Early the next morning, Diego and his party packed up and left Nighttown.
The Eberlocks and Rainier said a brief goodbye to them, and to be honest, Nighttown, which had just suffered a huge number of casualties, was not suitable for any grand ceremony, even Diego understood it.
Since the opening of the Dark Gate, Nightshade, the gateway to Stormwind in the Cursed Lands, has been ravaged by war, orc raids, famine, magical erosion, and other madness, and its inhabitants have been scattered and displaced.
A few decades ago, the town was once prosperous, but now that the sturdy houses of masonry have been replaced by makeshift houses made of log mastic, Duke Eberlock and his daughter have been completely powerless to restore their former prosperity, not only financially, but also humanly.
This can be seen from the fact that Duke Eberlock has only more than 200 night watchmen under his command.
Well, now there are forty or fifty left.
However, as the demonic infiltration became more and more severe, the situation here became more and more severe, with undead, werewolves, and ogres wreaking havoc everywhere, and the once rich orchards and farms being corrupted and polluted.
No one wants to live in such a grim environment, and farmers who have lost their means of livelihood are gradually moving out of the town – the burgeoning port of Long Beach to the east is becoming an important migration destination for them.
During his time in Nightlight, Diego also wrote a letter to Duke Berval, detailing what had happened here - though he was sure MI7 must have had its own intelligence channels - and suggesting that Stormwind give Nightshade enough support when he was free, and he himself stated that the Moonstream Brigade was ready to come to the Twilight Forest at the King's disposal.
He said all this for multiple purposes, one is to help Duke Eberlock and clean up the security threats around Nighttown.
Of course, it is impossible to completely clean up the surrounding primeval forests of thousands of years of pristine forests, but it is not difficult to clean up the werewolves, undead spirits, and ogres that are entrenched in the surrounding farms, orchards, and cemeteries.
The second purpose was to move the army as close to the Cursed Lands as possible, so that if the situation changed, the Moon Creek Brigade could quickly arrive to support the Watchtower.
But there is an important premise for all this - the king's orders.
Because in the laws of Stormwind, without the king's order, the nobles' private army stepping out of the territory is a rebellion!
Diego didn't dare to take the cauldron on his back, and he wasn't sure if Bolval would agree to his suggestion, especially since King Varian had returned to Stormwind.
However, as they move away from the Twilight Forest and into the Vale of the Windwind, how Duke Eberlock will deal with the aftermath of Nighttown, and whether His Majesty will help the Twilight Forest, all these questions are no longer on Diego's mind, because he must focus all his attention on the narrow path under his feet to ensure that he does not stumble into the abyss.
The Adverse Wind Valley is actually a deep, narrow valley that runs from north to south, with steep vertical walls.
The upwind trail carved into the cliff face takes its name from the name of this deep ravine, and its side is only three or four paces wide, making it difficult for a slightly larger carriage to pass.
Moreover, the rocks here are badly weathered and peeled, the roads are potholed, rugged and difficult to walk, and as you walk, you will either roll down a pile of gravel overhead, or collapse a landslide under your feet.
Walking on this path with a cliff on one side and an abyss on the other, if you are not careful, you will end up in pieces.
There is almost no grass here, and some of the original ancient trees have long since dried up and twisted, and the leaves have fallen away, looking like monsters; Huge stone pillars with severe weathering stretched out from the rock wall like sharp fangs, poking and poking into the sky; And in the direction they pointed, the sky soaked in demonic energy was gray, which made people feel depressed and irritated.
As the signboard at the mouth of the valley before entering the valley says, "Whoever enters this place, give up all hope!"
” In fact, the valley itself alone would probably not have any interest in this barren and desolate place.
The reason why this region is known to all the races of Azeroth is entirely because of the most powerful human mage of all time, the Guardian Medivan.
Because of this archmage, he built his own mage tower in the southernmost part of the valley, Karazhan.
Twenty-four years ago, the mighty astral mage was under the control of the Burning Legion's Lord Sargeras, who opened the Dark Gate and released tens of thousands of fallen orcs who had drunk the blood of demons into Azeroth, bringing untold disaster to the world.
Although he was then driven by Khadgar and Anduin?
Lothar was killed in his own tower, but the dark door had been opened, and everything was irreparable.
After the news of his death broke, the tower attracted the coveted eyes of almost all of Azeroth's spellcasters, and if it weren't for the orc invasion that blocked the way to it, it would surely have gathered more mages than the Magic City of Dalaran.
When Diego and his party walked the cliff for two days to a narrow stone bridge that crossed a mountain stream, Diego saw the tower that stood beneath the twin moons in the south.
This tower is not as simple as a solitary round tower as people imagine, in fact, it can be called an architectural complex composed of a series of towers, platforms, buildings and forts.
Its interior is vast and well-equipped, with storage rooms, stables, kitchens, servants' quarters, banquet halls, guardhouses, opera houses, meeting rooms, terraces, exhibition halls, libraries, stargazing platforms, chess halls, energy towers, and in addition to this, this tower has nearly 100 bedrooms for guests to rest, it is simply a small town, even the castles of some great nobles cannot match its luxury and luxury.
So much so that many people speculate that the interior of this giant tower must have been magically expanded by its owner, otherwise it would not have been possible to have such a huge interior space.
On the outskirts of the tower, there is a small village inhabited by servants in the service of astral mages.
Beneath the ground of this village, there are many hidden secrets - wine cellars, dungeons, and burial places where corpses are disposed of.
After the astral mage was killed, these ordinary people were also killed by the leaked magical energy, and their souls were bound here and lingered.
It's a place that hides countless secrets, including the werewolves that ravage the Twilight Forest and the Luna Scythe, the artifact that made them.
Even today, there are still many adventurers who go deep into this place to obtain the legacy of the astral mages from it, and although most of them do not return, the lucky one or two who come back always attract more greedy jackals.
After the end of the Orc War, a fleeing ogre clan descended to the Vale of the Windwind, hiding in the mountains of the Coalition.
With the turmoil in the human kingdom in recent years, the Alliance forces have no time to take care of the region, and the ogre clan has begun to become restless, fighting with the adventurers who have come here for every broken brick that flows from the tower.
Diego had no intention of going to the tower, as they had more important things to do, and their numbers and equipment kept the ogres from coming out and testing them.
In this way, without any danger, they passed through the area safely and entered the swampy area to the east.