In the Crucible Hall, nearly ten minutes have passed since the battle between you and the dead just now.

"Ahem... Thank you, Great Guardian. ”

The weakened Ignis sat cross-legged on the ground, the scar on his forehead had not yet healed, in fact, because it was a wound formed by the battle between order and chaos, the wound would almost never heal without special treatment, but fortunately, after nearly 10 minutes of hellish torment, the rune giant of the most ancient forger finally regained his senses.

Well, it's not a complete recovery, Dick's still slightly hot left hand proves it, but at least he has recovered most of his senses, the existence of the guardian is different from that of mortals, even in this state, he is enough to rely on himself to suppress the chaos surging in his heart, at least it will not become worse.

Relying on the power of order to dispel a Guardian-riddled Chaos, this is not a simple matter, even the current Dick feels a little tired, but fortunately, his body is also different from ordinary people, only a little time of rest, he can recover as before.

Dick waved his hand in the face of Ignis's thanks, and he stood in front of Ignis, although in terms of combat power, he was much more powerful than this furnace leader, but even if the giant was sitting cross-legged on the ground, the contrast between the two people was like that of a human and a mouse.

"If it weren't for you, I'm afraid I wouldn't have lasted long. ”

Ignis glanced at the building behind Ulduar with some trepidation, and he whispered, "Thousands of years ago, that voice began to appear in the bottom of my heart, I don't even know when I was defeated, it's terrible... It's really terrible, the prisoner has escaped from prison and we don't know anything about it. ”

"That's what I'm here for, Furnace Master, tell me, what's going on inside Ulduar?"

Dick looked into Ignis's eyes, he didn't disbelieve the guardian in front of him who had regained his senses, but there was no doubt that he was still under the influence of chaos, and even the power of order of the Silver Hand could not completely dispel it, and in the face of the radiation of a fully embodied ancient god, Dick was reluctant to ensure that he was not affected.

"It's bad..."

The giant's voice was low, as if he remembered something bad, and he sighed, "2000 years ago, I could no longer enter the inner ring, the high-level guardians closed their halls, even the antechamber and the stargazing platform were tightly sealed, the Iron Council allowed the crazy Iron Legion to destroy everywhere, no one stopped them, they... I don't remember the passage of time very well, I only remember that Mimiron has locked himself in the laboratory of the Spark of Wisdom since that experimental accident, Mistress Freya is focused on his life greenhouse, Hodir has completely sealed off his winter temple with the harsh winter, Torim... By the way, Thorim escaped... I remember very well that he left ... Where is he?"

Dick looked at the giant, and then lowered his eyelids,

"It's a pity that Thorim may have escaped Chaos, but he couldn't escape the conspiracy, Lorcan deceived him, so he's back now, in your terms, he can't escape the corruption of Chaos. ”

"Lorcan! yes! It's Lorcan... That guy caused it all!"

Ignis's voice suddenly grew thicker, and along with the flames behind him, it was clear that the emotions of the person in charge of the furnace were beginning to be angry.

"That traitor! We were all wrong! After Lord Odin left, he ordered the deepest prison to be sealed, at first we thought it was for a better duty to travel, but now that we think about it, it was clearly for some evil purpose of his kind! More than one Iron Soldier had even seen him go into the cage alone, always for a long time... We were so sluggish that we didn't even see Lorcan's anomaly!"

"He did all the bad things, yes! That's it! Lorcan should still be in the Hall of Lightning! I'm going to kill him!"

"Calm down, Furnace Keeper, with the power of the Old Gods, control your emotions... Also, Lorcan is dead. ”

Dick's answer stunned Ignis for a moment, his face visibly sluggish, but then he sat back on the ground, patted his thighs and laughed,

"It's good to die, it's good to die! Hahaha, it's good to die!"

Seeing Ignis's undisguised expression, and repeatedly confirming the credibility of the giant in front of him, the paladin breathed a sigh of relief, he stood up from the stone platform, and waved his hand at Ignis,

"Seeing you recover, this is the only good news, you have a good rest, if you still have the strength left, you might as well go to the training ground to help those mortals fight against the Iron Legion, I'm leaving." ”

"Wait... Mortals have entered here?"

Ignis stopped Dick who turned to leave, his expression seemed to struggle a little, but finally he breathed a sigh of relief, "Forget it, you can't abide by those bad creeds in extraordinary times, but if you still go deeper, you have to take these two things!"

Dick turned his head and saw two things that the furnace keeper had fished out of the crucible on his chest, a grayish-white runestone, and an irregular piece of metal that looked like a handle.

The paladin curiously took these two things, and then asked,

"What is this?"

The stovekeeper scratched his head, pulsing sparks flickering across his fingertips," This stone can control Cologarn, after Odin left Ulduar, Lorcan ordered me to build a rock giant guarding the antechamber, it has no mind, but pure brute force is quite terrifying, at that time I sensed something wrong, probably in the thought of self-preservation, I quietly left this control stone, with it, Cologarn will not attack you again, so that it will be easier to enter the inner ring, but be careful Orlea, my colleague, Ulduar's archivist, she should be wandering inside the inner ring, she must be in the chaos like me, and she is stronger than me！”

Ignis looked at Dick with a pleading in his eyes, "If you can, Great Guardian, please help her, Orlia has a peaceful personality, and she knows a lot of Ulduar's secrets, you will use those!"

Dick nodded, and put away the rune stone properly,

"Don't worry, Furnace Master, I'm not a butcher, so what about this?

Dick raised the metal handle in his other hand, and Ignis's expression became solemn,

"This... I don't know if you've heard of it, its other name, Valanar Ancient King's Hammer, was once given to Yurel Stone Heart by the previous Great Guardian Rai, which was the first earth spirit to be made by the Titans himself, and is also the ruler and leader of all earth spirits, he used this scepter to help the Titans make the first generation of life, and it is said that this is the secret treasure of the Titans, representing some kind of higher symbol"

Ignis looked at the handle of the scepter held by Dick with some awe, and his voice became softer and softer, "In my memory, there is still the shadow of Yurel holding the World Scepter in his hand, and the good-natured earth spirit placed this scepter on the stone, and the stone quickly formed the body of the earth spirit, and also gave him true wisdom and soul, it is said that the spirit of the ancient kings is attached to this scepter, which can bring all-pervasive protection to the user, and even the real "promotion" , and I can be sure that this scepter is from more ancient times, at least before we appeared, it existed, the wisest guardian... I'm referring to Lorcan, who hasn't fallen into darkness yet, and he said that the scepter may have come from another world, from the history of the Great Titans. ”

The man in charge of the furnace stopped, and his voice became sad at this moment,

"But bad luck followed, and shortly after the Titans left, the benevolent Urel died in an accident that we thought was really just an accident... The World Scepter broke and mysteriously disappeared until about 5,000 years ago, when I found the handle in the corner of the proving ground, when the atmosphere in Ulduar was already very wrong, so I didn't tell anyone else the news, but I seriously doubt that the rest of the artifact was still inside Ulduar. ”

Ignis's words made Dick's left hand grip on the handle tighten, and it was a reminder that Nogannon had left him in the last mission, that Valanal Ancient Guardian's hammer was far more secret than it seemed on the surface, and he had imagined that the real world would not be like in the game, where a warhammer would be divided into 30 pieces, but he didn't expect that the first piece was hidden in Ignis's hand.

I'm glad I didn't kill him!

The expression on Dick's face was understood by Ignis as surprised, so the person in charge of the furnace explained the value of the fragment to Dick in detail.

"Don't underestimate it, Great Guardian, actually, I think it's because I keep it that I can maintain my ignorant consciousness until now, if it weren't for it, I might have been haunted by chaos thousands of years ago, just like other Guardians, and in that kind of chaotic brain scene at that time, my only clear thought was to study this fragment, this is a truly priceless treasure, you have to find it and find a way to reintegrate it, I believe that if you are going to fight against Yogsaron, this scepter will definitely give you a great boost, I believe that！”

"Well, I believe it too. ”

Dick withdrew the slightly rough handle of the scepter and placed it in the storage ring, and after a moment of silence, he asked, "Do you have any advice for me about the High Guardians?"

"Hmm... Let me think about it, damn chaos has messed up my memory, oh yes!"

Ignis propped his chin with the palm of his hand, then slapped his thigh vigorously and said loudly, "Freya, yes! Freya-sama, if you're going to deal with the high-level guardians, I suggest you go to the Life Greenhouse first, Freya may still be awake!, but I can't guarantee it..."

"Oh?

Dick felt more and more that it was the right thing for him to take the trouble to save Ignis, this guardian who had been staying inside Ulduar, obviously gave him too many surprises, and in the face of his question, Ignis scratched his head again, and elaborated,

"First of all, Lord Freya was the last to close her hall, and then I vaguely remember that just before she closed the greenhouse of life, she sent one of her avatars out of Ulduar, supposedly to go to the Sauracha Basin to maintain the ecology, which used to be her testing ground, you probably don't know, for high-level guardians, an avatar is equivalent to a wisp of her own consciousness, if her avatar stays in the Sauracha Basin, it means that at least one of her wisps of consciousness is awake, which means that you have a good chance of waking her up! At least much bigger than the others!"

"The most dangerous is Mimiron, how to say, in my chaotic memory, Mimiron's personality has changed a lot since that experimental accident, he no longer uses his wisdom to maintain the balance of the world, but begins to study very dangerous things... His testing ground is also full of wreckage as a result, so if you have to face him... Be very careful!"

"Hmm! Thank you for the information!"

Dick nodded at Ignis, and the stove keeper waved his hand a little tiredly,

"You're welcome, Great Guardian, I should thank you... Wait, let me see your weapon, that sword!"

Dick paused for a moment, but then handed the Windchaser to Ignis, the oldest forger and the first blacksmith in Azeroth's history, and his request might mean something special.

And the person in charge of the furnace took Dick's Wind Chasing Sword, which was equivalent to a two-handed heavy sword for ordinary people, but in his hand it was like a toothpick, he looked at the Wind Chasing Sword over and over, and finally shook his head with some regret,

"It's a pity, it was supposed to be a weapon with a soul of its own, it had this qualification, but the elemental creature that injected energy into it in the first place was too weak, which limited its limits, and it lost the opportunity to become a more spiritual weapon. ”

Dick shrugged his shoulders, he was not surprised by this answer, don't forget, the paladin himself is also a grandmaster blacksmith, he had guessed the hidden danger of the Wind Chaser a long time ago, but Ignis's next sentence rekindled the paladin's hope.

"I can help you modify this sword and give it the possibility to go further, but the Great Guardian, this is a two-sided choice, I will completely empty the original elemental power of this sword for you, let it become a blank slate, its power will drop a lot, and it will also lose its adaptability to thunder and lightning, and you will need to use your own power to infect it for a long time, change it, until it gives birth to its own soul and completes the real sublimation, this may be a long process... Would you like to?"

Dick stretched out his left hand, and a golden thunderbolt continued to flow between his fingers,

"Help me revise it, Ignis, I'm just like it, I'm looking for self-sublimation, and I hope this sword will accompany me to the end... I'm a nostalgic person. ”

The furnace keeper nodded, and he stood up and picked up his hammer,

"In this way, I will help you transfer the original elemental power of this sword to another weapon, it is not a waste, after all, this is the essence of a powerful elemental creature, it would be a pity to give it up like this, you can give it to others. ”

Dick nodded happily, took out a bunch of essentia ingots from his storage ring, and handed them to the furnace master.

"Then just make another blessing of the Wind Chaser according to its shape, my wife's weapon has just been destroyed, and she needs a new sword too, Ignis. ”

"Hahaha"

The hearty chuckle of the hearth patted his belly, "It's an honor to serve you, Ulduar's new master." ”