37. The Spider's Ambition
Elder Calaxi's mission to Benedictas sounds simple, asking him to awaken some warriors named "Hero" throughout the Feared Wasteland, which sounds like a normal scavenger hunt.
But in reality, the operation is far from being as simple as it seems.
First of all, the Mantis Demon Elder had already introduced the current situation to Benedictas in simple words: the current Grand Empress of the Mantis Demon, Xia Keshire, had once again inherited the "fine" "rebellious" tradition of her predecessors, and had taken the opportunity to raise the banner of rebellion before the reincarnation war between the Mantis Demon and the Panda People began every hundred years.
And from the elder's words, a trace of urgency can be heard, that is to say, the rebellion set off by this scheming empress this time seems to be amazing, and even the Council of Calaksi, which has been in the background for tens of thousands of years, feels that it is tricky, and Benedictas wants to find the sealed heroes in the entire Fear Wasteland, which means that he has to repeatedly travel through the areas controlled by the soldiers under the command of the Grand Empress Shakohir.
And those soldiers of the Great Empress will not let him go so easily because of his "faith".
Secondly, the so-called "Yingjie", this is the mantis demon's honorific name for those top legendary warriors in history, the mantis demon used the mysterious amber secreted from his Kepa sacred tree 10,000 years ago, retained the mysterious "amber regeneration" technology of the Yaki Worm Empire, using that mysterious amber, the mantis demons can preserve the bodies of the great warriors of the past generations and hide them in various safe places.
When the council needs these warriors to turn the tide, these heroic warriors will be awakened once again and rejoin the fray.
It sounds very good, however, Amber Regeneration has a flaw, the thinking of the ancient heroes who have just been awakened will appear very chaotic after a long period of sealing, in this situation of confusion, they often can't control themselves and go on a killing spree, but these ancient heroes are the top legendary warriors of each era, once they go crazy, they are not ordinary mantis demon warriors can stop at all.
So every time a hero awakens in history, the council loses a group of loyal elite soldiers.
To sum up, the mantis demon elder who seemed to be very talkative, dug a bottomless pit for Benedictas who surrendered to Cheng without making a sound, and according to the position of the hero given to Benedictas by Karaxives, he had to wake up 12 heroic warriors in a row in the shortest possible time, which meant that Benedictas had to go through 12 terrible life and death judgments.
As long as there is a slight carelessness, this so-called "new servant of the master" will die immediately...
In the final analysis, this group of mantis demon elders who have lived for more than 10,000 years still don't trust Benedictas an outsider, and just use him as an insignificant consumable, but to be honest, this kind of encounter is not unexpected for Benedictas, who has been working as a cultist for a long time, and Benedictas has already seen through the sinister hearts of people.
Seriously, this kind of test is much better than being hacked to death for no reason when you meet each other... The mantis demon, who can communicate at least, gives him a chance, and for cultists who believe in wealth and danger, as long as they have the opportunity, it is enough to make a decision and bravely press everything they have.
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And at the same time that Benedictas began to work for his "new master", on the coastline of the long and narrow Kasanlang jungle in the southernmost part of the continent of Pandaria, a strange warship took advantage of the tide at dusk and slowly leaned against a deserted beach with no people.
It was a goblin merchant ship with the emblem of the Hot Sand Consortium on it, and it didn't seem to intend to dock for too long on this desolate coast, and after hastily lowering a dinghy, it restarted its roaring engine, emitted black smoke, and disappeared into the waves of the open sea again.
On the lowered dinghy, there were several strangely dressed men, wearing green hoods with the emblems of the Blightcaller cult emblems on the edge of the hoods, looking like druids of the withers, but several people took turns rowing the boat, vigilantly looking around, as if to indicate that these people were carrying out some secret operation.
Ten minutes later, they stepped on the icy tide and walked onto the beach, and several men joined forces to carry a heavy wooden box, and they trekked along the coastline until they finally stepped into the dangerous and thriving forests of the Kasanlang jungle.
For the locals of Pandaria, the Kasanlang Jungle is a very bad place, the forests here are very luxuriant, and because of its proximity to the tropics, the forests here are like rainforests, growing extremely fast, very unsuitable for deforestation, and there are lizard-like people and mantis demons and some robbers who have been entrenched here for a long time, making this jungle the most dangerous area in Pandaria.
The panda people were helpless about this, because even more than 10,000 years ago, the most brutal and violent and extremely powerful Mogu army failed to conquer this forest, but was defeated and scattered by the savage lizardmen in this forest, and since then, all intelligent creatures of Pandaria have stayed away from this dangerous jungle.
The Panda people have a town called "Zhu Jia Ji" on the eastern plain of the Kasanlang jungle to monitor the movement of the Kasanlang jungle, which is also the southeastern border of the panda civilization.
And now, these strange withering druids carried the same strange boxes deep into the forest, but they didn't go too far, under a hidden river valley, these druids found a hidden cave, they sent the box into the cave, and then picked up the strange road marker stone they carried with them, and made a small sign guide in the depths of the cave.
A few hours later, at midnight in the moonlit of Pandaria, the ground began to tremble strangely in the wet cave, and a few moments later, a dozen heavily armed spider demons rushed out of the underground passage.
And the last to appear is the old friend of the withercaller, the last remnant of the Spider Demon Empire "Eldraine Nirub" from Northrend, which has been completely destroyed by the Lich King, and the old friend of the kings of the Human Empire - the dismantler with powerful spiritual power and strange silver-white compound eyes, Skrax.
"Well, my human friends, you're doing a really good job."
Compared to the shabby appearance a few years ago, the formation of this dismantler is now much stronger, it is still the original half-human, half-spider posture, but the old priest's robes on its body have long been replaced by a set of the best moon-white robes made by the High Elf magic tailors, and a worm limb decoration similar to its pulling insect style has been added behind the strange hood.
On the dismantler's strange insect limbs, there are two spell casting bracelets, one red and one blue, made of the best Mithril, and the enchantment masters of Dalaran have carved several complex and practical magic circles for it, which can not only strengthen its already huge spiritual power, but also transform the spiritual power into pure magic power to release some very practical spells.
Hanging from its waist is a scepter of the Emperor of Chira inlaid with the Nayu gem, which is the trophy after killing the Emperor of the Twins, the sword of the Sword Emperor was dragged back by the humans to be melted into a new weapon and given to meritorious officials, while the wand of the Demon Emperor was divided among several spellcasters, and then reshaped by the arcane craftsmen of the High Elves into an elegant and inner full spellcasting medium.
As the saying goes, people rely on gold horses and saddles, and the dismantler's dress makes this weird spider demon look mysterious and profound, and he already has the demeanor of a big man.
As for why it tried so hard to dress itself?
The reason is very simple, because the worm people also need to have just the right meal!
If it wants to rebuild its civilization, it must use the legacy left by the ancient Yaki Worm Empire to find a way to mutate the gene of the worm egg into the gene of the spider demon, and in this way to re-continue the race, but such a complex experiment cannot be completed by relying on the dismantler alone.
It needs the help of magicians and druids from all over Kalimdor, in this case, even if it has captured the "princess" of the Qira Worm people, the road to racial revival of the dismantlers still has a long way to go, and it is now trying its best to establish good relations with various forces, in order to be able to grow smoothly into the civilization circle of Kalimdor after the rebirth of the spider demon civilization in the future.
It is now a professor of the spiritual power course of New Dalaran, an honorary elder of the Blightburner Sect, a royal magic advisor to several human empires, and even has the title of external guide in the Hot Sand Foundation, but tossing and tossing, the efforts of the dismantler in the past few years have indeed made his name famous in the Kalimdor civilization circle, and even the remnants of the clan have successfully migrated from Northrend to Kalimdor, and also has a territory of its own in the edge of the Shining Plains and the Thousand Needles Stone Forest.
Judging by the heavy and obviously custom-made armor of the spider guards guarding the dismantling, and the strange wand-like energy spears in their hands, it can be seen that these spiders have also learned to make up for the lack of numbers with sophisticated equipment.
"It's your reward..."
The dismantler waved his claws, and a powerful spider guard handed a bag to the druids, this magic bag contained many magic seeds that the spider demons had ventured to retrieve from the undead dungeon of Eldraine-Nirub, which was a magical experiment in the heyday of the Spider Demon Empire, and those Spider Priests even planted strange "underground forests" in their underground empires.
"By the way, say hello to the Patriarch and the Great Druid of the Deerhelm for me."
The dismantling watched the silent druids leave, and under its spiritual orders, several spider guards walked silently in the darkness, guarding the cavern's exit.
Skris bent down and reached out to open the wooden box that the druids had sent to this place, and the box was not a precious thing, but densely arranged in it, with four layers of white cocoons on top and bottom... Eggs.
"Ah, the first batch of failures."
A hint of loss and regret flashed on the silver-white compound eyes of the dismantler, as early as the Kalimdor Quicksand War, it began to collect the eggs of its pulling insects, intending to use the secret genetic technology of the spider demon plus the obelisk magic of the spider demon to induce its pulling eggs to mutate into spider eggs, which is not unrealizable, the source of its pulling insects and spider demons are both subunit worm people, and the genetic fragments of both of them are 90% the same.
However, the dismantlers underestimated the difficulty of the project, which had been working on it for several years and was still stuck in the final loop, and at this moment of near despair, the news of the opening of the fog of Pandaria reached the ears of the dismantlers, and to its greatest surprise, some pirates spread the legend of the Pandaria bug.
And according to the descriptions of the pirates, the dismantlers can be sure that what they are talking about is the last descendant who fled before the collapse of the Yaki Empire... Mantis Demon!
Mantis monsters don't matter, their genes are too different from spiders, almost exactly two species, but for the dismantlers, what really matters is not the whereabouts of the mantis demons, but the "amber regeneration" technology they have mastered! This technology, which can use the amber nourishment of the Kepa tree to ensure the survival and health of the cubs, is an important bargaining chip to unlock the final link of the Demolition's revival of the spider demon.
For the continuation of the spider civilization, Skris must get that technology! Even if you give everything, you will not hesitate to do it!
But as a member of the Zerg itself, the dismantler couldn't know more about the virtues of his "compatriots", and it was a matter of foothold, and it was absolutely impossible for the Mantis Demon to hand over the "Amber Regeneration" and the Kepa Sacred Tree, which had been completely extinct in the outside world... So it has to resort to some "unconventional" means.
"Ah, even if it's a defective product, you still have the excellent genes of the Qila and Nayou clans."
The dismantler's limbs caressed the eggs like large white cocoons, and with a bug-like voice, it whispered in the dark cave:
"A short life is not a defect, in this stormy era, it is more like a kind of relentless whip, it will only make you burn all your life miracles like fireworks in that short half a month, like the withered leaves of autumn, give everything for your race, my poor children who are destined to do something great..."
"This is a great deed, this is a great war..."
The huge spiritual power of the dismantler is like a delicate key, integrated into these white insect eggs, awakening those internally conceived and imperfect life, and between the strange shaking of those insect eggs, one by one the strange larvae that are very similar to the insect workers who pull it, but behind the carapace there are the spiritual power lines of the Nayou Insect Clan, crawled out of the box.
The tearing sound that sounded in the darkness was like the sound of darkness coming from the abyss.
Driven by its will, these insects that have fused the genes of Chila and Nayu continue to pour up to the ground along the wet land, and the most chaotic jungle in Pandalia will be the best "cradle" for these super-fertile insects.
In just one week, Skris will have an army of zergs large enough to invade the Dreaded Wasteland, and of course, the Demolitionists don't want conquest, not war... It just needs to stir up a mess and get what you want... Those things that are extremely important for the continuation of one's own race.
It will be the mantis demon's most hated villain for thousands of years to come.
But it will also be the greatest hero of the Nayun race to be reborn.
His thief, my hero... In the brutal struggle between civilizations and civilizations, the double standard of measuring one's actions is almost always the same.