Chapter 786 38. Nightmare Expulsion Battle (Part 1)

The main part of the ongoing nightmare war has basically ended a few days ago.

Ysera's mysterious disappearance made the Emerald Nightmare's rebels no longer able to control the overall situation of the war, especially when several powerful dream dragons fell into the nightmare one after another. The druids tried their best to seal the nightmare to prevent the nightmare from infiltrating the world. After the connection node of the plane, the rebels are equivalent to being trapped in this dead zone. As the nightmare becomes more and more rampant, the fighting spirit of the rebels has also been greatly weakened in the past few days.

However, the nightmare forces did not attack the last stronghold of the rebel army, which is the dream tower of the dream dragon army. They surrounded the tower in a form of siege. This is obviously a despicable As a trap, Nightmare used these last rebels as bait, trying to lure back Ysera the Awakened who had "escaped" from the Emerald Dream.

Obviously, the nightmare forces that have corroded several dream dragons one after another are not satisfied. They want to capture a powerful guardian dragon. Once Ysera, who controls Azeroth's dream authority, is corrupted by nightmare, it means that the entire A part of the foundation of the world's existence will completely fall into the hands of nightmares and the ancient gods, which means that the ancient gods who are still trapped in the cage can corrupt the entire world by connecting the dreams of every living being.

This is a terrible future, a future full of infinite terror and despair.

However, since there are forces in this world that want to destroy it, there must be forces that protect it. Although Ysera went to Wyrmrest Temple to ask for help and almost threw herself into Neltharion's trap, the Emerald Queen But in that bad "adventure", I found a new strength...

Although it doesn't look very reliable, facing the split of the guardian dragon army and the predicament of the Kaldorei after the disaster, Ysera, who is isolated and helpless, doesn't have much choice.

"Boom, boom, boom"

The thunderous artillery roar broke the despair that permeated the Emerald Dream at this time, and the cannonball whizzing across the sky ruthlessly plunged into the dark red energy-filled earth in front of him in a parabolic manner, smashing the hapless twisted monster into pieces. The minced meat exploded again in a violent collision. These specially-made shells were detonated by the high-explosives inside, and the fragments mixed with holy silver were driven by huge kinetic energy, plowing the land corroded by the nightmare. .

The ancient inheritance in Kul Tiras thousands of years ago showed terrifying power at this moment. The demon-breaking holy silver secreted by these Ash Knights, when facing the nightmare, a force that mixed the power of darkness and void , can explode even more astonishing lethality, whether it is the disgusting tentacles derived from the energy of the nightmare, or the rebels infected by the nightmare, after being hit by the holy silver shrapnel, they will quickly lose their fighting power, and then they will be completely destroyed by the blazing explosion flames. engulf.

After a wave of salvos, fragmented corpses mixed with nightmare energy were scattered everywhere, and the ground corroded by nightmare was also torn off a layer of skin, and there were impact craters glowing with gunpowder smoke everywhere. Perhaps these magical creatures It is very resistant to simple explosions, but in the face of rounds of covering artillery fire, even the most tenacious nightmare creatures will be weakened to the extreme by continuous bombing strikes.

Of course, in such an environment with a very high concentration of nightmares, their torn bodies may reunite after ten minutes, but the question is... Will the dark blade give them enough time?

"Boom, boom, boom"

Driven by a high-power steam engine, the icy black steel tracks crushed the dark red land disturbed by nightmares. Nearly a hundred steam tanks loaded with large-caliber howitzers were like a wave of black steel torrents. The undead dwarves driving the steam tanks are very wild, they don't care what is in front of them.

Whether it is a corroded wild boar, an infected forest guardian, or a petite and cute dryad, these things are meaningless in front of a land tank weighing more than ten tons. , On the land of the Emerald Dream, there was only a piece of broken limbs and arms that made one's heart shudder.

On the top of the black steam tank, two undead knights are holding a heavy continuous firing machine gun, which is heavier than the light machine gun used by the undead infantry. Only iron bumps like steam tanks can carry such a weapon. Weight, and the caliber of this thing is almost equivalent to a small cannon. The pointed bullets used by this heavy machine gun that has just been installed in the dark blade are as thick as a dwarf's thumb. They are bound together by golden bullet chains. Under the dim light of the dream, the cold light of these dagger-like bullets made Ysera, who was leading the way ahead, feel threatened.

Of course, this kind of terrifying thing is not used to deal with small targets. In fact, after Saurfang heard that the emerald dragon was corrupted by the nightmare, he specially installed this kind of destructive and A terrifying weapon with a high rate of fire.

In other words, this thing is specially used to deal with crazy dragons!

"Target found! Suspected large creature!"

An icy voice sounded inside a tank, and two knights manipulating heavy machine guns immediately turned their guns around. In the dark red mist lingering in front of them, a gigantic bear corroded by nightmares... a giant 3 meters high roared He jumped out of it, but the next moment, the gunshot sounded as low as thunder.

The whizzing giant bullet easily opened the scoop on the head of this disgusting monster with festering skin, and in the next 2 seconds, it tore apart the small half of its body. The bear fell dead, and with the hordes of monsters swarming behind it, the howitzers of the battle tanks were no longer silent.

"boom boom boom"

Amidst the roar of grenades, the secondary death lords of the vanguard battle group called for artillery support. Five minutes later, another round of howling artillery barrage passed across the vanguard battle group, and blasted on the ground in front of them, jumping from the nightmare. The counterattacking monster failed to charge into the vanguard's position at all, and was completely submerged in the explosion like land bombing.

The advancing regiment stayed in place for less than 10 minutes, then moved on, calmly as if nothing had happened.

And behind the hundreds of rumbling steam tanks that flattened everything, there is a separate infantry regiment. Tens of thousands of undead infantry, led by the lower-level knights of their respective companies, are like the tide seeping into this land, and are being attacked by artillery. Look for lone monsters on the covered land, and then clear them on a fixed-point basis.

Ysera, who was flying in the air, turned her head from time to time. On the devastated land behind her, the sporadic low-pitched gunshots never stopped, which meant that the undead were faithfully carrying out the clearing mission.

She has seen with her own eyes a tall nightmare monster rushing out of its hiding place. It should be the corroded guardian of the forest. It is 4 meters tall and fast like a stag. It is an extremely difficult opponent, but the moment the guardian rushed out , was smashed into a sieve by more than 20 axes and guns in an instant, and finally rushed to the front of the undead formation, and was swung with a halberd by the lower-level knights who were waiting in the formation, and cut off his head neatly.

The slugs used by the undead infantry have amazing penetration and destructive power, and are also mixed with a small amount of holy silver. Even the fur protected by tough vines is no match for these destructive weapons.

It has only been 30 minutes since the Dark Blade Legion entered the Emerald Dream, but the battle groups advancing in three directions have already regained land the size of three cities. Such efficient suppression made Ysera, the guide, both happy. Worrying again...

Fortunately, with the help of Dark Blade, this nightmare disaster should be cleared up soon.

What is worrying is that under the merciless massacre of the Dark Blade, even if the Emerald Dream is free from the nightmare infection, it is estimated that its own ecological environment will take several years to recover, especially those creatures living in the dream. ..Wherever the Dark Blade Legion entered the state of war, there was almost no grass growing.

"Your Excellency Ysera, Lord Saurfang requests you to rush back to the Dreamland Tower immediately! Give tactical guidance to the three ground battle groups!"

As Ysera flew over the steam tanks, a dwarven lesser lord standing on top of the tank shouted to her:

"Also, the Lord of Death doesn't want the news of the Dark Blade appearing in the Emerald Dream to be known by other forces, so before we reach the Dream Tower, you must send the remaining rebels there back to the present world! Especially Kaldorei's Druids of the Cenarion Council, we don't want them to continue to exist in this battlefield!"

"You guys are so proud..."

Ysera snorted, but didn't refute anymore, she spread her wings, and quickly flew towards the direction of the dream tower.

This is the rule that Ysera agreed with Tyrion before departure. After Darkblade helped the Dream Legion regain the Emerald Dream, the maintenance of the dream will be jointly responsible by the Blightcaller and the Cenarion Council, so that Cenarion can The world tree where the druids of the Council freely enter and exit the Emerald Dream has been dragged back to the realm of the dead, which means that once Ysera sends the druids in the Emerald Dream back to the present world, then they want to return to the Emerald Dream , it is very difficult.

Without the support of Nordrassil, druids can only rely on their deep understanding of the way of nature to reshape their dream form, and use the reshaped dream form to travel to the Emerald Dream Plane, but this is only for high-level Things only druids can do.

Therefore, in the foreseeable future, the number of Druids in the Emerald Dream will be greatly reduced, and low-level Druids will no longer have the possibility to enter the Emerald Dream, but there are no absolutes... After all, in Kalimdor Ashenvale and Feralas, the Twilight Federation and the Hinterlands in the Eastern Kingdom all have portals leading to the Emerald Dream. It stands to reason that low-level druids can also enter and exit the Emerald Dream through these four portals.

But honestly, Ysera is pessimistic about it...

Because she had chatted with the Arch Druid Staghelm of the Blightcaller in the past few days. Unlike the moderate Cenarion Council, the Blightcaller Sect adheres to the older druid tradition. They believe that only those who rely on themselves to connect Only dream druids are eligible to enter the emerald dream for "advancement", and it is not a lucky thing for low-level druids who do not have a deep understanding of nature to come into contact with the emerald dream in advance.

That will weaken the unsteady beginners' self-understanding of nature, that is to say, once the Blightcaller Druid joins the maintenance of the Emerald Dream, those low-level Druids will "free-for-free" the Emerald Dream. Years of opportunistic behavior, will cease to exist.

And seeing Ysera leave the battle zone, a cold light flashed in the eyes of the dwarf secondary death lord standing on the steam tank, and he waved to the death knight behind him:

"Finally the nasty guy is gone...Tell the artillerymen that those 'special' shells are free...Let the lads get on with it!"

"Obey! Your Excellency Barton!"

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"Damn it! Where did these damn undead come from?"

In the base camp of the nightmare forces in the Emerald Dream, in the deep area called "Nightmare Fortress", Xavius, the Nightmare King who was in charge of conquering the Emerald Dream, looked at the magic map in front of him, and roared extremely violently .

On the magic map in front of Xavius, on the edge of the Emerald Dream that had already been dyed a beautiful dark red, a black area is rapidly expanding around, like a drop of red water dripping It's like the disgusting ink, and the ink is still spreading rapidly, it is very likely to dye this basin of water black.

This dissatisfied Xavius, who already had the chance to win, but in the eyes of the Nightmare King, there was still a trace of... panic that couldn't be concealed.

Because in the early morning of this morning, he lost his sense of the World Tree Nordrassil, and the World Tree contained the flesh and blood of N'Zoth, precisely because of the ancient god's flesh hidden deep inside the World Tree, Only in this way can the power of nightmares pour into the Emerald Dream continuously. That tree is equivalent to the "barracks" of Xavius, the king of nightmares.

But now, that tree is gone! This means that Xavius, who occupies the Emerald Dream, has lost his greatest backup... And now, at this juncture, the difficult Darkblade undead entered the Emerald Dream on a large scale, and began to clean up the nightmare remnants here without any explanation.

This kind of "coincidence" made Xavius ​​feel nervous. Obviously, in the outside world, some things happened that he didn't know about... and the most terrible thing was that no matter how he was allowed to contact his "benefactor" Enzos, He couldn't get a response, either his connection with N'Zoth was interrupted by something, or... he was treated as an abandoned child.

"damn it!"

Xavius ​​cursed, a hint of viciousness flashed in his blood-red eyes, he turned around, and shouted to the several corrupted nightmare dragons standing behind him:

"Go with my army! Drive those undead out! This dreamland belongs to me! No one can take it away from me!"

Under the command of the Nightmare King, the Nightmare Dragon headed by Eranikus turned and left without saying a word, and after these Nightmare monsters left, Xavius ​​looked around and opened a dark red hole with his hand. Dream Portal.

yes, he is going to run...

This is a very careful and sinister guy. After realizing the possible danger, he no longer wants to stay in this hellish place. Without the support of Nordrassil's nightmare power, he can't stop it with only the military power in the Emerald Dream. Xavius ​​knew this very well against the Darkblade Undead, who were extremely resistant to nightmares and had powerful firepower.

"But the Dark Blade can't stay here forever..."

Xavius ​​glanced back at the Nightmare Fortress behind him, a dark smile flashed across his face:

"I will come back after they leave...Ysera, Tyrande, we have enough time to play..."

However, at the moment when Xavius ​​was about to enter the gate of nightmare, a black figure jumped out of the shadows, waved cold energy, and completely tore the swaying gate of nightmare into pieces. During the flash, Savis, who was attacked by surprise, let out a scream, and his whole body was kicked out by a huge force.

The Nightmare King rolled a few times on the ground, he raised his head in embarrassment, and saw Malfurion standing there in the dim light of Transfiguration, wearing black armor and holding an icy scythe.

The death druid whose eyes had turned dark black tilted his head. He still had the original hybrid posture of a man and a beast, but his face no longer had the gentleness it once had. Instead, there was a touch of tingling Dead silence.

"Savis, old friend, the game you want to play... Mind if I join?"