Shadow Trails in Azeroth

There is really nothing to say about the appearance of the Archon Gristia compared to her brothers and sisters.

It is the appearance of a female Kylian Angel magnified three or four times. She is a blue giantess with a milky white halo lingering everywhere outside her skin. Her upper body is wearing a slightly astringent white chest wrap, and her lower body is decorated with gold. The cloth battle dress with a ribbon, the arms are protected by gorgeous sacred gauntlets, and the long legs suspended above the ground are tied with Greek-style leggings.

This should be an eternal being who loves beauty. There is a transparent skirt support behind her war skirt, which will make these light things sway endlessly when her wings flap.

If you don't consider the identity of the eldest daughter, then her outfit would not be out of place even if it were worn by a dancer in a tavern in Azeroth. Even the fusion of very sacred and astringent will attract people's attention when she appears on the stage. Men throughout the tavern cheered her with whistles.

Of course, as an Eternal, she always needs some unique decorations.

For example, there is a triangular golden crown on her head, which is as big as her torso. After wearing it, the eldest daughter always looks a little top-heavy.

The thorn shoulder pads with sun patterns suspended on her shoulders are suspended in a very appropriate way on her shoulders. Coupled with the blessing of the sacred heart energy streamer from the Paradise Castle, she has a kind of religious majesty of "the arrival of an angel". .

But all these holy or vulgar decorations on her body are not the point!

The focus is on the wings of the eldest daughter.

Different from the wings that extend from the back of ordinary Kyrians, the eldest daughter's wings almost completely cover the entire torso from shoulders to hips, and are not a single layer of wings but a superposition of a large and a small double layer of wings.

Just like an ordinary Gryon angel, wider and more gorgeous wings extend beyond its wings. This unique structure allows the eldest daughter's wings to be described as "covering out the sky and the sun" when unfolded. The wingspan is at least three times her height.

Blake felt that the wings might be nearly thirty meters wide when fully straightened.

And at the end of each wing intertwined with blue and white light, there are golden protective wings dotted on the edge of the wings. Judging from Lord Evil God's outstanding combat experience, this thing should be more than just a decoration.

This pair of wings, which are as perfect as works of art, can easily cut open the body of a demigod when used in battle, and it obviously comes with an extension of some of the eldest daughter's divine power.

Such as controlling the sky and so on.

Lord Evil God has also seen many winged creatures.

From the savage harpies in Azeroth to the dragons that can soar around the world with their wings spread, from the Doomsday Valkyries of the Burning Legion who use their wings to summon fire and rain down, to the great movie kings who spread their wings to fight when the battlefield breaks out. Knights.

From his experience, things like wings are very useless in many situations. Even for giant dragons, wings are still one of their biggest weaknesses.

Well, there was a time when Black was also keen on giving himself some wings, but he gave up on this childish idea after he became a mature Old God.

Overall, Blake has no special interest in wings.

But when he saw his eldest daughter Gristia spreading her wings with his own eyes, he had to admit that he was truly amazed for a moment.

However, what burst out along with this surprise was a regretful and bad mood. Why do the most beautiful wings among these six fields of force grow on the guy in front of me?

Isn't this a waste of something good?

"Buzz"

Under the influence of such emotions, Lord Evil God quickly lost interest in the conversation. He took a step forward, and the twin blades of sadness wrapped in a cold aura jumped into his hands.

The black prophet's robe on his body also transformed into a moonlit battle armor under the dim moonlight. When the gloomy and solemn black owl battle helmet completely covered his head, Blake's divine power was also radiated.

The realm of truth of the Quiet One unfolds.

It was as if darkness had fallen again this morning, weakening the connection between the eldest daughter and the realm of Ascension Bastion, forcing her to use her own power to fight.

This is something new that the evil gods learned after fighting the Winter Queen. For the Eternals, their connection with the power of their own kingdom will make them difficult to deal with.

"Before we start the fight, I have one last question."

Seeing the power of the foreign evil god erupting, the eldest daughter waved her hands to call back the promotion war spear she had just thrown. The golden war spear decorated with sun rings and holy bells was waved by him gracefully. , crossed several circles in the air and pointed at Blake, who was striding towards Him.

The eldest daughter looked at the sword in Blake's hand that clearly had the style of the Abyss, and asked in her own holy voice:

"Do you serve Zoval? What does the Banished want?"

"Of course you can ask, but that doesn't mean I will definitely answer."

Black's roaring voice sounded from under the battle helmet, and as the sound echoed, thousands of tentacles surged from the increasingly gloomy surroundings to attack Gristia in front of her like a swarm of foraging snakes.

Faced with this vicious and intensive attack, the latter raised the war spear in his hand to the sky, letting the holy bell hanging on the top of the promotion ring. The heart energy of the Eternal followed the several echoing bells and turned into feathers of light that scattered in all directions. While protecting the eldest daughter, he annihilated and ignited all the tentacles shaped by the void shadow.

The milky white firelight illuminated the entire high platform in an instant. The eldest daughter breathed a sigh of relief but then her eyes tightened. At that moment she lost her lock on the Silent One.

But don’t bother looking for it.

Because just when the eldest daughter belatedly realized that those tentacles were just a cover-up, a cold and murderous aura erupted behind her like an unsheathed blade.

It was like death was lying on her shoulder blowing cold air on her neck. The sudden burst of murderous intent made every feather on the eldest daughter's wings count down.

"Also, those were two questions just now!"

Before she flapped her wings and prepared to dodge or counterattack at top speed, with the dissatisfied response from Lord Evil God, Black's hand emerged from his shadow and placed on her shoulder.

Moon Shadow Godhead's Super Sheep Transformation Technique is activated!

Gristia immediately felt that her body was distorted and deformed by the strange force.

The holy wings that he was proud of suddenly shriveled to the point of being unable to lift into the air, as if infected by a disease, and his light body became very heavy, falling to the ground instead of flying into the sky.

"puff"

Salamani cheered and pierced the Eternal's body again, accurately piercing the skin along the center of the wings on the eldest daughter's back, and slid the blade out before the Eternal could notice the pain erupting.

Blake's figure disappeared behind the eldest daughter like an explosion of smoke. It wasn't until he returned to where he was standing and shook off the blue blood on the blade that the pain of being pierced and extracted erupted in the eldest daughter's eternal body. .

"ah!"

The Gryon Archon let out a painful scream, her wings twitched and she fell to the ground made of the most gorgeous holy marble. Drops of blue blood flowed down her body like a white ribbon. The wings dripped, and with the toughness of the Eternal's body, this small wound should have healed in an instant, but there was something obviously weird about the evil god's sword.

The eldest daughter could feel that with every beat of her heart, her strength was weakened.

"you"

The eldest daughter, who was paralyzed on the ground, stared at Black with an unbelievable look in front of her, holding the Blade of Sorrow in front of her.

The evil god didn't even look at her. He stretched out his hand to rub the cold blade, and then removed an Eternal Seal representing Kyrian and Ascension Bastion through the convergence of the sharp anima.

He placed the milky white holy mark on the fingertips of his left hand and raised it slightly.

The next moment, under the eldest daughter's stunned and horrified gaze, the blood-red Venthyr mark, the golden Arbitrator mark, and the blue Night Fa mark appeared on Black's other three fingers.

This means that four of the five seals that opened the passage to the Holy Land of the First Born have fallen into the hands of this extraterrestrial evil god.

This moment was like lightning flashing through the eldest daughter's doubtful mind. Many things were explained at once, including why Maldraxxus attacked the Ascension Fortress without any warning, and why this evil god was so humiliated. He, and even the entire Shadow Kingdom, have experienced various anomalies and disturbances in the Maw during this period of time.

"You can't take Him there!"

The weak eldest daughter didn't know where she got the strength, and struggled to stand up with her own spear.

She held up her gorgeous wings like she was dragging a heavy cloak. The effect of the super sheep transformation was gradually losing its effectiveness, and the flight instinct that had been forcibly stripped away was returning.

But Gristia no longer had any intention of resisting or fighting. She stared at the silent Black and shouted:

"No matter what Zoval promised you, He lied to you!

We didn’t banish Him in the first place just because He was trying to defy destiny! The outsider, Zoval, is planning something very dangerous, and traveling to Zaresantis is the end of his evil plans.

The power left by the Firstborn can not only affect the realm of death

He will make everything familiar to you disappear. "

"Shua"

Blake took back the four marks on his fingertips. He glanced at the weak eldest daughter while holding the Blade of Sorrow and said:

“Is this why they call you ‘Eldest Daughter’? You seem to know a lot about Zaresantis, and you still retain the memories of you Eternals in the Holy Land of the Firstborn?

Also I have a little question. "

The evil god glanced at the blood of the Eternal that had just been thrown off the blade, and he said to his eldest daughter:

"Although I have always known that you are not an Eternal who is known for your strength, I really didn't expect that your use of your godhead and power would be so poor.

As long as you have spent one day every thousand years practicing the use of power in the past countless epochs, you will not be killed by my sword. The attack I just made was just a test, and I didn't even use my full strength.

This is not how an Eternal should behave!

So the only correct explanation is that you are not without power, you are just resisting the use of this innate power and consciously alienating it.

You are disgusted and even resentful of your own power, viewing it as a form of torture.

Only in this way can we explain why everyone is Eternal but you are the only one who is so weak. I believe that the "appearance settings" of the five of you when you walked down the assembly line were consistent.

Even if you are an 'auxiliary model', you shouldn't stretch your hips to this extent.

Why? "

"No reason!"

The eldest daughter, who was killed by a sword, was obviously in a bad mood, and she had no intention of answering Black's question.

But the evil god shook his head, and the fingers holding the Blade of Sorrow moved slightly on the hilt, causing the eldest daughter holding the war spear in front of him to cry out in pain and collapse to the ground in embarrassment again.

Obviously, the evil-minded Blake in that puncture just now deliberately left some of his power in the eldest daughter's eternal body. This small trick will not work even for an eternal person like the Winter Queen who is not good at fighting. Their eternal bodies are immune to this level of inner destruction.

But the eldest daughter’s foundation is too poor.

As Blake summed up, she had never used or become familiar with her power, just like a naughty child who could easily crush an insect to death but would be frightened into tears by an insect that jumped on her.

The use of power needs to be learned.

"Of course you can continue to be tough, Gristia, but you and I both know that I will always get the information I want in this conversation."

Blake walked up to the Eternal One, held his pipe in his mouth and looked at her condescendingly and said:

"Anyway, I have got what I want. Maldraxxus is winning on your land, and your followers will be defeated.

I have a lot of time to waste, but you don’t necessarily.

I mean"

The pirate knelt down and looked at the pale face of his eldest daughter, who was in a state of extreme pain due to the impact of the void power. He blew out a wisp of smoke, knocked on the eldest daughter's luxurious golden crown, and said:

"If you are not a warrior, then don't pretend to be a tough guy in front of me. I have seen many souls who are willing to die in the face of threats, and I am sure that you are not one of them.

Say it.

Don't make yourself suffer more. "

Blake stared at the eldest daughter who was lying limply on the ground. He noticed that the latter's fists were slowly clenched, but not for the purpose of counterattack, perhaps just to express some unwillingness and anger in her heart.

After ruling her own country for countless epochs as the noble Eternal One, she was finally overturned from the supreme throne. She was so humble and paralyzed in the dust, completely shattering her sacred and inviolable status. .

Maybe it’s also time to express those resentments that are buried deep in my heart and cannot be expressed to others.

"You are wrong, Evil God. I do not hate my own power. This power is a gift. I made good use of it to shape the Ascension Fortress to serve the order of the Shadow Kingdom."

After more than ten seconds of silence, the eldest daughter lowered her head and folded her wings. She reached out to take off her gorgeous and heavy ruler's crown, and scattered her messy anima hair.

She said hoarsely:

"What I really hate is myself and the beings who created me."

Hearing this, Blake immediately raised his eyebrows and said:

"Then Zoval should win over you, a world-weary person. Why is the Emperor standing by his side?"

"He won over."

The eldest daughter sat cross-legged on the ground stained with eternal blood. She raised her neck in a languid manner, preparing to welcome the end of eternal life.

She closed her eyes and said:

"But I refused.

I am not interested in the resignation of the Winter Queen, the secret planning of the war master, the bold resistance of Zoval, or the endless ambition of Denathrius.

I am only fulfilling the responsibilities given to me when I was born, and I am not interested in anything outside of my responsibilities. "

Having said this, the eldest daughter's face showed a bitter smile of self-deprecation and sarcasm.

she says:

"Anyway, isn't this the purpose and reason why the Firstborn created us? They never need thinking servants, they only need qualified executors.

There are no superfluous thoughts, no arrogant desires, no painful thinking, and no pursuit of freedom.

What they need is a bunch of robots that won't cause trouble.

Then let it be as the Creator wishes.

Only by abandoning the painful past can we win a peaceful new life."

The eldest daughter paused.

She pursed her lips, turned to look at Blake, and asked softly:

"Lord Black, do you know what fate awaits a machine when she fails to perform her duties?"

Blake didn't answer.

He noticed something, frowned, stretched out his hand, gently pulled down the wrapping around the eldest daughter's neck, and saw a row of unique symbols there.

That was not any kind of text belonging to the six forces, but Blake's miraculous "talent of writing" took effect again at this moment, and he understood the meaning of those symbols:

The No. 2 Prototype Unit of Keji, codename "Eldest Daughter", appearance name "Gristia"

The eldest daughter watched Blake's expression change. She grinned, touched the line of text on her shoulder that was the same as the decoration, and whispered:

"Do you know what happened to my predecessor, Unit 1 of the Keji Prototype?"