strictlysupreme Chapter 240 The Desolate Council
Chapter 240 The Desolate Council
Queen Sylvanas was not satisfied with Aegwynn's answer.
It's even less likely that I'll give up on revenge...
"Silently protecting the Forsaken? No, I need you, Master, to help me subdue these restless creatures. You know our brethren are dwindling, our warriors are fighting desperately, dying one by one. And here, in this dark, foul-smelling underground capital, this so-called city of the Forsaken, there's a group of mindless undead who, having gained a little bit of consciousness, are demanding power, fairness, democracy from me... and even blaming me for leading them to seek revenge against humanity?"
"You mean the ordinary Forsaken of the Desolate Council?"
The Queen nodded helplessly. "Sometimes I truly regret gathering them here in the first place, becoming their queen... freeing them from their constraints. They seem to have forgotten revenge. They've all forgotten that this is just a temporary dwelling. My goal is the north... that kingslayer!"
Upon hearing the Queen's words, Aegwynn fell silent for a moment. "It seems your people don't agree with this..." Aegwynn sighed, and with a wave of her staff, a scene of several people arguing appeared before the Queen.
Upon hearing the content on the screen, the Queen's originally sorrowful face was instantly filled with angry black magic marks.
A murderous glint flashed in her eyes...
Behind her, a crimson lightning bolt spread through a black mist, foreshadowing the queen's imminent wrath... Unconsciously, she revealed her true form as a banshee... parts of her body transformed into drifting black mist...
In the mirror of the sleight of hand magic cast by Aegwynn, several figures, both familiar and unfamiliar to the Queen, are arguing fiercely.
Speaking was Vilcinda, the so-called Chief Speaker of the Wasteland Council, who was reprimanding the Firestone brothers for their incompetence in missing the opportunity to assassinate the Queen...
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The three brothers, Jack, Jem, and Jacques, are Vilcinda's main supporters in the Wasteland Council.
Since the Dreadlord suggested establishing an organization to manage the Forsaken, a group of ambitious individuals and those skilled in politics in their previous lives have volunteered to become active members of this organization.
They consist of four highest-ranking officers who report directly to the Queen, seven ministers in charge of various matters in Undercity, and ten listeners to assist the ministers.
This organization is responsible for managing the daily lives of the forgotten and listening to the needs and opinions of the forgotten civilians.
With the Queen frequently away leading troops in battle, these Undercity warriors have had more and more opportunities to appear before the Forsaken civilians, and these people have gradually come to believe that they are the rulers of Undercity...
With the support of Varimathras, the dreadlord in charge of Undercity's security, the twenty-two members of the Barren Council increasingly felt like officials of the Forsaken... The Queen seemed to have become a symbolic head of state.
Most of the time, the Queen came and went in a hurry, paying no attention to these idle, trembling remnants of Lordaeron...
Few of them had achieved such meritorious service on the front lines as Lorraine.
Most of the Forsaken's elite have fallen on the front lines...
They silently followed the Queen to their deaths on the battlefield, often merely to fend off the harassment of the Scarlet Crusade. More often, the main forces of Undercity were engaged in battles with the remnants of the Scourge in the north, repeatedly fighting for nearby strongholds... The dead Forsaken were indistinguishable from the Scourge golems.
Humans are born with a hatred and fear of the dead; the Queen had long since given up on the living, understanding their nature...
The queen felt no emotion upon witnessing her warriors fall in battle, not because she was cold-hearted, but because she and her army were avengers who had already died once...
Being a conscious, mindless zombie is a form of eternal suffering...
This painful curse originates from the Lich King's power... The Forsaken's ultimate goal is to destroy the Lich King, destroy the undead, and eradicate the plague...
The Forsaken are a type of undead, and also an undead race born from the plague.
Destroying the Lich King is tantamount to destroying oneself... This is a contradiction and a paradox...
This paradox is both very reasonable and very cruel.
This concept is not understood by ordinary people living in the mundane world, and they also do not believe in the obsession of the dead.
Even the orcs, trolls, or blood elves among their allies find it difficult to empathize; only certain tauren shamans and druids can feel the pain of life emanating from the Forsaken...
It was initially the Tauren High Chieftains Cairne and Bloodhoof who first introduced the Forsaken to the Horde, representing the Tauren people, hoping to save these sufferers afflicted with life-threatening tragedies...
They tried to soothe them with life magic and the power of nature, but to no avail.
It's strange that the Tauren were the first allies to accept Forsaken Shadow Priests and Apothecaries, given that the Forsaken were in a state of near-death suffering.
Many factions consider the undead to be real monsters...
The Banshee's servants... The Forsaken in Undercity, led by the Queen, are monsters among monsters, untouchables, isolated sufferers, zombies walking in the daytime—these are all names associated with the Forsaken.
It's understandable that Orgrimmar doesn't completely trust Undercity... Stormwind and the Scarlet Crusade are also determined to seize Lordaeron, and the Scourge won't relinquish the land that originally belonged to the Lich King...
The Forsaken's enemies are everywhere; this is not just an empty phrase.
However, the weak remnants of Lordaeron within Undercity were plotting to overthrow the Queen's rule, something the Dark Queen Sylvanas could not tolerate.
She urgently summoned several subordinates; the desolate council might be reshuffled today.
Those poor guys are still plotting how to sideline the Queen...
Speaker Vilcanda seemed to have a good reputation among the nobles of Lordaeron in the past, and she quickly gathered many rational Lordaeron nobles to form the so-called Barren Council.
The four so-called leaders of the Desolate Council were all former nobles of Lordaeron... They quickly transformed themselves from the dead, picking up their former noble habits and ways of thinking to manage the dazed, undead creatures of Undercity.
Speaker Vilcinda stood on the stone steps and declared loudly:
"This time, the banshee has claimed the lives of many of our people... We cannot allow her tyranny to continue... If this continues, we will never see our loved ones again; our loved ones will become our enemies..."
Thomas Reg, one of the seven listeners, echoed, "We are surrounded on all sides. Undercity has already lost nearly ten thousand elite Forsaken, all warriors of our Kingdom of Lordaeron. The Queen led them in an attack on the Scarlet Crusade, but many in the city tell me they still have relatives in Scarlet Monastery. This is fratricide!"
Wilmer, the so-called Minister of Population Statistics for Undercity, nodded: "Yes, we have already lost a third of our people, most of them in battle... They died twice. This kind of human tragedy is happening every moment now. Her Majesty the Queen doesn't care about us at all..."
However, Anne & Lanxin, emergency physicians and officials of the Undercity Medical Support Association, disagreed!
“Her Majesty the Queen is protecting us, and our warriors are doing it willingly… It is the Scarlet Crusade attacking us, and our people have no choice but to fight back. They have gone mad… The Forsaken who have been captured are in a worse state than those who are alive, and the wounded sent back from the front lines last week tell us that Scarlet Monastery has become a concentration camp. You cannot disrespect Her Majesty the Queen… You!”
"Shut up! The medical officer isn't qualified to attend this meeting. Do you want to be a traitor, you stupid woman... Do you still want to be ridden on by the banshee? Don't you want to live like a normal person? Do you want to become one of those zombies fighting for the banshee!"
Sheriff Paco, responsible for maintaining order in Undercity, stood up, drew his knife, and threatened Health Minister Anne...
Faced with the unfriendly stares of their fellow citizens, Annie and Lanxin could only sit down silently, saying nothing more...
The sheriff glared at the three Firestone brothers and said, “The Banshee has rarely returned lately, and each time she does, she brings only remnants of her defeated army. From what I’ve observed, almost all of the Ranger Force’s loyal followers are dead, and the old Silvermoon City troops are all on the front lines. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.”
The Jack brothers nodded, and Jack said, "But the members of the Royal Terror Guard are completely unresponsive. I suspect they're just puppets. They have no brains at all... No matter how you try to reason with them, they just don't understand human language."
Jem scratched his head: "Speaker, our militia only has a little over a thousand men... They only have wooden shields and homemade iron weapons. Can we really take down the Banshee?"
Vilcendar chuckled: "The Banshee is going to inspect the north. We just need to set up an ambush on the way out of the city and prepare traps so that she can be buried with us... Even if she has many skilled men around her, they can't withstand the power of explosives. Let our Queen perish in Undercity so that all the Forsaken can see the light of day again!"
"Good good!"
Of the twenty-two core members of the Barren Council, aside from a few who remained silent, the rest were ecstatic... It seemed Queen Sylvanas was destined to die at their hands...
They had no idea of the power of magic; their every word and action was being heard clearly under the Queen's watchful eye...
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