Volume 5 The Return of the King 293 The Land of Worms
"Now the tribe must make a statement!" Gavin Rad said.
Yes, what the king needs is not an attack, what the king needs is accurate intelligence. Whether the forces invested by the tribe have been reduced, or whether they have secretly transferred people, whether they are grinding foreign workers here but not working or really want to solve the problems here, Varian must know, and the generals and marshals here know better than the king.
Once there is a problem on the tribe side, they will never tolerate what little Jiujiu has in their hearts, and the current situation is no longer as simple as pretending to be in harmony but having nothing to do.
At Gavinrad's recommendation, I met the commander of the Night Elves, and to be honest, I was shocked when I saw Vandal Deerhelm, this guy's face was the most majestic I have ever seen, how can I describe that majesty...... Even at a glance, you can see that this is definitely not a simple guy, that kind of unquestionable and irrefutable majesty can overwhelm everything that appears in front of him, and he is very tall in his own right, and his extremely broad shoulders and strong arms and strong chest also show his strong level of force.
His face was red, and that red was not pure bright red but a color more ruddy than ruddy, and his eyebrows were long, not only long but erect, and he had a long beard on his face, and a long purple beard that hung down to his chest. And the most striking thing is the antlers on his head!
It was the largest antler I'd ever seen among all the druids, and just by looking at the shape and color of the antlers, I could feel that this guy's identity and level were not simple.
Of course, I've heard his name. And beside him I met Browl Bearskin, who had been absent for a long time. Old friends are very cordial to each other, let alone in this kind of place. The atmosphere at the scene became a little softer because everyone was familiar with each other.
We talked a lot during this time, and then I realized that although the human army led by Gavin Rad was born and died here, he did not have as much information as Gianna, who was thousands of miles away, and he just let people use them as guns. Although this discovery makes me feel a little sorry for him, who is not being taken advantage of?
I felt a little restrained in the face of such a majestic unsmiling fellow, and I wanted to lighten the mood, but when he heard me say that I had a friend I knew, a dwarven general named him also named Vandal, there was no change in mood or expression, and he even acted as if he didn't hear it.
The only thing that interested me was the story of how I found and defeated the fangs druid, and what Nalarex told me about later.
Obviously, he wasn't the first person to hear about Nalarex, which made him show a hint of displeasure, but he was more curious, he wondered what was wrong with the Emerald Dream.
Because of my experience talking to Egwene, I didn't tell him anything about my Emerald Dream or anything about the changes in my body, I just told him what I had heard from others and what Lady Gianna had said.
I didn't have any hints or directions in the process, just told a few things that I could say in a straightforward manner. But after listening to what I said, this guy directly said something that made me feel inexplicable, he said that the matter of Nalarex and the problem of the Emerald Dream were directly related to the insect man in front of him.
I looked him in the eye and glanced at Browl again, and the expression and look on Broll's face clearly didn't understand the Great Druid's words. When Brower saw me looking at him, he asked Vandal what he meant, and Vandal explained that the enemy they were facing was not the Bugmen at all, but the things hidden behind the Bugmen.
Brower said that he just knew that he was facing a kingdom that had been sealed for nearly 10,000 years, but he didn't know what was going on inside, and Vandal said that the sealed kingdom was suddenly unsealed now, and it was just a façade, and the real manipulation behind it was the guy who made the bugs go crazy and became desperate to start attacking other species. That's the real mastermind of the conspiracy.
I asked what this guy was, and he told me that he actually appeared in the mental world of Nalarex, and that the tentacle-riddled tentacle thing in the chaotic dream of no end was the mastermind of all of this right now.
He said that in a history further away than the primeval period, the Creator created the world, and that it was not the Titans who ruled the world after the creation of the world, but the Void and the Shadow. And on the earth, in the oceans, it is the crystallization of the void and the shadows that dominate everything. It is not known who has written it down in history, but this history has been ignored and forgotten because it is too old and there is no trace or concrete evidence.
But they do exist, and they have a not-so-well-known name, they are called the "Elder Gods".
These former world masters have made the world chaotic and chaotic, and no creature can survive under their rule, either obey or die, and even if they are submissive, the results will be extremely tragic.
No one has ever seen what their main body looks like, and even in legends, there is no description of their main body, only their greatest characteristics...... That's the tentacles, and countless pairs of huge eyes. No creature is more disgusting, no creature is more evil, and no creature is grander.
I asked him how he knew, and he didn't answer me, but just said something he didn't expect it to appear in Nalarex's dream. The expression on his face was one of surprise and confusion, confusion and a little worry, and finally even a little anger in his conversation with Brohl.
Speaking of which, Vandal said that the guy who controlled the bugs was the Elder God, and he said that he was a little unsure at first, but now it seems that it didn't run away, because the nests built by those bugs are completely different from the nests they built when they were fighting. That dark, distorted design that no race can have. Although those things are bugs, they have a civilization that has created a civilization that is completely different from this style. And aren't those tentacles and unique eye decorations unique to the ancient gods? Brower nodded his head in conviction.
And since it is the ancient god, there is an answer to the question of the appearance of the jade dream, and the source of this corruption is because of the infiltration of the ancient god.
Vandall's reasoning caused my heart to fluctuate, and I suddenly realized where the darkness within me came from, the chaos and gloom that Egwene had mentioned. I suddenly remembered that I had seen it, but not on land, but in ...... Underwater! In the sea, or at the bottom of the sea. Suddenly I realized that the guy who had been whispering in my ear all along...... Maybe that's it!
This doesn't seem like good news. Looking at Vandal's indignant face, I suddenly felt a trace of worry in my heart. I'm not a prophet, but I feel like I'm more associative than the average person.
Vandall's request is obvious, his attitude is very tough, after all, I am also here on behalf of King Varian, Vandal is not stupid, he has lived for 10,000 years without doing anything and should understand better than me, at this time he should have guessed the purpose of my coming, so it is reasonable for him to take this matter seriously.
But I won't be bluffed because he says a few harsh words, I have eyes, I can see what's going on, I have ears, I can hear different sounds, I have brains, I can tell what's real and what's pretended.
Vandal went to the tribe the next day, and he asked the tribe to participate in the next battle, and prepare to break through the defense line of the Zerg and go deep into the interior of the Zerg Kingdom within a week.
The tribe responded, and on the surface they were cooperative, but I asked if Vandal was still in place, and Vandal gave me a resounding yes.
The next day, the whole camp moved, last time it was the worms attacking, this time they have to take the initiative. Gavinrad asked me if I would go with the army, and I said of course I would, but I would not fight unless there were special circumstances. He jokingly said that he was not old, and I generously nodded in acknowledgement.
The Bugmen's lair was the biggest obstacle to the attack, they were digging in the ground, and it was impossible to see from the ground in which direction they would come out of the front and back of our team. Although their hives are bare on the ground, it is not easy to find the entrance to their hive in such a large place.
Moreover, this group of bugs often creates some deceptive nests, and the real and fake nests have a very serious impact on our scouts, and in order to determine whether this is a real nest, we have to go deep underground, which poses a great threat to the scouts. The cost of not landfilling and destroying is that if they do come out from behind, then it will be troublesome.
And this task was really not at ease when it was handed over to the tribe side, and in the end, Vandall's decision was to destroy it roughly, and do his best to pass through the Worm Man's lair Ecstasy Array as quickly as possible.
But this kind of lair deep underground is definitely not a simple matter to destroy, the druid's spell is at most to seal the hole, and it is almost impossible to completely destroy it, even if you put wolf smoke, you can't clean up all the insects in the cave. So in the end, there was really no better way but to turn to the shamans on the tribal side.
I know the shaman's methods, when they were attacking the orcs, although their shamans couldn't shake the sky, they could move the ground, their spells made the earthquake tremble very much, and several shamans went up to these pit nests together and were directly shaken and collapsed.
This idea was well implemented, the shamans sent by the tribe were much stronger than the ones back then, and these dozen shamans directly tore the earth together, and collapse was the most common situation, and when the earth cracked, those dense insects came out of the ground when I saw my scalp tingling. It's disgusting!
And the heavenly fire summoned by the druids cooperated very well with the results of the shaman's creation, and the flames scorched those insects, and the smell was indescribable, anyway, it was very pungent. This mode is very easy to use, although we can't advance at the fastest speed, but in this steady way, the speed of our progress is not slow. Later, the bugs learned to behave, and instead of curling up in the cave tunnels waiting for us to bury and burn them, they basically abandoned those nests and ran to the ground to fight us.
The battle was fierce, but in the course of a week you could feel that victory was within reach. The advantage of the Zerg is only in numbers, and the sheer number of them has indeed affected us to a certain extent, but our druids and the shamans of the tribe have played a big role, especially in the later stages, when attacking their unsealed imperial gates.
The pattern of warfare in the future may really have to change.