Shadow Trails in Azeroth

The pirates braved heavy snowstorms when they came, but the snow had stopped by the time they returned.

The weather in this wilderness is so changeable. If time were not pressed and the dragons were not easy to deal with, Blake would really be interested in visiting the ancient glaciers in the north of Dragonblight.

Find a secret cave and leave a note or something in it.

It would be best to put a sign in the cave with a sentence written in all the characters of Azeroth: "Whatever is in the cave, don't touch it!"

Okay, just kidding.

The process of flying all the way to the coast over the endless wilderness covered in snow was quite boring. The pirate even fell asleep on the hippogryph saddle.

It wasn't until he was awakened by several blue dragons flying in the distance that the pirates realized that they were close to the Turbulent Needle, a facility of the blue dragons in Dragonblight.

It is linked to the Demonic Hub.

It is said that you can use that huge device to regulate the flow of magic power around the world, which is quite powerful.

If it were normal, Black would definitely go there and have a look. Now we are also old acquaintances of the Blue Dragon Legion, and our reputation should at least be above friendly.

But this time Black was filled with stolen dragon bones, even the black dragon bones that the blue dragons hated the most, which were taboo for all dragons.

If he is caught doing this, he might even be taken to Longmian Temple for trial.

So, it’s better to walk around.

He glanced at the large facility of Turbulent Needle from a distance, and was surprised to find that idiot Little Xingxing was actually among them, flying around in the sky with a few young dragons, pretending that he was also an official member of the Blue Dragon Legion.

That innocent look made the pirate a little bit unbearable to look at.

My school girl actually tried to fly upside down in the sky

Just couldn't see it.

"It's so embarrassing. I can't tell others that I know her in the future."

The pirate complained harshly, tightened the hippogryph's reins, and flew towards Port Moa'aki, the walrus city just south of Dragonblight.

After flying for most of the day, he arrived at the city of the Walrus People.

It is said to be a city, but it is actually a large port. In a semi-enclosed natural bay, there is a Walrus bunker built along the port. There are probably hundreds of Walrus people living in it.

These guys are natives of Northrend. Their names are walrus people, and their appearance is very similar to walruses.

However, like humans, they walk on two legs and have hands similar to humans. The most conspicuous features are the huge belly, the big beard that almost covers the eyes, and the two tusks near the mouth.

He walks unsteadily and looks very silly.

But beneath the simple appearance of a walrus man, there is a very ferocious strength hidden. A harpoon thrown by an adult walrus man can pierce the skin of a mammoth man within a distance of twenty meters.

If that thing pierces a person, the powerful impact can chop an adult into pieces on the spot, or string three unlucky eggs together to make candied haws.

The walrus people also have a tradition of taming animals.

Their war beast is the northern male walrus, which is a notoriously violent sea beast. It can overturn a sampan in the water and kill a person on the shore without much problem.

These walrus people make a living by fishing in the Northland and are neutrals on the frozen sea.

Merchant ships traveling from the Eastern Kingdoms to Northrend would choose to dock at the walrus people's wharf to do business with these northern fishermen. Relying on this primitive trade, the people of Walrus lived a good life.

They have their own territory in Howling Fjord, a large island called Kamagu, and have their own docks on every piece of land in Northrend, and they are notoriously difficult to deal with North Sea pirates.

Therefore, the Undead Fleet encountered some expected troubles when it wanted to dock here for supplies.

Blake, who was tired of traveling, saw several of his ships from a high altitude, blocked from the port by the Walrus men's boats, and two giant sea turtles about the same size as merchant ships blocking the approach of the Alpaca in the waters on both sides.

A large group of walrus warriors grabbed harpoons and faced off against the undead pirates.

Some impatient pirates are using unpleasant words to greet the direct ancestors of these big fat men. This made Blake frown and park the hippogryph on the deck of the Alpaca.

On the side of the ship, I saw the fox quartermaster holding a telescope and looking at the port of Moaaki.

He asked:

"Why don't you enter the port? What are you doing here?"

"Ah, Captain, you are back."

Eudora put down her telescope, swung her tail and turned around to give a weird pirate military salute to the Commander. She pointed to the port and said:

"These walrus people will not let us approach their city, saying that there are North Sea pirates on our ship. But don't worry, Captain Anares and Anne went to negotiate with their elders.

There should be news soon. "

"What's there to negotiate? Are you trying to persuade the Walrus people to open the city? How can you waste so much time here?"

Blake rubbed his forehead and said:

"Eudora, go! Go and tell the walrus man elder that we are going to Howling Fjord to attack Rogue Port, and this time we are coming to destroy the North Sea pirates.

We knew about the grievances between the Walrus people and the North Sea pirates, so we invited the Walrus warriors to accompany us. When the time comes, we will capture the rogue harbor and give them a quarter of the treasure they robbed.

By the way, I went to inquire about the recent movements of the pirates in the North Sea. If they are unwilling to send troops to support them, it would be good to buy some information. "

"Oh, okay, I'll go right away."

When the fox-man heard Black giving her the order, he immediately jumped down from the barrel and called several fox-man pirates to prepare a boat for her.

Blake shook his head and walked to the other side of the Alpaca, just in time to see Nat grabbing a bottle of wine and staggering out of the cabin, unshaven and looking very haggard.

He rolled his eyes and shouted to Nat:

"Hey, Fishing God, why don't you go to the Walrus people? Their elders are all fishing masters, and the fishing rods made by the Walrus people are very famous throughout Azeroth, and they are the most suitable for sea fishing.

You will love them, and they will love you. "

"Huh? Really?"

Hearing the words "fishing master", Nat immediately became interested. Black fudged a few words and sent Nat and Eudora to find the Walrus Man.

Those Northland fishermen love discussing fishing techniques with others.

If a guy like Nat goes there, he will be amazed by them and treat them as a distinguished guest.

He himself jumped off the side of the Alpaca, fell into the sea with a leap of faith, and swam quickly towards the Nagfar anchored in the dark trench.

The ghost ship also seemed to sense that its captain had brought back something good. When Blake swam over, it also took the initiative to turn the ship's bow and move closer from the bottom of the trench.

As soon as he landed on the deck, the pirate shook off the water on his body, threw a few bags to Sephiel, and the two quickly walked into the cabin of the ghost ship.

The ship spirit in the hull will be very active now, with a sense of eagerness to try.

It seems to know that it has to make up for a long-term regret today.

"Wow"

In the dark and damp cabin, Blake opened the magic bag in his hand and poured out the black dragon bones inside. Sephiel did the same thing.

A few minutes later, seven large sacks filled with keel bones were laid out on the bilge of the ghost ship.

"I said, you are also a dragon, right?"

Blake looked at Sephiel beside him and said:

"Your mood when you see a dragon bone should be similar to how we humans feel when we see a skeleton, and you're not afraid at all?"

"Not afraid."

As the chief parasaurus said this, she saw a huge black dragon skull at her feet. The dark eyes stared at her, making her tremble. Then she turned her head and whistled, saying;

"The black dragons are all bad guys. I was killed by Deathwing. I'm not afraid. The more these bad guys die, the better."

"Hey, what you're saying is tough, don't shake your legs if you can."

The pirate curled his lips and said something, then looked at the pile of keels in front of him wrapped in the cold magic power of the ghost ship, and said:

"You go up first and comfort the others. There may be some vibrations for a while, and there may be water leakage, but these are normal conditions."

In the character card in front of him, the entry for Nagfar's [Keel Casting] has begun to change, and a gray progress bar appears under the entry, representing the beginning of the ghost ship's self-transformation.

As if being attacked by a cannonball, the ship began to shake violently after a few seconds.

The students of Nathalas Academy who were taking classes in a large cabin were frightened, and the two dwarfs who were receiving introductory classes for warlocks were so frightened that they screamed loudly.

Dean Lanyue and Prince Farodis rushed out of their cabins to comfort the students. The Archmage of Elam activated the magic power of the Tide Stone in the second-story cabin, turning the nearby seawater into a large tidal control.

Let the changes in the Naqfar underwater not attract attention from above.

But this process of self-transformation is honestly a bit scary.

The ghosts restrained in the hull of the Nagfar began to riot. The ship's spirits seemed to have temporarily lost control of them. As the ocean fog filled the hull, some vicious evil spirits even launched attacks on the students. attacked.

"Shua"

Two flaming war blades flew back and forth in the cabin, easily dispatching several screaming evil spirits.

The instructor of the demonology and demonic power defense course at Narthalas College, the blind Maris Demonic Disaster, was currently protecting several frightened junior students as they retreated to the upper deck.

He's a bit scary.

But in this emergency situation, it is unexpectedly reliable.

On the deck, there are undead knights of the ghost ship everywhere. Under the command of Joan Creedorn, they kill the evil spirits everywhere and maintain order on the ship.

Those who didn't know about this scene thought it was a bad rebellion on the Nagfar.

The thick, icy mist wraps the body of the ghost ship, like an eggshell in the water, gestating a more powerful form. From time to time, there are terrifying echoes of the chewing of giant beasts in the mist.

There were also some discarded "leftovers" falling from the sea water. Amidst the tremors of the mist, the appearance of the entire ghost ship was rapidly changing.

The gray-white keel brackets originally used to wrap the hull are being transferred to the inside of the hull, while the huge roaring dragon skull on the bow is being modified bit by bit, moving and changing positions.

In the dim cabin, Blake could clearly see that along the keel of the Nagfar's hull, which was like a spine, new keels were being fixed into the ghost ship's hull.

The appearance in front of me looked very evil, as if the ghost ship had become a "living creature" and was breathing painfully and hard, using the keel brought back by the captain to shape its own "new skeleton".

The newly replaced wood on the hull was stretched due to the growth of the keel, making an overwhelmed rattling sound, like a child growing rapidly.

Blake could feel the Nagfar's hull expanding.

It is growing in the direction of the "big gun ship" it imagined.

It had always been clear what kind of ship Blake wanted.

"Good boy, good boy! Hahaha, grow up, grow up, I like big ones, the bigger the better!"

The pirate stood alone in the rapidly stretched bottom cabin, spreading his arms and laughing as the ship's hull trembled.

As if to accompany his wild laughter, the Nagfar shook more violently.

Above the deck, under the stunned gaze of first mate Seifer, a new mast broke through the three-layer hull and climbed up like a growing tree.

What's even more exaggerated is that the top of the mast, which is a fusion of bone and wood, is holding the hideous skull of a black dragon, forming a new mainmast in the center of the elongated hull.

The original mast became a shorter auxiliary mast.

The old dragon head in front of the bow maintained its roar, but was pointed diagonally towards the sky, and was shaped into a real bow image, with a bone foremast pierced out from above the bow.

In front of the underwater hull, the hardest keel is used to shape the underwater collision angle. The stern of the ship at the rear was also expanded into three floors with a roar.

There are also three ferocious black dragon skulls as decorations on the left, right and rear of the ship.

During such a drastic transformation, the entire ship has completely lost the rough and barbaric original style of the Vrykul warships, and has replaced it with the style of a formal Kul Tiras warship.

But because of these keel embellishments, coupled with the tattered hull that has become dilapidated again due to self-transformation, it has the dark, evil, dilapidated and decadent aura of a ghost ship.

When the transformation was completed, Blake clearly felt the joy of the ship spirit. It was so happy that it even approached Blake in an intimate manner for the first time and enveloped him with its magic.

She seemed to give him a big hug.

But it used a little too much force, and as a result, the pirate's body was instantly covered with frost ice crystals.

"Go, go, go, just like a puppy, why are you licking people's faces?"

Blake pushed away the invisible objects around him with a look of disgust. He wiped the ice crystals on his face, snapped his fingers, and said to the ship spirit:

"There's a commotion outside, go and tidy up the outside. Now that it's gotten so much bigger, and the space is a little bigger, I'll renovate the inner cabin as well. The specific drawings will be given to you in a few days.

Doesn’t it mean that you can transform into an entity?

Come on, turn into an elf and show me. What? Can't change now? Oops, you ghost ship is so mean. Hey hey hey! Don't be angry, I was just joking, I just..."

"Plop"

Just after the self-transformation was completed, the evil-minded captain once again angered the ghost ship and was thrown out of the hull.

Blake helplessly rotated his body back and forth in the water, suspended in the deep sea, and looked at the Nagfar that had just completed the transformation from a third-party perspective.

See from the beginning to the end, and see from the end to the beginning.

Finally nodded with satisfaction and said:

"Gudu. This looks a bit like the Gudu Ghost Ship. I like it. Gudu Hey! Open the door. Gudu, let me go in.

Your dear Captain Gudu is going to drown! "