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Vanessa. Van Cleef, Edwin. Van Cleef's daughter and the only relative he has left after the Orc War.

Having lost her mother since she was a child, Vanessa Jr. clings to her father, and during the time Van Cleef rebuilds the walls of Stormwind, she lives in the Brotherhood of Stonemasons in Shining Gold, which is the happiest time for little Vanessa.

Her father had a decent status and occasionally met some great nobles, so he had a high reputation among the commoners, everyone respected Van Cleef, and even took little Vanessa to the town of Shining Gold and was treated preferentially, and she would occasionally follow her father to play at the Northshire Abbey, picking grapes in Miss Millie's vineyard to eat was her favorite pastime, and Miss Millie was very fond of her, and would always give her a lot of small cakes and other gifts.

But all these beautiful stories were ended not long ago.

First, it was rumored that Mr. Van Rikoff was plotting a fight against the nobles, and some timid commoners alienated little Vanessa, and later, when the news of Van Cleef's assassination of Sir Soma came, little Vanessa was like being isolated in Shining Gold, and even some drunks would speak ill of her, which made little Vanessa very sad, but more worried about her father.

Until the next day, the entire Brotherhood of Stonemasons Association was surrounded by soldiers, and the stonemasons who got the news in advance hid little Vanessa, they were afraid that the nobles would use children to coerce Van Cleve, but they were wrong, the soldiers did not negotiate with the stonemasons at all, and in the face of the stonemasons' obstruction, they did not hesitate to draw their swords, and saw the uncles and uncles who protected them fall in a pool of blood, and little Vanessa was surrounded by panic.

She covered her mouth and hid alone in the small attic, until night fell, she escaped from Shining Gold Town alone, but the question is, a 7-year-old daughter, where can she escape?

However, little Vanessa's luck was very good, just when she was surrounded by a group of kobolds, a beautiful short young lady fell from the sky and saved her from danger, and the sister also told her that she and Vanessa's father, Van Cleef, were old friends.

The Blood Raven Inn, a tavern located in Nighttown, is located southeast of the Twilight Forest.

In the early years, this forest was called the Sunshine Forest, and when Van Cleef was a child, the forest was still covered with sunlight, and it was the favorite hunting ground of the nobles of Stormwind, ruled by Duke Aberlock, but when the orcs invaded, it was like a dark force also enveloped the place, causing the sky of the Sunshine Forest to become hazy and terrifying.

Even in broad daylight, torches are required to enter the forest, and the beasts of the forest have been infected by the dark forces, becoming violent and terrifying, especially in recent times, and there have even been rumors of undead hauntings.

Taking advantage of the darkness of the night, on the road leading to the Twilight Forest in the Western Wilderness, a group of heavily armed fellows rode on war horses and headed towards the Twilight Forest, which the civilians feared.

The knight at the head was Edwin in black leather armor, carrying a musket on his back, and a row of sharp throwing knives on his chest. Van Cleef, behind him, were the veterans of the Second Orc War with him.

"Boss, this is probably a trap!"

Black-clothed Willie was also in the group, and he whispered to the gloomy Van Cleef: "Maybe it's set up by MI7, if you want to arrest you, why don't you let me go and see." ”

"Nope."

Van Cleef decisively refused, looking at the strange and fearful forest around him, he whispered, "If Vanessa is really there, I'm afraid you will hurt her in the past, besides, I can't let my brother risk it for me anymore." ”

Carrying torches and lanterns, the group made their way down the dark road, and after 2 hours, they finally traversed most of the forest and reached the outskirts of Nighttown, and the journey went surprisingly smoothly, to the point that Van Cleef couldn't believe it, and the haunting wolves and strange monsters along the way did not appear, as if they had never existed.

But Van Cleef looked at the brightly lit night town, and he had a feeling, an inexplicable feeling.

It seems that this smooth road was "cleaned up" to welcome him, and those monsters are not gone, they are just ordered not to disturb them...

"Hmm."

Van Cleef gritted his teeth, and he looked back at his brothers behind him:

"If I don't come back in 1 hour, you go back to Mooncreek and tell Alex that I have left a sum of money in the bank in Booty Bay in Vanessa's name, although it is not much, but it may be enough for you to start a new life in Gilneth, and the seal letter is in my diary."

"Don't be stupid, Van Cleve!"

Hank, the old soldier, rode his horse and threw a rough cigar to Van Cleef, who cried out:

"We'll be waiting for you outside the hotel, and no one will try to take you away right under our noses, that's all! Go ahead and bring back little Vanessa! ”

On the other side, in the Blood Raven Tavern in Night Town, the lich Arugao sat at the bar of the tavern, he was immersed in the magic book placed in front of him, and beside him, there was a restless dwarf vampire Ella, the blood-red eyes of the dwarf snapped his fingers impatiently, and the bartender in front of him immediately sent a glass of cool blood wine.

This is the new "business" that the bartender has developed these days, and the best ale with ice cubes and a third of the blood becomes the favorite drink of the vampires, although for the living, such a drink is somewhat "exciting".

"Ella, can I try this?"

Beside Ella, there was a little girl lying on tiptoe, lying on the edge of the bar, wearing a set of fitted small leather armor, with two daggers like fruit knives hanging from her waist, which were toys that Ella gave to the little girl, and in the face of the little girl's request, the dwarf vampire crossed his legs, poured blood wine into his mouth with a proud face, pursed his lips, and then patted the little girl's head:

"Nope! Vanessa, you can't drink this because you're still a kid, hey, give this kid a glass of milk, it's going to be hot! ”

Ella looked at Vanessa and pouted in dissatisfaction, and the dwarf scratched her head, and somehow found a miserable white skull wine glass, which was carved very realistically, and looked like an orc's skull, but in reality, it was just a gadget that Ella made when Draenor was bored, made from the skull of a huge split-hoofed cow.

She winked at Vanessa, then poured the warm milk into the skull glass and handed it to little Vanessa:

"Give, little princess, your skull hot, doesn't that look a lot cooler?"

"I love this! Ella, can you give it to me? ”

Vanessa looked at the skull glass in her hand with curiosity, and sat down in her chair with love, holding the warm milk in her arms, while the dwarf vampire pursed her lips and turned her head to look at the door of the tavern, and she let out a rattling shrill laugh, and said:

"Of course, but it depends on whether your father, Mr. Van Cleef, is really that wise."

"Bang"

As soon as he finished speaking, the door of the tavern was violently pushed open, and Van Cleef, with a sharp knife in one hand and a musket in the other, rushed into the tavern, but the next moment, he was stunned, the imaginary scene of the heavily armed gangster trade did not exist, and there were only six people in the entire tavern, including him.

Ella the dwarf vampire, Arugao the lich, little Vanessa, the old bartender in a muddle, and a lonely lone sipping ale in the corner... Uh, Black Birdman?

"Daddy!"

Seeing Van Cleef appear, little Vanessa screamed, grabbed the skull cup, and rushed forward with joy on her face, Van Cleef hurriedly threw away the weapon in his hand, held his daughter in his arms, and repeatedly confirmed that his daughter was not injured, his eyes fell on the skull wine glass in his daughter's hand, and the evil exuded from the elaborate carving of this thing made him a little uncomfortable.

"When I found this little cutie, she was being chased by a group of kobolds, cold and hungry, and most of all, she was full of fear, a little girl running in the night, longing for someone to help her, longing for her all-powerful father to help her... You're an irresponsible father, Van Cleef, and you've let your daughter down, and you've almost lost her. ”

The dwarf leaned against the bar, drinking blood wine, while watching Van Cleeff hug his daughter, he didn't say a word, which made the dwarf a little dissatisfied, her figure turned into a black bat and disappeared in place, and when she reappeared, she stood in front of Van Cleef's eyes, which made the veteran subconsciously take a step back.

And the dwarf stared at the middle-aged man in front of her with her blood-red eyes, and she said in a deep voice:

"This is my first mission on my own, and you don't want to see me fail, do you? So I'll get straight to the point, Mr. Van Cleef, you underestimate what the magnates will do in order to take power... You underestimate the darkness and ugliness of human nature, you underestimate everything you face! I thought you had to be smarter, at least smarter than the 10 people hanging on the noose, but you didn't, you were stupid, and I was disappointed by the foolish self-sacrifice you showed. ”

"What do you want from me?"

Van Cleef held his daughter in his arms warily, his gaze moving back and forth between the strange dwarf and the silent mage who did not speak, and he asked in a low voice:

"Why me? Did you arrange all this? ”

"Senseless vigilance!"

Ella's figure returned to the bar again, and she drank the blood wine from her glass in one gulp, and flicked her fingers as she reminisced about the wonderful taste:

"You, what happened to you, everything you went through, is just part of a great plan, I didn't play too much of a role in your disaster, to be honest, even if I don't show up, in 1 year, maybe 2 years, you will be in the same situation, or even worse, I just pushed you to see the true face of the country and the system you serve."

The gnome stopped talking, but her strange voice rang out in Van Cleef's heart:

"I know you want to make it better, but this rotten system of aristocratic power is not a caterpillar, now it is declining, pale, backward, rulers prefer to spend money on materials to prepare for war, rather than using it to make the people happier, this system will not cocoon itself, will not turn into butterflies, become more beautiful and more vibrant, someone must push it! It must die before it can be reborn in the flames that we have kindled..."

"I'm sorry, I'm not interested."

Van Cleef rejected the gnome's solicitation, and he turned around to leave with Vanessa in his arms, but the next moment, the lich, who had been immersed in the book, suddenly raised his head and said in a low, cold voice:

"People want to see the truth, in any way, even if it's violence, even if it's destruction, and in the maelstrom you want the truth more... You can't hide it from me, human, there's darkness brewing inside you. ”

"What does life mean to you? Every life experience is only what you have said and what you have done, your name will not hang on the building, you will not leave behind luxury possessions, only those... Someone close to you, your daughter, tells a story that keeps you alive, even if it's only in her memory, then here's the problem... Little Vanessa's story about you always ends with your father being charged with an undeserved crime. ”

"If you just turn around and leave today and take your brother across the oceans, then you have destroyed your daughter's inner insistence on justice and hope with your own hands, think about it, what is really important to her as a father? What's more, don't you want the truth? After all this, are you willing to be a rebel in someone else's mouth... Those who really deserve to repent, they will laugh at you! ”

The Lich Arugao's eyes shone brightly, and he seemed to see through Van Cleef's heart, and he whispered:

"If you have guilt, or sin, in your heart, it means you have an unfinished business! You already know what it feels like to be lost, and maybe you want to find something to hate, hate, to show you the way, to find... One of the things that our leaders often say is: The last thing I want is for someone to try to hurt my followers because they don't have the same beliefs as me! ”

"Tonight, you should come and tell them that they've crossed the line... Think about it, Van Cleef, if you make a decision, Raven Ridge Necropolis, you can get help there, you will get your justice, and we, we will enjoy the process of helping you get justice. ”

A moment later, Van Cleef, who was holding Vanessa, walked out of the Blood Raven Tavern, Vanessa was lying on her father's shoulder, holding a skull wine glass in one hand, and constantly waving goodbye to the dwarf with the other, her face was full of happy expressions, and her father, with a deep and dignified face, he had reached the crossroads of fate.

"Boss, you're finally back."

The black-clothed Willie saw Van Cleef and the girl in his arms from a distance, and he waved his hand to the boss excitedly: "Come on, we have caught a spy outside the town, he is in the service of MI7!" ”

Van Cleef stepped forward and looked at the tied up guy, dressed like a civilian, but his nimble eyes revealed his identity.

"What are we going to do with him? Van Cleef? ”

The veteran Hank took a sip of wine and asked in a low voice, Van Cleef pursed his lips and reached out to cover his daughter's eyes, and he said in a flat tone:

"Chop off a hand and send it back to Shore."

"The Brotherhood of Stonemasons has been destroyed by them, but we will rebuild it, we will not go there, right here ... Fight for our homeland! Good people should not just shut up under duress, our brotherhood will continue to fight in the dark, we must carry justice and justice... Rise again! ”

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