Chapter Eighty-Three: The Scepter of Quicksand
Despite the suspicion and distrust of each other, the fragile alliance was still in place, and after the Zerg counterattack in the Alpine Fortress ended, the coalition continued to move south. Barren Lands, Thousand Needle Stone Forests, Angolo Crater, where Ares sees some of the strangest landscapes in Azeroth.
The Thousand Needles Stone Forest is still the appearance of land, countless stone pillars rise from the ground, bare without any vegetation, only a few streams run through the valley, dotted with green trees and green grass. Along the way, the warriors of the Horde and the Alliance relied on these babbling streams for water, and the terrain reminded Ares of the karst landscapes he had seen on Earth in his previous life. That's what it looks like.
But the rest of the coalition didn't have the time to enjoy the scenery, and Thrall closed his eyes all the way, as if he was communicating with the elemental spirits and getting information. Dai Lin, on the other hand, took the map along the way, repeatedly scrutinizing and researching. The admiral left the sea, feeling unsafe after all. Land warfare was not his strong suit, and the Alliance's armies were no stronger than the Horde, so he needed to pay double his attention to this war.
Jean and Reginald talked to Egwen along the way, sharing some necessary knowledge. It's Gianna, and it's still Ares who follows wherever she goes......
The way Gianna grabbed her skirt and hurriedly sheltered from the rain in the torrential rain reminded Ares of the scene when he was in the Silver Pine Forest on the Eastern Continent many years ago. A light cloth shirt and a turquoise cloak with Dalaran's magic pattern were all she wore to her outfit.
Along the way, the coalition forces encountered many bugs, but they were not infested in groups, but appeared sporadically, like lone bugs. Not surprisingly, they were all dismembered and chopped into pieces by the coalition forces, and the hatred of these Horde and Alliance warriors for the bugs could be felt by their ferocious attacks.
On the tribal side, some orcs and trolls even study how to grill and cook bugs after killing them...... This kind of heavy taste made the alliance soldiers hide their noses and despise.
But on the other hand, it also shows the tenacious survival ability of the tribe, and when food is scarce, they can swallow anything......
Finally, after a long three-month trek, the coalition forces finally reached the southernmost point of Karimdor, the Silisus Desert, where the Angela swarm haunts.
The environment here is drier and hotter than the Tanaris Desert in the east. There is not a trace of vegetation in the vast sandy sea, and the high temperature can dry every trace of moisture here.
Standing in the desert, the world around him desolate, with only the rustle of the sand blown by the wind, Ares can finally understand why that battle a thousand years ago was called the Battle of Quicksand. Here, you won't see anything but flowing sand pits.
There is only one color in heaven and earth, and that is the dazzling yellow of quicksand.
Crossing the desert is an extremely painful thing, especially in the absence of camels, which are the artifact of desert transportation, the human war horses are exhausted, and the orc wolves are also not happy, their thick fur was originally a weapon against the cold, but here, it has become a burden. The heavy fur makes it difficult to dissipate the heat in the body, and dozens of orc wolves can be seen directly exhausted to death on the sand dunes as they cross the desert.
The orc warrior reluctantly said goodbye to his companion and continued on his way. There is only one goal in everyone's hearts - the Temple of Angela, hidden deep in the desert.
Even in the heat, some soldiers faintly saw a city, a desert city built in an oasis. However, both Sal and Ares knew that it was a mirage. According to the word on Earth, it was a mirage.
Some of the tribal warriors could not resist the heat, broke away from the group, and tried to walk towards the "oasis in the desert", but were dragged back by Thrall and severely punished......
A few days later, in the midst of the wind and sand, the crowd saw a magnificent megacity. It should be said that it is a huge city surrounded by countless vines and rubble.
Angela Temple...... Ares was pleasantly surprised, this giant city hidden deep in the desert was even older than the continent of Karimdor itself.
And the huge wall lying in front of the city shocked everyone.
It is like a huge wall made of countless insect carapaces, and countless layers of scorpion-like skin are stacked on top of each other to form this impenetrable wall of scarabs. The closer I got to it, the more I marveled at its scale. The height is almost inaccessible to any siege weapon. Even the tallest siege tower in the alliance is only half its height.
The wall of beetles is not made of any building materials, which means that the number of beetles required to build such a wall is simply unimaginable. At this point, Ares can imagine the horrors of the entire Angela Empire. The scale of the battle a thousand years ago is unimaginable. Even the dragons were overwhelmed by the sheer swarm......
At the same time as the Wall of Scarabs, there was an army of strange equipment and an equally large scale. Ares recognized the creatures immediately. Like the creatures they had seen in Talondor before, they were equipped with curved moon blades, half-moon shaped irises shields, they didn't wear much armor on their bodies, they were almost always lightly armed, and all parts of their bodies were tattooed with all kinds of strange tattoos. Each soldier looked well-proportioned, strong and powerful, split equally male and female. They are undoubtedly Night Elves......
The Alliance soldiers, who had seen the Night Elves for the first time, immediately became nervous, and discharged their shield array under Dalin's orders. And the night elf troops on the opposite side also drew their bows at the first time.
The scene was tense at one point. It wasn't until the leader of the Night Elf forces met with Thrall that the misunderstanding was resolved.
It turns out that long before the Alliance and the Horde formed an alliance, the Night Elves had discovered the dark power that was looming beneath the Temple of Angela. And learned the fact that the seal of the Angela Empire was incomplete. At this moment, the Night Elf troops arrayed outside the Scarab Wall were preparing to launch a battle with the swarm again.
However, fortunately, before the war began, they waited for two other important forces in the world - the Horde army led by the Grand Chief Thrall, and the Alliance Legion led by Admiral Dalin.
The strength of the Kalimdor coalition is unprecedented. The shattered quicksand scepter seemed to have been reassembled and held in the hands of some of the older Night Elves. She is the Night Elf priestess Hiloma who participated in the Battle of the Quicksand......