Chapter 34: The Night Elves' Doubts
Essalivan walked up to a corpse that was rotting and stinking, with obvious puncture marks, as if it had been disemboweled. The dead spider-man lay in the ice and snow, allowing the wind and snow to continue to invade, and the low temperature delayed its corruption, but there was still no way to stop this inevitable process, but it only extended the time, and Essalivan observed for a while, and came to the conclusion that the spider-man had been dead for at least half a year.
But what caused its death, and what did it mean behind its death? This is something that the human mages who have just arrived here cannot know, and it needs to be explored.
Gelman had woken up and transformed into a giant bear to fend off the snowstorm.
"If Abdul-Jabbar has been here, how has it survived?"
Gelman asked in a low voice as he walked forward with heavy steps. As once best friend, he didn't want to hear the news of Jabbar's death, but the current environment was too harsh. When Gelman awoke again, he had taken the form of a giant eagle and soared above this plateau, and when he found that it was a perennial ice and snow, and to the north, there were higher peaks and even more eerie frozen plateaus, between which stood a fortress of demons, with towers of Gothic buildings stacked on top of each other, as if the demons were in the base camp of this world, and a bit like an experimental place for them to study the undead.
To the south, there is a lush jungle, but although the place where Gelman and Esharlivan are now is relatively close to the jungle, but from the glacial plateau to the jungle area, the gap can be described as magnificent, if Abdul-Jabbar really passed through there back then, I really don't know how he went down.
"Abdul-Jabbar has always had his own unique approach and believes he can hold on. ”
Esalivan replied thoughtfully. In fact, every adventure, the most critical moment, is indeed Jabbar who manages to get the team out of danger.
Ahead is a dark cathedral.
When Essalivan and Gelman entered, the guards were all corpses left, and here, apparently, was abandoned, as for when and why, Essalivan and Gelman did not know.
"Our number one goal now is to find Abdul-Jabbar. To the north, there is a large castle complex, an endless number of dark castles, and to the south, there is a lush jungle valley, you decide, where do we go?"
Gelman stepped on the bone-hardened corpse on the ground and asked Essalivan. The dark and cold aura of the place almost froze Esalivan's blood.
"Let's go north, I think Abdul-Jabbar is definitely not here to enjoy life this time, but to take revenge, where there are demons, where there is darkness, he will go, we go north, the fortress of demons, it should be where he goes. ”
Gelman wanted to say that it was practical to go south, but after all, he looked at Esalivan and thought about it, and the archmage said that he would go wherever he wanted. After all, Essalivan and Abdul-Jabbar seem to be more sensitive?
"The architecture here is so gorgeous, I wonder why these people gave up on this place in the first place?"
Gelman and Essalivan entered the Dark Cathedral and found nothing, and as they were about to leave, Gelman asked suspiciously.
"There are demons who have come. ”
Esalivan replied simply and clearly. The words were full of affirmation, and Gelman didn't even know where the female mage's confidence came from.
"How do you know?"
Gelman asked, his eyebrows continuing to show his confusion and doubt. You can't know everything, can you? I've been flexible for tens of thousands of years, and I know even less than you?......
"Look. ”
Faced with Gelman's confusion, Essalivan pointed her finger at the stone pillars in the Dark Chapel. It's engraved with strange runes?
"What are these symbols, and what does it mean?"
Gelman was even more depressed.
"It's not these symbols, it's the evil power on these symbols. ”
Seeing that even Gelman couldn't answer these questions, Esalivan simply said it.
“hjlask”
Gelman transformed into the Night Elf form, and continued to carefully observe the traces of the evil energy that Essalivan had spoken. After a long time, he suddenly said-"I didn't see it......"
Then Esalivan almost vomited blood and lay on the floor.
“hjoolkkja”
In desperation, Esalivan had no choice but to cast a spell to force out the evil energy on the stone pillar. As the mage chanted the incantation, a powerful light emanated from Esalivan's wand, a pure arcane glow, just like the light magic of the Light Guards on the battlefield.
Maybe the mage will be able to learn this magic if he has studied it to a certain extent, and purify the darkness with pure light spells? Gelman thought that if Eshara was still alive, he would be so happy and comforted to see that one of his apprentices had learned to use light spells. It's a pity that this old man died at the hands of the undead very early.
Just as Esarivan cast the spell, the black stone pillars of the Dark Cathedral began to change, and green energy appeared from those runes, like words, and like evil energy?
"I see, wait, don't stop, let me study the production of this energy. ”
Gelman finally saw the most primitive, primordial form of evil power. Just like a group of cells, they will die and reproduce, as long as the environment allows, they can even reproduce indefinitely, and soon pollute the world, and once the environment deteriorates, they quickly enter a state of hibernation, wrap themselves up, look like a state of death, and once stimulated by the outside world, they immediately return to an active state of life.
"It turns out that the evil energy used by the demon is the primordial life energy!"
Gelman almost exclaimed, with the Night Elves' understanding of life, their millions of years of life had seen too many lives come into being and dying. And the evil energy in front of him has undoubtedly caused a serious conflict with the origin theory of this world.
The beliefs of the Night Elves tell them that Elune is the only god in the universe to create life, but now the power used by the demons is another completely unknown form of life. It can parasitize, infect, and even hibernate, reproduce, and repair itself. Obviously, evil power is the opposite of Elune's faith. So is the Night Elf's faith wrong?
"Gelman, I know what you're worried about. But don't forget, the demons don't belong to this world, they come from another plane, another dimension, so they don't deviate from your beliefs. ”
Esalivan is a well-versed mage, who has studied for many years, studied magic and books, and has a certain understanding of all aspects of this world, and can even provide answers to the questions of the Night Elves. (To be continued.) )