Shadow Trails in Azeroth

"Kakaka"

Amidst the sound of hinges and large gears turning, a gap slowly opened to the left and right in the center of the deck of the Nagfar, which was already very close to the island of the Temple of Storms.

Under the action of the elevator designed by the mechanical gnomes, the HK-8 air suppression unit has completed its overhaul and is ready for flight, or let us use a more concise term.

The "Star Throne" aircraft was pushed to the upper deck bit by bit.

The appearance of this aircraft made the originally spacious deck of the Nagfar immediately become cramped.

In order to give it a more convenient take-off window, Seifer had to order the ghost sailors to furl all the sails of the three masts.

To be honest, having such a mechanical lifting device on a wooden ship completely destroys the overall solidity of the ship, and opening such a large opening in the upper deck would have damaged the deck long ago on other ships.

However, the Nagfar is a ghost ship with its own consciousness, and she is in the second of three enhancements in the [Ambition] state.

The spirit of this ghost ship doesn't care what weird shapes her hull will be transformed into. She is simply pursuing the improvement of combat effectiveness as a battleship.

If you think the lifting port on the deck is strange, you may want to take a look at the high-energy charging pile that has been installed in the inner cabin behind the stern of the ship, as well as the mechanical module of the flesh purification cannon located under the keel decoration at the front of the ship.

Those things are not at all what a sail warship should be equipped with.

It can even be said that the style of painting is different.

However, for a ghost ship that can recover from injuries by devouring souls, changing the hull structure is not a big deal, as long as the ship's keel and central axis mast are not moved.

Besides, Black has promised the Nagfar that enough source steel, keels and other materials will be found for the second strengthening to ensure that the ghost ship's hull strength reaches an unprecedented height.

As for what materials should be used to strengthen [Ambition] for the third time, Blake still has no idea.

But the alternatives he considered included the wood of the World Tree Nordrassil, the Titan Iron Steel of the Titan City Ulduar, Deathwing or the dragon bones of other dragon kings, etc.

Just by hearing the name, you can tell how difficult it is to get these things.

The Nagfar is not an unruly ship spirit. As her wisdom improves and her consciousness gradually takes shape, she can understand the "difficulties" of her captain.

So she generously gave Blake a lot of time to complete the material collection.

"You must fly to an altitude above three thousand meters. That is the lowest altitude that will not be affected by the explosion!"

Next to the "Star Throne" aircraft, whose thrusters on both sides have started to ignite, the mechanical dwarf prince standing there in the heavy rain, not afraid of rust, looked at Black, Overspark and Kelsey Steel who were sitting on the aircraft. Shuo shouted:

"The air blast height I set is two hundred meters. The air blast at that height can maximize the power of the origin bomb. Don't land on the island immediately after you complete the detonation.

Wait at least fifteen minutes!

The radiation of the origin bomb can be reduced to the point where it will not affect flesh and blood.

If you are accidentally hit

Then wish yourself good luck.

But as long as you survive, no matter how strange you become, Mechagon will always be your warm home. "

"Okay, this wave of 'blessings' is great and powerful, but since time is tight now, I won't go down and beat you up."

Sitting in the cockpit with two excited dwarfs, the stinky pirate put a pilot's helmet on his head and added wind-proof goggles to his eye mask.

He made a rude gesture towards Prince Erazmin next to him, waved to Sephiel who was holding the Tide Scepter, and shouted:

“Ten minutes countdown!

Sephiel, look at the watch and count the seconds. Don’t miss the time. If you can’t open the tidal barrier when the countdown reaches zero, I swear I will drop this bomb on your head. "

"Hey, I'm a ghost, I have nothing to fear."

The first parasaurus curled his lips.

Watching the evil-minded captain sitting in the middle cockpit of the weird-looking aircraft, with the two dwarfs Overback and Kelsey cheering on the left and right, this bulky-looking aircraft flew with extremely dexterity and convenience. way to take off from the deck.

His Royal Highness Little Star's throne took off in the violent storm, and the mechanical origin bomb was hung on three chains below the aircraft.

The latter's round shell is covered with colorful flashing small light bulbs.

These colorful light spots represent that the modules inside the bomb are working normally.

The faint blue flames ignited by the universal wheel thrusters at both ends of the aircraft were like two will-o'-the-wisps under the violent storm, floating and quietly blending into the night sky.

Prince Erazmin's small figure was lying on the side of the Naqfar, watching the aircraft fly into the night sky in front of him. His electronic eyes tracked the flight path of the aircraft, like an emotionless tracking machine.

He allowed the cold raindrops to hit the metal shell of his body, causing little splashes of water to appear. The bodies of the mechanical gnomes have been treated with anti-rust treatment, and they will not rust due to water exposure.

But in addition, in Prince Erazmin's running mechanical heart, there seemed to be an unconcealed excitement at this moment.

It was an emotional agitation that he could not suppress with his emotional logic circuit.

"Hey, what's wrong with you? I saw sparks coming from behind your forehead!"

Sephiel looked at the small Prince Erazmin in astonishment, and she said suspiciously:

"Did you have water in your head, so it was short-circuited? Is that how you use that strange word?"

"Well, yes, short circuit is exactly what you meant, Ms. Dragon."

Prince Erazmin stared at the night sky without raising his head and said:

“But the electric sparks in the back of my head were not because of a short circuit, but because I was stripping away my emotional logic circuit, and I no longer wanted to use cold calculations to observe the world.

I want to feel the same real emotion as you do, and cheer like you do after we save this country.

I have plenty of reasons to be excited. "

The mechanical prince clenched his fists and said:

“This is the destruction machine my father built that will be used to punish darkness and save lives. This may be the beginning of the redemption I have been looking for for myself.

I don't know if that's the right way to describe it.

But when I saw that Lord Black was going to use the weapon of destruction to kill these evil people, my logical thinking as a pacifist did not come up with any reason to resist.

Perhaps, this is what you call a ‘just cause’. "

"Well you said that great."

Sephiel curled his lips and said dryly:

"But to be honest, I don't think my captain can be associated with the word 'justice'. You heard it just now. He made it very clear that this is a personal grudge.

You can understand it as a civil war between evil and evil. "

"maybe."

Prince Erazmin nodded, not entangled in this statement. After a few seconds, he looked up in confusion at Sephiel, who was watching the scenery with him.

He said:

"Aren't you going to start casting spells yet?

Mr. Sephiel, according to my calculations, you need to activate the Tide Stone and your scepter to complete energy exchange, then recharge and adapt for a few minutes, and finally calibrate the target to complete the launch. Ten minutes is not enough time to follow these steps. .

In fact, according to my calculations, you are already nearly fifteen seconds behind the standard time."

"Ha! You didn't tell me earlier!"

The first parasaurus widened his eyes, turned around and disappeared on the deck.

"Stop pretending to fish, lazy fellows, come up and help!"

As the first mate, she could shuttle back and forth on this ghost ship. After shouting a few times, she quickly got a group of "pirate officers" on the ghost ship to push the Tide Stone onto the deck in a mess.

After these five broken stones had been charged by the Tide Hunter, the power of the sea and the sky had reached the level of "animal fullness", but the Titan energy inside was still lacking.

To be honest, if the roarer avatar can still be activated and used, why does Blake need to perform such a trick as "aerial bombing"?

Isn't it better to directly activate the Titan incarnation and carry out a wave of piggy advances with a mechanical return bomb than blowing cold wind at high altitude?

"Get away! Get away, everyone! This first officer is about to cast a spell."

On the deck of the Nagfar, the Pirate Dragon pulled hard on his sailor hat, grabbed the Tide Scepter in his hand and approached the Tide Stone, and waved his hand to let the group of ghosts disperse.

Little Dorothy and Abby, two ghost lolita, one red and one green, were holding hands and hiding behind Barnes, curiously looking at the serious Sephiel as he planned to cast a spell.

Romeo and Juliet don't care about that.

This pair of mentally ill ghosts, a man and a woman, are playing a Cosplay game of "Zhang Pu loves Zhang Pu" on the keel decoration of the ship's bow shrouded in the storm.

The Immortal Sea Knights commanded by Joan Creedon were on alert all around. They had entered the sea area that could be observed by the Temple of Storms, and were very close to the coast in front of them.

The evil servants of the Church of Storms will rush out to attack the ship at any time. Even the watchers were ambushed by the sea monsters summoned by the sea sages. The Nagfar seems to be a bit unsatisfactory.

"Wow"

Just when Sephiel rolled up his sleeves and raised the tide scepter, a thick black tentacle covered with suckers and barbs rose from the sea water below.

That thing reached an astonishing height of thirty meters just when it broke out of the sea. It flipped its black and purple tentacles and whizzed towards the Nagfar.

Obviously, the approach of the ghost ship has alarmed the sea sages.

They responded with deadly precision and ruthlessness. The sea monster that attacked the Watcher was hidden under this island.

"Keep casting!"

Seeing the deadly tentacles of the terrifying sea monster smash down with great force, a group of ghosts on the deck suddenly screamed, but the Mechanical Prince shouted, and he was well prepared and threw a ball at the tentacles that fell down. Dark red stuff.

It was the Eye of Invention that Blake carried with him before.

That thing flew into the air, spreading the guidance beam in all directions, hitting the terrifying twisted tentacles above, and a cold mechanical and electronic sound immediately sounded:

"Incompatible flesh and blood detected. Purification begins!"

"Whoosh"

Two scorching beams of light shot out from the eye sockets of the dragon head skeleton decorated in the front of the Nagfar hull. After being loaded into the ghost ship, this "by-product" born from the research of mechanical origins by the king of the mechanical dwarfs showed its power for the first time. .

The two beams of light, one after the other, were like two light knives, slashing diagonally at the huge tentacles falling in front of them. The concentrated release of the source-returning power had extra destructive power on the creatures infected by the void.

So under the stunned gaze of a group of ghosts on the deck, the flashing hot beam cut off the tentacles that came down. Well, it's a bit exaggerated to say that.

In fact, it only annihilated the front-fifth of the tentacles into hot flying ash, but this was enough to cause heartache to the abyss monster under the sea.

A low, shocking roar came from under the roaring waves, and the vicious and cold eyes in the darkness of the abyss stared fixedly at the Nagfar on the sea.

More tentacles poured out from around the ghost ship, wrapping around the ship's deck layer by layer.

Just like it destroyed the Watcher's ship, it wanted to tear this weak ghost ship that dared to harm itself from the center of the hull. For a terrifying creature like it, it was simply a piece of cake.

"Don't touch my boat! You'll scratch its hull! Go to hell you bastard!"

Sephiel looked at the tentacles wrapping around him.

She heard the scream of the ship spirit of Naqfar, and the great auxiliary dragon's heart surged with anger, just as the power of the sea and sky of the Tide Stone had been completely connected to the scepter in her hand.

The qualified first mate roared angrily, took a step forward, and swung the powerful tidal staff forward like a sword.

The next moment, the blow that shattered the elemental realm under the sea of ​​Vashj'ir appeared again.

The power of the blue sea and sky turned into a giant blade of energy when gathered by the tidal scepter. With Sephiel's frantic swing, he chopped off several thick tentacles covering the ghost ship.

The violent energy is endless.

The rolling blue arc light illuminated the sky and the earth in an instant, like lightning running under the dark night, rolling like a heavy punch from a god, and punched outside the island of the heavily armed Storm Temple in front of him.

The invisible rolling tidal barrier is fulfilling its mission. The sea sages do not think that there is any energy attack in Kul Tiras that can break this barrier covered with the divine power of the abyss.

Then Seifer opened their eyes.

What is a "mobile weapon of mass destruction"?

The shield composed of the forbidden power of Ny'alotha is like an egg shell that has been struck by a heavy hammer. In the blue light flow that combines the darkness and chaos, it looks like broken glass. , cracking and shattering.

"It's done! Withdraw!"

Sephiel kicked out the tentacle sucker beating in the blood in front of him, holding the still hot tide scepter, and whistled to himself and Black's ghost ship, like calling a war horse.

The next moment, the ghost ship, which had escaped the control of the sea monster, was like an arrow leaving its string, changing its direction and rushing towards the sea outside the Temple of Storms.

Behind the ghost ship, there are tentacles of terrifying deep-sea monsters chasing after them.

And in the sky behind the ghost ship, in the dark and silent night, at an altitude of three thousand meters, Blake, holding a dwarf pipe in his mouth, clicked on the bomb release button.

He looked at the big red button that looked very funny, rubbed his fingers, and said to the two dwarfs next to him who were staring at him:

"I said, I am going to save the world. Do you want this achievement? I can help you. Of course, you have to show some expression for this kind of thing."

"We give you money!"

Kelsey's reaction was obviously faster than Overback's. The dwarf agent chewing raspberry gum shouted:

"Dwarfs save the world! Wow, this sentence sounds great. The Council of Craftsmen will definitely pay a lot of money for this sentence. You will have everything you want.

But don't go too far. "

"Don't worry, I'm only asking for something trivial."

Blake was as cold as his grandson in the high altitude, but he still blew out a smoke ring in a pretentious manner, put his hand on the red button, and winked at the two dwarfs.

So, one big, two small, and three hands put it on in unison.

"Three, two, one!"

"boom"

The aircraft trembled violently.

The mechanical bomb hanging below began to fall freely, and the colorful small lights on it began to extinguish quickly, and then were relit into a dark red color representing danger as it continued to fall.

That means that the Origin Bomb has entered the final countdown to detonate, and nothing can stop it from emitting purifying light and heat.

"Click, click"

There were two soft sounds, and the two dwarfs' mechanical goggles covered their eyes.

They lay on the aircraft and looked down from left to right. In the dead night, above the swaying Storm Temple, a group of rhythmically beating red light was falling rapidly.

Finally, in the falling "dubbing" of the dwarfs' elongated voices.

BOOM! ! !