Volume 5: The Elegant Tea Party (Remastered) Chapter 37: The Source of Pollution (1)

Just as the past was sneaking into the water source cave of Ghost Mist Peak, a group of orcs were also groping their way through the damp and dark underground cavern, following the underground veins all the way to trace the traces of Miklash, the Lord of Nightmares.

As the only one of them to have ever been to the Wailing Cave, Canos became the guide, leading the orc team to the meandering underground river.

"I heard you've been here for a few months?" As the leader of this team, the Great Shaman from the Shadowmoon Clan, Nao Zu, asked as he probed his surroundings through the elemental spirits.

Canos nodded, in fact, it had not been four months since he last entered the Wailing Cave with Yu Bin, and for the orcs, this time was a flash: "Yes, Lord Naozu. At that time, it was to stop the Sweetwater Oasis from being polluted by the forces of death. As the Fireblade Clan exterminated the centaurs, someone created a trap for a powerful death force to bring destruction to the Sweetwater Oasis. ”

"So you found the Great Druid Nalarax, and with his help, drove the power of the underground veins and purified those forces of death?" Neozu is very interested in this, there is a lot of communication between the druid and the shaman, and Nalarex is also a relatively enlightened elven druid, if he can be found, it will be very beneficial to destroy the nightmare lord Miklash this time.

That's right, for Naozu, who is a legendary shaman, this time he went underground in order to completely kill the so-called Nightmare Lord Miklash, and prove to everyone that he is the most powerful shaman among the orcs, not the Thrall hiding in Orgrimmar.

"That's a venerable elf!" Although orcs and elves are mortal enemies, this does not prevent orcs from showing their respect for those worthy of respect, it is the nature of orcs, love and hate, respect for the strong, "He helped the shamans of the Fireblade Clan control the power of the underground veins, purifying those death forces, and then disappeared into the depths of the earth, in order to find his last disciple. ”

"I've heard that there was an undead spirit traveling with you, and that he warned the Great Chief through you afterwards, right?" As another legend in the team, Itreg is not satisfied with his brother, Canos obviously has a good talent, as long as he is willing to work hard, he can become a respected sword master like him, recognized by the Warsong Clan, but he would rather hide in Orgrimmar as a blacksmith, and spend all day with those forges and tools, Itreg is worried that his brother will one day forget how to wield the blade in his hand.

Speaking of Yu Bin, Canos's face clearly showed a rare tenderness of memories and orcs: "You say ice language and dry bones? It was a nice little fellow, less powerful, but very intelligent, and unlike those cold, nasty undead. He's my friend, the good kind! ”

Everyone could tell the sincerity in Karnos's tone, and it was clear that the orc blacksmith really regarded the undead as his best friend.

"I've heard a few things about him lately." Itreg didn't know whether to say it or not, he had only recently returned from the Forest of Yongsong, and the Great Chief Thrall had hoped that he would bring the news of the Grand Druid Inalarex to the elves in exchange for a thaw between the two races, but Itreg did just that, and informed the long-eared of what had happened to Nararex after he fell asleep, including the existence of Miklash, the Lord of Nightmares.

The Long Ears of the Eternal Song Forest are very eager to send people to the barren places to find the traces of Nalarex, a great druid is very important to the current elves, but the sudden outbreak of disaster in the Whispering Forest a few days later has forced them to put this matter on hold for the time being, compared to Nalarex, the Whispering Forest, a forest with a large number of elves, is more sensitive to the sensitive nerves of the Long Ears.

Itreg also learned about Yu Bin's name from the elves, and as the culprit for all this, the Ice Whisper Dry Bones, nicknamed the Slayer of the Whispering Forest, obviously made the elves extremely annoying. And now, he learned from Canos that his brother and the undead had become close friends. I don't know if the elves will have any negative impact on the relationship between the two races after they know about this.

"Really, brother? What's the big deal he's doing again? I knew he wasn't a character who liked to be unknown! ”

"The undead you regard as a friend not only destroyed a secret realm sealed in the Whispering Forest, causing the monsters in the secret realm to wreak havoc on the entire Whispering Forest, but also recently turned the entire Silver Pine Forest upside down, completely destroying this timber production area that humans attach great importance to, and to this day, the monsters from the Silver Pine Forest are still attacking Nanhai Town, and those humans have to station heavy troops in the Hillsbrad Hills to fight against the monsters from the shadow plane and those resurrected undead." As the leader of the Shadowmoon Clan, Nao Zu has more sources of information, "I have to admit, your friend is a very interesting little guy! He's caused a lot of trouble for Long Ears and those nasty humans. Hey! ”

Canos rubbed his hands excitedly: "I hope he is safe and sound!" I knew for a long time that he wouldn't pass up a chance! ”

This point, in the process of following Yu Bin into the wailing cave, Canos already understood it very well.

At this moment, a heroic orc thief who was scouting his way nearby ran back and said to Naozu, "Great Shaman, I seem to have found traces of the Lord of Nightmares, an underground cave corrupted by some terrible force, and it is full of strange things. ”

The news brought by the thieves instantly made the entire search team nervous, and no one cared about an undead who didn't know where it was, Itreig took the lead, and Naozu followed, and everyone ran towards the underground cave that the thieves said they were talking about as fast as they could.

With the addition of a legendary-level sword master and a hero-level powerhouse, the search team easily wiped out the monsters in this underground cave, but the scene inside the cave surprised Nao Zu.

The stalactites, which were supposed to be milky white, are now dark, and the dripping stone milk is also full of disgusting smell, and the rocks that rise high above the ground are covered with large and small holes, and the holes often spew out a black gas, and the gas is also full of the smell of decay, like the smell of a bucket of rancid food after being left in the heat for a day and a night, and then mixed by a large bucket of equally rancid things.

Neozu raised the staff in his hand and summoned the spirit of the wind elemental, bringing a breath of fresh air to the cave, but this air was quickly assimilated by the rancid breath, and the great shaman could feel that the air elemental in the air had become extremely sluggish after coming into contact with this breath, and even ignored his orders.

"Gorrik, Ife, Ainzak, you immediately explore the surroundings in search of other corrupted caverns. Take care of yourselves and don't act rashly! Nao Zu said to the three hero-level orcs who were also from the Shadow Moon Clan, and soon, the three named figures rushed out in all directions.

"Great Shaman, have you found any clues?"

"I've fought elven druids, and the most cowards love to use is the power of Emerald Dreams, and the green dragons who always put themselves in the position of guardians! There's something similar in the smell here! There must be a gate to the Emerald Dream Realm nearby, and I believe that the Lord of Nightmares relied on that gate to use the power of the Emerald Dream to continuously corrupt the entire underground cavern! ”

"Dream Stone!" Canos let out a sharp exclamation.

Everyone, including Naozu, had their sights set on the orc blacksmith.

"It's the place where Nalarex sleeps, there's a steady entrance to the Emerald Dream Realm, and the waterhole below is connected to the entire underground vein!" The memory of the battle with Yu Bin reappeared in his mind again, "But I can be sure that the shamans of the Fireblade Clan have closed that entrance in order to awaken Nararex. The Great Druid Nalarex also set up a seal there with his own hands! ”

"Will you still find your way there?"

"It should work!"

"Very well, when Grek and the others come back, we will immediately set off for the Dream Stone! At least that's where we have the best hope of finding the Lord of Nightmares! ”

Soon, Canos found the path he had walked, and the memory in his mind became clearer and clearer, and under his leadership, the search team was fast and did not take any detours, and came to the place where Nalarex was sleeping - the Dream Stone.

To Canos's shock, the underground space that was full of nature and beautiful scenery is now unrecognizable. There are corpses and bones of all kinds of underground creatures everywhere, including velociraptors, fishmen, and many humanoids. Karnos guessed that it might be a fanged druid left over from the original.

The entire cavern was filled with a faint blackness, and even Canos could see that there were several distinct black currents in the air circling around the boulder in the center of the cavern. A figure was sitting on top of a boulder, and above the head of the figure was the entrance to the Emerald Dream Realm, but at this time, the entire entrance was wrapped in black, and from time to time there were streams of breath gushing out from there, and then infected by the black outside, and finally joining the swirling black airflow.

"Lord Nalarex!" Canos was the only one of the people present who had ever seen the Great Druid, so he recognized the other party at a glance, at this time Nalarex couldn't see the appearance of a Great Druid at all, the magic patterns on his face had turned into a strange black shadow, and his green hair was as black as dyed, and what was even more obvious was that there were two spiral horns on the head of this elf!

Hearing Canos' voice, Nalarex slowly opened his eyes, if there was anything else that would convince the orcs that this was a great druid, then these eyes should be the last reason, the pair of emerald green pupils still seemed to be full of the power of nature: "Canos? Didn't expect to see you again here! ”

"Lord Great Druid, what's wrong with you?"

"After parting with you, I found Thrandis, but he has been robbed of body and soul by Miklash, the Lord of Nightmares, and I have to kill him with my own hands and return here! The Nightmare Lord's corrosion of the entire underground cavern was so severe that I had to reopen the entrance to the Emerald Dream and use the power of the Emerald Dream to purify them. But it looks like it's slow! Nalarex seemed to need a lot of energy to control those black air currents, so he spoke slowly, "I need your help, Canos!" Is it a friend from Orgrimmar standing next to you? That's great! I need them to help me keep the Emerald Dream open for the time being, I must suck all the things left behind by the Lord of Nightmares into my body, and then please kill me and seal my corpse and bring him to the Grand Druid Malfurion Fury of the Moonlight Forest! He will have a way to purify the power in my body! ”

It can be seen that even these words made the great druid feel very difficult, and the speed of the black air currents circling around him even increased a little as a result, and the black that filled the cave was noticeably thicker.

"Yes, Lord Nalarex!" Kanos was anxious and said to the legendary shaman, "Lord Naozu, we must help him, if the power of the Lord of Nightmares is allowed to leak out, the entire barren land will be destroyed!" ”

"You're right!" Neozu nodded, stepped forward, and pointed the staff in his hand at Nalarex sitting on the boulder, "Our actions are as important as the future of the Barrens, and the future of the orcs!" Now, everybody is at my command! ”

There are a total of five orc shamans in this search team, and except for Naozu, the other four have senior hero-level strength, and they are also students of Naozu. Thrall originally hoped that after eliminating the Lord of Nightmares, the search team would be able to cleanse the other party of the damage caused to the barren land as soon as possible.

Following Naozu's order, the four orc shamans raised their staffs in unison and pointed to the entrance to the Emerald Dream Realm above the boulder. The orc warriors, including Itreig, also drew their weapons, ready to be on the lookout for possible enemies.

"Now, target Nalarex! Attack! Neozu shouted loudly, and from the tip of the staff in his hand, a bundle of arm-thick lightning arrows wrapped around an orange fireball whizzed towards Nalarex on the boulder.

Everyone was shocked by Naozu's order, especially the four orc shamans, but they had already gathered their strength after obeying Naozu's order for a long time, and when they heard Naozu's order, they simply subconsciously shot the prepared spell at Nalarex. When the spell flew out, they realized what had happened and exclaimed.

"Great Shaman! What are you doing? Canos roared angrily at Naozu, he couldn't believe that the leader of the Shadowmoon Clan would go to great lengths to protect those long-eared people from losing the entire barren land!