time in the territory of the Kingdom of Stormwind.

But even though I am as ignorant as I am, I also know that the fertile land of Sunshine Forest and Crow Ridge is the fiefdom of Duke Aberlock, a great nobleman of the Kingdom of Stormwind.

And you two are the sons and daughters of His Excellency the Duke.

But as far as I know, that Duke is still in the Northern Territory, assisting Varian Wrynn, the crown prince of Stormwind City, in the court of Lordaeron. how?

Didn't your father take you two with him when he fled?

Is he such a cold-blooded person? "

"No, sir."

The little girl Althea is very well-behaved.

Although long-term malnutrition made the child look very thin, her black hair and black eyes gave her the embryo of a little beauty at the age of seven or eight.

While she was devouring the bread, she explained to Blake:

"My father probably thought that my brother and I were dead. When the orcs broke into our manor, my father was not there. It was the family knights who protected us and escaped into the forest.

But at that time, Stormwind City had been occupied by greenskins, and my father couldn't come back to find us. "

"Sister, you don't have to defend the bad guy who abandoned us and our mother!"

Compared to Althea's well-behaved nature, her brother Kanrissade is a bit aggressive and irritable. This skinny boy of thirteen or fourteen years old chewed the hard candy loudly and said to Blake:

"My father is a cold-blooded person. When my mother was still alive, he had a lover outside. When he fled to northern Xinjiang, he took his little lover with him, but he couldn't find anyone to save us.

My mother died the night the manor was breached. He doesn't deserve to be my father! I will never forgive him in this life! "

"Ha, scandals among nobles, I like to hear this the most, children."

Blake rubbed his hands and showed a smile.

He looked at the silent, older, blond boy next to the Eberlock brothers, maybe fifteen or sixteen years old, and asked:

"What about you? Child, who are you?"

"My name is Morgan, sir."

Hearing the pirate's question, the boy who was eating bread immediately raised his head. He wiped the crumbs from the corners of his mouth and replied in a steady voice:

"Morgan Ladimore, my father was the captain of the Duchess's escort. He died in the battle to protect the young master and the young lady. Before he died, he left this responsibility to me.

I am the guard of the young master and the young lady! "

"But you can't even defeat the weakest orc I have."

Blake stared at the child and said softly:

"You are not very competent as a little guard."

"Sir, are those orcs your men?"

Hearing Black's words, the three children stopped eating at the same time. Kanrisade, the most aggressive character, stood up in an instant and said in a sharp voice:

"As a human, how can you hang out with the orcs! And you accept them as your subordinates! Bah!"

He glanced at the bread in his hand, threw it into the fire, and said dissatisfied:

"I thought you were a good person!"

Although the other two children did not make the same move.

But they no longer went to eat the fragrant bread. The little girl Althea quietly moved her body further away from Blake.

"Oh, you little fools who don't understand anything, being with orcs means nothing."

Blake ignored the actions of the three children.

He reached out and picked up the stick, flicked the bonfire in front of him, and said slowly:

"The world is very complex.

Those who shout to kill the orcs are not necessarily the good people you think, and those who hang out with the orcs like me are not necessarily heinous bastards.

My guys, well... well, they're a bunch of real bad guys, but in my eyes, they're 'good bad guys', and so am I.

But I don’t want to talk to you about this because you can’t understand it.

Say something happy.

The fact that you can all appear in these ruins means that there must be many refugees like you hiding nearby? There should be some over there at Crow Ridge. "

The pirate rubbed his chin and said:

“Ever since darkness enveloped this forest, the orcs have not dared to come in, so in the past two years, although this place looks scary, it is one of the safest places in the war-torn southern part of the continent.

There should be quite a few humans hiding in this forest.

But I can tell by the look on your face that you are living a miserable life. "

He glanced at the three children around him, as if he was thinking about something. After a few seconds of silence, he put down the wooden stick in his hand and patted the head of the stretched little fishman on his shoulder.

explain:

"As I said just now, I am a pirate and magician passing through this place. I have magical powers."

He fidgeted with his fingers, and among the shadows gathering together, dancing shadows turned into patterns of various shapes on his fingertips, which quickly attracted the attention of the three children.

He said to them:

"The three of you meeting me tonight may be driven by fate. The three of you all have special powers, and you can all make some small achievements in the next era.

I am willing to help you and the refugees hiding in the dark forest and struggling to survive this difficult time. I will make you live more comfortable here, wait for the war to end, and let more people survive. .

But in exchange.

I will take one of you to serve me as my attendant. "

"we do not need!"

Kanrisade, a thin boy, seemed to have a premonition of something bad. He grabbed his thin sister and protected the silent Morgan behind him.

He said to Blake:

"We can survive on our own."

"Yeah?"

Blake chuckled, pointed at the deep night, and said:

"Then tell me, in the past few years, how many people who have left your gathering place in the middle of the night have come back alive? You should know that there are some terrible things hidden in the darkness of this forest.

More terrifying than orcs.

It is formless and hides in the darkness.

It is spying on each of you, and every time you relax your vigilance, it will suddenly appear and drag the unlucky ones among you into the darkness.

When you find the missing people, all you will find are the skeletons that have been devoured of all flesh and blood. Look at your expressions. You really should take a look for yourself.

Children, you really don’t know how to keep secrets. "

The pirate spread his hands and said in a threatening tone:

"I'm not trying to scare you. The power in the darkness is already ravenous. If this continues, you and the kind-hearted people who have been protecting you may not be able to survive the day the war ends.

Look, kids, I'm here to help you.

Well, let's do this. I'll let you see the power of shelter I promised you first, and then make a decision, okay?

Now, go to this ruins and collect some garbage. Don't look at me with that look. I'm not crazy. There is garbage everywhere here. It shouldn't be a problem for you, right?

Go quickly!

Don't expect me to help, I am a person of high status. "

He waved his hands and drove the three children away. He sat by the bonfire, playing with the little fishmen and letting Benbolba dance in the shadow of the flames.

The three children left like this if they wanted to.

But the thin Althea looked back at the pirates by the bonfire. She grabbed her angry brother and said a few words in his ear.

The skinny boy Kanrisad's expression changed, and then he mustered up the courage to walk up to the heavily armed orc pirate guards patrolling outside the town. With trembling legs, he shouted to him:

"Hey! Your leader wants you to collect garbage!"

"Um?"

The orc carrying the big ax turned back and glared at the human cub who was bossing him around, and made an intimidating expression. But Kanrisad gritted his teeth and pointed at the pirate beside the bonfire behind him and said:

"If you don't believe me, ask him! He also said that if you don't do it quickly, I'll beat you up!"

Orc pirates are not stupid either.

But he really didn't have the guts to offend his terrible captain for such a trivial matter. In the end, he hesitated for a few seconds and ran to the ruins dejectedly to pick up some tattered clothes, boots and the like.

He's pretty smart.

Knowing that he pulled three companions to do it with him.

As for Xieyan and Zarak, these two bad guys have run away long ago and have no involvement in this matter.

With the help of four big-bodied orcs, the garbage pile Black needed was quickly built on the edge of the town. He held the little fish man in his arms.

Glancing at Althea who was hiding behind her brother, she shook her head, walked to the garbage pile, took out a wooden statue of Old Gani from her arms, and threw it on the garbage pile without respect.

Then he waved to the three children and motioned for them to come over.

"Remember me!"

The pirate said to the three children:

"I'll read one sentence, and you guys should read the same sentence, so don't read it wrong."

After speaking, he stretched out his voice, picked up a piece of garbage from the side, placed it on the garbage pile as an offering, and called in human language:

“Protector of scavengers, god of trash, god of abandonment, god of secrets, king of thieves, lord of slaves, keeper of secrets, god of scavengers.

Old Garni!

We have paid tribute to the Scavengers Holy Land and asked you to show up to meet us. "

The three children also followed the babbling movements of Black God, presented the garbage as tribute, and recited the prayer completely in their immature voices.

Then, as they watched in surprise, there was a strange cry, like a child's laughter, and blurry smoke rose around the garbage dump.

In the blink of an eye, the strange and bright figure of Old Gani gathered on the garbage pile in front of him.

There are also sharp and weird greetings:

"Hey, stinky pirate, we meet again. Hey, why are these three human cubs here? Are you going to use them as sacrifices and sacrifice them to Old Garni?

No no no!

Old Garni is different from those barbaric loa. I only want sparkles, not human children.

However, they look delicious! "

Loa, the rhinoceros dragon with a bad character, looked at the three frightened children behind Blake with its very human eyes, and said in a long voice:

“It’s not good to eat garbage all the time, you have to change your taste occasionally.

Tsk tsk, that little girl looks good, she is thin and small, just perfect for swallowing it in one gulp! "

Hearing these familiar words, Althea, who was hiding behind her brother, immediately curled her lips.

After being frightened by the same trick three times in a row, no matter how stupid she is, she should be immune.

It's so vulgar to meet these weird guys tonight!

Everyone likes to scare her.