Shadow Trails in Azeroth

"Look at those young men, they are so fascinated by you. They are so good at playing at a young age. How can they be good at it when they grow up?"

After leaving Amber Pines, Blake no longer maintained the disguise of the "Blind Man."

While whistling, he summoned the flying Hippogryph King to come down from the sky, and said to the little stars beside him who were humming and picking out small gifts:

"Looking at the way you were talking in a cooing voice just now, who did you learn this bad habit from?"

"Is this still worth learning?"

Little Star put a beautiful garland of flowers on her head, and hung a beautiful bear tooth pendant around the neck of plump Amygosa.

She turned back, blinked, and said to the pirate:

"Aren't girls supposed to be born with this? Those stupid men are so stupid. If I just say a few words, they are willing to do a lot of things for me.

If I were a big evil dragon, I wouldn't need to go out to the lair to look for food. Just relying on these stupid men in heat would be enough to feed me for several years.

They should be thankful I'm not. "

"It seems that I made the wrong choice in taking you out of the Demonic Nexus. Maybe I should send you back and let the adult blue dragons teach you what it means to be a dragon."

Blake curled his lips and complained.

When a gust of wind came, the mighty hippogryph controlled the wind with its wings and landed lightly, allowing the pirate to turn over and ride on the saddle. He also caught the jumping little murloc and let it ride on the neck of the hippogryph. superior.

He turned to the little blue dragon princess and said:

"Over there, in the northeast, do you see the broken tree? That is our next destination. Broken Crown Vordrassil, the most stupid thing among the countless stupid things the druids have done in the past ten thousand years. The stupidest thing.

After a while, you should follow me closely and don't run around. That place is very dangerous. "

He warned:

"It's dangerous even for an adult dragon. If a baby dragon like you rushes in, it will only be eaten up."

"Really?"

The little star with the garland looked suspicious. She felt that the bad captain was scaring her again.

After all, the broken tree in the distance looks scary, but there is nothing surprising about it, whether from the perspective of the underground magic network or the flow of magic power on the surface.

It's not even as bluffing as the Shandalara ruins in Crystalsong Forest.

"It's so big."

After the hippogryph took off, Little Star also transformed into the form of a young dragon, gave himself an invisibility spell, and flapped his wings to fly in the airspace above the hippogryph.

While flying towards the big tree, she exclaimed:

“It looks so big from a distance, but now it’s even more powerful when you’re up close.

Not only is it big, but it is also so thick and straight, and even if it is broken, it is still so powerful. It is hard to imagine how majestic it must have been before it was broken. "

"I think there's something wrong with your statement, but after thinking about it carefully, it doesn't seem to be a problem."

Blake, who was on the saddle of the hippogryph, kept adjusting the focus of the Eye of Kilrogg on his shoulder. With the help of magic, he also saw the huge tree stump below that became increasingly clear.

The night elves planted Nordrassil, the world tree, on Mount Hyjal on the continent of Kalimdor. It is said that the tree itself is a forest.

Its shade stretches across several mountains, like the sky that holds up the entire world.

In the game, Blake has seen the tree before it was destroyed countless times, but he has never seen it in reality. It must be shocking to think about it.

The big tree below that was broken from the center is definitely not as huge as the World Tree, but it is already an out-and-out giant.

How big is it?

A young dragon like Little Xingxing, which is about twenty meters long, can fly around freely in the completely hollow tree trunk. It is enough to make a nest for the entire Blue Dragon Legion.

The area occupied by the tree roots is already comparable to the palace area of ​​Lordaeron City.

This is just a flat surface.

Although this tree was broken, its remaining trunk on the ground is conservatively estimated to be two hundred meters high. This tree alone occupies a tenth of the entire Grizzly Hills forest area.

"The trees around here are so weird!"

Little Xingxing soon discovered something was wrong. When she flew within a few thousand meters of the giant tree, the little blue dragon princess shook her head and said to the pirate below:

"The trees within nearly one kilometer around are growing strangely. They have been losing their leaves and are bare, but the other trees are lush and lush. And the color of the ground nearby is also very strange.

It was so gray, as if the green vitality had been drained out of it. And except for some wandering furbolgs, I didn't find many other animals around here. "

Her flying speed slowed down, her tone was no longer as excited as before, and she said hesitantly:

"I feel something is not good. Maybe we should stop and rest and renegotiate our plan of action."

"Scared?"

Blake snorted and said:

"If you are scared, just stay outside. The plan of action is that I will go in and take a look. You can protect me from the wind outside and help me take care of my little bird and find some food for it."

"I'm not afraid! I'm a powerful blue dragon."

Little Xingxing stubbornly emphasized her identity and said:

"I just learned to be cautious. What a beautiful place this scenery is, how could such a strange thing appear! No wonder those human hunters never come to these gray hills."

"Oh, you are really just playing around in the Demonic Nexus."

The pirate shook his head helplessly and said:

"Didn't Spellweaver remind you of the taboos you need to pay attention to when traveling in Northrend? Forget it, you silly blue dragon, listen up, I will teach you something.

When traveling in the Northland, if the locals tell you something is wrong, don't take the initiative to join in the fun.

There's probably something really wrong with those places.

If you hear a strange call while sleeping at night, don't respond.

Even if it sounds like a relative of yours, it definitely isn't.

Don't dig into holes in the ground or anything like that.

The further north you go, the more you need to pay attention to these.

The Grizzly Hills are considered good. The fallen power of the ancient gods cannot be extended here. If you want to go to the Storm Cliffs, with your little fighting power, you will probably go crazy if you cannot survive the night.

As for the tree in front of me, as I said before, it is the sequelae of the stupidest thing the druids did. Those guys who sleep all day just dig holes and plant trees everywhere, and they don’t take care of anything if something goes wrong. Disposal.

Look at what's going on now, it's troublesome. "

While he was speaking, the hippogryph had lightly crossed over the large tree stump below. The pirate and the blue dragon looked down. They could clearly see that there was a "city" in the huge hollow tree trunk.

A real city!

Rings are created layer by layer along the lines inside the trunk. On each ring there are bear huts, staggered up and down, as well as transportation such as tree vine ladders.

Looking at this hollow tree trunk, one can conservatively estimate that there should be no less than a few thousand bear-men living inside.

"The local bear people call this place 'Greymaw Castle'. It was a bear city built about four thousand years ago, but not all the bear people moved in.

There are also some bear tribes on the other side of the snow-capped mountains who abide by the teachings and reminders of the druids and stay in their ancestral mountains.

But there has been no problem here for more than four thousand years, but in recent decades there has been a lot of trouble. "

Blake drove the hippogryph to circle back and forth around the huge city of tree trunks, and said to the little star:

"This should be the Ursine's second city in the world of Azeroth. They also have a Timbermaw Fortress in Kalimdor, which was built during the War of the Ancients.

The Grizzly Hills are the hometown of all bear people, and their gods, the two brothers Ursoc and Ursol, were born in the snowy mountains of the Grizzly Hills.

During the War of the Ancients, the brave bear people followed the two demigod brothers to fight against the demons. Unfortunately, after the collapse of the earth, the bear people trapped in Kalimdor were unable to return home. Now they have developed into different races under the same civilization.

After the god of the werebears died, their civilization could no longer progress. For ten thousand years, they still maintained the clan system, and the same was true for the wild boar people of Kalimdor. "

The pirate said softly as if telling a story:

"The most amazing thing is that whether they are bearmen or wild boars, they are all trying to resurrect their gods, and they have all 'succeeded'.

Successfully made an already bad thing worse. "

"Resurrect a demigod?"

Little Star exclaimed:

“It’s impossible to rely on clan-based civilization, right?

I heard my grandfather say once in a while that the amount of magic required to summon the souls of the wilderness demigods from the Emerald Dream to the material world is astronomical.

Moreover, magical power alone is not enough, it is also necessary to use huge life force to reshape their 'bodies' in the material world.

Not even the green dragon in charge of the Emerald Dream can do this.

How could they possibly do that? "

"You said two things wrong."

Blake corrected:

"First, the Green Dragon only manages the Emerald Dream on behalf of Titan Guardian Freya, not takes charge. Your compatriots who sleep all day long have not figured out some of the secrets of the Emerald Dream themselves.

Otherwise, the breeding of nightmares would not be discovered.

Second, who said that demigods cannot be resurrected without life force? "

The pirate laughed in a strange tone and said:

"The six major forces are equal in origin, and there is no distinction between them.

What can be done in the realm of life, evil energy or the void can also do it. It's true that the bears couldn't find the green dragon to help resurrect the gods, but they could definitely find other people for help.

Why do you think the druids personally destroyed the giant tree of Andrassil, the crown of ice and snow, that they used to save Northrend more than four thousand years ago, and turned it into the broken crown it is today? Looking miserable?

Why did these bearmen ignore the warnings of the druids and move in recklessly?

There's a lot going on here.

If you, a little blue dragon, don't have someone to guide you, you won't even be able to figure out the twists and turns here. "

"Then tell me."

Little Xingxing changed her tone to seek knowledge and said to Blake:

"There are weird things in the bear city down there.

Now that I'm getting closer, I realize that although the bears themselves don't have the ability to set up magical defenses, there is a strange power at work inside this long-dead tree.

If you rush down now, you will be discovered. There are thousands of bear-men there, and it will be useless no matter how hard you try. It is better to wait until night for us to sneak in.

There's still some time before evening, so tell me. "

"It's not impossible."

Black rubbed his chin and drove the hippogryph to land in the sparse forest on the edge of the big tree trunk. The little blue dragon princess followed closely behind. After landing, the pirate turned to the little star and said:

"When you left Azsuna, your granddaughter's slave's grandfather, Senegos, gave you something for self-defense, right?"

"have."

Little Xingxing immediately subconsciously covered her beautiful little waist bag. She looked at her senior with vigilance and said:

"But this is what my grandfather left for me to save my life. You can't just take it out for fun."

"Don't worry, I won't let you suffer."

Blake snapped his fingers and said seductively:

“I promise that as long as you listen to my instructions and use it at the right time, you can get everything you want from the druids!

This is a hugely profitable deal. "

"real?"

Little Xingxing looked at the captain with distrust, and the latter patted his chest and said:

"Of course it's true. As long as those druids want to show their face, they will definitely not refuse any of your requests. If they are shameless and don't give it to you, then I will compensate you, okay?"

"Then why can't I get double?"

Stellagosa's beautiful big eyes flashed with a hint of cunning.

She stretched out two fingers, waved them in front of the pirates, and said:

"I want the benefits from the druid, and I also want the benefits from you. Otherwise, I won't let you use it. Grandpa said that its scales can summon a magical incarnation of it.

As long as I don't offend the demigods, I can escape unscathed, which is a very precious thing. "

"what would you like?"

The pirate said in a bad tone:

"Why didn't I realize you were so clever before?"

"Isn't this what you teach well, senior?"

Little Xingxing smiled like a female fox. She coughed a few times, waved her hands and said:

"I don't want more. Don't you have five Tide Stones? Give me one to play with."

"Tidestone, no."

The pirate shook his head and said:

"But I can lend you a troll artifact that has similar functions to the Tide Stone. If you count the time, you should have that thing soon.

I just want you to keep it and play with it. When I need it, you have to take it back to me. "

"Hey, cheapskate!"

Little Star stamped her feet dissatisfied and said:

"What you said must be about the same power as the Tidestone, otherwise I won't recognize it! If you dare to lie to me, I will file a complaint with the Spellweaver and have you taken to the Demonic Nexus, hung up, and beaten.

I am now the center of Spellweaver's heart. If you dare to bully me, you will be in trouble. "

She took out a beautiful ice crystal whistle with a faint blue ice mist from her luggage, and handed it to Blake. The latter took it in his hand, which was almost like touching a piece of ten thousand-year-old ice.

An entry pops up on the character card with the following description:

Senegos' Dragon Whistle

epic quality

use:

Sound the dragon whistle to summon the magical clone of the ancient blue dragon Senegos to join the battle for ten minutes.

usage count:

【1/1】

"not bad."

The pirate threw the dragon whistle in his hand, and a look of satisfaction flashed across his face. This expression was captured by Little Star, and she whispered:

"Captain, you are going to do something bad again, right? Who is going to be unlucky this time?"

"No no no."

Blake looked back at the big tree stump behind him and said seriously:

"This wave, this wave is for good deeds. Although it is also an act of killing people and selling goods, believe me, as long as we succeed, they will thank us."

"'who are they?"

Blue Dragon asked in confusion.

The pirate shrugged, showed a bewildered smile, and said softly:

"Everyone."