Upwind Trail, Karazan.

It was a bleak and bleak area, full of ruined buildings, and the same was true of the surrounding environment, with the exception of a tall tower, standing on the edge of the dilapidated complex, like a lonely tombstone.

Actually, this place has not always been so desolate, this was once the territory of the Stormwind Kingdom, there was a human town, but many years ago there was a great catastrophe here that something or some life devoured all the living beings here, and even the life force of the earth was devoured.

Now, it has been many years since that disaster, but the humans have not returned to this land, in addition to the fact that the Stormwind Kingdom is originally vast and sparsely populated, the aura of death and some kind of monster that has been permeating here are also important reasons why ordinary people are reluctant to approach here.

Now, many years later, this long-abandoned site is once again welcoming human visitors.

Spell fluctuations flashed, Gianna was the first to teleport out, she frowned lightly and looked around, after making sure that the surroundings were safe, she stretched out her white tender fingers and swiped a few times in the air, another spell fluctuation flashed, and Claudia, wearing a new silver armor, appeared beside her.

"This is Karazhan?" Claudia looked curiously at the tall tower not far away, "It doesn't look special from the outside. ”

Gianna was about to speak, and Elunis in her hand had already preemptively spoken, "Don't judge this tower by its appearance, kid, it's a tower made of magic, it's full of powerful arcane energy, let me go, I can't wait to drain this power." ”

"Elunis, according to Egwen's instructions, you can only absorb energy when you reach the designated location, and you can't take more, only two years' amount." Gianna admonished.

"Okay, okay, I remember, kid, let's go, even two years' worth is enough for me to eat." Elunis excitedly.

Gianna nodded, and Claudia walked towards the Karazhan Tower, a hundred meters away.

The Karazan Tower was built by Egwene, and the reason why she built this tower here is to stay away from Dalaran and Tirisfa, and secondly, because it is the gathering place of the largest magic net conduit in the south of the entire Eastern Continent, and it has majestic arcane energy, which can be used by Egwene to absorb magic power.

This is the case with Claudia and Gianna's trip to Karazan, and the main purpose is to use Elunis to absorb some of the magic for Egwen.

As for Egwene's other assignments, there were some, and Claudia always found them a little strange.

"Gianna, do you feel like Egwen seems to be a bit ...... lately? Odd. ”

"Indeed, I feel this way too," Gianna nodded in agreement, puzzled, "I always feel that she has been a little too urgent lately, and has taught me a lot of spells in one go, regardless of whether I can understand it or not...... Do you know what's going on, Elunis? You've been with her for hundreds of years. ”

Gianna looked at the staff in her hand.

"Don't look at me like that, child, I don't know what she's thinking," Elunis said lazily, "in fact she's two people from twenty-five years ago, both in appearance and personality, and if she's still the same twenty-five years ago, don't expect me to serve her." ”

"Huh? What personality was Egwene before? Claudia wondered.

"Arrogant, conceited, self-serving, empty-eyed, irritable,......" Elunis spat frantically.

Claudia was a little surprised, for the old lady she knew was kind, wise, quiet, and extremely patient, quite different from what Elunis had said.

In normal times, Egwen's most common things are to raise flowers, bask in the sun, read books, and often give Claudia and Gianna wise guidance, always unhurried, but in fact, the reason why Claudia and Gianna's trip to Karazan will drag on to more than a month later is also the reason why Egwen's forgiveness for her, Claudia still remembers what Claudia said when she went to see Egwin a few days ago:

"I'm not in a hurry, Claudia, you take advantage of this time to spend more time with your child, the child is more important than everything, he needs your company."

It's hard to imagine that Egwen, who puts herself in Claudia's shoes, would be the irascib, arrogant, and empty-eyed woman that Elunis speaks of.

However, Claudia soon couldn't think about this problem, just when she and Gianna were still more than ten meters away from the door of Karazhin, the sound of thunderous horses' hooves sounded around her, Claudia's face turned cold, pulled out the Domka, and protected Gianna behind her, she didn't forget what happened to her last time she went out with Gianna.

"If things don't go right, let's go to Karazhan." Claudia admonished.

"Okay, I'll listen to your arrangement." Gianna smiled and nodded, unlike Claudia, there was no nervous look on her face.

The sound of horses' hooves quickly approached, Claudia had already seen those approaching figures clearly, and more than a dozen knights in black armor and hoods rode around on skeleton war horses, but the guard in her heart was lowered a lot, and she probably had a guess about the identity of these black knights.

The black knight led by rode forward, unlike the other black knights, he wore a set of dark red plate armor, and the two-handed sword in his hand carried the unique power of the artifact, he raised his sword and shook his finger at Claudia, and a terrible and piercing voice sounded:

"On the orders of the master, collect the artifact, you two women, hand over the artifact in your hands."

Really.

After hearing this, Claudia was even more sure of the identity of these Black Knights, and Gianna was the same, she raised her eyebrows and asked Claudia in a low voice: "Are they the Black Knight slaves mentioned by Egwen, who were cursed by Medivan and had to find artifacts for him forever?" ”

"It looks like it should be," Claudia nodded, "Usually these black knights often harass my people in the Twilight Forest, and they don't usually touch it, but since they do, let's help them get rid of it, and by the way, remove the threat of the nearby people." ”

"I see." Gianna nodded.

Just as the two little girls were making a strategy in a low voice, the leader of the black knights was also a little impatient, he raised the two-handed sword in his hand and waved it at the two of them, and the terrible and harsh voice sounded again: "Kill them, seize the artifact!" ”

"For the great master!"

The Black Knights responded to their leader with a shout and rushed forward.

What a wretched bunch of souls.

Claudia commented that she knew the story of this group of black knights, many years ago, this group of black knights was originally a group of wandering merchants, under the leadership of the leader Eretin, wandering around, and by the way, selling fakes and posing as artifacts to cheat some uninformed local tyrants out of money, but one day, they sold the fakes to Medivan, who was possessed by Sargeras, and the result was a tragedy for this group of wandering merchants.

They were cursed by Medivan or Sargeras, their bodies were killed on the spot, their souls were twisted and imprisoned in their dead bodies, and they were reduced to slavery forever, and they had to run around for Medivan to dig and loot artifacts, such as today, they probably rushed from nearby because they found the artifact aura in Claudia and Gianna's hands.

Seeing the black knight rushing towards her, Gianna began to weave magic, and Claudia flashed silver fire in her hand and poured a rune array into her own armor, and the excess plate armor components on her back and sides of her neck quickly moved to the designated position, and soon formed a helmet, protecting Claudia's head and face inside the helmet, only Claudia's eyes could see the surroundings.

When the helmets were assembled, Claudia met the black knights who rushed towards her, these black knights riding skeletal horses were more than a meter taller than Claudia, and the momentum of the charge of men and horses seemed to crush her.

But Claudia's eyes were unwavering, she was far more powerful than the black knights these wandering merchants had transformed, whether it was martial arts, combat experience, armor, or weapons.

When the first skeletal steed rushed in front of her, Claudia's hand was lightning fast, and a sword pierced between its eyes, directly through the horse's head, and the skeletal steed fell forward, and Claudia jumped up on its head, cutting the black knight rider in two.

The two black knights around tried to rescue their companions, and the two rune swords stabbed at Claudia with a terrible sound of breaking the air in two directions, one left and one right, but Claudia's movements were faster than the two black knights imagined, and she quickly met the black knight on the left, regardless of the rune sword that stabbed at her, and slashed at the head of the black knight.

The Black Knight was a little stunned, but he didn't defend back, in fact, he couldn't do it if he wanted to, Claudia's movements were much faster than him, the Black Knight's sword stabbed Claudia's left ribs, but after only a little spark, it was derailed by the smooth armor, not even a single scratch remained, and the Black Knight's head was cut off by Stoneka's clean sword.

Claudia didn't stop, spun around and swung her sword, crashing into another black knight, after a few swords, she killed a black knight with a sword, this set of armor made with Tyr's broken arm is very powerful, not a high-level magic sword can't leave a mark on the armor at all, only an artifact can pierce her armor, which allows her to ignore most sharp weapon attacks, and has the upper hand in melee combat.

The Black Knights apparently noticed this, and no longer stepped forward to engage Claudia in close combat, and the leader of the Black Knights, Eredin, ordered: "She has legendary armor, I'll deal with her, you go deal with that mage!" ”

Eretin rode his horse towards Claudia, while the other Black Knights rushed towards Gianna.

Gianna is not as easy as Claudia to face the black knight, the black knight transformed by Medivan belongs to the same profession as the death knight, but there is no frost spell, but the anti-magic shield, suffocation, death grip and other skills against the mage are still good, and dark magic surged towards Gianna.

Gianna didn't panic, the mages were originally the best at using knowledge to study and solve problems, after the mages of Quel'Salas and Dalaran faced the death knights twice and failed miserably, the mages also studied some means to fight the death knights, so as not to fall into a weakness like the first time they faced the death knights, and Gianna was much stronger than those mages, she was originally the best of the archmages, and she also learned countless ancient magic on the Metri scrolls with Egger literature for most of the past six months.

After the spell sounded, four identical Giannas appeared in place, along with two huge water elementals, the water elementals were busy casting frost spells on the black knights, and one Gianna was too, the other Gianna was either weaving fire magic, or countering the dark magic of the black knights, and the last Gianna shook her arm at the black knights, and several purple arcane energy visible to the naked eye flew out in the air.

The black knights who were charging flashed green anti-magic shields almost instantly, but this anti-magic shield that could resist many spells in the past only disappeared after only blocking the energy thrown out by Gianna, and the two frost spell fluctuations flashed, and the black knights' horses were frozen to the middle of the charge, their hooves were imprisoned by ice blocks, and one by one the black knights fell from the skeleton war horses in embarrassment, and they were met by another huge fireball woven by Gianna.

Rumble!

There was a crackling sound, and the two black knights were killed on the spot, and the other two were badly burned, their charred black bodies, along with the melted plate armor, twisted into strange shapes, emitting bursts of scorching stench, and now there were five black knights left, and they had already fought back and captured a Gianna with the Grip of Death, but when they killed this Gianna, they realized that this Gianna was just an illusion.

Now the water element of Gianna and the black knight side are five against five, the number is balanced, but the combat power is two different things, and the black knight side has fallen into an absolute disadvantage.

On the other battlefield, Erettin had already noticed that his men were not good, but he was too busy to take care of himself, and when he and Claudia got into play, he realized that Claudia was not just fighting with the legendary armor on her body.

Clang!

The two artifact greatswords collided together, making a loud clash and splattering sparks, Claudia firmly gaining the upper hand, and even her strength, which she had previously been inferior to other powerful warriors, was greatly strengthened by the rune array of gloves and arm armor, forcing Eredin to retreat again and again.

"Martial arts are good, it's hard to imagine that you were once just a merchant, poor Eredin, now pray to your soul." Claudia said lightly.

"My soul...... Only for the great masters! Eredin yelled, and cleared Claudia's stomka.

"Then it seems that I can only pray for you, Eredin." Claudia said with a calm face, she clenched Stomka, and rushed towards Eredin again like an arrow from a string, and whispered in her mouth, "Now, prayer begins." ”

Rumble!

Claudia and Eredine collided again, and Eretin still struggled to hold Sdomka, but Claudia pushed forward, and Eretin's was pushed and staggered back.

Claudia did not take a step to pursue Eretin, but her eyes flashed with silver, and in an instant, she flashed to Eretin's empty back and slashed at her, which obviously greatly surprised Eretin, and he immediately turned around, but it was too late, and Sdomka slashed at Eretin's left shoulder, bringing a large piece of rotting flesh with him.

"Ahh

Eredin let out a scream, but he still pressed his sword at Claudia, if Claudia's sword had just slashed at the flesh creature, Domka's ability could have turned most of the flesh creature into ashes, but Eredine was no longer flesh and blood, which made him just fall into disadvantage.

"I'll hurt, I'll heal."

Claudia chanted a prayer softly, and after holding Eredin's sword again, she flashed to the other side of Eredine when the other party could not return her strength, and stabbed Eredine with a lightning sword again.

"I'll kill, I'll save."

Sdomka pierced Eredin's right chest.

“…… Forgiveness for revenge, trust in betrayal, hope for despair, light for darkness, redemption for the fallen. ”

The prayer kept ringing, Claudia flashed one after another, and Sdomka pierced the Black Knight's body again and again, and soon, Erettin's resistance became weaker and weaker, and Claudia's prayer had been chanted to the last time.

"Have mercy, O Holy Light."

Domka severed Eretin's right arm with a single sword, and Claudia's left hand let go of Sdomka and pointed at Eretin, the brighter and brighter light condensing.

"Please grant this soul rest!"

As the last prayer fell, the magnificent holy light bombarded Erettin's body without resistance, the black knight who had been evil for many years was finally completely purified, after the complete destruction of Erettin's body, a white transparent figure appeared from his body, and Erettin's soul was finally completely freed from the grasp of dark magic after more than twenty years of slavery.

The white figure saluted Claudia and said a few words, and Claudia's face immediately fluctuated slightly, and the white figure bowed to her again and disappeared in place.

"What did he say?" Gianna, who walked on the side, said curiously, she had just finished dealing with the black knights when she saw this scene in front of her.

"He said thank you for saving his soul, and the Black Knight's stronghold is not far away, and there is an evil artifact they have collected inside."

Claudia replied, and she stepped forward, picked up Eretin's discarded two-handed greatsword, and took a closer look, the sword was also an artifact, with demon skeleton reliefs on both sides of the hilt, and it looked very similar to Frost Sorrow.

"Violence, pestilence, death, the power of good evil." Gianna commented.

Claudia had a brief communication with the artifact, saying, "No wonder it's so evil, the name of this sword is Apocalypse, and it's an artifact forged by a demon, just like that weapon." ”

Gianna couldn't help frowning, although Claudia didn't say which one, but Gianna understood a trace of Claudia, she said: "We have to purify or hide this weapon, so as not to fall into the hands of evil people and endanger the world." ”

Claudia nodded, "You're right, now let's go find another artifact, which is said to be more powerful and evil than this one." ”

Soon after, Claudia and Gianna found another artifact in the cellar of the Black Knights, and this artifact was indeed more evil and more powerful than the Black Knights dared to use as Eredin said, this artifact was called Ursales, and it was a huge long scythe.

After a brief communication with this weapon, Claudia learned that Ursalus was an artifact forged by the fallen titan Sargeras himself, and it devoured the souls of countless demons from the moment it was born, and the name of the most powerful demon was Ursaleus, who later became the name of this weapon.

Unlike other artifacts, this artifact is a growing artifact, it will obey the orders of any master, but this comes at a price, once the owner is hit hard, it will devour the soul of the master, for tens of thousands of years, the owners who have been devoured by this artifact include the treacherous Nasrezm, the cruel Doomsday Lord, and even the powerful demigods, and every time it devours a soul, it becomes even more powerful, and later, even Sargeras has a hard time finding a servant who can control it.

The current situation of the Headwind Trail was caused by Ursales, it was in the hands of the previous master, --- the first necromancer in the Burning Legion who could manipulate the souls of the dead, devouring all the souls of the Headwind Trail, along with the vitality of the earth, making the Headwind Trail what it is today, and finally the confident necromancer ran to try to devour Medivan's soul--- the consequences can be imagined, this weapon has since fallen into the hands of the black knight under Medivan's hands.

"This weapon is so dangerous, Gianna, I need to go back to Stormwind City first and put these two weapons away." Claudia told Gianna that she was very jealous of Ursaleus at the moment.

The two-handed greatsword called the Apocalypse is too powerful, too dangerous, it has become a very high-level artifact, and it is easy to cause great disasters if you don't notice it, just like the current headwind trail, Claudia plans to give it to Azadas to seal it first, and then give this weapon to purify or destroy when she has her free hand.

Gianna smiled and nodded, "Okay, let me know when you're well, and I'll provide you with the coordinates." ”

"Well, I'm not going to keep you waiting."

Claudia teleported away, and Gianna slowly left the cellar, stopping a hundred meters outside the Karazan Tower, Karazan has a very powerful power, and the interior is full of all kinds of supernatural and chaotic space-time spells, and you can't easily use teleportation, otherwise it's easy to get lost in the space, Gianna's current position is just enough to keep a safe distance.

Claudia didn't make Gianna wait long, and soon after, as the teleportation fluctuated, Claudia came to Gianna's side, carrying a thin Mithril shirt in her hand.

Facing Gianna's gaze, Claudia showed a smile: "Today is off to a bad start, I think you should need some protective measures, you wear mine first." ”

"Then, I'd better be respectful."

Gianna's heart flowed through her heart, and she didn't refuse, she took and put on the Mithril shirt, and then she reached out and took Claudia's hand, and said, "Come, Claudia, now let's go and continue our mission." ”