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Chapter 538 Stone Statue
This map is very important!
In many stories, the key to finding treasure is a treasure map...
But what about the facts?
Maps are only for reference...
The skill level of the person drawing the map is extremely important.
Whether an adventurer can understand a map, and whether the map is detailed enough, can potentially put their life in danger...
Maps work well on flat ground, but they're less helpful in the Iron Kingdom's mountain fortresses within Blackrock Mountain, making it difficult for intruders to find their way out... In many caves, those damned maps are practically useless, forcing intruders to rely on their intuition and memory to find their way out.
The main danger of entering a cave is not being able to find the way out...
The mines of Azeroth are not only filled with gems and treasures, but also with monsters and dangers.
The teacher mentioned that we need to go to Blackrock Mountain or the ancient city of the trolls, get a map, find a guide, and ideally, bring a group of bodyguards...
In these clichéd stories, adventurers encounter epic ancient ruins and challenging traps, with rare monsters or demons guarding the treasure... and the treasure they find is usually just gems, gold coins, or antiques...
Every explorer is driven by wealth, using the guise of archaeology to excavate and search for the remains of vanished dynasties...
Ideally, it should be a sacred relic once written into the epics sung by bards, or a unique, one-of-a-kind item...
Even now, in the eyes of the warriors of the Alliance and the Horde, the sweat and blood of trolls, even the teeth and pelts of wild beasts, or the scrap metal of dwarves, and the claws or scales of dragons, are all valuable materials and treasures...
Little did they know, both Blackrock Mountain and the Troll Ruins were their homelands...
Even dragon lairs and former strongholds of orcs are spoils of war in the eyes of intruders...
The indigenous people, in order to protect their property and homes, are monsters...
For every self-proclaimed civilized human being, eliminating monsters carries no guilt whatsoever...
They were even smug... because they only got too few gold coins and treasures.
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After Lorraine led Lilith into the giant mouth of the stone golem, the light in the distance was very faint, and the road ahead seemed to have a bend... The tunnel in the stone golem's mouth felt somewhat cool... This felt much better than the area outside where lava flowed.
Looking up, the statues on the wall looked very much like the stone-jawed monsters that Lorraine and Lilith had killed. The statues here were also ancient and damp, as if few people had passed through the tunnel here over the long years.
Earth Spirit...
Cave dwellers...
The Underground World...
Before the Well of Eternity exploded, the Titans and their chosen Guardians seemed to have left behind many ancient ruins, both underground and high in the mountains. Legend has it that many of the life forms existing on Azeroth originated from the Titans creating the first Guardians using rocks from the mountains, the steel element found in the earth, and the power of thunder from the sky...
They are themselves formed from a mixture of mud, stone, or iron, and thus, these living statues guard the so-called order for their creators...
Looking forward to the awakening of Azeroth's Star Soul. Once Azeroth awakens, will the commotion be smaller than the explosion of the Well of Eternity?
The heavens and earth trembled, and the Star Soul broke free from its core, becoming a Titan...
What will happen to the planet that was originally meant to nurture the star soul?
What about life forms on the planet?
If the Titan Keepers' only purpose is to activate the Forge of Will and the Forge of Origin, to heal the wounded world-soul of Azeroth...
What about the humans, dwarves, elves, trolls, and other mortal beings that followed the Curse of Flesh? Bacteria or viruses? Descendants reproduced by the Old Gods...
What would a human do if he found himself covered in insects?
Lorraine looked up at the relief murals above the Stone Golem Tunnel, and he seemed to understand—the prophecy left by the ancestors of the Stone Golems... The Titans would personally destroy the stone golems they created... Their goal of allowing mortal life on the planet to continue was merely to pave the way for the birth of new Titans...
If this is the ultimate...
Therefore, the future of mortal races is bound to stand on the opposite side of the creator, and the enemy of the world is life.
To become a god, to achieve the status of a creator, one must sacrifice the lives they created...
So the ancestors of cave dwellers, from initially worshipping the Creator, to becoming dissatisfied with the Creator's design, eventually rebelled, attacked, and destroyed... The Creator chose to have its guardians activate the furnace, restarting the system...
The very first batches of creation were all destroyed, with only a few survivors escaping underground and hiding in the cracks.
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The paintings on the wall seemed to possess a magical power, telling Lorraine a story of the past and the future...
The fate of mortals...
The truth of life?
The choice of the citizens of the underground kingdom?
Seeking refuge with the ancient gods, yearning for the void, opening stargates, and escaping the planet...
The Void God promised fragile carbon-based lifeforms that they would eventually gain immortality within the Twisting Nether... provided they could eliminate the Star Soul beforehand and offer up the Star Soul's bloodline from the Well of Eternity...
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“莉莉丝？莉莉丝！”
Lorraine couldn't help but call out to her companions.
His skin, which was clearly already dry and withered, seemed to be covered in beads of sweat. He touched his face; the liquid was sticky and didn't seem like sweat...
It seems to be something else familiar.
"This is blood..."
"What kind of blood is that?"
"How should I know? What are you yelling about... The exit seems to be just ahead... Wait, the ground is covered in... Lorraine, where have you led me..."
.......
"I don't know, did you see it?"
"What do you see? The exit? I see it! Let's get out of here, it stinks! The stench of rotting corpses, I'm 100% sure, it's definitely there, and it's just started fermenting. Ugh, so disgusting..."
Lilith did not seem to look up and see the murals on the stone passageway.
Lorraine was completely bewildered; what had just happened didn't seem like a hallucination...
Did I touch something...?
Based on the map markings, the stone golem represents the first secret passage and exit, followed by a lava waterfall and something called Demon Heart... What exactly these abstract markings refer to is probably only known to the [Deathwhisperer] guild itself.
After dawdling for a while, we finally emerged from the tunnel...
A wave of heat, a familiar red glow, and scorching air ahead indicated that the two had once again entered an area of lava...
I just wonder what the consequences will be if Lorraine goes off-map and chooses to take a shortcut...
The answer will be revealed soon...
Enduring the stench of blood, Lilith erected a magical shield for Lorraine, covered her mouth and nose, and followed Lorraine out of the tunnel...
As soon as they emerged, the two discovered a circular, stepped structure. There were no living creatures around, but numerous skeletons were scattered at the foot of the steps, suggesting the presence of orcs, trolls, minotaurs, sandworms, and stone-jawed monsters...
Strange runes were engraved all around.
Turning around, they saw the stone golem with its mouth agape, a channel filled with viscous liquid leading directly to its mouth... Lorraine and Lilith emerged from the golem's mouth, which corresponded perfectly to their earlier entry through it. It seemed an ancient and bloody ritual had just taken place here...
Besides the aura of blood, there were also faint fluctuations of magical energy in the surroundings...
Lilith frowned: "Shadow magic, void ritual, something must have been summoned here!"
"how do you know?"
"That's what it told me, you see..."
"What the heck..."
Lilith suddenly pulled an incredibly ugly little creature from her sleeve. Upon closer inspection, Lorraine realized it was a miniature Shadowfiend! The same hideous void monster that had bitten open the ropes and saved Lilith and her helper, hiding on Lilith's shoulder...
Lilith's hobbies are so strange...
"Its name is Xiaomei... Xiaomei said there's the aura of a Voidwalker here, someone summoned it from the abyss..."
"it?"
Lilith nodded. "Yes, Xiaomei said it was it..."
"Who is that?"
"It is it, the messenger of hell..."
"Who are you trying to scare? I'm not the messenger of death... the archmage of the undead..."
Lorraine chuckled. He hadn't expected Lilith to keep a smaller version of the Shadow Demon. This hideously ugly flesh monster, with countless tiny tentacles and a gear-like mouth like those of Void Demon flesh creatures, was actually named Little Beauty...
What Xiaomei was talking about?
Could it be the one that the Black Lotus Guild Leader mentioned?
......
Lorraine, filled with disdain and doubt, was suddenly confronted by a massive shadow overhead, its two eyes, as bright as the sun, staring at her... The little shadow demon "Little Beauty" perched on Lilith's shoulder immediately shrank back into Lilith's arms. Lilith exclaimed, "Lava Hound?"