For these expeditionary force soldiers, their experience in the past hour was beyond expectations. They were originally responsible for guarding the southern entrance of Shattrath City.
Since Orcs invaded Shattrath, the city's original magic defense system has completely failed. Now the city can only rely on guard posts and patrols to ensure safety.
As a rare organized military force after the planet collapsed, Alliance Expedition stationed at Shattrath became the guardian of this ruin-like city.
Because Shattrath is Zangarmarsh, and the one who lives in this area is Sporelings, who is relatively peaceful by nature, so the job of the soldiers responsible for the security of this area is quite simple. They only need to be careful not to let the beasts from the swamp break into the city.
However, today these soldiers noticed something strange on the road adjacent to the swamp. The veterans with enough war experience quickly judged that it was a large force, otherwise they would not disturb the wild animals in the nearby woods.
While sending people back to report the news, these soldiers tried to intercept this unit. However, the soldiers who appeared in front of them were far beyond their expectations: a group of Naga and Murloc driven by Naga.
The soldiers of the Alliance are not unfamiliar with these two races. After all, all Alliance countries except Dalaran have more or less coastlines, so it is inevitable to deal with these guys all over the world.
But it was the first time to see Naga and Murloc in Outland. However, this did not affect the soldiers of the expeditionary force to regard these people as enemies. After all, they were all old opponents who had been fighting for thousands of years.
If it were normal times, the Nagas would usually kill them when they encountered humans. Those who managed to survive would be captured by the Nagas and used as coolies. However, the situation was obviously different now. Their new leader seemed to have a good relationship with a human. The Naga witches, who were cunning by nature, judged that they could not kill the human soldiers in front of them.
So the soldiers of the expeditionary force who were outnumbered were beaten up and then tied up again. Frankly speaking, this experience would have been worse than killing them directly. The methods used by Murloc and Naga barbarians to trap people were extremely crude, and the process of tying them up was simply a torture.
The soldiers who thought they would become Naga's slaves soon met the leaders of these old rivals. When they first saw Illidan, who looked completely like a demon, these soldiers were stunned. How did the devil and Naga get together?
No matter how they guessed about the relationship between Illidan and his men, the soldiers thought that they would not survive. Whether it was demons or Naga, their relationship with humans was on the same level. If these two races came together, would there be any good ending for them?
The soldiers who were able to follow Five Heroes of the Dark Portal through the portal to Draenor were, among other things, first-class in courage. Thinking that their end was certain, they adopted an attitude of preferring death to surrender and absolutely uncooperative. They were so angry that they wanted to fight with Five Heroes of the Dark Portal. Illidan, who had a nice chat with them, almost killed them directly. Fortunately, Aaron came back at this time, otherwise Illidan, who had a bad temper to begin with, might have done something.
Seeing Aaron and the others appear, the confusion of the soldiers became more obvious. They had also noticed Night Elf that were very similar to High Elf. Adding in humans, High Elf and Draenei, the composition of this army was really confusing.
This is also because Honor Hold was preparing to organize a transportation team and forgot to send someone to tell Illidan their news to Shattrath City. As a result, this side was completely unaware of the existence of such a large force.
Paladin and Aaron spent a lot of effort to prove that they were not corrupted Paladin who took refuge in the devil. This was completely different from their previous encounters at Honor Hold. This was mainly because these soldiers first encountered Naga and Murloc. Then they saw the big devil Illidan. Their first impression was not good, which caused all kinds of trouble.
After discovering this, Aaron decided to go to Shattrath himself first, communicate clearly with the person in charge there, and then let Illidan take his people in.
The main reason is that if Illidan wants to go to Shadowmoon Valley to kill Magtheridon, he must pass by Shattrath. Even if he doesn't enter the city, he still has to walk outside the city wall. If there is a misunderstanding with Shattrath City, then things will be really troublesome.
Aaron has no doubt that the strength of Illidan's men can compete with Shattrath, but what's the point of that? If Illidan really conquers Outland by force, then it won't matter whether Aaron comes or not.
Illidan did not comment on this. He did not know that he had made too many enemies in the "official history" and was overthrown by various forces. He only felt that Aaron's caution was unnecessary. However, he finally knew his purpose of bringing Aaron to Outland, so he agreed.
It was only at this time that Velen took the initiative to say, "If you want to contact Shattrath, I can help you."
"Who is this guy?" Illidan certainly wouldn't ignore Velen and the Draenei he brought. He just had a headache from being tossed by the soldiers of the expeditionary force and didn't bother to ask. Of course, The moment he opened his mouth, Draenei, who understood Common, all glared at him, which meant that Velen had a good temper and did not argue with him, but instead introduced himself politely.
Illidan nodded indifferently, indicating that he understood. In his opinion, Orcs was vulnerable, and Draenei, who was beaten so badly by Orcs, did not deserve too much attention. He just did not show it directly for the sake of Aaron.
Aaron on the side looked at it with his eyelids twitching, wondering why he didn't realize that Illidan was such an arrogant person before. But thinking about it carefully, it seems that he and Illidan are not very familiar with each other. As for the memory of another time and space, Aaron seems to be more like a first-person movie, and some details are not very deep.
"This guy is so disrespectful to the prophet." After staying away from Illidan and the large army, a Draenei garrison officer said angrily, attracting the approval of others.
Velen smiled and waved his hand to stop these people's complaints, and then looked at Aaron: "Aaron, your friend seems to be blinded by revenge. You must be careful that he gets into trouble because of this."
Aaron twitched the corner of his mouth and shook his head. "I can only say that I tried my best to persuade him, but I don't know how effective it will be."
As he spoke, the outer wall of Shattrath City appeared in everyone's sight. Velen's eyes became dim and he sighed in a low voice, "Oh, I didn't expect that I would once again return to this city that I abandoned once..."