Chapter 38: The Altar of Blood
Inside the dark castle, fiery red light mingles with dark green evil energy, reflecting the terrifying scene inside the Hellfire Fortress. Here, roars and wails often ring in your ears, and the loud sound of the chains whipping against the flesh is enough to stimulate the sensitive nerves of the weak. Beneath his feet was a floor scorched by flames, and a source of evil energy flowed around the fortress, boiling and burning, emitting a sickening, pungent smell. It's hard to imagine how orcs survive in such an environment? Of course, perhaps the orcs who served here are no longer true pure-blooded orcs, they are just evil orcs with twisted souls.
"Wait......"
Walking through a corridor full of rotting corpses against the corner, Valeera stopped Brower in time, and the cheetah's feet stopped in midair, and then Valeera cautiously walked to Browl's side and crouched down.
Her little hands began to check the floor beneath the cheetah's feet, and a trap hidden in carrion was removed. Only the hair-thick trigger rope was slowly withdrawn. At this time, Broll and the stalkers behind him breathed a sigh of relief.
It's someone else, and you can't find it at all, but fortunately there's Valeera here.
After disarming the trap, Valeera and Browl, along with a group of Stalker Assassins, arrived in a room made of steel and stone. With her keen observation, Valilla immediately sensed that this might be the final destination of their trip - the room of the orc leader of the Hellfire Fortress. It's just that, unexpectedly, the leader of the evil orcs who rules and commands this fortress does not seem to be a brave orc warrior, but a slumped warlock, an orc warlock.
And this room is not an ordinary room, it is like a closed laboratory, or a secret room altar. Blood flowed down the huge platform in the center of the room, and several orc warlocks walked back and forth around the altar like priests, and Valera and Browl cautiously took a step closer, and could see a living creature lying on the altar, bound to the altar like a lamb to the slaughter, writhing in pain, struggling, but each time he struggled, blood flowed from its body.
From a long distance, Valera could smell the smell, it was the smell of blood.
Immediately after, a desperate roar erupted from the altar...... All the stalkers who entered the room heard clearly, it was a human cry...... Yes, it was a human warrior who was being bled on the altar. Valira suddenly understood that the human captives they had just seen trapped in the iron cage along the way might eventually be sent here to become raw materials for the Orcs to conduct various experiments!
And under this altar, there may be a portal connected to it, and the evil orcs kill the captives and perform living sacrifices to maintain the stability of the portal. This is the key to the entire Hellfire Fortress, even if the outside is heavily guarded, when the time comes, the alliance will attack the city, and only need to capture this place to completely curb the demon's teleportation.
Valera winked at Brohl, and both quickly understood what the other meant. Now that the reconnaissance mission is complete, it's time to go out and report back to Varian and Ares.
The fortress had been almost figured out after two days of scouting, and the huge Hellfire fortress seemed impregnable and large, but in fact, the upper layers of the fortress were bluffing, and all kinds of fang-like fortifications made the attackers mistakenly believe that it was the core military area of the fortress.
In fact, the real core area of the fortress is on the lower level, which is the main passage for all kinds of materials to enter and exit the Hellfire Fortress, and it is also the location of the leader of the evil orcs, and even the area where the demon portal is located. As long as the alliance conquers this place and kills the orc leader of the Hellfire Fortress, the orc forces of the entire fortress will be leaderless and scattered. The altar is the key to maintaining the stability of the portal, and when the time comes, if you search carefully, you will definitely find the demon portal hidden beneath the Hellfire fortress.
Valera was confident and was preparing to evacuate. A demonic roar came from beneath the dark chamber. You can see that the orc warlocks by the altar immediately tremble, as if they had seen a ghost, and a look of fear appeared on their faces. It wasn't until the roaring died down that several orc warlocks began to continue their experiments in a panic......
"I feel like there's a secret hidden beneath this hall, and some powerful force rules over it. These orcs may just be some puppets, including the warlock leader, who is probably also a puppet of the devil. ”
As the voice subsided, Valera communicated with Brower in sign language, and it was clear that the Blood Elf Stalker had taken a keen interest in the world below the hall. There, perhaps, is the key to the entire Hellfire Fortress, the most important thing. The roar just now was obviously not made by an ordinary demon, at least a demon like the Abyss Lord. Perhaps, the portal is guarded by the archdemon himself? Valeera's heart felt an inexplicable excitement. She's going to go down and explore, and send the most valuable information out to Ares and Varian.
But Brower was visibly worried, and the druids didn't think that with their current strength, they could find the devil's lair without success. You know, along the way, they took great risks to sneak here, and it is still unknown whether they can get out of the city smoothly. It was not easy to sneak here, and he hoped Valilla would let go. Safety first.
"Maybe what you say is true, but we should go, find the demon's lair, and kill it, this is the responsibility of the Alliance army, not ours, we have completed the mission, it's time to return."
In his own way, Broll fed back the language to Valeera.
"Then you take them first, and I'm going to continue to dive and study this fortress thoroughly."
Valera responded.
The two obviously disagreed, but they couldn't have any quarrels, this was the base camp of the orcs, and the orc warlocks had a much sharper observation ability than the average orc warrior, they just hadn't noticed it yet, and once they sensed something strange in the air around them, they could summon the Demon Eye to observe the world at any time, and at that time, they could see the creatures hidden in the shadows. Including all kinds of stalkers and ghosts.
"No, let's go together!"
Broll responded.