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Chapter 452 Floating Fortress
Lorraine stood on the beach, feeling the thirst of the runic right eye. He realized the runic right eye wanted him to get closer to the dark cloud over the sea...
Even without Lorraine actively approaching, the dark cloud was already drawing closer to Atonement Island. As the dark cloud flew overhead, the ghouls on the Path of Bones gradually decreased...
As Lorraine stood at the end of the Path of Bones, the path began to crumble bit by bit, and no more ghouls appeared... Instead, when Lorraine looked up, he saw something extraordinary...
A black, cone-shaped floating fortress emerged from the dark clouds.
It slowly rotated less than 100 meters above Lorraine's head.
Lorraine seemed to see through the Mirror of Truth that below the fortress, there was a platform resembling a hot air balloon basket, with figures moving about on it... but none of them were living people...
Looking at the black, wild, skull-marked, spiked, and green pus-filled floating fortress that kept dripping from its drains... Lorraine seemed to recognize that this thing looked like the Scourge's private command post!
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Above the city of Stratholme in the Eastern Plaguelands, there is a similar floating fortress.
That's the infamous Naxxramas...
The command post of the great lich Kel'Thuzad.
Naxxramas is a floating fortress of the dead, with different undead creatures guarding each area.
The Scourge can control Naxxramas to fly over the enemy at any time and then drop a large number of ground troops onto the ground.
The Heavenly Demons and Earthly Demons are merely the most ordinary soldiers; the Abomination Flesh Stitches and the army of Corpse Demons are the true war machines... As for the Frost Dragons, Destroyers, Crypt Lords, and the like, a floating fortress could hold quite a few of them...
In other words, these terrifying floating fortresses can deploy Scourge legions at any time, making them impossible for enemies to defend against.
The Eastern Kingdom, which currently appears safe, is actually far from safe...
However, the great lich Kel'Thuzad has been holding back, waiting for the Lich King's latest instructions.
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Lorraine was also a bit confused. He seemed to be drawn by something in the dark, and involuntarily moved closer to the floating fortress... Before he realized that something was wrong, Lorraine had already seen the floating fortress release a green light towards the ground.
Something was teleported down...
Recalling the legends of the Scourge, he had only encountered some abominations and ghouls in Deathstroke so far... and hadn't met any real tough opponents. This time, however, might be different.
The floating fortress is huge and well-hidden; you can hear all sorts of strange noises when you get close.
The floating fortress seemed to be driven by some force, with a constant thumping sound of some kind of liquid flowing. There was no roar of a mechanical engine, but the clicking sound of some kind of giant device slowly turning could be heard.
Faintly, one could still hear the screams and cries of some souls.
A viscous sound, similar to the bubbling of plague venom in the Undercity sewers...
To be honest, this suspended death fortress is practically like a spaceship... not much smaller than the sky-high magical city of Dalaran...
After seeing her true appearance, Lorraine was filled with unease...and terrified.
He wasn't sure if there were any weapons on the fortress to lock onto him... As the green light shone on the ground, a familiar necromantic energy surged within it, and Lorraine seemed to remember something...
This guy suddenly had a brilliant idea, so he lay down, put his hands on his shoulders, and crossed them as if he were lying in a coffin... Lorraine looked up at the huge thing above him, especially the observation port below the fortress.
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"What's that guy down there doing?"
“Oh, Lord Kel'Thuzad… It’s not one of ours… It seems to be a necromancer brat… It’s welcoming your arrival! It’s already prostrating itself in submission, a promising child.”
The filthy Hilgar, wearing a ram's horn crown and leaning on a cane, bowed and flattered the great lich Kel'Thuzad.
Hilgay still retains a human body, but his flesh appears pale and weak...
His face was ashen...
Within the floating fortress, the only truly living beings are a few acolytes of the Cult of the Damned... the majority are undead.
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The great lich Kel'Thuzad was bathed in blue, icy power, with runic chains binding his entire skeleton. In reality, the lich's body was composed of runic chains and a human skeleton, and what truly propelled his form was the blue orb of light at his waist...
The blue orb is the Lich Heart...
It contains the soul of a lich, and the entire skeleton is driven by runic chains.
The lich's adornments were completely unnecessary; Kel'Thuzad merely added a few touches for his own image, retaining the purple shoulder pads and magical belt he wore when he was an archmage of the Kirin Tor.
A necromancer who transforms into a lich essentially abandons his physical body and temporarily exists in a skeletal frame.
Kel'Thuzad sensed a familiar power emanating from the necromancer Lorraine below the fortress—pure, rare death energy. However, the energy was still weak... Kel'Thuzad paid little attention to the feigning-death Lorraine below.
It instructed its subordinates to quickly find what His Majesty needed on the island...
The "Your Majesty" here naturally refers to the Lich King himself. The Lich King Arthas has already merged with Ner'zhul... Kel'Thuzad's allegiance has always been to Ner'zhul... Arthas is merely the physical body that Ner'zhul prepared for himself.
But after they merged, Kel'Thuzad couldn't tell if the Lich King was still the same Ner'zhul he once was...
It didn't dare ask any more questions...
He simply followed the Lich King's orders faithfully.
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The Scourge has more than one floating fortress.
Although there is only one city, Naxxramas, in the skies above the Eastern Plaguelands... that's just to lull the foolish humans into a false sense of security.
In fact, there are many such war fortresses in Northrend. These floating fortresses are the original technology of the Spider Demon Empire. When the Death Knight Arthas returned to the Frozen Throne via the underground glacial passages of Northrend, he discovered the legacy of the Spider Demon Empire.
After defeating the Spider Demons, the power of Frostmourne transformed them, turning them into immortal abyssal monsters.
At the same time, the Scourge acquired ancient secret techniques.
The underground war fortress was able to take to the air...
It was modified by the Lich King's death power, fused with death magic, and forged by the Scourge's engineers and blacksmiths using Saronite, combined with Scourgestone and various other materials.
The Scourge possesses numerous formidable floating fortresses.
In the Arctic glaciers, if it weren't for the fact that such fortresses also consume enormous amounts of energy... the Lich King would have long ago dispatched a massive army to conquer the world.
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While Lorraine was feigning death, he attempted to deceive everyone.
Before long, the undead army, teleported to the ground by the green light, revealed its true form...
A death knight carrying the corrupted Ashbringer, riding a skeletal warhorse, sniffed the deathly aura of the island and turned to ask his companion, "Your big son seems to be on the island too?"
The veteran among the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse behind him nodded, "I will offer that beast to my master..." This group of death knights actually bypassed Lorraine and headed straight for the watchtower dungeon entrance he was trying to escape from...