Volume 5 The Return of the King 298 step by step
Most people won't know what a bug's nest looks like. Not to mention bugs, even what a rabbit or rat looks like in its burrow is an unsolved mystery in most people's minds. Of course, most people don't see these things, let alone think of going to see what they look like in caves. The hive is the most impressive, but when you think of the hive, the first thing that comes to mind is the hard-working bees, and then the sweet nectar. It's a good memory, but there are still people who don't know that before the bees turned into buzzing flying bees, these things were actually like maggots in a pit...... The difference is not particularly large.
Pick up a bee larva and stuff it into your mouth, and that milky white wriggling body snawls and twists on your tongue like a maggot out of a sticky, really like it. It's just the larvae of bees...... Well, that's great. I'm not talking about eating maggots, but about ...... The scene in front of me, maggots...... A lot, a lot. More than ...... It made me feel physically uncomfortable. That's not all, it's mainly the big maggots.
Although I have seen all kinds of maggots in the East and West Wilder area, the number in front of me makes me feel sick. In addition to maggots, there are ...... A big, python-like bug, not as long as a python, but I don't want to look at it for a second when they look up.
And then there's the kind of thing that flies in the sky, not the flapping of the wings of the flies, but more than the flies, and the swarms of those things surround the nests that protrude from the ground, and the nests are much larger than the nests of termites. There was even one of those big nests that three or four people couldn't hold, and there were many hollows in the nests, and there were countless busy bugs coming in and out.
It's a miracle that these things, especially maggots, can survive in this environment!
The look of disgust on the face of the Lord of Sarufar also speaks to the fact that it can make these orcs who don't like cleanliness frown. I glanced at the guards on the side, and the expressions on their faces were really not good.
"Looks like we need to clean up." I got it straight.
Vandal looked at the commanders on the side, "Is there a good way?" ”
"Our magicians had better use the rest of their strength and magic when it matters most." Sarufar said.
"These things are disgusting!" Vandal shook his head, "Clear an area and see if those things will affect us." ”
Originally, I thought that I would be able to walk the kingdom by taking the city gates, but now it seems that it will take a bit of effort. So the guards cleared the ground of maggots in front, and we went up to the top of the city. After standing on the city wall, the view suddenly opened up a lot, this place is still quite large, and the scale is not much smaller than Stormwind City, but it seems to be a labyrinth rather than a city. At least I've been looking around for a long time and still haven't found a few houses that could be used to live in.
"Didn't you really know that civilization was born here?" I asked Vandal.
"It's probably made by the stone cats, and the style of these buildings has some similarities with them." The elves said.
"What is a stone cat man?"
"It has the head of a cat or a tiger, the lower body is humanoid, it has a tail, and the legs are some of the legs of a feline, some of which are not, it's a ...... It's a very closed and mysterious race. "Because it's so far away, it's just a matter of knowing that they exist, seeing what they look like, knowing that this is an intelligent civilization, that's all." ”
"The place doesn't feel like it's for people to live in, you don't feel like it...... Labyrinth? I said.
"I can see it, but ...... I don't know why that's happening. He said.
I looked at the dragonman who had turned back into his human form, "You know what? ”
The dragonman was expressionless, "I don't know. "He's slow to speak, not to be oblivious, but I always feel like this guy is hiding something.
"Didn't you attack back then?" I asked Vandal.
He shook his head, "It's going to take some time to clear this area, and it's a maze indeed." As he spoke, he glanced at the guards beside him and waved his finger, "Find someone to draw me a map of the terrain here, hurry." ”
"Have you done a good job of vetting the Twilight cultists?" I asked.
"They don't know anything." "Those guys are puppets, the lowest puppets, they only know about sacrifice and worship, and they don't know anything else. ”
"And what about their leader?" I said, "That ogre, two-headed one." ”
"It's long gone." Vandal said. "There are a few people from the Twilight Cult who have escaped, but these are minions who can't make any waves."
The next few days passed peacefully, and after the seal was broken, only the initial battle made us feel stressed, and then I heard only good news in the process of clearing the ruins, and occasionally there were more difficult situations, but they were resolved without any problems. The so-called trophies were brought to us, huge bugs the size of four or five wagons, and the red-covered bugs with their pincers were dragged before us, and the generals told us about the battle, and this guy caused us no small trouble.
Not only is it rough and thick, but the place where it is is full of quicksand, and there are a lot of small bugs around this guy, and finally he can concentrate on dealing with the big guy after eliminating those gadgets again and again by roasting them.
The other was a head bigger than a table, it was a beetle's head, and it was said that the monster was six or seven meters tall, and we had encountered the beetle army around him when he opened the seal. But these guys were stronger than they had first encountered, and the battle was commanded by Lieutenant General Andorov, who was blind in one eye, and he was very brave, and although the bald head of the sun and moon was wounded in the battle, the scar was enough for him to receive a golden Stormwind Lion Medal when he returned to Stormwind City.
And these battles are not the most brutal, the most cruel are some of the magical creatures here that seem to be made of stone, the kobold creatures that appeared on the earth before the seal was opened, or the guys with the head of the eagle, or the guy with the head of the eagle and the body of the lion, but also the upper body of the human body and two human arms. These monsters appear in a completely different place than the maggots, and the maggots seem to be shunning all of them. It's a strange thing.
If it weren't for the dragonmen, I would have thought that these Vandal were the first time they had seen these things, and under my questioning, Vandal told me something about the past, in the battle of quicksand a thousand years ago, these things appeared with bugs, and at that time these weird things had caused extremely serious damage to their army, and the elves didn't know how these things were created, but the obsidian bodies of these things had very powerful magic after being given magic. If it weren't for the appearance of the dragons, their losses in this war would have multiplied several times.
Magical creatures are all not very intelligent, although they are indeed powerful. These creatures are called "Anubisas" by the elves, which means "Deathbringer". This title is enough to prove its strength, and it is also with the help of dragons that they have defeated these hard, powerful magical creatures, which the dragons have almost completely destroyed, but now they have reappeared.
The current situation was difficult for Vandal, and it was certainly impossible not to defeat them, but for now, only this one dragon could help, and it was all up to them to know how much damage they had to bear. However, the dragon also made it clear that he was the only one who could help for the time being. Vandal certainly can't ask him to charge, and it's good that it can help us win the first battle in the first battle. However, although the dragon no longer follows the soldiers to the front line to fight, some of the suggestions he made did have a certain effect.
The stone eagle-headed griffin half-human thing was defeated with his help. In the face of this thing, the dwarves' artillery is dumb, but it can't be fired at all! The thing had a pair of huge wings that couldn't fly at all, and although it couldn't fly, the huge explosion that came when the wings opened made all the soldiers around it die in an instant.
The dragon himself went and cast a spell on the stone statue that had not yet spread its wings, only to shatter it with the help of the Clan Alliance magicians. It's a magician.,It's said that that thing is a magic bomb.,The more damage you take.,The more energy you've accumulated.,When the right time comes, that thing will detonate the accumulated energy.。 As for how they operated to eliminate these energy dragons, they didn't explain it to me.
When facing those kobolds, some of them are relatively simple, but some of these puppet-like things can actually summon heavenly fire.
In short, every advance has to pay the price of blood, and it costs quite a dozen to clean up this place completely. However, it is worth mentioning that when the soldiers presented us with a huge head made of gold and precious stones, I immediately caught the head. The head is very large, one and a half meters tall and nearly one and a half meters wide, plus the beak is more than two meters long anteriorly and posteriorly.
It's made of a blue stone, and this blue stone is much more beautiful than the color of sapphire, and it's so pure like I've never seen before. And the color is so deep that it makes me feel cold, even in this very hot weather, seeing the blue makes me feel a little cool. Its beak is made of obsidian, and although this one-piece beak cannot be opened, it is very well carved, and there is no sense of disobedience set in this blue gemstone head.
On the outside of the head was a helmet made of gold, and the jewel in the middle of the forehead was not blue, but pure and colorless. But the gem itself could radiate light, and in such a dazzling sunlight it shone even brighter than the sun.
Not to mention the priceless value of this head, I am tempted by this gem.
Vandal's eyes narrowed, and the way the dragon looked at the head became complicated.
As for how we got this head, our people died not in the tens or hundreds, but in the thousands. I have long said that the wars of this world may be rearranged, and the pattern of wars will change a lot. Magic beats magic, even gunpowder and cannonballs are much stronger than knives, guns and clubs, and bows and axes are really outdated. Of course, it is still not possible to completely abandon the sword, after all, rushing to the front to attract the enemy's attention and become cannon fodder has to be done by some people.
It was also the sacrifice of those thousands of people that gave the magicians the opportunity, trial and error again and again, and again and again to give those warriors the opportunity to finally defeat this almost invulnerable monster.
Since then, there has been no greater difficulty in navigating through this labyrinthine place, and at the end of the labyrinth, the single largest building is our final goal.
It is categorically impossible to break in, there is a high fence around the huge building, and you can't see what is inside from the outside, and the scouts who came back to report also clearly said that there is something strange inside, but when they went to explore again, those scouts never came back, none of them came back.