Chapter 345: The Great Vortex
The war is coming.
The powerful earthquake sent such a message to the world.
Everyone understood that this could only be the shock caused by Deathwings breaking the World Pillar.
The "Pillar of the World", as the name suggests, is the pillar that supports the real world of Azeroth. It is rooted in the Earth Elemental Plane, in the middle of the Deep Rock Continent.
It's not just a pillar, it's actually one of the Titans' world-shaping structures, and a crucial part of maintaining their revamped world-system.
Planets before they were transformed by the Titans were no different from ordinary planets as people knew them. For example, before the arrival of the Titans, Azeroth had magma at its core, crust on the outside, and oceans and land above its crust. After being shaped by the Titans, the overall structure of the planet has undergone earth-shaking changes, becoming complex and delicate.
The entirety of Azeroth can now be divided into three parts: the real world, the elemental plane, and the Emerald Dream.
The planet transformed by the Titans should be such a trinity world.
These three levels exist independently, but they merge with each other. They overlap completely, but because of the special frequency of fluctuations, they are not within reach of each other.
But anyone who understands this structure knows that all three have always influenced each other, and they affect the whole body.
For example, in Nightmare Crisis, Harvey can control the world by forcibly merging dreams and reality through guò; During the Battle of the Three Hammers two hundred years ago, the Black Iron Dwarves were able to summon the sealed Fire Lord Ragnaros from the elemental plane to the Black Rock Mountain.
If you compare it to a computer, then the real world is the computer hardware, the elemental plane is the software, and the dream is the backup number.
The "Pillar of the World" is an important prop that formally supports these three independent planes. It's like a memory stick, and when you unplug it, the whole system won't work. Once it collapses, the distinction between reality, dreams, and the elemental plane becomes very blurred.
If it is not repaired, Azeroth will gradually return to its original form in an unprecedented cataclysm: the Titan's modification of it will be rendered useless. The elemental plane, the dream, and the real world will be completely merged, and of course, the sealed Elder Gods will also be freed from their cages.
This is not a good thing, and the nightmare crisis alone almost led to the end of the world. No one dares to imagine what kind of power Enzos, the unbound god of the ancients, can wield.
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Pearl City General Staff.
It is now the third day after the start of the war.
Everyone gathered in front of the Azeroth hologram from Titan Tec, and the staff officers gathered the news, and suddenly several flashing red dots appeared on the spherical map. The areas of the red dots on the table are magnified, and those situations are revealed.
These places are the Maelstrom, the Deep Rock Continent, Udum, and Mount Hyjal.
"The advance force has entered the Deep Rock Continent through the Guò Matrodex, and the troops are being attacked by stone elemental creatures!"
-- This is the news from the advance army that entered the Deep Rock Continent.
The stone elementals of the Deep Rock Continent are all the children of the "Mother of Stone" Serrazane.
Jiang Weihan remembered that in the original history, shouldn't this stone mother be neutral? Why didn't the Advance Army encounter the Twilight Hammer's attack, but instead fought the sons of the Stone Mother?
He thought to himself that there must be something that has not yet been known in this.
The Advance Force is tasked with determining if there are any important enemies such as Deathwing in the Deep Rock Continent, led by the Shamans of the Ring of the Earth and the elite forces of Thunder Cliff who cooperate with them. Of course, the main responsibility of the Ring of the Earth is not to fight, but to repair the Pillars of the World and prevent the further fusion of the elements, reality, and dreams.
As for why Serazane ordered the Stone Elemental to attack the Advance Army, it was because she "accidentally" got the news that her missing daughter Thrydes had been killed by this group of enemies who had invaded the Earth Elemental Plane!
Serrazane didn't believe the news at first, and was worried when Deathwing smashed the World Pillar. The good news is that Deathwing, who has been bothering her for tens of thousands of years, has run away, but the bad news is that the minions left here are in the hands of some of the fragments of the World Pillar, and she may not be able to take them back on her own.
As the master of the Earth Elemental Plane, the Advance Force had just entered the Deep Rock Continent and was sensed by her.
She sent her own heirs to ask if they had killed Thrydes, and the advance party responded by the Minotaur Chief Kane. Son of Bloodhoof, Bane. Bloody Hoof.
The outspoken Bane admits that they killed Thrydes. He didn't know that Thrydes was the daughter of the Stone Mother.
An argument ensued between the two sides, so much so that a conflict broke out at the end. The earth elementals and the advance army fought like this.
Princess Thrydes, the third daughter of Serrazane, was "slender and sexy" and "beautiful as a flower" in appearance - of course, in terms of the earthy aesthetic.
She was very pleasing to her mother, but then she left the Deep Rock Island and went to the outside world. For many years afterward, Serrazane was not heard from again.
The Mother of Stone never expected that this parting would become a permanent secret - not long ago, someone told her that Princess Thrydes had gone to the outside world a long time ago and married Zarta, the son of the demigod Cenarius, the "King of the Forest".
But three years ago, she and her husband were attacked by a group of minotaurs. The Minotaurs stormed Maraton, the love nest of Princess Thrydes and Zarta, killed their heirs, the centaurs, and finally drove them to the end and destroyed Maladon completely!
Shi Mu was a soft-hearted person, and she didn't want to believe such news at first, but there were indeed many minotaurs among the people who entered the Deep Rock Continent. They were so imposing that after they came out of the temple of the earth, they looked around for something, and they seemed to know that the one who came was not good.
The Earth Temple is Deathwing's territory, and this group of people from the Earth Temple is likely to be Deathwing's evil minions!
So her messenger came back to tell her that the minotaurs were so arrogant that they did not feel at fault in the slightest for killing Thrydes. This really angered Shi Mu, and she even regarded these people as servants of Deathwing, so she made up her mind to let her heirs and the advance army go to war in an all-out way!
Bain on the other side. Bloodhoof certainly doesn't feel like he's wrong.
For thousands of years, centaurs have nearly wiped out the Minotaurs. If it weren't for the help of the Valoran Expeditionary Force more than two years ago, I'm afraid their Minotaur would have ceased to exist.
Centaurs, a predatory and ferocious race, should not exist at all. After gaining a foothold, at the request of Thunder Bluff, the Valoran coalition sent troops to help the Minotaurs attack Maraton, breaching the centaur's lair in one fell swoop, and killing Princess Thrydes, the centaur's mother entrenched in Maraton.
The most active of the great war against Maladon was undoubtedly the "Shadow of War" Hecarim. He killed countless centaurs, and collected countless centaur spirits to create ghost cavalry, and his strength increased greatly.
Although the information that the Stone Mother knew was biased, most of it was correct, but one thing was very wrong - it was not the Minotaur and the Valoran army that killed Zarta, who had been killed thousands of years ago by his sons, the murderous centaurs.
The war began inexplicably. Moon of the leader of the Ring of the Earth. Wrath of the Earth and Kane, the leader of the Advance Army. After Bloodhoof deliberated, they judged that the stone elemental had most likely taken refuge in Deathwing, or that the Mother Stone had returned to the arms of the Elder Gods, so they resisted while sending the news back to Pearl City.
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As for the vicinity of the maelstrom, a sudden large-scale naval battle took place. The warring party was Kurtilas' navy, which escorted the advance force into the maelstrom and maintained a guard around it. However, few people thought that there would be an enemy attacking from the sea, and Deathwing didn't have a navy under him.
This is something that everyone knows. But at this time, the shadows of masts and sailboats faintly appeared in the thin sea fog.
When the news reached the naval commander of the flagship "Spirit" Dai Lin. Admiral Prodmore frowned when he was here.
"Could it be a merchant ship between the two continents?"
"The Eastern Kingdom has become like that, who will still go back and forth between the two continents to do business?" Admiral Daelin felt that this speculation was not reliable, and he ordered the carrier-based helicopter to take off from the deck to reconnoitre.
Seeing the convenience of helicopters, Admiral Dalin, an expert in naval warfare, naturally thought about the benefits of using this air weapon in naval warfare. Therefore, a part of the naval warships were specially modified to allow them to take off and land helicopters, and at the same time, a number of armed helicopters were purchased from the Valoran Federation and Nomogre, and a group of naval aviation units were commissioned to be trained.
More than a dozen helicopters formed a formation and flew towards the fleet that was sailing towards this direction.
If the enemy is coming, the helicopter formation can confirm the enemy situation and allow the commander to make a strategic decision about whether to fight or withdraw. If there is to be a war, these helicopter units can not only fight, but also guide the fleet's artillery fire to attack with precision. Dai Lin has done many naval exercises, and this time is likely to be an opportunity for actual combat!
The naval aviation helicopter painted with the Kurtilas insignia approached quickly, and the situation in the distance quickly became clear.
The command room received their report as soon as possible:
"Report, report...... Discover the enemy! ”
"It's a fleet of trolls!"
"There are so many warships, hundreds and thousands!"
Several voices of utter shock could be heard over the radio communication channel.
"We were attacked, repeated, we were attacked by the enemy fleet!"
The pilot's voice became panicked.
"Tass was hit! He's crashing! ”
"Cover, cover!"
"Skydive, skydive!" R1152