Chapter 483 16. The Crumbling Empire

"Oh my god, I've only been out for less than 10 days..."

Emperor Lothar, who had returned to the Alterac court, looked at the battle reports piled up on the desk in front of him. He rubbed his forehead with some headaches. Looking at the two intelligence officers standing in the office, he picked up a battle report, After taking a look, his brows furrowed:

"So, what happened to the empire? Why do I feel like the whole northern border is in chaos?"

"Your Majesty, many things, what happened in this week is far more than the sum of the past five years."

The leader of the Imperial Intelligence Officer, the former high-ranking assassin of the Assassin League "Lone Wolf" Winston said to his Majesty:

"All kinds of disasters, man-made, or natural evolution, and those that are so coincidental, have erupted in a short period of time. The king's council has fallen into a semi-paralyzed state, and there are completely different chaotic situations in various countries. And this is when our confidant enemy, the Dark Blade Undead in Southern Border, has not made an actual attack...I can only say that the current situation is very bad."

"Tell me."

After reading several battle reports in a row, Emperor Lothar's good mood almost disappeared without a trace. He sat on his armchair, crossed his hands on his chest, and looked at the intelligence officers in front of him.

"One by one, let me see the dilemma our empire is facing now."

"I will report to you on the situation of Quel'Thalas first."

Mr. Winston is an excellent intelligence collector. He has his own ethics and his own bottom line, so he was hired by Emperor Lothar to serve as the leader of the imperial intelligence system. In the past few years, Winston Dun also proved his remarkable ability, stopping the sabotage actions of Dark Blade's agents in the empire several times.

What's even more commendable is that this intelligence officer also has a deep network in the Assassin's League, and he has a very good personal relationship with the mysterious "Duke", so he can always get a lot of highly valuable confidential information.

"I believe you have heard about the plant disaster in Quel'Thalas. Many people say that it was the handiwork of the night elves. Judging from the legends of the Kaldorei and their power system, it can affect the area of ​​the two provinces." Activated plants are indeed the only ones that can produce them in this world."

The lone wolf Winston looked at the emperor's expression. After a pause for a few seconds, he said:

"But we can now confirm that this matter has nothing to do with the Kaldorei. Someone deliberately used this method to attract our attention. A few days ago, I was in Dalaran and Quel'Thalas. The Assassin Family Sangguna A member of the El family chatted, the cause of the disaster in Quel'Thalas was because the Silvermoon Council and the Royal Party reached an agreement to capture an important person..."

"Aurelia Windrunner!"

When Winston said the name, Lothar raised his head suddenly, his eyes were full of surprise:

"The target was Tyrion's wife? Unbelievable...they failed?"

"No, according to the baron, they succeeded, but the day after they succeeded, disaster happened."

There was a glimmer of darkness in the lone wolf's eyes:

"They made a request for support from the empire before the operation started. At that time, you had already left the northern border. Therefore, after discussion, the king's council decided to support this operation. The undead from Northrend began to attack Quel'Thalas, and then there was a large-scale life energy activity in the buildings of the Sunwell, and at a very fast speed, it evolved into an entire Quel'Thalas. Green Scourge of Sri Lanka."

"The destruction of Quel'Thalas only lasted for one day. No matter who is behind this incident, it is obvious that they will destroy the strength of a country within one day. According to my personal judgment, the Dark Blade King He played an important role in this, although there is no evidence that he was there at the time of the disaster in Quel'Thalas."

Lothar nodded. He stroked the white beard on his chin. After a while, he looked up at Winston:

"Talk about the natural disaster undead in the north, can you confirm their relationship with the dark blade undead?"

"Let me explain this, Your Majesty."

The second-level intelligence officer of the Empire, the young Thales opened the report in his hand, glanced at the deep-faced Lothar, and said loudly:

"On the second day after the natural disaster in the Northland, I took a team of imperial spies to Northrend, and talked with the Draenei Grand Defense Officer Mr. Mardera in the Borean Tundra. The garrison officer confirmed the news of the existence of the undead in the North, and their base camp is on the large ice floes separated by a mountain from the Borean tundra. The environment there is extremely harsh. The imperial agents and I tried to enter that area, but we failed .”

Thales recalled what happened to him in Northrend a few days ago, he moved his shoulders a little unnaturally:

"Your Majesty, with all due respect, that place is like a real hell. Our fragile bodies can't survive there. There are icy storms and barren land everywhere, and there is no place to replenish supplies. The most terrible thing is that the place is full of brainless and savage undead, vrykul, nerubians, even frost dragons, and some weird structures."

"What can be confirmed at present is that there is another force manipulating the undead from natural disasters, and it gives us the feeling that it has nothing to do with the King of the Dark Blade, so it can be preliminarily determined that the two are not related to the alliance, and there is another One thing can serve as proof."

Thales was talking, and handed a carbon copy of the product order to the emperor, which densely listed a lot of munitions, including city fire cannons, rapid-fire machine guns and matching bullets, and hundreds of thousands of alchemy bombs. Below the list is a shocking payment figure.

"This is?"

Lothar raised his head and looked at Thales, who pointed to the signature and seal under the list, and whispered:

"This is an arms smuggling report that we intercepted on the Eastern Front Hinterlands battlefield at dawn today. The Wildhammer dwarves bought the arms from the goblins to defend against the Scourge undead landing in the Hinterlands. It is worth Note that, Your Majesty, the source of this munitions is an arms company in the Burning Plains of Southern Border, which is the black iron business district of Dark Blade."

"Heisuo Military and Future Technology Research Laboratory, according to the investigation of our spies there, this is one of the several high-level cooperative arms dealers of the Dark Blade Legion. It is regarded as an affiliate of the Dark Blade Legion. They sell arms to our soldiers. , used to fight against the undead of natural disasters, although it may be Hesuo’s private behavior, but in a sense, perhaps the senior management of Dark Blade is happy to see us fight against natural disasters.”

"That proves nothing."

Lothar put the list on the table, and he said softly, "Maybe it's just Tyrion's suspicion...We've dealt with him so many times, we know how cunning he is."

"But what I'm going to say next may prove the relationship between the two."

Thales glanced at Winston, his superior nodded to him, and the young intelligence officer took out another document and placed it on the emperor's desk:

"Your Majesty, this is a top-secret piece of information. It comes from a defense observer in the Tirisfal Forest. Five days ago, when the Kingdom of Lordaeron was attacked by the plague cauldron, the werewolves in the Silverpine Forest were on the edge of Tirisfal. Sent out at night, plundered 5 towns within the range of the plague cauldron, and sent nearly ten thousand civilians to Gilneas with them."

"We didn't give this information to the royal family of Lordaeron because we were worried that it would cause panic, but according to the information we gathered in Gilneas, those werewolves... Contrary to our expectations, they are attacking Gilneas At the same time as the city, a part of the force will be divided to try to rescue the civilians surrounded by the undead on the edge of the Silverpine Forest."

A strange light flashed in Thales' eyes, and he lowered his voice:

"The werewolves in Silverpine Forest are controlled by Tyrion's Dark Blade Legion, but they rescued our civilians from the undead of natural disasters, and even fought hard. As far as the current situation is collected, the two are in Silverpine Forest. There have been at least 30 large-scale battles with the Tirisfal region...and those rescued civilians are currently housed in Pyrewood Village in Gilneas, and the werewolves did not harm them."

"In other words, Tyrion doesn't want to see the power of the natural disaster undead raging in northern Xinjiang increase?"

Lothar narrowed his eyes, and after a while, he said again:

"But maybe, the Dark Blade King also wants to take this opportunity to fill the civilization system under his control with more people. It seems that the relationship between them is really complicated. By the way, speaking of the undead from natural disasters, Lordan What's the situation in the Kingdom of Lun? And Gilneas, I heard...Jeon is missing?"

"King Terenas of Lordaeron has controlled the situation, and the people of the whole country have been concentrated in a few large cities with sufficient defense. The reason for taking measures is that the situation in Lordaeron looks very dangerous, but in fact, it has not harmed the national power of Lordaeron. It seems that King Terenas intends to solve the wandering undead in the country by himself, and from the current situation Look, with the help of the Quel'Thalas elves, they have the ability to control the undead in the country, after all, those are only low-level undead, and there are very few traces of high-level undead activities."

Winston breathed a sigh of relief:

"As for Gilneas... I'm sorry, Your Majesty, the situation in Gilneas is the worst. His Majesty Jin's disappearance is just an announcement to the outside world. In fact, Prince Liam, who is still sticking to Gilneas City, has confirmed that, Your Majesty Jin...was unfortunately infected with the werewolf plague, and in areas we haven't noticed, those werewolves have already produced potions that can cover up their appearance, and no one knows how many hidden werewolves there are in Gilneas."

"What's worse, no one knows how many werewolves are hiding in the entire northern border."

"Fu..."

After Emperor Lothar finished listening to the report, he raised his head and looked at the crystal lamp floating on the top of the office. The old emperor's eyes were full of loss and bewilderment:

"It seems that I am really sitting on a fire, and my country and I may be engulfed in flames at any time. Is it true that the destiny is not with us? Is human civilization destined to be destroyed?"

Seeing that the emperor seemed to have lost confidence, Thales and Winston looked at each other, and finally Winston persuaded:

"Your Majesty, in fact, you don't need to be so pessimistic. Arathi Highland's defense line is very solid, and the Eastern Front has received enough arms support to withstand the attack of the Scourge. As long as we mobilize our internal forces and clear the territory of the Kingdom of Lordaeron The raging zombies, the whole northern Xinjiang will restore stability! The occurrence of many disasters not only brings pain, it will also make our people more united."

"You're right, Winston, I am also very clear that these continuous disasters can be calmed down slowly with the passage of time, but the problem is..."

Emperor Lothar looked at Winston:

"Do you think that the coveted Tyrion will give us this time? I even doubt, Winston, I even doubt that every one of these disasters is inseparable from Tyrion. He is persecuting Us, corner us on a precipice, try to break our will, make us surrender without a fight, make us submit to his "new civilization"..."

"I was wrong, Winston, I was wrong from the beginning."

Lothar looked at the burning fireplace, and in the dancing flames, he whispered:

"I shouldn't have fought him on the battlefield he planned for us. Long before the establishment of the empire, he planted countless dark seeds on this land. They have been stubbornly resisting, but we have also been walking on his path. The road arranged for us is like an unrolled net. The more we struggle, the tighter we are bound, until finally, we, who have lost all ability to resist, can only kneel at the feet of that tyrant. "

"If we want to win, we have to jump out first, jump out of the path and ending that Tyrion has arranged for us, pull his legion and our legion into a fairer battlefield, and find a stronger Allies... human beings alone cannot win this war, his eyes have always been on the world level, and if we want to defeat him, we have to take a long-term view."

The emperor played with the ring on his finger, and after a while, he breathed a sigh of relief:

"Help me contact Earl Barov, Prince Liam, Prince Drake, and the Sun King of Quel'Thalas and King Terenas. It's time for the empire's war to enter the second stage... After being Before we are overwhelmed, we must leave this place of death!"