6. Insect plague --- add more for the blowing snowflakes Wakaba brothers!
The Palace of Theramore is now in shambles!
When the purple-black crystal smashed through a room and hit the ground, it caused only a small commotion, when Dai Lin was talking to Kalia, the admiral was a veteran of the brutal orc war, he was not even interested in looking at it, and Princess Kalia only ordered the guards to carry it away, so as not to disturb the interest of the distinguished guests. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
In fact, when the hive crystal is not activated, it still seems to be harmless to humans and animals, and the hexagonal crystal slowly suspended above the ground also has a special beauty.
Underneath that beauty lies an abyss of despair.
A brave Kurtilas sailor drew his sailor sword, and in the other hand held a dwarven musket, and around him, a dozen or so heavily armed guards, surrounded the crystal.
No one felt worried, because the crystal really didn't seem to be dangerous, but at the moment when the sailors approached, the scene of the crystal melting appeared again, and seeing the black insect tide surging in all directions, these elite soldiers reacted slowly, and then a black screaming death enveloped the audience.
By the time Erigor, who was in charge of guarding the palace today, had reacted, one-fifth of the palace was already filled with the insects that had been nourished by enough flesh and blood to grow into a whole body.
They are like beetles that have been magnified more than ten times, but they are very deformed, the biggest feature is their wings hidden under the black carapace, and six curved, slender and powerful sharp long legs, their sharp legs step on the ground, making a clicking sound, they are marching in silence, sweeping everything in sight, when they encounter obstacles, their mouthparts that are enough to scare crying adults sway back and forth, and the sharp sound is like a nightmare from hell.
These bugs are quick and sensitive, and the minions who hide in the corners have not escaped their pursuit, these crazy creatures always rush up and tear the poor people to pieces, and after the first batch of workers who have grown, there are also black larvae that burrow into the corpses of the poor people who have died, and in less than a few minutes, the flesh-soaked larvae tear open the corpses and join the frantically sweeping workers.
"What are you waiting for!Attack!Kill these monsters!"
Dai Lin, who rushed to hear the news, saw the dense insects, and stood in front of Kaliya, who was a little weak, with an arrow step, casually dodged the spear in the guard's hand, slammed the trigger, and smashed the head of the fastest insect man into a disgusting ball of flesh, and the other guards got the order, and immediately drew their weapons to rush over, but were stopped by a dozen watchmen who jumped out of their shadows.
"Go back! You can't deal with the worms! Get out of the way, get out of the way!"
Nasha is a watcher who has personally experienced the Battle of Quicksand 1,000 years ago, and from the time she witnessed the crystal fall to the ground, the watchman who was still resting in the camp knew that something was wrong, but she was still one step too late with the watcher!
For her current leader of the knights of the inner court, Nasha, Kalia is absolutely convinced, she grabbed Dai Lin's arm as soon as possible, and said urgently,
"Uncle Dai Lin, go back! I believe Nasha!"
Dai Lin's sword-like white brow furrowed, and he turned his head to look at the watchmen who were shuttling through the shadows, their knife wheels slashing several insects with each dance, and although their figures were scattered, they were obviously purposefully killing some insects that didn't look different.
In just a dozen seconds, those indomitable bugs became chaotic under this decapitation attack.
With a wave of the admiral's hand, the sailors immediately retreated not far away, while the musketeers lined up in two rows and began to use their dwarven muskets to kill the insects that were caught in the confusion of command, while the others helped the royal court guards of Theramore to build a temporary defensive line.
"These elves obviously have experience fighting these monster bugs!
Dai Lin touched her chin, lowered her voice, and said to Princess Kalia, "These fierce warriors are the godlike watchmen who are spread outside?"
Kalia nodded, and while watching the battlefield intently, little Anduin couldn't help but touch the hilt of the sword on his waist, but it was obvious that unless the guards here were all killed on the spot, there was no possibility for the little prince to go into battle in person.
"Buzz~!"
The white portal shattered, and Dick, who had rushed back from the sea, breathed a sigh of relief when he glanced at the intact crowd, and then joined the battle with the sword of the Brotherhood, while the eldest lady stood behind to support.
Under her control, a small blizzard remained in the battlefield in front of Dick at all times, and the cold hail and icicles fell to the ground, greatly slowing down the rhythm of the bugs' attack, especially after the two water elementals who were not afraid to bite at all joined the battle, the bugs' attack was blocked for the first time.
Compared to the precise killings of the watchmen, Dick's fighting style is much more brainless, the blades on both sides of the sharp sword of the Brotherhood are burning with golden holy light blades, and the scorching risk aura is always maintained under his feet, when the punishment aura and the protective aura are opened, the weakest worker insect of these Qila worms, even Dick's body can't get into, and it will be pierced by the scorching holy light.
But for the insects, it is never their weapon in the battle of the individual, there is only one weapon for them, and that is quantity!
Although the Warden had already slain many high-level workers, when another mysterious will took over the chaotic swarm, these swarms, which had been temporarily blocked in the way, became a whole again, like all the power of a river concentrated on one point, and Dick's situation immediately became precarious.
"Bang!"
A compressed divine shock left a white glow in the eyes of the others, and the powerful blow made a gap in the insect's regrouping line, and Dick's voice rang out,
"Nasha, go find the brainworm!
The watchman who was stabbing an emerald green dagger into the brain of the rampaging senior worker flickered for a moment, and then immediately turned and jumped into the shadows, 1000 years is too long, so long that the watcher has almost forgotten what the brain worm means to these worker worms.
The watcher blew a whistle, and the other half of the watchmen followed Nasha into the shadows, losing their continuous suppression, and the pressure on Dick and the Kurtilas sailors who pressed the formation suddenly became much greater, and almost every minute there were unfortunate soldiers who were dragged into the insect tide, but Dick, who had experienced so many battles, was not a vegetarian in the end, and soon, the paladins in heavy armor quickly entered the battlefield under the leadership of Liadrin.
Heavy armor is no different from paper for the full-time combat Qila worm, but what appears in Theramore at the moment is only the lowest-level worker worm, so with the defensive power of heavy armor, the paladins wielding heavy weapons quickly used their bodies to block their pull worms from the side hall of this palace.
Under the order of the eldest princess, the mages of Theramore have also used spell enchantments to surround the entire palace and prevent these killer insects from spreading in Theramore.
In fact, if it weren't for the reminder of the watchman, if the guards had been allowed to rush up and fight those insects recklessly, it would probably have been lost to most of the palace by now, and the ferocity and madness of these insects, the scene of dense rushing in all directions, made all those who watched that scene a little frightened.
The fierce battle lasted for nearly thirty minutes, and the entire silver dawn and the soldiers of the Fourth Legion, urgently equipped with heavy armor, almost filled the palace, and with the fire support of the priests and mages, they lost more than 150 men, and it was only then that the Chira insects were slaughtered.
After the battle was basically over, nearly twenty minutes later, Nasha, who was chasing the brain worm, sent a signal, which really announced the end of this insect plague.
But the end of the plague in Theramore does not mean that the plague is over elsewhere.
In the wilderness of Durontar, the Orc Chieftain Guard, known as the Kukaron Guard, was urgently dispatched to carry heavy axes and long knives in their hands, and under the command of the Vallock Overlord, they blocked the open space at the gate of Orgrimmar.
Compared to the narrow battlefield of the King of Theramore's Palace, in this dark red wilderness, the Qila insects that formed a whole really showed their strength, and in the face of the most crazy attacks of the orcs, these insects not only did not retreat, but further compressed the defense line of the orcs.
The frantic and noisy cries and the sound of flesh and blood shattering made the battlefield like a ghost, and at the height of the battle, the wolf cavalry was also sent out to attack the bugs' lines from the rear, and the goblin airships also flew out of Orgrimmari, and the lightly trained orc bombardiers lit the engineering black powder bombs made by the goblin merchants with torches fixed to the airships, and threw them on the heads of the bugs continuously.
But no matter what kind of attack it is, it can't make these bugs retreat, and they don't even have a cry of fear.
The orcs were in a better situation than Theramore, only one hive crystal fell on Durotal, but the city of Theramore was attacked by two crystals, and if Dick hadn't destroyed the first hive crystal before it could grow, Theramore would have definitely fallen into chaos by now.
But on the other hand, the orcs had bad luck, because the crystal fell on the most central wasteland of Durotar, and the orcs were not prepared in the early stage, so when the bugs, who had devoured too many beasts and were fully developed, rushed towards Orgrimmar, a real bloody battle began.
After a worm hive crystal is completely egged, at least nearly 20,000 worker insects can be pieced together, and this terrifying scale, coupled with the command of the brain worm hidden in the center of the crystal, can already make an entire area into a no-man's land.
Now, Thrall stood solemnly on the walls of Orgrimmar, the elemental spirit allowing him to look beyond the black line of the insects and see the scene beyond.
It was Durotar, the even more desolate Durontar, except for the emergency retreat to Orgrimmar's Razor Ridge stronghold, the entire dark red land, a desolation, full of flesh-gnawed skeletons, even including the lair of those powerful thunder lizards that no one dared to provoke, there was only a blank silence.
These black bugs... They destroyed everything in their path! Even the fish in the Nushui River were gnawed clean.
"Cui Yige, you should be taking care of the wounded, is there something going on?"
Thrall retracted his gaze, the joy of the good news from the Eastern Continent had been completely dissipated by the sudden appearance of the insects, he raised the war hammer in his hand, and drew a blue lightning bolt from the sky, blasting the line of the insects out of a gap, while turning his head to look at his hurried brain.
This is the old orc Cui Yige, who had a friendship with Old Fording back then, and in the face of Sal's inquiry, he quickly replied,
"Great Chief, Chief Woking is gone! The letter he left says that he took the Troll Headhunters to hunt down a monster called the "Brain Bug", which is said to be the mastermind behind all these bugs, and Chief Woking asked me to tell you that the disadvantage of these bugs is that they are not magically resistant! And let's not let the recruits go to their deaths, which will only increase their number!"
"Huh?"
Hearing this, Sal's eyes lit up, he muttered for a few seconds, then turned to Trieger and said,
"There are relatively few shamans on our side who can fight, so I need you to secretly go to the Shadow Rift and bring those imprisoned fireblade sorcerers here!