klisemfg Chapter 241 Traitors are Unforgivable
Chapter 241 Traitors are Unforgivable
Jacques stood up and shouted, "Blow her up! The craftsmen I arranged have already opened up the secret passage in the Thieves' Quarter. As long as we blow up the beams, she'll be dead for sure. Even if we don't kill her and her dog, we can seal them off in the Royal Passage. We just need to move to the School of Necronomicon..."
"Yes, Lady Lillian has already sent a secret envoy. If we succeed, the north will be our safe haven... All our compatriots will be able to reunite with their families, and the Secret Society will send people to support us... Don't worry!"
"Lady Calia has already reached an agreement with us... Once the Banshee dies, she will take over the throne. We will always be subjects of the Menethil family, and we will rebuild the glory of Lordaeron!"
Everyone got more and more excited as they talked, completely disregarding any secrecy...
They had no idea that their every word and action was being heard by the Queen and her confidants.
The Queen looked at the Dark Ranger Veronara and the Death Hunter Commander Belmont. These two were the leaders of two elite units responsible for security and command in Undercity, far exceeding the rank and titles of the four self-appointed officers of the so-called Wasteland Council. The Queen's true confidants didn't hold many ranks or positions.
They are the core force that determines the survival of the Forgotten.
The two understood the Queen's meaning and were about to bow and lead their men to annihilate the rebels...
High Apothecary Faranir quickly interjected, "Your Majesty, wait. Many Forsaken are loyal to you, like Miss Anne just now. I hope you will treat them differently after capturing them. I believe these damned nobles are brainless; they have forgotten the Forsaken's mission. But we are already short-handed. If we execute them all, Undercity will be lacking in management..."
Sylvanas laughed heartily:
"What a joke! I've never taken these good-for-nothings seriously. They want to kill me, are we supposed to just wait for them to do it? Being too lenient with them only emboldens them, pushing their luck further. They're utterly stupid and beyond redemption."
"Is their brain filled with rotting undead fluid or pure mush? If peace and status can be bought with words, what's the point of swords? Veronara, spare none of them. I have no need for the Desolate Council..."
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"Yes... Your Majesty."
The Queen was clearly enraged... her bloodshot eyes were flashing with red and black lightning, and shadow power was gathering, ready to erupt at any moment. The fact that she refrained from personally executing these traitors in front of Lady Elwin was already a testament to her considerable self-control.
It's almost impossible for her to forgive the betrayer...
The reason Silvermoon City was breached was because a traitor appeared among the high elves. Someone deliberately revealed the key to the node that maintained the three defensive magical barriers to the death knight Arthas, which allowed the undead to breach the gates of the Quel'Tiras Empire.
The Sun King and Sylvanas of Silvermoon City died in battle...
The traitors sided with the Lich King, solely for the elusive promise of immortality? Or were they driven by resentment at being disliked to betray their entire people... selling out their own kind for personal gain, becoming the Lich King's puppets...?
Scholars can endure it, but who can’t?
Arthas resurrected her and her warriors with the cursed sword to humiliate her, and then drove Sylvanas to continue slaughtering the people of Silvermoon City whom she had sworn to defend.
This torment, the Banshee Queen, will never forget...
"Traitors! I hate traitors the most. Traitors are a thousand times more hateful than enemies. I will not rest until these stupid and despicable bastards are reduced to dust!"
“Wait, Queen Sylvanas! I think most of these people in the Barren Council do deserve to die, but we can't harm the innocent. Faraniel is right, we're already short-handed. You heard their reason: they just want to live like normal people…”
"Hmph, who in Undercity isn't innocent? Their excuse is that they don't want to die... and they want to live normal lives, what a joke. Why didn't they fight for these rights from the Butcher back then? Now they're rebelling at a time like this! Even if I give them this underground city, can they defend this wretched place?"
"No, I believe the Desolate Council must exist... This is an opportunity. The reason I showed you their plot was so that you could reunite these poor souls. The Desolate Council has indeed made Undercity quite formidable recently. Your Majesty, you should actively utilize the Desolate Council to unite the Forsaken, making them invincible..."
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"Unity...haha...you can't judge a book by its cover, you greedy, cowardly fool, good for nothing but causing trouble..." The Queen laughed maniacally, then stared at the Dreadlord who had finally arrived...
As the Lord of Dread slowly entered her chambers, her brow furrowed, her smile vanished instantly, as if she had understood something...
The Queen ordered her men to hold off for the time being and gave Varimathras a thorough investigation of the rebels.
The Dreadlord, having not witnessed the Desolate Council's conspiracy, listened with shock as the Death Hunter commander recounted it, declaring his intention to annihilate the traitors for the Queen's sake...
The Queen waved her hand, and the Demon King could only silently go down to carry out the campaign to eliminate the traitors.
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In the following week...
The Queen seems to have accepted Lady Irwin's suggestion and temporarily rescinded her order to kill all the founders of the Barren Council.
She herself sent members of the Church of the Forgotten Shadows to join the so-called Council of the Wasteland.
They also nominated Ms. Elwin to succeed as Speaker, increasing the number of Speaker seats to six, mimicking the Kirin Tor, with members from the Ranger Force, Death Hunters, Medical Association, Transport Corps, and Alchemist Guild joining...
The Queen instructed Aegwynn:
"The Desolate Council is yours, Master Elwynn. I hope you can help me find Calia Menethil, the apple of the Menethil family's eye! She's Arthas's last remaining relative? Hmph, I didn't expect the Menethil family to be so persistent!"
Aegwynn nodded, then whispered to the Queen that she had specifically told her about the Desolate Council's conspiracy because she had discovered something amiss with Varimathras. The Plaguebringer Lorraine had used the spirits of an unknown entity to send back a message.
There is evidence suggesting a connection between the dreadlord Varimathras and the Scarlet Crusade...
The Shadow Priests don't seem to be loyal to the Church of the Forgotten Shadows, and there are traitors within the Royal Alchemy Society as well...
The queen, however, remained skeptical, having witnessed Varimathras kill his own brother to pledge allegiance to her. This dreadlord, though cunning, evil, and shameless, seemed to fear her.
Sylvanas has always been wary of Varimathras, but all this time, he has remained loyal and devoted to sharing the Queen's burdens.
Apart from this plot by the Desolate Council to rebel, there seem to be no other flaws.
Without further evidence, the Queen fell silent.
In this situation, the Desolate Council, with its clamor for power and plot to kill the Queen, brought about the apocalypse...
The end of the Desolate Council has been postponed for a few days...
Almost all of the 22 people were killed...
The dreadlord Varimathras received a secret order from the queen and was initially caught in a dilemma... but soon, he devised a plan... Members of the Barren Council began to mysteriously disappear, and no one could find out where they had gone...
It was as if they had never existed; only a few people survived because they weren't deeply involved, and they were filled with lingering fear...
Much more honest...
Her Majesty didn't even need to lift a finger; the Desolate Council's conspiracy vanished...
This incident made the Queen more sensitive to her situation, and she began to worry that the upcoming northern expedition would likely face many obstacles, forcing her to temporarily shelve her plans for the southern campaign... while her expectations for the plague messenger Lorraine increased considerably...
Lady Irwin also successfully dissuaded the Queen from expanding the scale of the war.
They began mobilizing their troops and preparing for war, returning their objective to the plan to eliminate the Lich King Arthas; the rest was left to Varimathras to handle...
Aegwynn seems to have glimpsed part of the third agreement the Queen reached with Dalaran.
Undercity's primary objective, mediated by Dalaran, is to join forces with the Horde and Alliance to launch an attack on Northrend and wipe out the Scourge... This should be the ultimate goal...
For this purpose, the Alliance and the Horde will not launch attacks on areas that have already been definitively occupied.
Fragile peacekeepers...