In the middle of the night, a horse-drawn carriage with no sign sped down the roads of the Western Wilderness.

This fertile land surrounded by the sea on both sides is the "granary" of the Stormwind Kingdom, where several large farms are located, and together with the farming families of the Elwyn Forest, they can provide enough food for the entire kingdom every year, and good fortune also favors the kingdom, and in recent years, the western wilderness has been in good weather, and the food produced here can not only supply the kingdom's needs, but even sell it to the outside world, accumulating more wealth for the farmers.

Because of the important role it plays in the kingdom, the entire Wild West is directly under the management of the nobles of Stormwind.

"Da-da, da-da"

The horses pulling the cart galloped to the driver's whip, and hurried at great speed to the town of the Western Wilderness, Moon Creek Town, a city located in the southern part of the Western Wilderness, and also a border town of the Stormwind Kingdom, where tens of thousands of people lived, and was one of the first areas to prosper after the kingdom was rebuilt.

After galloping for several hours, the carriage stopped at the intersection outside the town of Yuexi, the door of the carriage opened, and Alex, a sweaty architect, came out of the carriage with a suitcase, and he whispered thanks to the groom, who only shook his head silently, and then lowered his voice:

"The mistress took great care to get you out of Stormwind, and now that the guards are hunting down anyone involved in the rebellion, you must hide here and wait until the storm calms down before you can return to Stormwind."

"This is not a rebellion!"

Alex wiped the sweat from his forehead, the polite architect's face was a little pale, if it weren't for Countess Caterina who lent a helping hand at a critical moment, he would probably have been in prison like Van Cleef, but at this moment, he still gritted his teeth and said: "I know Van Cleef, he loves his country, he can't do such a thing!" We have been framed! ”

The carriage pulled the reins and made it turn in circles in the night, and as he was leaving, he looked at Alex and said:

"I don't know what the real situation is, but if the merciful mistress thinks you are trustworthy, I will continue to help you, with all due respect, if you really think that Mr. Van Cleef is innocent, then you will have to find a way to help him, and in a month's time he will be executed, and you may not have much time left."

Seeing the carriage disappear into the darkness, the chief architect walked into Yuexi Town worriedly, he carefully avoided the patrolling soldiers, and then approached the location of the Brotherhood of Stonemasons in Moonbrook Town, as far as he knew, the Brotherhood of Stonemasons in Shining Gold Town had been ordered to disband, and even the location of the association had been sealed, but the news may not have reached Moonbrook Town, or the power of the Brotherhood of Stonemasons in Moonbrook Town was very strong, in short, the association here still remained.

"Aggressive"

A low knock on the door woke up the crowd who were plotting something in the hall, and a guy dressed in black made a silent gesture to the others, and then quietly approached the back door, clutching a 7-for-new dwarven musket in his hand, and he asked in a low voice:

"Who?"

"It's me, Alex! Open the door! ”

The chief architect's voice came through the wooden door, and the black-clothed Willie breathed a sigh of relief, turned around and opened the door, and the architect walked into the room, leaning against the closed door and taking a few deep breaths, before following the black-clothed Willy into the hall.

But the next moment, in the dim light of the candlelight, Alex's eyes widened.

The hall, which had been stacked with some stonemason tools and materials, was now filled with muskets of various lengths, some sorted armor, and gunpowder stacked together, and among the weapons, there stood a dozen tall figures, whom Alex recognized, these were the backbone of the Brotherhood of Stonemasons, many of whom were veterans who had followed Van Rikoff back home from the battlefield.

And on that table, there is a map of Stormwind... The city had been built by the stonemasons themselves, and the map in their hands was definitely the most accurate and reliable, and on that map, several red crosses had been drawn, which seemed to represent some ominous omen.

"Willy! What are you going to do? ”

The architect turned around and grabbed Willy's wrist in black, and asked in a low voice:

"What are you planning?"

"We've heard about what happened in Stormwind and Shining Gold, Alex."

Willy put the dwarven musket in his hand on the table, he grabbed a bottle of wine, and drank it several times, then said with red eyes: "They arrested the boss and framed us for rebellion, those nobles are crazy, they have already executed a number of people, we can't wait any longer, we have to rescue the boss!" ”

"You're crazy!"

Alex felt a little dry in his throat, and he screamed:

"Van Cleef is only imprisoned, and we still have a month to prove his innocence, so to rob the prison regardless of it can only confirm our charges of rebellion! You're going to kill everyone! ”

"Alex, you probably don't know yet."

Another strong man with his hands propped on the table said in a deep voice:

"Now it's not that we're going to rebel, it's the nobles who are forcing us to rebel, and the association in Shining Gold Town has been disbanded..."

"I know!"

Alex said: "The brothers were dismissed. ”

"Nope! They've been caught! ”

Willy, who was dressed in black, gritted his teeth and shouted:

"The dismissal was only to deceive the civilians, and our brothers were all caught and put in prison! Those lunatics didn't even spare the children, and little Vanessa disappeared in the chaos! That's the boss's only relative! God knows what those lunatics will do to her! ”

"The nobles said that we were rebels, so they let the sheriff Duhan rush into the association with his soldiers, and 7 people were killed on the spot!"

A middle-aged man with a bandage on his arm shouted:

"They didn't intend to let us go at all, it doesn't matter if we have a rebellion or not, Alex, when I fled back from Shining Gold, I saw the soldiers of the Westspring Fortress gathering, who are they coming for? Don't you understand? ”

"They want us to die!"

"Bang"

Alex's face turned desperate, he slumped in his chair, and looked at his brothers, he shook his head with difficulty, and his voice became hoarse:

"But even so... It is impossible for us to rescue Van Cleeff alone, and the most elite soldiers of the kingdom are guarding them... We have no hope. ”

"We have elite soldiers too, Alex."

The black-clothed Willy handed the wine bottle in his hand to the architect, and a gleam flashed in his eyes, and he whispered:

"Remember the mercenary that the Boss asked me to hire in Booty Bay? I've contacted the Darkblade Consortium, and those greedy goblins don't care what we're going to do, they're willing to help us do anything as long as we can get our hands on the mines in Moonstream... A whole shipload of munitions and soldiers is heading towards Mooncreek Town, and believe me, we have enough strength in our hands! ”

"And we don't have to go toe-to-toe with those soldiers at all! Alex. ”

Another veteran stepped forward, shoved the map on the table into the architect's hand, pointed to the red cross in the docks, and whispered:

"Don't forget, this city was built with our own hands, there is a drainage ditch in the dock area, as long as we open two less than 5 meters apart, we can go directly into the prison from there, and without even alarming the prison guards, we can leave with our brothers and the boss, and there will be someone to pick us up in the dockland... No one will get hurt, no one will even know. ”

Alex looked at the architectural drawing in his hand, which he had drawn with his own hands, he looked at the sewer with the red dotted line, and after thinking in his heart for several minutes, he pursed his lips and asked in a low voice:

"And then?"

"Huh?"

The black-clothed Willie asked with some confusion:

"What, then?"

The architect glared at him, reached out and pushed his glasses, and asked softly:

"You've only thought about the prison robbery, and what I want to know more is the plan after the prison robbery, what are you going to do? Is it the soldiers of the Western Wilderness and the Kingdom to the end? Or leave the homeland and go somewhere else? Have you thought about this? ”

This question made the others look at each other, the people who are planning the robbery here are a group of actionists, but they are really not good at planning this kind of thing, looking at the appearance of everyone, Alex sighed, put the map in his hand aside, and rubbed the corners of his forehead:

"This won't work, Hank said that the soldiers of Westspring Fortress are ready to go, and even if we rescue Van Cleef and his brothers, we can't stop their soldiers, which means that we can't stay in the Western Wilderness for long... Let's go to Gilneth! ”

The architect's eyes narrowed, he remembered a notice he had seen at the town hall a month ago, and he whispered:

"Gilneth is recently recruiting enough artisans to build a military wall for their kingdom, far enough away from the kingdom that we can easily stay incognito there until all the turmoil has calmed down, and then come back... And the defense of the docklands, I remember we had some connections there as well, Willy, and before everything falls into place, you go and reach out to your former friends, we need their help. ”

"Be careful, don't be "sold" by them. ”

"Yours, Alex!"

Willy in black patted Alex on the shoulder with a smile on his face:

"You are our brainstorm, and with you joining, we will definitely succeed!"

"I hope so."

The architect's gaze fell on the icy glowing musket beneath his feet, and he could have a hunch that he, Van Cleef, and the brothers around him were like trees caught in a storm, and they had no control over which they were going.

It's like there's an invisible hand behind them, pushing them forward, and what's ahead of the fog?

Nobody knows.

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"Stormwind has been really eventful lately, bad things are happening one after another, Varian is already a little overwhelmed, and at this time, it's really unbearable for you to leave us again."

Gentle Queen Tiffany. Standing on the dock, she took the hand of the countess in a long black dress, and said with some reluctance:

"You must be safe on your trip to Alterac, my Katarina, and I hope that by the time you return, peace has returned to the kingdom."

The countess, who seemed to be more emotional than the queen, took a step back and held the queen in her arms, her beautiful eyes filled with tears, she embraced her good friend, and behind her, a merchant ship from Kul Tiras, which would carry the countess back to her country.

"I don't want to leave the Stormwind Kingdom either, my Tiffany, this is already my second home, this time after I go back to deal with the affairs of the Empire, I can return here without worry, and at that time, I am still looking forward to celebrating Little Anduin's birthday."

And beside the two farewell ladies, there were several royal guards, as well as the Duke of Boval in simple clothes, after the countess and the queen said goodbye, the beautiful brunette woman walked towards the duke, the relationship between the two was somewhat ambiguous, neither Lady Caterina nor the Duke of Boval were willing to make it public until the love affair was really concluded.

Katerina. Presto took the initiative to take the hand of the silent duke, she looked at the resolute and personable paladin in front of her with gentle eyes, and she whispered:

"I'm leaving, Berval, don't you have anything to say to me?"

The Duke was a true veteran, he had been through several wars in his entirety, such a veteran would not show his fragile and emotional side in public, and he tried to maintain his resolute expression in the face of the tender countess, but the gentleness in his eyes could not hide from the lady.

"Stay safe, Katarina, and when you return, I'd like to invite you to join me on a trip to Kul Tiras..."

The Duke rubbed the countess's hand, and he whispered:

"I told you that I have a secret hidden inside me, that I have a daughter... I think when you get back, it's time for you to meet her. ”

"Oh, my Berval."

The countess, with a hint of emotion, stretched out her hand, and stroked the duke's face under the queen's smiling gaze, and she whispered:

"Is that why you've been running away from me? There are so many aristocratic lives in this world, but only you can be so innocent, I am about to be captured by you. ”

The Duke did not reply, in fact, he looked up, and was quickly attracted by the fleeting light of a fire on another pier not far away, a veteran soldier's instinct for war made him quickly protect Caterina and the queen behind him, but before he could shout anything, a sudden burst of fire broke out in the dock area.

"Boom"

More than a dozen barrels of explosives stacked on the dock were ignited at one time, and the added explosives set off a terrible explosion, blowing up the wooden trestle and blowing off the royal guards who were caught off guard, and the paladin duke did his best to wave the holy light in the explosion to protect the lady behind him, but after the explosion subsided, he turned his head to see the countess, who was covered in blood and lying on the ground, and the queen who was hit in the forehead by the explosion stone.

In the drift of the strange green mist, in the wailing of mourning, the duke, who was completely embarrassed, knelt beside Countess Caterina and Queen Tiffany, his hands wrapped around the holy light to try to save their lives, but the eyes of the duke, who had experienced the cruelty of war, turned red at the sight of the blood stains on his hands.

"Nope! It doesn't matter who it is! You guys... You have to pay the price! ”