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

Emperor Lothar, who returned to the court of Alterac, looked at the battle reports piled up on the desk in front of him, he rubbed his forehead with a little headache, looked at the two intelligence officers standing in the office, he picked up a battle report casually, looked at it, and frowned high:

"So, what really happened to the Empire? Why do I feel like the whole of Northern Xinjiang is in chaos? ”

"Your Majesty, many things, in this week's time, are far more than the past five years combined."

Winston, the head of the Imperial Intelligence Officer and a former high-ranking Assassin of the Assassin League, said to his Majesty:

"All kinds of disasters, man-made, or naturally evolved, and those that are inconceivably ingenious, have erupted in succession in a short period of time, and the King's Council has fallen into a semi-paralyzed state, and there is a completely different chaos in each country, and this is when our great enemy, the Darkblade Undead of Southern Xinjiang, has not made any actual attack... All I can say is that the situation is very bad. ”

"Let's talk about it."

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

"Say it one by one, let me see the dilemma that our empire is facing right now."

"I'll give you a report on Quel'Salas first."

Mr. Winston is an excellent intelligence gatherer, he has his own ethics, and his own bottom line, so he was hired by the Emperor of Lothar to serve as the head of the imperial intelligence system, and in the past few years, Winston has also proven his excellent ability, stopping the sabotage of the Darkblade's spies in the empire several times.

What's more, the intelligence officer also has a deep network in the Assassin League, and has a very good personal relationship with the mysterious "Duke", so he always has access to a lot of valuable confidential information.

"I'm sure you've heard of the plant disaster in Quel'Thalas, there are many people who say that it is the work of the Night Elves, judging from the legend of Kadore and their power system, the activated plants that can affect the area of the two provinces are indeed the only ones in this world who can take them out."

Winston the lone wolf looked at the Emperor's expression, and after a pause for a few seconds, he said:

"But we can now confirm that this matter has nothing to do with Kadore, that someone is deliberately trying to lure our eyes in this way, and a few days ago I had a conversation with a member of the Sangunar family, the Assassin family of Quel'Thalas, and that the cause of the Quel'Thallas disaster was a pact between the Silvermoon Council and the Royal Party to capture an important person..."

"Aurelia. Windranger! ”

When Winston said the name, Lothar jerked her head up, her eyes full of surprise:

"The target is Tyrion's wife? It's unbelievable... Did they fail? ”

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

A hint of darkness flashed in the lone wolf's eyes:

"They asked the Empire for support before the operation began, and you had already left the northern frontier, so the King's Council decided to support the operation after discussion, but before our army reached Quel'Thalas, the undead from Northrend began to attack Quel'Thalas, and then the complex of the Sunwell appeared on a large scale of life energy activity, and at a very fast speed, it evolved into a green scourge that spread throughout Quel'Thalas."

"The destruction of Quel'Thalas lasted only 1 day, no matter who was behind this incident, it is clear that they all had the strength to destroy a country in one day, and according to my personal judgment, the King of the Dark Blades played a very important role in this matter, although there is no evidence that he was there at the time of the Quel'Thalas disaster."

Lothar nodded, he stroked the white beard on his chin, and after a moment, he looked up at Winston:

"Talking about the natural scourge undead in the Northland, can you confirm their relationship with the Darkblade undead?"

"Let me explain this, Your Majesty."

The second-level intelligence officer of the Empire, the young Tails flipped through the report in his hand, glanced at the dark-faced Lothar, and said in a loud voice:

"The day after the Scourge in the Northlands, I traveled to Northrend with a team of Imperial agents, and spoke with Mr. Madera, the Grand Garrison of the Draenei, in the Borean Tundra, who confirmed the news of the existence of the Northland Undead, and their base camp was on the Great Ice Floe a mountain away from the Borean Tundra, where the environment was extremely harsh, and the Imperial Agents and I tried to enter that area, but we failed."

Reflecting on what had happened to him in Northrend a few days ago, Tails moved his shoulder somewhat unnaturally:

"Your Majesty, with all due respect, this place is a real hell, where fragile bodies like ours simply can't hold on, full of bone-chilling storms and barren lands, where there are no places to replenish supplies, and most importantly, it is full of brainless and brutal undead, Vekus, spider demons, even frost dragons, and some strange constructs."

"What can be confirmed at the moment is that there is another force manipulating those Scourge Undead, 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 relationship between the two is not an alliance, and there is another thing that can be used as proof."

As he spoke, Tails handed the Emperor a copy of the order for a product, which was densely packed with a list of munitions, including city artillery, rapid-fire machine guns and matching bullets, as well as hundreds of thousands of alchemical bombs, and below the list of munitions was a shocking payment figure.

"What is this?"

Lothar looked up and looked at Tails, who pointed to the signatures and seals below the list and whispered:

"This is an arms smuggling report that we intercepted at dawn today on the battlefield of Hinterland on the Eastern Front, which was purchased by the Hammer Dwarves from the goblins to defend against the undead of the Scourges who landed in Hinterland.

"Hesso's Military and Future Technology Research Laboratory, according to the investigation of our spies over there, this is one of several high-level cooperative arms dealers of the Darkblade Legion, which is a subsidiary of the Darkblade Legion, they sell arms to our soldiers to fight against the undead of the Scourge, although it may be Hesuo's private behavior, but in a sense, maybe the high-level of the Darkblade are happy to see us fight with the Scourge."

"It doesn't prove anything."

Lothar placed the list on the table, and he whispered, "Maybe it's just Tyrion's old squire... We've dealt with him so many times and we know very well how cunning he is. ”

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

Tails glanced at Winston, his superior nodded at 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, from the defense line observers of the Tirisfal Glade, five days ago, when the kingdom of Lordaeron was attacked by the plague cauldron, on the edge of Tirisfar, the werewolves of the Silver Pine Forest went out at night and looted 5 towns within the area of influence of the plague cauldron, and nearly 10,000 civilians were wrapped up and sent to Gilneis."

"We didn't give this information to the royal family of Lordaeron because we were afraid it would cause panic, but based on the information we gathered in Gilneth, those werewolves... Contrary to our expectations, they attacked the city of Gilneth at the same time as they also split up their forces to try to rescue the civilians at the edge of the Silver Pines Forest who were surrounded by the undead. ”

A strange glint flashed in Tails' eyes, and he lowered his voice:

"The werewolves of the Silverpine Forest are controlled by the Tyrion Darkblade Legion, but they have rescued the civilians who belong to us from the hands of the Scourge Undead, and even go so far, there have been at least 30 large-scale battles between the two in the Silverpine Forest and the Tirisfa region... And those rescued civilians are currently housed in the village of Burnt Wood in Gilneth, and the werewolves did not harm them. ”

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

Lothar's eyes narrowed, and after a moment he added:

"But perhaps, the King of the Dark Blades also wants to take this opportunity to fill the civilization system under his control with more population, it seems that the relationship between them is really complicated, by the way, speaking of the scourge of the undead, what is the situation in the kingdom of Lordaeron? And Gilneth, I heard... Is Jean missing? ”

"King Terenus of Lordaeron has taken control of the situation, and the people of the whole country are concentrated in a few large cities with sufficient defense, and the Silver Hand Paladins and the King's ** regiment in the country have begun to act, because of the timely measures taken, the situation in Lordaeron looks very dangerous, but in fact, it has not harmed Lordaeron's national strength, King Terenus seems to be planning to deal with the undead wandering in the country by himself, and judging from the current situation, with the help of the elves of Quel'Thalas, They have the ability to control the undead in the country, and those are only low-level undead after all, and there are few traces of high-level undead activities. ”

Winston breathed a sigh of relief:

"As for Gilnes... I'm sorry, Your Majesty, the situation in Gilneth is the worst, His Majesty's disappearance is just a claim to the outside world, in fact, Prince Liam, who is still holding on to the city of Gilneys, has confirmed that His Majesty Jean... Unfortunately infected with the werewolf plague, in an area we haven't noticed, those werewolves have made potions that can hide their appearance, and no one knows how many hidden werewolves there are in Gilneis. ”

"What's worse is that no one knows how many hidden werewolves there are in the entire northern frontier."

"Uh..."

After listening to the report, Emperor Lothar 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 confusion:

"It seems that I am really sitting on a fire, and I and my country may be engulfed by fire at any time, is it true that the destiny of heaven is not ours? Is human civilization doomed to destruction? ”

Seeing that the Emperor seemed to have lost confidence, Tails and Winston looked at each other, and finally Winston opened his mouth and persuaded him:

"Your Majesty, in fact, you don't need to be so pessimistic, the defense line of the Arathi Heights is very stable, the battlefield on the eastern front has received enough military support, and it can also withstand the attack of the natural calamity and undead, as long as we mobilize internal forces and clear the walking corpses raging in the Lordaeron Kingdom, the entire northern frontier will return to stability! Many disasters do not only bring suffering, they also bring our people together. ”

"You're right, Winston, and I'm well aware that these successive disasters only need time to pass, but here's the problem..."

Emperor Lothar looked at Winston:

"Do you think Tyrion, who is eyeing us, will give us this time? I even suspect that Winston, I even suspect that each of these disasters is inseparable from Tyrion, that he is persecuting us, driving us into the corner of the cliff, trying to break our will, to make us surrender without a fight, to make us submit to his "new civilization"..."

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

Lothar looked at the fireplace burning on one side, and in the beating 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 shadows in this land, they have been stubbornly resisting, but we have also been walking on the path he has arranged for us, like a spread net, the more we struggle, the tighter we are tied, until in the end, we have lost all ability to resist, we can only kneel at the feet of that tyrant."

"If we want to win, we must first jump out, jump out of the path and the ending that Tyrion has arranged for us, pull his legion and ours to a fairer battlefield, and find 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 must also take a long-term view. ”

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

"Help me contact Count Barov, Prince Liam, Prince Drake, and the Sun King and King Terenus of Quel'Thalas, it's time for the Empire's war to enter its second phase... Before we are crushed, we must leave this mortal place! ”