Volume 5 The Return of the King 88 The Land of the Plague
The Scourge of the Dead is back!
After leaving Andorhar, I saw what it means to wither! It's really all withering!
The land is completely dead! Quite a complete death! When I came to the Fairstone Farm, as I passed through the town of Darsun, along the main road all the way east to the town of Gallon, I became more and more worried, and I felt more and more hopeless.
If you question me, it's hopeless? It's because you didn't see it! You didn't see that shocking and desperate image!
When I followed Arthas as his minions, I was never shocked to see more of the walking dead, and I was even happy that there were more and more undead soldiers and endless ranks behind me. But now it's definitely not!
Farmland is barren...... Yes! It wasn't barren, there were places where countless undead trampled on grass and there was no grass! How many undead are you talking about?
Ha, of course, all the grass on the ground is dead, the trees are dead, and the leaves on the trees are mostly half-dead and yellow, completely lifeless, but it's raining here! It's not that it doesn't rain!
And that's not even counting the animals here...... I was amazed!
They've all become ...... Zombie!
Bears, deer, wolves, wild dogs, and even rabbits! Their rotting but mobile bodies are aggressive! Everything is crazy here.
And in those big towns...... What kind of troops does it have to be to level this place? The dead bodies that had skin, those who had no skin, those who had broken arms, and even those who did not have the lower half of their bodies were alive! They stood there, gently swaying like dog's tail grass blown by the wind.
I would never dare to break into that amount and density.
But that's not all! That's right, you heard it right, it's nothing! The most important thing is that I don't know where the lich came from! There were only a few, at most a few acolytes, but there were lichs like Araki in these towns, building altars in the fields outside the town, and ...... A cauldron with a mouth of smoke. The greenish-gray smoke drifted softly through the air, and you couldn't smell it when you climbed to the treetops, but you could smell it when you stood on the ground.
This cauldron is found not only at the Fairstone farm, but also on all the farms in the town of Darsun, all the farms in the town of Gerorne. I know it's not a good thing, but all I can say is sorry I can't get close!
If what you saw in Siyverd wasn't shocking enough, you can feel even more desperate, more desperate before crossing the Sodorier.
It is no longer a simple withering, but a pure death and ...... I don't know how to describe the creatures there! That's pure...... I feel like I'm going crazy!
There are two bridges on the Sodoril River, and the land on the west side of the bridge is the West Wilder area, and I remember very well the battle I fought against the Crusaders in this place, but the land on the west side of the river was no different from the east side of the river, but when I was about to go to the river, I could see that the sky in the east was different from the color in the west.
The faint red color of corruption is completely different from the afterglow of the morning glow and the sunset, the color is like a pale red haze, like the color of the sudden yellowing and reddening of the sky before the rain of mud and rain, in short, the color is very ...... Dirty!
The word was not false at all, because before reaching the river, I asked about a musty smell in the air! It smelled like the smell of wood, paper, sacks, and the like in a damp, rotting basement, and I wonder if I should be glad that there was no smell of rotting corpses in the air.
The sky is reddish and the land is ...... It's completely brownish-red!
Brownish-red, not the red of the burning plains, but the kind of dry red that has lost its luster and vitality, and is barren. The death here is more complete than that of Siywilderd, and there is almost no grass on the ground! I remember when I walked from here it was still lush and green, but now there is no grass on the ground, and the leaves on the trees have all turned yellow, completely yellow, and there is this layer of red and dust-like things attached to the leaves.
It's nothing, it's still ...... The animals.
Anyway, I've seen the world, I've seen dragons, dragons! I've seen mammoths, I've seen Viku, I've seen tall Viku, I've seen their horses, I've seen dragon bones in the keel wilderness so big I think they're fake.
But...... What's going on here...... It's completely counterintuitive, you know?
Have you ever seen a maggot bigger than a carriage?
Carriage? Horse...... Plus the car. More than four meters long! Or maggots! Maggots crawling on dry land! These maggots are still more than four meters long, and I have seen maggots that are at least one circle larger than this, and they must be more than six meters long, and the round body is taller than me!
After that thing opener, even I've seen countless disgusting images, I feel a little unbearable! The mouth is the same as its body...... Coarse...... Uh, big! It's just how thick its body is, how big its mouth is! Anyway, I feel like it's more than enough to open my mouth and swallow two in one bite, and three is no problem at all!
The white stuff on both sides of its mouth, I don't know if it's teeth or what, doesn't grow up and down, but it looks like a door to the side, and it's not a layer, and the sucker-like thing that comes out of its mouth makes me feel sick to my stomach when I think about it, and the mucus mouth makes me can't remember what a maggot-filled dit looks like, I just think about what the liquid has to taste!
Of course, I would never want to smell or taste it, let alone think that it would be very lubricated in my mouth! Anyway, when I looked at it closely, I felt sick for a long time.
Maggots...... When squatting on a pit full of maggots and, those things will slowly crawl on the ground, they will roll in the sticky, struggle to climb up from under hundreds of maggots, and then be covered by maggots in the back, which you have never seen before.
But those young maggots don't seem to move very quickly when they roll! But it's different here! If it weren't for my horse running fast, it would have been swallowed by it! That thing runs very fast on land! It should be called very fast!
Here's one, and two more are surprisingly big, bats, and ...... Is that a wolf or a dog?
The bat's wings spread out four or five meters are also necessary! The smaller ones are about three meters. Do you know how scary it can be in the wild at night? I lit a campfire and climbed a tree for the night. The wolf-like stuff has dark red, or black and red hair. And they're bigger than any wolf I've ever seen, even the giant wolf called the "Weeper" I saw in the Elwyn Forest, and it's a little smaller than a horse, anyway!
Needless to say, there aren't many people living on this land with these things alone!
The sight I saw when I passed through the vicinity of Talon County was beyond my imagination, I thought that the plague had caused this place to be like this, but after seeing those things I realized that I was wrong!
Those mushrooms may be!
There is a mountain in the northern part of Taloon, and when I walked from there, I saw that the sky in this place was different from other places, and the sky in the north was redder, and I thought I was mistaken, but it rained that night. I couldn't make a fire when it rained, but I didn't want to, so I finally found a place to keep out the rain, and the rain fell all night, and the next morning when the sun came out, I was surprised to find that some mushrooms had grown around the place where I had taken shelter from the rain!
Do you know how surprised I am when a mushroom suddenly grows?
Surprise, then surprise, I thought it was funny, but soon I found out that the problem was that these gadgets were all over the place! As soon as the sun came out, these things shrank so quickly, shrinking to a size that I would not normally notice, at a rate that I could see with my naked eye. And the color of that thing is really very similar to the color of the land!
Mushrooms in sunny places wither the fastest, but in shady places they don't, they don't wilt so quickly, and in some shady places, such as where I sheltered from the rain, some mushrooms actually grow very well!
At first, I was just curious why these things grew overnight! But I was amazed when I saw the shrunken mushrooms wafting out of the caps, and I ducked back!
Last night's rain made the sky much better, this blue sky made me feel good, but when I saw that the sky in the north was still red, I decided to go and see, but I didn't know if I didn't see it, and my heart hung when I saw it!
It's a valley! The valley is indeed very deep, and there is a water source, but the inside and outside of the valley are full of that kind of mushrooms, and some of the mushrooms in the shade grow that big! There are many tables about the same size, and these things are piled up in long groups, can you imagine what it would be like to grow mushrooms at the bottom of the cliffs in that valley from top to bottom?
And those mushrooms no longer exude that pale red spore powder all the time. And that's not the most disgusting thing, there are also undead scourge soldiers there, but those things are also covered with this mushroom!
When I saw those faces covered with mushrooms, I shuddered! That's disgusting! Be as disgusting as you want! I quickly touched my face, looked at my body, touched it from head to toe, and after realizing that there were no mushrooms growing on my body, I quickly got on my horse and left here, running as far as possible.
In the next few days, I realized that the faint red stuff that fell on the ground, on the trees, and on the leaves was not dust, but mushroom spores!
I don't like this place, it's so different from what I had when I was here, it was lush, green, quiet and peaceful, but now it's good, there is no shadow of it at all, and now the ground is completely like a shaved sheep.
None of the villages we pass through are good, and here it is perhaps worse than Siyveld. Ethan Lion said that Darion was at the Chapel of the Light's Wish, and although I didn't know exactly where it was, I didn't think it would be hard to find along the main road.
There was a battle in Dalong, all the way to the town of Cowling, but now I walk from here and suddenly I find that this side of Cowlin seems to be much more corroded than other places, originally I remember that there were not so many ravines here, but now the ravines from here are deep and wide, and the wood that has been gnawed by insects is too similar to the ravines in this land, and these ravines have caused many parts of the town to collapse.
The sight reminded me only of the Spider Demon's underground kingdom that I passed through in Northrend, or perhaps the collapse of the underground coal mine that caused the ground to subside. I can't think of any other reason for the collapse of such a large area of land.
The town of Cowlin became very difficult to walk, and I tried to get around from outside the town, but the undead soldiers in the town found me. After rounding the town, there was a flat river, and I rode unhurriedly on horseback, followed by undead soldiers in pursuit, and I chose to deal with them when I found that there were not many people chasing me.
As my hammer smashed their heads, the reddish dust drifted out of them, and I quickly closed my mouth and nose, and I was fine without breathing, so I held my breath and sent away a few of the undead forever. But just as I was about to turn around when I put away the hammer and put it away, I suddenly noticed a figure flashing next to those corpses, and they were all like this, fleeting!
I thought I was mistaken, but as I got closer and saw a figure appear in front of me, I stepped back in astonishment, and pulled the hammer out again. But when I looked closely at the figures, I could only vaguely see that they were probably such figures, but I don't know what they were.
They stood motionless, almost transparent, looming shadows standing beside their own corpses. I quickly got on my horse, then turned my head to look at them again, it was a bit of a frightening thing, and I chose to leave quickly. If you don't understand this kind of thing, you can ask it later, but now I feel like it's better to forget it.
After passing the town of Cowling, the roadside sign told me the way to the Chapel of the Light's Wish, and Stratholme's name was still on the sign, but it was still recognizable if it had been scratched with a knife. The other road leads to the Hand of Tyre and Havenshire.
I began to gallop and in front of me was the Chapel of the Wish of Light! It is said to be a holy place!
My horse is once again a big problem! Yes, it's not to be seen by the living, and I'm riding it!
The Chapel of the Wish of Light was backed by a mountain, and to be honest, even in this bleak, desolate, withered place, I still had a lot of reverence for the building.
The first is that the place is very high! The mountains on which I was backed were undulating and not to mention, the mountains were really steep. Against the backdrop of the mountains, the architecture of that chapel is very tough. The many pointed spires feel very spiritual, and the black and white are intertwined, especially black, the huge building against the white background looks very solemn, and the windows on the building are still very large, although the light is not dazzling on it, there is still a reflection on it. Looking up at the building, I tied my horse to the woods.
You can barely see the sun in this place! As I walked up the road, I looked at the vast forest sea in the west and the reddened sky in the west. Of course, he didn't go far before he was stopped by someone who appeared on the side of the road.
"I'm here for Darien Mograini." Before the man could speak, I waved my hand and said quickly.
The man looked at me warily, "What's your name?" ”
"Bill Max." I say. "Uh, what's your commander's name here?" I asked.
He looked at me twice with a frown, then pulled out his spoon and blew it. The shrill whistle was harsh, and many birds flew up in the surrounding woods at once, and soon several people ran over. The guy in the silver-gray robe, wearing a helmet, looked at me for a moment and asked, "What's wrong?" Who is he? ”
"Bill, his name is Bill Max, come looking for ...... Darien Mograini. The man said.
After listening to the report, the man looked at me again, "What are you looking for him?" ”
"Are you Darien?"
"You don't know?"
"The last time I saw him, he was a kid." I say.
"What are you looking for him?"
"You're Darien?"
"I'm not."
"I'm looking for Darian." I say.
"Come to the Chapel of Light's Wish, and unload your weapon." He said.
"You're not a crusader, are you?" My hand on the weapon didn't move.
"Unload your weapon, and you're in." He glanced at me.
"Who is your leader here?" I asked.
He didn't answer me, but stared at me.
"Can you tell me?" I try to speak as gently as possible, with a breeze and drizzle.
"Darien isn't here." He threw it down, then turned around to leave.
"Hey!" Seeing that he was leaving, I quickly stopped him. "You haven't answered my question yet."
He ignored me and turned away, "Don't let him enter the Holy Land!" ”
I was a little angry at his arrogant appearance, but it wasn't worth it to do it with him, and the other was that it might get into trouble. Gritted his teeth and forgot it.
"I'm here to find Darien Mograini, and I want to ask him how his father died. On the other hand, I found some undead on the road, and I want to report it. I shouted at him.
The guy stopped, then turned his head and glanced at me, "Unload your weapon." ”
I exhaled softly, then dragged my weapon off and handed it to the people next to me. The guys were all stunned when they saw me unloading so many weapons from my body, and the guy in the helmet was also shocked by the musket I had brought out.
I patted my body. "You can go in now."
The guy waved his head and motioned for me to follow him, and I was ushered into this legendary holy place.
It is said to be a chapel, but there are many buildings around the chapel, and although it is open, it is appropriate to call this place a large monastery.
When we got closer, we found that there were also fortifications built here, and there was a large number of houses to the east of the monastery, which looked like a military barracks.
I was brought into the cathedral, which was now full of people, and I was motioned to wait at the door for him to report it. After a while, the fellow walked briskly out of the transept on the right side of the altar and walked towards me. "Our leader wants to see you." He said. The attitude of talking to me has changed a lot.
"Bring me my weapon." I nodded at him.
As we walked through the transept next to the altar to the back of the church, and walked down a passage to a room in the backyard, I was surprised to find the man standing there whom I knew.
I'll never forget his blindfolded face.
His angular and serious face softened at the sight. "You're still alive!" His one intact eye was fixed on me.
"Why do you say that?" I frowned.
"Humph!" He smiled slightly, then stepped out from behind the desk and stood in front of me, "Did anyone else say that?" ”
Saidan Dasohan, Ethan Lien...... Well, there are some guys. I said.
The way he looked at me was a little meaningful, and the glance he gave me made me feel...... It doesn't seem like a good thing.
"How?" I asked directly.
"You've seen Saidan lately?" He turned to pour the wine.
"Yes."
"Where?"
"South of Andorhar, near Icewind Hills." I say.
"Where is Uther's grave?" He poured two glasses of wine, picked one up and handed it to me. "yes."
I nodded.
He was silent for a moment, "Where are you from?" ”
"From ...... Stormwind Kingdom. I said.
He looked at me with a little confusion in his eyes, but he continued: "So far? How did you get here? ”
"Let's go." I said, "And the ...... horseback riding," I smiled.
"That's far enough." "But I remember," it says...... You talk to ...... Alsace ...... "He stared at me without saying anything.
"Yes." I say. "I followed him for a while."
"What about Arthas?" He asked.
"In the north, further north of this continent, across the sea there is a continent." I say. "He's right there."
"Is he dead?"
"Of course not."
"So where is he...... Do? Tairossos narrowed.
He ...... fell into a deep sleep. I said.
"Sleeping?" He frowned. "What do you mean?"
"He's ...... became the new owner of the land, and the master of all the undead scourges, but I don't know why he ...... fell into a deep sleep. ”
"Are you sure you're asleep?"
"I'm sure."
He put the glass in his hand on the table, then looked at me with his arms folded and said, "Then why did you come back?" ”
"His strength is waning." I said, "I couldn't control our minds anymore, and when I found out that I was in such a place with him, I chose to come back." ”
He nodded. "Do you know what's going on with the large number of undead Scourge soldiers that are appearing right now?"
I nodded, "Yes!" ”
A light flashed in his eyes.
"That's one of the reasons I've come to you." I say. "Kel'thugad is back!"