Chapter Twenty-Four: The Lich's Evil Spirit, the Dead Soul of Sichuan Ice
The wind and snow were all over the sky, the cold wind was howling, and in the rugged path carved out of pure ice, the three of them walked slowly.
At the same time, a unique dialogue is also unfolding.
"Well, I'm not really a 'Guardian', in fact, I've never heard of this crappy name for chivalric fiction."
"I can understand, after all, it is also a thousand years since the Sealing Excalibur was sealed, and a thousand years of time was enough for a god to rise and a great empire to disintegrate from its birth. After more than ten generations, it is normal for future generations to forget the great deeds of their ancestors. ”
"The problem is, I don't know any route to the Sealed Lands!"
"It's okay, the mentor has already found the route, but the ancient magic is too powerful, if it is not for the designated inheritor to lead the way, even if you know the way, you will never be able to reach the location, you can honestly accompany us on a trip."
"Huh? So I'm a 'street lamp'...... However, Your Royal Highness, don't you think this kind of story that you can save the world with a sword is ridiculous? Or if we think of another way, such as trying to use indigenous medicine or something, when the orthodox means don't work, some home remedies may have a miraculous effect. ”
"I ...... There is no choice," the knight who was wearing thick wall armor and holding a war hammer to move forward in the wind and snow stopped, and there was a hint of silence in his words, "Xia, no matter what, this is the last hope, I can only choose to trust the judgment of my mentor, otherwise I ......"
Otherwise, after killing their own subjects, they can only slaughter their own army again, and in the end, there is nothing left but to fall into a hell from which they can never be liberated.
Although the rest of his words were not spoken, both sides knew it, but Rorschach, who was smiling bitterly, still couldn't help but sigh deeply, and he didn't know what kind of annoyance swelled in his heart.
In any case, the habit of history cannot be reversed?
Although on the surface, this sudden re-proposed journey was undoubtedly the perfect remedy for Rorschach's mission, deep down in his heart, he was not gratified, but faintly lost.
A powerless frustration.
Originally, he had decided to give up the reward for the last mission, after all, in the reward and punishment mechanism of infinite space, the reward for the newcomer's first adventure, the penalty for failing the mission was only half of the survival points, and in exchange for 1,500 points for a compensation for the regrets, Rorschach felt that it was worth the money.
What's more, this strange reversal of the situation also made him deeply frightened and uneasy.
If this is a modification specially made by Infinite Space for newcomers, it is inevitably too intimate, and it is too different from the dull and indifferent bystander in Bai Wu's memory, but if not......
"If not, it's the worst possible situation!" Rorschach sighed slightly in his heart, but since he was on the thief ship, unless he could break the alliance of the two heroes of the Paladin and the King of the Hill head-on, it was just wishful thinking to escape.
And due to the restrictions on information in the Book of Reincarnation, Rorschach can't tell the plot characters what he knows about the "historical future" in all ways, such as hints, blunt words, words, images, etc., once they do such a thing, they will forget everything in a blink of an eye, and deduct a lot of Rorschach's survival points, which is meaningless. Now, the only thing he can do is ......
Braving the wind and snow, over the mountains and mountains, along the path determined by the dwarf king, accompanied the prince to the glacial cave where the "frost sorrow" was stored.
In fact, in the setting of this section of the original plot, there is a bug that is not big or small, that is, the real journey of the "Cave of Sorrow".
According to the map setting of World of Warcraft, this cave is located deep in the vast mountains of the northern part of the Dragonbone Wilderness. This is originally nothing, but in the game, players can ride the griffon bird for thirty minutes to walk back and forth in Northrend, which translates into the vast territory of the real world, but it is not inferior to the vastness of Australia, and it is obvious that the distance of the distance cannot be judged by the diameter of the game reduced by tens of thousands of times. The town of Henim, where Alsace had previously fought the undead, is located in the southernmost part of the Howling Fjord, while the Dragonbone Wilderness is located at the last plate after the pole, which means that the distance between the two places is roughly equivalent to the straight distance from Hainan Island in China through most of southern China to Henan Province. This is nearly twice the long march of the Red Army, how on earth did he, Arthas, walk on two legs in three days?
Rorschach was originally very curious about this, but when he was there, he realized that in this world where magic is rampant, the distance and bumps of the road have never appeared in the consideration of the protagonist and the villain.
At least, the three-meter-long and two-meter-wide portal in front of him, which radiated a brilliant blue glow like a sparkling wave of water and spread light in all directions, proved it.
"That's too fake, isn't it...... What kind of portal can last for thousands of years and still operate, if there is really such a black technology in ancient times, why would Sargeras even coax the High Elves to risk the extinction of the race, sacrificing the entire Well of Eternity to open a temporary dog hole for him? Rorschach sneered in his heart, and subconsciously turned his head to look at Arthas, who was the principal on the side.
This prince's face was extremely unsightly, if he was still indulged by anger and resentment, most of them would have thought that this was a gift from God, but now that he has come to his senses, he has obviously noticed that something is wrong, but it is just ......
"Let's go." Finally, he glanced deeply at the dwarf king who made an innocent expression on the side, resolutely dragged Rorschach behind him, and stepped into the blue light gate with one foot.
He had no choice.
A moment ago, the wind and snow were howling, and it was difficult to move an inch, but it was natural.
In the next second, it was white, cold and soaking bones, and the soul was tightened.
There is no snowflakes and the coolness of the body, and there is no washing with the roar of the north wind, only the cold, the extreme coldness that freezes the heavens and the earth and freezes the heart, as if stepping into the legendary Norse mythology of the Winter Palace Snow Country, mortals take a step forward, freeze to the bone, and turn into eternal ice sculptures.
What's even more amazing is the magnificent scenery of ice and snow ahead.
In the distance are the glaciers that stretch into countless prismatic trees, the transparent mountains rise one after another, leaning against each other, straight into the sky, the mountains and the ground cast by pure ice, crystal clear like reflective rhinestones, the whole sky is reflected with a colorful light.
The thick snow is no more, but instead there is a piece of ice crystal slippery surface that seems to be artificially piled up, but there is no division, stepping on the ground, making a crisp sound of "Bang Bang", it seems that there is a kind of cold that even the soul has to freeze from the feet to soak, through the body, and finally into the brain marrow, even with the whole person because it is too cold, but instead rises a kind of indulgence and confusion soaked in hot water like sleeping.
"Oh no, this is ......?" Rorschach's heart suddenly moved, and he couldn't help but feel excited, and the cold and cold in his body brought by the psychic physique suddenly boiled violently, and he seemed to feel the invasion of the outside, converging into a flowing water that penetrated the body, flowing back and forth, removing the extremely abnormal frozen gas from scratch a little bit, and even bringing Rorschach with a clear mind. Only then did he realize that the incredible chill that had invaded his body was quite similar to when he summoned the spirit possession, but the evil and grand spirit body was scattered in this ice and snow world, everywhere and everywhere.
"That's why the Lich King brought Arthas here? His soul ...... Merge with the whole iceberg? "I knew that if it weren't for the psychic physique's mastery of the unity of man and spirit, Rorschach, who had been unconsciously permeated by evil thoughts, suddenly had a little deeper understanding of the original plot.
But this belated awakening meant nothing to his current situation.
The three-person sword-seeking team, which had been unhindered along the way, finally encountered the enemy in the way for the first time.
The reason why it was judged as an enemy at first sight was because of its identity - the undead. To be precise, it was a huge undead wrapped in ice sculptures, with an azure fluorescent body that floated on countless tiny whirlpools of air currents in mid-air. In comparison, the kind that Rorschach summoned through ice shards was less than one-fifth the size of him, which was the difference between a dwarf and a giant.
"The Lich King's lackey?." Arthas looked at it suspiciously for a moment, and saw that the strange undead on the opposite side had no intention of making a move, and he didn't want to bother too much, so he directly stepped forward and shouted, "Whoever you belong to, get out of my way quickly, or I will leave you with no bones left!" ”
"Go back...... Before it's too late......" The guard, who seemed to be a gigantic ice revenant, replied in disagreement, a large amount of cold air currents running through its scarred and cracked body, and the roar of the north wind carried a shiver and pathos with its voice.
"I don't know what to say!" Arthas's face turned cold when he heard this, and he didn't say much, he lifted the giant hammer in his hand, and the holy power on his body surged, and the armor around his body suddenly rose with golden brilliance. The pressure and anger he had stored up in his heart seemed to find an outlet for catharsis, and the holy light brought a bit of scorching heat, boiling a large cloud of snow mist and steam around him, shrouding the paladin's silver figure in a blur.
The next moment, the golden light under the fluffy mist suddenly poured out like an avalanche, between the narrow passages covered with ice crystals, as if a small sun lit up in an instant, the white-gold holy flame wrapped around the figure, and in an instant a straight long line ran through the air, and the giant hammer wrapped around the light flame cut the sea and waves across the fog on both sides, dragging the knight's figure across a distance of tens of meters in a blink of an eye, and finally picked up a semi-circular arc in mid-air, and smashed down towards the guard's waist.
"Bang--"
The sound of jerky like the ground collapsing sounded, and the strong kinetic energy from the heart of the hammer set off a wave of qi visible to the naked eye in all directions, and the ice barrier surrounding the huge undead was only slightly bright, and then it sank deeply with the fall of the light hammer, and then turned into a piece of powder-like ice and scattered, as for the core that bloomed with blue brilliance, there were countless terrible screams of the dead, shaking the air outside to rise and fall.
Although the human paladin in the game is a typical "nurse" class, and the four major skills are used for area buffs and team healing, how can there be such a ridiculous reason in the real world that a harmless healer leads everyone into battle? After all, a paladin is just a profession, not a solidified and rigid life, and it is almost inevitable that he will master more complex combat skills. In fact, most of the first paladins were famous warriors or priests before they took office, so the fighting skills that circulated within them were in no way inferior to those of any other class, and it was the "charge" technique that Arthas now uses that belongs to the warrior's fury line.
But the strange thing is that after suffering such serious damage, the undead who was covered with ice and mist still did not resist, but only blocked the prince's way with his huge body, and his body still did not retreat a little bit of collapse, and let out a difficult and slow cry.
"Get out of here...... Back...... ...... while there's still time."
Arthas turned a deaf ear, but the holy light on his body was even more dazzling, shining so that the ice glass around him more than ten meters flowed out of a dazzling golden brilliance, and there was no expression on the face of the knight's steel helmet, but his subordinates burst forward with a cross-shaped flash, and the heavy hammer hit was like a landslide that never stopped, and in the blink of an eye, the huge body of this inexplicable undead was crushed inch by inch, but after a while, most of the body of this huge undead was shattered, and the whole body fell to the ground with a "boom", The whirlpool of air currents, which had lost its support and floated, was finally powerless to rise again.
"Let's go." Arthas was silent for a moment, but put away his hammers and circled to the open passage beside him, ready to move on.
"Can't...... Go. Only the small half of the undead connecting the core of the chest cavity to the skull remained, and the broken arm wriggled on the ground, and it cried out around itself.
"It's all here, do you still want to defend this sword?" Arthas let go of his grip on the hammer, turned around, and asked sharply.
"No...... I want to protect ...... It's you...... I don't want you to be tainted by it...... Yes... Yes. The guardian replied, but before he could finish speaking, his body began to slowly disintegrate into countless snow particles, and large expanses of fluffy white mist rose and scattered between the blue sky and the earth.
A small white slag swirled in the wind, flying and slapping on Arthas's face, he was stunned for a moment, but shook his head, picked up the giant hammer and continued to walk towards the cave, before leaving, he looked back at his companion behind him, and said lightly:
"Mentor, you come with me......"
He looked at Rorschach, who was distracted, groaned slightly, suddenly changed his mind, and continued, "Xia, thank you for accompanying me here, and let me go alone for the rest of the way." ”
"Ah...... This? Muradin did not expect the prince to make such an arrangement, hesitated for a moment, looked at the indifferent Rorschach on the side, still gritted his teeth, and continued to follow Arthas.
After a while, Rorschach, who was hiding on the side, stepped forward, looked at the undead guard who had fallen to the ground, and suddenly took out an ice-blue ice crystal necklace and made a gesture.
As he moved, a pale blue light was released from the fragment in his hand, and finally projected onto the ice guard that was disintegrating little by little, and the support from the same source of magic immediately stopped the process of its death. The pathetic undead stubbornly turned his head, a faint mist rising from his hollow pupils, and squeezed out the leaky words word by word.
"Help me...... Stop him...... Can't let him ...... Contaminated. ”
Rorschach shook his head, rejecting the deceased's last wishes, and only looked at them with interest. An undetectable blue floated in his eyes, he looked at it for a moment, and his gloomy expression suddenly revealed a sunny smile, and he said slowly, "Your existence...... It's funny...... But I'm not going to stop Arthas from facing his own darkness. ”
The undead, barely crumbling again, did not speak, but their eyes dimmed.
However, in the next second, he heard the voice of the strange young man in front of him.
"Since you want to save him so much...... Why not break free from this shackle and take matters into your own hands? ”
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