Volume 2: The Shadow of the Wailing Cave (Remastered) Chapter 39: The Cliff of Eternal Life (1)
Without further ado, Sesk stayed in the Sweetwater Oasis to gather the soldiers and find a way to inform the High Chief Thrall of Orgrimmar, while Canos followed Yu Bin to the underground caverns to find the Great Druid Nararex, accompanied by a few hand-picked orc warriors and an orc shaman.
What they didn't know was that in the deepest part of the Wailing Cavern, a drama was going on that could affect the entire Barren Land.
The underground river at the bottom of the Fangs Abyss is not the only branch of the water veins, due to the underground fountains scattered all over the depths, the rivers in the depths of the Wailing Cavern are crisscrossed, and the environment is complex, and it is very difficult to find the main stem of the underground water veins.
But this was not a problem for Thassarian and his necromancers, who, in the face of Martan's wrath, replenished some of their men as quickly as possible, and carried the remaining supplies with them, and poured into the underground caverns under Thassarian's orders, and began to explore frantically. While Yu Bin was busy convincing Sesk and helping the Fireblade Clan raid the two oases, Thassarian had already found his way to the source of the underground veins with the last of his elite.
However, he soon discovers that this is not a leisurely journey of discovery, and that in the deepest depths of this underground cavern filled with darkness and water vapor, an ancient and powerful creature has become a problem that Thassarian has to solve.
Waldan the Eternal!
Treants are a very special being, they belong to plants, but they have many animal characteristics, and according to different regions and growing environments, treants also have different forms and abilities, but in general, these slightly dull creatures are gentle and communicative.
As one of the descendants of Eugudo Lahir, the first world tree in the world of Ntagre, Waldan can be regarded as the oldest group of treemen, after being eroded by the bottomless abyss and destroyed by the ancient elves, most of the treants left the Elven Empire and scattered throughout the world of Entagre. But the abyssal erosion of Yugudorahir also affected the oldest of the treemen through a spiritual connection, and they began to lose their power and slowly degenerated into ordinary plants.
In order to combat this terrible abyssal corrosion, Waldan found a hidden space deep underground in the Barrens, which is one of the entrances connecting the Emerald Dream Realm to the Entagri Continent, and the power from the Emerald Dream Realm can allow Waldan to suppress the abyssal aura in his body.
And as Waldan settled here, his power also influenced the land, making the once barren land lush, leafy, and rich in resources. However, with the outbreak of camp wars again and again, the power emitted by Voldan's unconscious can no longer maintain the balance of nature, and finally this land becomes a barren land, and Waldan the Eternal also retreats into an underground abyss called the Immortal Cliff, and slowly clears the abyssal breath from his body with the power of the Emerald Dream.
However, the Grand Druid Nalarex who came to the Wailing Cave decades ago almost undone the ancient Treantman's previous efforts, and he recklessly opened the passage to the Emerald Dream and attracted the attention of the dark forces, which not only corrupted the followers of Nalarex and turned them into mindless fanged druids, but also corrupted the Eternal Waldan, making the ancient Treant what he is now.
Rough wood tumors grew on his bark, and his emerald green torso turned dark green, and corrosive sap seeped out of his body, merging into the source of the water veins along the abyss, and the surrounding treants and forest spirits who had been born under the influence of Waldan for a long time also lost their minds, frantically attacking any creature that entered the cliff of immortality.
When Thassarian first saw Waldan the Eternal, the ancient treeman, tormented by the abyss and darkness, went mad and attacked him desperately. Hard, ugly wood tumors erupt like cannonballs, turning even thick-skinned zombies into a mess of flesh after a series of hits, sap mixed with corrosive venom can easily melt ghouls' flesh and bones, and the swarming forest spirits keep Thassarian scrambling.
Fortunately, for this operation, Thassarian specially prepared some powerful undead creatures, the flesh puppet assembled from the corpse of the centaur is the best meat shield, these nearly four meters tall things are not considered undead, but a kind of construct, through the soul crystals placed in the flesh puppet's body, the necromancer only needs to use necromancy to activate it, and no longer need to spend energy to control him.
In addition, there are the Skeleton Generals catalyzed by devouring each other with a large number of skeletons, these tall skeleton generals have bones harder than steel, and their great strength allows them to wield broadswords and battle axes with ease.
The Dark Mage was the only class that didn't suffer much damage in that war, and in order to strengthen these guys, Thassarian had to force the Necromancers to use Death Crystals to evolve several of them into Dead Wizards, which kept Thassarian's ranged firepower from being too shabby.
In the face of the attack of Waldan the Eternal, even the ghouls and zombies were not much better than skeletons, and they were reduced to cannon fodder and were soon abandoned by Thassarian. Three flesh golems stood in the forefront, their nearly four-meter-tall bodies forming a flesh wall that blocked the wooden cannonballs.
The Tree Man and the Forest Spirit, who had lost their minds, stormed the line in vain, turning into corpses under the suspicion of death released by several corpse witches, and the occasional lucky one who survived was also killed by the skeleton general who was guarding the line.
The poisonous sap sprayed by Waldan has become the most effective means of killing, and the surface of the tall flesh puppet emits a continuous snort, and the undead flesh and blood have no effect on this corrosive sap, but fortunately, the flesh puppet is tall and does not have to worry about being destroyed by these sap in a short time.
"Lord Thassarian! We've got to find a way to kill that treant! I can feel a powerful dark force eating away at his body, just kill him, immerse his body in the source of the water vein, and then add our necromancy to complete the master's plan to completely pollute the entire water vein! A necromancer said as he brushed the flesh golem with a death shield to resist the sap as much as possible.
"Of course I do, but you have to find a way to get me close to him first!" Thassarian said with a straight face, those corrupted treants and forest spirits were not a threat, but those wood tumor shells and venom were enough to kill, and Thassarian did not think that he could rush to the side of the eternal Waldan unharmed in such a dense rain of bullets.
"You can slowly advance along the stone wall, so that the flesh golem faces the giant tree man, and the defense in other directions is left to the skeleton generals to deal with, and the corpse witches and dark mages can also use the bone wall to temporarily block for a while!"
Sassarian thought about it for a moment, and realized that this was the only way to get close to the giant tree man, so he had to nod, "Then do it!" ”
The undead creatures had no fear, nor did they have complicated thoughts, even if they were sent to death, these guys without any intelligence would not frown, so under the command of the necromancers, a slowly advancing formation was quickly converted, and little by little along the stone wall towards the eternal Waldan.
This behavior seemed to make Waldan think it was a provocation to himself, and with a wave of his arm, several thick vines swept over like whips, and a flesh golem was swept straight over, and then pinched by Waldan like a toy.
As the ancient tree man tightened his broad palm, the huge flesh golem was crumpled into pieces and fell into the abyss beneath the cliff.
Thassarian took a deep breath, the terrifying destructive power of this treant had forced him to reconsider his battle plan, but he had reached this point, and it was impossible for him to withdraw and rebuild his forces, whether he still had enough death crystals, and the time wasted in such a back and forth alone was enough for Maltan to dismantle him.
"Now is the time for you to be faithful to your master!" Thassarian said to the necromancers, "I don't care what you do to get the attention of that tree man!" ”
"Long live the great master!" The necromancers shouted the slogan of the Long Live Charge, and after scattering, they each used necromancy to attack Waldan, bone spears, death ripples, curses of sluggishness, etc., as long as they could, they all used them in one go, just to create opportunities for Thassarian.
The flesh golems and skeleton generals kept the corrupted treants and forest elves a few meters away, preventing them from interfering in the fighting over there.
In the face of those necromancers who smashed over, although Waldan the Eternal was corrupted by the darkness and the abyss, as a tree man, he was still full of anger at the power of death, he let out a soul-piercing roar at these small beings, and with a wave of his hands, countless vines flew towards several necromancers.
Golden opportunity! It was this time that Thassarian had waited, and once the thick vines were thrown out, it would take at least half a minute to retract them, which was enough time for a heroic undead knight to stick his sword into the goddamn treeman's head.
That's what he thinks, and that's what he does! Through the gaps between the vines, Thassarian stepped on Voldan's arm and rushed towards the ancient treeman's head.
However, just as he ran to Waldan's shoulder, Thassarian suddenly felt something writhing under his feet, and he looked down, only to find that at some point, the dark green bark that made up the treeman's skin appeared except for dark red circular patterns, and the next second, the circular patterns that appeared under his feet suddenly opened and turned into a terrifying mouth with sharp fangs, ready to swallow him.
In the nick of time, Thassarian plunged his sword into the bark of the tree, and with a tumbling effort, he finally dodged the devoured result. But the necromancers were not so lucky, except for one who survived because he chose to dodge, the other three necromancers, although they used their death shields to block the sweep of the vines, were still swept up and stuffed into the mouths of the blood basins that came out.
Three necromancers were killed by this strange and terrifying attack, and Thassarian was sure that this attack was definitely not something that a single treant could have!
If Yu Bin was there, he could see at a glance that this was exactly the trick of the abyss! If the dark forces are only corrupting Waldan into a dark treeman, then the abyssal forces are turning Waldan into an abyssal monster, an abyssal monster that cannot tolerate the world.
There was no time to consider more possibilities, so Thassarian could only move on, but fortunately, Waldan's huge size gave him enough space on his body for Thassarian to move, and at the same time, the huge body and the characteristics of the tree man made it impossible for Waldan to shake his body quickly and throw Thassarian down.
With the support of his sword, Thassarian crawled towards Voldan's head little by little. If he wants to kill this huge tree man, he must first find the core, the tree man does not have a critical point in the strict sense, even if the body is cut off, as long as the core is not destroyed, the tree man will not have much damage, and the tree people generally like to fix the core in the center of the eyebrows or the top of the head, because doing so can make the core enjoy more sunlight, for the tree people, enjoying the sun is their best enjoyment!
Although there was no sunlight at all in this immortal cliff deep underground, Thassarian was ready to gamble that the Treant had not lived here since birth.
Thassarian's tenacity made Waldan very angry, the old Treant had been exhausted by his long torment, and the power of the abyss had slowly affected his mind for tens of thousands of years, making Waldan more and more irritable and chaotic.
Some sharp spikes pierced from under the bark and were slashed by Thassarian's sword, but Waldan's raised palm was not something Thassarian's weapon could fight against. Like a fly, Waldan slapped his hand at Thassarian's part, trying to crush the little bug into a pulp.
Luckily, Sasarian didn't get hit, he judged where his palm landed, and he allowed himself to pass through the gap between his fingers with precision!
Unfortunately, two vines tied Thassarian's legs as if they were capable of auto-homing, throwing the undead knight out of the cliff!
Once Thassarian fell into the abyss, the battle would have to be declared a failure, and he would lose the chance to challenge again, as there would not be enough supplies and time for Thassarian to create these elite men again.
A black sword flew out of Thassarian's hand and struck the stone wall on the other side of the cliff, and at the same time, a chain formed by black energy shot out of Thassarian's palm and tied to the body of a forest spirit.
Just as he was about to attack again, a spear shot from a distance, piercing the soul fire of a corpse witch.
The Cliff of Eternal Life has welcomed another group of guests!