Shadow Trails in Azeroth

"boom"

A soft sound sounded at the southern end of the Beetle Wall, a place where it is theoretically impossible for living creatures to arrive.

At the end of a thin tunnel dug by the Silithids, as the sand cracked, the head of the smelly pirate poked out from below like a marmot.

He turned his head to look around vigilantly, and turned on the Watcher's Endless Hunting Sense. After confirming that there were no patrolling Qiraji or Bugmen within a hundred yards, the pirate retracted his head again.

After a few seconds, the hole above his head was widened, and then he jumped out of the pit nimbly, squatting on the edge of the pit with the shadow.

Holding the Light Chaser's crossbow, the black and white swords hang on both sides of his shoulders, ready to attack at any time.

Or when the situation is bad, he sells his teammates and runs away.

Behind Black, Shandis Yuyue, who was completely unaware of the evil pirate's evil intentions, also quickly climbed up the tunnel.

She does not have the stealth ability of a pirate, but she has the blessing from nature and the moon god. She raises the wide elf cloak blessed by the moon god behind her. The moment she covers her body, her breath is completely blocked by the convergence of the moonlight.

She's not just a hunter.

She is also a moon priest.

"The power of the Thousand-Eyed Demon is shrouded here."

Black warned Shandis behind him from the shadows:

"I'm not afraid of it. C'Thun can't find me until I don't take the initiative to reveal my existence, but you don't have to be sure. If there is an illusion in front of you or a phantom sound in your ears, you must tell me immediately even if there is just a trace. .

I will leave you here like crazy. Before you are bitten to death by the swarm, I will send the news of your death in battle back to Mount Hyjal, and use the anger of loss to lure your adoptive mother to come to help.

Tsk tsk, thinking about it this way, I should probably yell now. It might be more in my interest to leave you here. "

"Stop talking nonsense, Mr. Pirate.

Elune has blessed me, shielding me from the forces of corruption. And you are also being watched by Elune. If you dare to do this to a Moon Priest, you will become the enemy of the Moon God. "

Shandis snorted and said without fear:

"I am not a burden to you, Lord Black!

I'm also proficient in stealth combat, so you don't have to worry about me exposing myself. But the Beetle Wall has actually become so weak, which I didn't expect. "

General Sentinel looked back at the beetle wall standing not far behind her. She could not imagine that she and Blake had actually crossed this wall by "digging tunnels".

"If I were you, I should be alert when the first large insect nest appears in the desert."

As the stinking pirate groped forward along the shadow of the black city, he said to the sentry general following behind him:

"Even the enchantment created by the dragon will be quickly corrupted when exposed to the power of the Old Gods for a long time. I heard that even the forwards of the Silithids have appeared in Un'Goro Crater and the Feralas Jungle.

The Great Rift Hive in the Tanaris Desert is devouring the desert and increasing its area every year.

They are obviously expanding their power. Why do you still think that the Beetle Wall is so stable? "

“Because the bronze dragon didn’t warn us.

It is already very difficult for Cenarion Fortress to ensure that the insect nest does not break through Silithus. The monitoring of larger areas has always been the responsibility of the Time Legion.

Our bronze dragon allies think these are not problems and they can handle them. "

Shandis looked warily at the twisted insect-men patrolling not far away, and at the alien flying insects flying in the sky. She replied:

"We have always trusted the dragons, but who would have thought that the entire bronze dragon army would suddenly disappear overnight? This caught us off guard.

In fact, even if you don't suddenly appear to summon others to deal with the Qiraji, the Sentinel Legion is already ready to increase its troops to the southern part of Kalimdor.

We were well prepared to clear Feralas, Un'Goro Crater, and Tanaris Hive, we just didn't expect the situation in Silithus to deteriorate to this extent in less than two years.

I know that there are rumors that the Kaldorei Moon Kingdom is extremely powerful, but the military power we can mobilize in peacetime is also limited. The disaster in the Emerald Dream has not yet been cleared up, and the druids can't allocate more power now. "

"So you should thank me even more."

Blake complained:

"I am the savior hero who suddenly appeared in your desire. I shouldered the banner of fighting against the evil insect-men without any hesitation and pointed the direction for you.

If you elves still have some conscience, after this battle is over, you should open your treasure house, invite me into it, and give me enough time to choose a reward that satisfies me.

stop!

found it! "

The pirate raised his left hand in the shadows.

Shandis immediately stopped and looked forward in the direction of Black's finger.

It wasn't that the two of them were lucky enough to find Namria Linge, who died in the battle a thousand years ago as soon as they entered the Qiraji city, but that the Qiraji people didn't hide these remains at all.

Insects are quite tidy.

They piled together the bones of enemies left behind in the war a thousand years ago.

Those weathered skulls and bones were piled outside a black insect nest, like a mountain of bones, with many beetle-like larvae crawling around on it.

They seem to regard these bones as "toys".

The pirate silently glanced at Shandris beside him. The Sentinel General clenched her fists and her whole body was shaking. She silently chanted Elune's name in an attempt to calm herself down.

But to be honest, just looking at the scene in front of me, it is not difficult to imagine what the insects did with these remains after their failure.

They really aren't "wasteful" at all.

"I swear I'm going to burn this damn place down."

Shandis said in a hoarse tone.

Blake absolutely believed how fierce the anger was in the sentry general's heart at this time. He rarely teased her, but signaled her to stay where she was and be on guard.

The pirate flashed out by himself, entered the moonlight concealment state under the cover of the night moonlight, and quickly came to the foot of the terrifying mountain of bones.

He could also find some fragments of the Sentinel Legion's armor and some broken blades among the piles of bones in front of him, which were traces of ancient memories left in time in such a tragic way.

Looking at the piles of bones in front of me, it is not difficult to imagine the brutality of the quicksand battle.

Being able to be "converged" into bones already shows how lucky these elven warriors are. In the Battle of Quicksand, many warriors ended up with no bones left.

The warriors who died in the ruins of the Qiraji city were the worst.

There is no possibility for their souls to return to the World Tree. The treatment these souls would receive over the millennia in the fallen realm of the Old Gods made even Black feel pain.

But finding the remains of Ms. Lin Ge among such a large pile of bones in front of him is an almost impossible task even for Black, who has endless hunting sense.

But luckily, the bugs used the remains of the elven warriors as nutrients for hatching larvae, and the remains were stained with weird gelatinous substances.

This allows them to escape the fate of being weathered by time, and also allows them to retain some of their characteristics.

Soon, Blake's sense of endless hunting brought him a surprise. In the land of death where a pile of bones overlapped, he sensed a dim light flashing away.

The pirates quickly dug toward that location.

Completely hidden in the moonlight, he didn't have to worry about attracting the attention of the surrounding insect-men. A few minutes later, he found a broken hand bone from the pile of bones.

This thing is very strange.

Even after a thousand years of death, the hand bones still maintain a clenched posture, and on the index finger of the left hand bone, there is a natural green tiger eye stone ring.

It was one of those easily identifiable characteristics that Emeril Shadowguard described about her mentor.

It is said that this not gorgeous ring was given to Ms. Lin Ge by her lover. Unfortunately, her lover had already died in the ancient war with the devil.

Black grabbed the bones of his clenched hands and left the mountain of bones with a whoosh, returning to Shandris.

The two of them returned to the dug tunnel along the original path without saying a word. They returned to the other side of the Beetle Wall without any danger and filled the tunnel.

In the vast desert outside the insect territory, under the moonlight, the two of them squatted there, looking at the twisted hand bones placed in front of them, and the atmosphere fell silent for a moment.

Although one of the two men was a bad guy who could kill people without blinking an eye, and the other was a general who had experienced hundreds of battles, neither of them seemed very willing to touch the gray hand bones at this moment.

The pirate finally made a "please" gesture.

So Shandris reached out and broke the bones of the hand.

But no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't get the bones of her hands apart. The fingers that had lost their flesh and blood were clenched tightly, as if they were holding the whole world before they died.

The Ranger General's expression was very complicated.

For a legendary ranger to do such a thing before dying to protect a secret, one can only imagine the terrible pain and despair Ms. Lin Ge suffered at the end of her life a thousand years ago.

She may know how important the forbidden knowledge she discovered is to her compatriots, so she would rather endure the pain of being killed by thousands of insects to leave her information.

"Although I really want to laugh at you, Ms. Lin Ge's behavior makes me admire even a villain like me, so I will let you go tonight, and you will see a silent Black.

Cherish it, this opportunity is rare.

Go ahead.

Just hide away and cry.

I'll take over. "

Seeing Shandris' silent exertion, the stinky pirate who was drinking beside him shook his head.

He stopped Shandis, who was in a complicated mood from wasting time, and moved his fingers, intending to crush the entire hand bone to take out the thing tightly held in his palm.

Shandis didn't stop him, she just knelt down beside him and prayed for this loyal soul who had been dead for a thousand years under the desert moonlight.

"Kacha"

The pirate used the divine power of the void, burned it with the purple void fire and then squeezed it hard. The bones in his hand broke into gray fragments, and the thing held in his hand was finally exposed.

It was a withered and huddled seed, looking like it was in extreme need of water.

"Scroll of Petrified Bark."

Shandis took a look and said in a dumb voice:

"Made from the bark of the ancient war tree, it is a technique that only senior druids and elf rangers can use. It will reopen when it comes into contact with water.

In a desert where water is scarce, it is the best way to keep secrets. "

"It's a good thing. I'll get some if I have a chance."

Blake took out his skull flask, unscrewed the lid and poured the wine over the seeds. The thing quickly expanded and eventually turned into a square piece of bark paper.

There are dense inscriptions in Salas language on it, and the traces are slightly confusing. It seems that it should have been written in a state of emergency.

The stinky pirate glanced at Shandris, who was collecting the bones scattered on the ground. That was the last proof that Ms. Lin Ge could find and left in the world.

The sentry general also gently picked up the tiger's eye stone ring that fell to the ground and blew off the gravel on it.

This is the last relic of Namuria Lin Ge. It should be given to Ms. Lin Ge’s only relative, her student, Emeril Shadowguard.

"Want to watch it together?"

Blake took a sip of wine and asked. Shandis nodded silently, leaned over, and looked at the bark of the tree in front of him through the dim moonlight above his head.

The first sentence on it made the two people’s eyes widen:

"I am Namuria Ringe, the Ranger General of the Silver Sentinel Legion. If you read this letter, it means that I have died at the hands of the bugs.

Don't feel sad for me.

This may be the best ending for me who has entered the taboo. I have become mentally confused. When I entered the insect-man empire, I even saw monsters made of eyeballs.

That is the evil god they believe in.

And I came to die.

I'm being hunted by the Qiraji War Guard.

The swarm guardians would not allow an outsider who had cracked the secrets of the swarm to survive, and I could hear a strange voice calling me to the dark temple.

Elune protects my heart, but I can't hold on much longer.

My sanity was shaky as I merged with the will of the swarm, and I made a terrible mistake.

I will record all the secrets I discover about Qiraji to warn those who come after me.

Silikids can be tamed!

But don’t try to integrate into the will of the swarm easily like me, because what’s waiting for you at the end of the chain of will is not the Twin Emperors, the commanders of the Qiraji, or the vicious Hahoran!

I was wrong.

It wasn't until I truly integrated into it that I discovered that the source of the swarm's will was the fallen god C'Thun!

Before defeating the dark evil god, any attempt to tame the insect swarm will lead to falling into C'Thun's despicable trap!

Our will is no match for a god.

Trying to end the war by taming the Silikites is just a seduced future! C'Thun uses it to capture those warriors who serve the forces of nature.

Remember!

Don't try it until the throne of the evil god falls!

Finally, tell little Emeril for me.

I will pray for her in the never-ending darkness, knowing that she will make me proud.

Well, the temple gate is near.

Those bugs made way for me.

Their evil god will have a feast today, and I will be that delicious tribute. "