Chapter 19: The earth cracks, and the spider demons stand out

On the branches of the moon, in the northwest corner of the ghost town, the half-collapsed hut on the edge is still lit by red candlelight.

This small two-storey building, the front and back are arched by piles of rubble, countless ice blocks of different sizes reflect the full moonlight, and the stones and gravel behind the walls are faintly mixed with snow-white severed limbs and splattered blood, the scene is strangely and tragically like the scene of a murder and bloody crime.

A certain young murderer who assassinated high-ranking personnel in the enemy's base camp and absconded in a hurry, but at this time he sat peacefully on the soaked and steaming bed, and even held a long-haired black beauty in his arms, but his expression was mixed with melancholy, entanglement, and a bit of hidden pleasure. Halfway through, he sighed, snapped his fingers, summoned a big book out of thin air, and slowly opened it.

The fruits of this battle are also showing in front of his eyes.

"Battle deeds: Rookie Rorschach, kill the 'Black Witch' Falina (bronze upper position), successfully challenge the solo skip level, get 2000 survival points, and randomly draw an enemy ability card."

"Reward: Rookie Rorschach, get a bronze lower ability card ———— 'Scourge Undead Spell Mastery' (from the game "Warcraft series")."

Rorschach raised an eyebrow, a smile unnoticed.

The entry of a large amount of survival points can leave him a lot of time to directly use the consumption of survival points to tap the potential quality of the "psychic" physique in his body. Although this improvement in quality does not greatly increase the "amount" of ability like the enhancement of direct qigong magic, the improvement of talent improves the "source" of derived power, making it easier for him to grasp and comprehend the essence of spiritism. You must know that as uncultivated psychics, people are not consistent with each other, including underworld mortals who need to train for a long time before they can barely fit together, as well as villains who have tens of thousands of "witch power" units in psychic families since they were born.

And the necromancy card from the Scourge forces in the world of Azeroth gave him a big surprise.

It turns out that although the sources of good and evil are different, the necromancy of this world is very close to the essence of the psychic's ability, both of which belong to the same magical power that uses the dead who have disappeared in the world, and both belong to the derivative category of "psychics". It's just that one is hand-to-hand combat with an obvious oriental style of "please ask the gods to go up"; The other is the remote spell release of the Western magical necromancy. In other words, Rorschach's "psychic talent" can also be applied to this spell, and even by touching the bypass, allowing him to learn and master undead spells ten times faster than others. The most important thing is that after strengthening this card, Rorschach finally has the ability to fight from a distance, and does not have to blindly rely on the corpse queen for risky melee raids.

But...... These gains are only a part of the total, and the newly acquired magical abilities always have to go through a lot of practice and practice before they can be used freely, and it is the relics from this lovely lady that can really make Rorschach immediately improve his combat effectiveness.

The pile of clothes that were included in the death pattern cloth bag, out of the consideration that this woman had a famous husband known as the "Plague Bringer", Rorschach hesitated for a long time, and finally did not dare to open it, but the sapphire necklace that automatically released the ice barrier during the crisis was successfully obtained by him.

This pale blue gemstone, which seems to be a thousand-fold condensation of the skull, is actually a treasure called "Ice Shard". According to Rorschach's knowledge from the cards, its true use is not to combat or support, but to summon an icy wraith with the abilities "Frost Nova" and "Siphon of Life".

When the black witch Falina used this treasure, she temporarily extracted the ice power belonging to the summoned creature and turned it into an ice barrier to protect the body, causing the resentful spirits who lost the magic power of the ice system to be unable to manifest the entity, and could only rely on the negative energy attached to the ghost to corrode the life of the person, and it would be shattered by the blow of the spirit, and in fact, it did not exert its real power.

After disposing of the loot, Rorschach bandaged the wound again, and was not in a hurry to leave, but sat quietly on the half-collapsed bed, sorting out the necromancy mixed up in his mind, and it lasted like this for more than ten minutes. It wasn't until there was a sudden light outside, and then the ground shook slightly, that he suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly blocked his ears, but he was still shocked by the sudden roar, and his ears were like thunder, and he was almost deaf.

"Bang Bang Bang ——————"

The violent explosions still continued, and even standing in the houses hundreds of meters away from the town gate, Rorschach could still see the flames soaring and crumbling Cataclysmic Psychic Towers.

Under the light of the red fire, the original rugged and solid stone body continued to burst into shocks, large swaths of rubble splashed and scattered, and the magic lines on the relief completely failed in the face of pure physical explosions, and in the blink of an eye, the faint light dimmed a little bit, and the gloomy and cold building complex that had lost its support fell heavily to the ground, and cracked into a pile of debris one after another. The awakened dead and mages were left without command and assistance, and most of them were at a loss, and they were hindered by the flames everywhere, and the situation was chaotic.

"Looks like everything is going well...... You're doing a good job. Rorschach shook his head, and finally woke up from Fang Cai's nervous disorder, and looked up just in time to see the situation outside the window, and couldn't help but nod in approval. Just when there was chaos, a purple figure took the opportunity to sneak into the hut he was in, and was standing quietly behind him, receiving his praise.

Rorschach suddenly realized his pink situation, and quietly withdrew the arm that was holding the corpse Ji Yanran, and then turned his head casually, looking at the beautiful girl who was sent by him, and couldn't help but be stunned. His gaze skimmed over the white skin beneath her ragged and torn clothes, and finally rested on a small patch of her waist that was out of place elsewhere and slowly recovering from its festering.

"You're hurt?" Rorschach couldn't help but be surprised, according to his inference, the surrounding cultists were weak and weak, and most importantly, they were defenseless against internal attacks, even if there were one or two elites whose magic power level had reached the lower bronze level, it was impossible to resist the surprise attack and assassination from the corpse girl without realizing it and without a guardian spell.

The purple-haired girl nodded, and replied in a dry voice, "Among those mages...... A pair of twins...... Living together, I kill a ...... was discovered. ”

With that, she took out a purple book from her waist with a white bone skeleton embossed on the cover, and handed it over, "This is ...... Booty. ”

The beautiful girl with the best posture worked tirelessly to run back and forth for herself, and even took out the spoils of war with an injury, which could have been regarded as a touching thing anyway. But Rorschach only raised his head slightly, and saw the pair of lifeless cloudy pupils under the beautiful and pale face, and suddenly he was stunned, so he had to nod, took the book handed over, and then strode out, but a vague thought rose in his heart

How can we get them back to 'self'?

Despite the absence of true sanity, the corpse Ji Yanzi acted under the memories of her simulated life, leaving behind all moral purity and sympathy and doubts, and killing Valiso to a cold state. During the time when Rorschach was ambushing and plotting against the Dark Witch, he not only perfectly placed the engineering explosives obtained from Arthas on the psychic tower and detonated them one by one, but also eradicated the cultists living nearby one by one, adding some extra survival points to Rorschach, and at the same time, allowing the group to go to the town very smoothly without attracting anyone's attention.

In other words, the only remaining dead people simply don't have the energy to pay attention to things other than the enemy in front of them.

Theoretically, on the battlefield of Bai Yu, the expeditionary force under the command of Arthas belonged to the attacking side, and should have a certain advantage. But as far as the facts are concerned, the army of the living has the upper hand on the surface, but in fact it is in an awkward situation - no matter how desperate they try, the death of their comrades on their side is really dead; And even if the enemy is wiped out with dozens or hundreds of skeleton miscellaneous soldiers, it is just a trivial matter that can be revived with a wave of the hand, even if it is exchanged for one hundred, it is a big deal. And barely killing a few non-renewable ghouls is pointless when the opponent continues to summon skeletons and carry out covering undead cannonballs as long as the magic circle is not removed.

However, as the saying goes, "success or failure is nothing", after the spiritual tower circle that the catastrophe side relied on for survival was destroyed, it no longer had the cover of infinite resurrection skeletons, and there was no longer long-range magic artillery support, and the undead army of the necromancer resurrection skeleton was lost, and once again faced the angry human army that came across the sea, and it was led by two heroes to run rampaging military array, what was the result?

The answer is thirty-three minutes.

Perhaps half of the time to get rid of the hurry, countless temporarily revived white bones were barely piled up into a sea of white skeletons, and under the command of the chaotic undead units behind them, they resisted desperately, and they only lasted less than twenty minutes before they were crushed into broken bones all over the ground by the army. In fact, if it weren't for the dozen or so Abominations who suddenly threw themselves into the battlefield and blocked the gate with their bodies, they would have collapsed almost at the touch of a button, and they would not have been able to delay even a minute.

This...... It is the true reliance of the prince of Arthas who dares to cross the sea and cross the state and chase down the demons for thousands of miles, and the most elite and powerful army in the human kingdom under the continuous war of Azeroth.

However, when things have come to this point, the undead natural disaster will naturally not choose to sit still, and directly set off their hole cards.

Since people have failed, then ...... What about the location?

"Knock-knock-knock-"

From shallow to deep, from static to moving, the faint echo of "rumbling and rumbling" suddenly came from the depths of the distant earth, and at the beginning, this little movement was easily ignored under the complicated sound of thousands of troops; But as time progressed, the amplitude of the earthquake in the ground increased little by little, and when people stood on the ground unstable and staggered, the soldiers who were originally chasing and killing spirits stopped their movements in unison, and an inexplicable panic rose in their hearts, and only then did they realize the seriousness of the matter.

Earthquake? But...... Not to mention that the permafrost-covered earth of Azeroth Arctic for thousands of years is as solid as iron, and how can there be such an earthquake in Northrend, which is above the ocean and does not have any continental shelf connection?

Since it can't be a natural disaster, then it is naturally [***].

If we say that the intelligent life form "spider demon" that evolved from insects can also be included in the category of "human".

The earth cracked, and spiders stood out.

"Boom ——————"

In the town that was reduced to a battlefield, a large area of buildings suddenly collapsed on the spot, and a large number of rubble remnants kicked up a puff of smoke and dust that spread for hundreds of meters, and the ground on one side suddenly cracked into cracks. At this moment, looking down from above, it seems that there is an invisible giant hand connecting the heavens and the earth in the sky above the town, stirring up the dust in the sky, and at the same time, the five fingers will collapse the earth into countless deep hollow wormholes, and in just a moment, the plain town with a radius of hundreds of meters has turned into a basin scene of ravines and hills.

In the face of this massive catastrophe, many dumbfounded soldiers have not had time to react, people have fallen into the cracked pit, and the survivors who remain on the surface have not had time to rejoice, one by one strange monsters have jumped out of the hollows in the ground and attacked.

These sudden enemies resemble huge ants magnified thousands of times, their hideous and sharp mouthparts are faintly visible, and their appearance is covered with a layer of purple-black carapace unique to insects, and the sword slash can only leave a wisp of white marks on it, and the edges of more than ten limbs on the left and right of the body are sharp like hook blades slashing back and forth, jumping up with the advantage of myriapods, as if seven or eight sickles are slashing together, so that the humans with two hands can block and be overstretched, and they can't parry.

But what was even more unfortunate was that the soldiers who unfortunately fell to the crack in the ground, the ground on which they had been standing suddenly collapsed, and before people could react to what was going on, they were smashed to pieces, and then before they could slow down, they only heard a "poof" sound, and a snow-white transparent spider silk web suddenly covered their bodies, and when they couldn't move, they were cut into minced meat by countless sharp feet in the dark.

I don't know whether it should be considered lucky or unlucky, Rorschach, who originally fled from the battlefield in a hurry, was caught off guard in the face of this strange and very strange attack method. But by the time he recovered from the vertigo of falling from a high altitude, the two crypt demons who had caught their prey not far away and were ready to attack had been dismembered into a pile of carapace fragments by the two corpse girls who were furious.

"Huh...... This is? Rorschach took advantage of the moonlight cast by the hollow above, slightly looked at the surrounding environment, and unconsciously showed a look of surprise, it turned out that the underground of this town had already been hollowed out and hollowed out, becoming a complex and deep underground cave, judging from the white cobwebs remaining on the ground, it was obviously the result of the hard work of the spider demons.

Rorschach looked at the ground by the moonlight from the skylight above his head, and found that the dirt under his feet was pitted and uneven, and behind the corpses of the two spider demons were some deep pits of different degrees of excavation, and the whole ground was in a downward trend. He suddenly had a flash of inspiration, recalled the strange things he had seen these days, and suddenly realized:

"I see! No wonder that woman went to great lengths to disguise herself as a spy, and really provided a route to crack the Scourge Circle, it turned out that the enemy was fake, but the truth was that she wanted to play a trick of 'inviting you into the urn'! As long as Arthas's army is introduced to a designated ground, and when the time comes, the spider demon can dig directly to a depth of one or twenty meters, and then dig through the frozen ground, and even without even making a move, the soldiers who fall from the height will themselves be crushed into a puddle of mud by gravity. It's just that because I killed her and let the army break through the town, this trap was forced to be exposed in advance, although the general project was completed, but the depth of digging down was not high, according to the average human strength in the magical world of Azeroth, which is about twice as strong as the earth, people fall down and will not be injured at most, and will not cause too many casualties. ”

But why?

You know, although as long as you can overwhelm the enemy on the battlefield, all intrigues and tricks are indeed understandable. However, the mission of the Scourge Legion is not to defeat Arthas, but to destroy his faith as much as possible, and it may be difficult to make a pure fanatical paladin fall, but the easiest and most direct way to collapse the faith of Arthas, who is both the crown prince and the general of the army, is to destroy his last foundation - the king's [***] team. But the result can be like this, the process must not be promoted by such a rough and sudden means, let alone let this process not be too fast, otherwise the irresistible army will directly crush the past, and it will be difficult for Arthas, who lost everything in an instant, to give birth to the resentment of abandoning everything, at this time, the natural disaster actually wants to use this kind of ambush and trickery, in fact, it has violated the fundamental interests of the Lich King behind it.

Rorschach's heart moved, and he walked back and forth, and inadvertently caught a glimpse of the carapace of the spider demon corpse on the side, which was full of old wounds, but it was obviously not a slash mark of the sword metal, and he couldn't help but be surprised:

"Do you mean...... The Scourge, at least the Cataclysm army here, suffered inexplicable enemies and suffered huge losses, so he did not have the confidence to defeat Alsace in a head-on battle, and in order to avoid a magnificent victory that would in turn stimulate his confidence, he had to use this conspiracy to settle this part of the army that went with him once? ”

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