Remember [New] in a second! Just when Valeera secretly breathed a sigh of relief and planned to follow Meri into the room to explain the details, a small note suddenly appeared in front of her across the space.

"Um?"

Noticing the strange spatial fluctuation, Meili turned around suspiciously.

"Teleportation... teleported a piece of paper?"

Even though he was already a lich, Meri still upheld the spirit of exploring the unknown (death) that a mage should have, and looked at the small note that fell into Valeera's hand with great interest.

"So teleportation can still be used like this? Children of this era are really interesting."

Valeera immediately frowned after reading the contents of the note.

"Syndicate... found out so soon?"

In order to prevent Casanatiel from finding an opportunity to disturb his mind and break through the seal, Meri has been isolated from the outside world for many years. Only when experimental materials are needed, they will be sent to the secret warehouse agreed with the Barov family to pick them up.

Due to the lack of intelligence, Merry knew nothing about the changes in Azeroth over the years.

"What is the Syndicate? Your enemy?"

Valeera rubbed the space between her brows and sighed softly: "They are indeed my enemies. As for their origins...that's a long story."

Meri, who likes to get to the bottom of it, didn't seem to understand the perfunctory meaning in Valeera's words, and continued to ask: "Let's make a long story short, the visit of the descendants of the deceased is still acceptable, and I don't want those syndicates to disturb my experiment. .”

Valeera spread her hands with a wry smile: "In a nutshell, the Syndicate is a bandit group funded by exiled nobles after the fall of the Kingdom of Alterac."

"These complex thieves have no taboos and bad deeds, and they have long been notorious in the Eastern Kingdom."

Meri asked in astonishment: "Alterac... is destroyed?"

"During these years of retreat, what happened outside?"

…

As Valeera said, the members of the Syndicate are very complicated. There are desperadoes who come from outside the territory and only seek money, and there are also many people with lofty ideals selected from the people of the Alterac Kingdom.

As the saying goes, one raging soldier, one raging general.

With an ambitious leader like Fakurest as an example, the tone of the Syndicate's actions has always been biased towards chaos and evil.

But this does not mean that there are no decent people in Syndicate.

In order to restore Alterac, the motherland, the Syndicate also absorbed many ambitious people, but due to the influence of the general environment, they could not convey their will to all Syndicate members.

The thieves sent by Fakurest to track down Sharlayan's whereabouts are the elite of the Syndicate.

The leading adult thief is Yuri Teta, a descendant of the nobles of the original Alterac Kingdom.

Although forced by the situation to temporarily take orders from the Duke of Fakurest, his ideas are quite different from those of Fakurest, and he has always disliked the unscrupulous behavior of the Syndicate.

As the chief of the intelligence department of the former Alterac Kingdom, Yuri's understanding of the structure of the Alterac Royal City is far above that of ordinary civilians.

This small group of syndicates kept sneaking around the ruins of the royal city for several times, but they still failed to find the trace of Earl Deep Shadow. They only found some tiny footprints on the snow that were obviously not left by ogres.

These footprints are enough to prove that someone has sneaked into the ruins of the royal city.

After searching around the royal city again to no avail, Yuri found a corner where the ogre couldn't notice and stopped temporarily, and got together with his subordinates to discuss the possible whereabouts of the target.

"Strange, I can clearly see footprints, but why can't I find anyone?"

"Could it be that the Earl of Deep Shadow is also sneaking, hiding in the dark and playing hide and seek with us?"

"It's not impossible, otherwise it would be impossible to explain how he escaped the surveillance of the hotel."

A female masked thief with a scar on her left eye and a rather heroic brow turned her gaze to Yuri who looked thoughtful.

"Captain, do you have any idea?"

"Hmm..." Yuri was silent for a while before speaking: "Yulia, after the royal city was breached, the sewers should not have suffered any damage, right?"

Yuri and Yulia are a pair of brothers and sisters, both of whom worked in the Alterac intelligence department.

Oridon Perenold was rescued by the two of them desperately, and an ugly scar was left on Yulia's face because of it.

Yuri's reminder made Yulia realize something, and there was also a thoughtful look on her face.

"Indeed, the time for the alliance army to break through the city was too fast, and the special escape channel of the palace sewer was not used in time, what do you mean?"

"Um."

Yuri looked at the snow field under his feet: "First of all, we can confirm that someone has been active nearby, but we can't find him. The only possibility is...he entered the sewer."

"I understand." Yulia's eyes flashed brightly: "The rest time is over, come with me! I still remember a few sewer entrances."

…

Sharlayan, who was missed by the Syndicate, was on his way back.

Before, as a middleman, he helped Ravenholdt and Inselton, who came in a hurry, build a bridge of communication, and he also proposed the conditions of the Barov family to Inselton.

Today Inselton has no right to inherit, but there are no Alterac nobles who are willing to be loyal to him.

Gilneas is willing to help Inselton, but Hillsbrad and Alterac are still Lordaeron's territory, and a careless move will lead to a full-scale war between Gilneas and Lordaeron.

This is obviously what Gene doesn't want to see.

Lord Godfrey didn't dare to lead troops into the mirror before Alterac officially rose up and asked Gilneas for help.

In other words, Inselton had to rely on his own identity and ability to win over a group of powerful nobles to obtain the most basic security guarantee within the territory of the original Alterac Kingdom before he could free up his hands to deal with other matters.

The Syndicate that supports Auriden must be hopeless, and Jin has been eyeing Duke Ravenholdt, the mortal enemy of the Duke of Fakurest, from the very beginning.

But this kind of rebellion is not something that can be decided with a slap on the head, and it will affect the family if you are not careful.

Just like what Alex and Haas were talking about in secret, today's Qiao Laqi must think about the thieves under him.

Under Sharlayan's persuasion, Qiao Laqi made up his mind to support Inselton and continue to fight against the Syndicate headed by Faculest.

For Inselton and Ravenholdt, the unexpected support of the Barov family and General Haas is undoubtedly great news.

Moreover, according to Sarlayan, the syndicate, which should be completely hostile, has different opinions, and there may be room for maneuverability.

In any case, the two forces headed by the two orthodox heirs, Inselton and Auriden (in name), will definitely fight in the end.

Sharlayan intends to weaken the forces around Duke Farculest as much as possible, and let those who are hesitant to move closer to Inselton's side.

This internal struggle cannot last too long, and the time left for Alterac is limited.

Once Lordaeron recovers from the intelligence blockade, it is impossible to block the invasion of Lordaeron's army head-on with Alterac's current military strength.

In other words, Inselton must complete all the work before Lordaeron sends troops, so that the restoration of Alterac will become a fait accompli.

As long as he is in his rightful place, Intherton will be able to call upon Gilneas, Stormgard, Kul Tiras, and Dalaran as the new king of Alterac.

The number of people that can be produced by the four major human kingdoms is second. The key lies in the important announcement of the restoration of Alterac.

As an extraterritorial country, Quel'Thalas didn't ask much from Alterac, but only hoped to maintain normal trade and diplomatic exchanges with the Kingdom of Alterac.

What Quel'Thalas needs is the fact that the kingdom of Alterac will be restored.

Regardless of how much threat the newly restored Alterac can pose to Lordaeron, just a thorn in the back of the buttocks can make Lordaeron uncomfortable for a long time, fighting for the reform of Quel'Thalas and the development of the navy. more time.

After initially negotiating with Prince Inselton, Sharlayan took off again without stopping, heading back in the direction of Steinbride at full speed.

When he returned to the sky above the hotel where the Quel'Thalas delegation stayed ~lightnovelpub.net~, what he saw was the mess left after the battle.

"Tsk~ Sure enough, it was discovered."

Folding its wings and standing on the roof of the dilapidated hotel, Sharlayan maintained his bird form and activated Eagle Eye to scan around.

There were not many bloodstains left at the scene, and the Backlight Blade Elite, who had been on high alert, was not so easy to be caught.

Perhaps because of the turmoil, the atmosphere in Steinbride Town became more sinister. There were almost no pedestrians on the street, and there were syndicate thieves in disguise everywhere.

"I don't know what's going on with Barov... In short, let's meet up with the others at the agreed upon location in Plan B."

Just as Sharlayan was about to flap his wings to take off, his sharp bird boy suddenly saw a familiar person in the town.

"that person…"

Sharlayan stared thoughtfully at the young man who was 7 points similar to Alex. At this moment, he was nodding and bowing, following a high-ranking syndicate with a black scarf and mask, telling his favourites. wearing something.

"...the dog of the Barov family?"