Chapter 691: The Exploitation Journey of the People in This World
Translator: Noodletown Translations Editor: Noodletown Translations
While mentioning Deadmines, it was closely related to Stormwind City.
If a foreign traveler walked into Stormwind City through its grand main gate, the first thing that this person would see would be the grand statues in the Valley of Heroes. These Alliance heroes stood out at the critical moment and led troops to the battleground in another world named Draenor. For a long time, no one had received any word from them.
Mistakenly thinking that they had died, the Alliance set up these statues to commemorate these great heroes.
With exquisite designs, the Stonemason Guild built Stormwind City into a place with districts that had diffident functions, including the prosperous trade district, noble and elegant mage quarter, and dwarven district where the dwarf and gnome artisans lived.
The core of Stormwind City was Stormwind Keep, sitting at the highest position in the northwest district of the city; it was probably the most magnificent construction in the entirety of the Alliance.
Every human player would be stunned by this fortress-like super city after they entered Stormwind City. All the designs, executions, and construction of the city were done by the most talented Stonemason Guild in the kingdom at the time.
However, due to the instigations and conspiracies in Stormwind Kingdom, King Varian Wrynn lost his queen, and the artisan heroes of Stormwind City didn’t get their pay for their work. Instead, they were kicked out of their homes by the king.
These heroes later became the Defias Brotherhood.
For the new players in the Alliance, the most stunning thing next to the grand Stormwind City was the vast and fertile Westfall full of withering weeds.
This was the home camp of the Defias Brotherhood. Blinded by hatred, they had done many crazy things and were no longer the great and talented artisans they had once been.
They had contacted almost all the pirates and rogues in the world and recruited many of them into their brotherhood. Taking possession of most of the farmlands, mines, and villages in Westfall, they built their headquarters in the mine shafts.
It was the background of the Deadmines instance in World of Warcraft.
The players of the Royal Clan Guild obviously had found this place through a quest.
Despite the remoteness of this place, the NPC Gryan Stoutmantle at Sentinel Hill in Westfall would give quests about the Defias Brotherhood. The dwarves in the dwarven district at Stormwind City would give related quests as well. Following the instructions of the quests, the players would have little difficulty in finding the entrance.
Therefore, besides members of the Royal Clan Guild, Liu Ningyun and other disciples of the Nanhua Faction of the Morning Star Sea Realm, the mercenaries in the new shop who had chosen to join the Alliance, and mages such as Adolf and Dicas were also coming to this place.
Controlling her female warrior character of the Alliance to come before the mine shaft, Royal Princess Ji Yu saw the entrance to the deserted mine, the wagon tracks half-buried in the ground, and the deserted miner’s lamps.
Outside the gate was a dark purple vortex, looking like a magic portal.
At this moment, the Royal Clan Guild had gathered dozens of elites at this place including several princes, the Shengjing Academy Instructor Liang Heihu, and his disciple Xiao Lengyu.
They looked as if they had taken over this mine for themselves.
“We… let’s go in and see what’s behind this mysterious spiritual spell vortex!” Ji Xu said.
A big team of Royal Clan Guild elites and disciples of Shengjing Academy followed her into the vortex.
“Ugh?” The moment Ji Yu entered the ‘spiritual spell vortex’, she felt as if …
“Senior Liang… Are you still here?”
“Ms. Xiao?”
“Captain Yu…?”
She looked around and only saw the Second Prince and the Fifth Prince. “Where are the others? How come only you two are here?”
“No idea…” The Second Prince looked nonplussed.
Fifth Prince Ji Yang said, “Is it because… we formed a team?”
“Ugh…?” Ji Yu froze. “We can’t stay together without forming a team here…? But…”
“The maximum of a team is five people!”
After all that, only five people can form a team?!
Royal Princess Ji Yu’s face darkened, realizing that it was a waste of effort and time to gather so many people here.
“…”
“Forget it…” Ji Yu said, “Let’s explore this… Deadmines ourselves.”
“If we can loot a technique book similar to Enchanting Light…”
They would be rich!
Obviously, these players were thinking of the mine tunnels in the Legend of Mir 2.
The mine tunnels with many branches were illuminated since there were people living inside. The lights were dim but were bright enough for them to see their surroundings.
“Then, we must explore this mine by ourselves,” Royal Princess Ji Yu said.
The three members of the Royal Clan Guild were all warriors.
“It seems like some people are in here…” Royal Princess Ji Yu said in a low voice.
At this moment, a few members of the Defias Brotherhood in the complex depths of the tunnels heard the tiny sounds and walked up to them.
As rogues at the headquarters of the Defias Brotherhood, they were very alert and had acute senses.
“One, two, three… there are three of them,” Royal Princess Ji Yu whispered. “Each of us take one.”
Charge!
Three figures bust out almost at the same time.
Ding!
With crisp noises, their blades were all blocked!
These humanoid mobs were many times better than the mobs outside in terms of combat skills, speed, and reflexes.
However, the players in the Royal Clan Guild were veteran fighters with a ton of experiences. When their swords were blocked, they turned their blades and slashed again.
After experiencing Devil May Cry 3, Final Fantasy 7, and The Duel, they were very skillful with both single-handed swords and two-handed swords.
Soon, the rogues of the Defias Brotherhood were no match for them. At this moment, a sword beam hacked down viciously and drew out a bright silver arc.
Executed!
Blood sprayed in all directions.
Execute was a skill for warriors: Attempts to finish off a foe, turning the remaining Rage into a ton of damage.
In the mine tunnels, many miners and foremen of the Defias Brotherhood heard the commotion and swarmed out from the many tunnels.
The miners were not strong, but the foremen had great strength.
“Hu… We killed them all?”
“They were good.” Royal Princess Ji Yu brushed the dust off her clothes and said in a cold voice, “But they were not good enough to kill us.”
Meanwhile, Liu Ningyun, Mo Xian, Yue Yan, and other disciples of the Nanhua Faction were…
“Senior Sister! Senior Sister! Cast the Frost Nova!”
“Arcane Blast! Cast an Arcane Blast!”
“Oh! Cast Polymorph: Sheep!”
They had also fought their way into the tunnel.
“The Deadmines sounds scary, but it is quite easy…” Yue Yan brushed the dust off her hands.
“Let’s go! There might be treasures inside!” The group hurried to the depths of the instance.
While they walked into the interior of the mine, the scene before them changed. Walking out of the dilapidated and dim mine tunnel, they found that the space before them turned bigger, and the huge metal archway looked like a portal leading to an underground fortress.
The entrance was guarded by a humanoid monster with greyish-red skin, and it was as tall as two men.
The huge hammer in its hand was as big as half of Ji Yu’s body. Without thinking, one strike of the hammer could smash a person into a meat pie.
Two elite Defias rogues flanked him.
“I’ll go up and cast Frost Nova and Arcane Blast!” Yue Yan walked up and said.
“Good! Good! I’ll cheer for you, Junior Sister!” Mo Xian encouraged her from behind.
-On the other side-
“Each of us charge at one of them!”
“Royal Sister, you take the big guy, ok?”
“Of course, he’s mine!” Ji Yu said proudly.