27. The Scepter of Quicksand and the Wall of Beetles (Part I)
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In fact, even at the level of real high-level combat power, the existence of the ancient gods can only be known to those who have truly stepped into that invisible circle.
For the innate evil of the world itself, the monster formed by the evil that gathers all living things, the creature that is chaotic, the creature that cannot be imagined with normal human thinking, that is a secret that should not be made public.
Everyone who knows of their existence is careful to keep this secret.
Until more than ten years ago, when the war of the old tribes ended at the hands of Marshal Lothar, an ogre unexpectedly got the favor of the chaotic forces in this world that he should not have intersected, and after escaping death from the tomb of Sargeras, the ogre Gugar came to Silisus alone, and under the call of the dark voice, he entered the sealed wall of beetles by unknown means, and personally met the dark lord in the deepest part of the earth.
The ancient god Cthun, known as the Demon of a Thousand Eyes, gave Gugar new powers and faith, and when the ogre left Silisus, the Twilight's hammer, the cult named after the clan that had perished in Gugar, was founded.
Few people know the origin of the Twilight Hammer, and those who know are wary of the Twilight Hammer, but Dick is the first to really start a war with this cult that believes in the Old Gods!
The war he provoked in the southern part of the Eastern Continent has uprooted almost all of the Twilight's strongholds in the southern part of the Eastern Continent, and if it weren't for the mysterious Twilight Prophet who sent an invitation to the Twilight cultists who were hunted down by the Black Iron Dwarves and the Black Scythes like lost dogs, I am afraid that the southern part of the Eastern Continent would be the first area where the Twilight Hammer failed to infiltrate.
This rare "mass extinction" operation also made Dick's prestige spread far and wide in the dark world, wherever the black iron dwarves and black scythes went, almost no one in Twilight's hammer survived, in the dark world, there were not many such ruthless grass cutting and eradication, obviously, this was because the upper magnates gave death orders.
So in the dark world, in addition to the fire of justice, Dick has another not-so-nice title, "The Bloody Earl of Theramore", of course, maybe Dick will like this name.
Although the Stormwind Kingdom has become the place where the Twilight cultists in the Eastern Continent are most concentrated, at the moment, in the Eastern Continent, the power of the Twilight Church has definitely been compressed for a large time, especially on this day, when the coalition forces gathered in front of the beetle wall, a big man was invited here from thousands of miles away.
"Saint" Benedictas, the archbishop of the Cathedral of Light, the spiritual leader of the entire Eastern Kingdom.
The archbishop was supposed to sit in the rear, but when the invitation from the Grand Druid came to him, he had to travel to the barren land of Silisus, and Benedictas looked at the old Mograine and the Moon Priest Tyrande, who was as noble as he was, and the chiefs and chiefs of the various races standing next to the group.
Even if the saint had any complaints, he could not speak. Now it is clear that this is a gathering of leaders from all over the world, not with their identities exposed, and not just with their own bad luck.
In such a situation, what else can Benedictas do but sigh?
There is a struggle in any big organization, and even upright paladins can fight over doctrinal differences, let alone cults like the Twilight Church.
There are three ancient gods that exist in the living world, but the Twilight Church is divided into four factions, Gugar who worships the Thousand-Eyed Demon Cthun, Lady Sara, the servant of the Thousand-Throated Demon Yogsaron, Enzos, the demon of nightmares, and the strongest ancient god who has long since died, but is said to still have a power seed in the Misty Continent Pandaria, the believer of the Seven Heads of Asha.
Fighting with each other, Benedictas even heard recently that there was a fifth believer in the ancient god Dark Demon Sataras, and he himself was the leader of the Enzos faction, due to the existence of his "colleague" Harvis, Benedictas's identity has never been revealed, but since Dick and his party destroyed Blackstone Mountain, the archbishop has actually suspected that the Knight of the Dawn, the Righteous Flame has guessed his identity.
But in the past two years, Dick has lived too far and simple, and there are always demigods near Theramore, which has caused the three waves of assassins sent by Benedictas to collapse in the sand, and this crusade against the Zermen will inevitably lead to the thousand-eyed demon Cthun behind the Zermen, which is what Benedictas has been avoiding.
If the coalition wins, Benedictas doesn't know if his lord Enzos will be angry, and if Cthun wins, the old god won't let him go just because he is a Twilight cultist.
Hey, that's so angry!
However, no matter how angry Benedictas was, he would not show it at this time, in fact, in the eyes of everyone, the archbishop has always maintained a decent and warm smile, and from time to time he stretched out his hand to give the blessing of the Holy Light to the warriors who passed in front of him, whether it was a human, a dwarf, or even an orc, he could feel the strength of this archbishop.
What's more, it seems to warm people's hearts!
The archbishop looked up, in the yellow sand of Silitus, warriors from all corners of the world gathered together, the sound of their armor swinging made the whole desert seem extremely noisy, the battle flags of each race fluttered in different places, and the whole world made up a full 14W elite soldiers, gathered in the Silysus Desert, this should be the largest war in the world since the Battle of Mount Hyjal!
Under the banner of Lionheart in Stormwind City, paladins from the Kingdom of Stormwind, the Kingdom of Kurtilas, Theramore, and the Northern Frontier gathered together, they are the left flank of the battlefield, along with the Copperbeard Dwarves of Ironforge and the Black Iron Dwarves of Blackstone Mountain.
On the right flank, it was the bright red shield banner of the orcs, the tall orc warriors of Orgrimmar and the dark spear troll warriors stood together, as well as a relatively small number of Mogaure Minotaurs, and a large number of goblin sappers, when Kurtiras's fleet was more and more rampant on the sea, the Rusty Water Chaebol finally chose the orcs who could fight against Kurtilas as a business ally, this time Prince Garruvix also specially sent goblin engineers to help the orcs fight.
Moreover, among the orc warriors, some dark-skinned orcs made provocative movements towards the human side from time to time, and in the previous months, the orcs were located in the Western Theater of Operations, which happened to be opposite to the human theater of war, so the two sides did not be able to spark the battle.
In fact, everyone present believed that if it weren't for the existence of the night elf sentinels in the center, the dragons and the druids, the two sides would have been in a mess long ago, but now, in the face of a greater threat, the two sides that had never quelled the battle had to temporarily put aside their hatred for each other.
Although they have not yet made their positions clear, and although Dick has tried to avoid conflict, the two large camps of the Alliance and the Horde have once again appeared in the rudiments of confrontation under the impetus of world events.
As far-sighted strategists can see, in the near future, these two big camps will definitely start a new war again for one reason or another, and that will be a war with the whole world as a battlefield.
But at least for now, for now, they are still allies who they don't trust, but they have to cooperate with the war.
"Bang, bang, bang!"
The sound of the armor touching the stone should not have been so conspicuous, but under the spread of the mage's amplification technique, the sound was like thunder, sweeping across the entire noisy battlefield, everyone stopped what they were doing, and even those black stone orcs put down their provocative movements and turned their eyes to the location of the beetle wall.
There, there is a large platform, which is said to be the origin of the circle where the dragons and druids sealed the Qila worms 1,000 years ago, and there stands the node of the beetle wall seal, and in order to open the crumbling seal in front of you, you must break the core of the seal there.
This work had to be carried out by someone who could be accepted by all, and in the original history, this work was done by King Sarufar, but at that time, the human alliance was in decline due to the ravages of the undead natural disasters, so the orcs took the lead.
But now, Dick's interference has greatly reduced the impact of the undead scourge, especially since Quel'Thalas has not destroyed the kingdom and the Black Iron Dwarves have joined the human coalition side, the strength of the two sides has returned to an equilibrium point again.
So the Great Druids thought about it and finally gave it to a guy who deserved it.
Dressed in the Judgment Armor and carrying the Sword of the Wind Chaser, the paladin strode up to the Beetle Stand, and the carrier of a gong-like magic seal stood before him, a peculiar metal disc carved with the image of a beetle, which looked like it was made of brass, but Dick knew that even the sharpest weapon would not be able to destroy the seal that gathered the power of the four-colored dragon unless a special item was used.
Quicksand Scepter!
The Great Druids obtained the blue shards of a special artifact used by the dragon to seal the Wall of Beetles, and sent it to the Cavern of Time, the deepest part of the Tanaris Desert, where the bronze dragon recast it into the Scepter of Quicksand.
The Great Druid, who had suffered the loss of his son, angrily threw the Scepter against the Wall of the Beetle, causing the Scepter to break into four pieces, and the Great Druid who had traveled through the world was standing behind Malfurion, Dick could even see him at a glance, but all the attention of the Deer Helm was on the Wall of the Beetle in front of him, his fists were clenched, and his eyes were full of indifference, which was the indifference of killing.
He bared his teeth like a beast on the verge of losing his mind! Even the druids around him could not help but quietly turn away from him, they all knew the tragedy of the deerhelm, and therefore had no one to comfort him—it was a futile attempt that had no effect at all.
After Dick stood still, a yellow vortex of time appeared in the air above him, followed by a bronze dragon about the size of Illanicus, the long horns on the top of the bronze dragon's head gathered together like a crown.
But he is not the Lord of Time, Northdom, but a direct descendant of Northdom, who was involved in the Battle of the Quicksand 1,000 years ago, and lost three of his best friends in that battle, the bronze dragon prince Anaklos, a powerful and majestic dragon.
The elusive bronze dragon Lori Cromi, in front of his eyes, is a real little character, this is a dragon who has really experienced the battle of the ancients, Dick has seen him from afar on the battlefield of Black Rock Mountain.
Anaklos spread his wings to cover the sky, its indifferent dragon pupils stared at Dick below, the power of the same source made him feel the guardian aura on Dick's body, and his eyes softened, but he still didn't speak, stretched out his claws and swiped lightly in the air, and a staff mixed with yellow, green, red and blue light fell in front of Dick.
The paladin stretched out his hand and grasped the cold scepter, which was not a magnificent cane, with a yellow staff, a black handle, a green tail emerald, and a yellow beetle-shaped decoration at the top, Dick held it in his hand, as if he heard the breath of the earth beneath his feet, he felt every trace of wind and sand flowing in this desert, and felt the whirring wind.
This scepter is clearly connected to the Silissus Desert!
The paladins have only now come to their senses, no wonder the mighty insects have been trapped in the wall of beetles for 1,000 years, and it is not only this wall that seals them, but also this desert!
It's no wonder that the great hives of Tanaris, Angolo Crater and Firas have never been able to give birth to wormmen, only the lowest-level xenomorphs! No wonder for 1,000 years, no one has discovered the existence of the worm-pullers! No wonder the first wave of attacks on the world can only send the lowest-level workers!
The biggest reason is here, the bugs simply can't leave Silisus!