Azeroth Shadow Trail

Chapter 741 72. Eyes! Eyes everywhere!

"The day after I was brought to Kul Tiras by Hal and his wife, I was sent to the Sage Fortress of the Church of Storms in Stormsong Valley.

Hal was a really good brother and cared so much for me that he sent me there himself and stayed there for a few days while I recovered. "

Nat Pagle, who had regained his sanity after a fat beating, would honestly make a fresh shrimp platter, twitching his mouth from time to time, and telling the captain and his newfound experience in the kitchen. The "mentor" listens.

Although he has been in a state of "charmed" for a while, he remembers these things very clearly, after all, his sanity is clear.

But when talking about these things, Nat also had an expression of "the past can't be looked back".

He said in a strange tone:

"I didn't think there was a problem before, but now that I'm awake, it's really strange to recall the few days I stayed in the fortress of the Haixians.

As soon as I was sent by Hal, I immediately attracted the attention of Haixians.

They were amazed at me.

They looked at me as if they were looking at a strange 'work of art'. Not only did they not treat me right away, they even called other people in the fortress, even Haixian's apprentices.

At that time, I was captured by the fear in my heart, and I was in a daze, but I can still remember that they used me as a 'teaching tool' and taught those Haixian apprentices a lesson on the spot.

They said something like 'this is the end of disrespecting the sea', and some people said that I was 'the crystallization of the sins of the sea'.

That weird situation lasted until that night, and the news of my appearance seemed to have attracted some big figures from the Church of Storms, and several Dahaixians came to the fortress, and they inspected me."

Speaking of this, Nat blushed for a while, he gritted his teeth and said:

"A very private kind of inspection.

Then, I felt that the darkness in my heart was awakened by them in some way, and my main consciousness passed out, and when I woke up, I had already gone to the cave inside the Temple of Storms.

A female Haixian told me to understand the divine power of the sea and taught me to distinguish the breath of the ocean current in the tide. She told me that it would be good for my condition. "

"It does have benefits."

Bu Laike pouted and said:

"Look at how 'healthy' you are now.

You can scare a lot of people with the blink of an eye, and if you expose your true form to the Hals, your best buddy will probably be scared to death by you.

Facts have proved that the tide sage is smeared with poison, and anyone who touches it will be injured. "

"Well, not really."

Nat rubbed his aching forehead, and he recalled:

"Although most of the sea sages in the Temple of Storms are gloomy and withdrawn, there are also members who feel very warm, such as my mentor Brother Pike.

He was very kind to me. During the time when I was most helpless, Brother Parker took good care of me. He also sneaked me out fishing to try to cheer me up.

Although I have no proof.

But I can feel that Brother Pike is different from other sea sages.

He wanted to help me from the bottom of his heart. I was able to get rid of the fear in my heart. Apart from repeating the scriptures of tides and praying for the help of the ocean, it was also thanks to the enlightenment of Brother Pike. "

The young fisherman rubbed his panda eyes, turned his head and said to Mentor Natalie:

"Brother Pike's words of encouragement are the same as yours, Ms. Serling.

He told me that being a fisherman does not mean being a sin of the sea. The sea is tolerant and generous. As long as the fish I catch are not for killing, but can be used to fill other people's stomachs, then this fishing behavior is the sea. allowed.

He told me that the reason why I am afraid of the dark things in my heart is because I don't understand them enough. If I can transform the incomprehensible doom things in my heart into forms that I can understand, then I have a chance to defeat them! "

"Well, that's why you keep saying you're catching a big fish?"

Natalie looked at her new apprentice strangely, and said:

"You concretized the dark fear in your heart into a fish?"

"Well, to be precise, it's a murloc."

Nat waggled a finger and explained:

"Relying on the knowledge I learned from the tidesage, I want to visualize it as a harmless fish that I can easily catch.

But it is too dark, and it was born with a little will of the abyss.

It does not allow itself to become a harmless thing to humans and animals, so even if I try my best to transform it, its final form is still solidified into an ugly and weird, deep and evil white murloc full of sharp teeth.

I asked my mentor Parker.

He told me that this is probably because I was frightened by the white murlocs on the beach in Southshore as a child, so my fear merged with my original fear. "

"Well, that explanation makes sense."

Natalie listened with gusto.

She caressed the Void Textbook on her waist, and said deeply:

"The way the tidesages use their own wisdom to transform void taboos is very groundbreaking and worthy of my in-depth study.

During the period when I was lost in the void, I also tried to show those voids to me, but the existence that I could not understand transformed into something familiar and understandable to me.

This method works really well in communicating with the lower levels of the Void.

It can effectively prevent your spirit from going mad due to stress because of looking directly at the incomprehensible and indescribable things. "

"Hey, stop your 'Void Knowledge Academic Exchange' for a moment!"

Boo Laike made a pause gesture. He was smoking a dwarf pipe and looked at Nat Pagle strangely. After a few seconds, he asked:

"Let me describe the characteristics, and you can see if it is consistent with the fearful murloc in your heart.

It has pale white skin like a dead man, with dark red spots on it, and a few red fins like bone spurs on its back, and its eyes are shining with crazy and cruel dark red light.

After the fish mouth opened, there were layers of sharp shark teeth, and a red eel-like tongue with fleshy suckers.

In addition, its claws are very sharp, and occasionally entangle the dark streamer.

It can also talk.

The most common saying is 'I come from the abyss'."

Nat froze.

All the fresh shrimps he was holding fell into the water basin.

He looked at Bu Laike in front of him with an incredible look, with unconcealable surprise and fear in his eyes. After a few seconds, Nat came back to his senses, rubbed his forehead and said:

"The murloc in my heart is not the same as what you described, but exactly the same. You are worthy of a prophet, Captain Bu Laike.

Can't even hide such a secret thing hidden in my heart from you? "

"No, I just guessed, this time it's not my prophecy."

Bu Laike waved his hand, he raised his eyebrows, and said to Nat in a tone of joy and pity mixed with "seeing people's bad luck":

"I have good news for you.

The 'fear of murlocs' in your heart is not entirely fabricated by you out of thin air.

The one who unleashes the Void Curse on you through the twilight Ye Ming orb is an evil creature that actually exists in the void where matter and dreams meet.

I've heard of it, I've seen it with my own eyes.

It's called Mutanus, and it has a very cool nickname called 'The Devourer'. It's a lowly minion of some great monster that feeds on sweet dreams and spreads nightmares to torment those wretches as unfortunate as yourself.

I even know where its lair in the physical world is.

And what you have to do is to go to its lair with a fishing rod and a group of companions who can slay demons and demons, fish it out of the nightmare and kill it. "

"Is it that simple?"

Nat was a little excited for a while.

Especially when it came from the mouth of Bo Laike, whom he trusted so much, Nat knew the name of his enemy and its information, and this made the fisherman feel that the opportunity to escape from the nightmare and fear was at hand.

Ms. Nathalie Serling, however, has seen it all.

She quietly asked:

"If there is good news, there will naturally be bad news. Tell me, Captain, stop playing your dirty tricks. What is the bad news?"

"Bad news."

Bo Laike took a cleaned shrimp from Nat's basket and threw it into his mouth. While chewing, he shrugged and said:

"That guy is a tough nightmare creature.

Although it is an inferior murloc, it probably still has the title of Nightmare Lord. It is an evil existence that can travel through dreams, oppress, pollute, and devour the dreams of Grand Drew Yi.

If it is summoned to the material world, its strength is likely to be at the level of legendary power.

And believe me, such an evil guy will never appear alone. "

The wicked pirate glanced at Nat, who was already stupid, and said:

"This matter can't be handled by a single fisherman. At most, Nat can fish it out of nightmares. But if you want to get rid of it, you two, master and apprentice, probably have to recruit some powerful people to help.

And that place is far away, I don't plan to go there right now, so you have to bear with it for a while.

All right.

Don't look so disappointed, my chief fisherman.

You are one of your own, and I will definitely help you with your affairs. "

Bu Laike patted Nat on the shoulder, said a few words of relief, and asked again:

"You've been in the Temple of Storms for quite a long time, haven't you wandered around there? For example, have you ever been to the dark cave under the tide altar where the sea sages pray daily, which is guarded by piranhas?"

"No, Haixian apprentices like me are not allowed to approach there."

Nat rubbed his head and said:

"However, I have been to the coast below the Temple of Storms, where there are many weird stone sculptures, I mean the ones that look very intrusive.

Most of them are weird creatures in the ocean, big octopuses with many eyeballs, or weird half-human, half-fish creatures, and some are simply carved with a whole tentacles protruding from the water.

The sea sages claimed that the reason why the stone carvings were made so scary was to warn mortals to be in awe of the power of the sea.

But in fact, those stone carvings are all engraved with inscriptions. "

The fisherman moved his body uncomfortably and said:

"Every time I read those weird inscriptions, I feel chills down my spine, but as a tide apprentice, I have to go there every day and recite those inscriptions over and over again.

There is also a desolate noble manor under the temple, it is said that they have lived there for generations.

I went to visit, but the owner of the manor was like a madman, and rudely drove me out with a shotgun, and said something like 'I prayed above, and it waited below'.

In short, now that I recall it after waking up, that majestic Storm Temple is really not a pleasant place.

Although the sun is shining, the darkness is also surging.

There are too many secrets in the temple, most of which are weird on the surface, but no one pays attention to it, let alone asks more questions.

Presumably, they should all be the same as me, because they have chanted too many holy scriptures for too long, and they have already lost their consciousness in the bewitchment of the sea. The days I was there, I could even see the eyes

Those weird dark eyeballs.

It's all over the place and frankly really freaks me out.

Under the guidance of Brother Parker, I slowly walked out of the dreading hallucination. "

"wait!"

Bu Laike, who was eating fresh shrimp with his head down, suddenly raised his head. He looked at Nat seriously as if he had caught some key words, and said:

"When you passed by, could you see eyeballs? Describe what kind of eyeballs you have."

"Uh, I don't remember exactly."

Nat scratched his hair with panda eyes, and he tried hard to recall:

"It's the kind of yellow eyeballs that gather in the dark, just like the compound eyes of spiders, or like the pupils of beasts or snake eyes, they will suddenly appear in my field of vision, distorting everything I see into weird look.

When those eyeballs appeared, I would even see the Haixians around me turn into faceless half-octopus, half-human monsters, and their voices would be distorted into an evil, low-pitched language.

That scene was enough to scare my soul out of my body.

Brother Pike told me that this is an illusion that occurs when the power of the sea is added to the body, and it is a normal situation. "

"Gul'kafh an'shel. Yoq'al shn ky ywaq nuul. (Hunger drives the shadows that feed on lost souls.)"

As soon as Nat finished speaking, Bo Laike uttered a long series of words that made Natalie tremble in a weird voice that was impossible for a human throat.

The young fisherman's eyes widened even more, and he exclaimed:

"That's it! When the illusion of eyeballs appeared in front of my eyes, every Haixian around me was speaking in this weird language, Captain, do you also know this language?"

Bu Laike didn't answer.

He and Natalie, who was trembling all over, looked at each other. The pirate moved his fingers, looked at Nat, and said:

"What you saw was not a hallucination, you accidentally entered the realm of N'Zoth. Those eyeballs that frightened you are also real.

Congratulations, Nat, you have accomplished what 99% of mortals cannot.

You inadvertently looked directly at the true face of the abyss, and you were able to come back with all your beard and tail.

You are an amazing guy.

But the news you brought back also proved my guess.

The power of N'Zoth has polluted the Temple of Storms, which has long since fallen. None of the Haixians living there are normal, they are all a group of lunatics who have completed the Kexier transformation.

Well, a lunatic in both physical and psychological senses.

very nice. "

The pirate breathed a sigh of relief, and said:

"After I have solid evidence, I don't have to worry about accidentally injuring innocent people. Huh? What's the matter with your expression?"

He looked at Nat who was stunned beside him, and asked a question.

The fisherman pursed his lips and looked straight at Laike. After a few seconds, he said in a trembling voice:

"Eyeballs. Right behind you, a lot"

"It saw you"

(end of this chapter)