Shadow Trails in Azeroth

The Ancestral Turtles finally boarded Captain Grayson's ship.

Although this small boat is only used for charging in naval battles, it is really useful when encountering inland rivers like this.

Even in a certain sense, inland plundering is the natural place for this kind of Vrykul plundering ship.

Ships larger than it cannot get in, and ships that can get in cannot defeat it.

This time also made Captain Ghost very excited. While steering his ship upstream to Azsuna, the largest inner lake in the land, he was still in the mood to rebuke the grudges he had with the Ancestral Turtles.

"You sold me a fake chart! You also lied to me that there were treasures in the fog in the South China Sea. As a result, I took my ship into the fog and was trapped in it for a month. I almost died there."

Grayson held on to the hilt of the Bloodletter's sword at his waist, and while drinking, he complained rudely to Nora, the Scroll Sage sitting beside him:

"You turtle people don't do good things! If I hadn't been able to defeat you back then, I would have burned down all your towns on the islands in the South China Sea!"

"We didn't lie to you, stupid pirate."

Nora paid no attention to the threat of ghost pirates in front of her.

She is an old ancestor turtle who has traveled all over the world and has never seen anything, just a ghost captain. She held a magic scroll for detection in her hand and said without interest:

"There are indeed treasures in the great fog of the South China Sea. There are treasures all over the continent. It's just that you were unlucky and couldn't find them. The chart we sold you is also true."

"There's nothing in that fog!"

Grayson cursed:

"All the pirates or merchants who were deceived by you have gained nothing. Don't think that I don't know. You ancestor turtles have been spreading rumors in the South China Sea, saying that there are treasures in the mist."

"Ahem, this is not a rumor."

Blake, holding a telescope in his hand, scanned the land on both sides of the Azsuna River in front of him. He said to the rude pirate captain under his command:

"There are indeed good things in the fog of the South China Sea, but the Ancestral Turtles are indeed not at ease. The fog cannot be entered now. Okay, let's not talk about this, let's talk about Azuna.

The place was indeed as desolate and rundown as I remembered.

Nora, you have been here for two months, haven’t you inspected everywhere?

I remember that there are many elven ruins here, and there is also a place called the Qingdei Palace, where a group of upper elf ghosts with abnormal minds live. "

"Been there."

The ancestor turtle waved his paws, joy flashed in his little eyes, and said:

"The elves there received us warmly and told me their stories. I wrote them down."

She rummaged in the big bag behind her, found a purple scroll, opened it, and coughed a few times, as if she was going to tell a story.

Blake wanted to stop it.

But after thinking about it, he still put down his raised hand.

Nothing can stop an Archturtle from telling the story she wants to tell, unless there's a better story right in front of her.

What's more, Natalie Serling and Grayson on this ship, as well as the ghost pirates under his command, are ready to listen to the stories. As a good captain, he must meet the needs of his subordinates.

"Speak, speak. If what you say is wrong, I will correct it for you."

The pirate put down the telescope in his hand, reached out and threw the sleeping little fishman on his shoulder into the river, and gestured to it to go ahead and investigate.

Benbolba made a face to Blake in the water, and whistled underwater, and the ghost-legged crab he named "Quak Guala" came up from the water.

Carrying the little fishman, he swam towards the lake in front of the river in front of him.

Seeing that Benbolba and his ghost beast were getting along so well, Blake showed a helpless expression, and he glanced at the wide river bank.

His own ghost wolf, Frostpaw, is hunting there.

It was chasing a strange creature that looked like a gryphon, but also looked like a combination of a wolf and an eagle. That ferocious beast was called a wolf eagle, and it was a creature unique to the Broken Islands.

The wolf eagle is very ferocious, but it is certainly no match for a soul beast.

Frostpaw still didn't listen to his orders.

Although the pet intimacy level has risen to the fourth level of "reliable", this war wolf who followed Orgrim clearly has his own ideas.

The pirate ignored it and allowed it to run around and have fun.

Before the closeness of the war pet reaches the highest level, it is impossible for him to take this guy to the wilderness trial.

Blake was determined to challenge the most difficult wilderness trial. He decided to strengthen his ranger skills before taming his second war pet. This was also the advice given to him by Windrunner's mother.

On the other side, Nora had already begun to describe the good stories she had collected in the land of Azsuna in the long and gentle tone of the ancestor tortoise when telling stories.

It’s the story of how Azuna, once a prosperous place, turned into the horrible state it is now.

“Asuna, this was once the pearl of the Elf Empire under the rule of Queen Azshara. Well, the elves always like to call their city the ‘Pearl’.

All the cities under the entire Elf Empire are their pearls.

This is their unique way of describing it. "

The Scroll Sage was indeed a learned man. He was afraid that the rude pirates would not understand the meaning of this word, so he explained it to them, and then continued:

"Faronar, the elven city of Azsuna, was once one of the first cities of the elven empire and also the most prosperous city. It and Suramar are to the south and north, guarding the elves' capital Zin-Azshari .

Because the location was so important, Queen Azshara sent a magical prince she trusted very much to rule the city.

His name is Farodis, he has a noble status and has close contacts with the elven nobles.

Those legendary characters, Lord Ravencrest, Grand Magister Elisande, Great Noble Xavius, Magic Prince Torcedrin, Dath'Remar Sunstrider, etc., all maintained very friendly relations with him. Relationship.

He was loyal to his queen and very talented. He managed Faronar to a prosperous future and was deeply loved by the high elves here.

It is said that there are banquets every day in his palace, and those who come to the banquets are all very high-status people in the Elf Empire.

He also graduated from the most famous Arcanist Academy in the Elf Empire and is the most famous graduate of Nathalas Magic Academy. That Magic Academy is our destination.

Right on the shore of the largest inner lake in the land.

The reason why the city of Faronar is important, in addition to its geographical location, is also because this city once stored a Titan artifact that the arcanists found for Queen Azshara.

Golgonath's Tidestone.

It is said to be a sacred object used by the Creators to shape the seas and skies of Azeroth, and is one of the most valuable items in Queen Azshara's treasures. "

Nora looked at the story recorded on her scroll, and then at the pirates with bright eyes. She curled her lips and complained in her heart that these stinky pirates really heard the word "treasure" like dogs who saw bones. .

I really don’t understand the stories behind those treasures at all.

The Ancestral Turtles who like to explore history hate two types of people the most, one is tomb robbers and the other is pirates. These two types of people only pursue wealth, but always destroy truly important historical relics.

If this mission wasn't too important, she wouldn't have cooperated with a group of pirates.

However, the story must continue to be told.

"The prosperity of Faronar continued until the eve of the Ancient War. According to the descriptions of the elven ghosts in the ruined palace, the city's destruction resulted from a shameful betrayal.

It was the master of this city and this land who betrayed Queen Azshara and brought disaster. "

Nola's tone also became ups and downs. The Ancestral Turtle held the scroll and said in a deep voice:

"It is said that one day at Zin Azshari's palace banquet, Prince Faroldis accidentally broke into the secret of the supreme Queen Azshara.

He tried to use this secret to blackmail Her Majesty into doing some dirty things.

The result made Queen Azshara very angry.

But she mercifully pardoned Prince Farodis from his sins and simply expelled him from the court.

As a result, the magical prince who returned to Faronar was filled with twisted madness. Instead of being grateful, he wanted to launch a shameful rebellion against the queen.

He ordered his loyal guards to transport the Tidestone in the city to the water's edge, trying to use this Titan artifact to threaten the Queen.

But this dirty plot was discovered by Her Majesty the Queen.

On a stormy night, Her Majesty Azshara personally came to her loyal Faronar, and she scolded Prince Farodis for his sins in front of her subjects.

He was asked to put down the artifact immediately, but the prince was already crazy.

His heart was filled with thoughts of madness and revenge. Like a despicable and shameless beast, he declared that he would no longer obey the Queen's rule and spoke vulgar words to the Queen in front of his subjects.

Such madness angered the Queen.

Her Majesty Azshara used her supreme magical power to shatter the Tidestone in the hands of the rebels, and used the Titan artifact to release a curse on the traitors.

The Queen was so angry.

The rage consumed her sanity, leaving her with no power to control the curse.

That night the shameful rebel died.

That night, the subjects loyal to Her Majesty also suffered. The power of the curse destroyed their bodies and imprisoned their souls in a land destroyed by Azshara's wrath.

That night, all Azsuna wept. "

Nora finished the story, and her audience fell silent.

The ghost pirates looked around the river, and they could clearly see the ruins of collapsed, abandoned elven cities that seemed to have been swept by a storm.

Those ruins are already covered with weeds and moss, like the corpse of a civilization that has been beaten by wind and rain for ten thousand years.

They were astonished by the power of the legendary Elf Queen.

She single-handedly destroyed this land, and the magic she left here has not subsided even after 10,000 years.

Natalie, the ship's doctor, is more about the story itself.

This priest, who had almost served as Archbishop of the Kingdom of Stormwind, keenly sensed some weird plots in this story, and she pulled up her hood.

Asked the ancestor turtle:

"So, those elves and ghosts only told you about the prince's betrayal and the queen's anger, but they didn't tell you why the prince betrayed?"

"Well, this is indeed a doubt, human."

Scroll Sage Nora showed her scroll to Natalie. There was a big "?" on it, and she said to Natalie:

"I asked all the ghosts in that palace, and they all just expressed their contempt and anger towards the betrayer prince, but no one could tell me why the prince chose to betray Azshara.

And there's something very wrong with them.

It's like being trapped in the day of the disaster forever, living that day over and over again. I remind them, but they don't care.

The power of the curse imprisoned them, making them forever complaining and angry about Prince Farodis, but it was difficult to care about other things.

I'm also trying to figure out the truth, and I'm very interested in this truth.

But I can’t find the protagonist in the story, Prince Farodis. He must still be on this land, but no one knows where he has gone.”

"Quack gua gua"

Just as the pirates were discussing power, curses and treasures, and Natalie and Nora were discussing the truth, the sharp alarm of the little fish man sounded in the distance ahead.

Captain Grayson reacted very quickly. He picked up the telescope, glanced forward, and shouted:

"There are Nagas in front! There are so many of them, prepare to fight!"

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuu"

A large group of pirate ghosts rushed out from all over the Jotunheim Force, each eager to try.

They are the souls of the most ferocious North Sea fanatics who were restrained after their death.

They were not afraid of the group of deep-sea soft-skinned snakes and were about to have a good fight. Blake sat on the edge of the boat with no intention of joining the battle.

He is still changing his clothes at this moment.

As Natalie and Nora watched in astonishment, Blake took off his Night Slayer suit and put on the Corruptor's robe that he had barely worn since he got it.

He looked back at Natalie and said:

"You'd better start changing your clothes, my ship's doctor. Put on your robes. There's no way you can enter the Narthalas School of Magic the way you look now.

It was the most famous magic academy in the ancient Elf Empire, and they had very strict requirements for the attire of new students when they entered the school.

What are you doing standing there? Change your clothes quickly.

I won't peek.

I swear. "