Crossing Azeroth, starting with the Heroes of Might and Magic system

After recruiting the wood elves, Varian allowed them to move freely in the military heights and had nothing to do for them for the time being.

After sitting down and feeling bored, Varian checked the situation in various places through the griffin's vision.

In Kalimdor, Varian arranged many griffins, circling various areas around Mulgore. There were several in the Barrens, several in Mulgore Steppes, and two in Thousand Needles.

Varian wanted to discover the situation in Kalimdor as soon as possible, and with the griffin as a coordinate, he could use group teleportation magic to fly over at any time.

You don't know until you see it, and you can tell that there is something wrong in the Barren Land.

Through the vision of a griffin entrenched in the Barrens, he discovered that a large group of centaurs were marching from the Stonetalon Mountains in the northeast of the Barrens to the central part of the Barrens.

Looking from the air, this Centaur army had about five thousand Centaurs, forming a continuous line.

The vanguard of the Centaurs has reached its destination and stopped beside a large lake south of the Howling Caverns.

Varian knew that this green place was called Sweetwater Oasis.

The overall environment of the barren land is relatively harsh, with yellow soil with no grass growing everywhere, insufficient water resources, and few trees. Therefore, wars often break out among various forces in order to compete for water resources.

There are three large lakes in the entire barren land, and each of them has an oasis formed around the lake.

One is the Forgotten Pool, north of the Wailing Caverns and northeast of the crossroads;

One is the Sweetwater Oasis, south of the Howling Caverns and southwest of the crossroads;

One is to the south of Ratchet City, where there is a stagnant water oasis.

Before the Centaurs came, Deadwater Oasis and the Forgotten Pool were mainly occupied by Steelbriar Quillmen, and Sweetwater Oasis was mainly occupied by Thornback Quillmen.

In a desolate and barren land, there are several oases which are very rare. In addition to providing water resources, the oasis also grows a large number of edible fruits and mushrooms. There are also mutant fish and oasis snap-jaw turtles in the lake.

These large lakes can also attract many animals to come and drink water, making it easy to catch prey?

It can be said that an oasis completely affects the survival of an ethnic group.

The Barrens are okay, there are still a few oases. But places like Desolace, Thousand Needles, and Shimmering Flats have even worse living environments.

No wonder the Centaurs came all the way from the Desolate Land.

After arriving at the Sweetwater Oasis, this group of Centaurs stopped moving forward and began to set up camp on the grass by the lake, apparently wanting to take the Sweetwater Oasis for themselves.

The Centaur camp looked like a row of yurts. Varian strongly suspected that the game company was using the Centaurs to imply that the Mongols were a cruel, violent and evil race.

That was absolutely the case. He remembered that in the Maraudon dungeon, some Centaur bosses were called the Fourth Khan or the Fifth Khan.

What race would call their boss Khan?

The game company is a cunning guy.

Coming to his senses, he realized that the Sweetwater Oasis was previously occupied by the Thornback Boarmen. However, in the last battle, the Thornback Boarmen were defeated by the Steelbristle Boarmen, leaving the Sweetwater Oasis unguarded. Now the Centaurs had taken it down without any effort, and got a huge bargain.

In order to see the strength of the Centaurs in detail, Varian commanded the griffin hovering in the sky to fly behind a slightly farther hill, and then teleported to the griffin's location.

After making sure that he was not discovered by the Centaurs, Varian used the magic of Eye of Perspective.

All the information about the Centaur was immediately clear.

The system shows that there are more than 5300 Centaurs nearby.

The leader of this group of Kolkar centaurs is Hezrul Bloodmark.

1400 Kokar warriors, 1800 Kokar herdsmen, 750 Kokar plunderers, 560 Kokar thundermasters, 420 Kokar dog trainers, and 420 Kokar hounds.

These Kokar hounds are very similar to African hyenas, creatures that specialize in anal digging and attacking from the back door.

It's very powerful when the Centaurs command these creatures to fight.

Oh my god, there is also a Thunder Master, with such an awesome name, he must be a wizard who knows one or two lightning magics.

Hey, the system shows that there is a rare elite three-headed snake named Geshalahan in the lake of Sweetwater Oasis.

Three-headed snake! A rare thing.

The three-headed snake just stayed quietly at the bottom of the lake. Without the Eye of Perspective, Varian would not have known the existence of this monster.

Three-headed snakes are rare here now. I have been to many places in the Eastern Kingdoms but have not seen any. There are some in some places in Kalimdor, but I have not seen any in Mulgore Steppes.

He remembered that in Maraudon in Desolace, the copy of Princess Theradras, there were many three-headed snakes, six-headed snakes, and even nine-headed snakes. However, Princess Theradras was also very powerful and could not be provoked at the moment.

It is really rare to see multi-headed monsters in other places.

Varian was kind of tempted to capture it and put it on display in Thunder Bluff, to make it look cool, or give it to the trolls in Stranglethorn Vale and let it be together with the Hydra recruited by the system, which would also look nice.

But when he saw so many Centaurs by the lake, Varian thought it would be better to stay and find an opportunity to take action.

The strength of these Kolkar Centaurs is much stronger than that of the Thornback Boarmen. If the Kolkar Centaurs do not retreat, it will be impossible for the Thornback Boarmen alone to take back the Sweetwater Oasis.

This won't work. The Thornback Boarman is now his partner, so he will have to take action.

But there is no need to rush. The survival of the Thornback Boarmen is not so serious now. The Stone Ox Lake on the Mulgore Grassland is larger than the lakes in these three oases combined.

Now that the Thornback Boarmen have become trading partners with Thunder Bluff, they can move freely throughout the Mulgore Grasslands, and drinking water is no longer a problem.

If the Thornback Boarmen are willing to set up a camp by Stone Ox Lake to facilitate trade, Varian has no objection.

Now that the Kolkar Centaurs have come to the Barrens, it is estimated that the Tauren will also come soon.

In the original novel, the Tauren and the Centaurs fought and expanded at the same time, and eventually the Tauren occupied Thunder Bluff in Mulgore Steppes, the Kolkar Centaurs occupied three oases, and the other boar tribes did not get a single oasis.

Now that Mulgore Grasslands belongs to them, the tauren can no longer go to Thunder Bluff, but Varian feels very sympathetic towards these honest, simple and relatively righteous tauren.

So Varian thought, when the tauren came, he would communicate with Chieftain Cairne Bloodhoof, and if they could cooperate, he would help the tauren occupy one or two oases.

It is not very easy to operate now. The Bristle Boar and the Thornback Boar are still fighting, and there is no communication with the Death's Head Boar in Razorfen Kraul. Now the Centaurs are coming and the Tauren are about to come too.

By then, several forces will probably compete for resources in the barren land, and that barren land will soon become a major war zone.