9. Drusva: The Fallen Witch Society
The eyes of mortals will always be attracted by big events, and sudden outbursts of chaos will blind the minds of the people, and stimulate the tyrannical side that they usually hide in their hearts, and these tyrannical factors born in chaos will flow to all corners of the world wrapped in fear through all the channels they can find.
Whether Azeroth's human civilization is good or bad is not said for the time being, there are always many dissatisfied people in this system, and people who are desperate for power, they will naturally be attracted to the tyranny that wanders in the crowd, and then, more people like them will appear.
In the past human history, there are many dark organizations, they use forbidden powers, trying to destroy or challenge the order that displeased them, in the past and the strong and indestructible order, these evils will be defeated most of the time, but failure does not mean destruction, in the shadow of human civilization, they have been hiding in their own small and foul stinking sewers, with longing tyrannical eyes to pay attention to everything in the outside world... It's like a rat peeking at the power.
As soon as order becomes shaky, their chance comes.
That's why we say that true evil is often drawn to pure darkness... War and chaos are not the most terrible, but the twisted souls who are eager for darkness to come and what they will do are the most terrible.
What happened in the Eastern Continent could not be concealed from the civilians, and the super-large-scale war that could start at any time in the wetlands and the Arathi Heights was like a dark cloud covering the sky, clasping the heads of the people deadly, making them panic, making them feel fear, and when the familiar life was about to be destroyed, anyone who had a strong guide would become insane.
And this war between the living and the dead has even spread to corners that people will not pay attention to, for example, the land of the sea, Kurtilas.
As one of the most important kingdoms of human civilization, Kurtilas has the most powerful sea power in the entire world, and their invincible armada has been protecting the sea frontier of human civilization for hundreds of years, fighting against those pirates who do everything evil, and the deep-sea monsters that occasionally appear from beneath the surface of the sea to ensure the safety of the interior.
Unlike other countries, Kurtilas is not a kingship by blood, but is controlled by four families who rule the island nation.
They were the Prodmore family, who controlled the most prosperous port city of Kurtilas, and the Proudmoors, who commanded the Invincible Armada.
The Stothon family, who rule the valley of Stothon, the most fertile of Kurtiras, and the Stothon family, who control the mystical sanctuary of the Sage of the Sea Tide.
The Vikres family, who rule the most remote mountainous region of Kurturas, but are also an important source of military resources in Kurtiras, are also the source of military resources.
Finally, there is the Ashvan family, who is in charge of most of the business dealings of the entire Kul Tiras, and does not have many fiefdoms, but is very wealthy.
The king of Kurtilas will be produced among these four families, and the current king of Kurtilas is known as the son of the sea, the undefeated general of the sea, Dai Lin. His Majesty Prodmoor.
Recently, the situation in the Eastern Continent has been tense, and even Dai Lin has left Kurtilas with two fleets to support the war of the Human Empire, perhaps at the beginning, this support still has some political considerations, but now, after the fall of Kazmodan, Dai Lin has also seen the terrible threat posed by the undead, once the territory of the Empire falls, even Kurtilas, who lives far away, will not be able to be spared.
Although the king took away most of the military force, the internal stability of Kurtiras, after all, the advantage of the four major families ruling together is that the private soldiers of each family are enough to manage every piece of land in Kurtiras, and because of the threat of recent war, many nobles and merchants on the continent have moved to Kul Tiras for refuge, which makes the business network of the Ashfan family more prosperous, and the entire island country also has more adequate human resources.
However, no matter how peaceful it is, there is darkness to hide, especially in the last month, when the Drusva Mountains, ruled by the Vikris family, have become less peaceful.
It is said that in the distant past, when the first generation of ancestors set foot on the territory of Kurtiras, they fought a battle with the local barbarians who believed in evil beliefs in the Drusva Mountains, and the battle was very difficult, and many warriors died in the dark mountains of Drusva, and their ghosts are still fighting on the battlefield for eternity to this day.
The legend itself illustrates some of the characteristics of the Drusva region, supernatural, decaying, obscure, and in the lush Black Forest, there is always some unsettling force that haunts you.
It was here that Cyrus, the most loyal of His Majesty's faithful knights, was born, and he told the king the story of his childhood in Drusva, where he was chased by the dark forces.
That's true... Such encounters are not uncommon in the Drusva Mountains, especially in the dense forests deep into the mountains, where there are legends that evil witches live there, and anyone who dares to step into them will be mercilessly killed... Or it can be turned into a pig, smuggled into the farm by them, then slaughtered by unwitting butchers, and finally disappear from people's tables.
Uh, of course, the latter story is often used by parents to scare the little ones who are not well-behaved, although... This is a tragedy that has happened more than once.
"Quack."
A hoarse and ugly shrill laugh sounded in the dark forest of Druswa, accompanied by the panicked running of several young men, dressed in seamen's clothes, who seemed to be outsiders who had accidentally entered the forest, because the natives would not enter the forest on their own initiative anyway.
"Run, run!"
The sneaky voice sounded like an old woman, but the viciousness contained in it was terrifying, and among the trees of the dense forest, several wooden carvings tied up with dry bones and wood to resemble beasts were endowed with dark magic, allowing them to gallop and hunt in the darkness like real beasts, no doubt a dark magic that had never been seen on a continent.
Dark sorcery that only exists in Kul Tiras.
And behind the ferocious wood-carved beasts was a woman with a stick, dressed in dark red tattered clothes, with a strange pendant of dry bones and trees on her back, and a shabby cone, ugly, with a sharp nose and vicious eyes, and a wrinkled face.
She looked very old, but those eyes looked very young, this was the real evil of the witch, Drusva, and her appearance really scared the bad children.
She walked slowly forward, waving the stick in her hand, and in the glow of strange magic, the things around her that were fixed to the field like scarecrows also clicked and moved, and the dead things were given the ability to move, and they also took stiff steps to join the terrible hunt.
"You've brought me fresh flesh and blood, maybe... It's a good choice to turn you into meat on the table, quack."
The ugly witch looked at the three young men who fled in front of her, and her laughter became more and more treacherous and low, however, she did not notice that although the three young lads looked very embarrassed, and sometimes let out a scream of fear, they always kept their figures in front of the witch's eyes, and their steps were too light.
Unfortunately, the witch, who had been overwhelmed by the fresh soul, did not notice this, and chased the "prey" out of her home full of dark spells, and the moment she stepped out of the rune protection, a swarm of screaming vampire bats rushed out of the dark forest, they hovered in the air, screaming, and in a hurry, the witch was enveloped in a swarm of bats.
"Ah, get out of here! I don't care about you! ”
The witch's skin was torn open, blood rolled out of the wound, and the blood with dark magic was sucked little by little, and the witch frantically waved the wooden stick, smashing the magic in all directions, but it was never able to hurt the scattered bats.
And not far in front of her, the three fleeing young people also turned their heads, they pulled out the thin swords on their waists without saying a word, facing those chasing wooden beasts, the eyes of the three young people flashed a thin wisp of blood, the halo of blood wrapped around their bodies, making their speed faster, and the ordinary thin sword was also endowed with a certain ability to break demons.
In the ghostly battle, the oncoming wooden beasts were torn apart in a matter of minutes, while the screaming witch was drained of a quarter of her blood, paralyzed by the toxin, and limp to the ground.
Looking at the strange young people around her, looking at their handsome faces, the bloody light in their eyes, even if the witch was stupid, she knew that she had stepped into a trap, and she was the real prey.
"No one dares to provoke the Witch Society!"
The ugly witch struggled to get up, but the next moment, the scattered bats around her body shone with a blood-colored halo and turned into a man in a black hunting suit with an indifferent face, and behind those young people, a human woman wearing a blood-colored dress and holding a ruby staff with a fiery figure and a baby face also appeared.
Countess Dabel brushed her long black hair with her luxuriously white-gloved fingers, and she looked disdainfully at the ugly witch at the feet of her servant, the newborn human vampire hooked her fingers respectfully at the three men behind her, and they stepped forward like the most obedient slaves and chained the ugly witch with special chains.
"Witches? Hehe... A bunch of hidden rats, a weak organization that has declined in time, if it weren't for the secrets behind you being favored by the big guys, just such an ugly face, you would not be qualified to continue to live in this wonderful world..."
Dabel. The Countess of Montrose covered her nose with her fingers to keep herself away from the smelling witch, and she whispered:
"Your magic tricks can only scare and frighten ignorant civilians, and dare to shout in front of us, you have no idea who you are up against, stupid and lucky fellow."
"Take her away!"
The Vampire Lady shook her hand, and the three Blood Servants led the struggling witch to the hillside, where a merchant ship anchored awaited them on the other side of the coastline.
"Captain Anthony, would you like to come with me to the witch's mansion?"
The vampire lady looked at the calm and indifferent man in front of her, and she smiled like a flower: "This is the first mission we have carried out for Your Majesty, and I believe that if we can bring back something more valuable, Your Majesty will definitely give us a more generous reward." ”
"Of course, my lady, I do."
Antony, the captain of the "Iron Horn", reached out and touched his youthful face, and he obediently followed Countess Dabel to the place where the witch had come, he had been a captain in a caravan belonging to the Barov family, and during this long journey, he had been favored by the lonely countess, and after a satisfying night of affairs, he had become the first and most powerful servant of the graceful countess.
Blood Servant... The perfect embodiment of Salein's blood transformation ability, after the blood lords broke through the shackles of Salein's bloodline, the newly transformed blood servants can already retain their sanity and wisdom, of course, for a low-level vampire like Ms. Dabel, the number of blood servants she can transform is very small, a ship of more than a hundred people, even with Captain Anthony, she has only transformed four blood servants.
If it is a blood lord like Myra, he only needs to release the bat swarm to go around the ship, and everyone on this ship will become Myra's most loyal servants, but to be honest, for the powerful blood lord, these weak seamen can only become a burden to him.
You must know that the lives of the blood servants and their masters are shared, and once the blood servants are killed, the vampires will also suffer heavy blows, and only a beginner like Miss Dabel and the daughter of a nobleman who does not know the world would be so "generous" to give her blood to these handsome but worthless seamen.
But either way, Druswa's witch hunt has come to an end, and as long as the results are good, all is well.