Chapter 838 37. The Ambition of the Spider Demon
The task given to Benedictus by Elder Klaxxi sounds very simple. He is required to awaken some warriors named "Heroes" in the entire Dread Wastes, which sounds like an ordinary treasure hunt game. .
But in fact this action is far from being as simple as it appears on the surface.
First of all, the mantid elder has already introduced the current situation to Benedictus in simple words: the current great queen of the mantid, Sheksil, has once again inherited the "excellent" "rebellion" of her predecessors. Tradition, before the reincarnation war between the mantid and the pandaren started every hundred years, they took the opportunity to raise the banner of rebellion.
And from the elder's words, one can hear a hint of urgency, that is to say, the rebellion this time this scheming empress set off seems to be astonishing, even the Klaxxi Council, which has been behind the scenes for tens of thousands of years. Sensing the difficulty, Benedictus had to search for the sealed heroes in the entire Dread Wasteland, which meant that he had to repeatedly pass through the area controlled by the soldiers under the command of the Great Queen Shake Hill.
And those soldiers of the Great Empress will not let him go so easily because of his "faith".
Secondly, the so-called "hero" is the mantid's respectful name for the top legendary fighters in history. Ten thousand years ago, the mantid used the mysterious amber secreted from its own holy tree of Kaipa to retain the subunits. The human empire's mysterious "amber regeneration" technology, using that mysterious amber, the mantid can preserve the bodies of great warriors of all ages and hide them in various safe places.
When the parliament needs these fighters to turn the tide, these heroic fighters will be awakened again, and then rejoin the battle.
It sounds very good, however, there is a flaw in amber regeneration, the minds of the newly awakened ancient heroes will appear very chaotic after a long period of storage. In this chaotic situation, they often lose control of themselves and There was a lot of killing, but these ancient heroes were the top legendary fighters of each era. Once they went crazy, it was impossible for ordinary mantid fighters to stop them.
Therefore, every time Yingjie wakes up in history, the council will lose a group of loyal and elite soldiers.
To sum up, the mantid elder, who seemed easy to talk, dug a bottomless pit for Benedictus who surrendered without making a sound. Judging from Tas' heroic position, he had to wake up 12 heroic warriors in the shortest possible time, which meant that Benedictus had to go through 12 terrible life and death judgments.
As long as there is a slight carelessness, this so-called "new servant of the master" will die immediately...
After all, this group of mantid elders who have lived for more than 10,000 years still don't trust Benedictus, an outsider, and just use him as an insignificant consumable. It was not a surprise to Ditas. He had been working as a cultist for a long time, and Benedictus had already seen through the sinister heart.
Seriously, this kind of test is much better than being hacked to death for no reason... The mantid who can at least communicate with him gave him a chance, and for the cultists who believe in wealth and danger, As long as there is a chance, it is enough to make a decision and bravely put everything you have.
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And at the same moment when Benedictus started to work for his "new master", at the southernmost part of the Pandaria continent, on the coastline of the Krasarang Jungle near the sea, a strange warship took advantage of the dusk The tide of time slowly leaned against an uninhabited deserted beach.
This is a goblin merchant ship with the logo of the Steamwheedle Consortium printed on it. This merchant ship does not seem to plan to stay on this desolate coast for too long. After it hastily lowered a small boat, it started the roar again The engine, emitting black smoke, once again disappeared in the waves of the open sea.
And on the boat that was put down, there were a few strangely dressed people. They wore green hoods, and the emblems of the Blightcaller Sect were dotted on the edge of the hoods. They looked like druids of the Blightcaller. , but several people took turns rowing the boat and vigilantly looking around, which seemed to mean that these people were carrying out a certain secret operation.
Ten minutes later, they stepped onto the beach on the icy tide. Several of them carried a heavy wooden box together. They trekked along the coastline, and finally stepped into the dangerous and prosperous forest of Krasarang Jungle.
For the natives of Pandaria, the Krasarang Forest is a terrible place. The forest here is very lush, and because it is close to the tropics, the forest here is like a rainforest. It grows extremely fast and is not suitable for cutting. Moreover, there are lizardmen, mantids, and some mogu rogues who rob houses for a long time, making this jungle the most dangerous area in Pandaria.
There was nothing the pandaren could do about it, because even the most brutal and extremely powerful mogu army failed to conquer this forest more than 10,000 years ago. Instead, they were defeated by the savage lizardmen Since then, all intelligent creatures in Pandaria have stayed away from this dangerous jungle.
The pandaren set up a town called "Zhujiaji" on the eastern plains of the Krasarang Forest to monitor the movement of the Krasarang Forest, which is also the southeastern border of the pandaren civilization.
And now, these strange Blightcaller druids carried the same strange box deep into the forest, but they didn't go too far. Under a hidden river valley, these druids found a hidden place. They sent the box into the cave, and then picked up the strange waypoint stone they carried with them, and made a small waypoint in the depths of the cave to guide them.
A few hours later, at midnight when the moon was thin in Pandaria, in this humid cave, the ground began to tremble strangely. After a while, more than a dozen fully armed nerubians rushed out from the underground passage. come out.
And the last one to appear was the old friend of the Blightcaller, the priest of Ankaha, the last remnant of the nerubian empire "Azjol-Nerub" that had been completely destroyed by the Lich King, from Northrend in the North. He is also an old friend of the kings of the human empire - a dismantler with powerful spiritual power and strange silver-white compound eyes, Scriss.
"Well, my human friends, you are doing really well."
Compared with the shabby appearance a few years ago, the appearance of the dismantler is much stronger now. It still has the original half-human, half-spider posture, but the old priest robes on its body have long been replaced by a The finest moon-white robes ever crafted by high elven magical tailors, with a qiraji-style worm-like ornament behind the quirky hood.
And on the strange insect limbs of the dismantler, there are two spell-casting bracelets, one red and one blue, made of the best mithril, and several complex and practical magic circles were carved by Dalaran's enchanting masters , not only can it strengthen its huge spiritual power, but also transform the spiritual power into pure magic power to release some very practical spells.
Its waist hangs a Qiraji scepter inlaid with Neyou gems, which is the spoils of war after killing the Qiraji twin emperors. The Sword Emperor's war sword was dragged back by humans and cast into a new weapon. It was bestowed on meritorious ministers, and the magic wand of the Demon Emperor was divided among several spellcasters, and then reshaped by the arcane artisans of the high elves into a medium for casting spells with an elegant appearance and a substantial interior.
As the saying goes, a man depends on a golden horse and a saddle, and the outfit of the disassembler made this weird spider look a lot more mysterious and profound, and he already had the demeanor of a big man.
As for why it tries so hard to dress itself up?
The reason is very simple, because insects also have to eat!
The nerubian civilization is on the verge of extinction, and the dismantler himself is the last living Ankaha priest. If it wants to rebuild its own civilization, it must use the legacy left by the ancient Aqir empire to pull it down. The genes of the worm eggs try to mutate into the genes of the nerubians, and use this method to re-continue the race, but such a complicated experiment cannot be completed by a dismantler alone.
It needs the help of magicians and druids from all over Kalimdor. In this case, even if the "princess" of the Qiraji has been captured, the road to revival of the dismantler's race still has a long way to go. It has a long distance to go, but it is now trying its best to build a good relationship with various forces, hoping that after the nerubian civilization is reborn in the future, it can grow smoothly and integrate into the civilization circle of Kalimdor.
It is now the professor of the spiritual power course in New Dalaran, the honorary elder of the Blightcaller sect, and the royal magic consultant of several human empires, and even has the title of external guide in the Steamwheedle Consortium, but it’s a toss and a toss. The efforts of the dismantlers in the past few years have indeed made their name famous in the Kalimdor civilization circle. Even the remaining clansmen have successfully migrated from Northrend to Kalimdor. The edge of Thousand Needles has a territory of its own.
And from the thick and obviously custom-made armor of the nerubian guards who guarded the dismantler, and the strange energy spears in their hands that resembled magic wands, it can be seen that these nerubians have also learned to use sophisticated equipment to fight Make up for the lack of quantity.
"This is your reward..."
The dismantler waved his worm claws, and a powerful nerubian guard handed a bag to the druids. In this magic pattern pocket, the nerubians ventured to recover from the undead-occupied Ai. The many magic seeds recovered from the Zhuo-Nerub dungeon were the magical experiments of the nerubian empire during its prosperous period. Those nerubian priests even planted a strange "underground forest" in their own underground empire.
"By the way, send my regards to the Patriarch and the Staghelmet Archdruid."
The dismantler watched the silent druids leave. Under its spiritual order, several nerubian guards walked quietly in the darkness, guarding the exit of the cave.
And Scriss bent down, stretched out his hand and opened the wooden box sent here by the druids. There were no precious things in the box, but densely arranged in it, with four layers up and down, white Cocoon-like...eggs.
"Ah, the first batch of failed products."
A trace of loss and regret flashed on the silver-white compound eyes of the dismantler. As early as during the Kalimdor Quicksand War, it began to collect the eggs of the Qiraji, intending to use the genetic technology secreted by the Nerubian plus The Qiraji's obelisk magic is used to induce Qiraji eggs to mutate into nerubian eggs. 90% are consistent.
However, the dismantlers underestimated the difficulty of this project. It has been working on it for several years, but it is still stuck in the last link. At this almost desperate moment, the news of the opening of the fog in Pandaria arrived. To the ears of the dismantler, and most of all to his surprise, some pirates spread the legend of the Pandaria bug.
And according to the descriptions of those pirates, the dismantlers can be sure that what they said was the last descendant who fled before the collapse of the Aqir Empire... the mantid!
The mantid is not important, their genes are too different from the nerubians, they are almost completely two species, but for the dismantlers, what is really important is not the whereabouts of the mantid, but the "amber regeneration" they have mastered. "Technology! This technology, which can use the amber nourishment of the Kepa tree to ensure the survival rate and health of the cubs, is an important bargaining chip to unlock the last link of the dismantler's revival of the Nerubian.
For the continuation of Nerubian civilization, Scriss must obtain that technology! Even if you give everything, you will not hesitate!
But as a member of the Zerg itself, the dismantler can't understand the virtues of his "compatriots" very well. It is a matter of foothold. It is absolutely impossible for the mantid to regenerate "Amber" and Kepa, who has been completely extinct in the outside world. It was handed over by the holy tree... so it must use some "unconventional" means.
"Ah, even if it is a defective product, you still have the excellent genes of Qiraji and Naiyou."
The disassembler's insect limbs caressed those eggs like large white cocoons, and it whispered in this dark cave with a sound like a bug:
"Short life is not a defect. In this precarious age, it is more like a ruthless whip. It just makes you spend all your life miracles like fireworks in that short half month. Burning out, like the fallen leaves in autumn, dedicating everything to their race, my poor children who are destined to do great things..."
"This is a great act, this is a great war..."
The huge mental power of the disassembler is like an exquisite key, blending into these white eggs, awakening the imperfect lives bred inside, and among the weird shaking of those eggs, one by one is very similar to Qiraji worker insects, but the strange larvae with the spiritual power pattern of the Neyou Zerg behind their carapaces crawled out of the box.
The biting sound that sounded in the darkness was like the sound of darkness from the abyss.
The disassembler, Skris, is like a shepherd who grazes bugs. Driven by his will, these bugs that combine the dual genes of Qiraji and Naiyou continuously rush to the ground along the wet land, and Pandali The most chaotic Krasarang Forest in Asia will be the best "cradle" for these super-breeding bugs.
In just one week, Scriss will have a Zerg army large enough to invade the Dread Wastes. Of course, what the Deconstructors want is not conquest, not war... it just needs to start a war Chaos, and then get what you want from it... those things that are extremely important to the continuation of your race.
It would become the mantid's most hated villain for thousands of years to come.
But it would also be the greatest hero of the rebirth of the neir race.
He's a thief, my hero... In the brutal struggle between civilization and civilization, the double standards for measuring a person's actions are almost nothing more than this.