"Khadgar, we are in crisis again."
Adal's inner voice still echoes in the heart of Archmage Khadgar.
Southeast of Zangarmarsh, in the dilapidated city of Shattrath, the largest refuge in Terokkar Forest, an "old human" with white hair and white beard read the report in his hand with a solemn expression. This young-looking man The most recent archmage was Khadgar.
These reports come from Honorfort in Hellfire Peninsula and Teledor in Zangarmarsh. Although the two are geographically far apart, the situations mentioned in the reports are very similar.
They all encountered attacks from different forces, and these attacks were far more massive than before. First, Glory Castle was attacked again and again by the evil orcs. The skin of the new evil orcs had completely turned red, and some people It also sprouted ferocious bone spurs, and when attacking, it seemed like a wild beast that had completely lost its mind.
Although the soldiers of Glory Castle have experienced hundreds of battles, they suffered heavy losses when they encountered attacks that were completely different from the previous ones. Several lines of defense were breached. Even Glory Castle faced the pressure of the Fel Orc army several times. The worst was Yes, due to the large-scale activities of the Fel Orcs, the communication and material routes between Honor Keep, the Dark Portal, and Shattrath have suffered varying degrees of damage.
This is a very thorny issue. The connection between Shattrath and Honor Keep was originally established by Draenei and the Alliance Expeditionary Force after a lot of effort. Now it has been damaged, which means that in the barren Hellfire Peninsula, Glory The supplies available to the fort will be very few.
A previous collapse and explosion had reduced the expeditionary force's supply depot in Hellfire Peninsula to rubble. If assistance from Shattrath could not arrive in time, Khadgar could not imagine what would happen to Fort Glory.
Another report at hand gave Khadgar an even greater headache - the Draenei in Zangarmarsh were attacked and massacred by strange creatures. According to the image on the letter, Khadgar discovered that the Draenei who attacked the Draenei were attacked by strange creatures. Ni's creatures turned out to be Naga and the Broken One.
Let’s not talk about the Broken ones. They are draenei who were contaminated and distorted, but Naga...
Khadgar thought of the magic network vibration that originated from the Dark Portal. The Dark Portal opened, and those Nagas also entered the Outland. Due to the shortage of manpower, the expeditionary force and Draenei spies were unable to accurately trace To the purpose of Nagas.
But the drastic changes that have taken place in Karabor Temple, now the Black Temple, have not escaped the attention of Delaney and the expeditionary force. Before Magtheridon's defeat allowed everyone to breathe a sigh of relief, a new one suddenly appeared in Outland. The "master".
"Illidan Stormrage...is this guy also from Azeroth?" Khadgar has never met the night elf himself, but he has received news about the new king of Outland from everywhere.
Khadgar folded the letter and placed it in his encrypted magic storage box. He stroked his white beard and said, "Naga must be from Azeroth, but Illidan Stormrage... it sounds like Why does the name sound a bit like a high elf... Are there any high elf named Stormrage?"
As a mage in Dalaran and an apprentice of Medivh, Khadgar certainly had a considerable understanding of the high elves. However, before he entered the Dark Portal, humans had almost zero understanding of the night elves, so Khadgar only had intuition. Generally aware of some possible connection between night elves and high elves.
The question is, why did Illidan Stormrage get involved with the Nagas and start a war of conquest against the races in the outer lands.
Khadgar was puzzled. He originally thought that the other party was fighting Magtheridon. They didn't say they were on the same side as him, but they didn't have any grudges. They said the enemy of the enemy was the friend. But it turned out that Delaney Before he and the expeditionary force had time to get to know this guy better, he started doing his old job in Magtheridon.
Isn't he afraid that the Burning Legion will come to settle the score?
Khadgar frowned. Even though he had learned unprecedented knowledge from the naaru of Shattrath, he still couldn't quite understand Illidan's actions.
But there is no time to think about this problem carefully now. If the pressure from all aspects is not resolved, it will soon threaten Shattrath. You must know that there are many innocent people here who have survived the disaster. Part of the expeditionary force is also stationed here, and they have already formed a symbiotic relationship in a sense.
Thinking of this, Khadgar cast an ordinary teleportation spell and came to the Holy Light Dome in the center of Shattrath City.
Although it has withstood the devastation of the war, the original exquisite outer wall of the Holy Light Dome has been dimmed and damaged, and the damage caused by the orc war to this City of Holy Light has not been completely erased, but it is still one of the few places in the entire Outland that can make people A place where you feel safe.
"Adal, I heard your call, what exactly happened?"
Khadgar sensed Adal's voice before reading the information. In front of him was a huge holy light creature. He had no characteristics of a normal organism, but was composed of a suspended combination of crystal-like jigsaw puzzles.
This is the Naaru, a pure creature of Holy Light.
Adar made a buzzing sound. Naaru's communication method is very direct. It does not require language or words, but directly interacts with the minds of other beings.
Khadgar felt a wave of information pouring into his brain like a tide. The archmage looked as normal as he easily took over the tide of information and sorted out the key information.
In the illusion reflected in his mind, Khadgar saw Illidan's true appearance for the first time, and this made him tense up.
After reviewing all the images A'dar sent him, Khadgar asked in a hoarse voice, "Is he a demon?"
"Yes and no," Adal said calmly as always, "but the threat to the Delaney and you is real."
"Then what should we do? Fight with this new Lord of Outland?" Khadgar's expression was tense. Neither the expeditionary force nor Draenei could afford the consequences of a full-scale war with hostile forces in Outland.
It is not even an exaggeration to say that the world may not be able to bear it.
But if they don't fight back while they still have the ability to fight back, if Illidan's army really defeats the existing defense line, then they may not even have a chance to fight back.
Khadgar clearly understood that they were now facing a huge gamble that could determine their life or death.
"Don't be too nervous, Khadgar. We all have our own missions, but maybe the result won't be as bad as imagined."
Khadgar watched Adal's body move wonderfully. He calmed down a little because he heard something from Adal's words, "You mean..."
"During our long journey, we once heard a proverb on a certain planet: To untie a bell, you must tie the bell. Illidan and his troops are from Azeroth. Maybe there is an answer to the question in your hometown."
Adal's words made Khadgar's eyes widen for a moment, but soon the archmage pressed his beard again and calmed down, "We don't know how to open that door."
"Maybe he doesn't need us to turn it on?"
After Adal left such a sentence, he fell into silence again. Khadgar knew that the Naaru had begun to sink his consciousness into the Holy Light again and would not respond to him for the time being.
The Archmage slowly left the Holy Light Dome. He ran his hands through his thick beard and pinched his chin with some sagging skin - how long have they been in this world? What does Azeroth look like now?
Scene after scene emerged in his mind, and Khadgar's experiences of more than ten years flashed through his mind repeatedly. Finally, the Archmage sighed and disappeared at the end of the Holy Light Dome.
They had tried every means to close the dark door of infinity. If he had no other choice, Khadgar would never let the war spread to Azeroth again.
…
"Are you ready?" Standing next to Kel'Thuzad were Helgai, North, Falina, and numerous natural disaster psychics. Their feet were engraved with complex runes and lines, and they were outlined on the ground. A huge magic circle was formed.
Kel'Thuzad summoned most of the psychics and wizards in the outer realm, and several people who were supposed to be studying the original thorn beast were also pulled over by him to perform this ritual together.
"This time there is no Majesty to tell us the truth. We must complete this task, otherwise everyone will be useless to His Majesty." Kel'Thuzad's voice was as cold as the cold wind, but the faces of all the Scourge members present were astonished. Solemn.
If the mages are pursuing the infinite secrets of arcane magic, the psychics and wizards of the Scourge are pursuing the truth of death and life, and now they know that there is a place in the far north of Azeroth. A great being who is infinitely close to the truth of death, and everything they do is just to serve this king of death.
Now, they were about to take the first step into their responsibilities as the Scourge.
Kel'Thuzad waved his hand, and a grimoire as tall as half a man floated in front of him. With the blessing of magic, the pages of the book automatically turned to the part the Archlich wanted without any wind.
“The infinite passage that spans death and reality, the unchanging truth that tears apart eternity and moment…
Let's spread out, let's spread out, let's spread out,
Darkness is not the end, nothingness is not the end...
Only death is the beacon of eternity! "
In the sky of Blade's Edge Mountain, the originally dim yellow sky was dyed with a touch of icy blue. The chaotic void energy and vortex suddenly stopped. Under the spell of the Archlich, the violent magic power emitted from the Apexis Crystal. Swelling up in the constructed magic circle, the collected ogre souls condensed under the squeeze of energy into a ripple that penetrated the curtain.
"Crack!"
There was a sound like glass breaking, and Kel'Thuzad looked at the sky with joy and awe. On the edge of the Blade's Edge Mountains, which seemed to be motionless, ice-blue cracks were printed in the void.
After several more cracking sounds, the psychics who cast spells suddenly noticed that the temperature seemed to have dropped a bit, and snowflakes even appeared in the sky.
Under the continuous condensation, impact and stabilization of magic power, the sky finally shattered completely. A round of black shadow blocked the light, and a dense blizzard instantly blew into the ridge of Blade's Edge Mountain.
"Buzz——"
The natural disaster fortress, Naxxanar, slowly moved out from the ice blue curtain, the mountains were like its reflection, and death followed it.
