10. Infiltration operations
In a far, far away place from Azeroth... Or thousands of worlds away, nay, thousands of worlds away, closer to the center of the universe, where there was once a great civilization who believed in the Light, but who were seduced into falling into darkness.
It's called Argus... Home of the Prophet and all the Draenei, the first race of the Sargeras, the base camp of the Burning Legion, or rather, one of the base camps.
If the existence of the Burning Legion is like a star empire, then Argus is definitely the center of this empire, and the main race of the Burning Legion, Ereda, is displayed on this planet that has died in despair, which is one of the most terrifying hells in the universe.
Looking down from the distant starry sky, there was only a dark green on the blue planet that was originally the same as Azeroth, which was the sign of the existence of the evil magma that was attracted to rush out of the earth, and Sargeras infected it with its infinite power, and death poured out of the core of the planet, burying everything in this world.
This is one of the saddest stories in the universe, but it is by no means the whole story.
Peaceful and quiet, there is only a remnant of the rubble belt in the star field originally full of planets, which is the wreckage of the destroyed moons of the Argus world when Sargeras came, they are like a huge boulder halo, surrounding the whole of Argus, as if they are displayed in the starry sky of Argus in this indifferent way, as if telling some kind of sorrow and story from the past.
This is a testimony of the past.
The green star dots flickered away on the periphery of the rubble belt, and the energy fluctuation was quickly caught by the Burning Legion anchored in the world of Argus, and the starships rose from the ground, and these star fleets that should have been suspended outside the world were anchored on the land of the world of Argus.
Within a hundred thousand light-years of the Argus Field, they had no rivals, and they didn't need to patrol.
But the starship full of reconnaissance demons flew around the entire Argus star field for a fast week, but did not find anything abnormal, in the empty star field, only dense rubble belts orbited around Argus, everything was the same as before.
Engineer Gangar, piloting the starship, turned on the starship's radar for the third time, and 10 minutes later, it swore and maneuvered the reconnaissance starship, made a nice sharp turn in the starry sky, and headed back for Argus.
"Maybe it's just a ray wave anomaly, doesn't that happen often?"
Engineer Gan complained to the ground base, and there seemed to be a shout from there, but it did not stop its return, after all, no one believed that anyone would be able to enter the base camp of Argus, which was already the real hinterland of the Burning Legion!
After another 30 minutes, when the gravel belt rotated nearly one hundredth of a span around the planet, a faint blue fire appeared at the edge of the gravel belt, and then pushed a stone that was no different from these meteorites of different sizes, silently across the entire 200-kilometer-long gravel area, and finally stayed at the innermost side of the gravel area.
Anyone with experience in interstellar travel will be surprised if they see this scene, this is clearly a starship disguised as a small celestial body, but I have to admit that the layer of rock covered on the surface of this starship is simply seamless, just like a real small celestial body, except on the outside of the stone, leaving a row of gaps for the thrusters to operate.
This is a disguise done by the Black Dragon Queen using the authority of the earth, which is equivalent to a layer of stone that "grows" on the surface of the starship, even if it lands directly on the surface of this stone, it may not be possible to find clues.
Well, they are the vanguard of infiltration, a group of true warriors who are alone and in danger, with a 90% chance of not being able to return to Azeroth.
"In this position, as long as we don't actively expose it, we can basically ensure safety. ”
Dressed in a crisp black captain's uniform and wearing a general's hat, Mori Xia breathed a sigh of relief, and his hands left the console, which was full of buttons and joysticks, shining with various lights, and he turned to look at the others in the slightly dim command room, they were all stalkers or rangers in a million, and the hidden rules of secret operations had been integrated into their instincts.
They were the best candidates for this infiltration, but the fact that these guys were always walking close to the shadows made the atmosphere in the ship, which was enough to accommodate all of them, especially after a few girls from the Assassin League and the Warden took this stealth confrontation as a game, and even Senxia felt eerie when he walked in the corridors of the ship.
After all, no one knows where a person will jump out of the next moment.
Today, however, all of them were standing in the command room in their true form, with 132 infiltrators, including the Assassin "Duke" Joraci "Ravenhod", the Warden leader Mavi Shadowsong, Ulduar's Tao Ya, and Mr. Edwin Van Cleef, the Master Stalker of Quel'Salas, Master Velles Deepshadow, MI7 Master Madiath Shore, the Demon Hunter Master Olitus and Kane Sunrage, and the last one was an orc, looking at Senxia with disdain. Kingkiller "Garona."
Behind them were some of the best Assassins who had been recruited, including some druids who were skilled in wild warfare.
They will infiltrate the world of Argus, which has been completely overrun by demons, in batches, and stay there to gather information for the upcoming fleet legions, a process that can last three to four months, and will be a great challenge for both the danger and the skill test of these people.
All information would converge into the ship and pass it on to Dick in Azeroth, where it would be so long that it would have to use a special instrument to ensure normal communication at the lowest level of the spirit link.
However, this is only a task on the surface, and the captains of each team all know the content of the second mission of this infiltration, and that is some of the things that Dick hopes to get the most.
Senxia looked at the people of different races in front of him, but they all came from the same planet and the same civilization, and they were even hostile to each other, but after crossing the endless distance, the distance that only the gods could measure, in this isolated and helpless evil world, their struggle with each other was already too weak.
Only by standing here can they truly understand what Azeroth means to them, and that all grievances don't matter when faced with a world full of malice.
Matthias could even work with Garona, not only for that noble goal, but more realistically, to keep herself alive in this dangerous world.
"Ahem, I won't say anything superfluous!"
Senxia coughed lightly, he looked into everyone's eyes, and whispered, "Although you already have some information about the world of Argus in Ulduar, I hope that you can focus on self-preservation, this is what the World Guardian emphasized before leaving, everyone here is the most important and valuable treasure of the Azeroth civilization, and if it were not necessary for the war, he would not have sent you here." ”
"Once the war really starts, it will inevitably be a lightning raid war, our world does not have so much strength to fight a war of attrition with demons, not to mention that in their territory, your most important task is to find a fast enough and safe passage for the follow-up assault legions, as well as find out the location of each stronghold!"
"I will be here to wait for you to wait for the arrival of the First Fleet, and I am sorry to tell you that if you are in a desperate situation, I will not be able to help you in any way, and you will be trapped in the enemy camp, and our life and death will be in our hands from the moment we fall into the land of the Argus world. ”
Senxia took a deep breath, then straightened up and gave a standard military salute to the infiltrators who were about to travel far ahead,
"Guys, see you on the battlefield! for Azeroth!"
If there was a group of warriors standing across from him, maybe Senxia's action would have attracted a chorus, but here are all real master assassins, and hiding their emotions and not being controlled by their thoughts is their most basic ability, so even if Senxia himself said that he was impassioned, he only received a few eyes with unknown meanings.
But judging from the posture of these people in front of him and their aura, Sen Xia could tell that they were ready, this group of people didn't like to talk, and they were better at answering questions with facts.
So the captain also showed a smile, and then stretched out his hand and waved it gently,
"So guys, get into your landing module, oh, by the way, this journey might be somewhat... Jolt. ”
After 30 minutes, more than a dozen rocks that had fallen from the gravel zone fell under the influence of gravity towards the world of Argus, and hundreds of such meteorites fell every day, especially when those demons activated some high-power equipment, and the frequency of such meteorites would fall faster.
In this world that is already on the verge of shattering, it is not uncommon for meteorites to fall from the sky, even the lowest-level demon imps will not pay attention to those stones that will only smash the ground into a circular crater, of course, if this meteorite falls in a demon living area, or some special area, in mid-air, it will be shattered by the evil cannons on the ground.
In the event of a meteorite damage, the Demon Overseers who guarded the artillery positions were to be beaten with 10 lashes, which was a real torture... In fact, the flogging carried out by those Shiva demons, 10 lashes, was enough to blur the flesh and blood of a demon defender.
However, Dick would not waste the lives of the warriors, he had already gotten enough information from the minds of the Eredar Twins, so that these meteorites would only fall in the Crocoun region, which was once a city of draenei and is now a wilderness of evil energy, which was smashed into an undulating mountain area by the power of Sargeras, so barren that even the demons did not want to stay in that hellish place.
But as a point of infiltration, it couldn't be more suitable.
Mavi stood quietly inside the landing module, she was fixed to the inner wall of the landing module in a leaning position, these landing modules disguised as meteorites were actually an improved version of the landing module of the Hell Paratroopers, which was safer but the experience was just as bad.
However, Lady Watcher didn't care about these things, and when she was brought out of her cell in Shadowmoon Valley by Dick, Mavi still had only one goal on her mind, which was to arrest Illidan, but after joining the Burning Legion's invasion of the world of Draenor and learning about what Illidan and Dick had done, Lady Watcher disappeared for a while.
She returned to the nearly destroyed Watcher's Cave, where she lived alone for 2 months, and eventually, she returned to Draenor to lead Nasha and the Watchgirl who remained loyal to her on her hunt, but this time, not for the Jailer's mission.
Dick had a long talk with her, the Wardens were no longer jailers, they were given a nobler mission, in fact, Prince Makzar, who had fled from the battlefield of Draenor, was finally beheaded by Mavi himself in a one-on-one battle in the ruins of Farrenol, the Void Storm of Draenor.
It turns out that the Watchers who are really back in operation are extremely sharp knives, especially when it comes to carrying out captures and infiltration, and because of this, Mavi and Nasha were also selected for this operation.
The Watchman Lady watched the red number above the hatch beat, her keen senses could feel a force pulling the stone to the ground at an accelerated pace, and at this moment, the feeling of being out of her control and out of her fate made her can't help but touch the rough bone tooth pendant on her wrist.
It was his younger brother, Garrod Shadowsong's 4-year-old daughter, who had woven it to her aunt, and Mavi knew that her transformation was not entirely due to Dick's persuasion, but also to the little girl who had lived with her in the gloomy cave for 2 months.
Thinking of this, a smile appeared on Mavi's face under the mask, and then, there was a rare warmth in the once cold heart.
"I'll go back alive... I'll also bring you gifts, my little Tiffany, waiting for me..."
At the same time, the beating numbers are zeroed in at this moment...
"Boom"
The meteorite smashed into the dark green ground, smashing out a shock-shaped depression, and thousands of feet of dirt flew everywhere, like an aerial bomb bursting on the ground... As the captain said, except for a few "bumps", everything is fine ...