After the orcs moved away from the canyon, a death knight standing on the rock wall at the top of the canyon walked toward the portal behind him and entered the closed Demon Slayer Canyon.
Grommash was lying not far away. His body was blown into gray and black by the explosion caused by Mannoroth's death, but the injuries on his skin were not the cause of his death. His bones, muscles and internal organs were Under the impact of the strong explosion, it had become a mess.
Not to mention the explosion when Mannoroth died and the overflow of evil energy that eroded life energy. After Grommash gave Mannoroth a fatal blow, it was too late to avoid this huge shock wave.
On the contrary, Thrall, who was buried in the pile of stones, managed to save his life, otherwise he would not have been simply injured.
Mannoroth's huge corpse fell to the ground, and four death knights were using magic circles to curb the evil energy's corrosion of the environment, while also preventing the energy in Mannoroth's corpse from losing too quickly.
The soul of this abyss lord escaped back to the Twisting Nether after his material body was severely injured by Grommash. The death knights did not have time to stop his escape.
Mannoroth's evil soul was drawn to him by some powerful force, and their attempts to prevent his soul from escaping failed.
However, it is not without gain, because Mannoroth's body can still be used, but it has to wait until Arthas arrives in person. With just a few of them, the death knights cannot study the body function of the abyss lord. .
"Have those orcs left?" The death knight who was maintaining the magic circle asked his companions who had just arrived.
"They left without trying to clear the road and we were able to call in backup."
"Okay, you go and activate the teleportation array connected to Icecrown Fortress. We need to ensure that this guy's body does not collapse."
Without the support of soul and evil energy, the demon's body will soon fester, turn into a pile of bones, and finally turn into dust at an extremely fast speed.
Now it is relying on the power of several of their death knights to make the flesh and blood on Mannoroth's body stay temporarily and not disappear quickly.
As soon as the death knight established contact with Icecrown Citadel, Arthas, wrapped in a black cloak, descended from mid-air riding an invincible.
"His Majesty."
The death knight saluted quickly, "We have just cleaned up the surrounding area and are preparing to set up a camp here."
"Well, good, you go ahead, I just came over to check on the situation."
Arthas came to Mannoroth's body. He leaned down and dipped his hands into the demonic blood that flowed into the soil.
"There is still a strong fallen power remaining in it, but it dissipates very quickly. Just as I thought, even if the soul disappears after death, the powerful body of the Abyss Lord can still remain active in a short period of time."
Although the corpse of a demon decays much faster than a normal creature, it is still highly assimilated and corrosive before it completely collapses. For example, the blood flowing out of Mannoroth's body can still make ordinary creatures The power of corruption.
Arthas will never forget that there is an abyss lord named Brutalus. The blood shed after being killed can make the corpse of a blue dragon stand up again and turn into a bone dragon overwhelmed by hatred and anger. .
In a sense, evil energy has the same effect of resurrecting corpses as the power of death, but the characteristics of the two are different.
Therefore, Arthas left Mannoroth's body behind to test whether he could use necromancy magic to make the abyss lord's body stand up again.
If it can succeed, it will undoubtedly be much easier to face the demons of the Burning Legion, because the corpses of dead demons can be reused by the Scourge Legion, which has become the best way of fighting for the undead.
"Keep the magic alive."
Arthas said to the four death knights, and he picked up Frostmourne and pierced Mannoroth's skin. He tried to use the power of the soul to make Mannoroth "stand up" again.
However, after injecting some power, Mannoroth still showed no reaction, as if Arthas was not trying to resurrect a corpse, but to give life to a rock.
After a while, Arthas pulled out Frostmourne and frowned. His attempt failed because Mannoroth's own soul had long returned to the Twisting Nether. He had planned to turn this body into a puppet without autonomous consciousness from the beginning, but even this initial transformation failed.
No wonder the demons don't mind if their bodies fall into the hands of their enemies. It seems that to them, this body is just a shell composed of flesh and blood. The special thing about demons is also their souls.
They were born in the twisted void, and there is a huge gap between them and material creatures. According to Azeroth's definition of soul, even the lowest demons are as difficult to kill as immortal demigods...
After wiping away the blood on Frostmourne, Arthas looked calm, thinking about how to use Mannoroth's "relics".
In a flash of inspiration, he thought of a possibility. Arthas extracted a soul from Frostmourne, and used the power of this soul to try to induce Mannoroth's torso.
What surprised Arthas was that Mannoroth's thick fingers actually twitched.
This attempt was successful!
Arthas's mind was spinning rapidly, and he began to gradually mobilize more power, trying to fuse this soul with Mannoroth's body.
Gradually, Mannoroth's huge body reacted. His four legs lifted up his fallen body and stood up again. The resurrected Mannoroth twisted his body stiffly.
Arthas stopped and looked up at Mannoroth, who was obviously stunned. He was not very satisfied.
The souls used to support Mannoroth's activities just now came from the soul power of Balnazzar and Mal'Ganis after their consciousness was wiped out. However, because their souls lost their self-awareness, they could not survive for a long time. Supporting the movement of Mannoroth's body.
Just letting Mannoroth stand up again has already weakened the remaining souls of these two guys a lot, and Mannoroth's actions after resurrection are just a living target on the battlefield and have no effect at all.
If the soul of a powerful demon such as the Dreadlord could barely support the resurrection of Mannoroth, Arthas would have to consider whether to resurrect this behemoth.
The Abyss Lord's body is very strong, and he might be able to control his body to cast some evil magic, but the price/performance ratio is still too low.
"My esteemed Majesty, is there anything your humble servant Kel'Thuzad can do to help you?"
Kel'Thuzad's voice reached Alsace's ears, and Alsace responded, "Ah, have you arrived already? Send someone to take Grommash away first. Come and see if this body is still alive. use."
The Archlich sent several skeleton coolies to carry Grommash's body onto the teleported Naxxramas. Several other skeleton coolies clumsily climbed onto Mannoroth's body, trying to reach the body embedded in Mannoroth. The blood roar on Los's forehead.
Kel'Thuzad pointed his finger, and the sharp battle ax separated from Mannoroth's forehead, hit the skeleton soldiers, and swept them off Mannoroth's body.
Regardless of the skeleton holding the ax and swinging away, the Archlich floated to Mannoroth and touched Mannoroth's skin with his "white as jade" fingers.
After a moment, Kel'Thuzad said with some regret, "Without the soul, it's really troublesome to drive such a big guy... You should have tried it just now. The demon's soul should be able to make him react, but it just needs to be revived." The final quality cannot repay the soul consumed.”
Arthas took back Frostmourne. He had done enough experiments and there was no need to continue wasting souls. "Ordinary souls cannot satisfy the demon's body, but the souls of Balnazzar and Mal'Ganis are obviously not enough, even if they are Adding Varimathras to the mix might not be enough."
"That's right... Generally speaking, the way the necromancer solves this problem is to turn him into a puppet and use an ordinary soul to drive him, but in that case, this powerful demon corpse is not necessarily stronger than the suture monster. How many."
Kel'Thuzad tapped two sharp finger bones on his mandible. "Such materials are indeed rarely used in necromancy. Creatures like demons are too strange compared to normal life."
"In that case, just take him and study it." Arthas gave up the idea of resurrecting Mannoroth for the time being. "This is considered a very rare material."
"Thank you for your generosity, I will definitely put it to good use."
