Chapter 213: The Lordaeron Incident (Part 1)
The millennium of peace has brought many things.
Such as prosperity, such as numbness.
The bustling urban life makes everyone like a flower in a greenhouse, unable to withstand any wind and rain. Once a gust of wind called orcs broke through the glass windows of the greenhouse and blew in, they withered and even withered.
In "history", even if Lothar made a shocking concession, and even let the glory of the ancestors be burned, he personally admitted that the era of Emperor Thoradin had completely passed, and recognized the kingship of the kings. It still took more than three months to complete the integration of the alliance.
It was only when the orcs bypassed the Sardor Bridge defense line of the Stormgard Kingdom and invaded from the sea to the hinterlands of the kingdoms on the northern continent that the kingdoms woke up.
Note that the 'public' here does not include Lordaeron. Lordaeron, with the strongest economic and military strength, was almost the last to be attacked because of its location in the north.
For a long time, Lordaeron has been in a situation of local wars, just pay a little money and troops, and then it has nothing to do with it. The nobles should sing and dance, and watch the beasts. When the front line was fighting the most intensely, this group of bastard nobles went to King Terenas every day to complain that Lothar was a vampire, which consumed too much of their taxes, manpower and material resources.
What Duke has to do is to wake up this lion, even if this lion is old, it is still a lion.
Ryan and Anduin glanced at Duke.
Neither of them knew what Duke was up to, but Duke must have done something.
Because Duke said that he would use a brand new way to stimulate the nerves of a certain king.
What the hell is this 'new way'? Ryan and Anduin felt that it was not good when they heard it, but they still acquiesced to Duke because of the lack of progress in the negotiation.
The representatives of various countries continued to criticize the Kingdom of Stormwind. The representative of the Kingdom of Gilneas pointed at the head of the frozen Great Chief Blackhand and taunted King Ryan: "You said this is the head of the chief of those green-skinned monsters? Maybe this guy's The size is a bit big, but who can prove that this is their leader? Didn’t you say that they are all intelligent monsters? Why would their leader come to your door to cut off your head? Don’t be kidding, a king You won’t stand at the forefront easily. Why would an orc with obvious advantages in your mouth send a great chief to kill you?”
"You!!" Lothar's beard was furious, and he finally risked his life to kill the super perverted monster Black Hand. Now it has been demoted to nothing! ?
However, Duke grabbed Lothar, turned to smile to the representative of Gilneas, "Well, our army from the Stormwind Kingdom will go to the battlefield at the same time as your army, and you can hold this big head and shake it in front of the tribe. Don’t you know who those green skins in your mouth will chase after madly?”
"You..." The representative of Gilneas suddenly stood up, wanting to mock Duke, but at this moment, something happened...
Just yesterday, before Duke and his party arrived in the city of Lordaeron, a strange slave trader presented a batch of special gifts to Menethil II and asked to see the king.
Everyone below knew that the King of Lordaeron would certainly not casually meet a slave trader who came from nowhere.
If it weren't for the fact that the merchant's gift was good enough, not even a person with status would appear.
In the end it was a Viscount of Lordaeron who received the merchant.
The businessman repeatedly told the viscount who met him, telling him that this batch of goods needs to be injected with tranquilizing medicine made of [Ningshenhua] as the main ingredient every 12 hours. Otherwise, the existing shackles and cages cannot hold them. The businessman even sent the most official notification in the form of a document through official diplomatic channels.
This businessman is naturally someone's person. However, as someone expected, the businessman's reasonable request was ignored, and all the businessman's orders were flamboyantly ignored.
This is the arrogance of the most powerful kingdom of Lordaeron among the seven kingdoms.
Arrogance is also a common problem of Lordaeron nobles.
More than a thousand years ago, it was the ancestors of these arrogant nobles who transferred their property to the richer Lordaeron region, leaving behind the blood of Emperor Thoradin to wait to die in the dilapidated city of Stromgarde.
No one expected that after more than a thousand years, they would also pay a tragic price for their arrogance.
After this point in time, the kingdom of Lordaeron will perish because of the arrogance and stubbornness of King Terenas. Duke had no intention of preventing this, but Lordaeron was still extremely powerful at this point in time, and Duke didn't mind using the arrogance of the Lordaeronians to make the Lordaerons suffer a little bit.
"Dangdangdang——" The alarm bell symbolizing the invasion of foreign enemies has not sounded in this city with a pure white exterior wall that is also regarded as a holy city by countless humans for a thousand years.
When the shrill and loud alarm bell sounded, no one in the entire city of Lordaeron responded. Almost everyone was stunned for more than three seconds. Only the most dedicated guards realized after a few seconds that this was a wake-up call!
For a while, the entire Lordaeron was fried.
The Gilneas representative who was about to curse just now was stunned.
As the suzerain of this place, Menethil II, who considered himself the most noble among the seven kings, couldn't help being furious. His white beard was flaring, and a pair of old eyes stared at his valet: "Quickly find out, what happened? Why do you want to ring the alarm bell!?"
The trouble was over there in the arena.
In this era of lack of entertainment, bloody and exciting gladiatorial games are the most attractive entertainment, none of them. In the entire northern continent, there are countless arenas, large and small.
Just like Thrall, the great chief of the tribe in later generations, as the son of Durotan, the chief of the Frostwolf clan, Thrall was picked up by a human after Durotan was assassinated by the killer of the Shadow Council. Then, Thrall was raised as a slave gladiator for a long time.
On the surface, the entire Kingdom of Lordaeron did not care about the orc invasion.
In fact, orc slave gladiators are definitely the most in-demand and popular 'goods' in Lordaeron.
A healthy orc slave warrior was recently sold for more than ten thousand gold coins.
Someone is sure of this, no matter whether it is the nobles of Lordaeron or those black-hearted arena owners, they cannot refuse this temptation.
100 orcs, and they are the elite orcs of the Blackstone clan, and there are a few personal guards of Blackhand among them. In order to collect these orcs, someone also spent a lot of effort.
Just after the effect of the tranquilizing potion on the orc passed, they heard a voice.
It was in orc language, and this voice told them that the head of their great chief was in the tallest castle, and was insulted and displayed wantonly by humans.
"revenge!"
"revenge!"
"revenge--"
Crazy ideas drove these orcs. They easily broke free from the iron shackles as thick as the arms of human babies, broke open the iron bars of the cage, and killed them...