Chapter 196: Reality Blurring Order of the Dead
The Scarlet Monastery in the northern part of the Tirisfal Glades was once the place of glory of the Kingdom of Lordaeron, a center for human learning and worship of the Light. Attached to the Scarlet Monastery, the tomb of Fao, where the Paladin profession and the founder of the Knights of the Silver Hand, Alonthos Fao, are buried, so the paladins of Azeroth also considered it a place of pilgrimage.
At the time of the rise of the Scourge of the Dead, this tranquil monastery became a stronghold for the Scarlet Crusaders. The Scarlet Crusaders were stimulated by the Undead Scourge and had an extreme attitude towards all non-human races, but in the early days of the Scourge, they were also the mainstay of the fight against the Lich King, and at that time, the entire northern region of Lordaeron was almost full of the Scarlet Crusaders.
Now, of course, it's different. Now the ruins of Lordaeron and the Tirisfal Glade have become the territory of the Forsaken led by Sylvanas, and the Scarlet Crusaders, who were once prominent, have completely disappeared from the real society, and only the deputy ones are still surviving.
Ariel wanted to use the Scarlet Dawn to regain glory for the Scarlet Crusaders, and Gauss naturally supported it.
However, support is a will, and how to support it is a practical problem.
Gauss naturally understood that the bloody dawn of Ariel was completely different from the other organizations he had founded.
The organizations he established, in fact, do not have a clear purpose, and basically only follow one principle, that is, to increase their own strength as much as possible, but the bloody dawn is different, the purpose of the organization is very clear, and to achieve this purpose, it is obvious that you can't just focus on strengthening your strength, otherwise a powerful bloody dawn, if it is not the dawn of the bloody crusaders, then no matter how strong this organization is, it will obviously lose the meaning of existence.
Ariel also understands this, so even though Gauss sent nine modified creatures to her as followers, and with this, she can already create a core of strength for Scarlet Dawn, she is still very distressed.
Scarlet Dawn is not to mention anything else, there should always be a part of the spirit of the Scarlet Crusaders passed on, but this so-called Scarlet Spirit is obviously not something that can be deeply rooted in the hearts of the people by telling stories and flipping through books.
Gauss empathized, thought about it, and finally came up with a solution.
The spirit of the Scarlet Dawn, simply let the people of the Scarlet Crusaders help build it with their own hands!
In fact, this is the real purpose of his visit to the Scarlet Monastery!
According to the game, there should be two scarlet copies on this side of the Tirisfal Glade, one Scarlet Monastery and one Scarlet Hall, but in reality, the Scarlet Hall is an annex area of the Abbey, so naturally, the two are combined into one, a complete Scarlet Abbey.
The monastery was shrouded in a cloud of void energy, and the surrounding area was lush and green, and it was completely surrounded by shrubs and vines.
Gauss looked around, then disappeared, crossed the energy plane, and entered the monastery.
Not only was he very curious, what kind of appearance had become of the Scarlet Monastery after being imprisoned for more than thirty years, but he also deliberately deliberated several possibilities before coming, and what he saw along the way into the Scarlet Monastery was exactly in line with one of the possibilities, that is, more than thirty years have passed, and this pilgrimage place for priests and paladins has become a world of the undead!
Gauss circled around the cathedral, library, arsenal, hall training center, and cemetery, found more than thirty undead spirits, and implanted them in their hearts one by one. And after turning around this circle, he also had a surprise to find that from the peaceful day more than thirty years ago until now, the Scarlet Monastery has never been reset!
It's not hard to imagine why the crusaders of the Scarlet Monastery were transformed into undead!
Only by transforming into undead can they get rid of their dependence on food and survive until now.
However, not all of the Crusaders' undead transformations were carried out on their own initiative, and there was also a dispute.
Gauss was in the cemetery and saw the tombstone of Sarnos, the words inscribed on the tombstone roughly described the life of Sarnos, and the last paragraph, although the emotions revealed were full of remembrance and sorrow, but also revealed one thing.
It turned out that the transformation of the crusaders into the undead was the intention of Sarnost, and it was for this reason that he burned himself to ashes with flames after the Crusader leaders and soldiers of the Scarlet Monastery were all transformed into undead!
Sarnos is proficient in soul spells, known as the Soul Breaker, and is an epic mage. He was extremely fanatical about the Crusader faith, and as an instructor, he often tortured Crusader recruits in the name of purification. However, later, this fanatical crusader instructor himself contracted the plague of the dead and turned into a terrifying skeleton monster.
He wanted to destroy all the undead in Azeroth and purify all evil, but he became an undead himself, which greatly stimulated Sarnos. Unable to accept this fact, he hid himself in the cemetery and designated the cemetery as a forbidden area.
On the Day of Tranquility, the Scarlet Monastery was imprisoned, and in less than half a year, the food reserves had bottomed out.
Without food, they can only face death, but just as the Scarlet Crusades are in despair, Grand Prosecutor Sally Whitemayne and her Commander Durand are surprised to find that some of the Crusaders have disappeared for no apparent reason. Later, in the cemetery, they found the missing Crusaders, but without exception, they were all undead.
Sally Whitemane questioned Sarnos in every possible way, and finally learned the inside story. It turned out that Sarnos had slipped out of the cemetery and secretly attacked the Crusaders, who were infected with the plague of the dead and transformed into the undead. Although hateful, Sarnos's purpose is to hope that everyone will live!
Sally Whitemane also knew that the Crusaders could live if they became undead, but this was obviously contrary to the purpose of the Crusaders, and she couldn't accept it, and she couldn't bear to destroy the Crusaders who turned into undead, so she had to do it.
However, Sarnos did not stop his actions, and continued to attack the crusaders of the monastery, and inevitably there were some crusaders who could not accept starving to death, so they took the initiative to contract the plague of the undead and transformed themselves into undead.
Half a month later, Sarnos led the crusaders and unleashed a civil strife in the monastery.
In this civil strife, there was no shouting and killing, but the crusader undead spread the plague as much as possible. And as more and more of their comrades become terrible spirits, the remaining crusaders call on the Light in despair and chant holy prayers. Subsequently, one by one, the undead crusades, who also endured intense pain, joined the chanting procession, bathing their decomposed corpses in the holy light.
Seeing this, Sally Whitemayne burst into tears, and finally made a decision to let Sarnos use his dagger to slit his wrists! Next, Commander Durand, Monk Koloff, Dog Trainer Bran, Flame Weaver Kongele, Weapon Master Harlan, and the rest of the Crusaders also stepped forward one by one, allowing their unrecognizable comrades to stab their blades into their chests!
Finally, the Scarlet Monastery calmed down.
But three days later, Sarnos lit a fire in the cemetery, recited the Crusader oath, and took the initiative to walk into destruction in the raging flames. And the crusader undead who had attacked their comrades also gathered around Sarnos, singing the oath of life and death, and melted into a pile of ashes, inseparable embers in the soaring flames!
That's probably the way it happened, which made Gauss sigh.
Sarnos is dead, but Sally Whitemane, Durand, Koloff, Bryan, Konele, Harlan, and dozens of crusaders are still alive, alive as undead.
Gauss was previously at the cathedral and saw Grand Prosecutor Sally Whitemane.
She was covered in rotten flesh and had a terrifying face, and she was no longer as glamorous as she imagined. However, the clean priest's robe was still on her body, and when Gauss saw her, she was kneeling under the dome of the cathedral, looking up at the sign of light on the wall, chanting words and praying in the language of the dead!
A blazing light poured down from the dome, enveloping Whitemane's body!
It caused her a great deal of pain, but it did not cause her prayers to be disturbed in the slightest!
Can the undead believe in the Light, summon the Light, and receive the Light? Gauss had doubts before, but now he knows the answer.
Sure enough, the power of the Holy Light not only comes from the force of time and space, but also from the heart of people!
Although the spirits of the dead will be burned by the Light, as long as the will is sufficient, they can still chant the Light, use the Light, and turn their strong faith and determination into the power of the Light to fight against the omnipresent evil and depravity in this world!
Interestingly, it seems that undead creatures use the Light, which has another benefit. The burning of the flame of holy light will slowly restore the undead's dull sense of touch and smell, and will also slowly revive their decaying bodies.
While Sally Whitemayne was praying, Durand broke into the church and said that a crusader was in trouble.
Gauss followed the two and heard what Whitemane had said to the crusader undead.
The crusader undead also used the Light, and Sally Whitemane first agreed, saying the benefits of doing so, and then advised him that it was best to restrain himself. As undead, failure to restrain the desire to overuse the Light is likely to lead to self-destruction. The condition of this crusader undead is a tendency to self-destruction.
Gauss figured out the situation, thought about it, and temporarily withdrew from the Scarlet Monastery.
He returned to the Nest of Miracles, first found Ariel and several other members of the Scarlet Dawn Humans, and asked them in detail about the rise and fall of the Scarlet Crusaders and the Alliance's evaluation of the Scarlet Crusaders, and then based on these contents, he carried out scenes in his mind before returning to the Scarlet Abbey.
This time he didn't hesitate, and as soon as he entered the Scarlet Monastery, he activated the Divine Dimension!
The Divine Dimension has been imprinted with power, and it has expanded the spatial scope of its influence to dozens of square kilometers.
However, the Scarlet Monastery is neither so large nor so many personnel, so although Gauss's Divine Dimension has swept up all the Crusader undead, he has taken the initiative to shrink a lot in the dimensional space. The size of the space of this divine dimension is not only the size of the Scarlet Cathedral, but the appearance revealed is exactly the same as the Scarlet Cathedral!
Blurring reality! Another change from the power of the mind's dimensional space!
This kind of change, which seems magical, is actually not difficult to do.
In the movie, the Ancient One Mage and Casillas once blurred the entire neighborhood and presented it in the spiritual dimension. Although the movie may not be the same as the truth, Gauss's ability is stronger than that of the ancient one, and it is of course easy to virtualize a smaller monastery.
Drawing the Crusader undead into the Holy Dimension, Gauss immediately cast the Divine Incarnation, transformed into a pure Divine form, and then disappeared into the Holy Dimension, hiding under the dome of the Scarlet Cathedral!
This time to build the Divine Dimension, he did it intentionally, not only changed the power of space, blurred the Scarlet Cathedral, and arranged the dimensional environment, but also the change generated by the power of the Holy Light was not with the Holy Fire, but with the Divine Hymn!
Inside the dimension, the cathedral is magnificent and solemn, and the sacred hymns are like heavenly sounds, descending out of thin air and chanting endlessly.
The crusader spirits were frightened, but they were also infected by the grand scene, and they also chanted in unison.
However, although Gauss deliberately suppressed the power of the Holy Light, the omnipresent power of the Holy Light in the dimension, and the divine light that accompanied the hymns, were beyond the reach of many Crusader undead, making them feel the burning pain!
Hidden in mid-air, Gauss observed that only the Grand Prosecutor Whitemane, the Commander Durand, the Monk Kolov, the Dog Trainer Brann, the Flame Weaver Kongele, and the Weapon Master Harlan were not bewildered by the sacred hymns, but were still wary of the familiar and unfamiliar cathedral, and maintained the composure expected of an epic professional.
Gauss secretly praised, and slowly under the dome of the cathedral, revealing his body that had undergone divine transformation!
As a result, a humanoid shaped by holy light, with a pair of wings of light extended, appeared in mid-air!
This image may be called an angel in the earthly plane, but Azeroth has no angels, and can only be regarded as a divine incarnation similar to Naru!
When Gauss revealed his holy deeds, except for Maitwyne, Duland, Koloff, Bryan, Kongele, and Harlan, the other Crusader spirits fell to their knees and chanted prayers to worship the Light! Some of the overzealous crusaders immediately burst into flames, and their souls and bodies were close to collapse!
With a wave of his hand, Gauss sank into the bodies of these undead with a few sworn locks.
The power of origin operates, transmitted through the lock of oaths, and instantly stabilizes the lives of the undead!
"Peng, Peng, Peng!" The flames bloomed in clusters, enveloping more of the undead.
Gauss didn't miss a single one, and blessed these undead with more oath locks!
"Who is Your Excellency, and what do you want?"
Grand Prosecutor Whitemane finally couldn't help but question Gauss.
Gauss made a gesture and waved his wings of light, but at the same time, through the pre-implanted mental mirror, he passed on the scenes about the Scarlet Crusade that he portrayed in Stormwind to Whitemayne and all the Crusader undead.
"Fanaticism in worship, despair in corruption, leap in faith in sinking, and redemption in death......"
The holy hymn changes again, shedding the trail of light, bursting with the light of piety, ill-fated, bearing the burden of humiliation, echoing of the light, praying of despair, resonating with the voice of the heart, appearing with the feather of heaven, confessing in the gospel, redeeming in mourning.
"Scarlet Dawn ......"
A drop of cloudy liquid, perhaps tears, appeared in the eye socket of the Grand Inquisitor, and in an instant it was burned into air by the holy light.
With a wave of his hand, Gauss dispelled the mirror image of the mind, and then eliminated the Holy Light, evolved the dimension, and brought all the crusader spirits to the cathedral of the monastery, and at the same time, he also walked down from the sky, lifted the divine incarnation, and stood in front of Whitemane in his original form: "The descendants of Brother Crowley, who now lead the Dawn of Blood, want to win back the reputation and glory for your ancestors, your elders, your comrades, and you who have become the undead......
"Now the people of the Scarlet Abbey can also form a Sect to help train priests, paladins, warrior monks, and Scarlet recruits, Whiteman, I want to take you out of the Abbey and let you shape the Scarlet Dawn with your own hands, I don't know, would you like to?"
"Out of the monastery?"
The chief prosecutor's eyes were complicated, and he inexplicably felt a little afraid.