Chapter 30: Glacier Hell, Resurrection of the Dead
The vision of the soul is different from the colorful and vivid world in the eyes of the living. Rorschach had already realized this, but when he no longer browsed indirectly with the help of the holding spirit, but watched it himself, he was still speechless in shock.
Because...... Everything in front of me is too weird and terrifying.
It was as if a layer of gorgeous and delicate plastic shell had been broken, and this glazed ice cave, which was as beautiful as the ice and snow kingdom in a fairy tale, finally twisted a little in his eyes, and finally cracked its ugly demonized essence to the extreme.
Heaven and earth have become different.
The originally crystal clear ice crystal channel is no longer the color of pure snow, but is filled with a glittering glow that cannot be seen by the naked eye. From top to bottom, from every ice brick on the wall to every snow on the ground, it was like phosphorescent ore in a cave at the bottom of the mountain, steaming from the inside out with a strange lilac mist, and these firefly-like stars were intertwined in the air from time to time, and finally merged into a huge torrent of purple and blackened. Rorschach looked up and found that a long river of netherworlds with a width of dozens of meters and an unknown length was like the nine-winding corridor of the Yellow River, running through almost the entire interior of the mountain, pouring towards some unknown distant source.
This seemingly miraculous glacier is a pure and natural scenery in appearance, and when Rorschach looks through the ghostly vision, it feels as if he has seen a massive, roaring nineteenth-century steam machine. Every piece of crystal as glass ice surface is transformed into tiny gears that keep "clicking" in a trance, and immeasurable transparent ghosts are trapped in every minute of ice and constantly wailing, being squeezed out like a battery A wisp of light purple smoke is squeezed out like a battery, blending into the surging river of spiritual power in mid-air. Rorschach lowered his head, and he could clearly see the frost sorrow held by Arthas, forming a large skull-like vortex in the torrent, absorbing the ocean-like death magic at all times, pouring every minute and second into the body of the Death Knight, and as time passed, the scars left by the battle with the corpse queen on his body gradually disappeared.
"That's a big deal...... Could these souls be the indigenous tribes that Naozu slaughtered during his sweep of Northrend? Just this cave, it seems that there are close to 100,000 ghosts, and these are definitely not all, natural disasters will only be more ...... in the glacier fortress of the base camp further north" After exclaiming, Rorschach also calmed down, he stretched out his hands, lowered his head and looked at his floating transparent body at this time, and said in a half-loud voice:
"I'm ...... Dead? ”
He immediately realized that something was wrong, because in the vast netherworld energy like the ocean, in addition to the large vortex stirred by the frost sorrow, there was actually another small tributary that had shrunk a thousand times more. Unlike the great river of Styx, which flows to a certain cold will, this one looks like the source of a small stream in comparison, but it is a brilliant and transparent three-edged fragment.
A tiny fragment embedded in flesh and blood, transparent as a crystal.
"Isn't this the 'fragment of the Frozen Throne' that Arthas spoke of?" Rorschach was stunned for a moment, and guessed: "Could it be that the way I look now, is it the effect of this fragment?" ”
In fact, Rorschach was only half right. The strange state of his soul at this time, although it was indeed relying on that fragment, was not the case at all.
The undisturbed primitive history of this world is based on a famous game expansion in the real world, and also moves backwards in the form of an expansion. In other words, at the time of Rorschach's visit, the whole world was in the stage of The Frozen Throne. And the "Frozen Throne" is not just a metaphor for Arthas to step on the glacial crown and abandon the fate of his prosperous love to set foot on the Throne of the Dead, in itself, in a sense, it is a secret treasure that is better than "frost sorrow".
From the point of view of modern warfare, if the "Frost Sorrow" is compared to a reusable weapon of mass destruction similar to a nuclear bomb or a biological bomb; Then another gift given by the Burning Legion to Naozu, the "Frozen Throne", is a comprehensive surname base that integrates command room, satellite radar, military camp training, scientific and technological research, and logistics supply. While the former can certainly win a local war, the latter is the mother of wars that achieve strategic momentum.
In the plot before "WAR3", Neozu was originally just an orc shaman in the world of Draenor, although his magic power is profound and knowledgeable, but he can still only be regarded as the best of the mortal race, and he is not stronger than a young human hero like Arthas. And by the time of "The Frozen Throne", he has jumped from a second-tier supporting role to a desperate and invincible villain, although he has never had a great record, but he can almost cover the continent of Northrend thousands of miles wide like a god, and derive all kinds of incredible abilities, the spirit crosses the endless sea to summon the strong on the other side of the continent, tempts and controls the hearts of the weak-willed, and at the same time accurately monitors and manipulates the consciousness of the army of millions of necromancy.
All this is the credit of the "Frozen Throne".
This artifact itself does not possess any destructive power and defensive power, and its only role is to increase and mutate spiritual power, but as the so-called handsome covers a hundred ugliness, when only the essence and purity reach a limit, the simplest ability will become more terrifying than any weapon of destruction. With the amplification power of the Frozen Throne, Naozu's consciousness radiates ten million times the range, and is like a light brain processor in the science fiction world, monitoring the wind and grass of the entire continent at the same time. However, more often than not, this **oss treats the Frozen Throne located in the center of the Northrend pole as something similar to the center of the psionic signal tower, using the special surname of the spiritual arc that is not affected by spatial distance, establishing no data points in the sphere of influence of the Scourge Legion, collecting the energy emitted by the resentful spirits like digital signals, and continuously increasing and replenishing its own power by absorbing the discrete spirits that millions of undead in the entire continent cannot be freed.
Gathering sand into towers, dripping water into the sea, every expansion of the Scourge Legion represents the control of a revenant, this ability similar to the gods of the underworld, this is the real reason why the Lich King is so powerful.
The "Cave of Sorrows" where Rorschach is located at this time is one of the hundreds of undead strongholds that the Lich King has built on this continent. And because the original reason for manufacturing it was to warm the "Frost Sorrow" and provide abundant magic power for this artifact at all times, the scale was even more within the top three, and the number of imprisoned undead was as high as 120,000, which accounted for one-seventh of the total number of "batteries" of the entire Scourge Legion at this time.
Originally the "Frozen Throne" that started as the Lich King, this artifact has been kept in the deepest part of Northrend's glacier ice canopy, which belongs to the real base camp of the Scourge Legion, and in this period of time when the Lich King has not yet become a public enemy of the world, it has not been attacked by any hostile forces, so it is naturally impossible to break any pieces. However, the artifact itself actually has no name, and its original function was a cell container used by demons to imprison and torture the soul of Nao Zu, so the original shape was a coffin-like square cube crystal. And the so-called "fragments" are actually the leftovers that were removed when Nao Zu later set up himself as the queen and polished the crystal into the shape of a throne in order to cover up this humiliating history, but because it is soaked in the evil power of the Lich King, it also contains its huge spiritual force field, and even contains a small piece of Nao Zu's consciousness clone.
In the original story, this last remaining piece of fragment was used as a secret weapon to attack the Hilllord Muradine Copperbeard, the only hero who could prevent the protagonist from going astray at the last moment, when Arthas pulled out Frost Grief. It is precisely because the will of the Lich King in this piece of broken ice has turned into a spiritual impact that the joke of "the hero of steel and iron bones was stoned to death by a palm-sized piece of ice". However, it turned out that although the blow did not make the dwarf king brain dead on the spot, it also caused him to fall into a complete coma, and he had to be a vegetative person for three years, and even if he was saved later, he lost most of his memory due to the side effects of brain trauma, but it also triggered another encounter with him, and he was the leader of the savage natives for more than ten years in the Arctic Cracks.
And the reason why Rorschach was safe and sound was because he happened to have a time difference. Before Arthas pulled out the Frost Sorrow, the Lich King's consciousness was in a lucid active period, when the Frozen Throne was controlled by his will, and any action that touched or offended him would inevitably suffer retaliation, but when Arthas drew his sword, Neozu indulged him at all times, and divided part of the Yuan Spirit into the Frost Sorrow according to the plan, and the body had to fall into a three-year slumber, and even the defense mechanism with the fragments in Rorschach's lower abdomen also entered a dormant state.
Because of this, when Rorschach's "magic power" from the psychic touched the fragment, the side of the throne fragment as a "tool" was alarmed when the Lich King's consciousness was already asleep, and without the control of the owner, the broken treasure instinctively turned on the basic auxiliary effect - spiritual amplification. Although this is only a fragment of less than one percent of the body, it is impossible for Rorschach to encompass most of the planet with the will of Nao Zu, but it can also increase the breadth of his thinking to a radius of dozens of miles for a while, but the problem is that Rorschach is not like the Lich King is a pure dark spirit body, and the fragile ** can't withstand the expanding spiritual power at all.
And because this fragment comes from the "Frozen Throne", if the complete throne itself is regarded as a state-monopolized TV signal tower, it can be regarded as a cottage rural high-voltage antenna that is a thousand times weaker, and after activating the basic role, it can also intermittently absorb the power of the undead sea circulating in this stronghold. To some extent, it is even possible to take advantage of the closure of all the master's firewalls to steal part of the Lich King's authority like a hacker, which in turn affects the transmission of Scourge commands.
Although Rorschach had a vague understanding of this, this sudden gain did not provide him with any substantial help in this crisis.
"I don't know how to attack in a ghostly state......" Rorschach looked at the tall and advancing figure below, with a grim and gloomy look in his eyes, "Even the power of a psychic must rely on possession** to cast, and undead spells also require spells and gestures...... Do you want me to hit him directly with my soul? No, unless it's a thousand-year-old ghost like the old demon of Montenegro, ordinary ghosts are no different from the snacks of the Death Knight...... Doing such a stupid thing is simply a fool's mouth. ”
“……”
Just when he was entangled and depressed, another faint voice suddenly sounded in his ears, it seemed to be a cry from a hundred meters away, and he couldn't hear the words clearly, and he could only understand some words intermittently.
"Revenge...... Holy Light ......"
"Huh...... This voice is so familiar. Rorschach couldn't help but turn his head, only to find a faint silver light faintly shimmering in the corner of the distant ice cave
In the midst of a realistic glacial cave.
After Rorschach's spirit involuntarily came out of his body, the sluggish and dazed face of his body on the ground was naturally regarded by Arthas as an ugly state after his belief collapsed because he could not accept the facts, and he only glanced at it and stopped delving into it.
However, the failure of the expected plan also made the prince's face quite ugly, and he ignored the severed limbs of the corpse lying on the ground, and another thought suddenly surged in his heart.
Death is never a problem for a death knight who is in the company of the undead and corpses.
He picked up the head of the beautiful woman who had fallen into Rorschach's arms, looked at the vaguely smiling face, and said hatefully, "Really...... Idiot! Do you think that death will free you from my slavery? If you don't want to be a knight under my command, then become the humblest ghoul to serve me, and I will let your bodies rot and grow maggots, and let the mutilated souls in them taste the painful taste of devouring the flesh and blood you love, the Death Hand! ”
Saying this, Arthas raised his palm, emitting several arcs of black lightning, the arc light was like a rope with the head in the air to draw an arc, and finally "poof" reconnected to the headless female corpse that fell to the ground, as his thoughts turned, the pitch-black arc light slowly lifted the body of another corpse girl, and crossed two poignant female corpses dipped in blood in the air in front of him.
He then raised the frost sorrow in his hand, and the power from death immediately surged, turning into a black light visible to the naked eye, and the painful and distorted faces of countless dead appeared in the air, and Arthas seemed to be quite struggling, just reciting word by word: "Magic is endless, twisting the soul, driven by resentment, and bones are reborn...... The Sea of the Dead, resurrected! ”
This trick's ability to revive the dead is the ultimate move of the undead hero in "Warcraft" - "Resurrection of the Dead" (I just don't call it "the Corpse"), which can once again throw the six most powerful corpses around into the battlefield and transform into an unkillable undead state, with the death knight itself reproducing the evil aura of the paladin and the ability to heal the undead, which can be called an immortal nightmare on the battlefield.
It's just that Arthas's torrent of magic to control the corpse was not soaked in the beautiful corpse that fell to the ground after all.
Standing in front of the raging black death spell was a film of light composed of a hazy dusty light blue mist, although less than a finger thick, seemingly transparent and weak, but like a thousand years of reefs before the waves, let the jet-black tide of death wash and stir, but not an inch can be moved.
Arthas couldn't help but be stunned, only to find that Rorschach, who had collapsed on the ground, had come to his senses at some point. And while he was concentrating on casting a spell, he took out a sapphire pendant, pressed his hand on it, and also made his own resistance.
Draw on the power of ice and turn it into a ring of resistance.
This cold and secluded cave suddenly lit up.
A little bit of diamond-like cold air rose from the palm of Rorschach's hand holding the gem, blooming in an instant with a brilliant brilliance, and then condensed little by little in the next moment, as the tide of ice-blue magic poured out along the necklace, the air in front of him slowly constructed a crystal-like hexagonal icicle. In just three or four seconds, the strange and brilliant hooked icicles surrounded him and the other two female corpses like a snow-colored lotus flower, and the faint light blue mist lingered in the ice crystals, connecting the heavens and the earth, and the continuous blue flashes flowed along the icicles, and then sank into the top of the cave, merging with it.
The Death Knight shook his head and sneered, "It's just a dying struggle, do you think this kind of toy can stop the arrival of death?" ”
His body moved suddenly, stabbing straight with his sword, and the sorrow of frost bursting with blue brilliance was worthy of the name of a legendary divine soldier, but it broke through the ice in an instant, and it was like a bamboo, but it was just ...... On the ice wall that was broken by the blade, in the next second, there was a sudden sound of "click", and at the same time, it condensed into ice inch by inch from the inside to the outside, and a deep and endless wave of magic came in, endlessly restoring the ice barrier, Arthas was shocked "Huh", and was pushed back two steps by this repulsion, stunned on the spot.
If it was some other Rausch magic light or even the priest's divine power, he would only feel bored at most, not so surprised, just ......
That kind of cold and evil evil power, sticky and as if it were soul-draining despair, is actually the power of the Lich King who once defeated himself and lurked in this glacier without bounds?
When he looked up, he was stunned to find that the lotus icicle in front of him was connected up and down, faintly integrated with the entire cave, and he actually used a disguised deception to also obtain the support of the entire glacier evil power. Frost Sorrow slashes at it, and the same magical hedge forms a strange cycle like the two-headed serpent symbolizing Hera's patron goddess in Greek mythology, and the sharp blade breaks through the ice, and the evil power attached to the blade of the sword in turn replenishes the destroyed ice wall.
Just as the same Hercules, even if he could lift the earth with one arm, would never be able to lift himself upside down with his hands. Even though he held the Frost Sorrow in his hand, which was an artifact, Arthas found himself helpless to take on the ice barrier in front of him for a moment.
"I was weird just now...... According to your arrogant surname, even if you are against the evil that is strong, it is impossible not to resist before you fall, but when I woke up, there was no trace of damage in this cave, and I vaguely understood the mystery of it by the sudden adventure just now. Rorschach's voice rang in his ears, and Arthas looked through the icicles, only to find that the young man in it had his head down, one hand pressed on the blue light on his lower abdomen, and the other hand on the ice, as if the positive and negative poles of the battery were linked together, frowning and showing an uncomfortable expression.
"So what?" Although the Death Knight was depressed, he refused to lose face, and said with a sneer, "Although I don't understand how you stole the master's power, do you really think that I have no way to use this fragile shield?" And with your half-dead appearance, how long can it last? ”
"It won't take long...... Rorschach raised his head all the time, with unwiped tears on his face, and said seriously, "enough for me to kill you." ”
With that, he dragged his hands on the ground alone, slowly picking at the smooth ice with his fingers, and crawled inward little by little, leaving the figure of the fallen prince roaring in anger.
The transparent ice reflects the colorful colors, and under the twists and turns of the spacious cave, Rorschach is draped in wisps of light and gradually reaches his destination.
When he climbed to the depths of the stairs of the cave along the voice in his heart, he couldn't help but be stunned when he saw the source of the whispering.
After a moment's hesitation, he looked at the silver metallic brilliance and asked vaguely, "It's you, calling me?" ”
……
(ps:
The "artifact" here does not refer to the powerful treasure in the reincarnation space that surpasses the golden upper position.
The definition of "artifact" in the Warcraft series is very strange, and it does not necessarily refer to treasures that can make the user as powerful as a god, in addition to some veritable artifacts such as "Dragon's Soul" and "Sargeras's Scepter", it also refers to other items with "magical" effects, or magic weapons related to religious gods, which can also be called artifacts. In a sense, Grandma Tai's 10,000-year-old banana, Illidan's small white flower, the cloak of the invisible night, the "ancient artifacts" that players often collect in the game, and even the calculators of modern society that have traveled to the world of Azeroth, can also be regarded as artifacts. (o(∩_∩)o)
Also, professions such as paladins and death knights can't see ghosts and ghosts themselves, and only when the spirit body is fused with magic power, it can only be seen and hurt with the naked eye after obtaining a semi-substantial body and becoming an existence such as a resentful spirit or a heroic spirit, and the "ghost" monsters encountered in the game belong to this category.
It's a lot of pressure, but fortunately, I still have 60,000 or 70,000 manuscripts in my deposit, otherwise I can't eat the four 12,000 reminders.)
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