32. Ella's death
The living have an instinctive fear of the dead.
Because once the dead start to move, it means that the cycle of life and death is broken, which is unreasonable, and all fear, in fact, comes from the idea of breaking the convention, for those who are beyond the understanding, the ignorant life will naturally instinctively resist, because it represents danger.
But in fact, if you stay with the deceased for a long time and get to know each other well, it is not difficult for you to find that being friends with the deceased is sometimes more "happy" than being friends with the living.
The dead don't lie, the dead don't alienate you because of all kinds of desires, they don't hate you because of your bad behavior, they are good listeners, and when you need help, the dead don't hesitate like the living, they don't have fear, they don't hesitate to give everything to help you, and in a purer emotional surge, the dead are actually more trustworthy than the living.
Of course, the premise of all this is that you have won the true friendship of the deceased.
The dwarf Ella once had a sincere and precious friendship from the Death Lord Luminas. But it's a pity that the choices she made made her lose this friendship, and as the saying goes, only when you lose something, you will feel its preciousness.
Led by the Death Knight, Ella made her way to the lowest level of the Dark Temple, where the dormant Lords of Death were dormant in the closed stone chambers, the essence of the dragonlord's blood transforming their bodies, a painful process, and only in this half-asleep state could the pain of the body be minimized, so as not to hurt their already mutilated souls.
"Bang"
Luminas' sleeping stone chamber was pushed open, and Ella strolled into the room decorated with red veil and bright red phoenix crest, and she recognized the emblem, which was the emblem of the Hellfire Garrison, and the emblem of Luminas, who even after her death had "affection" for Quel'Thalas.
What she wanted to do most was to bring the necromancers into that kingdom herself... The place where she was born.
A sarcophagus in the center of the hall, adorned with walnut patterns and covered with a heavy flag, looks like it will make the living panic, because it is no different from a cold tomb.
However, at this time, the sarcophagus was open, and the corpse that should have been lying in the sarcophagus was sitting in the corner of the room with its back to Ella, and Lumi was not wearing her own armor, but wearing a dark red robe, the end of which was dragged to the ground, looking like loose blood.
"What are you going to do?"
Lumi's voice was very dry, sounding unaesthetically pleasing, like two pieces of wood rubbing, and her voice was very weak, forcibly interrupting her sleep, and waking up meant that she had to endure complete pain, the kind of scorching like a flame, scorching the skin inch by inch, so that the original skin was scorched, and new skin was born under the scorching marks, and a more resilient body was born from this fire-like pain.
Now she was ugly, and her face was like a monster with blood in her body.
She is reluctant to face her "friends" from the past with this face.
"Lumi, I..."
Ella stepped forward, but the next moment she was scolded by the Lord of Death:
"Shut up, you're not qualified to call me that! Traitor! Go back to your living world, embrace your pathetic life, don't show up in front of my eyes, next time, I'll cut off your head with my own hands! Get lost! ”
"I'm here to apologize."
Between the wave of the Death Lord's hand, the cold wind smashed on Ella's body, smashing the dwarf's short body like a ball, hitting the stone chamber behind him, and then falling to the ground, this blow was merciless, the cold that seeped into the bone marrow made Ella's whole body covered with ice slag, but she endured the pain, got up from the ground, supported Lumi's sarcophagus, and said with difficulty:
"I've come to beg your forgiveness! I'm here to atone for my sins! ”
"Not anymore."
Luminas said dryly: "From the moment you left the Hellfire Fortress, there is no relationship between you and me, you have been with the dead for so long, you should know that we value and stubbornly attach to our feelings, and the heart-wrenching betrayal, one time is enough." ”
"I know that pale language doesn't change anything."
A sad look appeared in Ella's eyes, and she whispered:
"What we did was like a blade that pierced into the number, the blade can be pulled out, but the scars will remain there forever, and in the 1 year I have been back, I have been in pain, Lumi, I am very painful because I have hurt you, from being forced to join the Knights of the Dark Blade, to the end, you have been protecting me, I can feel that you treat me as a true friend."
"Wow"
A dagger was pulled out of her boot by Ella, and she held it in front of her eyes, her face reflected in the sharp blade, the very thick circles under her eyes from long-term insomnia, the skin that had become dry from exposure to death energy, and the hair that was no longer smooth.
"I know that when trust is betrayed, it changes everything, and that to regain trust, you have to make sacrifices... May this sacrifice be a bond of renewed trust between you and me. ”
"Poof"
The sharp blade stabbed into the heart fiercely, Ella's body twitched, and in the blood escaped, her short body fell to the ground, the pain that penetrated deep into the bone marrow made Ella's vision change rapidly, this stab was too accurate, so that her breathing became weak quickly, and lying in her own blood, Ella struggled to swing her head.
She saw Luminas standing quietly beside her, with her hands intertwined, and there was no more hatred or disgust in that burnt face, in those dark red eyes, which made the dying dwarf smile with difficulty, and she reached out to grab Lumi's outstretched hand.
"Ahem... Finally, I, me and you... It's the same. ”
Luminas didn't care about the blood on her favorite dress, she bent down and slowly knelt down beside the gnome, she reached out and grabbed the dwarf's blood-soaked hand, she looked at the distressed Ella, her dark red eyes twitched with a touch of gentleness, she gently brushed Ella's pink hair, which used to be her favorite "toy".
"You don't need to be afraid of death, Ella, that's the state you were in before you were born, you just returned to it, now, sleep... When you wake up, I will welcome you back to me. ”
"So... Ahem"
Ella looked at Luminas weakly, her smile twisted through pain:
"So, we're friends again, aren't we?"
A difficult smile also appeared on Lumi's ugly face:
"Of course, you've already punished yourself for your mistakes, stop talking, sleep..."
Ella, who was lying in a pool of blood, closed her eyes, and the next moment, a red shadow appeared next to Luminas. Dawnblade looked at the twisted friendship between his wife and this dwarf, and he sighed a little, women are crazy, and they are really much more terrible than men.
"What are you doing there?"
Lumi covered her face and commanded stiffly:
"While Ella is not dead, transform her!"
The Blood Lord shrugged, he waved his fingers, driving the blood flowing from his body back into the dwarf's body, the power of the blood slowly lifted the dwarf's dying body into the air, Myra turned her head to look at his wife, who was facing away from him, and he snorted:
"You're just duplicitous, I remember you said before that if Ella reappeared, you wouldn't hesitate to kill her, but now, she's just committing suicide, which evokes the softness of your heart... It makes me jealous. ”
"You're not the same as Ella!"
Lumi retorted stiffly, but she still didn't turn around, and behind her, the Blood Lord leaned down and pierced the dwarf's neck with his sharp teeth, pouring the blood of Sarein into Ella's body, and soon, the short body began to tremble, and the power of blood surged through this body, transforming her.
"It's going to take a while."
Mai stretched her hand and hugged her wife, and whispered, "I, Ottem and Severn have recently improved the manufacturing process of the Blood Servants, and we have tried to preserve the sanity of the Blood Servants in a new way, and Ella is the first test subject, maybe she can also have the ability to make more Blood Servants like Aurelia, but it's hard to say, we still know too little about Salein." ”
"Speaking of which, why are you turning your back to me?"
Myra complained: "We haven't seen each other for a month. ”
"Because I'm so ugly."
Luminas whispered, "I don't want you to see my ugly appearance..."
"Don't be stupid! You will always be in my heart..."
Myra forcibly turned Lumi around, looking at the charred face, the corners of the Blood Lord's mouth twitched:
"Well, it's ugly..."
"Bang"
The next moment, Myra was blasted out of the stone chamber by a sudden burst of ice, and behind him, the door slammed shut, and Luminas's shrill voice came:
"Get out! Don't even want to climb into my bed in the future! ”
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Needless to say, the process of fighting between Myra and her husband and wife, in short, when Ella was transformed, on the rooftop of the Dark Temple, Aurelia gently took the sleeping Dornan. Dawnblade was picked up from Tyrion's arms, and she held her titular daughter, her beautiful face full of motherhood.
"I'm so nice to her... But she keeps running to you, Tyrion, Tyrion, what kind of ecstasy did you pour into our daughter? ”
Aurelia grumbled, and Tyrion's voice rang out from the ice:
"Dornan can always hear the whispers of the elements in his dreams, Aurelia, you have picked up a genius... This child's future shamanic skills will definitely be shocking, but the child doesn't like dreams to be ruined, and when she gets close to me, those whispers disappear, so she will always stay by my side, which doesn't mean that Dornan doesn't like you. ”
"You're a good mother, Aurelia..."
Satisfied with this compliment, Aurelia leaned down and kissed the surface of the cold ice, and said:
"So, how long will it take you to recover from this ice? Nasa is on a mission with the Watchers in Azeroth, but I can always sense that Nasa is hiding something from us, and Khadgar... Khadgar has also gone into hibernation, but just yesterday, Nassa and the others stole something from Dalaran, and I'm sure it was Khadgar's work this time. ”
"Don't worry too much, Aurelia."
Tyrion comforted:
"Everyone in the Order of the Darkblade has their own secrets, and for the dead, secrets are the most precious treasure, it doesn't matter what they think, as long as what they do is beneficial to us... Like you said, if you can't control it, then simply don't control it, but I'm curious about what our Mr. Khadgar has bothered to plan for. ”
"By the way, I heard that Lothar has reappeared?"
"He's rebuilding the Arathas Empire, trying to unite humanity back together and twist it together, and that old man is Medivan's successor, and no one knows how much Medivan told him before he was sealed."
Aurelia stroked her daughter's white hair, and she whispered:
"He also forcibly demanded that the human nobles and the orcs reach a peace, I don't know what the orcs paid, so that those raging human generals took back their swords, but now, the ships of the entire alliance are gathering in Nanhai Town, I heard that the orcs are going to be sent to Kalimdor, should we intervene? You know, it only takes one botched assassination to bring the Alliance and the Horde back together, like a caged beast. ”
"It's okay, it's okay, Kalimdor also has our "eyes", let them go. ”
There was a hint of emotion in Tyrion's voice:
"Lothar, who I rescued, probably heard about 'Future' from Medivan, so there is one more player on the board, but he may have to fall a little faster..."
"It would be disappointing if he couldn't make it in time for the big drama that was about to start in the Stormwind Kingdom."