Shadow Trails in Azeroth

"I reiterate the plan one last time."

In the palace that had been cleared, Black and the Double Realm Walker approached the dark naaru on the high platform one on the left and the other on the right.

As he walked, he said to the Double Realm Walkers and Mograine behind him who were ready to guide the sun bombardment at any time, uh, ready to launch the most powerful Holy Light liquidation:

"The two of us launched the Sacrifice of Truth together, sending Lula's thoughts and her wisdom into the lightless sea, and then Mograine used the holy light to purify the remaining dark body of Lula.

After this is done, I will take 70% of all the Naaru fragments, and you and Mograine will share the rest equally?

is that OK? "

"No."

The Dual Realm Walker was thinking about how to "bargain" with the Will of the Void by taking advantage of the opportunity to sacrifice Lula. It was not in the mood to argue with Black about the distribution of the spoils.

And Lula's situation is very special.

Normally, the Naaru's transformation to the dark side will be completed in a short period of time after death, but Kil'jaeden, in order to punish Lula for helping Velen escape, deliberately left her in this desperate place to wait for death, which directly caused Lula's death. 's death was stretched out to the terrifying time scale of more than 20,000 years.

It deliberately allowed Lula, who loved the world of Argus, to witness the collapse of this world with her own eyes in order to torture Lula's mind.

Naaru are also living beings, and they also have thoughts.

The more pain they endure, the stronger the despair born in their hearts. In Lula's current situation, she already possesses dark power that far exceeds that of her compatriots before she is transformed into an entropy demon.

The fact that the Double Realm Walker has been calling her "the soon-to-be-born God of the Void" proves how strong Lula's dark power is.

To sacrifice such a dangerous soul, even if there are two truth hunters here, there is no guarantee that it will be completed smoothly.

They must deal with the already very unstable Dark Naaru very carefully. Any mistake may cause Lula to complete the transformation of the Entropy Demon in place.

In that case, there was no choice but to kill her.

What?

Why don't you sacrifice the Entropy Demon?

nonsense!

That thing is mindless!

Sacrificing such a pure fool who only knows how to destroy would make both Black and the Double Realm Walker condemned by the Sunless Sea, and they might even have their professional levels deducted.

"Come on, dear baby, Uncle Black knows that you are feeling uncomfortable, and I'm here to help you out."

The pirate said very terrifying words, and stood next to Lula's dark body with the Double Realm Walker. The dark tide that was enough to submerge and melt ordinary people was of no use to the two of them.

In the constantly rolling void storm, the two truth hunters stretched out their hands at the same time and touched Lula's constantly rotating crystal body.

hiss!

Ice cold.

As cold as death, when his fingers touched the body of the Dark Naaru, the pirate, who had now become a true demigod, felt the coldness on his fingertips.

The Dual Realm Walker, who was much weaker than him, even had the energy on his arms frozen.

Lula offered no resistance.

She was on the verge of death and had neither the will nor the strength to fight her impending fate.

Especially when she "helped" Blake break the gap between the Sunless Sea and the material world under the summons of the Void Instinct, she consumed her remaining life.

The pirate glanced at the Double Realm Walker.

The next moment, the two truth hunters began to perform sacrifices at the same time. Blake's left hand shone with flying void fluorescence, while the dual realm walker held a portable "Altar of Truth" in his other hand.

With their joint efforts, Lula's weak and chaotic, weather-beaten and desperate thoughts began to escape from the body made of darkness little by little and move towards the dim lightless sea.

This was not the first time that Blake had done this kind of thing. He was familiar with the process when he sacrificed the Fire Demon King in the Land of Fire before, and the dual realm walker who assisted him was even more experienced in doing this.

It very skillfully opened the tunnel of consciousness leading to the lightless sea, and led Lula towards the mysterious dark sea like a guide.

It was very sorry for what happened to Lula.

It also hopes that this brave soul of Naaru can start a new life in the realm of the void. At the same time, such a perfect sacrifice can also allow it to once again show its value in front of the will of the void.

Everything is going smooth.

Mograine, who was preparing to summon the Holy Light for Reckoning at the entrance of the palace, could feel the song of despair surrounding his heart quickly dissipating. The dark tune became lighter, and the rotation of the dark Naaru's body in front of him also stopped little by little. .

The crystal bodies surrounding Lula's dark core were like decorations that had lost their traction. They hit the ground one by one, making a crisp impact sound.

This dark naaru is disintegrating.

This symbolizes the impending demise of her existence in the physical world.

But just when Lula's weak consciousness was about to pass through the gap between the material world and the lightless sea, a sudden change occurred! Lula, who had been cooperative and docile just now, suddenly became irritable.

She felt that she was leaving the material world permanently, which seemed to touch some kind of taboo in Lula's heart.

Under Mograine's wide-eyed gaze, the dark crystals that had separated from the Naaru's body were once again pulled back to their original positions, and the dark Naaru that stopped spinning let out a weird and sharp scream.

An extremely violent shadow storm blew in the palace, silently annihilating everything it came into contact with like powder.

"What's going on here?"

The Grand Duke shouted in surprise:

"Is she resisting? Do you need me to attack?"

"immediately!"

Double Realm Walkers rarely encounter this situation.

This experienced truth hunter discovered that Lula's dark body had begun to "melt", which meant that Lula was rapidly transforming into a dark entropy demon.

The Truth Hunter shouted to the Grand Knight with a vibrating electronic sound:

"The greatest power of Holy Light Reckoning is aimed at her core! Hurry!"

"No! Wait!"

Just when Mograine was about to charge forward with the Great Sword of Holy Light, Black, who had his eyes closed, suddenly stopped him:

"Don't come over, it's not over yet."

"She has begun to transform! It seems that she has been in despair for too long and has distorted Lula's natural will. She has been eroded by thoughts of destruction and devouring."

The dual realm walker faced the increasingly larger shadow storm and shouted to Blake:

"I have seen such a dark transformation in a temple of stars. It is irreversible! Her body must be destroyed to send her consciousness into the lightless sea."

"I guess you've never been in love, you pathetic straight man with a bandage."

Faced with the warning from the Dual Realm Walker, the pirate retorted quietly.

"What?"

The Dual Realm Walker can't be solved by Black's problem. It seriously suspects that the pirate may have gone crazy when the Abyss was created. What's wrong with this!

"I mean, if you've ever been in love you can understand why Lula is cranky right now."

Blake let out a long breath and placed his right hand on Lula's crystal body that was beginning to melt. He said to the Double Realm Walker:

“This is not because she fell into destruction and was unable to extricate herself, nor was it because her mind was destroyed due to despair, nor was it because she felt that her life was threatened.

She just.

how to say?

Before fulfilling her last wish and expectation, she knew she couldn't leave just like that. "

"But who knows what her last wish is?"

Mograine had already put in the "Sun Bombing" stance below, and he shouted:

"Isn't she already unable to communicate?"

"You don't need to guess to know this kind of thing. You two straight men, hold on tight and wait for me."

The pirate said something.

In the next moment, under the gaze of the dual realm walker, Blake's huge void will left his body and poured into Lula's furious scream. Relying on the mysterious connection between void creatures, he quickly captured the weak and endangered creature in front of him. Dead but very manic consciousness, he said to Lula:

"Stop howling, little cutie, I know what you're waiting for. Come on, be good, and I'll show you something."

Then the pirate did something very crazy.

He unilaterally opened up some of his own memories and thoughts to Lula.

Once Lula chooses to fight back at this time, it's hard to say whether Blake can be harmed, but there is no way to keep these opened memories.

Pirates lose these memories entirely.

But Lula didn't attack.

In an almost insane rage, she took the initiative to embrace the pirate's open memory with an incredibly gentle gesture. The next moment, a picture from Blake's memory bloomed in front of the chaotic and violent Dark Naru.

It was in a very quiet-looking woodland, surrounded by a group of strange and slender beings with long ears, and in a Draenei-style tent. Black was talking to an old man with a white beard and a Draenei.

"Little Velen"

Lula's violent thoughts were completely quiet at this moment.

She made a vague cry, obviously recognizing the person in the pirate's memory.

This instantaneous transformation from violent to peaceful made the Double Realm Walker extremely surprised. It had never seen such a situation before. This was the first time it saw with its own eyes that the Dark Naaru, who had begun to transform into the Entropy Demon, could stop this. process.

But the pirates didn't explain much more.

In the memory he actively opened, the conversation in that memory continued.

"I said, old man Willen, your life has been too long. Are you telling me that apart from your son and your wife, there is nothing that has made you miserable throughout your life?"

In that memory, Blake asked with a voice full of malice:

"Looking at your expression, I know there must be more. Tell me, tell me what makes you unhappy and make me happy."

"You always like to ask about sad things."

Facing the pirate's inquiry, the old Viren in his memory said with a smile. He turned the crystal rosary in his hand and said after a few seconds:

"I have experienced too many painful things. If I tell them all, it is enough to make a guy like you feel depressed. But the thing I regret the most is

Probably Lula. "

"Huh? Lula? Who is that? Your lover?"

Blake in his memory pretended to be confused and asked:

"What did you do to others that made you abandon them?"

"Be more serious. You are a prophet after all. Can you be more steady?"

Velen in the picture sighed, and said with regret and unconcealable sadness:

"Lula is my mentor, my friend, and the most courageous and protective guardian naaru in the world of Argus. We were able to escape the apocalypse thanks to Lula's heroic dedication at the last moment, but that is also what I regret most. thing.

I shouldn't have left Lula alone in Argus. We haven't heard anything about her in a long time, and even Adal can't contact her.

She might have."

Velen paused in his memory. The old prophet lowered his head and read a verse. He said to Black:

"That's the thing that makes me realize the most. Without Lula, there would be no remnants of the current Draenei civilization. You said, you will definitely go to Argus in the future.

Can you help me with one thing? Blake. "

“If the price is right, there’s nothing I can’t do.”

The pirate snorted and said:

"Don't tell me, you want me to help you find that Lula?"

"Well, help us find her."

Viren said seriously:

"Say thank you to her for us. Please tell her for us that the children she protected back then are still multiplying among the stars. We have inherited her courage and did not surrender to the devil.

Even if we face repeated failures, we are still fighting.

We will never forget what our old friends on the other side of the stars have done for us.

If she needs help, help her, Blake!

We are willing to pay any expensive price for this. If we can meet Lula again among the stars, that would be the best. May the Holy Light drop down the curtain."

The memory of the pirate ends here.

The dark naaru in front of him let out a cry of joy. Under Mograine's stunned gaze, the melted dark crystal body began to rapidly collapse.

this.

Is she committing suicide?

Why?

You have persisted in despair for more than 25,000 years, but you still have to give up now?

No!

wrong!

Kil'jaeden thought that Lula's stay in this hopeless place for more than 20,000 years was torture.

But no!

For Lula, she persisted until now in despair just to get this confirmed news!

She has endured unimaginable darkness and pain, and persists until now under the call of the void, just to ensure that the children she sacrificed her life to save are still safe.

This is what Black just said, belonging to Lula's last wish.

Oh my god.

At this moment, even though Mograine was a strong man both physically and mentally, he couldn't help but burst into tears. At this moment, he seemed to see the brightest holy light flying in the collapse of the creature made of darkness in front of him. .

Isn't this what he wants to protect after fighting all this time?

"Are they happy?"

A weak mother's voice sounded in the pirate's consciousness. Blake nodded and said softly:

"Your children survived the Legion's pursuit, drifted among the stars, reached a world that was not so kind to them, and experienced some terrible things.

But they have gone to my hometown. "

Blake stroked Lula's vibrating crystal core.

As if comforting a child, he said in a gentle tone:

"It is a world as beautiful and tolerant as Argus. They have already lived a new life there, and they may never be able to return to their hometown of Argus.

But their civilization has re-rooted in a warm land.

They will survive.

Welcome the future with joy and hope.

I think that's what you give everything you want to get for them. "

The pirate spoke, recounting his memories of the Storm Fortress landing in the South China Sea, the Draenei welcoming the Pandaren ships that brought them food on their own islands, and the Draenei ambassadors traveling through the cities of various civilizations. Show them all to the dying Lula.

The dark naaru browsed those memories with a gratified attitude.

Her breath quickly weakened.

The last wish is gone.

She should also go to her own new world and start a long new life.

Black winked at the Twin Realm Walker, who began to redirect the Sacrifice of Truth, leading Lula's will into the Sunless Sea. At this last moment, the pirate raised his head and said to the invisible consciousness:

"Velum asked me to say 'thank you' for him and the draenei, but I think a brave naaru like you may not need this, so I will give you my blessing.

Lula, may the tide of truth in the Sunless Sea nourish your existence, and may you still meet your children among the stars after nearly eternity.

I believe that one day, even if they no longer recognize you,

"Thanks."

A weak but crisp laughter came from the lightless sea, and then a warm consciousness touched the pirate's hair, and she said to Blake:

"Thank you for your blessings, kind stranger. The darkness I left behind."

"Don't worry, I'll clean it up for you."

Black snapped his fingers, and Grand Duke Mograine, who was weeping in the palace, raised his sword and launched his own Holy Light Reckoning with the will of supreme respect and blessing.

Even when he was the archbishop, he could not feel that his holy light was as active as it is today. The magnificent light pillar passed through the obstruction of evil energy, accurately penetrated the palace and landed on the dark core of Lula.

In the dancing light, the great knight beat his chest and shouted:

"Ms. Lula, goodbye!"

"Why are you shouting so loudly? She is not your wife!"

Blake cursed angrily.

In that hot and annoying light, he took a few steps back to avoid the sharp edge. Then, he raised his head, waved his hand to the closed passage in the sky and said warmly:

"Lula, goodbye, wait! It seems I didn't participate in the truth sacrifice just now? I was just patronizing and moved! Damn it!"