26. Hermits
Ella. Magic Thread, a former Alliance Scout Major, a mid-level engineer at Nomorigan, a poor man who is withdrawn.
This is her image in Nomorigan, a recluse who lives on the edge of the city, and perhaps a hero who has made great contributions to the Alliance, but underneath this cold exterior, Ella has another identity.
Head of Logistics of the Knights of the Darkblade, Grand Steward of the Dark Temple, and Lord of Death, Luminas. Impotence used to be the closest friend.
She has never revealed her experiences in the world of Draenor to anyone, not even her dearest sister Julie. Magic thread, and I don't know what my sister has experienced in the years since she disappeared.
But judging by Ella's dry hair and slightly tired and old face from her long-term exposure to death energy, she could probably guess that her sister might be having a hard time... But in reality?
While Ella was still trusted, she was in charge of the Dark Temple's necromancer of over 3,000 men, as well as the Breaker minions, and when necessary, she would even patrol the world of Draeno with Tyrion's orders, execute those who rebelled against the rule of the Knights of the Darkblade, and even preside over skirmishes aimed at destruction.
Although she was still on the side of life in the final decision, this did not mean that the connection between Ella and the Knights of the Darkblade would be severed.
We often say that experiences, those special, unforgettable experiences, shape a whole personality, and that a person's consciousness changes and grows with more experiences, and in the years that Ella has been transformed in the years that the world of Draenor dances with the necromancy.
Although she only realized it after returning to her own world... She was out of step with the living.
"Sister!"
Julie. The magic thread was shocked by the scene in front of her, especially the cold dwarf death knight standing among the corpses of the stone palatinous monsters with a chainsaw sword, which made her feel even more fear from the bottom of her heart.
Especially when all this is obviously inseparable from her sister Ella, she feels that she may have never known this loved one who escaped death from another world.
"What the hell is going on?"
Julie questioned a little frantically, and the calm face of Ella was silent, she was on a cane, her face was not healthy, it took a long time for the invasion of death energy to disappear from her weak body, even if several years had passed, the current Ella was only in the recovery period.
"I know you have a lot of questions, Julie."
Ella picked up a cup of tea from her table and handed it to her sister, when the stone palatins outside the door began to slam the door again, which made Ella's eyes flash with a hint of disgust, and she waved her finger, as if she had ordered the execution of the unruly tiger men in Draenor, and gave the order to the death knight who was standing in place:
"Go, Zord, kill all the noisy bastards! I'm going to have a chat with my sister and I need to be quiet! β
"Boom"
The dwarven death knight who accepted the order raised the hideous saw chain sword in his hand, which was bladed on one side and the serrated teeth driven by the motor on the other, and in the hum of this hideous weapon, the dwarven death knight called Zod kicked open the door and slashed the stone head of the stone palatin monster in front of him with a swing of his sword.
Seeing the dwarven death knight pounce into the group of stone palatins like a tiger, Julie subconsciously asked:
"Who's that?"
Ella, who was sitting across from her, took a sip of tea and whispered:
"The dwarven trader who died of illness in Nomorigen last month, his corpse is a good material, but it's a pity that I've been out of the dark blade for too long, and I don't know where they are progressing the necromantic rune now, the conditions are limited, I can only resurrect him with the old method, the first time I practice, the craft is inevitably a little rough, I don't have death energy in my body, there is no way to let his soul return to the body... Don't pay too much attention to Zod, he's just a failure. β
A hint of nostalgia and pain flashed in Ella's eyes, and she put down her teacup and whispered:
"If Lumi saw my work, she would definitely laugh at me."
Looking at her sister who looked like she had changed into another person, Julie screamed with some anger:
"How much the hell are you hiding from me! Ara, you weren't like that before! β
"Be quiet, Julie."
Ella glanced at her sister, and after she stopped pretending, the majesty of being the necromancer made Julie shut up, and the coldness that emanated from her sister made her seem to see the old-fashioned archmages in Dalaran.
"I was going to be honest with you today, but now is a good time to part."
"Respectively?"
Julie's eyes widened, and she grabbed Ella's hand, "Where are you going?" β
"I'm going... Expiation. β
Ella sighed, her expression not at all like a dwarf who had escaped from it, and she whispered:
"I hurt my friend, I hurt her feelings, she protected me, in that dead body, hidden a soul longing for recognition, but I betrayed her for a meaningless life... I'm miserable, Julie, my sister, every day in Nomorigan, I'm miserable, I can't forgive myself, I was naΓ―ve to think I made the right choice, but..."
"But that's wrong."
Ella squeezed Julie's hand with both hands, she looked at her sister, and said:
"There is only one reason why I returned to the world of the living, and that is you, I can't let go of my thoughts about you, in my heart, my little sister is still a naughty spirit who only causes trouble, but now? Look at you, you've grown up, you've become a mage of Dalaran, you've got a life of your own, and all my fears about are gone... I can rest assured. β
"Julie, live well, find a boyfriend, and ensure the inheritance of the Magic Thread family..."
Ella spoke to her sister in a tone of encouragement, and this tone frightened Julie, she clutched her sister's cold wrist tightly, her eyes were full of tears, and she screamed:
"Don't leave me! After Mom and Dad leave, I will only have you, no matter what you become, you are still my sister, don't go! β
"Silly girl."
Ella stretched her hand to protect her sister, and the two little gnomes said goodbye in the dimly lit room, in the hall full of the corpses of the stone palatines, Ella stroked her sister's smooth hair, and the boyish double ponytail bun, a hint of laughter rose from the corners of her mouth, and her fingers rested on the neck of her unsuspecting sister, and a touch of cold magic rushed into Julie's body.
The next moment, Julie. Magic thread rolled her eyes and fainted into Ella's arms.
The latter looked at her sister, she stretched out her finger to wipe the tears from her face, then picked up a box and black cloak from the side, and a moment later, Ella, who was covered in a black cloak, walked out of her house, and the half-finished death knight Zod carried the unconscious Julie on his back and followed his master through the dead streets of Nomorigan.
The stone palatins smelled the breath of the living, and they howled and rushed out from all corners, blocking Ella's path, and Ella raised her head, and a hideous light flashed in her indifferent eyes under the dark cloak.
"I just don't want you to see this... Julie, I don't want you to see, your sister, has turned into a monster. β
Ella's left hand was raised, and dark magic burst out from her fingertips, just like the death lords of the Knights of the Dark Blade summoning walking corpses, under Ella's call, those miserable dwarfs in the surrounding streets, in the surge of dark magic, one by one got up from the pool of blood, and under Ella's manipulation, they trembled and rushed towards those roaring stone palatines.
The little gnome had served the King of the Outlands for several years, and all the books of the entire Dark Temple were open to her, as well as the occasional teachings of Luminas, coupled with the excellent magical bloodline of the Demon Thread family, all of which added up to make Ella. Before you know it, the Magic Thread has become one of the people in the world of Azeroth who knows the necromantic system the most.
And herself, though she didn't become a Death Knight or a member of the Darkblades, was already an excellent warlock after returning to Azeroth, under the guise of solitude and pain.
"Buzz"
A flaming flame of brimstone smashed into the body of the stone palatin, and the pain that penetrated deep into the bone marrow drove the monster crazy, and it roared to flee, but was surrounded by more and more gnome corpses around it, and finally was torn to pieces in the siege of the weak but large number of gnome walking corpses.
And that's, that's just the beginning.
As Ella's fingers flicked, one curse after another was thrown on the bodies of the stone palatins, and as she awakened more and more walking corpses, the screams of the stone palatins also attracted the attention of many gnomes hiding in the ruins.
They crawled out of hiding place, and saw a hooded gnome commanding a group of dead men, fighting those terrifying monsters that were retreating, and the direction of the mysterious hooded gnome was the direction of leaving Nomorigan.
Soon, the first daring dwarf ran out of the ruins and quietly followed Ella, who immediately spotted the fearful compatriot, but she didn't bother to pay attention to it, and staying with the dead for too long had made Ella completely lose interest in the living, and the reason why she lived in seclusion in the most remote corners of the city was also to avoid contact with them.
Seeing that Ella didn't drive the gnome away, many of the survivors ran out and followed Ella's army of corpses, they were afraid of the stone palatines, but they were also afraid of Ella, and any living person had an instinctive aversion to walking corpses.
There were more and more eyes coming from behind, but Ella didn't care, she just wanted to get her sister to safety and leave alone, head to Draenor and accept her fate.
"Lumi... Will you forgive me? β
This thought surged in Ella's heart, and between the outbursts of negative emotions, even the walking corpses controlled by her became berserk, but the deeper they went into the city, the more the number of stone palatines, after all, Ella was a beginner, the number of corpses she could manipulate was limited, and she was not an orthodox death knight, so she couldn't use death energy to actively wake up those corpses.
When the magic in his body was about to run dry, Ai stretched his hand and carried the unconscious Julie behind him, and the controlled death knight Zod cooperated with the walking corpses to open the way in front of him, and the battle became more and more fierce with the beating of the hideous chainsaw sword.
Seeing that the Death Knight was also in a desperate situation of being besieged by the Stone Palate Monster, the gnomes who followed Ella realized that if they didn't help, after the dwarf fell, they would be slaughtered again, so soon, the gnomes also found weapons from the surrounding area and joined the battle for survival, and even the dwarf craftsmen found several sealed cleaning robots, they manipulated these big guys, and after the death knight Zod finally fell, in the pursuit of the stone palatinous monster, Finally, I came to the steam elevator that led to the ground level safely.
"You saved these people?"
The dwarf craftsmen guarding the elevator looked in amazement at the hundreds of survivors who rushed out of the hard-hit area of the stone palatinous monster's attack, and their leader, after inquiring about the situation, rushed to Ella's side, and said to Ella with respect:
"Major Ella, you are indeed the hero of the Alliance, you are the hero of the gnomes."
"No, it's okay with me."
Ella looked at her sister who was taken away by the doctors, she reached out and pulled her hood, and said indifferently to the craftsman beside her:
"It was they who saved themselves... When will the steam elevator open? I'm getting out of here! β
"The Great Craftsman is trying to figure out how to deal with those monsters."
The craftsman guarding the elevator was a little embarrassed and said, "We have to seal off this area so that the radiation doesn't affect us, so you may have to wait a few more hours." β
Ella frowned, she looked back at the bustling elevator hall full of refugees, the gnomes who had suffered from the unjustified disaster no longer had the joyful atmosphere they had before, the whole hall was full of people whispering, this disaster affected too many people, and in this case, maintaining order was the most important thing, Ella had seen firsthand how chaotic the orcs who were busy fleeing in the second war, and even trampled their own compatriots to death.
She still couldn't harden her heart like a real necromancer, so after a moment, she sighed:
"Okay, then I'll just wait."
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In the canonical history, the invasion of Nomorigen by the cavemen, or stone palatins, was a long process that lasted for several years, and it was mixed with the power struggles of the high-ranking gnomes, which was a very complicated matter. <
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