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Chapter 493 Leaving the Eastern Kingdom
Before the airship started, it was quite quiet...
From afar...
The Silverpine Forest under the cover of night was far better than the Plaguelands' Diseased Woods... at least the ancient trees, some requiring several people to encircle, were still alive. Beyond the Undead Bulwark, the area around the former Caer Darrowshire and Stratholme was truly barren, teeming with maggots, bats, and plague dogs...
Strange, giant mushrooms, carrying poisonous spores, spread, blotting out the sun...
The land was black and yellow, and the lake water was green.
Farms and estates are now overrun with skeletons and zombies...
The plague-ridden lands between Silvermoon City and Undercity are utterly uninhabitable for humans; only the followers of the Scarlet Crusade and the paladins of the Argent Dawn remain, holding their ground in their respective strongholds...
Above Stratholme, the richest and most populous city in northern Lordaeron, the Naxxramas Skyhold, nestled within a defensive array of countless spirit towers, slowly rotates. From a breach in the death fortress, a continuous flow of green plague liquid seeps in, relentlessly corrupting the earth...
On the ground, necromancers and sorcerers manipulated undead puppets near the ruins of various towns, collecting more human corpses, chanting spells, and throwing them into the cauldron of plague...
The air is filled with toxic fumes...
The sky had an unnatural orange hue, visible from the top of the airship tower in the distance...
Lorraine stepped out and boarded the airship...
The goblin ticket seller glanced at Lorraine, briefly checking the tribal insignia...
"Oh, esteemed Sergeant Major, welcome aboard the Goblin Aircraft. Captain Klaus Kreuk of the Phantom Thunder, have a pleasant journey. Navigator Filx, check the valves, we're about to depart..."
The goblin's sharp, grating voice reminded Lorraine of his first time on the airship, when a friend had kindly reminded him that this route was free...
Over twenty days have passed, and in Lorraine's baggage lies a special package. He hasn't forgotten it; it's the gift that the minotaur stone guard, Gamor, once entrusted to him...
"I, Gamor, will protect everyone..."
Gamor's憨憨笑脸 flashed through his mind, and Lorraine couldn't help but chuckle softly. Unfortunately, with his heavy disguise and protective gear, no one could notice his smile.
.....
It's been a long time since I've been back to Undercity. I wonder how that big guy is doing lately. With the frequent battles, the airship route from Undercity to Orgrimmar is extremely busy. As the Horde quartermaster, Gamor is responsible for escorting airship supplies, so he should theoretically be at the zeppelin tower...
This time, there were many minotaur warriors and orcs around, but Gamor was nowhere to be seen...
Lorraine was planning that he really would have to go to Thunder Bluff someday...
Ten minutes later, the airship's engine roared loudly, like the tremors of a tractor before starting, and black smoke billowed from its tail. Lorraine was a little worried about the airship's safety, but the other passengers seemed to take it all for granted.
Sure enough, the airship started up successfully in no time, and the goblin mechanic emerged from the back, his face covered in oil, to report to the captain...
Pulling down the control stick, Lorraine finally boarded the airship from Undercity to Orgrimmar.
This airship must traverse the Endless Sea, skirting certain dangerous areas, including the turbulent whirlpool near the Eye of Eternity... following the ocean currents along the edge of Northrend, to reach Durotar...
It is said that it takes less than half a day to cross the entire ocean...
Lorraine couldn't help but marvel at how, despite the noise, the goblin airships were indeed a brilliant invention and a mode of transportation. It was precisely with their help that the Horde was able to break through the Alliance's blockade of the seas...
Successfully deployed troops to certain areas to compete with the alliance for resources...
"Boom, boom, boom..."
As the majestic gates of Undercity were about to disappear from sight, Lorraine was overwhelmed with mixed emotions... Clenching his fists, he hated himself for being so weak...
Why didn't he go into Undercity?
Why did he pretend to be someone he wasn't...?
Why did he cross the continent to venture into another unknown land?
......
It all started with that earth-shattering battle three days ago...
When the teacher intervened, the Faceless One was swept into a magical black hole, and for thirty minutes, everything went dark. The people of Southsea Town sensed a spatial rift appearing in the sea; the power overflowing from the rift was so terrifying that any approaching reconnaissance aircraft were instantly reduced to dust...
The core black hole is thirty meters deep. The Faceless One is beyond dead. Even if the Void Creatures are probably unkillable, its power was completely devoured by the Shadow Barrier... All the plans made by the Twilight Cultists, the countless lives sacrificed, and the energy devoured were all sent back to the Void.
Yuviel and the tribal ambassador led their men in a retreat...
Yuvel, who had retreated to Southshore, even felt that the area around Southshore was unsafe, so he evacuated a large number of his troops to the Wall of Thoradin.
The sea was originally unusually calm, but then a black hole appeared. Not only was the black water sucked away, but gradually the seawater and all the creatures around it could not escape their doom. The sea level dropped to a terrifying level, and the thirty-meter-high magical black hole, like an object of extremely high mass, crushed half of Atonement Island.
Lorraine witnessed firsthand the black hole melting through the island and penetrating deep into the lava fissures she had seen before...
Thirty minutes ago, the seismic waves released by the Faceless Ones' altar were far greater than those from the small mana black hole... Across the mountain in Gilneas, all the werewolves and living creatures felt uneasy. Even though the earth wasn't shaking, they could sense a strange fluctuation emanating from it...
The wolf king even thought that the tribe had unleashed some terrible evil magic again.
The hippogriff riders, along with the night elf druids stationed in Gilneas to support the humans, immediately transformed into ravens, dolphins, and thunder panthers to search for the source of the world-ending threat...
They quickly found the source, but dared not approach it...
Such a terrifying magical black hole, capable of altering the landscape and seabed structure of Atonement Island and wiping out all movable objects in its vicinity...
How did Lorraine escape?
With the teacher personally intervening and utilizing the 60 seconds of invincibility stored in the artifact, could Lorraine really escape the black hole? Of course, it was impossible for Lorraine, now reduced to nothing but bones, to hop on one leg...
Even if it dog-paddles, it can't escape the black hole vortex...
Thirty minutes isn't a long time, but it's not short either...
Lorraine's foolish and desperate actions earned her a severe scolding from her master, but she still helped her apprentice by using known magic... leveraging the thrust of the Tide Amulet to activate the passive effect of the Frost Ring, forcibly reactivating the Frost Eye that Lorraine had previously failed to activate...
The teacher used a secret technique to dismantle the Frost Eye, which was vying for position with the necromancer runes...
Lorraine didn't know what this move was called; it wasn't a common ice magic, but rather something like a special rune skill. Lorraine didn't even have a chance to ask his teacher what it was called; he just shouted at the top of his lungs, "[Enlightenment], [Regeneration], [Time Reversal]!"
Lorraine felt her bony legs suddenly surge with power, and her lost flesh began to regenerate...
The lost magic and vitality were replenished.
The Frost Eye, which could not be activated, began to burn fiercely.
Ice crystals full...
To resist the all-consuming black hole of magic, the teacher activated the Eye of Wisdom, reaching out with his right hand towards the nearly dried-up seabed. The Eye of Frost once again surged with magic, and the Frost Dragon runes shimmered. Lorraine only saw a blue phantom on the seabed lunging towards him...
Immediately afterwards, a colossal frost dragon, its body ablaze with frost flames, lifted Lorraine into the sky... Creatures around them continuously offered their soul power, helping the frost dragon fly higher and faster, until it escaped the black hole's range...