In the Elvin Forest on the southern continent of the Eastern Kingdom, this area suitable for humans and animals is not only the most important land of the Storm Kingdom, but also the location of Storm Kingdom's capital Storm Kingdom.

Since the Storm Kingdom itself is close to the equatorial line of the planet Azeroth, the land is between the tropical and subtropical, and the Elvin Forest is even closer to the endless sea. Under the dual influence of the marine climate environment and the Azeroth climate zone, the Elvin Forest of the Storm Kingdom has a very pleasant climate, the sky is often clear, and the seasons are like spring. It is a great place for humans to reproduce and prosper!

Although Stormwind was captured and destroyed by orcs during the first war of orcs, in the sixth year of the Dark Gate, after the Alliance defeated orcs and destroyed the Dark Gate, the powerful and refugees of the Storm Kingdom returned to restore their homes.

Later, they hired a large number of workers and members of the stonemason union, and once again established a more majestic stone fortress on the ruins of the original Storm City that was ravaged by orcs! It was precisely because of this that the incident of the Difia Brotherhood came later, and wasn't it because of the storm kingdom's debt?

The stonemason brothers will have so many mouths to eat. I have worked hard to rebuild another majestic Storm City for you. But what happened? After repairing it, Storm City was actually dependent on your debts... I even played the word-and-drag method for the hard-earned money of migrant workers. If this delay is delayed, it is no different from dependent on your debts.

So, how can Van Cliff not start the riot? If you have difficulties in Stormwind City, then there will be no difficulties in the stonemason union? Besides, where is the contract written in black and white? The stonemasons completed the project on schedule, but you have the last sentence in Stormwind City: No money?

It is precisely because of this that the armed conflict between the two sides has been escalating, and it has developed more and more severely in the later period. It is precisely because the Brotherhood has always been at a disadvantage in the confrontation between Stormwind City that the Defia brothers had an indescribable relationship with the Defia brothers, so he entrusted his brother who was far away in Black Rock Mountain to use the special power of the Black Dragon to forge a powerful two-handed sword for the Brotherhood, that is - Ashkandi, the Brotherhood Sword, aiming to balance the power comparison between the two sides to achieve some ulterior motive. This is also why the Brotherhood Sword is so powerful and has a dragon-shaped decorative sword hilt. (Pure bold guess)

Unfortunately, in the original timeline, this powerful two-handed sword was left to be delivered by a group of men. When the sword of the Brotherhood was released, there was no more brothers' bullshit...

Well, I won’t go into details when it happened before. It was a headless case. Under the mixed factors, each has its own reasons. Therefore, in the end, both sides could only talk with each other!

Now, on the cliffs and mountains near the northeast of Storm City, there is a huge white rock fortress, which is the core of Storm City - Storm Fortress. This castle is the crystallization of the blood and sweat of migrant workers from the stonemason union!

This huge stone structure fortress, located right on the edge of the cliff in the north of the city, is a huge fortress fortress that not only guards Stormwind, but also provides the king and other nobles of the city with ideal and safe residence.

At this time, in the King's Hall of the main building of the Storm Fortress, Countess Katrana Presto and the Kingdom's top Duke Bervar Fortagen were assisting King Varian Urien to handle some military and political affairs of the Storm Kingdom.

Originally, Ms. Katrana Presto was not qualified to accompany the king to participate in the management of the country with Duke Berval in the King's Hall. However, when the beautiful and knowledgeable countess came to Stormwind, she quickly gained the appreciation of Duke Berval and quickly entered the upper class of the Storm Kingdom's political circle. So far, she has had a very good influence.

Regarding this countess, there are a lot of rumors in the aristocratic circle of the Storm Kingdom. In fact, many people think that it must be Berval who fell in love with the young and beautiful Ms. Catrana Presto, so that the other party can fly to the top leaders of the Storm Kingdom like a rocket. This guy who is nearly middle-aged must be in a spring and wants to eat young grass! But this is also a common sense, and no wonder, such a young girl, who doesn't want to know the other party's true identity?

Otherwise, how could he have tried his best to support the countess to the throne for no reason? Over the years, he has taken less care of this lady? As long as he is not blind, anyone can see that this guy is thinking about some dirty thoughts! This is what is called playing with fire and self-immolation. In the original timeline, this also laid the foreshadowing for his later ending.

"By the way, is there anything particularly important in our Storm Kingdom recently?"

King Varian Wrien left a document and a quill pen in hand and asked the two assistants standing aside. He had been very impatient to deal with these trivial matters every day. It was precisely because of this that in most of the time, he made friends with the two people in front of him to deal with the irrelevant government affairs, and he was happy to take a break. Only when he encountered some important matters, as the king, would he ask.

"My Majesty, there is nothing particularly important, that is, some things related to the Difia Brotherhood. Recently, they..."

Before Duke Beval could speak, Count Katrana Preis smiled and took a step forward and began to report some things. Of course she knew that King Varian didn't like to listen to these things about the Difia Brotherhood, but she didn't know why. Every time she always chose the right time to report these things that bothered His Majesty the King, and every time she could achieve the results she expected.

"Okay, I'll have a headache when talking about the Difia Brotherhood! OK OK, I'll both of you guys first. I'll go out for a walk first, and then I'll discuss things like this in the future."

Sure enough, when King Varian heard the words "Fidia Brotherhood" read by the Earl Katrana, King Varian could no longer sit still!

This is a thorn that he will never get rid of. When he talks about this, his heart hurts! Anyway, there is nothing big about the Storm Kingdom now. It’s just that a certain nobleman is extravagant or corruption, or that the Difia Brotherhood has come out to cause trouble again, wait... He Varian has had enough of this!

In fact, what King Varian had no idea was that whether it was the Black Dragon and Black Stone Orcs who burned the plains to cause trouble, or the riots of the migrant workers of the stonemason union, or the increasing corruption of the noble officials of Stormwind City, they were closely related to the Earl Katrana, who was regarded by him and the important minister of the Kingdom!

"As for your order, my Majesty."

The Countess Katrana gave a ladylike gift, and when she saw the king go out, she turned around and looked at Duke Beval beside her with a smile.

"Hisser Duke, tell me, what should we do now about the matter of the Difia Brotherhood? Continue to suppress it? Or leave it alone?"

Katrana raised the roll of parchment in her hand, which read the various evil deeds done by the stonemasons who had made trouble recently and requested reinforcements.

"Oh... Katrana, I don't really want to care about this. Since it's been returned to you, then you can handle it according to the old rules."

Boval shook his head. He also found it very difficult to deal with the Difia Brotherhood. He suppressed, fought, and talked! Over the years, Storm City still had no choice but to deal with the other party!

Anyway, Boval had already understood that the Brotherhood was the first to be in the Storm Kingdom, and the Kingdom first violated the contract and owed them a large amount of gold coins. In the end, by various coincidences, it led to the regret of armed riots on the other side.

Now that things have come, both sides can only continue to confront each other like this. Anyway, there should be a day to calm down!

Of course, there is no way to solve this problem perfectly now. However, unless the Storm Kingdom is willing to pay several times more compensation than the original gold coins breached, and promises not to hold anyone on accountable, there may be a little chance of reaching an agreement.

But... Stormwind City, the entire Storm Kingdom now cannot afford this money!

You know, this is the wages of all the craftsmen who built a whole Stormwind City. The wages and materials for building such a main city are too large. Duke Boval is very nervous when he thinks about it! It is no wonder that His Majesty the King doesn't want to care about the reasons for this matter. In his own fault, Boval doesn't want to face these things!

Now, when their Storm Kingdom lost a considerable portion of mines and farmland because of the Difia Brotherhood, the Kingdom Treasury is already quite tight! Where can we still take out several times of compensation to negotiate? Not to mention several times, they can't even get half of the wages owed now!

What's more, including the current corruption and extravagance of aristocratic officials, it would be great to maintain the deficit of the treasury now! If it weren't for the black dragon and black stone orcs who burned the plains recently and suddenly stopped making trouble, maybe the financial situation of Storm City would have deficits and face collapse!

So, the current Storm Kingdom’s approach is: since you can’t afford to pay back the money and you can’t afford several times the penalty, so continue to suppress it... There should be a day when you completely suppress it! At that time, maybe... you really don’t have to pay back this money anymore, right?

"OK."

The Countess nodded slightly, understanding the attitude of the king and the duke on the matter.

"Then, Lord Duke, there is also a letter from the four countries in the northern continent. In the letter, they said: The Kingdom of Quelthalas, the Kingdom of Lordaeron, the Wild Hammer Dwarfs of Eagle Nest Mountain and the newly emerged Flame Kingdom have officially formed an alliance two days ago. Now, the original Lordaeron Alliance no longer exists! In the future, the foreign affairs of the four countries will be handled by the newly established Flame Alliance... It seems that their alliance is very close!"

Earl Katrana roughly said Gong Han’s content at least, then looked at the Duke, smiled slightly, fascinated Berval for a while.

This official letter was conveyed by the hands of the High Elves Envoys who left yesterday. Here, only Stormwind City still has such a little connection with the north. Now, as soon as these envoys left, the dwarves of Storm Kingdom and Iron Fort in the south temporarily lost contact with the countries of the northern continent.

"Dude, what should we do about this? Should we try to reply to this Fire Alliance? Or... continue to wait for reports to His Majesty the King to handle it personally?"

Regarding the flame kingdom composed of fire elemental life that suddenly emerged, Katrana seemed to have heard her brother say in a few words, and the other party's strength should not be underestimated.

It seems that they have a close relationship with Ragnaros, the king of the flame demon under the Black Stone Mountain. When he was catching the fire eagle in the mountains of Lordaeron, he was beaten up by the other party's queen. Later, he and Ragnaros fought each other and suffered both losses. This is why the Black Stone Orcs and Black Dragons who burned the plains recently no longer dared to make trouble and torture the Storm Kingdom. They have all shrunk their strength to guard against the Flame Demons and Black Iron Dwarves under the Black Stone Mountain...

Katrana has always been very annoyed about this matter! It is because of her incompetent brother's incompetent brother that her recent arrangement has been disrupted a lot. Without the restraint of the black dragons and the black stone orcs, the Storm Kingdom has calmed down a lot! If this kingdom is allowed to develop slowly like this, it will be seriously inconsistent with her original intention!

"Forget it, King Varian has already made his statement. We and Iron Fortress refuse to recognize the Fire Kingdom of Raush, and of course, they will not recognize their Fire Alliance! This matter is temporarily put on hold, neither reply nor admit it! By the way, you will notify the MI7 later, and let them start to send people to lurk to the north, establish an intelligence station, and try to collect more information!"

After frowning for a while, Duke Berval quickly decided on the plan to deal with it.

He actually has always been very confused about this matter. Why do those Lordaeron people just indulge those fire elements to establish a country on their original territory? Now they have taken the initiative to come up and form an alliance together? This is simply incredible! However, in the case of serious information arbitrage, it is difficult for him to judge the other party's thoughts, so he can only deal with it like this for the time being!

"We now know nothing about the situation in the north, and we have to rely on other people's envoys to convey it to each other. This is simply ridiculous and incredible! So, Katrana, this matter needs to be done quickly!"

Now we can only deal with it like this. Besides, the southern continent and the north are separated by a strait and a large area of ​​undead rampant! Even if they want to interfere with the Storm Kingdom, they can't get over the affairs of the northerners!

What's more, there are still a lot of things in their Storm Kingdom now, just like the Fidia Brotherhood just now and the Burning Plain in the East. Where can I still have time to care about others when I can't take care of myself?

"Okay, I'll give orders later and let them prepare for this task as soon as possible."

Katrana nodded and took all the documents into her arms. The power came to her hands without realizing it. However, the King of Varian and the Duke of Beval were still unaware of it. She couldn't help but smile happily, and then stunned the Boval opposite him.

"Sir, then, I will go back first. If you have time another day, I will invite you to have lunch together. See you tomorrow."

“Okay… OK…”

It was not until the figure of Count Katrana completely disappeared outside the door that Boval could barely come to his senses. Then, he rubbed his chin beard, not knowing what he was thinking about. After a while, he hummed a small song and strided away under the confusing and envious eyes of the guards of Stormwind City.

...

On the second day after the official establishment of the Fire Alliance, braved the cold north wind, the City of Fire once again dispatched their army of fire element. Nearly 50,000 high-level fire elements with high resistance to cold were ordered by the Shannox General Manager to go to Quelthalas and Hindland to help the high elves and wildhammer dwarves clear the undead who were still wandering around in the last month of winter.

The queen of the Flame Kingdom, His Majesty Anne, the leader of the Flame Alliance, disappeared early in the morning as early as the next day after the alliance. No one knows yet, where she would go to another wild place...

As the youngest of the three brothers of the Bronzebeard Dwarf, he and his second brother Muladin Bronzebeard are both very active members of the "Experts Association". At the same time, Bronzebeard is also one of the founders of the Explorer Association.

At the beginning, Brian and Samur's monsters jointly established this explorer organization. They aim to search every corner of the Azeroth world, search for treasures left by the Creator Titans, and at the same time collect all the information on the Azeroth world's history, characters, culture and other information into the world's largest library.

As one of the founders and chief member of this organization, Brian once vowed that he would personally travel to every corner of the Azeroth world and explore all the secrets of Azeroth.

In Brian's original plan, he planned to set out in another year or two, but when he saw the raging undead on the northern continent, he could no longer sit still. He decided to explore the eastern continent in advance. Maybe when would he use these geographical information he explored?

So, he, Brian Bronzebeard, set out from Iron Forest a long time ago, went south, and passed through the Elvin Forest and the western wilderness, and then came to the Stranglethorn Valley in the south, where he sorted out his last report on the misty forest and sent it back, and encountered the first great danger!

Because, he discovered the ruins of an ancient city hidden in the deepest part of the Stranglethorn Valley, but he was also surrounded by a large group of barbaric forest troll headhunters, and almost lost his life.

However, at the end, he escaped because he met a very strange little girl mage, who actually killed away the terrifying man-eating trolls who were said to like eating intelligent creatures very much.

"Thank you very much for your help! Little wizard, Brian? The Bronzebeard will always remember your help. If it weren't for you, I would probably have explained it here!"

After killing a troll headhunter who was still planning to resist with an axe, Brian Bronzebeard sat down on the ground and gasped, and at the same time turned to thank the little girl who had just helped him.

"By the way! How did you show up in this place?"

Brian was very curious about such a little girl appearing in this place where trolls abused her. Wouldn't she be afraid that the trolls would catch her back and cook her?

"I'm not a little mage! They have names, you can call me Anne! The reason I helped you just now was just a coincidence that I met you by passing by! Then why are you here? The bearded dwarf?"

Little Annie is a little bored recently. She has played in many places. Originally, she has been playing in the northern continent. However, now the northern continent is in the cold winter, with ice and snow everywhere, cold and not fun, and she doesn't like it very much.

So, this time she had a long-distance teleportation in one breath and went directly to the south. However, she didn't expect that she would encounter such a bearded dwarf who was besieged by a man-eating monster. At first, she thought that this was from the same clan as the group of dwarfs who had just arrived at her castle not long ago and ate and drank in the sea, so she helped him a little.

"Okay, respect Master Anne, let me introduce it officially. My name is Brian. Bronzebeard, a bronze bearded dwarf, from Iron Fortress. At the same time, I am also an adventure lover. When I come here, I am preparing to continue my adventure journey!"

Brian began to formally introduce his identity. He was an explorer and had long been determined to travel around the world of Azeroth. Coming to this Stranglethorn Valley was just the first stop on his adventure.

On the contrary, this clean-looking little human girl, it seems that she is abnormal to appear here, right? Brian never remembers that there are signs of human activity here in the south.

"Huh? Explorer? It sounds so amazing. Is there anything else that's fun here?"

When she first arrived here, Anne didn't like the climate and environment of this forest. She took a short walk and it seemed that there was nothing delicious or fun here. If she hadn't happened to meet such a dwarf just now, she would have been teleported away.

"It's fun? It doesn't seem like nothing? I just got a news from the carvings of the trolls. It is said that there is a holy land of them on the east side. I am planning to go east and continue my adventure in the ruins of the trolls."

This news was important information he discovered from the carvings of a stone slab of the troll when he was just exploring the ruins of this troll. It seemed that it was the ruins of a city in the ancient troll empire, and now the holy land of their trolls. For this, Brian said that he should study it carefully, which is one of the important topics of his adventure and must not be missed.

"Huh? Holy Land? Adventure? It sounds so fun... Then, I'll go with you for a few days!"

Anne thought about it carefully. It seemed that adventures and something sounded quite interesting. She decided to play here for a few days! There was nothing wrong with the Flame Kingdom. Even if there was anything, she wouldn't bother to care about something fun now!

"Do you live nearby? Don't you need to go home?"

Seeing this little girl planning to go on an adventure with her, Brian Bronzebeard was a little surprised. She should be a human, right? Her family was so relieved that she came out to play like this? Although she just saw the other party's spell casting methods, she thought she was a relatively powerful mage, but she was still a little girl after all, right? What if she encountered a powerful enemy?

"My house is no longer here, it's far from the north! Besides, I'm a powerful mage, and no one can care about me now! If I want to go back, just open the portal and just whizz, you can go back!"

Little Annie looked at Brian, who was dirty all over. He probably walked here with his legs, right? She wouldn't have been running around like him. If she wanted to go back, she could teleport back to the palace of the City of Fire at any time. The wizard is so awesome. If she wants to go back, she just read the letter and open the door!

Little Annie still remembers that a few days ago, she met a group of adventurers, just a few days ago, in a place further north from here. At that time, after they knew her abilities, they begged her to open a short-distance portal for them. After moving the treasure chests they found, they also gave her a reward of 100 gold coins!

"Okay, you're still awesome!"

Brian? Bronzebeard muttered in a low voice, he knew that the magician could open a portal and teleported for a long distance. This kind of spell is really too convenient, especially for Brian who likes to explore. If he knows this kind of spell, it will greatly facilitate his adventure hobby. Unfortunately, Brian cannot learn this high-end and atmospheric spell. He is now an explorer and is just a warrior who is not very good at fighting!

"You wait first, I'll get something!"

After calling the bearded dwarf who was packing his things and preparing to leave, little Annie quickly trotted into a jungle, as if looking for something inside.

"You...you should put it down quickly! That...that is the velociraptor's eggs. The velociraptors are the most ferocious hunters in this jungle! Once you find that you have their eggs, they will follow the smell in groups, and then they will cause big trouble!"

When Brian finished packing up his things and packages, he saw little Anne crawling out of the grass, holding a huge white round egg in his left and right hands, he was so scared that he screamed and planned to stop him. It would be best if the velociraptors were able to put the egg back before they came back, and at the same time try to remove or cover up the smell remaining on it, otherwise, there would be a big deal.

Of course he knew these eggs, those are velociraptors! These crazy jungle hunters are the most ferocious and protecting their cubs the most! Once they find that their eggs are gone, it will be troublesome! As an explorer, Brian is very clear about this. In the wild, no matter when, you should never steal eggs or cubs from ferocious beasts. In that case, you will definitely cause yourself a lot of trouble. This little girl is really messy!

"Tsk, isn't it just a velociraptor? I'm not afraid of them!"

In Brian's frightened eyes, little Anne carefully stuffed the two eggs into her own space pocket. She was about to take them back and let the chefs make them delicious! When the two eggs were put together with the pile that had been put in, she patted the stains on her hands and said with a relaxed look.

"Last time, there was a super big and fierce Tyrannosaurus Rex. It was stingy and refused to eat its eggs for me. Then, I caught it back to my house and asked my chefs to roast it and eat it all! Humph!"

If those velociraptors dare to chase them, that would be great! Little Annie has recently eaten the big dinosaurs and the great white sharks. If they dare to come, she wouldn't mind changing the taste! She just doesn't know whether those velociraptors are delicious and whether there is a lot of meat on them?

"Okay, whatever you want, but I can warn you! If you follow me, I will not care about you once danger occurs. Then I will definitely run away!"

Seeing this little girl, Brian, who has rich experience in survival in the jungle, quickly warned. If the velociraptors really chased him, Brian would have rich escape experience. At that time, he would not care about this little girl!

"Don't worry, I will never drag you down! I am very strong, and in terms of ability to escape, you are definitely not as good as mine! If I really want to escape, I only need to use teleportation spells at that time, and it will disappear after a moment!"

If it were just this wild animal, Annie had never thought of running away or something! She said that if you came, you would grab one head, and if you came, you would grab a pair of heads, and if you came, you would like to use a fear spell to scare them away!

Besides, they are just a group of velociraptors, not a group of giant dragons, so what are you going to worry about? Isn’t it just eating a few eggs? Do you dare to come to her to make trouble?

"You, you...well...you're ruthless! Let's leave here as soon as possible!"

These words simply left Bryan speechless... Very good! You are a wizard, you run fast! But he is Bryan, but he is not fast! Such irresponsible behavior is called not to drag him down? Then what is drag down?

But now is not the time to argue about these things. If the velociraptors come back, they will not argue with him, Brian, who stole their eggs! So, the most correct way now is to leave here as fast as possible. Maybe, after reaching the territory of other animals, they will not dare to chase after them again, right?

Just now, at the beginning, Brian thought that meeting this little girl mage today was his lucky day, which would save himself from becoming the food in the mouth of the troll headhunter. But now it seems that he is really too naive. At present, it is nothing more than the difference between the food of the velociraptor and the food of the troll!
Chapter completed!