Any catastrophe is preceded by faint signs.

For example, before the daring dwarven archaeologists blew open the doors of the two small secret rooms, if they carefully observed the runes carved on the black stone doors, it was not difficult to find that these ancient characters were actually somewhat related to the characters used by the dwarves now, and several characters in the corners that had weathered in time were read.

If you add a few more personal conjectures, you can reconstruct a complete warning.

"Destruction chamber for failed test subjects... Dangerous! Do not touch! ”

The rigor of the archaeologists led the dwarves to rub all the runes down, but their aggressive personalities made them think about any dangers they might encounter, and the result...

"Bang"

The dwarven miner with a pickaxe witnessed a complete raid in the dark, and in the face of the disgusting monsters that pounced out of the secret room, he subconsciously swung his pickaxe and smashed it on the head of the ugly creature in front of him.

But the scene he imagined of the monster being pierced through the head by a sharp pickaxe did not appear, instead, the pickaxe that shone with metallic light struck the monster's forehead, making the same sound as the collision of rocks, and even burst into the darkness with bright sparks, and the monster's head was smashed open by a third, but it did not bleed, on the contrary, the pain of being attacked made these creations that had been sealed for tens of thousands of years even more violent.

"Whew!"

It let out a roar of rage, and its deformed, arms longer than its diminutive body waved, and at the end of its white mane, the claws that were enough to crack the stone slapped into the dwarven miner's face, and with a scream, a bloody eyeball was gouged out.

The smell of blood filled the tunnel, and the surviving dwarves were stunned by the swift onslaught of these monsters, until one of the guards grabbed a musket and fired a shot in the darkness, piercing the heart of one of the monsters with spicy gunpowder and metal bullets, a roar that seemed to frighten the cruel, ugly, bloodthirsty creatures like wild beasts.

They dragged the corpse in the darkness and retreated back into the chamber where they were hiding, but the dark red, or yellow, eyes that glittered in the darkness shone with a naked thirst for flesh and blood, and a thirst for destruction and slaughter.

Without any intelligence calling, it's hard to imagine such a monster appearing in the ruins of an ancient super-civilization.

"Run! Come on! ”

The captain of the miners panicked and loaded his wall of fire, and at the sound of his roar, the frightened dwarven miners ran away, and when the prey that could make a huge roar showed signs of fleeing, the ugly monsters who had taken refuge in the darkness let out an ugly roar, and once again pounced out of the darkness in droves.

Completely escaped from the cage created for them by their creator, and the fate of these monsters should have been to stay in this cage until their twisted lives were completely destroyed.

"Shoot! Shoot! ”

The dejected miners stumbled out of the excavation site, covered in blood, and they shouted at the dwarves who were guarding the excavation site, and before some of the soldiers guarding the mine could understand what was happening, they saw that behind the miners, the dwarves who ran at the back were clawed by the monsters running in the darkness, and in their miserable wails, they were dragged back into the darkness again.

By this time, all the soldiers knew what to do, and they set up their muskets and quickly built a line of defense outside the excavation site, but when they counted the numbers, the dwarves were desperate to find that they had lost the most important guy.

Brian. Copperbeard, the honorary president of the Explorers' Guild is still in the mines.

"We've got to find Brian!"

The captain of the soldiers outside the mine shouted, "Leave him here to die, we will be executed by Magni when we go back to Ironforge!" ”

"I can't get in."

The other archaeologist who had escaped sat on the ground with a disgraced face, his left arm twisted abnormally, the wound of the monster that had rushed out of the chamber, his face covered in blood, he gasped for breath with difficulty, and said:

"Those monsters move faster than us in the dark, and now it's hell down there, and those trapped in it are hopeless."

As they spoke, the soldiers saw the monsters trying to break out of the mine, so the muskets that were erected opened fire wildly, and in the middle of the bullets, several monsters that could not dodge were shot through the body, and the entrance to the mine was immediately filled with gunsmoke and the stench of blood, and after the predators hiding in the darkness retreated into the darkness, the dwarven soldiers dragged back the corpses of several monsters.

"It's ugly!"

The captain of the dwarves glanced at the corpse at his feet, and immediately lost the desire to eat lunch, it was a blue-skinned monster, curled up taller than the dwarf, the arms were deformed and full of muscles, and on the arms and body, as well as the ugly head, there was a white mane, but not enough to cover the whole body, and it looked disgusting.

And the ugliest of all was the big face, the head that was out of proportion to the body was almost as big as their belly, and the forehead and cheeks were not flesh and blood, but a substance like a rock, with sharp teeth in the big mouth, and little eyes full of viciousness that had lost their breath of life.

"These monsters are as ugly on the inside as they are on the outside."

Dwarven archaeologists found some weathered jerky from the monster's body-covered rags, with white manes representing where the jerky came from, making the dwarves want to vomit.

"They actually eat their own people!"

"Now is not the time to research, hell! Rushed out again! Fire! Fire! ”

Once again, the dwarven soldiers poured bullets at the monsters trying to break out of the mine, sending them back into the darkness, and just as the dwarves outside the mine were anxious to rush out of the mine to find the missing dwarven prince, a loud vibration from the ground made all the dwarves pay twelve minutes' attention, and the sound was like a giant walking, and it was getting closer and closer to the surface.

"Something's going to rush out!"

The dwarven captain nervously grabbed the musket in his hand, staring at the hollow entrance that had collapsed, but the next moment, with a burst of screams, more than a dozen monsters in the darkness were swept away by a huge force, almost grazing the heads of the dwarves and being blasted into the barren land behind.

Approaching, a giant 7 meters tall and covered in blood-blue blood, crawled out of the entrance of the pit excavated by the dwarves in a lying posture, and the sharp-eyed dwarven soldiers saw the guy lying on the giantess's shoulder, and they immediately shouted.

"Brian, that's Brian! He's alive! ”

"It's me! That's right, it's me! ”

Brian. Brass was so embarrassed that his favorite wide-brimmed hat was long gone, and his clothes were tattered and dusty, and he even tore off his underwear to protect what he was carrying, and after the hostile giantess escorted him out of the mine, Brian yelled at the soldiers.

"Blew it up! Blow up this mine! The stone palatins are coming out! Fast! ”

The dwarven soldiers, who had no worries, immediately picked up the explosives piled up behind them, and in the roar of the monsters surging in the darkness, threw the high explosives made by the dwarf masters into the entrance of the mine, which was then ignited by the marksmen with muskets.

A few minutes later.

"Boom"

With a loud bang that shook the earth and the earth, it took several years to dig through the entrance to the Uldaman ruins, in the roar of gunpowder, completely collapsed, and the huge boulders that fell from the sky blocked the way of the monsters that rushed out of the ground, blocking them underground again.

All the dwarves who survived the catastrophe stared blankly at this scene, and after a while, the fragile ones fell to their knees and wept bitterly, and those who were strong did not want to speak, and today, the entire Uldaman expedition plus dozens of miners were almost completely wiped out, and less than a tenth of them escaped.

The number of dwarves as a whole is limited, so each clan is very precious, and today's loss is devastating.

"Click"

While the dwarves were grieving the death and wounding of their companions, on the barren earth behind them, the body of the giantess, whose whole body was covered with the blood of the stone palatinous monster, let out a muffled thud, and her left arm shattered like a stone, as if she had lost all her strength, and she sat down on the ground with difficulty, and beside him, Brian. Copperbeard clutched the things in his arms and looked at her with a complicated look.

"Great Ancestor, you... Are you leaving? ”

Brian asked in a low voice, and the giantess who had collapsed shook her head with difficulty:

"The Flesh Curse has changed you and me, my body has been weakened by thousands of years of sealing, but my spirit is still strong, and after this body is broken, Brian. Bronzan, I need you to take out the core of my mind, I've heard you talk about your fledgling technology, and if you can read the knowledge in the Nogannon Disk, you can activate my mind again. ”

The grief-stricken Brian was suddenly overjoyed, but just as he was about to speak, the ancient giantess spoke again:

"Listen to me, Blonzan. My time is limited, but your current situation is dangerous, your reckless actions have broken the seals of our failed cavemen, who are reproducing themselves faster than you could have imagined, and you are still not out of danger..."

"Click"

With another crunch, the giantess's neck snapped, and her head rolled twice on the ground, and even the sound became choppy:

"You... Go... Ulduar... Disk... Star Spirit... Go..."

Before he could finish his last sentence, the glint in the giantess's eyes dissipated, and Brian stepped forward and found an almost perfect hedron among the weathered head, which he carefully placed in the box he carried with him.

It was only at this moment that the surrounding dwarves gathered around and commented on this unimaginably beautiful stone carving.

"Who is this? Brian, why would she help you? ”

The dwarven captain asked curiously, Brian's mood was a little low, he looked at what he was holding in his arms, and he whispered:

"She is one of our ancestors... Elonnaya, the guardian of the Titans, the remnants of our bloodline are right, the dwarves were born with a sacred mission... And now, I've found it. ”

Brian glanced back at the completely sealed mine behind him, and he shook his head:

"There's nothing left to be nostalgic about here, let's go, let's go back to Ironforge."

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The archaeological discovery of the Old Copperbeard shook the entire Ironforge Fort, but for some reason, Magni. His Majesty Copperbeard ordered that the matter should not be discussed, and the people who went to look for Brian did not see Brian at all, and the old dwarf locked himself in his room, not seeing anyone else for days.

His mental state was terrible, not just because of the experience between life and death, but because the old dwarf had gotten the knowledge he wanted in the deepest part of Uldaman, but he was in a state of pain because of it.

The true face of this world hidden beneath the façade has been made for Brian. Brass Whisker unveiled a corner, but the more he learned, the more unhappy he became.

At this time, in Brian's room, he was carefully placing a white-gold disc on the table, which looked like a plain plate, without any depiction on it, but it was hidden in the deepest part of Uldaman, under the watchful and irrational guardian Azadas, it had been preserved for thousands of years, which was enough to prove its preciousness.

Yes, it wasn't just Elonnaya who hid in Uldarman, and after Brian had opened the deepest gates with his own blood, he saw another Keeper, a Keeper who had completely lost his mind and gone mad.

He calls himself Azadas the Shaper, commanding all the stone statues in the entire Uldaman ruins, Brian should have died at that time, but unexpectedly, at the moment when he was about to die, the giantess Aronnaya appeared and saved him.

The giantess's final physical collapse was not due to contact with sunlight or coming out of the dusty crypt, but because of the fierce and frantic battle, the death battle between the two guardians.

"What kind of secret are you hiding?"

"Dwarves, palatines, flesh curses, what the hell is going on?"

Brian carefully picked up two of the highest grade magic crystals he had purchased from Dalaran and placed them next to the discs, and the moment the two came into contact, a spark of magic sparked and the next moment, an illusory image that seemed to be composed of starlight all over his body appeared in front of the old dwarf.

It was like an apparition similar to that of Elonnaya, it was suspended above the platinum disk, and the moment it appeared, a blue light swept over Brian's body from top to bottom, and the image of a dwarf appeared on the disk, and began to rotate, and the words floating around it were runes that Brian couldn't read.

But the mechanical voice changed several times in succession, and after changing several languages, it finally became a dwarven language with strange grammar.

"The biological template is being determined... Confirm the identity of the inquirer... Earth spirit template affected by the Flesh Curse. ”

"Whew... Start the purification program... Module missing... Translate to a query pattern. ”

"Insufficient permissions for searchers, only open public databases... Ask questions! ”<

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