9. Freedom and price
Since the children are living beings, there is no way to get to Kalimdor through the "easy passage" of the Dead Realm, but at present, the Darkblade Consortium has carried out a special way of traveling throughout the Federation, and those goblins have hired a group of wandering mages to set up teleportation signs in various scenic places around the world, which can satisfy the petty bourgeois ideas of the middle class of the Federation for world travel.
As long as they pay a certain amount of security and sign a disclaimer, the wandering mages who serve the Goblin Consortium will send the traveler to where they want to go, then reopen the portal at a fixed time and pick them up again, and if they want to go to some hot spots, the Darkblade Consortium will provide additional bodyguard services.
Of course, there is also an additional charge for this service.
Vanessa had already paid for a tour group to the Darkblade Consortium's office in Stormwind a few days earlier, and had opted for an additional secrecy service, so after the children had packed up, they arrived at a house in Stormwind's Old Town, where a portal to the Silissus Desert was already in operation.
The abstract concept of space in the wizarding world is expressed in another way by magical magic, stepping into the magic gate that shines with blue water halos, in the first moment, the children are still in Stormwind City, but the next moment, they have appeared in a desolate desert lonely smoke, endless rolling yellow sand in front of the children with the wind, the layer of sand and dust blown by the light wind blowing through the desert, under the light of the scorching sun, it looks even more sad.
The Chira hives that originally spread throughout the Silissus Desert have long since disappeared, and after the Battle of the Quicksands, the Blightcaller Druids who remained here have cleaned up the entire desert, and now it is difficult to find living bugs under this land, except for the biological observation area transformed from the original Qila Temple.
The Blightless Druids have set up semi-permanent towns at the southernmost tip of the desert, where they will stay for decades to come, until the forces of nature have completely dissolved the roots of the Elder Gods that have pierced the core of the world, which is a great and dangerous work, but the dark power that haunts the land has dissipated too much after the bodies of the Elder Gods have been burned by the dragons.
"Ahem..."
Vanessa has lived in the mild climate of the eastern continent since she was a child, and the first time she came into contact with such a harsh desert, the eldest lady couldn't help coughing several times, she grabbed her black mask, covered the lower half of her face, and took out a map from her arms, and her smart eyes looked at the map, and after determining the direction, she pointed to the northwest direction, and said to the children who were curiously looking at the desert behind her:
"Dornan, you and Tylia take Anduin and Sarandia over there, about a dozen kilometers away, in the direction of Crystal Valley, which was once one of the cities founded by the Twilight Hammer in Silisus, but was later burned down by the Order, but the elemental altar they left there should still be usable... We're there to summon Sunderland! ”
"I'll take a look at the ruins of the wanderer's camp to the west, and Lady Silent Blade told me that the Twilight Lord who escaped the druids and the Order liquidation should be hiding there... Little Yuna, you come with me, I need you to help me scout. ”
"Okay, okay!"
Little Yuna, who was riding behind the soul deer, rubbed her hands excitedly, this little ghost who likes to be lively is unwilling to miss anything interesting, at the moment when Vanessa's words fell, the door of the dead world opened in front of her eyes, Yuna grabbed Arceus's ear, and after a cheerful cheer, the soul deer rushed into the dead world with the little girl, so fast that Vanessa couldn't stop it.
"Ahh
The Assassin lady let out a voice of remorse, reached out and patted her forehead, then turned and jumped into the shadows, her voice faintly reaching the ears of the remaining children.
"I'll be back soon... You go and prepare. ”
"Bang"
Dressed in heavy armor, Delia placed the heavy shield in her hand on the sand, and the heavy shield immediately made a depression in the soft sand, and the brave warrior girl looked at Dornan beside her, and she asked in a low voice:
"Don't we need to help? That's a cult lord after all, relying on Vanessa alone... There may be some..."
"No, she doesn't need our help."
Dornan winked at Delia, she looked to the northwest of the desert, and she flicked her long white hair:
"Vanessa is very powerful, and besides, she has a powerful weapon..."
"I know, I know!"
Little Anduin grabbed the sword in his hand and stabbed the black scorpion that crawled out of the sand under his feet, and said to Delia:
"Admiral Dai Lin gave her sword to Vanessa as a birthday present! I saw it with my own eyes, Speaker Van Cleeff said that the weapon was too precious, but Admiral Dai Lin said that he already had a weapon that truly belonged to the king of the sea... So those two swords had to be handed over to someone more suitable. ”
It's "fate and luck"! ”
Behind Anduin, Sarandia grabbed the sword and shield behind her back, and the silent but very knowledgeable elven girl explained to Delia:
"The twin blades that are said to belong to the Sea Lord, I have seen them in the library of the Dark Temple, and it is said that only the most cunning and gifted assassins can be approved by those two swords... But those two swords had a terrible curse, and they could not drink the blood of the enemy, but they would sip the flesh of the sword-wielder, and it was a very dangerous weapon, and Vanessa should not use it wantonly now. ”
The two children chattered about the magic sword that Darin had sent, while Delia and Dornan had already marched towards the ruins of Crystal Valley to the northwest with a heavy salute, and Dornan called on the power of the elements to bless the people's bodies with a light breeze, allowing them to speed like the wind on the desert, and after only 20 minutes, they reached the ruins of Crystal Valley.
This is the depression of the mountains on the edge of the Great Desert of Silisus, and I don't know why, this valley is filled with all kinds of weird crystals, and here you can still see the traces of the buildings built here by the cultists of the Twilight Hammer, but now the buildings have been completely razed, and the chaos of the elemental power has filled this ruin with crazy earth elements and runaway wind elements running around.
These chaotic low-level elements with no self-thinking mind rushed to the four children like crazy after smelling the breath of strangers, but in the solid defense of Tylia with a sword and shield, no elemental monster could break through her defenses, and Dornan stood behind Delia, and the frenzied elemental power gathered in the child's hands, turning into dazzling thunder and scorching fists of flame, killing those low-level elementals like miscellaneous fish in pieces.
Anduin and Sarandia, who participated in the battle for the first time, called for the power of the Holy Light, and constantly blessed Delia with the power of the Holy Light, those pure Holy Light energy was too large, and the frequency of spell refresh was too fast, so that in the end, Tyria, the genius warrior who raised her shield and charged, looked like a paladin wrapped in Holy Light.
These two children, who are gifted in the perception of the Light, have been taught by Naruadar in Shattrath for the last few years, and they are already proficient in using most of the magic of the Light system.
"That's it! All right! Don't waste your magic. ”
After Dornan threw the last of the dazzling chains of lightning and blasted the last few escaping earth elementals into pieces, she crossed her waist and looked at the holy light spells shining on her body with a displeased expression, she looked back at the two children who were still casting spells, and she reached out to stop them.
"Hey, that Naru didn't teach you to save mana when fighting?"
Dornan flicked his tail and taught as a senior:
"How many Holy Light Healing Techniques have you released in just ten minutes? This frequency will only make you tired faster..."
"But I feel so relaxed!"
Anduin opened his hands, a large triangular emblem of holy light shone in the air behind him, the boy who was not yet 10 years old was surrounded by pure holy light, like a holy spirit that had fallen into the mortal world, he tilted his head, looked at his sister Dornan, and said suspiciously:
"Releasing these low-level healing techniques, there is no pressure at all~ I think I can release 200 more!"
"yes, it's easy."
Sarandia, who was standing beside Anduin, also blinked, the holy light of her fingertips meekly wrapped around her slender wrists, and she said to Dornan:
"You're underestimating me and Anduin's talent... Naruadar tells us that the two of us will be the most powerful Light warriors in the future... Little Dornan, I know everyone calls you a genius shaman, but you must know that you are not the only genius here..."
"Alright. Stop bragging! ”
Carrying a sword and shield, Delia seemed to have warmed up, and she shouted to the two girls who were glaring angrily behind her:
"Go find the Elemental Altar, don't waste your time like a child! Vanessa may be back soon. ”
Ten minutes later, a strange black altar was found in the ruins, the altar was carved with the eerie patterns of the cultists of the Twilight Hammer, and when he approached it, Dornan could clearly hear the elemental wails, proving that this thing was not a good thing, but its ability to twist the elemental seals was important for the purpose of the children's visit.
In order to unleash a powerful Wind Elemental Prince from an ancient seal, they must use this Evil Altar to break the seal imposed by the Fire Demon King himself.
"We're back!"
Yuna's trademark cheers soon rang out over the desolate land of Crystal Valley, and with the ringing of the bell hanging from Arceus's neck, the soul deer with a pale ribbon of light rushed out of the door of the dead that had been opened in midair, and it carried Yuna around the ground twice, and then stopped in front of the black elemental altar, and a moment later, Vanessa also jumped out of the shadows with an unconscious, thin old man.
"Bang"
The unconscious Twilight Lord Demitien was thrown under the elemental altar, and Vanessa, who was slightly pale, clapped her hands and said disdainfully to her companions:
"This bastard is really cowardly, he ran fast enough, and was scared by Yuna, and turned around and ran like a mouse, and I chased him in the desert for ten minutes before catching up."
"Don't kill me! Don't kill me! ”
The old cultist man was awakened, he opened his eyes and saw the golden strange scimitar against his neck, as a well-informed cultist, he could easily distinguish the terrifying aura of the war knife in Vanessa's hand last time, he was so frightened that he knelt on the ground and begged for mercy.
"No more nonsense! Activate this altar! ”
Vanessa snorted coldly, and ordered like the Queen:
"Now, right now!"
The Twilight Lord glanced back at the elemental altar beside him, he swallowed hard, a flash of fear flashed in his chaotic eyes, and he said tremblingly:
"Nope! No, the elemental spirits are back in this world, this desert is too close to the wall of the sky, once the elemental altar is activated, it is easy to attract the attention of those crazy wind elements, and when the time comes, we will all die! It's looking for death! You can't do that! ”
"Huh"
The sword flashed, blood splashed, and between Vanessa's wrist movements, the old man cultist was holding his fingers and screaming frantically on the ground, one of his little fingers was simply cut off, and Delia stepped forward, like carrying a little chick, and lifted the dishonest cultist into the air, and the indifferent warrior girl looked at him mercilessly, and said in a deep voice:
"Either open the altar or send you to hell right now... Take your pick! ”
These children who were taught by Tyrion may have such and such problems, but when they are in battle, they will never be merciful, not to mention that they are just a cultist madman who deserves death, and no one will pity him.
Under the persecution of several bear children, the Twilight Lord had to endure the severe pain, and recited a spell in the spirit of the evil god sacrifice in the ruins, opening the altar of evil things that forged the elements and twisted the elements for them, and in front of the roaring elemental flames, Vanessa and Dornan glanced at each other, and finally the Assassin Miss threw the two crystals in her hand that imprisoned the soul of the Wind Elemental Prince into the flames.
The two crystal skulls that had been forcibly separated were burned in the beating elemental fire, flowing like a liquid, and then regluing again, finally making a crisp cracking sound like incinerated glass.
And in this crisp crystal casting sound, the wind of the entire Silisus quietly quieted down at this moment... The light wind seemed to sense the revival of the ancient master, and the moment a wisp of pure still wind blew into the sky, an endless storm gathered in front of the children.
The invisible wind even formed a curtain of white and gray light after gathering in large numbers, and in the frightened screams of the old cultist, the wind elemental prince who had reappeared in the real world only let out a low groan, and his weak flesh and blood were like being thrown into a storm of thousands of sword lights, and his body and soul were annihilated in an instant.
Any evil thing that breaks the seal requires sacrifices...
"I am... The hand of the wind, the sound of thunder and lightning... Fierce winds, king of the sky! ”
A mass so large that it obscured the sky, its whole body was entwined with gray storms and beating thunderbolts, and the wind elemental holding the Blade of Quiet Wind was suspended in the sky of Crystal Valley, and in its deep voice, the entire sky of Silisus was blown by a sweeping storm, and even the sun was obscured.
"I am... Wind Chaser, Sunderland! ”
"Mortals... For the sake of your freedom, go away..."
"Boom"
The light of the flame crystal ring on Dornan's finger danced, and the next moment, a two-handed warhammer wrapped in lava and Safron flames appeared in Hoof's hand, and beside her, Delia closed her heavy visor and held a giant sword shield, pointing the blade diagonally at the almost invincible wind elemental prince in front of her.
"We've given you freedom, Sunderland, and it's time for you to pay for it!"
"We're only asking you for one thing..."
"All we need is your... Soul! ”