Astrana, a city founded by the Night Elves in Ashenvale, is home to a force of Silver Wing Sentinels who have been battling the Warsong Clan for many years.

Due to the frequent battles, Astrana gathers a large number of mercenaries, and adventurers also like to use this place as a place to stay, after all, the Night Elves will issue many missions in wartime, and adventurers can earn enough gold coins for a whole year of their usual busy work in a battle.

The primeval forests of Ashenvale are vast, and it is not for nothing that the Night Elves would choose Astrana as their city elsewhere.

First of all, the terrain is unique, it is a huge island in the middle of the lake, and the only way to attack the land here is two long bridges built by the Night Elves, and only a small number of troops can be used to hold off the enemy's army. As for water warfare, everyone knows that it is impossible, and those ancient war trees comparable to perpetual motion projection vehicles are enough to smash your boat over and make you fall into the lake to feed the fish before you get close, and it is such a place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

In addition to its defensive location, Astrana is also strategically located, with the Black Coast to the northwest, Felwood Forest to the northeast, the Barren Lands to the southeast, and Eshara to the east. With the Black Coast at their back, the Night Elves have no high vision of establishing a city here, and even if the Silver Wing Sentinels retreat, it is enough to keep one-third of the control of the Grey Valley, not to mention that the Warsong Clan can't suppress them.

In fact, if it weren't for the bravery of the Orcs of the Warsong Clan, Malfurion's secret suppression in order to give the Burning Legion more strength when it invades again, the Silverwing Sentinels would have driven the orcs far less than them out of the Ash Valley.

As a gathering place for adventurers and mercenaries of the Ashenvale Alliance, Astrana can often see the appearance of various races of the Alliance, humans, dwarves, and gnomes. Although the Night Elves are very arrogant, but arrogance does not mean stupid, since the above wants to retain the power of the orcs as allies against the Burning Legion, it is meaningless for the elves to fight to the death with the warmongers of the Warsong Clan, and no one is willing to do it, so don't look at the wars in the Warsong Canyon often start, but the number of Night Elves participating in the war has always been very limited, and the fighters in the battlefield are more mercenaries attracted by money and the task rewards provided by the elves.

With only a small number of troops and the use of mercenaries as the main force to weaken the Warsong Clan, the Night Elves' calculations are not inadequate. Although the mercenaries knew the intentions of the Night Elves, they couldn't resist the temptation of money, although the Warsong Clan also knew that the real opponent of the Silver Wing Sentinel had few casualties and their own battle loss rate had been high, but in the face of a ** mercenary orcs who came to attack for money, they also had to face it.

The Night Elves' approach Leo agrees with it, the problem that can be solved with money in the war between races is not a problem, the Night Elves exchanged a large number of casualties for the Warsong Clan's casualties, turning the one-to-one ratio of forces between the two sides at the beginning of the battle in Ash Valley into a huge disparity of nearly twenty to one now, and the terrible money offensive can be seen.

However, this trick can only be used to bully resource-poor orcs, and it will not work at all if it is used against humans, but the problem is that the Night Elves and humans are allies, how can they go to war when they are also in the alliance camp?

"This is Astrana? Very comfortable feeling. ”

Standing at the head of the bridge at the entrance of Astrand, looking at the building opposite, Leo couldn't help but sigh.

Unlike human cities, which are accustomed to using stone to repair buildings, the Night Elves use pure natural materials - wood, which are not deliberately cut down but the plants grow on their own after the Night Elves communicate with the plants, what is the harmony between the city and nature, you will get the answer when you come to the city of the Night Elves.

Looking at Astrana, who was almost at one with nature, Leo felt a sense of closeness in his heart, which made him feel refreshed, and his mood naturally became excellent.

Fortunately, the bridge in Astrana was the gateway between the city and the outside world, and in order to facilitate the entry and exit of the ancient trees of war, the Night Elves erected the bridge very wide, enough for fifteen carriages to gallop aside, and the three Leo stood at the head of the bridge without causing traffic jams.

Just when Leo was lamenting the elven architecture of Astrana, a team of adventurers walked past them, such as the bloody plot in many YY did not appear, and although the mercenaries were surprised by the excellence of Scarlett and Pasonia, they only took two more glances and hurriedly left.

The mercenaries and adventurers who mingle with Astrana live a life of licking blood from the edge of a knife, and this place in Ashenvale must not only be wary of dangers from the forest, beware of attacks from Warsong orcs, but also beware of the plots of other teams. Don't think that the mercenaries of the same camp are not dangerous, you must know that the primeval forest of Ash Valley is a good place to kill people, rob money, destroy corpses, and destroy traces.

Not to mention Leo and Patsonia, Scarlett's extremely gorgeous knight armor alone is enough to prove the dignity of her identity, and the magic halo that escapes from the armor is a reminder to others that the armor owner is strong, you must know that the more powerful the equipment you want to wear, the stronger the strength you need, even the mercenaries with low eyesight can deduce that this female knight is at least a powerhouse in the legendary realm, and the clever point is to guess the identity of the two from the eyes and hair color of Leo and Scarlett.

Black hair and black eyes, purple hair and purple eyes, a man and a woman, who is this Leo and Scarlett of the Kingdom of Araso?

Why did these two big names come to Astrana, could it be because of that incident?

A group of old mercenaries were looking at each other, originally thinking that it was an ordinary task, but who would have thought that it would alarm these two big shots, it seems that this trip is full of dangers.

Thinking of this, the mercenaries began to connect with each other, originally they thought that this time was just an ordinary mission, so they would act alone without waiting for the troops of the Silver Wing Sentinel, but now that they found the traces of Leo and Scarlett, they thought that the matter was too big for some of their small mercenary teams to handle, and they immediately changed their plans, and the mercenaries informed their acquaintances to return to Astrana and wait for the Night Elves' troops.

"Looks like there's going to be a big dispute here in Ashengue."

An experienced old mercenary whispered to his companion, and this old mercenary was one of the people who recognized the identities of Leo and Scarlett.

"Not really." The old mercenary's companion chatted with him, "Originally, I thought it was just to destroy an outpost established by an orc, but I have done this kind of task no less than ten times, as long as there are enough people, it is not difficult. Now that these two masters come, I don't dare to go over first, and in a war involving a strong man of this level, we get together to be cannon fodder, and others think we are not qualified. ”

"That's it, mercenaries like us are just a mess of food, and when I save enough money, I'll go home to support my old age, so I won't run stupidly and desperately, if I were twenty years younger, it would be about the same."

The third mercenary came up, to say that it is not easy for the old mercenaries to mix in a place like Gray Valley until now, when they were young, they relied on a momentum and a little strength and good luck, but the older the rivers and lakes, the less courageous, the more cautious the mercenaries who have been mixed for a long time, there is no young man's impulse to know that there are tigers in the mountains and bias towards the tigers, they only seek to be safe and stable, and they foresee that there will be a big event, they do not think about taking risks like young people to win wealth and wealth, but how to follow behind safely to obtain benefits.

Although many mercenaries deliberately avoided talking from a distance, how could they not hear with the ears of the three of Leo?

I didn't expect our arrival to make these mercenaries misunderstand, it's really funny.

Leo shook his head amusedly, and saw a trace of hidden helplessness in the eyes of Scarlett and Pasonia, they were negligent when they came, Leo and Scarlett's obvious characteristics actually forgot to cover up, and it was normal to be recognized, and I think it was also because the saboteur Manolos, who had only been resurrected half a day ago, was too involved in their energy.

The mercenary's idea Leo didn't care, but it wouldn't be good if the Night Elves in Astrana misunderstood, and Leo couldn't help but have the idea of going away. He came to Astrana just because he wanted to see if Cutis and Sylph had arrived here, and there was no other purpose, and in Leo's mind, there were more elements of taking Scarlett and Pasonia out to hang out, and it was undoubtedly not worth it if he caused trouble for himself because of this.

Sometimes, however, if you're afraid, it will give you anything, and when a group of Night Elf sentries from Astrana come up to him and invite him to meet with one of the Night Elves in a very polite tone, Leo knows that trouble is in place.

"Hello, Queen of the Kingdom of Aratho, I'm Pyrturas, and this time I'm in charge of leading the Silver Wing Sentinels to the coast of Zoram to destroy the newly built outpost of the Orcs there."

A Night Elf politely introduced his identity, and Leo could see confusion on his face. In fact, it's normal to think about it, anyone who finds that what was originally an ordinary task suddenly attracts two unusual characters will have such a reaction.

Leo wanted to explain it to Pierturas, but he dismissed it when he heard a familiar name from the other man's words.

"Your target is the Zoram sentry?" Leo asked, and after receiving an affirmative reply from the other party, he couldn't help but remind, "If that's the case, you should be careful." ”

In Leo's memory, the original trajectory of this world, the orcs Zoram outpost was successfully established, and if the butterfly effect had not been extended here, then the troops led by Pirtulas would have been doomed to failure.

Seeing that Leo Piltulas thought about it carefully, he didn't know whether Leo was testing him or really didn't know, but the other party came at this time, and Astrana thought that the news had been confirmed.

Thinking of this, Pirtulas decided not to hide it anymore, only to hear him say to Leo in a low voice: "Queen Scarlett must have gotten the news when she came to Astrana at this time, so I won't waste everyone's time anymore. Our purpose this time is not an orc outpost on the shores of Zoram, but a temple that sank to the bottom of the ocean in the explosion of the Well of Eternity. ”

(To be continued)