Chapter 124: Forbidden Land of Souls, City of Evil - Herald in the Shadows
After the Battle of Andorhar, I left the Undercity with the intention of heading to the Eastern Plaguelands in search of Darien. Pen Γ fun Γ Pavilion www. ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ γ infoHe chases the defeated Scourge for hundreds of miles east to rescue the Knights of the Silver Dawn, the Plague Resistance Group he serves. I stumbled into Uther's tomb, where I met Lucifer, the angel of the stars. He told me that I had been appointed by the Temple of Heaven as the Chosen One to fulfill my obligation as an oracle to answer prayers.
Subsequently, I met Anubester, the Zerg prince, and Darwin, the goblin scientist. A new adventure is about to begin, and the ultimate evil of the Cult of the Damned awaits us.
Time: Morning of September 25, 23 / Place: Keldaron Island in the middle of the lake - Barov Manor
Best: "What's the sound?"
"Shhhhhh β
Darwin: "Can you understand the scriptures?"
"They speak the language of the underworld, the language of hell. I can only understand a little ... THEY ARE GREETING A... The Courier, the Messenger of the Lich King. β
Darwin: "How do we act?"
"Don't act rashly yet, and see what orders the Messenger has brought. β
Best: "[Boring Worm]!"
Two horned beetles crawling out of the worm tunnel drilled two holes in the wooden door, and Darwin and I each lay on the door to monitor the situation inside.
Since the insect master and the insect share the five senses, Best can be seen with the vision shared with the borer.
The interior of the chamber was a large vestibule with black marble tiles, and there were about forty or fifty people standing in the hall, all dressed in uniform black robes, hoods to cover their faces, and black cloth masks.
The rectors were all facing the same place, a balcony with a view of Lake Dalon Mill outside, but it was pitch black.
The stars were dark tonight, and there was no light in the clouds, but there was not a hint of breeze. Under the stone steps leading to the balcony, a ceremonial jar is placed.
They had been chanting the scriptures, and after about five minutes a congregation came out of the door opposite, accompanied by two men, each holding a dagger in his hand, and the young woman in front of her as she walked. As soon as she walked to the jar, the woman knelt down in front of the jar, and the two people behind her picked up her hair and cut the arteries on the left and right sides of her neck neatly.
The two men grabbed two handfuls of magic powder from their arms and sprinkled them into the jar, and the blood inside was blazing, slightly illuminating the dark balcony.
As the fire in the jar grew stronger, there was a sudden sound in the night.
The black hole-like figure was outlined in the firelight. The messenger was a humanoid bat or bat-shaped man, with smooth white hair up to his waist, a blue complexion, but he didn't look very old, he had bat-like wing membranes between his arms and armpits, his legs were long, he wore a pair of dark tight-fitting trousers, no shoes under his feet, revealing five long toes, and between his belt and trousers were two long-handled hooks with wings, which seemed to be his ultimate weapon.
The congregations all bowed deeply and said in unison, "Greetings to Lord [Herald Kirtinos]!!"
The batman said coldly in a resonant voice, "Excuse me!" The old man took time out of his busy schedule to come and collect the Cursed Sect's Audience to give me the King's Codex, quickly call [Gardin] to come out and give me the Codex." β
One of the leaders of the black-clad cultists hunched over to Kirtinos' feet and said cautiously, "Dean Gardin is teaching, please be calm." β
Kirtinos: "Is he teaching in the early hours of the morning? Does he have roots in his brain?"
Old Believer: "Dark nights can increase the psychological fear of experimental receptors, which is of great significance for teaching, so they are generally taught at night. β
Kirtinos: "****** old pervert, if you want me to say, those delicious human beings, just fucking eat them and get them to fuck so many living experiments?"
Old Cultist: "It's part of human science, and it's better served to the Lich King, Master Kiel." Your evening meal is ready, please go and dine first. β
I patted Best's carapace and motioned for him to plug the two holes with bugs so that the light wouldn't reveal our tracks.
Darwin asked softly: "That bat seems to be of no low status, and its strength should not be weak." β
"We thought the herald was here to deliver the letter, but we didn't expect it to be a letter. I'm getting more and more curious about the contents of the Codex. "If things turn out to be my thoughts, and if the church of Kel'thugad needs to ask the Lich King for something, it's probably to ask for help from the Frozen Throne. If this information can be confirmed and then blocked, it will undoubtedly give an overwhelming advantage to the Justice Alliance forces on the front line.
After the last large-scale invasion, the Scourge began to collapse, and only about a fifth of the troops of the Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor were fighting guerrilla warfare. The reason for this is because the Ice Throne was shattered by the artifact Eye of Sargeras a year ago. Arthas, the Death Knight, hurried back to Icecrown Fortress to take over the throne, taking most of the Scourge invaders with him. The command of the more active Scourge forces is held by Kel'thugad alone, and if he does ask for help from the Ice Throne, it means that the righteous coalition forces on the front line of the Eastern Plaguelands have a head start.
Best: "I'm more concerned about the bat's dinner, do you think it's just vegetable? Bats suck human blood!"
Darwin: "If we want to move forward, we have to go through this antechamber packed with the congregation anyway." It's impossible not to make a move. β
"Then make some big noise! Best, can you scout the terrain and enemy situation ahead?"
Best's expression was always so relaxed, and he said as he bit the tip of his forelimb, "Behind the compartment is a porch, with three small iron doors and one wooden door on the wall. The bat was in the cafeteria behind the wooden door, and the other three small doors led to the congregation's dormitory, which needed to be completely closed to prevent more congregants from popping out of the dormitory. β
Darwin was actually a man who did not match his appearance, and his words and words revealed the unique contagion of bravery and optimism, he was cynical, even when his life was threatened, he took the initiative to accept his responsibility, and he now rushed to say: "I can weld the iron door." β
"Okay, Darwin, give me some of your C5 explosives. I'm going to lure the bats out with an explosion, and then you go to weld the door, and Bester tries to drag the startled bats as much as possible, and I'll save the 'food', and then we both go back to the middle hall to reinforce Best. If there's nothing wrong with that, let's get started!"
"Bang !!" The door in front of us was blown open, and dozens of sect members immediately rushed towards us, with a fierce momentum, and each law enforcement weapon.
Instead of meeting them, we hid behind the doorframe, and seeing that they were about to pass through the doorway, I grabbed Darwin, spread my Cygnus wings, and flew over their heads. The inertia caused the congregants in the front row to be pushed through the doorway by the people in the back row, and their feet suddenly stepped on the C5 bomb that Darvin installed on the ground, and in an instant a deafening explosion sound sounded in their ears, and the congregants disappeared into the foehn wind one by one.
In front of Best stood the golden barrier I set up and the Thousand Insect Barrier composed of the Titan Heavy Beetle, although the golden barrier was burned by the foehn and was riddled with holes, but the second barrier played an absolute defensive role.
As soon as the explosion stopped, Best jumped over the crater in the ground and jumped into the atrium.
The Cygnus wings didn't last long, and I couldn't hold the wings until I flew to the porch opposite the atrium, and the two of them fell down at once. The fall almost broke my fragile little bone frame.
Darwin took my arm offloaded, rolled on the ground and got up, grabbed the welding torch and began to seal the iron door. At the same time, the wooden door slammed open, and angry yells came from inside. Darwin and I were immediately knocked down by the ultrasonic noise of the bats yelling, and it felt like boiling water was poured into our brains. Huge winged shadows followed.
Best then arrived, and shouted: "[Giant Rhinoceros Horn Attack]!" The batman who was flying rapidly was full of the giant worm's single horn, and his body slowed down slightly, and he was not pushed off as expected, I fixed my eyes and looked, and at some point, the bat took out the double hook pinned to the belt and inserted it accurately into the gap in the giant rhinoceros carapace. He stepped back with the rhino worm, and was slammed against the wall by the giant worm, suffocating a large mouthful of blood.
But the thing was far from defeated, only to hear a low resonance in his voice, his hands shook, and even though the double hook carried the tremor of ultrasound, the two pieces of armor of the rhinoceros were lifted, and the tissue fluid kept squirting.
The rhino worm and the praying mantis at the doorway would have died after completing their mission, as Best had injected them with an overdose of growth hormone before they came out. The bat finally pushed away the dead beetle, and was immediately tied to the wing membrane by me with a holy snake, I pulled hard, and used the reaction force to throw myself over, and when I passed the wooden door, I quickly withdrew the spell, straightened my body as much as possible, kicked the bat in the face, turned again, and fell into the wooden door.
Kirtunos was furious and was about to chase me when a poisonous pink moth flew in his face, and Bester shouted, "Your opponent is me!"
The torso of the poisonous powder moth was pierced by the double hook at once, and then the double hook was split, and the moth was torn in half.
Kirtunos: "Grass you uncle! Dare to spread wild on Lao Tzu's head, who are you? tired of being crooked?" Although the words were crossed, the herald's pupils still turned imperceptibly from side to side, and he found that in such a short time, the iron doors of the religious quarters were welded shut, and from there came knocks and screams of confusion.
After Darwin welded the door, he had already climbed on Best's back and patted Best's ass: "Drive, drive!"
I didn't care about their fight, and immediately closed the wooden door and latched it. That's when I looked at this room.
This is a slaughter~~~ field... Countless iron hooks hung from the beams, a blood-soaked red carpet was on the floor, and on the middle dining table lay a dissected female corpse, her entrails had been dug up.
"Damn! it's still a few minutes late!"
There were still five dying women hanging from the iron hooks, they were naked and covered in wounds, it seemed that these were the supper that the sect had specially kept the herald of the higher authorities fresh.
"[Unquenchable LightβHealing Rain]!"
After a lot of hard work, their lives were barely saved. I laid them out in a row and laid them across the table, and I took off my robes and draped them horizontally.
At this time, an unfamiliar voice came from behind the slaughterhouse: "If I had a talent like yours, the experiment could be recycled." It's a shame that your body will soon be used for the study of the Holy Light Cult. βγγγγγγγγγγγγγγγγγγγ (Rabbit pen Kang slugging cow)