Today, the news of Dai Lin's death in battle has already spread throughout human civilization.

Everyone knows that the king of Kul Tiras was ambushed by Naga in the deep sea, died a heroic death like a warrior, and fell into the icy depths along with his legendary ship, the Sea Throne.

It was a piece of news that made all the heroes of the entire human civilization feel devastated by it, but it was also the news that made all the pirates cheer and celebrate.

When Dai Lin was still alive, Kul Tiras's Invincible Armada almost single-handedly suppressed all the sea forces in the entire Azeroth civilization circle, and Dai Lin, who was born into a military family, hated the existence of pirates, second only to his hatred of orcs.

For a while, it lasted about 10 years, and every year, Dai Lin would rush to the South China Sea with a fleet, just like wielding a sickle to cut leeks, uprooting the breeding pirates, and at a certain time of each year, almost all the pirates in the South China Sea disappeared, and everywhere Dai Lin went, the unlucky old fur seals fled in all directions at a terrifying speed.

Just like the name of his domineering ship, during that time, Dai Lin was the true king of the sea.

How strong was the sea power of Kurtilas at that time?

In the interval between World War I and World War II, one of the generals of the Kurtilas fleet, Farreville, in the face of the threat of continental war, made the wrong decision to flee without a fight, because he was afraid that Dai Lin would be held responsible, so Farreville fled with a quarter of the Fourth Fleet's warships on the return journey, half forced and half tricked.

And it was this traitor who betrayed the Kul Tiras navy, after arriving in the South China Sea, in less than 2 months, swept away all the maritime forces, including the Blackwater pirates, and established their dominance in the South China Sea.

The navy that betrayed Kurtilas was the famous "Bloodsail" pirates.

(This is not the case with the real story of the Bloodsail Pirates, since there are no more three wars in this timeline, so the only way to let the Farreville brothers get the boxed lunch in advance, but the process of the formation of the Bloodsail Pirates is almost exactly the same as this story...) So, let's think of it as a mysterious disturbance of the timeline. ）

To be honest, if it weren't for the sudden invasion of the Darkblade Undead, General Farreville's head would probably have hung in the port of Bullares for public display, but in any case, the strength of the Kurtilas fleet is undoubted, and a third of this strength is due to Dai Lin's character and his strong personality.

And if it weren't for Dai Lin's untimely death, Lothar wouldn't have had such a headache in choosing a successor, and if Dai Lin was still alive, Lothar would definitely be much easier... Aside from his hatred of orcs, Dai Lin is almost the perfect second emperor of human civilization.

But the world makes people, by chance, the betrayal of the sages of the tide was advanced by more than ten years, and directly led to the fall of Dai Lin, but think about it another way, in fact, as early as the Battle of Tide Island in World War II, when Dai Lin and Drake were rescued by Tyrion, they had already predetermined the tragic fate of the king now.

At this moment, in the outer sea of Whispering Harbor, the fog that enveloped the entire sea almost surrounded the ships sailing out of the harbor, and the ghost warships and those ghost sailors who had been summoned by Dai Lin from the dim bottom of the sea were looking at the first and second fleets of Kul Tiras, who were surrounded by them, with a look at their prey.

In this undisguised malice, Admiral Drake clenched the command knife in his hand... He wasn't afraid to fight the dead, and this brave prince inherited the prowess of Darein's bloodline, but it was beyond all of Drake's nightmares to have him in command of a warship and a fierce battle against his father on the sea.

It was the person he respected the most in his life, and even when facing him, Drake would feel a burst... Awe.

Gianna beside him was not much better, compared to her brother's more realistic thinking, the only woman in the new generation of the Proudmoore family, was more of emotional pain, she looked at the man standing at the end of the deck of the dark giant, she couldn't help but step forward and said in a sad voice:

"Father... You..."

Before Gianna could finish speaking, he was interrupted by Dai Lin, the Death Lord didn't seem to want to say too much about personal feelings, his eyes swept over the fleet of Kul Tiras, who had formed a battle formation on the sea, and he saw the ships full of civilians on the dark sea behind him, he didn't even need to use his eyes to feel the despair and pain that permeated the sea.

Frankly, this annoyed Dai Lin, and he'd seen enough of it in his life.

"Gianna, I'm back from death, it's a pleasure to see you again, but sadly, you have your mission on the sea tonight... And I also belong to me. ”

"Go back!"

The Admiral of the Dark Blade said in a deep voice:

"Burying senseless courage in my heart, swallowing the roar of anger back to my throat, I would rather see the end of it all than the result of fighting and dying for honor... I have seen enough of the ugliness and nonsense of this world, and now, I am loyal to the new mission and system, in which I see with my own eyes another future. ”

"Go back! Sons and daughters of Kul Tiras, accept the dawn of this new era, and you will be part of this new system... You will have the peace you have dreamed of for a long time. ”

"Go back! Hand over your weapons, and I'll protect you as I did before... There is no need for the living to take up arms until the dead die on the battlefield..."

"Go back!"

In Dai Lin's deep voice, the fog that spread all over the sea surged at this moment, and the ghost warships that followed behind the Sea Throne slowly turned their bows in the misty sea, and as the necromancers walked silently, a door covered with dark red cold energy was pushed out of the side chords of these tattered, gray-white battleships covered with undersea barnacles and seaweed.

On the dark and cold sea, the black cannon muzzle is dotted with deadly light, and the undead on the sea are waiting for the ruler's order, as long as Dai Lin gives an order, these flying necromantic cannonballs will completely destroy the resistance of the human fleet in front of them... And some of the restless undead have begun to roar.

"Admiral..."

First mate of the Queen Anna, Saunders. Colonel Valentine stood behind the silent Drake, carefully surveying the undead fleet in front of him, and he asked in a low voice, like a desperate urge.

The urge woke Drake from his long meeting, and when he looked back, he saw the dazed sailors all over the deck watching him.

Many of the navy soldiers of Kurtilas here had followed Dai Lin on his glorious saga of domination of the Endless Sea, and they instinctively made them obey the orders of the dead admiral, but the soldier's vocation made them want to receive an answer from the current commander.

"Brother..."

Gianna silently clenched Drake's wrist, and she looked worriedly at her brother, the soon-to-be admiral of Kul Tiras, who could already hear a hint of ominousness in her father's words.

And Redk patted his sister's hand, he turned back to the worried Gianna and showed a pale and reassuring smile, the next moment, Drake raised his head and looked at Dai Lin hundreds of meters away in front of him, he took a deep breath, let the cold sea breeze lap on his cheek, the scenes of the past rotated in front of his eyes, and finally, he shouted:

"Father..."

"This is the last time I call you father... Forgive me, I can't heed your teachings and so easily throw aside the mission given to me by the Emperor. ”

"Because, you taught me that a general should be loyal to his mission and not to his personal feelings."

"It was you who taught me that an upright Prodmore should be faithful to a righteous and great cause."

"You taught me... Kurtiras's fleet, the captain of every ship, no matter what desperate situation he faces, will never surrender without a fight! ”

"Even in the mortal sea, we have to shoot the last shell, hack the last enemy, or..."

"Wow"

Drake drew his command knife and pointed forward, he closed his eyes and uttered one last sentence:

"Or... In endless glory, sink with the ship! ”

The next moment, Drake's voice, with the blessing of Gianna's amplification magic, spread throughout this dead sea surrounded by undead, his voice was not loud, but it was full of a momentum of fighting to the death.

"Kurtilas fleet! Soldiers of Kul Tiras, I'm Drake. Prodmore, I'm your general! Listen to me! ”

"The enemy is ahead, ready for battle!"

"Click, click, click, click, click"

The moment they heard the battle instructions, the Kurtilas sailors who were still standing on the deck almost subconsciously moved, the first and second fleets had already set up battle formations, and at this time, those sailors quickly pushed the dense heavy naval guns out of the muzzles, and in the blink of an eye, the two fleets became fearless warriors in armor and spears on the sea.

Drake looked at the silent fleet of the undead in front of him, and the figure he called his father, and finally, he clenched his sister's cold hand, and the command knife in his hand slammed down.

"In order to... For Kul Tiras! For the Empire! Fire! ”

"In the name of the Darkblade! Fire! ”

The two fathers and sons gave the order almost at the same moment, and at this moment, the guns of both sides roared at the same time, and the scorching cannonballs and cold necromantic cannonballs intertwined across the silent night sky, and the light that floated in the night also illuminated the eyes of Dai Lin and Derek, Drake saw the smile on his father's thin cheeks, and Dai Lin saw another self in his son.

"You've grown up... It's very gratifying..."

Dai Lin didn't say this, he just watched as the cannonball on the Queen Anna smashed straight down on the deck where he was, and when the scorching cannonball approached the sky above the Sea Kingship, it was accurately hit by the black chains jumping up on the deck of the dead battleship, like a baseball, whistling into the cold sea water on the other side.

"Boom"

In the bright column of water blasted by the explosion, the cold cannonballs of the Darkblade Fleet also smashed on the ships of the First Fleet of Kul Tiras, and despite the storm shields imposed on the ships by the Tide Sages, the strange death energy still froze the battleship along with the sea water below the moment it touched the battleship.

The soldiers who were within the range of the shell explosion were instantly frozen in the ice, except for the Queen Anna and the two nearby warships, who were blessed with frost-like shields in Gianna's magic, blocking the fire and shells from the sky.

And the undead fleet in the fog was also hit by Kul Tiras's guns, the scorching cannonballs smashed open the rotten deck, fell under the battleship, and then exploded, the fire illuminated the deep sea area of the fog, the necromancers on the deck of those ghost ships seemed to be ignited by the violent explosion, those broken and burning ships slowly immersed in the water as if they fell into the deep sea, and even a spark could be seen dancing on the water.

But these are ghost ships, and they can be repaired in the water, which means that after the naval battle continues for a while, they can join the encirclement of the Kurtilas fleet.

The artillery bombardment of the Kurtiras fleet was a little slower, but the numerical superiority of the necromantic fleet, as well as Dai Lin's command, made the necromantic artillery bombardment of the misty fleet seem to be endless, and only less than 10 minutes later, the two fleets of Kul Tiras were suppressed by Dai Lin's fleet from the firepower level, and nearly 15 whizzing battleships were completely frozen in the sea, and they had lost the power to counterattack.

This battle loss ratio can make almost any maritime commander feel hopeless.

And the worst is yet to come, in the low laughter of the dark blade general, the greatest sea kingship slowly crossed an arc on the sea, the gun window on one side was opened, and the whole 32 large-caliber guns and the ship guns on the deck pushed by the necromantic sailors were fired in one fire, enough to compare to the salvo of three warships, the sea king was transformed... Its cannonballs are not frozen bullets mixed with necromantic energy, but conical shells filled with a new type of gunpowder.

The sharp hiss of the cone-shaped cannonballs flying through the air made Drake's scalp tingle, and he only had time to push his sister out of the bridge, and the next moment, the cone-shaped cannonball's lethal penetration of the wooden battleship and the subsequent explosion enveloped the entire Queen Anna in bright fireworks.

"Huh"

In the shattered light of the portal, Gianna's sweaty figure appeared on the distant shore, and she looked desperately at the Queen Anna who had been shrouded in flames on the distant sea, and at this moment, the ** division fell into the most powerless despair.

She was born in Kul Tiras, and she knew very well that in a naval battle of this scale, the effect that a ** division could exert was extremely weak, and in the face of her father, the most powerful naval commander in the history of human civilization, her brother and those brave warriors, it was impossible to win.

But this is not a reason for her to do nothing, **Shi gritted her teeth and tried to open a portal again, she did not want to return to Queen Anna, but to "jump" directly into her father's Sea Throne for a spellcaster's raid... It was the last thing she could do now.

And at the moment when Gianna stirred up her magic and was about to open the portal, between the rough water, a hoarse female voice suddenly came into her ears.

"The daughter of the sea... You're the only one left to help them now, but not in this stupid way of sacrificing yourself..."

"Be nice... Do as my sister says, but the daughter of the sea, this is not selfless help, what are you willing to pay to save your loved ones? ”

"Hehehe, I'm curious..."