57.Stone of the Tides (I)
The Pillars of Creation, which is the collective name of a series of artifacts used by the Titans of the Pantheon to shape the entire planet of Azeroth, there are still 5 Pillars of Creation in the world, namely the stone hammer belonging to Kazgros the Shaper, the battle shield of the guardian Agrama, the gem of Amansur, the king of the gods, the tide stone of Gogonis the Angry Drinker, and the tear crystal of Elune, the titan, the origin of Azeroth.
The last one seems a little weird, even the bronze dragon who knows the most about time and history can't find the true source of Elune's tears, but according to a Lori bronze dragon who often visits the Dark Temple, eating and drinking, Elune's Tears should have originated when the angry king of the gods, Amansur, grabbed the ancient god Ashaji from the land of Azeroth, and the huge force tore the entire planet, causing the infant Elune to feel pain, so he shed tears representing pain and rebirth.
Of the five pillars of creation, only Elune's Tears have an unknown effect, and after the emergence of Elune's religion, this thing was regarded as a sacred object by the night elves who worshipped the moon god Elune... And the other four Pillars of Creation all have the power to change the world.
The Hammer of Kazgros can control mountains and rivers, and if your will is strong enough, you can even reshape an entire land in an instant.
The Shield of Agrama grants the user near-invincibility defenses, and the user will not be harmed even if the Titan is present while holding the shield.
The Tide Stone of Gogonais can control the power of the sea, and whoever owns it only needs to give it a command, and the entire world's oceans will obey it.
And the most mysterious of all, the Eye of Almansur, inherited the power of the King of the Gods, the most powerful of Almansur, it... Time can be controlled!
It's a pity that not everyone can use the Pillar of Creation, just like the demons can only use this holy hammer after the Dark Titan himself removes the "mark" in the hammer of Kazgros, each pillar of creation needs to meet certain conditions before it can be used, otherwise according to the history of the development of the Azeroth civilization, these artifacts with endless power have long been used as weapons by an endless stream of careerists, making this troubled world unrecognizable.
And now, the bad has happened and evolved without anyone knowing... The hammer of Kazgros has fallen into the hands of the Legion, the minions of the Legion are chasing the shield of Agrama, and the Dreadlords have entered Surama, the Eye of Amansur is expected to be taken by the Legion soon, and the Tears of Elune are stored in the Great Moon Temple of Valsara, which is almost known to the elves and demons alike.
The only thing left unaccounted for now is the Tide Stone.
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"I hate this place!"
Death Lord Luminas. Lady Scar Scar rode on her cherished Nightmare Beast, a beautiful black steed with gorgeous rubies on the saddle and bridle of the horse, and a helmet with spiral spikes for her mount, making it look like a black unicorn.
As for her original mount, the frost dragon known as the "Queen" had long since been out of breath, and after her master got her new favor, the poor queen lost her job and was kicked into the Bone Dragon unit of the Darkblade Legion by the indifferent Lady Scar.
But it's hard to say whether it's a good thing or a bad thing, on the one hand, the skullsaur has indeed lost its rich life of eating and waiting for death, but on the other hand, it no longer needs to carry its neurotic master around the world, nor does it need to endure the pompous and weird ornaments on its body, it can finally be purified as a pure warrior.
"Ah, I really want to go back to the hot springs!"
The Death Lord, in a salted fish pose with no love, grabbed the reins of his horse at will, and let his nightmare beast lead him to run through the barren and dead land of Assuna.
Luminas had been "dispatched" to the westernmost part of the Broken Isles seven days earlier.
Because of her long absence from work and hiding in the hot springs of the Dead Realm for various reasons to "enjoy life", her military literacy plummeted, and she issued several wrong orders in a row during the last Broken Beach ambush, which led to a very embarrassing battle loss ratio of the Hellfire Band, and was finally sued by the unbearable Darkblade Judge Advocate General to the High Lord who was busy with Kalimdor's affairs.
Tyrion was already a little numb to the series of troubles caused by this "problem girl" under his command, so he handed over the matter to Aurelia to deal with, and after a "cordial" long conversation, with three slap marks on his face, Luminas had to obediently pack up his things and come to Asuna, "happy" to live a life like exile.
"Where the hell is that Tide Stone?"
Dressed like a cowboy lady in a cowboy hat, Luminas took the last half of the bottle of blood wine from her horse pocket, and after drinking most of it, she stared blankly at the desolate scene around her.
To be honest, Asuna is indeed not a good place, this was also the elven empire period, and Sulama City was as close to the capital as the elven city, and now from the elven ruins all over the wilderness, you can vaguely see the original glitz of this land, but unfortunately it was all in the past, probably because of the proximity to the center of the explosion of the Well of Eternity, even after 10,000 years, there is still an extremely terrifying magical radiation left on this land.
No matter how good it is, it will not end well once it exceeds the limit, just like Asuna at this time.
The explosion of 10,000 years ago destroyed almost all the buildings in this land, and the remaining ones became as eerie as haunted houses, and in an endless time, the land finally regrew vegetation, but the problem is that whether it is the weeds under your feet or those strange trees, there is a chaotic magic in them, and after nightfall, the land will be filled with fluorescence like nuclear radiation because of the remaining magic.
The plants here have the poison of magic power, and the blood of animals also contains extremely high chaos magic, even the running water is not clean, mortals can't live here, a healthy adult lives here for 7 days, and the irritable magic that can't be absorbed can easily destroy all his immune system, and invade the body of this life, and finally subtly transform him into a monster manipulated by magic.
Uh, it's best not to ask how Ms. Luminas came to this conclusion... That's another sad story about the unfortunate young pirate who fell into the hands of the necromancy.
But it's not without good news...
"Hey, cute little star, how far is this from the palace you're talking about? ”
Luminas finished the last bottle of blood wine, she wiped her mouth rudely, and then snapped her fingers, and in the space where the magical air slowly distorted, a beautiful High Elf girl in a long blue dress, with waist-length blue hair and blue eyes, was trapped there in a very indecent gesture by the chains of dark red death power.
This beautiful girl is the "captive" of Lady Luminas, and the story about her cannot be told for a day or night, but at this time, this beautiful girl is staring at Luminas riding on the nightmare beast with a hateful gaze, and her voice is very good, like the chirping of a bird, but the problem is that the girl's anxious and fast tone does not belong to any of the languages of mortal civilization.
That's the language of the dragon!
This beautiful maiden is a dragon! It's still a rarity, a blue dragon!
She was a "guide" who was "invited" by the audacious Lord of Death on the night of 3 days ago, while walking in the lair of the Blue Dragon Habitat in Asuna, uh, well... The kidnapped "guide".
As for the shameful title "Little Star", it was not the name that Luminas gave her, but the nickname of this lovely blue dragon girl, which Luminas overheard from the dying old blue dragon hidden in the shadows at the edge of the blue dragon's habitat, apparently, this "little star" lady was a very popular lady among the blue dragon clan who lived in seclusion in the ruins of Asuna.
"Wow"
The sharp and cold blade of the bright holy sword Quelsella pressed against Little Star's neck, and the Death Lord riding on the Nightmare Beast blinked her blood-red eyes, she tilted her head to look at her captive, and she whispered:
"If you can't learn to speak, there's no need for this cute little tongue to exist... Little star, let me ask you again, where is that hell palace? ”
"Grandfather won't let you go, stupid intruder!"
The angry Miss Blue Dragon struggled, but relying on the strength of her young dragon, she couldn't hold up Luminas's death chain at all, no matter how decadent and depraved Luminas was, no matter how lazy she was, no matter how salty she was, no matter how embarrassing... She is also the Hellfire Commander of one of the 23 current warbands of the Darkblade Legion, and among all the Death Lords, her strength is not first-class, but it is definitely not weak.
The boss of the Lords of Death has taken control of Hell, and Luminas, the first followers, has swelled to a terrifying level in the past few years... Let's put it this way, drop Luminas to Kalimdor, and then cast a bloodthirsty spell on her, and it is estimated that she can kill most of Kalimdor with a single sword.
Even the strongest human being, Alonthos. It will also take a lot of energy to suppress this Death Lord, and for the sake of the face of Luminas's powerful and mad boss, it is almost impossible to kill her on this planet.
"Hehe, your grandfather, that old blue dragon who can't even stand up?"
Luminas patted Little Star's near-perfect skin with the cold Sword of Death without paying attention, and she sneered:
"You're better worried about yourself than the old blue dragon, my little star, are you sure the Tidestone is in that palace?"
"It's not there!"
The cold death chain on her body became tighter and tighter under the manipulation of Luminas, and the little blue dragon who had planned to bite to death without opening her mouth felt a strange suffocation in just a few seconds, and under the threat of death, a hint of humiliation flashed on her face, she lowered her head to prevent the villain from seeing the tears in her eyes, she sobbed and said:
"But the spirits must know where the stone is... They became like a man without a man, a ghost without a ghost, because of the gift of the stone. ”
"Oh?"
Luminas was interested, she had seen the "ghosts" that Little Star had said during this irritating trip, they were some upper elves in a ghost state, they were supposed to be dead, but they strangely maintained a complete soul state, and retained all the emotions and memories of life, and could even hold physical weapons, and could use some techniques that only living people could use.
The Lords of Death are powerful undead in their own right, but Luminas doesn't feel the breath of the Necrons from those weird "ghosts", they are more like they have been forcibly stripped of their bodies, in other words, it is not a natural occurrence, it should be a man-made disaster, or simply a curse that envelops the ruins of Asuna.
However, Luminas's several attempts to capture them have failed, these spirits are shrewd, and they will decisively choose to "blow themselves up" when they encounter any threat, and from what Luminas has observed, as long as these creatures are still standing on the soil of Asuna, they will not really die... Even if they blow themselves up, they will be resurrected in another place, and they are more like a group of earthbound spirits than the undead.
"Tell me more! Little star, if what you say satisfies me, I will consider giving you freedom... Just a little bit of freedom, of course. ”
Luminas inserted the holy sword back into the scabbard behind her back, she held the jewel-encrusted horsewhip, raised the head of the humiliated little star, and looked at the crying pear blossom with rain, I saw the pitiful face, and the Lord of Death couldn't help but sigh, if this beautiful little blue dragon in front of me was born in human civilization, it would definitely be a "demon girl" who brought disaster to the country and the people.
"I don't know much..."
Under the coercion of the female hooligan-like Death Lord, the aggrieved little star had to say what she knew:
"These are all things that my grandfather told me, and it is said that before the Well of Eternity exploded, the elves of this land became like this because their prince was unwilling to follow the queen of Aishara to meet the arrival of demons, and that prince even planned to use the tide stone kept in Asuna to coerce the queen to give up that crazy idea, but his adventures were exposed..."
"Enraged by this premeditated rebellion, Queen Azhara herself arrived, shattered the Tidestone with her bare hands with terrifying magical powers, and used the fragments of those artifacts as a medium to bring a terrible curse upon the land... As long as Queen Azhara is alive, all the creatures on this land will not really die, but they will not be able to breathe anymore, their bodies will decay rapidly, and they will be trapped in the hell of this ruin, until they go crazy one by one, or until the Queen forgives them. ”
"Huh?"
Luminas' eyes widened:
"What do you say? The Tide Stone was shattered 10,000 years ago? ”