Volume IV The Rule of Chaos 49 The Gate of Damnation

This land is called ...... Dragonbone Wilds. Actually, I don't know why it's called Dragonbone Wilds. It's true......

In my impression, the reason why this land is so named is purely because there are temples of the five colored dragons, standing in the wilderness, and it is definitely not a temple that can be created by man.

I don't know why you made this thing.

I don't know why it was built in such a place.

All I know is that it's full of skeletons, and monsters that occasionally come out during the day but always come out at night.

It's dark here unusually early, earlier than my beach is dark, it's not an illusion, I can assure you. So I walked for half a month to get here.

It's not that I'm a snooze, there's no suitable habitat here, and finding a slightly leeward spot is a godsend. And I didn't dare to light a fire, of course, there were few materials to make a fire. Lighting a fire in such a place is purely looking for death. This is the lesson that our warriors bought with their lives when they marched into the Gate of Damnation.

The flames attract wolves, a canine animal that is not like a wolfdog, not a dog. It's not hyenas, the flesh of this thing stinks, not only the flesh stinks, but their whole body stinks, and the worst thing is that the smell and hearing of this thing are surprisingly keen.

The back and flanks of the march from here would follow these guys all the time, and they would eat away at the bones we had left, as well as the ones who accidentally left alone.

They are also competing for food with the vultures I mentioned, which are very large and have wings spread out at least two meters. These creatures are much wilder than the canines, and they will fall from the sky at night to attack the soldiers while they are asleep.

Although they cannot take people away, they will come down to the sky to grab food from the fire and uneaten ingredients with blood.

It's nothing, there's a huge monster in the wilderness...... Mammoths. These big guys don't usually attack us, but their sheer size can make people shudder.

Yes, extremely huge! This creature is larger than all living beings in the land of Azeroth. Although not aggressive, they are not docile, and they roam the land in groups, grabbing a special plant that grows on the ground for food.

And we feed on them. That's one of the reasons why those nasty things are always following us.

But the problem is that after eating the meat of a mammoth a few times, the mammoths that have been blind to us start to deliberately avoid us, and some will attack us directly, which has never happened before. These creatures are stupid and don't have any intelligence to speak of, but they are not afraid of death, rushing into the ranks and starting to trample like crazy.

Until one day we saw a mammoth giant so big that I thought it might be a mammoth god. The mammoth was three or four stories tall, and I remember it very clearly, and I was blown away.

In front of it, bows and arrows, spears and swords are no different from the toothpicks in our hands at this time. We actually suffered a lot of damage in that battle. The number of people trampled to death by such a monster reached more than 300 people. It's more than 300 people! This is a huge loss for us!

This is still directly trampled to death, and the person who stepped on the broken body has not been counted inside. It should be called trampling...... For example, the leg is much more neat than the amputation, and the leg is directly trampled into a puddle of flesh.

I took part in that battle, and my knife didn't do anything against it at all, and if it hadn't been for the last artillery out, more of us would have been trampled to death.

Of course, the artillery did to some extent make the mad beast a little more restrained, but the side effect was to attract the surrounding herd of mammoths.

It was a mess, and the beast was burned to death by the magician. All the magicians in the team have to come forward and fire a few shots, no matter what they learn.

Magic...... It's good stuff.

It was then that we began to discover the secrets of the dead, and when soldiers died in battle, they had to be purified by the flames before they could be buried in the ground, otherwise they would really get up and bite people.

There is another reason why I try to stay away from these beasts at this time, and that is that there is a mammoth about their size, and they are the most terrifying creatures in this wilderness besides dragons.

They weren't giants, and although their upper bodies were humanoid, their arms were thicker than my waist. The creatures usually move in groups of threes and twos, and they are always followed by a kobold-like creature similar to the Elwyn Forest, but much larger than the one in the Elwyn Forest.

These gadgets would follow the mammoths, and I've seen the dead, the little eyes on that disgusting head make me wonder if such small eyes can see. But they have a keen sense of hearing and a good sense of smell. When mammoths are not hunting, they will look around for things underground.

This is one of the monsters I have to hide from in this wasteland.

The mammoths are in charge of the fight, and the little ones are in charge of the assists. They will pounce like ants, surround mammoths or some other creature and start gnawing like crazy. Of course, their main role is to eat the rest of the mammoth after they have eaten and drunk enough, and then leave a pile of white bones.

These little monsters will gnaw the flesh off their bones. So much so that I could barely get a shimmer of meat from the bones they had gnawed.

It's just one of the monsters of the wilderness, and the farther north you go, the more terrifying the things that appear on the ground.

At that time, it was thanks to tens of thousands of people who set off together, so maybe everyone was not so scared psychologically, but now I can only avoid them when I am alone.

You can say I'm cowardly. Scold...... Yes, I will humbly accept the criticism of people who are about to jump up even if they scare you into jumping up.

Along the way, I also met giants, which were completely different from the image of giants in my impression, they were not only big, but also magical. I've seen them unleash spells on the mammoths.

A flash of lightning flashed, and the mammoth man who was hit fell to the ground instantly, and the continuous electricity caused the kobold to suffer the surrounding kobolds. This group of giants does not eat mammoths, but the kobolds around mammoths do.

The kobolds who survived did not hesitate to pounce on their hosts when they found them dead from exhaustion.

The favorite parts of this herd of small animals are the liver and heart. Their favorite thing to do when they pounce is to disembowel their stomachs, which reminds me of a kind of punishment of using rats to burrow people's stomachs.

This group of little animals is like that, frantically gnawing on the mammoth man's belly, scrambling to burrow into the mammoth's abdomen and snatch the liver. And there is only one heart, and they will definitely fight for it.

Of course, the winner will have a heart that is much bigger than my head to herself.

This kind of scene is not strange here, but there is also an even more outrageous one, there is an impassable rift in the north, and there are elemental creatures on both sides of the rift and at the bottom of the rift.

It reminded me of what happened when I traveled north through the Wastelands after the Storm fell, except that the elemental creatures here were gray or snow-white, especially if they were not moving in the snow.

But these things will attack people on their own initiative!

Next to this group of elemental creatures are some large stone people. In addition to amazement in front of me, I can only sigh at how wonderful the world is.

The journey was very unfriendly to me, the terrain was extremely harsh, the monsters everywhere made me move very slowly, and the cold didn't really affect me much, it only made me feel bad when the blizzard came, in fact, the snow would bury me very quickly.

I can't find the route I used to march on, and it's pure luck to find the Gate of Damnation again.

I found my way when I saw the sky farther northwest, glowing faintly blue, and the Icecrown glacier was like the pole of the world, exuding a mysterious glow.

As long as you go in that direction, you can find the place where you fought back then. Seeing this, my steps became lighter, even though the snow was still up to my knees.

I haven't gotten food since I ate the last bit of frozen meat five days ago. Five-day ...... You heard it right, I haven't eaten food in five days. In fact, there is no need to eat anymore, or as often as before. Eating now is more about me not to forget that I am still a human ......

At least personally.

There are obviously fewer monsters and beasts here, and even the more you go in the direction of the glacier, the fewer beasts appear until they disappear completely. Beasts are the most dangerously aware when they spot...... Well...... When they feel danger, they flee from here.

In front of this is the territory of the dead, the territory of the scourge of the dead. Unless someone is dead or wants to die, no creature wants to come near it.

The majestic mountains gradually appeared in front of me, the war was over, but this land that had been defiled, destroyed, and killed was still burning. The green flames were still burning, and the blue flames gave off an eerie glow.

The scorched black earth was exposed, and the wind and snow could not extinguish the evil magic flames, and the places where the snow could fall made the black land look very mottled.

The terrain is getting higher and higher, and the slowly rising path reminds me of that time again. Getting closer, I see the Gate of Damnation!

Twenty years later, the rut marks on the ground still exist, and some of the crates and barrels discarded by the roadside for some unknown reason have fallen apart, and some have sunk into the dirt.

The damaged siege trucks and trolleys on the side of the road all tell the story of the past.

I looked to the west, and ah! In the western col, the army of the League was stationed there. I looked to the northeast again, and the orc forces of Kukaron on the high mountain ridge looked down on everything below.

Suddenly I felt my heart get excited, and that feeling came back. It was as if I heard the horn of attack, a roar of rage to the sky.

The neat armies of the Alliance army marched in unison towards the Gate of Damnation, and the sound of their footsteps shook the earth.

The scene of the orcs rushing down from the mountains to the northeast is still vivid, yes...... The orcs rode the wolf and poured down like a black tide. I was in a trance, I could hear the sound of the sword unsheathed, the sound of the armor, the roar of the coalition forces, and the roar of the undead.

Suddenly, I felt a strange feeling coming from my back, and I turned around sharply towards the cat's waist to look forward! An undead slashed at my head with a sword. If I hadn't dodged in time, my head would have rolled to the ground by now.

There was no snow on the ground here, so I rolled on the ground and pulled out my weapon.

The undead soldier in front of me had no eyes, and the two empty eye sockets were long gone, but I wondered how it saw me and attacked.

Its face was completely withered, and its dark skin resembled window paper that had been torn and blackened by decades of pasting on windows. Its nose is gone, and its broken mouth shows its few teeth.

It also had an arrow stuck in its neck that pierced through. This guy was shot to death.

The armor on its body had completely lost its original color, and the blue of the Alliance was so filthy and dull that it had lost its lustre. The muscles on its body were almost gone, but a faint blue light shone between its skeletons. That's the Lich King's bounty, and the reason these guys are still active.

Dodging a blow, the hammer in my hand slammed into its head. It's been a long, long time since I've killed the Scourge of the Dead, and I thought this hammer would smash or smash the entire head straight down, but I really forgot that the head of this thing is the same as that of a living person, but it is sturdy.

At least it didn't fly off, and the hammer slammed into its helmet, "Phew! "A bang. Its body was out of balance, but it suddenly straightened again.

This is where the Undead Scourge is completely different from the human soldiers.

If it were a human, it would have fallen this time, but the undead in front of me, whose eyes were gone, had only adjusted its balance after receiving this blow.

Block, counterattack. Then I slammed my hammer into its palm. This time it worked, and I smashed its metacarpal bones, and the sword in its hand fell to the ground.

The sword in my left hand stabbed it in the chest, and I knew it was useless, and as I pushed it out, I raised my hammer and smashed it into its collarbone. The hammer smashed the collarbone and broke its cervical vertebrae.

When I slammed its head off its spine, it didn't move at all.

That's how that battle was going back then.

Every step was stained with blood.