25. The Colosseum of Steel in Mimiron
The land is devastated after a battle, and unless it is a special case, it is rare for one side to win the battle, and in most cases, it is impossible for both sides to win only a sweet victory, which is bound to be accompanied by the pain of loss.
Like now.
Frail Freya on her thorny staff, her whole body was full of embarrassment, standing alone in the middle of a messy greenhouse of life, she looked melancholy at the withered life around her, her eyes full of pain and self-reproach that had regained the blue light of the sea.
"It took me almost 2,000 years to make it all"
Freya's tone was full of remorse, " At that time I had already realized that something was wrong, in the case of Mimiron's accident, Odin's departure in anger, and Lay's whereabouts unknown, the whole of Ulduar was filled with a certain uncomfortable aura, at that time I did not think of the worst, but listened to Locan's nonsense, although I finally felt Locan's eccentricity, but it was too late, after Hodir completely sealed off the Winter Temple, I realized that we had been defeated by the darkness that existed between each other. β
"So your countermeasure is to build an ark of life?"
Dick sat on a half-withered branch, moving his body while receiving treatment from Ysera, in the last wave of explosion, he could not completely dodge, if it were not for the tenacious power of the gods to protect his back, I am afraid that the explosion just now, he would have been injured.
In the face of Dick's inquiry, Freya paused for a moment, and then shook her head self-deprecatingly,
"The Ark? This statement is very interesting but I have to admit that what the Great Guardian said makes sense, after realizing that Hodir's actions were just for self-preservation, I also had an idea, I quietly separated a wisp of consciousness and landed in my testing ground, as much as possible to collect the life samples of this world, to prepare for the very likely purge of life, when this ark was about to be completed, the confrontation in my mind was also nearing the end, that voice and that dark voice crushed me, so I used my last strength, asked the three tree elders to seal me, to protect my ark Unfortunately, it still failed at the moment when these lives were born in Ulduar, it has already been invaded by Chaos. β
"Actually, I'm curious, where did you get this information about the reshaping of the world?"
Dick's gaze fell on Freya's, and he narrowed his eyes, "As far as I know, a high-level guardian of your level should be completely ignorant of everything about the Origin Forge Furnace. β
"I don't know about this either"
Freya sat on the ground, rubbing her forehead, desperately recalling the past, her voice was full of doubts, "I don't know who told me, but I know very well that once the matter of Ulduar is revealed, there will inevitably be a life purge about the whole world, and I am very sure of the authenticity of this answer, so during the period of confrontation with Chaos, I spent almost all my energy on building a life greenhouse." β
Dick's fingers twitched lightly on the branches, and after Freya had finished speaking, he closed his eyes and muttered for a moment before he spoke,
"Then have you ever thought about a question, if the reshaping of the world really happens, all the lives in the rest of the world are dissolved, and only the life in the life greenhouse can continue in the new world, and all the lives here are infected by chaos, what kind of scene will the newborn Azeroth fall into?"
Freya was stunned, the wooden staff in her hand fell to the ground, and Ysera stood directly in place, Dick's words directly depicted an absolutely desperate future, although he himself knew that this could not happen, because even Ulduar could not prevent the world from being reshaped, and that process itself was the ultimate means to deal with the old gods, and there was no such possibility as he said.
But Freya didn't know that the future depicted by Dick had completely crashed her mind, and she couldn't imagine that kind of situation at all, the paladin wiped the purple bark that had fallen off her hands, stood up, pulled out the heavy sword of order stuck in the ground, put it behind her back, tilted her head and said to Freya,
"Looks like you've figured it out, it's not that Yogsaron can't corrupt you, it's deliberately keeping you awake, and then giving you a message to make you unswervingly do what you think is right, and finally completely ruining the last hope of this world It's an ancient god! The worst god, every word, every word is the deadliest venom of the viper, Freya is determined to keep you awake, don't give it a second chance to defeat you. β
The paladin put the heavy punch of Arkavon handed over by Ysera back on his left hand, looked at the Guardian of Life who was not far away from him, stretched out his hand, and snapped his fingers loudly in front of her eyes, awakening the giant,
"Hey, are you awake?"
"Hmm!"
"Are you ready for battle?"
"Mmmmmmmm
"Okay, wait for my news, let's go kill Yugsaron together and put an end to your nightmare once and for all!
"Yes"
"Louder! I didn't hear you!"
"Yes!"
"Good, Good Girl!"
Dick waved his hand with his back to Freya, striding on the dead purple leaves that had lost his vitality and had fallen to the ground, he was busy, and there was an even more troublesome Mimiron that he hadn't dealt with.
And Dick turned away, stepping on the back of the purple earth, but left a thick silhouette in Freya's eyes, the fluttering of the power of the gods behind him, and the shining heavy sword of order, just like a real veteran who rushed to the battlefield, in addition to the heaviness, there is also a real chic.
"Is this the new Great Guardian?"
Freya lowered her head, looked at her hands, and finally clenched her fists, looking at a starry sky, "Rai, you have chosen a guy who looks amazing." β
On the other side, Ysera silently followed Dick,
"Nice encouragement, Dick, he looks a lot more skilled. β
"No, Freya's mind should be the most vulnerable among these high-level guardians, this has something to do with her fighting style, you also saw the battle just now, but as long as one is stronger, the two of us will not be able to survive the final counterattack, so I must give her a psychological defense in advance to avoid encountering accidents in the decisive battle. β
"So, you're lying to her, including the future that scared the hell out of me?"
"Of course, how could the Creator allow the Old Gods to continue to exist? Life reshaping is a very serious matter, it is the last resort to deal with the Old Gods, to give our Titans a little confidence, they are omniscient and omnipotent, it is not as simple as we think. β
The paladin raised his head and glanced at the starry sky above his head, the secret of the wall of stars, he didn't intend to reveal it to anyone, this world needs to keep the pressure on to move quickly, the paladin has no intention of being alone to resist that burden, the future of this world requires the participation of every life, he would rather be one of a group of maned dogs than a lion leading a flock of sheep.
Fifteen minutes later, Dick and Ysera's figures appeared at the edge of the teleporter of the spark of wisdom, and the other three dragon kings had not yet arrived, and it seemed that there was a little problem on the side of Hodir, but the paladin looked up at the deep tunnel in front of him and shook his head,
"I'll clean up these machine sentinels first, you're waiting here for the other dragonlords!, but be careful, this is close to sealing Yogsaron's Insanity, be careful of how it interferes with your minds. β
Ysera nodded and made an OK gesture to Dick, "Don't underestimate us, Paladin, as Nozdorm said, we're not as fragile as you think!"
"I hope so!"
Dick walked into the tunnel in front of him without looking back, after stepping into the darkness, his vision was a little darker, but long ago, the darkness could no longer stop his progress, after seeing the sounds in the corner, the paladin took the heavy sword of order from his back, and with his right hand outward, a divine shock sprinkled all over the road in front of him like the bright moonlight that lit up in the dark night.
The scorching light shot the spider-type robot hiding in the corner and trying to sneak attack almost front and back, the energy core was blown up, it didn't even have the ability to self-detonate, and the other various and strange-looking mechanical creatures piloted by the mechanical gnomes suddenly fell from all directions, even the sky overhead, and the sound of missiles, flames and explosions accompanied by the noisy sound of battle tore apart the quiet thoughts in this passage almost instantly, making Dick feel like he was in a hot weapon battlefieldγ
However, looking at the appearance of himself wearing armor and holding a heavy sword, it didn't match it no matter how he thought about it, and then, the paladin shook his head, expelled this indifferent fantasy from his mind, and the long sword in his left hand fell into the air, and the next moment, his figure disappeared in front of the mechanical creations that were pouring bullets and explosives towards Dick in a golden lightning jump.
"Boom"
The golden sword pierced the core of a bipedal robot, and the beating lightning caused a chain explosion that swept all the surrounding mechanical gnomes inside.
"Hey, stupid bipedal robot!"
The thunder jumped again, and a spider tank that was frantically swinging golden bullets towards the empty sky in front of it was cut in two pieces from the center, and the dazzling light vibrated violently in the darkness, and before the fire disappeared, the shield robot in the other direction was cut off by a lightsaber.
Golden thunder and lightning ran rampant in the rain of bullets, these Mimiron clans, with an army of steel made of unimaginable engineering attainments, could combine to slaughter an entire legion, but they were meaningless to Dick, even if he stood in place, these robots could not penetrate his shield, so soon, Dick completely lost interest in this one-sided slaughter, his figure appeared in the center of the corridor, the long sword on the ground, his left hand slightly raised, the golden, scorching, enough to melt the steel holy flame rose around his body, like a firestorm, bigger and bigger, finally, under the manipulation of Dick's willThe golden flames rushed out in all directions, engulfing everything in their path.
It was like an irresistible storm sweeping across the corridor, and when Dick's flames dissipated to the last of the beating sparks, all that was left in the corridor was a piece of molten iron and a miserable residue.
"Meaningless"
Dick turned his sword behind him and strode down the diagonal staircase, at the end of which was a large, brightly lit palace where Mimiron's large laboratory was located.
He was supposed to stop here and wait for the dragonlords' help, but for some reason, Dick finally hesitated in place and quickly walked into the palace.
But unlike the game's lab, which is full of mechanical artifacts, Dick doesn't find anything of value here, to be precise, nothing here, just a cold, steel-sparkling energy transmission device that seems to have been emptied.
No Mimiron, no Flame Vajra, nothing
He fell for it hook line and sinker!
Bastard!
Dick's brow furrowed tightly, if Mimiron wasn't here, then where was he? and most importantly, where to find those two fragments that only he knew the place of, the fragments of the hammer of the ancient kings?
The paladin walked to the very center of the big palace, where there was a blue energy well, which was covered with dust, but there seemed to be some characters, Dick looked at it, then squatted down, reached out and wiped the dust off the energy well, and saw the characters on it, it was Titan, it looked crooked, and there were some grammatical errors, and it seemed that the mind of the person who engraved the word was no longer clear.
"Haha, you've been fooled! Look up at the sky!"
Dick's first reaction when he saw these lines was naturally not to raise his head, but to turn into thunder and lightning all over his body, trying to leave this ghost place, but the area around the palace, which was empty just now, was still blocked by an invisible barrier, and even thunder and lightning could not penetrate.
The paladin's body appeared a little backwards, and with a wave of his hand, a solar spear stabbed at the barrier in front of him, but after the dazzling explosion, it failed to penetrate it, and at that moment, a high, high, madman-like voice sounded behind him, accompanied by a damn, loud music.
"Haha! The first fool to be tricked by Mimiron's trap!"
"But it's okay, have fun!"
"Welcome to the Colosseum of Steel in Mimiron, Intruder, come and delight me with your battles and blood!Flesh and BloodWell, it should be the product of a flesh curse, but it's okay~ I like to watch battles! I like to watch the world burn! Let it burn!"
"Your first opponent!Flame Behemoth!Yes, I've shrunk it, it's my personal version of the Flame Behemoth!Trust me, you'll love it, if you can't be crushed by it, hahahaha! I'm looking forward to it!"
"Let the hot battle begin!"