Chapter 16 Gaining Trust
Taking Windersol with him, regardless of whether he wanted it or not, Ethan and others quickly left Dark Furnace City and returned to outside Black Rock Mountain.
Although it is also dry and stuffy outside, it is still stronger than the underground that is closer to lava, and at least the air is fresher...
"Ph, there is no difference between outside and inside. This damn Burning Plain, how do we go next?"
Logan had already carried the weapon behind him and took out a cigar to relieve the scent of his mouth.
This battle seemed a bit hooligan. They were like uninvited guests who broke into someone else's house. After killing each other, they took away important property from the other party's house and left.
But who said Logan had nothing to do with dwarves? His butt was naturally sitting on the side of humans.
"Who are you?"
Windsol used to think Ethan and the others were sent by the Storm Kingdom, but now he doesn't feel like he is a little prestigious in the Storm Kingdom. Why do these people don't respect him at all?
Could it be the foreign adventurers hired by the Kingdom? It is possible that this group of people are just collecting money to do things, and their goal is to save themselves. As for whether they are grateful to them or have anything they want to do, they will not care.
"My name is Ethan, and I am a traveling mage." He pointed to the people next to him: "They are my companions."
After briefly introducing the name, Ethan did not say much, but emphasized: "We are not the ones sent by the Storm Kingdom, we saved you for another reason."
“What’s the reason?”
All of his guesses were wrong. Windersol felt that things were getting weirder. Is these guys trying to save him?
"Varian Wrien is missing, you should know this."
"Of course I know."
The king has been missing for quite some time. It was after Varian Wrien disappeared that the Storm Kingdom gradually fell into chaos. It was precisely because of the hidden undercurrent that Windsol ran to the Burning Plain to command the few troops here and was captured by the Black Iron Dwarfs during the battle.
"I'm going to get Varian Wrien back."
Windsol, who had been listening quietly to Ethan's speech, suddenly stood up and looked at the young man in front of him with shock.
He had thought these guys wanted to use what they wanted to do to do bad things for the kingdom, but he didn't expect to hear such an answer.
"You know where His Majesty the King is now?"
From Ethan's previous title of the king, we can see that these people are not from the Storm Kingdom, and they have no respect for Varian Wrien. He does not think that these people are deliberately trying to find the missing Varian Wrien because they respect His Majesty the King's character.
"What do you want?"
"I want, His Majesty Varian Wrien will give it to me, and it will not harm the Storm Kingdom." Without asking, Ethan knew what the marshal was worried about: "I can even help you and His Majesty the King to get rid of the greatest scourge of the Storm Kingdom."
Windersol's pupils shrank slightly. He was trying hard to control his emotions, not wanting to reveal his slightest bit of a cleverness: "What do you mean?"
"Let's be open and honest. Didn't you know that the countess was a black dragon?"
Windersol was unwilling to leave the Black Rock Abyss because he already knew Onyxia's identity. Without any means or more obvious evidence to prove this, he was unwilling to go back like this and die at the hands of the black dragon.
In the original game plot, in addition to solving the information he was arrested and searched by the dwarf, he was to find the magic stone slab that could remove the black dragon from becoming a human. Only after obtaining this item would Windsol agree to leave the Black Stone Abyss and return to Stormwind City to face the Black Dragon Princess.
Wendersol is finally sure that the young man in front of him knows a lot of things, and this feeling is not good. Perhaps the only thing that is thankful is that this man seems to be on his side.
"Since you also want to deal with that black dragon, we should go back to the Black Stone Abyss immediately."
His target was naturally the slate, but Ethan directly rejected his idea: "No, the most important thing at the moment is to retrieve Varian Wrien, your king is not in a good condition now."
Ethan carefully recalled the information about Varian's disappearance, which made him very confused.
In the original game plot, there was almost no explanation for this part of the plot. It was simply mentioned that King Varian Wurion of the Storm disappeared when he went to sign the agreement. After the subsequent new version was opened, it appeared directly in Storm City.
Ethan was curious about this part of the matter and checked the plot specifically: Of course, he thought it was a special situation in the national server that caused some plots to not be opened. Later, he found out that this was the official digging a pit, and later he did not fill in the pit in the game.
However, the official novel and comics filled this plot, but many of the details are not exactly consistent with the information in the game.
It is precisely because of this situation that Ethan had been staying in Shinjin Town for quite some time before, and even wanted to go to Stormwind City for a while.
Until he was sure that Varian Wrien in this world was not split into two people by Onyxia using magic, he could conclude that the storyline of this world should follow the game framework.
It is of course beneficial to not becoming two people. Just solve the magic that makes Varian Wrien lose its memory, without having to worry about the headache of how to perfectly recombination of the coincidence, or use other means to solve the embarrassing situation.
"So we have to find Varian Wrien as soon as possible, and after solving the troubles on him, we will go and find troubles on the black dragon."
Windsol didn't say anything. Although he wanted to emphasize that the black dragon almost controlled the power of the entire Storm Kingdom, there would be no way to completely solve the black dragon without evidence of the past.
Even if His Majesty the King returns, it will probably be difficult to completely solve her. Unless the Storm Kingdom launches a major purge, the involvement will be great.
"It's not difficult to solve just that a black dragon reveals its prototype."
Only then did Windersol realize that this young man didn't expect this, he just looked down on the stone slab.
"I have one last question."
"What?"
"You can go directly to save His Majesty the King, why do you want to save me?"
In Ethan's description, Windsol is indeed dispensable, but in fact, he is indeed not an indispensable character for Ethan. In addition to passing the way, the only reason why Ethan saved him is that they are a group of outsiders, and it is easier to win trust with Windsol.
“Because we are going to Theramore.”
“Theramore?”
Although Jaina Prodmore likes to cheat her father, she is a very smart mage. She is an absolute outsider and uses a power system that is completely different from this world. It is easy to arouse the mage's vigilance or even hostility. Ethan does not want to cause trouble for herself. Windersol's reputation can win the trust of Ethan and the others.
"So we're going to Port Minaishir now?"
"Yes."
After a brief rest on Black Rock Mountain, everyone set off again. Windersol was still wearing the clothes in his cell. He was not in good condition now, but no one was willing to stay in the burning plain. They just wanted to leave the place early.
From Blackstone Mountain, you can leave the Burning Plain through the mountain road and come to the scorching canyon... Well, this is not a good place, everyone can only continue to endure and move towards the northeast, and enter the barren land before the situation begins to improve. After that, they can turn north, and the climate becomes much better after arriving at Rockmodan.
“It’s been a painful journey.”
After wandering the desolate and scorching area for so long, Ethan felt his clothes be filled with a strange smell of thick sulfur and sweat.
Everyone, including Windsol, who was a little familiar with, abandoned the clothes he had worn during this period and burned them out with a fire. Even if they could clean up the clothes with magic, they would not want to wear them anymore, as if this would make them forget their bad memories before.
After changing into new clothes and coming to Lockmodan, where the scenery and climate are more comfortable, everyone had to continue moving north. They did not need to go to Danmoro, avoiding the "exciting experience" of just leaving the steamer and entering the refrigerator. As long as they keep this direction of moving, they can quickly reach the wetland, and then walk along the main road, turn west at the fork in the road and walk to the end of the road, and arrive at Minaishir Port.
During this period, if you want to go to Theramore, you can only pass through the port of Minaishir. Stormwind City has no wharf yet. The multi-functional ports to be built in the plan are currently in the plan. The nobles who have completely sunk into pleasure are not willing to spend a lot of money to do these things.
It was precisely this reason that Ethan and the others had to go a long way, and they had to endure Windsol's constant mumbling along the way.
Even after getting on the ship, the former marshal was still muttering, but no matter how he talked, he could not know the true origin of Ethan and others.
Here, Ethan didn't dare to say casually that he came from other worlds. If he told his origin, Wendsol, who had a good conversation the previous second, would immediately pull out the sword on his waist, and then shouted glory and fought with Ethan and the others after returning to the league.
Chapter completed!