Shadow Trails in Azeroth

The dark night after the storm faded away from the dark clouds, and stars shone on the earth again. Perhaps the washing of the violent storm made the night extraordinarily bright, shining like a carefully wiped coin.

But the land reflected under the night sky was desolate.

The majestic city of Nar'thalas, which is located among the stars. This city, which Queen Azshara called the "Pearl" of the Empire several times, was razed to the ground in a burst of titan energy in just a few seconds.

What's even worse is that the energy collision after the Tide Stone was shattered directly caused the damage and loss of control of the magic network under the land of Azsuna. The subsequent series of big explosions destroyed everything in Azuna that was close to the magic network. buildings.

The worst thing is that the highborne elves' thirst for magic caused their buildings to be basically near the magic network nodes. Therefore, after Azshara lowered her anger against the traitors, the entire Azsuna returned to its original state overnight. Barbaric times.

There is not a single living person left on this land.

All living beings here are considered targets of Azshara's anger because their leader is trying to save the entire empire from the mad queen.

He didn't even want to go against the Queen, he just wanted to save her from that dangerous illusion.

This is the most ironic part of Azuna's tragedy.

A magical prince who was obviously the most loyal was regarded as an unforgivable traitor by the queen to whom he was loyal.

"Oh my god"

Under the starlight, Emperor Shaohao and the Monkey King flew above the ruins of Nathalas City on the frightened candle dragon.

Although Blake had repeatedly emphasized that life could not exist here, the benevolent emperor still could not turn a blind eye to the disaster that happened before his eyes.

He wanted to come here to take a look himself, try to find one or two people who were still alive and rescue them.

But it turns out that when Queen Azshara's magic is used for destruction, this power will be amplified to an extremely terrifying level. In fact, as the black prophet said, Shaohao flew back and forth several times in the ruins of the entire mountain. circle, not a single survivor was found.

There are even few bones.

The Tide Stone shattered in this place, which directly caused the leakage of Titan energy and melted the life here in an instant, leaving absolutely no bones.

To be honest, this scene is not horrifying because there are no miserable corpses in the background.

But the city that was still extremely gorgeous this morning turned into a lifeless ruins. This terrible contrast still made Emperor Shaohao feel an unknown anger rising in his heart.

Azshara!

How could this woman act so wantonly?

Although these elves are arrogant, their loyalty to the queen is beyond words. Even if they have only been in contact with the upper elves for a short time, Shaohao can still confirm this.

These are the loyal people of the Queen, but that woman destroyed them so ruthlessly. Everyone is the emperor, why can you be so cold-blooded?

"That's enough! That's enough!"

Emperor Shaohao, who was behind Zhulong, clenched his fists.

He seemed to finally understand the reason why Blake brought him here. He gritted his teeth and said:

"Whatever that crazy woman wants to do must be stopped! This behavior is beyond the definition of insanity."

The Monkey King, who always likes to watch the excitement, also became addicted now. The naughty Hozen King looked at the ruins in the city below, and it felt like its fur stood on end.

As a demigod, it can feel that there are some cold things in the masonry of those ruins. They are like a gathering of maliciousness that has been chewed and excreted after the city was engulfed by disaster.

They are growing in the ruins.

"This is not a good place, idiot Shaohao, let's leave quickly."

The Monkey King grinned and urged:

"Idiot Black said that the mad queen has put some kind of curse on this place, and we will be infected by the curse if we stay here. Find the fragments of the stone quickly and return it to the ruins of the academy. I really don't want to be here. Stay.”

"It's down there."

Shaohao nodded silently. When Zhulong flew back again, the emperor quickly discovered the shining Tidestone fragments in the palace garden that had been blown into a big crater.

He stroked the candle dragon's horns and encouraged it to come down.

Shaohao and the Monkey King jumped down a few feet away from the ground, but as soon as they landed, they felt the residual power stimulating their bodies like an electric shock.

The closer you get to the fragments of the Tidestone, the more obvious the uncomfortable flush of energy becomes.

Just like invisible radiation, staying in this place for too long will definitely bring terrible sequelae to the body.

"Hurry! Hurry, the power here is about to burn my hair!"

The Monkey King grinned and used his Staff of Fortune to pick up a hot fragment and put it into the treasure chest specially made by Black for their source steel.

But Shaohao hesitated and did not take any action, which made the hozen unhappy for a while. It jumped over and wanted to scold its good friend for not working, but it saw the "thing" in front of Shaohao at a glance.

Prince Farodis

To be precise, it was the spirit body that remained after Prince Farodis had his flesh and blood burned away.

With his level of life, it was impossible to survive such a close explosion of the Pillar of Creation, but his spirit body maintained an amazing integrity.

The only explanation for this is that this was intentional by Queen Azshara.

She didn't kill the elf coldly.

Instead, she cursed him, asking him to exist as a conscious spirit in this ruined land, feeling pain for everything he had done as ruthless punishment.

This vicious punishment method made Shaohao and the Monkey King feel a cold breath rushing from the soles of their feet straight to their foreheads. Is this something that humans can do?

"Your Highness? Can you hear me?"

Shaohao endured the discomfort and squatted down, trying to wake up the spirit kneeling in the ruins, but Prince Farodis was obviously in an abnormal posture.

He muttered to himself, unable to hear any calls from the outside world.

"It's all my fault. It was my stupidity that offended the Queen, and it was me who hurt my people. It's all my fault."

Shaohao could hear the spirit body of Prince Farodis repeating these words.

He and the Monkey King next to him looked at each other, and both saw the helplessness and regret in each other's eyes. They no longer tried to wake up the prince, but quickly put the fragments of the Tide Stone into the box, and then put it away. Brought back to Nathalas Magic Academy, which was also completely destroyed due to the magic network explosion.

The gorgeous college was reduced to ruins overnight. When Shaohao arrived here, the students who died tragically had turned into spirits and were walking back and forth in the college in an unconscious manner, doing their homework in a daze. Things before death.

Given their spiritual condition, they would quickly dissipate without intervention.

"Black idiot told us to break this orb here."

The Monkey King threw the box containing the fragments of the Tide Stone into the treasure house deep in Dean Lanyue's office that had been washed away by the gushing water.

It took out a purple eyeball-shaped magic orb from its arms, tossed it up and down in its hand, and said to Shaohao, who was mourning the victims in Pandaren style:

"But I always think this thing is evil. Do we really want to do this?"

"Crush it."

Shaohao was very decisive at this moment. The Pandaren Emperor whispered:

"Look around, my friend. Even if the situation is bad, how bad can it be? I believe in Blake's feelings for this place, and he will not hurt these ghosts."

"All right."

The Monkey King flicked his tail and threw the orb in his hand hard.

The thing shattered on the wall of the dark dean's office, and a wave of energy originating from the void rushed out like a shock wave, covering the ruins of the entire college in an instant.

When Shaohao and the Monkey King walked out of the dean's office, they were surprised to see that all the dazed spirits seemed to have awakened their minds. Teacher Andrea, whom they had met once before, was holding a book of energy-enhanced books. He tore up the roster and shouted loudly to the students lining up in front of him:

"Class is about to start! Why haven't you lousy students prepared your wands, uniforms, and grimoires? I'll give you ten more minutes! Ten credits will be deducted from the end-of-year exam for anyone who can't straighten their manners.

You two!

Where are your hats and wands? What kind of weird and strange clothes are you wearing? Also, why did you come out of the dean's office?

Where is Dean Lanyue?

The damn magic experiment explosion has made this academy a mess, and we need the dean to come back and take charge! "

"Well."

Emperor Shaohao and the Monkey King looked at each other. The emperor shrugged and said:

"The dean went out for something. Before she left, she said that you would be responsible for maintaining order in the college for the time being. She would be back soon."

"Is that so?"

Instructor Andrea nodded and ignored Shaohao and the Monkey King. She looked around and scolded:

"Where is that bastard Nittil? Hiding in the dormitory playing games with her wand again? What a shame! Call her over here! Quick! I need her as my administrative assistant.

Leave me alone!

Get ready, it's time to start class, apprentices of Nar'thalath Academy, this class is going to be long. "

——

"How could she do this?"

Alya Blue Moon, who escaped death because she was kidnapped by the bad student Black, is now sitting on the cliff with a blank look on her face.

She murmured to herself, completely losing the grace that a great arcanist should have, just like a poor girl who had been severely stimulated to the point of being autistic.

Black helplessly stretched out his hand and dangled it in front of her eyes, but Dean Lanyue's eyes had no focus at all, which meant that her soul and mind had suffered a terrible impact.

"well"

The pirate sighed. He could guess that letting the dean witness the destruction of his college would be more uncomfortable than killing her, but he didn't expect the situation to be so bad.

Damn it!

I used too much force and the dean became a fool. What should I do?

Of course, Blake just complained. If as a void god, he couldn't even handle this, he might as well just jump off the cliff and commit suicide.

But what makes Black feel strange is that Dean Lanyue is also an important supporting role in his story ten thousand years later.

Logically speaking, changing her life would definitely bring a strong impact on Blake's fate, but when the pirate was ready to withstand the backlash of fate, there was no movement at all.

This shows that Blake's operation did not actually change Dean Lanyue's life. This made Pirate Pirates breathe a sigh of relief but also felt that there was a long way to go.

You have to keep working hard.

You must transfer the dean's obsession with yourself to others, otherwise, if this continues, dean Lanyue may become the first demigod witch in the history of Azeroth to commit suicide because he cannot pass the ethical test in his heart. Monster.

That would be ridiculous, fellow bankers.

With this thought in mind, Black put his finger on Dean's cold forehead. He closed his eyes and easily entered Dean Lanyue's very confusing thoughts.

He plans to conduct a "psychological intervention". Well, compared to the "talk therapy" intervention method used by psychiatrists, the method of the Silent One is obviously more direct and more effective.

He walked in the mind of Dean Lanyue who was completely autistic after witnessing the disaster. He waved his hands like a Rubik's Cube to temporarily suppress those painful memories, and then projected the prosperous scene of Nathalas College 10,000 years later. Dean's heart.

Especially when he helped the relocation of Nathalas College, photos of Dean Lan Yue and the spiritual mentor with the students were also released, in order to show Miss Lan Yue that the Nathalas College she cared about most was actually It was not destroyed by this disaster.

Although all teachers and students died once.

But in the words of Dean Lanyue, for pure spellcasters, flesh and blood are just useless things that hinder their pursuit of the truth.

If an arcanist is afraid of death, how can he dare to put aside his rhetoric and pursue the truth of arcana?

Facts have proved that Mr. Pirate's psychological treatment effect is outstanding. In just a few seconds, when he retracted his thoughts, Dean Lanyue had already recovered from the "idiot" state.

She wiped her tears and stood up, walked quickly to the edge of the cliff, looked down at the miserable ruins of Nathalas College in the night with complicated eyes, and said in a hoarse voice:

"So, after I finish my work, I have to come back here and stay here forever, right?"

"Yeah, but I guess this isn't a sad ending for you."

Blake stood behind the dean, put his hand on her trembling shoulders, and said softly:

"If there is anything that can transcend the separation caused by death, it must be the pursuit of ideals and being with the people you care about and love forever.

You are the dean and mentor of Nathalas Academy.

You are our eternal Dean.

Your story with the Academy is not over, it’s not even the beginning of the end, quite the opposite, it’s just the end of the beginning. I guess you must have a lot to say to Queen Azshara now.

very good.

Hold on to this anger, repress this hatred, and at the right time, you will find the opportunity to let it all out.

But before that, you need to find an organization, an organization that is as determined as you are to overthrow Azshara's brutal rule and resist the invasion of alien demons to defend the world.

Fortunately, I can help you find like-minded partners. "

"Um."

Dean Blue Moon nodded, and Black felt relieved. He turned around and planned to let the little murlocs pack their things. They were leaving this disaster place and heading towards Suramar.

But the moment Blake turned around, Dean Lanyue grabbed his wrist from behind.

The dean buried her weakest position behind Blake with tears in her eyes. She tightly held the pirate with a slightly changed expression and whispered:

"But now I only have you, Black. In this era, I have only you as my disciple. You saved me and you gave me a chance to seek justice from Azshara.

My disciple, you will walk this journey with me, right? Do you want me to call you mentor? Will this make you more attentive to helping me? "

The dean bit his lip and whispered:

"Then, mentor, please help me."

"Oh my God!"

Blake reached out and slapped his eyes desperately.

He finally knew why he didn't suffer the backlash of fate, damn it!

Not only did his operation not divert the dean's obsession, but it actually deepened it!

Dry!

This cannot go on.

Kurtalos Ravencrest must be found quickly, or everything will be lost. Ah, he knew that his damn charm would bring him terrible trouble one day.