13. The green dragon of the swamp of sorrow
Dick really didn't expect this blow!
But now he is no longer the weak chicken paladin who had sparse combat skills and could only rely on brute force and hard steel opponents. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
In the face of the sudden blow, Dick's body subconsciously deflected, retreated, and blocked his left hand in front of him!
The hardness of the silver hand is definitely stronger than steel at present, at least Dick has never seen any weapon that can leave scratches on this silver fist, but it is still a bit too conservative to simply raise his hand to defend, so Dick also launched a counterattack after taking a step back.
Without a weapon, his right hand spread downward, and black vines appeared from the palm of his hand, quickly converging and circling, and when the great force of the black shadow smashed on Dick's left arm, an inky black wooden sword appeared in his right hand.
Holy energy is injected, and the long sword is slashed!
The clothes on Dick's left arm, who had been knocked back, were all strips of cloth, but his left hand stretched forward, and a divine shock was also struck.
"Bang!"
The black shadow of the attack was first forced away by the wooden sword, and when Queen Cang retreated, he was knocked to the ground by this divine shock.
By the time she got up from the ground with a whimper, the wooden sword was not very sharp, but the blade wrapped in the blade of holy light was on her neck, and when she felt the hot and sharp breath, the black shadow did not dare to move, but when she raised her head, Dick's face became strange.
"Uh... Ms. Vilinde, you're... What's going on?"
The black shadow that attacked him was the priestess he had placed in the cellar a day earlier, the werewolf Virinde Starsong.
But the current situation of this werewolf is so bad that people can't bear to look at it directly.
The robe that Dick had lent her was already in tatters, and her original smooth and beautiful hair all over her body had become dirty, and there were several hideous wounds on her body, and the most terrible thing was her eyes, which the paladin had lost its reason in those wolf-like eyes at first glance, and they were completely beast-like light.
"Woo!"
The werewolf with the wooden sword against his neck whined and let out a low threat, Dick's head tilted, and by the dim light he saw the marks of a frantic battle on the ground behind the lady, and the body of the black knight who had been torn into pieces by brute force.
Well, Dick rubbed his forehead, he could probably guess what was going on.
"Well, I'm not going to hurt you! Now I'm going to take you to change your clothes, be quiet, okay?"
Dick flicked his right hand, and the wooden sword quickly melted into his palm, disappearing, replaced by a warm light that flowed from the palm of his hand that tried to approach the werewolf, but this action caused Verinde's body to shrink back from the beastly domination!
The sharp knife-like claws that had just been hidden in her claws also sprang out again, and the worst thing was the scythe that was carried behind her by the werewolf, Dick knew how sharp the scythe was, even though in the game, this scythe appeared as a French weapon.
"Hello, don't be nervous! I just want to heal you!"
Dick hurriedly raised his hands, signaling that he had no malicious intentions, the werewolf tilted her head and whined while looking at Dick, the paladin looked at her kindly, probably feeling Dick's kindness, the werewolf's ten fingers let ordinary people see the claws that would be scared to pee retracted, tentatively, with her furry left hand, touched Dick's right hand surging with warm holy light.
"Whoa~whoa~"
The healing light melted into Ms. Vilinde's palm, and the comfort of the wound being healed made the female werewolf whine comfortably, and even squinted her eyes, this gesture reminded Dick of the Akita dog he used to raise, well, it's really evil to think like this.
Having taken the oil bottle anyway, Dick had to return to Karazhan and ask for a few sets of ill-fitting lady's leather armor from the hunter Artumen, who was stationed at the door, and to give Verinde a bath with the succubus maids who were playing and looking very lively, and by the time everything was ready, it was already the third pole of the day.
In the end, Dick still couldn't leave quietly, and under the reluctant eyes of Median, who was wearing a new gorgeous robe, Dick took the werewolf who had finally regained her senses, and with the blessing of the strange undead, temporarily left Karazan and went to the Swamp of Sorrow.
Of course, Dick with his new mount wouldn't be stupid enough to walk through the misty upwind trails, and his not-so-skilful summoning the astral Pegasus Starhorse, a majestic and beautiful horse carrying a strange combination of a paladin and a werewolf, flapping his pale blue wings that emit a little starlight, running a few steps, breaking through the fog, and flying towards the sad swamp to the east in the cold sky.
Half an hour later, when the fog cleared, and when the green earth appeared in Dick's eyes, he knew that the swamp of sorrow had arrived!
The Swamp of Sorrows was not originally called the Swamp of Sorrows, and the original terrain here was not a disgusting swamp, in fact, according to the history books of the Silver Hand, before the orcs opened the Dark Gate and entered Azeroth, the Swamp of Sorrows was a fertile plain where tens of thousands of civilians of the Stormwind Kingdom lived.
For more than a decade since the Orc invasion, it has served as the base camp of the Orc Alliance, and has been transformed into this form by unscrupulous warlocks and spellcasters.
And after the orcs finally failed, the five heroes of the coalition army sacrificed themselves, and led the army bravely into the world on the other side of the dark gate, this land, which had endured too much suffering, finally quieted down.
On the other side of the southern mountain range of the Swamp of Sorrows, the Warwatch, a military stronghold established by the Human Alliance, stands there, where the best soldiers are stationed at the watchtower all year round, observing the movements of the Dark Gate in the Cursed Lands, a land that is said to have lost its life completely, and where there have recently been traces of demonic activity, in the mountains of the Dark Gate closer to the sea.
It was thought that it was just a rumor, after all, no one would enter that damn place without their lives, but Dick knew that this was not a rumor, the Doomsday Lord Kazak, who missed the Battle of Mount Hyjal, was currently operating in that mountain, and this demon lord accepted the secret order of the Great Demon to secretly forge an evil artifact that gathered the power of the guardian dragon - the Dragon King War Blade.
But the invasion of the Burning Legion has failed, and it is impossible to rely on an artifact alone, so Kazak is now in an awkward situation, and it is difficult to advance or retreat.
Of course, this has little to do with Dick now, and he has no plans to venture into the Cursed Lands recently.
"Restored!"
Slowly flapping its wings, Starhorse hovered in the sky for a few weeks before slowly landing, and under the paladin's control, the noble creature finally landed on the edge of a murky lake, and Dick and the silent Verinde-Starsong jumped off their horses.
The paladin affectionately pressed his forehead to the star's head, patted the horse he liked very much, and then chanted a spell to retract the starball into the magic reins.
"Here... It's a weird smell here!"
The paladin moved his arms and heard Verinde's hoarse whisper,
"I can feel the trees crying here. ”
"So this is a sign that you have awakened to the power of nature, ma'am, listen to my advice and learn the druid spells, you are no longer the priest you used to be. ”
Dick replied casually, only to attract a vicious look from Verinde, who had not yet changed his mind, and he shrugged his shoulders, then pointed to the strange building in the center of the lake, and said to Verinde,
"This is the last hiding place of the Atalai tribe, the exile of the Gulabash Troll Empire that collapsed 1000 years ago, I call it the "Sunken Temple", there is nothing wrong with the breath you perceive, because this land has been corrupted by the power of the evil god called the "Spirit Reacher", although the Green Dragon Legion is trying its best to suppress the vicious changes in the environment here, but to be honest, the effect is not great. ”
As he spoke, Dick looked back at Verinde, who had been frightened to the point that her tail was up,
"Well, I'm not asking you to fight the evil gods, my Miss Priestess, we're here to help a venerable Emerald Dragon, but we'll have to get in touch with the Green Dragon here first. ”
As he spoke, Dick's hand reached into the brown leather bag on his waist, fumbled back and forth a few times, and then grabbed a handful of small things.
Silver-white cards, green liquid crystals, one large and one small, that are the rewards for the completion of the historical node "Tide of Darkness" and the completion of the "Corrupted Root" of the Silver Hand, and the ghost power of Nogannon, after a period of evolution, although there are more and more side quests, the rewards given are all "???" that make Dick's egg hurt.
And after entering the lord level, all the tasks have no direct rewards for attributes, that is, to improve his strength in the future, Dick can only rely on his own training and adventures.
At the end of the Battle of Mount Hyjal, the Paladin relied on a "Paladin - An Eye for an Eye" that turned the tide of the battle, seriously injured the Great Demon, and the reward box of "Tide of Darkness" also gave Dick a card of the same series "Paladin-All Beings are Equal", and the silver-white card surface was painted with a golden scale, needless to say, this is another hole card at the bottom of the box.
As for the green liquid crystal, it's called "Dragon Essence - Revival", but judging by the name, it's a lifesaver.
In addition to these two obvious things, there are also a lot of bits and pieces, such as the loot box given by Illidan, which is said to be part of the Dreadlord Tikdios, but unfortunately Dick doesn't need the delicate accessories that look like the magic energy series, although the thing is delicate and the aura is also very powerful.
For example, the owl iron medal given by Mavi, as well as a large pile of dragon bones of the frost dragon found on the battlefield, and some magic iron pieces that were recovered as trophies.
Of course, when these things are put into the storage backpack, they will be reduced in size, Dick picked and picked around, and finally took out a broken piece of jade-colored dragon scales from those fragments, held it in his hand, and after being stimulated by the holy energy, a green halo burst above Dick's head, like a king-sized neon sign, illuminating the dim sky around him.
Ten seconds later, a huge shadow slid silently from a distance, Verinde's furry tail burst again, which was a sign of her extreme nervousness, and Miss Werewolf squeezed the luna scythe in her hand tightly, watching the huge dragon shadow fly towards them.
Dick was calm, after getting close to the even larger Illanicus, this little green dragon who had just grown up could no longer make him feel oppressive.
The green dragon with its beautiful green scales approached Dick and the two, and in the pale green light and smoke, a male elf in green armor stood in front of them, leaning slightly towards Dick.
"Hello, Flame of Justice, I'm Dmytil, the scout of the Green Dragon Legion, and we've been waiting for you for a long time!"
Dick nodded slightly in a friendly manner, then turned his gaze to the troll temple, where most of the buildings were flooded by the murky lake, leaving only one entrance, and asked in a low voice,
"Is the situation bad?"
The green dragon Dmitil's face was a little dark, "Let's talk as we go." ”
With that, the green dragon stretched out his hand slightly, and a bridge composed entirely of trees and vines quickly spread from the edge of the lake, leading to the entrance of the temple in the center of the lake.
"The power of the Soul Reavers is slowly growing! The worst thing is that the corrosion from the Nightmare has caused many of our brothers to fall into nightmares, which directly leads to a hole in our suppression of those Atalai trolls, just a week ago, another team of trolls broke out of the temple and disappeared out of this swamp under the cover of the evil power given to them by the Spirit Reapers, Lord Illanicus was also pulled into the deepest slumber by the double attack of the nightmare and the evil god, that's why we need help!"
Dmitil led the way, briefing Dick on the current situation,
"The Atal Troll Cults have created an enchantment against the Green Dragon under the guidance of their villain master, and without Lord Illanicus in charge, it will be difficult for us to deal with our brothers who are mad with nightmares, Her Majesty has recognized your strength, and we are willing to believe in you"
Dick nodded, and stepped from the wooden bridge to the top of the moss-covered troll temple,
"So finding a way to break that barrier and help you get rid of those haunting Atalai trolls once and for all, that's my mission this time?"
Dmitil nodded,
"Yes, without the offerings of the Atalai Priests, the Soul Reager's tentacles that penetrate into this world will be severed, and when it will not be able to do evil with the Nightmare King, the stressed Lord Illanicus will wake up and everything will be better. ”