Chapter 167: Strange Floating Island
Thundered......
The awakening of the crypt lord Anubrekan alarmed the entire floating island, and on the originally white land, there were suddenly hideous figures, slowly rising up like mushrooms after a rain, they wandered aimlessly in place, just to find the source of the disturbance, but they smelled a trace of the breath of the living left in the cold air, and suddenly began to be restless, thus waking up the temporarily sleeping Storm Count Boval.
Lowering his head, he slowly raised it, revealing a pale face, the wind and frost condensed on his eyebrows, a pair of godless eyes burst out with a strange cold light, his lips did not move, but the cold wind automatically turned into a whistling voice from the Nine Hells: "Who is it, breaking into my territory?" ”
The voice was not loud, but it reached the ears of every dead on the island, and they sensed the call of the monarch and scrambled to respond, and as they raised their arms, the cold element and evil aura from the frost sorrow poured into their limbs, increasing their strength to a greater or lesser extent.
"Warriors of the Frost Wasteland, obey my orders and tear apart the invaders, no ...... No one can stop me...... Back to Stormwind! ”
The howling wind conveys Berval's orders, whether it is the wandering dead on the frost and snow field, or the various monsters in the frozen earth, all follow the guidance of frost sorrow and pursue the breath of the living.
Such a change directly put the magicians who landed on the island into a bitter battle, and their positioning device could only determine that Blackmore was hiding in the island, and they could not accurately locate it at all, and the existence of the Frozen Throne and the Frost Sorrow also made the magicians determine where they were at the same time, and they did not dare to take it lightly, after all, it was because of the frost sorrow that the elven remnants paid a heavy price, so in order to fight the trolls, they had to support the Magic Empire.
Losing Blackmore's traces and stepping into a forbidden dangerous area, Blackmore immediately made a decision, got in touch with Antonidas in Dalaran, and used the space portal to get help from the psychic North.
Psychics are different from necromancers, although they are engaged in the study of souls, it is a respected profession, such as summoning the souls of the victims, finding the murderer, which greatly solves the difficulty of criminal investigation, and the reason why Antonidas sent a legendary psychic is because considering the uniqueness of the frozen island, trying to find the missing big slave owner with the special means of psychics, in the safest way.
"Lord North!"
The well-known psychic Noth, under the respectful gaze of a group of mages, stepped out of the spatial portal, he was wearing an indigo gold-rimmed mage robe, his long gray hair was tied into a bun, and his deep gaze swept over the frozen throne and the sorrow of frost, and the eyes of psychic Noth flashed with deep jealousy: "You can't stay here for a long time, let's act immediately." ”
Then, North's eyes flashed, and he easily found the clues, led many mages around the edge of the island, and found the footprints left by Fording and Marin: "My psychic eye saw the soul marks wrapped around Blackmore's body, but these two footprints have not been covered by the wind and snow, which means that there is another party of unknown origin on this island, and no matter what their purpose is, I must emphasize once again that your mission is to capture Blackmore, and everything else, ignore it!" ”
Standing in front of the entrance of the passage, the psychic Noth said earnestly: "In addition, you must stick to your minds, I can feel the evil aura of this island is about to move, but whenever a little evil thoughts breed, you can spread and grow unconsciously, if you are controlled by obsession, you will be lost here forever, become those muddy walking corpses." ”
Hearing this, all the mages felt a pang in their hearts, and immediately lifted their minds and entered the passage.
The passage that Ferding walked through was guarded by a strange-shaped gargoyle, because he mastered the method of passing, so the gargoyle was not alarmed, although there was a psychic Noss in the magician's team, and he could not find a way to pass safely in a short time, so a group of mages who were good at attacking immediately showed the most familiar style, and they bombarded wildly, and they were stunned to empty the gargoyles along the way.
At first, they remembered the teachings of the psychic Noth and tried to keep their minds stable, but they were a little carried away when they saw the hideous-looking gargoyles who were killed by the magic fire before they woke up.
The horror of magic lies in the mobilization of huge energy between the waves, as you like, every time you witness the destruction of magic, you can always give birth to an unstoppable feeling of pleasure, it can be said that magicians are a high-risk industry, but everyone who comes into contact with magic, but they are willing to do it, the reason why the magic empire has risen rapidly, is that the human beings who have never mastered the surging power, from the bottom of their hearts want to master more powerful power, but it is this almost primitive desire, but also accelerated the demise of the magic empire.
The Abyssal Demon uses power as a temptation to corrupt powerful mages who pursue extreme power, and when the corrupt foundation shakes the Empire State Building and collapses overnight, the Abyss Demon tears through the disguise, shows a cruel smile, and in the heart of the Magic Empire, it deals a fatal blow to this emerging power, making them taste the bitter cry of unbridled desire/hope.
Both the Holy Empire and the remnants of the mages have deeply learned this lesson, the former suppresses the needs of the people, the latter strengthens the guidance of the will, however, when these mages step into the floating island, the subtle flaws in their will defense line are infinitely magnified, and the powerful pleasure from magic and destruction unscrupulously impacts the indifferent mind, so that the psychic Noth is also deeply troubled, and he is silent along the way, unable to contain the change of events in time.
Among the crowd, the best performance is none other than the two high disciples of the chief mage Antonidas, Kel'thugad and Gianna, they deliberately control their respective shots to keep the state of will stable, but the influence of the helpless frost's sorrow is like a spring breeze and rain, moisturizing things silently, and subtle psychological hints, so that their emotional changes as only magicians are normal, after all, on this dangerous island, they are moving forward with a crushing momentum, which makes Kel'thugard and Gianna a little excited.
The bitter fruit often ripens and lands at such a moment.
The instant death of the gargoyle made the magician completely let go of his hands and feet, and some people began to increase the magic output in order to compete in secret, completely ignoring the problem of battery life, and strive to eliminate the gargoyle Zhang alone, showing their strength, at the beginning, such a battle in the open and dark accelerated the speed of travel, but with the lack of stamina of several magicians, the continuous offensive rhythm was also suddenly interrupted, and the good thing is that just when everyone began to realize that the situation was tending to be bad, the power of frost sorrow was suddenly infused.
Those gargoyles who were bombarded and killed without waiting for them to wake up were immediately activated, and they pounced on the helpless magicians in droves, even though Kel'thugad and the psychic Noth, resisted with all their might, they were also broken through the defense line by those gargoyles who were not afraid of death, and captured an unlucky fourth-order mage, until the moment he was torn apart by the claws, he realized what a stupid thing he had just done, obviously his life-saving spell could resolve the crisis, but the remaining strength was not enough to launch the spell.
As soon as the screams reached his lips, they stopped abruptly, like a basin of cold water, splashing on the bodies of the magicians.
The tragic death of their companions was like a deafening ancient bell, which made them wake up instantly, and immediately cooperated with the two legendary mages to fight and retreat, until the stamina turned around and launched a counterattack, elemental, arcane, psychic, one after another colorful and powerful spells, bombarded the hard body of the gargoyle, inherited from the magic power of the elven relics, once again showed the power of the magician, and they did not take much time to destroy all those fierce gargoyles.
However, this victory could not reverse the tragic death of his companion.
Psychic Noth breathed a heavy sigh of relief, fine beads of sweat condensed on his forehead, and his face could not hide his fear: "This is simply a natural tomb for magicians, we have obtained unparalleled destructive power, but we are more susceptible to evil bewitchment, this is the important reason why the Magic Empire died early, but the Holy Empire has survived to this day, unable to control their desires/desires, sooner or later they will sink/fall into the cage of power." ”
Psychic Noth said in a gloomy tone: "I finally know why I am a legend, but I can't move forward, it turns out that I have lived for so many years, and I am only a handful of old age, this accident, I will bear it alone, you must remember the casualties, and always remind yourself to stay awake." ”
The mages around him were apprehensive and nodded heavily, but Kel'thugad, who was the main advocate for the rebuilding of the empire, was a little displeased: "Your Excellency Psychic, please don't be presumptuous, those priests and knights use distorted ways to suppress desires, which seem to create a solid barrier for the soul, but in fact it is an impenetrable prison, the soul has lost its catharsis, which can only make them destroy more completely, over the years, we have repeatedly immersed ourselves in magic, and we have been awakened from immersion again and again, this defeat is just a wake-up call for us, and there is a lot of possibility to make up for it, But those priests and knights are definitely not so easy! ”
Kel'thugad's voice was loud, and he, who was already extremely strong, became even stronger under the reflection of the ghostly fire: "There are pros and cons to everything, everyone can't back down because of a death, the road to the revival of the empire is destined to shed countless blood, this time the waves have made us move towards a more correct path!" ”
In the emotional rendering of frost's sorrow, Kel'thugad's voice was more infectious, except for the psychic Noth's frown, Gianna's blue eyes flashed, and the emotions of the rest of the magicians were all mobilized by Kel'thugad, and the excitement was still higher than before, but they still learned the lesson of their companions' deaths, paid more attention to the rhythm of battle, and kept advancing smoothly at high speed.
Soon, a fork in the road appeared in front of everyone, with gargoyle-infested masonry passages on one side and underground caverns spawned by chance due to natural fluctuations on the other, and the psychic Noth once again used his legendary ability, the psychic eye, to lead the crowd into the even more eerie underground caverns, straight to the great slave owner Blackmore.
Unconsciously, the underground cave full of silt monsters gathered three groups of people and horses before and after, which seemed to be a chain of life and death behind a praying mantis catching cicada and yellow finch, compared with the position of the three parties, Anduin and the others seemed to be placed at the bottom of the food chain, and their situation became extremely tricky because of Berval's sudden awakening.
The mushroom dealer Max's potion is no longer immediate, and the sludge sprayer can always launch a desperate blow before he dies, in this case, the legendary telekinesis of the kobold earth diviner is undoubtedly the most secure solution, but the problem is that the number of silt monsters is gradually increasing, even if Max is desperately trying to make potions, it is also due to the shortage of individual materials, and it is declared exhausted.
As a last resort, Anduin and others were forced to join the war, barely keeping their marching speed from dropping significantly.
Fortunately, Anduin was not without gains, and he took a lot of companion cards along the way, officially bringing the number of cards in his library to 180, and there were only twenty left to complete the next stage of the collection task.
"If you have enough time, you can complete the task after a visit to this island, but unfortunately, the situation seems to be much more serious than expected!"
Anduin said silently in his heart, he did not forget the violent sound that caused the strange matter to change, according to his speculation, it should come from the crypt lord Anubrekan that Arthas said, there is a legend on the side, and there is a pandaman Zhou Zhuo, Anduin is not worried about the safety of Arthas, but he gradually feels that the environment here is really unpredictable, he asked the system to detect, but no results were obtained.
The existence of Frost Grief was completely beyond the capabilities of the system, and Anduin also relied on his keen intuition and quietly watched along the way, only to realize the mood fluctuations of his peers, showing a sharp contrast between the front and back.
Since the second Eliza appeared in front of Anduin's eyes, her personality is slightly different from the former, compared with the two, Eliza at this time is more mean, more arrogant, and more aggressive, according to the system, this is a normal phenomenon of incarnation outside the body, even if it is a god-level existence, there is no way to completely reproduce her incarnation outside the body, and this difference, after entering this island, becomes more obvious, the princess of the empire unabashedly used her words and swords, stunned to let Arthas go away.
As for Jones, who has a lot of experience in exploring and Tuhart, the powerful arbiter, there is no change, but Sonia's mood is getting more and more lost, Anduin thought it was just worry, but the system warned him, indicating that Sonia's will fluctuations are too low, but the shadow energy is gathering at an accelerated pace, and as the only person in the field who studies shadows, she is even more affected than those magicians.
"Sonia!"
Anduin couldn't help but remind, but she was greeted by Sonia's ghostly gaze, her voice was weak, full of sadness and despair: "Anduin, you say, can we still find Grandpa Ferdin?" ”
"Of course!"
Anduin clenched Sonia's cold hands, "I'm sure Grandpa Fording is right in front of you, and you'll be able to see him soon." ”
"And what about Uncle Berval?" Sonia's voice didn't fluctuate.
Anduin said in a deep voice, "Although Uncle Bolval's problem is serious, there is a solution! ”
"Don't comfort me." Sonia gently broke away from Anduin, "I heard Uncle Boval's call, he has left us forever, Anduin, you know what, Uncle Boval will never come back......"
Anduin suddenly realized that Sonia's problem was not only the content of the system's feedback, there must be some important problems that had not been discovered, and he just wanted to grab Sonia's palm again to avoid accidents, but his actions were in vain, and quietly, Sonia actually dived into the shadows and left the illuminated area of divine light at an unimaginable speed......