Shadow Trails in Azeroth

When it comes to Crypt Lords, travelers on the Northrend continent have many hearsay stories to show off, but in fact, most of the merchants traveling between Northrend and the Eastern Continent are unlikely to have witnessed it with their own eyes. I have seen this mysterious creature.

The reason is also very simple. When facing this kind of underground creature that can prey on dragons, the chance that they, as mortals, can escape from the hunting ground of a crypt lord alive is basically the same as buying the first prize of a wonderful ticket in China.

The probability cannot be said to be none.

It can only be said that the symbolic significance is greater than the existential significance.

And even in the hearsay, no one would describe the Crypt Lord as a fish-like existence. All those who boasted about their knowledge would do their best to describe the terrifying and mysterious nature of the Crypt Lord.

Some say that the Underlords are as huge as mountains, some say that the Crypt Lords are as fast as flying, and some say that those terrible bastards are the most dangerous assassins and underground assassins in the world.

These statements are correct.

By blending them all together and multiplying them three times, you can basically depict what a Crypt Lord should look like.

Innately powerful, cruel and cold, it hides underground and walks silently, bringing death and destruction to the targets it targets without warning.

These are all characteristics of a Crypt Lord, but unless you see these legendary creatures with your own eyes, it is really difficult to describe in words the chilling demeanor of a top hunter.

"Cool, three fish came at once! Although I only know the leader, I know we caught a real big fish this time!"

On the walls of the ancient kingdom city of Ankahet, which was already covered with blood, Blake controlled his magic eyeballs to fly around on the battlefield ahead.

He observed the huge Crypt Lords emerging from the ground, and then exclaimed with joy.

The stinky pirate pointed at the largest beast in the center, with armor as thick as rocks and covered with barbs, and with its head raised upward like a stag beetle. He looked at Sa, who also showed interest next to him. Ratas said:

"Look at the big man in the lead. He is the most powerful crypt lord king born in the history of the Nerubor. He is the calm, silent and brutal hunter Anub'arak. That is my favorite Beetle.

It was actually the first one to appear to face the enemy.

It seems that Anub'rakhan, the king of Azjol Nerub, is a bit busy today, and he is also a powerful member of the Nerubians. "

"I love this big bug!"

Xal'atath, who was tired of being beside Black, also looked at the crypt lords in front of him with admiration, who had begun to fight the Lich King and his subordinates.

As the master of the insect swarm, she obviously likes these big underground bugs whose every inch of the body is a killing weapon. These guys called crypt lords are simply the ultimate destroyers who can be born after the killing genes of the insect swarm are evolved to the extreme. .

Their huge bodies ensure that they have super vitality, and the thick carapace covering their bodies can help them resist most physical damage, and the spider demon's spellcasting ability can also give their carapace a certain degree of magic resistance.

These thick carapace are not just simple defensive organs, each carapace has counter-attack stings like pointed halberds, giving the enemy almost nowhere to strike in close combat, while the Crypt Lord only needs a simple impact. , can pierce and tear anyone who comes close to it.

These big guys have heavy bodies and thick insect limbs that can support the body. The spider-like insect limbs ensure that they are silent when moving quickly.

The huge insect claw growing in front of the body is like a sickle or a battering ram, and the cuticle used for attack is as strong as a boulder. It can easily smash the skulls of most creatures in the world as long as it is sharp.

In addition to such brutal physical destruction, they can also use magical attacks.

Just like now.

"boom"

The huge crypt lord who was attacking Lothar kept waving his sharp insect claws in an attempt to break through Lothar's defense. However, the power from Frostmourne combined with Lothar's superb combat skills made Anub'arak's continuous attacks ineffective. .

Its huge insect claws collided with the ice-like magic sword. I thought it could easily smash the flashy death magic sword, but the result was like hitting a thick city wall.

The violent shock coming from the ice sword made the Crypt Lord, who was extremely powerful, staggered. Lothar, who was wrapped in the cold wind, stepped forward and slashed three times in a row with his sword, killing the Crypt Lord. Several pieces of the tough insect beetle were easily chipped off.

The thick ice wrapped around the Lich King during the battle put a thick layer of ice on the body of the mountain-like Crypt Lord during the brief contact. If it was frozen by the frost, it would seriously affect the flexibility of this big guy in combat.

In desperation, the Crypt Lord was forced to use a defensive counterattack strategy.

It stared at the dangerous undead in front of it with its cold insect eyes, and the dragonfly-like and mantis-like sheath wings behind it buzzed at high speed, as if calling for its own legion.

Soon, there were strange vibrations on the corpses of the spider demons scattered around the battlefield, causing their flesh and blood to explode. Large black scarabs were bred and summoned from the flesh and blood of the corpses. These highly poisonous objects were extremely small and appeared in groups. Like a black storm, and like the most dangerous swarm of piranhas in the world, they will devour everything in their path.

But this "number advantage" is meaningless when facing His Majesty the Lich King.

The nearly permanent ice storm that surrounded him caused many of these little beetles to die. It was embarrassing to see that they were so powerful but could not even break through the defense, but Anub'arak, the most powerful crypt lord, had no hope. Relying on this corrosive insect swarm can defeat powerful enemies.

It summoned its own swarm of scarabs just to create an opportunity for itself to sneak in a sneak attack. The moment Lothar was entangled by the swarm of scarabs, the mountain-sized Crypt Lord swooped from his place and slid into the ground like magic. .

The whole process is extremely fast, completed in the blink of an eye, and leaves only an extremely small hole in the ground. This unreasonable ground jump is obviously a strange earth magic effect, and it can be regarded as the innate power of the spider demons.

This move also made Blake, as the "audience", say that it was a feast for the eyes.

As the most outstanding master assassin in Azeroth, he could vaguely feel that Anub'arak's position was moving rapidly underground, and he was accumulating some violent power to burst out from the underground. However, the stinky pirate did not remind him that he had fallen. His Majesty the Lich King fell into the Crypt Lord's most deadly trap.

He believed that His Majesty Lothar would not be defeated by such a little trick.

Most importantly, he also wanted to see how far Lothar's power could reach with Frostmourne in hand.

The data entries given by the character card can only be used as a reference and do not serve as actual combat effectiveness.

The pirates have known this for a long time.

Just like Odin and Old Garni both belong to the power level of "demigod", the gap in combat power between the two guys is so huge that it makes people desperate.

"boom"

Facing the Crypt Lord who sneaked into the ground and prepared to launch an underground attack, Lich King Lothar did not run around in a panic. Instead, he stood there holding the magic sword. He could not sense the movement of the Crypt Lord underground.

But he doesn't need to sense this either.

Assassins have assassins' fighting methods, and warriors have warriors' coping methods.

With a loud noise, the crypt lord's terrifying forelimbs stabbed out from the ground like knives, and a large number of sharp thorns shaped from the earth element were called out to erupt from Lothar's feet, instantly killing the target along with the surrounding buildings. destroy.

But the Lich King was unscathed by the flying bricks.

Lothar, who was extremely experienced in combat, had already injected cold air into the ground to create solid frozen soil, severely weakening the destructive power of Anub'arak's fatal blow.

The moment he was blasted into the air, he rolled and landed on the ground again. He raised his sword and slashed forward, using a powerful and heavy blow from the cold wind to freeze the insect's forelimbs mixed in the ground thorns to the ground.

This blow of the frost chain was like a mountain of ice being shaped in an instant, fixing the big bug underground, unable to move or escape.

Its super stealth raid ability was instantly abolished.

"It's coming, it's coming! Look! Don't blink."

Seeing Lothar controlling Anub'arak on the battlefield, he held Frostmourne in reverse and pierced the frozen soil under his feet. Black, who was eating melons and watching the show on the city wall and was so happy that he flew up, immediately mentioned Holding the wine bottle, his eyes widened, he pulled Xalatas beside him, like an enthusiastic fan watching a movie, and said excitedly:

"The Lich King's signature skill is coming."

"boom"

As soon as Blake finished speaking, the Frostmourne in Lothar's hand instantly pierced the frozen soil as his body moved downwards.

It's like what the stinky pirates call "sticking in the floor."

Two-thirds of the extremely cold death demon blade was submerged into the ground. The seven governing runes on the blade shone like an invisible blade piercing downwards. The next moment, Anub'arak's low cry of pain accompanied the ground. The vibrations echoed from the ground.

One blow seriously injured!

When the insect's claws were controlled by the freeze and unable to dodge and block, even the Crypt Lord, whose vitality was as powerful as a dragon, could not withstand the burst of Frostmourne's death aura.

Green-purple blood gushes out from the cracks in the ground, and is quickly frozen by the cold wind into strangely colored ice, which looks extremely miserable.

But if it was just this, it was not enough to send the crypt lord into despair. When Anub'arak realized that death was coming, the entire frozen ground was shattered.

The Crypt Lord, who was stabbed in the abdomen amid the earthquake, emerged staggeringly from the ground. Most of its body was frozen from the point where the sword blade pierced it, making it look extremely desolate.

But what shines in those sinister and vicious insect eyes is the light of a fight to the death.

The Crypt Lord flapped all his movable sheath wings together, and the strange migratory locusts hidden under the sheath wings and cuticle flew out with a buzzing sound. These insects were smaller in size but faster in flight.

Like flying knives passing through the protective ice shield around Lothar, they penetrated into the body of the Lich King and began to absorb his blood and vitality.

This is the last desperate stunt of the Crypt Lords.

Relying on these symbiotic locusts, as long as there is an enemy alive around him, the vitality transformed by the locusts' devouring is enough to "lock" the crypt lord's vitality.

They will not die until the enemy dies.

It can be called the ultimate cheating method.

When Anub'arak was "young", it relied on its vicious and deadly locusts to hunt down several young dragons for food and trophies, making it a well-deserved leader in the underground kingdom of Azjol Nerub. King.

However, this bottom-of-the-box trick has no magical effect at all when faced with His Majesty the Lich King, who cannot be treated with common sense.

Lothar is undead.

There is no such thing as vitality in him, and even the blood in his body is filled with the deadly toxins of frost, blood and plague under the blessing of the power of death.

As the bloodthirsty locusts transferred His Majesty the Lich King's blood to the Crypt Lords who were preparing for a decisive battle, Anub'arak, who was already seriously injured, was instantly infected with the deadly death plague.

Let it hurt more.

This big guy, as huge as a hill, staggered and spurted out blood. After just a few minutes, its breath even took on a sinister chill.

Facing Anduin Lothar, who was walking towards it step by step with the Death Blade, Anub'arak, the most powerful crypt lord, collapsed on the ground. It tried its best to wave the frozen insect claws to try to resist, but was Lothar kicked him away.

The Lich King strode forward, raised the magic sword with a fatal sword sound, and Yu Lothar stabbed the sharp blade into the crypt lord's beetle-like head with a clean stab.

The ice blade penetrated the blood very smoothly, cutting through the cuticles like water, and without any hindrance, it bestowed the blessing of death on the ancient behemoth in front of him who fought against the Lich King but was defeated gloriously.

The light in Anub'arak's cold worm's eyes dissipated little by little.

Its final cry echoed through the ancient capital of Ankhet, which had been bloodbathed by Qiraji swarms and mantid, like a lament for the destruction of this ancient city.

But soon, within ten minutes, Anub'arak, who had just died in despair, was reborn in another more powerful "immortal" form.

It shook its huge body and stood up from the pool of its own blood. There were still traces of battle on the broken carapace, but the solid ice layer outside the carapace made this giant beast's already strong defense even better. layer.

Its insect eyes glowed with a faint blue merciless flame.

That is the beating of the soul fire that represents death and rebirth.

The most powerful Crypt Lord stood firm. It moved its body like a bug and looked around. The remaining ordinary Crypt Lords that had been killed by the "couple" of General Liresa and Maris were also there. “Resurrection” through the gift of death.

They are just like when they were alive, waiting for the order to attack.

Sadly, Anub'arak is no longer the one giving the orders, and the former king and his hunters have become part of a greater power.

All they have to do now is obey and then kill.

"Buzz"

The Frostmourne Demon Sword exuding endless frost was swung in front of Lothar, pointing diagonally at the ground.

As the crypt lords whimpered and lowered their bodies in an act of loyalty, the nerubian corpses slaughtered by the Qiraji in the entire city also stood up one after another, shaking.

Those broken bodies were given new strength.

The Lich King doesn't care whether their bodies are intact. What he cares about is whether these mutilated guys who died from the insect bites can continue to fight for themselves?

The answer is yes!

Following Lothar's silent command of waving his hand back, all the crypt lords except Anub'arak burrowed into the ground and left, and the captured spider demons also disappeared into the tunnels on the ground with the lords. middle.

They have been given a new mission

They want to conquer their own people for the Lich King!

The underground kingdom of the spider demons will come under the control of the Scourge of the Undead, and this boundless underground world will also belong to the supreme Majesty Anduin Lothar!

Standing on the city wall, Blake watched this scene with satisfaction.

He looked at Lothar holding the magic sword, at Windrunner's mother who had been given more power of death, and finally at Beetle Xiaoqiang who had just been resurrected and was still adapting to the power of death.

"The Lich King, the Banshee King, the Underground King. Oops, the professional groups are all alive now."

Blake grinned and clapped his hands and said:

"It's time to bring the end of the undead disaster system to the eastern continent! Well, maybe I should ask Eudora to send some expired grains to Andorhal.

Although those things will only cause diarrhea and dehydration for the unlucky people, after all, the whole show needs to be done.

Um?

What are you doing? "

The stinking pirate looked back at Xal'atath. The Dark Essence had a strange expression at this moment. She looked toward the ground behind Ankahet City in a terrifying posture with her body motionless but her neck rotated 180 degrees.

Under Black's questioning, Xal'atath whispered:

"There are people who want to surrender to me, the crypt lord on the other side, and the underground king on the other side. It surrenders to me and offers everything. Tsk tsk, there are indeed smart people among the spider demons."