Duke has no choice but to do this.
Originally, the most efficient means of transportation was air transport ships, which could carry hundreds to thousands of tons of supplies at a time. The problem was that the sky in the Outer Realm was simply a monster. On January 2, a sudden elemental storm directly caused four transport ships to fall from a height of 500 meters, smashing them to pieces.
A total of more than 1,200 people, including soldiers and civilians, died on the four ships.
It happened again on January 5th, and this time two flying destroyers were affected. They were blown sideways for nearly a thousand meters, and eventually collided with each other and crashed.
As a last resort, Duke ordered the air fleet to lower its cruising altitude.
However, this attracted harassment from birds from other regions.
When land transportation became important, the Nagas came to cause trouble again.
Duke had to discuss with the Alliance leaders and deal with Vashj first.
In the command post of Windrunner Fortress, the leaders of the Alliance held a meeting using a video conference method similar to the one Du had before he traveled through time.
First, Ilucia reported the Alliance's losses and resource depletion in the war in Outland.
"We have transported 32,000 tons of various materials through the Dark Portal every month. Due to transportation conditions, 30% of them are sent to Thrallmar to support the newly captured evil orcs of the Horde. 45% are stranded in Glory Hold due to transportation reasons. Before Glory Hold, the material loss rate was 5%. After leaving Glory Hold, this number immediately jumped to 26%..."
It was not disastrous yet, but the severe supply problem meant that the Alliance could not send further troops, at least not far away from the Hellfire Peninsula.
Zangarmarsh controlled by Vashj has strangled the coalition forces.
Then, Brian announced a bit frustratedly that the filling of Serpent Lake had failed: "Obviously, the underwater area is Vashj's domain. No matter how many airships we send and how many tons of mud and sand we drop, she will create a vortex and expel the mud and sand from somewhere. Maybe it will hit our ship, or maybe it will be thrown to the edge of the westernmost road. Anyway, after two weeks of operation, the water line of Serpent Lake has not changed at all. And the diesel fuel of our airships can't keep up."
Duke has no solution for diesel.
After killing Ragnaros's clone, the Alliance found the largest oil field in the southern continent, which is the Burning Plain and the Scorching Canyon.
Without the fire element causing trouble, under the hard defense of the Ironforge dwarves, a large number of oil wells were first built in the Scorching Gorge. Crude oil less than 50 meters below the ground is easy to extract.
However, due to technological problems, we can only produce 5,000 barrels of crude oil every day.
Also because of the inadequate refining technology, the diesel yield rate is even more dismal.
Unfortunately, the air pressure in the outer domain is low, so the steam engine doesn't work very well.
The result is that now every time the air fleet launches a large-scale attack, it must store up several days of diesel.
Despite Varian's repeated requests to clear the way for him, Brian was powerless. This kind of suffering is really hard to describe in words.
At this time, Varian spoke up: "I propose that the Alliance organize a group of heroes to storm the Serpent Temple. I know this is most likely a trap set by the Burning Legion, and we can even rule out the arrival of Kil'jaeden himself. But we only have two choices left: one is to take the risk and knock out Vashj, the other is to evacuate, close the Dark Portal, and wait until the entire Outland is completely destroyed."
The conference room fell silent for a moment.
The present is very different from the first year of the Dark Portal. At that time, the Alliance was still mixed with kings like old man Terenas who were completely invincible.
the Alliance's big guys at this point in time are basically the most capable players in the entire alliance.
If it were in Azeroth, there would be the planetary protection array and Elune to help watch over it. Here, a demon commander of Kil'jaeden's level would come when he said so. Putting all the heroes on the battlefield would mean throwing in all the kings. Once all of them were destroyed, the Alliance would collapse.
Talking about withdrawing is also funny.
Even though there are only seven or eight large areas left on Draenor, and the edges are collapsing every day, the strange energy field is still wrapping this huge continent and floating in the void. How long it will take for it to be completely destroyed, only God knows.
Maybe it's a year, maybe it's a hundred years.
Who dares to say that the Dark Portal is the only spatial flaw in Azeroth?
Who dares to say that they can guard the Dark Portal for that long?
Before they knew it, all eyes were on Duke's face at the top.
Duke did not answer immediately, but asked Velen: "Can you contact Kael'thas?"
"It's difficult." Velen answered directly.
"It's difficult, but it's possible."
"That's right!"
"Draenor is a world that is being destroyed. Although I respect the Draenei's attachment to Shattrath, for the future of the Draenei and to reduce the supply pressure on the Alliance front, I hope that Lord Velen can arrange for no less than 30,000 Draenei to immigrate to Azeroth. If possible, it would be best to use your spaceships."
Velen's pupils widened slightly: "Thank you very much for the Alliance's acceptance. I wonder where the Alliance plans to arrange my people?"
The bigwigs in the Alliance began breathing slightly faster.
the Alliance is ultimately a collection of kingdoms. If the Draenei were placed in a kingdom, it might affect the development of their own kingdom. Even if it is not within the current border, they do not want a group of refugees to occupy the space for their country's expansion.
The continent of Lordaeron is obviously not a good option.
Even though the eastern part of the Hinterlands has not been colonized yet, the Wildhammer dwarves hope to incorporate the entire Hinterlands into the territory of the Kingdom of Aerie Mountain after defeating the forest trolls there.
Neither can the southern continent.
With the development of industry and the demand for minerals and oil, the territory of the Bronzebeard dwarves is much larger than it was in the past. Now there is a railway in the Badlands, from Loch Modan directly to the Searing Gorge. These two places are already under the actual control of the Bronzebeard dwarves.
When the opportunity comes, we will announce this matter within the Alliance.
After Ragnaros left, Stormwind Kingdom also expanded northward from Redridge Mountains and incorporated the Burning Plains into its territory.
The southernmost Stranglethorn Vale, after all the trolls in Zul'Gurub are dead, Stormwind will share the Stranglethorn Vale with Kul Tiras. In fact, this is because Varian wants to repay Kul Tiras for helping the citizens of Stormwind Kingdom evacuate during the first Dark Gate War, which prevented Stormwind from being destroyed.
Otherwise, he would not share the meat in his mouth.
So when Velen asked this question, most of the kings of the Alliance were a little nervous.
Duke smiled and raised his hand to display a large 3D map of the world of Azeroth.
When Duke's finger moved to the continent of Kalimdor, the kings secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
"The place where the Draenei are resettled is right here." Duke pointed to a medium-sized island southwest of Darnassus.
Secret Blue Island.
A place far away from the mainland, yet not isolated from the Alliance.
When the Alliance leaders saw it, they immediately realized that the location of this place was great.
The Draenei have been persecuted and hunted, and they have a sense of insecurity in their hearts. A place that does not directly intersect with the Horde's border will enhance their sense of security.
But they are not outside the Alliance's control area.
Because less than 100 kilometers northeast of Azuremyst Island is Darnassus, the entire sea area is under the protection of the elves' Dark Coast Fleet. Although Kalimdor is to the east, the Dark Coast area and Ashenvale are both the elves' territory.
Placing the Draenei here can provide good support to the Night Elves. If the Alliance and the Horde fall out in the future, the Night Elves will not have to face the entire Horde alone in Kalimdor.
When everyone saw Tyrande's calm and composed face, they immediately knew that Duke had obtained permission from the night elves and Elune long ago.
Everyone was saying the same thing in their hearts: "It's a choice that kills three birds with one stone and is full of political foresight."
Velen bowed deeply: "On behalf of my people, I would like to express my deepest gratitude once again."
The Draenei do not reject immigration. Twenty-five thousand years of exile have long been imprinted in the deepest part of every Draenei's soul. Being able to have a safe place to reproduce and thrive is the greatest kindness.
Sending away 30,000 refugees will undoubtedly make the front line more well-equipped.
Next, of course, comes the key point.
"Varian, your proposal to mobilize all forces is very courageous and bold."
This is a compliment from an elder.
Varian nodded. "Thank you."
"Fighting power is a must. So I hope that you, Varian, will gather the existing heroic warriors in Outland, including the Horde warriors, together with the most elite air fleet and landing troops, to defend this place for three days." Duke raised his hand, and the map switched to Outland. The location of his finger was right in the center of Zangarmarsh.
"The ruins of the twin towers?"
The ruins of the Twin Towers are located just south of the Serpent Lake, right by the lake. To be honest, this is definitely the heart of Vashj's territory. It is not easy to go deep behind enemy lines and guard under the enemy's nose for three days.
Because it is right by the lake, Vashj can fully display her power in water battles. It is really unbearable to have huge waves rolling over at any time!
If you are pulled into the lake by some octopus tentacles or something like that, you can be reincarnated and prepare for the next life.
"What support can we get?" Varian asked cautiously.
"Let's talk about it after the Horde arrives." Duke smiled mysteriously.
That afternoon was a joint meeting of the Alliance and Horde leaders.
After Duke made this suggestion, Thrall agreed without hesitation.
Thrall is a rational leader. After putting aside the interests of his race, he is also a very loyal person. Now the situation of the hundreds of thousands of evil orcs in Thrallmar is getting better with the supplies from the Alliance. Although drinking highly diluted holy water has caused many evil orcs to suffer from vomiting and diarrhea, the intermittent drinking of diluted holy water, coupled with sufficient food supplements, has indeed accelerated the recovery of the evil orcs' demonic drug addiction.
What's rare is that the Alliance didn't fool the Horde. In the past, under food pressure, they might have used some old grain to make up for the shortage. Now, the Alliance used this year's brand new autumn grain and a large amount of frozen pork as supplies, which was very heartwarming.
Instead, in Orgrimmar, the homeland of the Horde, Varok Saurfang and Grom launched a large-scale action to support their compatriots after hearing that hundreds of thousands of their compatriots were in urgent need of food to supplement their nutrition and dilute holy water to detoxify.
the Alliance's resources are not free, and all supplies must be repaid by the Horde with ores and other resources.
New grain and old grain are not priced the same.
the Alliance clearly marked the price in this regard, and Duke also wrote off the losses on the way and charged according to the standard of the journey. the Horde had nothing to say about this.
So the movement launched by the remaining tribes such as Varok is to let our compatriots eat better. As long as we have food to eat, it will be fine.
They took the initiative to propose that the Hope Alliance's disaster relief supplies be replaced with stale grain.
You know, old grain is the Alliance's war reserve grain. According to the technology of this era, if it is stored in the barn for more than five years, it will definitely become moldy. Generally, the Alliance throws the grain to feed pigs when it is about to rot. Therefore, the price of old grain is only one-tenth of that of new grain.
In the magical message, when Thrall saw his compatriots in Azeroth gnawing on dark stale grains and black bread, and eating the few prey found in Durotar and the Barrens as meat to fill their stomachs, Thrall, a grown man, burst into tears.
Duke was speechless for a long time.
However, the Alliance had been in a state of shortage of food due to the wars, and they really couldn't provide that much new food to help the Horde. And the previous insect plague had almost wiped out most of the wildlife on Kalimdor.
"well!"
Even so, Thrall still accepted the favor from the Alliance.
With the addition of powerful tribe members, this battle for the Twin Towers ruins can probably gather twenty heroic-level forces.
Good at defense, but not aggressive enough.
For Duke, that was enough.
On January 20, 24th year of the Dark Gate, the movement of the Alliance army alarmed the entire Serpent Temple.
"What? the Alliance dares to build a base at our doorstep?" After hearing the news, Vashj didn't know whether to be angry or laugh.
When she and her men half emerged from the Viper Lake, she was stunned by the scene before her.
The way the Alliance built its base was simply unheard of.
First, the wizard used magic fog to obscure the vision, and then secretly sent down a group of dwarf soldiers, who used bulldozers to flatten the entire area around the ruins of the twin towers.
Then, accompanied by twelve giant transport ships that staggered down under the cover of other flying ships, a large number of tribal infantry and Alliance musketeers and archers rushed out of the transport ships and formed a battle formation.
Then six small Oro, using their burrowing nature, dug holes in designated places. They entered from one side and exited from the other, and once they finished digging a hole, they left.
A large number of dwarf craftsmen were in place, and then the other twelve transport ships actually hoisted over huge watchtowers that were more than fifteen meters high, and inserted the sharp foundations into the holes that the small Oro had just made.
These watchtowers were all built in Glory Castle, made of reinforced concrete, and any one of them weighs more than a hundred tons.
Unreasonably, the dwarves directly used the "God descended to earth" to catch the sentry tower. Even if you were the Leaning Tower of Pisa, they would help you stand straight, correct the deviation by manpower, and finally pour cement into it.
After the cement was poured, a wizard came over and used ice magic to cool it down.
Less than half an hour had passed when the twelve watchtowers were erected.
At this time, Vashj had just come out of the Serpent Temple.
Vashj, who knew nothing about modern industry, was stunned by this scene.
It was obvious that if the coalition forces were not stopped, a decent small fortress could be built in a day at most.
However, the surprise was short-lived.
"Master..." Deep Water Lord Karathreth asked Vashj in a low voice.
"It doesn't matter."
"No problem?"
Vashj smiled seductively: "What's the point of arresting these mortals? Can they pose a real threat to the Serpent Temple? Or do you want to see me strangle these lowly ants as a demigod?"
"Of course not! Your Majesty the Queen." Karathres bowed his head deeply.
One of the slender arms gently raised, forming a graceful arc, and Vashj made her decision: "Once five or more powerful heroes appear, drown it."
"I will obey your will."
the Alliance engineers over there were also trembling with fear.
"Hey, do you think those six-armed longtails will come out in droves?"
"Don't worry, Master Edmund said he won't come out."
"Ohhhh!"
The engineers were working like stacking blocks, connecting and inlaying two-meter-square prefabricated steel plates with screws, placing them in the designated positions, and then pouring cement into them like sandwiches.
A fortress covering an area of approximately one square kilometer rose from the ground at a speed almost visible to the naked eye.
All day long, no Naga surfaced to openly spy on the fortress. Even if there were some, their spying beneath the water was impossible to detect.
The Allied guard forces continued to rotate every hour.
But with every hour that passed, the tower behind him would rise a level higher.
There are twelve arrow towers on the outer layer. When the reinforced cement concrete slab walls connecting these arrow towers are completed, twelve taller arrow towers will immediately emerge in the middle of the gaps between the arrow towers.
After the twenty-four arrow towers were completed, the second layer of the city wall was immediately built in the inner circle, and six magic towers full of mysterious atmosphere were erected inside.
Layer after layer, like skewers, the prefabricated parts are inlaid one by one. With each additional layer, the intricate and dazzling colorful patterns on the magic tower become brighter.
Until the tenth floor.
Of course, this is not a traditional Mage Tower that provides a place for mages to live, do experiments, and defend against foreign enemies. This is a pure magic amplifier that uses high-purity magic crystals and a huge magic circle to upgrade every magic of the wizard presiding over the Mage Tower from personal magic to war magic.
Several times, Mologri Tidewalker wanted to rush forward, but was held back by Karathreth.
"No hurry! No hurry! These worthless soldiers are not even an appetizer. We need to be patient."
At almost the same time, in the Teledor Fortress in the east-central part of Zangarmarsh, the heroes of the Alliance and the Horde had already gathered together.
This fortress originally belonged to the Draenei in history, but now it has become a forward base for the coalition forces because someone ordered the lake to be filled.
The fortress, located on top of an extremely large stone mushroom, looked unreachable. The mushroom's roots, reinforced by dozens of magical protective spells, were even more indestructible. Beings below the level of a true god could not expect to be able to shake it in the slightest.
In the hall where the Horde's heroes rested, Thrall was calmly cleaning his famous Doomhammer. He used tweezers produced by the Alliance to carefully clean the meat scraps stuck to the edge of the square hammer head. Although the high temperature of the hammer would turn everything into charcoal, biological fat was difficult to burn out, and over time, there would always be some jelly left.
"Are you ready?" Orgrim came in and asked.
"I'm always ready." Thrall replied calmly.
Out of anger, they didn't talk about this mission. Although the Alliance and the Horde had always had various deviations in their positions, they chose to trust Duke without reservation.
As a leader, one should always prepare for the worst of both his enemies and his allies, because a leader never represents one person, but a huge group.
Only in this way can those who trust him and entrust their lives and souls to him not sacrifice in vain because of the leader's wrong trust.
A mature leader should never trust any outsider. After all, when you trust your allies more than you trust yourself, then you can talk about absolute trust in your allies.
This is not an easy thing to do.
Both Thrall and Orgrim believed in Duke and believed that he had an absolute trump card that could deal with Vashj.
Thrall's lieutenant came: "Warchief, the Alliance Storm King Varian is waiting for you outside."
"I'll be right there."
Thrall led the Horde's warriors out in big strides, and saw each other in military uniforms. Everyone's face was determined. In every pair of eyes there was absolute confidence, which was the resolute look that only comes from going through countless hardships and being baptized by more than one brutal battle.
Varian placed his hands on the hilts of his two legendary swords, his eyes flashing: "It's time!"
Thrall nodded: "Let's go!"
Led by Anasterian, the strongest wizard of the Horde, wizards from both the Alliance and the Horde cast a spell together to open a portal that could accommodate four carriages passing through in parallel. At the other end of the portal was a brand new small fortress built on the ruins of the twin towers.
As soon as the Sun King arrived at the fortress, he immediately flashed to the wizard tower on the south side of the central square of the fortress. It can be found that a huge flame shield with a diameter of more than two kilometers was quickly generated with the fortress as the center. The huge fortress looked like a huge fireball from a distance.
Great Astrologer Solarian, surrounded by a group of powerful alliance members, folded her hands. Her delicate and beautiful hands were facing a large crystal cone that was three stories high. The purple cone emitted a surge of arcane energy that attracted everyone's attention.
"Hua-hua-hua-" circle after circle, like the tide, pushing outwards.
Arriving at the center of the square, every step Solarian took stirred up the magic circle that had long been engraved on the ground, producing a greater arcane reaction.
When Solarian loosened her hands and let the ten-meter-long cone slowly fall into the center of the magic circle, a winding streak of lightning suddenly appeared in the purple-black sky above the ruins of the twin towers.
Countless elements converged here at high speed, making the thin clouds suddenly visible to the naked eye. The clouds were boiling like thick porridge.
When the boiling reached its peak in just a few seconds, a purple-blue light spot suddenly appeared in the sky opposite the top of the crystal cone.
It was like an entire mountain falling into the water. The arcane energy released by the light spot set off circle after circle of energy frenzy in the air, spreading outward for several miles.
"What is that!?" Deepwater Lord Karathreth, who was quietly monitoring the Twin Towers Ruined Fortress one thousand meters underwater, screamed.
There was no one around him who could answer his questions. All the heroes in the Serpent Temple seemed to be dumbfounded, staring at the fortress in confusion.
"Long!"
The entire fortress shook as if there was an earthquake.
Karathres floated to the surface at high speed and looked around the lake in doubt. As expected, a conspicuous ripple in his field of vision was rapidly forming a big wave, spreading from the direction of the twin tower ruins towards the entire Viper Lake.
Those were definitely not waves blown by the wind.
"What are those guys doing? Are they trying to further shatter the entire continent?"
No one could answer him. In the entire Serpent Temple, except for his queen and the blind man, no leader had an IQ higher than that of an ordinary human.
Lord Waterdeep was a little frightened, because if he was not mistaken, Draenor became what it is now because Kil'jaeden sent a human bomb to Duke, but Duke refused to accept it and sent it to the Dark Portal, where it exploded, turning such a large planet into several pieces of continents that were connected together and suspended crookedly in the void.
Karathreth really hoped that the earthquake just now was just his illusion, but he soon sadly found another example - it was the swamp. The entire Zangarmarsh, which was bustling in the past and always contained murderous intent even in silence, had become quiet.
Then, a buzzing sound came from the southern shore and deeper waters of Viper Lake. Maybe it was the bottom of the water?
He couldn't be sure.
At this moment, the second wave of shock arrived as expected.
This time the cause of the shock wave was clearer.
Fire, frost, arcane, nature, shadow, and holiness - six different elements mixed in the shock wave that rushed out from the ruins of the twin towers. Every wave and every ripple contained a high concentration of the elements.
For many second-rate magicians, these water waves can be regarded as some kind of low-level magic.
The elemental waves brought by the shock wave rushed out from the southern part of the entire Viper Lake to the north, northwest, and northeast. The surging waves were still powerful, and Karathres estimated that the waves were likely to spread over a thousand meters, and even hit the Panya Reservoir building complex three thousand meters behind him.
In the middle of the Viper Lake, there is a building that looks like a five-pointed star when viewed from the sky, a bit like a starfish. That is the Panya Reservoir.
Following Illidan's orders, Vashj built many water pumps in Zangarmarsh. All the water pumped by the pumps was transported to the Coilfang Reservoir. The purpose was to pump up all the water to carry out a mysterious task...
"No! Don't try to hinder my Lord's great cause!"
Karathres rushed to the surface of the water and roared, swung the giant hammer in his hand, and shot an Arrow of Disaster directly at the towering waves in front of him.
The powerful force of shadow shattered the waves with incredible speed, but more elemental waves pressed in from other directions.
"No--"
Karathres was horrified to find that in the face of an elemental wave of this level, he could only protect himself.
He couldn't help but scream, then turned around and looked at the horizon.
Dozens of seconds later, the increasingly towering elemental waves hit the Panya Reservoir's water pump like a bulldozer's shovel.
The dark yellow water pump that stood in the center of the Viper Lake and was five stories high swayed wildly like a willow branch in the wind. However, after three to five seconds, it fell apart with a loud bang, turning into a pile of rubble with magic runes and began to sink.
"No! There's the Serpent Temple below!" Karathres was going crazy.
In fact, it was not only the pumps of the Panya Reservoir that suffered. The huge elemental waves triggered by the ruins of the twin towers formed a tsunami-like existence, and large areas of stone mushrooms dozens of stories high were collapsing and collapsing.
The waterways that originally separated the swampy land were filled with water, overflowing the low earthen slopes.
However, accompanied by a thunderous sound, the Naga lurking in the water not far away felt that the underwater world she was familiar with had changed.
Water is no longer just water, it is a terrifying existence filled with destructive elemental energy.
The small fish and shrimp in the Viper Lake all died instantly as long as they were within the range of the elemental wave. However, the various water elemental creatures were greatly enhanced.
Including the unstable Hades, all the water elemental creatures in the Serpent Temple grew larger in size.
This should have been a good thing.
If the bosses of the Serpent Temple knew that this was the result of the inadvertent leakage of elemental magic when the newly built magic network was drawing in magic power, then no one would be in a good mood.
At this moment, only the truly strong ones could sense that the elemental laws of most of the Serpent Lake were deviating, and were fearfully leaving the control of the few natural laws in the outside world and submitting to the mysterious power that was approaching.
No group of free elements can resist that invincible mysterious power. The existence that appears to be from Shattrath City, but is actually from the distant Azeroth planet Karazhan, announced with an extremely domineering appearance that he is dominating everything around him and taking over almost all the nearby elements.
At the gate of the Serpent Temple, anyone who wanted to reach here would first be besieged and blocked by countless underwater creatures.
But now, first of all, two huge humanoid figures suddenly appeared at the gate.
"Who!?" The Naga guards, who had been extremely vigilant, shouted angrily.
In response to them, lightning pounced on them, and a humanoid being radiated with various colors of light.
Heroic spirits, or it would be more appropriate to describe them as elemental guards.
Duke was able to directly deploy his subordinates by forcibly connecting to the Serpent Temple with the magic network. The heroic spirits who had surrendered to him in Karazhan that year, after a large amount of elemental energy was injected into their souls, reappeared in this world as elemental guards.
"Kill!"
"Destroy the evil!"
There were not many of them, only about a hundred people, but they were like a tsunami and directly overwhelmed the Naga guards who were blocking their way.
No matter whether it is the burly male Naga wielding large long-handled weapons, or the Naga wizard using all kinds of strange magic, no one can be their opponent.
At this time, a dark swamp giant blocked the intruder. It was a two-story-tall, dark green humanoid creature with three fingers and covered with disgusting pustules.
Its deadly poison and natural magic are a nightmare to ordinary creatures.
Unfortunately, against pure elemental creatures, all of its skills became useless.
The elemental guards rushed forward. At this time, the gate of the temple, which had been silent for a while, suddenly flashed with a brighter and more dazzling light.
Countless elemental light balls popped out from the translucent and illusory end of the magic net and then gathered together.
The first thing was a huge elemental heart that appeared out of thin air, protected by magical runes flying back and forth.
"Plop! Plop!"
Accompanied by strong pulsations, energy dominated by the element of fire materializes, building up the thick heart, aortas and veins, as well as other internal organs.
Then, an illusory dark brown skeleton appeared, with rows of ribs protecting the newly emerged internal organs. The next step was the limbs that still retained the insect-like characteristics...
Next are the tendons and muscles, layers upon layers that appear to be biological matter, but are actually elemental muscles covering the bones composed of high-density elements, giving the body the ability to move.
Finally, there is the skin and bright red armor.
Everything seems to be a perfect interpretation of 3D printing technology.
Not only is it perfect, but it's also incredibly fast.
In just two seconds, two three-story-tall, skinny-looking giants appeared.
"Hehe! I didn't expect that we brothers would be able to regain our bodies so soon."
"It's temporary, but it's great."
right!
The ones who appeared here were Duke's top two fighters, the Qira Twin Emperors.
"The insignificant Naga Vashj who doesn't know his own limitations—"
"Are you ready to face the wrath of our Lord Edmund Duke?"
A thunder-like sound echoed throughout the entire Serpent Temple.
At this moment, the roaring sound has turned into a violent tremor that affects the entire space. You know, the bottom of the entire Viper Temple is basically water, and only a large number of wooden and metal buildings on the water surface, like floating houses, can allow land creatures to pass.
If you fall into the water, countless piranhas will come at any time and devour the unlucky person who falls into the water.
But now, the declaration of the Twin Emperors directly caused the entire space to be shaken.
Not only the water beneath the temple, but every building, every pillar, and even every wooden board standing on the water seemed to emit a low and ancient sound. They hummed over and over again, turning into a unified voice, responding to the declarations of the two emperors.
The water at the bottom of the Serpent Temple was surging, because the deeper water was also rumbling and shaking, because countless Qiraji insects rushed out from the illusory magic net.
As soon as they came out, their elements materialized and turned into strange existences that seemed like real life.
They responded to the emperor's call and staged an extremely shocking feat——
Throw! Whip! Break! Flow!
Before Du traveled through time, during the Taiyuan period of Emperor Xiaowu of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, after Fu Jian of the Former Qin Dynasty unified the north, he decided to mobilize a million troops to take advantage of the situation to destroy the Eastern Jin Dynasty in one fell swoop and unify all of China.
The most arrogant statement of the emperor at that time was: "Now I have nearly a million troops. Just throwing a horse whip into the Yangtze River is enough to block the river flow. What natural dangers do I have to fear?"
The current situation is surprisingly similar to the legendary story of stopping a river with a whip.
Insects the size of small tanks rushed into the water frantically, one after another, like martyrs of mass suicide. If they were normal creatures, they would probably hesitate at the moment of death.
They are not.
Not to mention that they are now materialized elemental creatures. Even when they were alive, the spiritual connection of the Qiraji from top to bottom and their nature of absolute obedience to orders would drive them to complete the orders of their masters without hesitation - even if it meant letting them die.
So what if you're attacked and bitten by piranhas?
So what if you feel suffocated and uncomfortable?
They rushed into the water almost frantically, paddling and dashing with their claws that were not adapted to underwater movement. It didn't matter if they couldn't sink, because more insects would press on them from above.
If anyone could overlook the entire Serpent Temple at this moment, they would find a large mass of inky black spreading in the water at the entrance of the temple.
That was the Qiraji insect man who was carrying out the mission of breaking the flow of water by throwing a whip.
With their huge bodies and sheer numbers, they easily filled up the water in front of the Twin Emperors that was tens of meters deep, more than twenty meters wide, and over three hundred meters long, forming an insect dam that was unimaginable to others.
"Let's go! My brother."
"Come on! My brother."
The two familiar faces under the masks seem to be smiling.
The twin emperors, with their thin and huge bodies, took giant steps, as if they were mirror images, one took a step with his left leg and the other with his right leg, and they walked together onto the black carpet that belonged only to the Qiraji emperor.
Instead of stepping directly on the insects, they both stepped on the elements floating in the void.
To put it bluntly, insect bridges and the like are not necessary from beginning to end.
perhaps...
This is what it's like!
Duke, who was far away in Karazhan, bared his teeth and spit out, "Fuck, my subordinates can still pretend?"
Beside him, the sound of several women's laughter as soft as silver bells could be heard.
The aura of the Twin Emperors doesn't matter. Anyway, the heroes under them, no matter how good they are at fighting, are only bearing the title of their boss.
Duke was at peace with the following scene.
Countless Nagas, holding their weapons and waving their long snake tails, tried to surround and attack the twin emperors.
At this moment, two majestic, terrifying, and ancient auras rose from the twin emperors. The faces of the Nagas changed drastically, and they raised their weapons to resist the two auras, but two invisible forces suddenly swept through the entire space and forcibly suppressed all the Nagas.
This is no longer a matter of inches!
This is simply a mandatory order. Without the permission of the Twin Emperors, no one can lift a knife or a gun, let alone twitch a muscle.
The Nagas' bodies were stiff, and they sank to the bottom of the water in a ridiculous manner.
Why is it funny?
Because they are not even allowed to breathe through their gills!!
This scene was unbelievable to Naga herself, not to mention any of the high-ranking leaders in the Serpent Temple.
I can't breathe!
Unable to resist!
The gap in rank is as huge as the difference between heaven and earth. Even looking up is not enough to see the gap, let alone overturn it.
At this moment, a cold aura spread from the depths of the Serpent Temple.
Soon, the coldness turned into blazing heat. The entire eastern part of the temple was lit up with flashes of lightning, forming a sharp echo with the elemental brilliance of the twin emperors at the main gate to the west.
An elegant female voice sounded: "Oh ha ha! My temple has never had any decent guests, but I didn't expect that two demigods would come right away. Edmund Duke really thinks highly of me!"
Following Vashj's voice, the Naga who was suppressed by the Twin Emperors was suddenly pardoned.
The breathing that had been forcibly stopped resumed, and the heartbeat that had been prohibited by the law also resumed. Every Naga took a greedy deep breath, letting the cold lake water flow through their gills so that oxygen could re-enter their blood vessels.
At this time, Karathreth's magic voice also sounded in Vashj's ears: "My Majesty, I, Karathreth, will be back to protect you immediately--"
"No need, you should focus on attacking the Alliance Fortress in the Twin Towers ruins."
"Your Majesty, but..."
Vashj was obviously angry: "Idiot! Haven't you found the key to the enemy? The enemy can send down two powerful demigods, the key is that magic prism! Mobilize all combat forces and destroy it——"
This anger was not only directed at Karathres, but also at herself.
Beforehand, she really couldn't imagine that relying on the incredibly huge magical power transmission and the souls of two genuine demigods, it was actually possible to project demigod-level combat power across the stars.
The most disgusting thing is that unless she has the special skill of annihilating souls, as long as Duke's magic power is not exhausted, even if her strength is superior to that of the opponent, she can only deal with the fierce attacks of the Twin Emperors again and again in despair.
What's more...is she really stronger than the Twin Emperors?
At some point, a bean-sized bead of sweat dripped down Vashj's temple.
Of course, in a duel between peerless warriors, the most important thing is momentum. Whoever shows weakness first doesn't need to fight and can just surrender.
Vashj's faint laughter once again echoed over the Serpent Temple: "It's no fun to slaughter the weak. Come on, heroes from Azeroth. I, the Fang Queen Vashj, am waiting for you here at the throne."
The Twin Emperors smiled and said, "Lead the way."
Even though the emperor had bent his noble knee to the Duke, the pride and dignity in his heart had never diminished in the slightest.
They could certainly kill all the Nagas who approached them, but if it was not necessary, it would be helpless and humiliating to have their hands stained with the blood of the weak.
The metal platform built on the water ahead made a harsh sound. The metal pillars that were supposed to be permanent buildings began to deform and move under Vashj's mysterious power, and all turned into bridge piers.
The winding platform was straightened at this time, turning into a smooth road leading directly to the Queen's Hall.
The twin emperors leaned back, and a huge insect suddenly appeared out of thin air behind each of them. The throne fixed on the insect's back caught them perfectly.
The insect mount stretched out its long black legs like sickles and ran quickly towards Vashj's throne.
Vashj's throne is located in the easternmost hall of the temple, on a platform built of 27 steps.
The entire platform is surrounded by a circle of green water. If a mortal arrives here, the first thing he has to face is the endless stream of powerful aquatic creatures such as water elementals, nagas, swamp striders, etc. in the green water before he can step onto that terrifying platform.
Today, the throne was silent, with only a pool of green water at the same level as the throne platform. Even the platform was submerged in water. If a human stood on the platform, they would have to face the knee-deep water.
The twin emperors got off the beetle. The water was only ankle-deep for them.
"Welcome to the Serpent Temple, the twin emperors of the Qiraji, Vek'lor and Vek'nilash." A subtle smile appeared on Vashj's face, and at the same time, she opened her six seemingly petite arms.
"We bring the ultimatum from our Lord Edmund Duke!"
"Surrender or perish!"
The twin emperors sang in unison.
The three opponents of the Naga Queen were in different situations. The bottom one was standing with her hands on her hips, the middle one was holding up the elbows of the top one, and Vashj's long hair turned into a terrifying living snake, twisting its body left and right and spitting out its tongue non-stop.
A playful smile appeared on Vashj's delicate face.
"Rude fellows! Are you really the men of Edmund Duke, who is willing to give priority to fighting the Burning Legion even if he doesn't care about letting go of the Horde, his great enemy? If the political wisdom of the Qiraji Emperor is only at this level, I will be very disappointed."
The Twin Emperors were a little confused. After all, the Qiraji generally used a more direct way of thinking. The nature of obeying the strong was imprinted deep in their souls. Therefore, even the Twin Emperors could not understand the deeper meaning of Vashj.
Vashj continued to talk to herself: "Women never like to suffer losses. Oh my! You still need to practice your mindset towards women!"
The twin emperors were not annoyed either.
"Send who is suitable for what task, this is a compulsory course for those in power."
"If we try our best and still fail, it proves that the enemy is beyond our master's imagination, or that the master made a wrong choice."
"There is only one thing we need to do from beginning to end—"
"Then I'll take care of you!"
Vashj's lips curled up in a playful way. "If I met you guys somewhere else, I would probably be beaten to a pulp... But, here - in this world full of water, you little frogs who haven't even cleaned their tails are beating up a snake girl like me... Isn't that a bit too arrogant?"
After saying that, a burst of light shot out from Vashj's six arms at the same time, and in the blink of an eye, all six arms were filled with weapons.
The top pair of arms each held a magic wand.
A longbow engraved with countless complex magic patterns appeared in the hand on her left middle hand.
The bottom pair of arms held a pair of daggers in typical night elf style.
To say that she was armed to the teeth was no exaggeration.
In a flash, Vashj, who was clearly the weaker party, took the initiative to attack.
"Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh… huh!"
There were clearly seven arrows in a row, but the first three were so powerful and violent that the twin emperors were blinded by the strong lightning. However, it was the last four arrows that really killed him.
Each arrow was like a shadow of the previous three arrows, silently circling a strange arc and sinking into the water in front of Vashj without even a splash. In the end, it suddenly shot out from the water behind Emperor Veklor and shot fiercely at Emperor Veklor's waist.
Everything was perfect, but unfortunately she chose the wrong target for her plot.
As the Demon King, Viclor is immune to physical attacks!
"Dangdangdang!"
"cut!"
Even though she didn't get direct feedback from the touch, Vashj had already realized that the other party actually had the characteristic of Physical Immunity. This discovery made Vashj quite unhappy.
When she launched an attack on the Demon Emperor, the Twin Emperors' counterattack came as expected.
The Demon King's gift is a Shadow Arrow that is so thick that it can be used as a cruiser's mast!
The Sword Emperor's counterattack was a powerful forward slash, and with a strong kick of his left foot, his huge body had already crossed a distance of fifty meters. Vicnilas wielded the huge Qiraji Emperor Sword and launched a three-stage slash with incredible speed.
"Crack, crack, crack!" Three swords moved in succession, drawing a Z shape in the air.
After all, there was no special technique in the Sword Emperor's three swords, they were just like those swung by any skilled swordsman.
If there is any characteristic, it is - fast!
It's so fast that I can't keep up!
It's crazy fast!
It is totally unexpected that such a huge body can have agility that surpasses most heroic thieves.
If one fails to dodge in time, Vashj may turn into snake blocks on the spot and can be used to make snake soup.
Another demigod would have been caught.
You have to know that if the Twin Emperors abandon their moral principles and focus on fighting two against one, it would be very shameless. One is immune to magic, the other is immune to physical attacks, and they both have the Healing Brothers that can be used by each other.
Regardless of whether we can defeat them, just competing with them is already very difficult.
Because they are working together in a small area, the two brothers can completely cover each other and use their own characteristics to deal with each other's moves.
It's like a powerful magic move is launched at you, and the Sword Emperor takes it head-on. What would you do?
Although their lives are connected, you must first attack with the correct posture, oh, method.
This requires their enemies to be more versatile.
Coincidentally, Vashj is such a demigod who practices both magic and martial arts.
Faced with the three consecutive kills, Vashj didn't think twice and twisted her real slender waist, raising or retracting her arms, making her body and limbs into a beautiful S shape, allowing the Qila Emperor Sword to flash past her and her side with a cold glow.
The timing was so clever that it didn't seem like a life-and-death fight, but rather like an exchange of moves between a master and a disciple.
The moment she avoided the edge of the greatsword, Vashj's counterattack followed. The gorgeous longbow was raised almost at zero distance, and the hand in the middle right had three arrows on one string, and was about to shoot.
Under normal circumstances, Vik'nilash should have pressed forward and launched an attack before Vashkira could draw his bow.
It's a pity that Vashj doesn't have only one pair of hands!
The pair of arms holding the daggers below threw the thief skill Fan of Knives at Viknilas with great force.
Not two!
Instead, dozens of epic daggers formed a standard arc in mid-air, making a sound like a death scream, and stabbed straight at Vicnilas.
Even for range attack moves, the attack power is often not too high.
All Vashj wanted was that moment of isolation.
Veknilas couldn't hide even if he wanted to.
After all, how could it be so easy to dodge the moves of a demigod-level warrior?
The Sword King frowned and could only step back to avoid the sharp edge of the Blade Fan, letting the row of sharp blades with terrifying power flash past him. As soon as he stopped, Vashj had already strung her bow, and three sharp arrows were shot out at a distance not much farther than zero.
The Sword Emperor was worthy of being the Sword Emperor. He swung his Qila Emperor Sword diagonally, and two sharp arrows containing thunder were knocked away.
Because of his immunity to magic, the power of thunder could not hurt the Sword Emperor at all.
He tilted his head to avoid the third arrow.
Originally, the Sword Emperor thought that this was the whole of the attack, but in fact it was not.
Before he realized it, Demon King Veklor had unknowingly come behind him. Vashj, Sword King, and Demon King were just in a straight line.
The thunder arrow that should have been shot away actually drew a small arc in the air and shot towards the Demon King's face.
This time, the twin emperors were finally surprised. They had never expected that the arrow that seemed to have been shot away could attack again, especially although the thunder power contained in the arrow completely overwhelmed the natural resistance of the Demon Emperor. If this demigod-level attack really hit, the Demon Emperor would definitely be seriously injured.
With no other choice, Viclor had to stop the next magical attack and use his staff to summon a more powerful magic shield to block his face.
only...
Vashj's continuous attacks haven't ended yet!
No one noticed that her long snake tail had grown longer silently.
Just as the Demon Emperor blocked the arrow, the snake's tail, like a noose, accurately and ruthlessly wrapped around the Demon Emperor's right foot. The snake twisted its waist, and the Demon Emperor's huge body flew out and was smashed into the deep pool beside the throne platform.
It is true that Veklor is immune to physical attacks and will not hurt him, but that does not mean that he will not be thrown away!
Until this moment, the pair of arms holding magic wands on Vashj released powerful magic, defeating the Shadow Arrow released by the Demon King but lost the control of its master.
Vashj wins the first round!
In Karazhan, the women around Duke gasped when they saw this scene.
"Vashj... so strong!" Jaina's face turned pale, but she had to admit the fact - if she and Vashj were to fight one-on-one, she probably wouldn't be able to last half a round. This was not only a difference in rank, but also a difference in combat experience and fighting style.
Vashj hadn't used any big moves yet, but with just her perfect combination of magic and martial arts attacks, she had already inflicted heavy losses on such a powerful demigod combination as the Twin Emperors.
Duke smiled bitterly: "Multiple Attacks is really a talent!"
If Multiple Casting can be achieved with some effort, then Multiple Attacks, which allows one to face multiple opponents of the same level without fear, is something that cannot be practiced.
Duke suddenly felt eager: If Vashj is really Celica, and is willing to hang out with me, and I can deal with Jaina, then...
Right now, Duke doesn't have much time to dwell on that.
After all, he and Celega were not like Tyrande, who had been in love for a long time. Even if they were destined to be together, it was an ill fate that had existed for ten thousand years. Before renewing their relationship, they should act according to the standards of both sides.
In the magic mirror, the second round has already begun.
The Demon King, who was thrown far away, was about to climb out of the water when he ran into some unexpected troubles.
Originally, Vashj would summon several Swamp Striders on the throne platform. These creatures looked very much like jellyfish, with a flying saucer-shaped body and long legs like slender tentacles.
Unexpectedly, because no one attacked the other core areas in Panya Reservoir, Vashj captured the leaders of several core areas in the reservoir and served as soldiers.
The Black Strider, a Strider leader with extraordinary abilities, used his superpowers to lift up the Demon King Veklor who had jumped out of the water.
This move Float was very similar to the priest's Float, but it had characteristics beyond magic. Veklor could cast spells and attack, but he could not control his body and let it float high off the ground, reaching a height of more than 200 meters, almost hitting the top wall of the Serpent Temple.
The Black Strider's Lightning Arrows and the Demon King's various magics crackled in the air, bombarding each other like a fireworks show.
Neither of them caused any harm to the other, but they bought some time for Vashj.
Over there, Vashj actually suppressed the Sword Emperor.
I have to say, having more arms is a big deal.
As soon as she saw the Demon King being forced to leave, Vashj quickly replaced the weapons in her upper arms with two long swords, and moved forward to force the Sword King into close combat.
If it were an ordinary duel, the Sword Emperor would dare to say that he was absolutely not inferior to any opponent of the same level.
The point is that Vashj's multiple attacks are fucking disgusting.
Six arms and a long tail that appears and disappears mysteriously are not enough, even the hair is an extremely sharp weapon. Seventy or eighty snake hairs are equivalent to seventy or eighty deadly poisonous snakes.
If it was just a poisonous snake, the Sword Emperor would be no match for him, because he was no longer an ordinary creature, but a true elemental creature.
But these poisonous snakes have been adjusted by Vashj. Even if a legendary hero-level warrior is bitten by one, if his equipment is not up to standard, he will probably lie down on the spot.
There were so many poisonous snakes, and each one simply arched its body and then shot out to bite the Sword Emperor. Because the movements of the snakes were so fast, they actually created an illusion similar to a machine gun fire.
What kind of fighting style is this?
The Sword Emperor was using a greatsword, which was completely useless against this kind of close-range, rapid and fierce attack.
In just less than a second of fierce attack, the Twin Emperors' health dropped by one-tenth.
It is true that they are elemental creatures now, and as long as the magic network has enough elemental magic supply, they are immortal.
Of course, they could defeat Vashj by exchanging injuries for injuries and draining blood, but if they had a choice, they would never use this method.
Unable to defeat Vashj within their original vitality, especially in a two-on-one situation, that would be their failure.
Their pride would not allow them to achieve such an ugly victory. In addition, they were sensitive enough to find that Duke did not seem to want to kill Vashj, which further irritated their nerves.
This was their first battle after joining Duke. If they couldn't win beautifully, then even if other demigods joined instead of Vashj, where would they be able to stand?
The twin emperors are in tune with each other.
At the same moment, the two emperors attacked together.
The Demon King raised his hand, and a fire elemental that looked like Ragnaros appeared in front of him. However, it did not have the Fire Hammer, but had two claws burning with blazing flames, and each claw was almost the size of a round table.
The Fire Elemental Giant's claws slammed on the ground with a "bang". A circle of flames spread out from the center of the Fire Elemental's palm.
A cloud of scorching hot steam suddenly rose up around the Panfang Throne, which was originally extremely humid.
Under the extremely high temperature, the appearance of water vapor only took a blink of an eye. Soon the entire platform turned into a world of fire burning with red sparks.
At this moment, the fire element was not only covered in flames. The five-story-tall Black Strider was huge enough, but now the size of this fire element was rapidly expanding, almost four times the size of the Black Strider.
Its huge body almost filled the entire Panfang Throne, and as it launched its attack, the flames gushing out from both sides of its body even scorched the top wall above the throne and the easternmost wall.
The Black Strider, which was originally a small boss after all, let out a terrible wail and turned into charcoal under its brutal collision, and was finally swallowed by the flames, as if it was the fuel that made this blazing world of flames even more violent.
"Oh?" Vashj was neither surprised nor angry, but sneered instead.
In this underwater space filled with water on all sides, how dare the other party play with fire with her?
Are you tired of living?
Or is it looking for death?
Without hesitation, the huge wall behind Vashj's throne suddenly made a loud "crack" sound, and then the entire wall shattered. In the huge hole as big as a football field, thousands of tons of seawater gushed in every second.
Of course, the fire element world just now was destroyed by the even more terrifying nature.
"Gurgle! Gurgle..." The fire elemental giant that was still showing its fangs and claws a moment ago, but when it opened its mouth and actually sprayed bubbles out of its mouth, everything was over.
In the water level that was rising rapidly visibly, in the water world that was almost like a raging tide, Vashj swayed her slender dark green snake tail, and the bow and arrow in her hand had been replaced by a glittering golden trident.
"Hehehe! I didn't want to use this trick to bully you so early. It's a pity that you are too ignorant to use fire in my water world..." The voice was as clear as a wind chime, full of evil teasing.
If it were on land, Vashj would be defeated miserably in a matter of minutes.
But this is nearly a thousand meters deep under water!
No matter how powerful the Qiraji Twin Emperors are, even with the support of the Demon Network, can they evaporate hundreds of square kilometers of Serpent Lake in an instant?
Then they are not demigods, but absolutely true gods who possess the throne of Draenor!
Unfortunately, in this broken world, where can the true God come from?
Vashj thought she would see expressions of shock and anger on the faces of the Twin Emperors.
She was disappointed.
Sword King Vek'nilas raised his sword.
Demon King Veklor stood with his hands behind his back.
Their behavior is definitely not normal.
Sure enough, the next second, Vashj suddenly discovered that the water temperature had changed.
It was a high-speed descent like falling off a cliff.
At first there were only ice fragments mixed in the water, but in the blink of an eye, everything within the field of vision began to freeze.
The pool surrounding the throne platform, the elite men led by the Black Strider, the solid platform... the rising water level made the surrounding ice walls taller and taller, pointing directly to the over 200-meter-high dome of the Serpent Temple.
The Twin Emperors' goal is to freeze the entire Serpent Temple! ?
This time, it was Vashj's turn to be shocked!
"Practicing both magic and martial arts? Sounds good." The Sword Emperor sneered.
"But no matter which one, you are not the best!" The Demon King sneered as well.
"You can overpower me in close combat."
"Your attainments in natural magic are also superior to mine."
"but..."
"Although you appear to be a strong water element, your real strength is only in the nature element, not the ice element!" The Demon King gave the answer incisively.
Vashj's expression finally changed.
It is true that she is an intelligence hero, and she also has extraordinary magical attainments, but unfortunately it is only the nature system based on thunder.
She is not a mage in the traditional sense.
Perhaps she can surpass the Demon King in the nature system, but when it comes to the frost system involving water, she is not as good as Viclor.
The Demon Emperor dug a big pit for her to jump into!
In World of Warcraft, perhaps it is a case of one patch becoming a new god, among so many professions, the mage has always had the reputation of being the best.
Why?
It is because of the infinite possibilities of shaping magic that the mage is endowed with numerous control and situation-control skills.
No matter what kind of severe situation, the wizard can always find the corresponding magic to deal with the enemy.
Now Vashj is in such a situation where she suffers because her magic is too simple.
In terms of single combat, Vashj, who became a naga, has been in various intrigues or battles since 10,000 years ago. It is unknown when she started to abandon Queen Azshara and go solo.
We can only infer from the results that the amount of blood and sweat that Vashj put in to become the lineage of the Naga second only to Queen Azshara in power is absolutely unimaginable to others.
It's not about choosing a genius from a group of idiots, but about carving out a bloody path among a large group of insidious and cunning compatriots who have powerful spellcasting abilities.
So whether in terms of combat level or experience, Vashj is definitely superior to any of the twin emperors.
After all, the Qiraji insect people have been basically in a sealed state for more than 20,000 years, or the Battle of Quicksand only allowed the miscellaneous soldiers to show up, and then they were sealed again.
The pampered twin emperors are no match for Vashj when separated.
When the two brothers are put together, it's another story.
Only with the protection of the Sword Emperor could the Demon Emperor cast his spell safely.
Looking at the ice all around her, Vashj immediately realized that her situation was not good.
The natural thunder element has become much thinner!
It is easy to explain from a scientific perspective.
Any water containing impurities is a good conductor because there are a large number of freely moving trace ions in the water. It is these ions that form a certain concentration, which enables the positive and negative ions in the water to move in a certain direction when a certain voltage (usually very small) exists, thus generating electric current.
When the voltage is not high or normal, if there are no other impurities in the ice or it has not been contaminated, generally speaking, it can be understood that the ice is non-conductive; but if the ice has been contaminated or encounters very strong high voltage electricity, it can still conduct electricity.
What people usually call insulators are relative. Even insulating plastics will still conduct electricity when they encounter extremely high voltages.
Vashj is in such a situation now. If she forcibly uses Thunder, it is not impossible, but the power will be greatly reduced, and the consumption of magic power will increase exponentially.
However, she had no other choice.
If she allowed the Demon Emperor to continue freezing the entire Serpent Temple, no, even just the Coiled Throne, then her doom would be here.
Ice is solid, and with such abundant water, the Demon King can use ice to suppress her activity space at will. This is another suppression for Vashj, who relies on agility in addition to intelligence.
That was driving her to death.
Suddenly, Vashj raised her six arms high, with all six palms facing upwards.
The bright lightning coming from afar was reflected in the thick and solid ice layer that looked like glass.
A full second passed before a series of muffled thunder could be heard faintly in the distance.
There was a "cracking" sound coming from the huge layer of ice. There was no doubt that the ice layer created by the Demon Emperor with his surging magic power was shattering like glass layer by layer, and then collapsing from the outside to the inside.
The sound was so astonishingly loud that the crowd of spectators in Karazhan who were watching the scene through the magic mirror couldn't help but gasp in amazement.
At the scene, the sound of the ice peeling off was almost deafening.
In the field of vision, dazzling bolts of lightning were like invisible giant war hammers, slamming heavily on the ice.
The sound of "crashing" was almost like glass breaking, and was quickly swallowed up by the rushing lake water. Mixed with ice debris, the lake water rushed towards the throne platform with a devastating momentum.
Veklor frowned and put his hands together. The space around him suddenly burst into a bright light. It was the expansion of the frost elemental domain. With the last step under the platform as the boundary, it attempted to use a smaller range but higher concentration of frost elements to divide the battle platform and the Serpent Temple into different elemental worlds.
"It's not that easy!" Vashj risked having her tail chopped off by the Sword Emperor, knocking the Sword Emperor away and pounced on the Demon Emperor.
Little did she know that these two brothers had the unique skill of Twin Teleportation!
In a flash, I had to face the interception of the Sword Emperor again.
Unconsciously, she and the Twin Emperors had reached a stalemate. She knew very well that if she continued to fight, she would definitely lose!
Vashj couldn't help but let out a scream.
The whistling sound spread far away.
At this moment, in the Twin Towers ruins fortress, the Allied forces who were fighting fiercely suddenly discovered that the enemy's offensive had suddenly become more fierce.
Countless Nagas seemed to have entered a state of frenzy, attacking frantically.
"Why are these guys suddenly going crazy?!" Broll Bearpelt, who had transformed into a war bear, was on the fortress wall. He slapped a male Naga down with his bear paw. Seeing that the guy's stomach was broken and his intestines were all over the ground, he actually propped himself up like crazy and continued to climb up as if from the corpses of his compatriots to charge into the fortress.
That's right, outside the makeshift fortress, there was already a sea of blood and corpses.
Countless bodies of murlocs were piled up on the beach by the water, all the way to the nearly ten-meter-high wall. Even with this slope, the Naga side still couldn't attack directly because the entire mountain of corpses was surrounded by flames from the flamethrowers.
Don't expect this volcano to go out until all the flammable liquids are burned out.
Generally speaking, this is true.
But above the conventional combat power, there are also hero-level strongmen and leader-level monsters.
The powerful fighting force that was sent away by Vashj is actually all pressed down on the Twin Towers Fortress!
Fishzilla - a huge strange fish with a face similar to that of a male Naga, is the hidden boss of the Serpent Temple.
It is not very powerful in itself, but its Water Arrow and Fountain special skills have become the magic weapon to suppress the Alliance's flamethrower.
Under its powerful water spray, the flames that could not be extinguished by water were washed away by the strong water flow along with the fire and oil.
Although it could not leave the deep water area, with its strong support, the Serpent Temple and the bosses of several areas under Vashj were able to kill their way over and attack the fortress's defense line.
The small bosses in the Slave Pens, Steam Cellar, and Dark Swamp, led by several powerful men from the Serpent Shrine, fought with the heroes of the Alliance and the Horde.
"Hold on!" Thrall roared. He had just knocked the Marshal Kalitheris away with a hammer, and was almost tricked by the water mage Thespiia.
Since 15 years after the Dark Portal, when Illidan lost to Arthas in Northrend in the north and was forced to retreat to Draenor in Outland, Illidan has been painstakingly managing the territory of Outland.
For eight years, Vashj held tight control over Zangarmarsh.
There is a saying that goes, whoever controls the water source will be invincible in a desperate situation.
Vashj used the high-tech from the Draenei to build a large number of water pumps to extract water resources from the entire Outland, and also gathered a large number of elite aquatic soldiers and generals.
At the beginning, some powerful members of some tribes thought that it was an overreaction to gather all the powerful members of the Alliance and the Hordes in the outside world to defend the city.
When all of Vashj's powerful men came out, the coalition forces realized that they were extremely lucky to be able to take advantage of the other side's contempt and build a small fortress on the shore early.
Apart from giant monsters like Yuzilla that can only stay in deep water, there are also three-headed snake Ghazan from the Dark Swamp, swamp giant Hogarfin, mechanic Styrig and so on.
The biggest feature of these guys is their huge size.
If any one of them were to fight against the coalition's heroes in single combat, the heroes would definitely be able to kill them as long as they were given enough time.
The problem is that they appear together.
It's like a tank charge. If a tank comes alone, there are a hundred ways to deal with it. The simplest one is to go around it from behind and then launch a fatal attack in the blind spot of the opponent's sight.
When a tank group charges, they are unstoppable and have no way to escape.
Without this fortress as a support, the coalition forces would most likely be defeated by the terrifying attack of a group of giant beast leaders of the enemy, and then be hunted down all over the mountains and plains in the swamps, and be caught up and killed one by one like ducks.
However, having extremely strong city walls is a different matter.
At first, the engineers didn't understand why they had to add a lot of triangular steel brackets as auxiliary supports behind the temporary wall. When the Naga drove the fishmen to fill the slope with corpses and pave the passage, everyone understood.
Never underestimate the enemy's strength and madness!
After the first layer of the city wall was breached, the arrow tower, which was specially designed to have no entrance to the city wall and was almost completely sealed, continued to pour out javelins and crossbows. The special bastion design could well resist the bombardment of artillery and heavy weapons, and even allow the artillery in the second layer of defense tower to directly bombard it without any hesitation. Anyway, the enemy would definitely die.
The open space between the first and second floors of the fortress's walls became the most horrific slaughterhouse.
Vashj's men would never have thought that after the Alliance built the city wall, they would still have time to use the excavator to perform the Blue Flying stunt, digging thirty-six large pits with a depth of more than 20 meters around the inner city wall in such a short time, waiting for the giant monsters on Vashj's side to fall in.
It was filled with discarded steel bars that looked like barbs. Most of these were leftover scraps from fortress construction and other projects, and now they were perfectly used as traps.
For example, the swamp giant Hogarfin, had just rushed over the city wall with big strides, stepping on the corpses of murlocs, and then he fell into the pit with a plop.
There is a two-meter-wide road between each pit for the coalition soldiers to evacuate. This width is enough even for the tauren, but for the swamp giant boss whose foot diameter is more than two meters, it is worse than walking on a tightrope.
Hogarfen fell to the ground in a very embarrassing manner and was pierced into a specimen by dozens of protruding steel bars.
"Roar--" The giant, who was taller than five stories, let out a shrill howl.
Although it was extremely painful, it was not a fatal injury to the swamp giant with extremely strong vitality.
At this moment, Varian jumped high, raised his two increasingly famous artifact swords Sharator (Shadow Ripper) and Eremeni (Shadow Reaver), and stabbed Hogarfen's throat with both swords at the same time.
One red and one blue, two bright rays of light extended from the futuristic curved sword blade in his hand, instantly piercing the swamp giant's throat and going straight into his brain.
The swamp giant is not a low-intelligence creature like the slime monster. Once its brain is destroyed, it will die instantly.
Not every hero has the attack power of Varian. Without two artifact swords to clear the way, you may end up being defeated instead of being able to defeat your enemy.
Over there, Fandral Staghelm was unlucky and ran into the three-headed snake Ghaz'an. This super monster with a lizard-like lower body swept its huge tail like a battering ram and hit Fandral hard. The violent impact knocked him out like a high fly ball and slammed him into the outer steel wall of the fortress wall. If he had not been able to transform himself from a giant bear to a human form, he would have been like "slap someone against the wall and you can't get him out even if you try to get him out."
While Fandral was distracting Ghazian, Lirath Windrunner took a one-legged stance. She held the bowstring tightly with both hands, and with her long legs, which were second only to her sisters, she stretched out a two-meter-long super bow that looked like an English longbow.
It takes so much physical effort to pull the arrow open, so naturally, the arrows used would not be ordinary arrows. Those are crossbow arrows used in crossbows that have almost been eliminated by the times.
Everyone has discovered that high-explosive bombs are the right choice for small monsters. Armor-piercing bombs are OK for ordinary elite monsters, but the bosses coming out of the Panya Reservoir all have a layer of water elemental armor, which greatly weakens the power of explosive weapons.
Compared to the overwhelming firepower of the flying battleships overhead, more primitive weapon attacks are more effective against this thick-skinned and thick-fleshed monster.
This time, Lirath fired a crossbow arrow and nailed one of Ghazan's three heads to the base of a half-collapsed arrow tower.
"Ah——"
The three-headed snake leader is not afraid of getting hurt, but is very afraid of attacks that restrict its movements. Without three heads attacking from multiple angles at the same time, its slow movements will further reduce its success rate of attack.
It let out a shrill wail, and a thick, sour smell gushed out from its mouth. The mere smell of it would make a mortal feel dizzy.
Any giant monster would be terrifying when it went crazy. When it rushed into the fortress, it was already seriously injured after several rounds of full-force bombardment by Cannon fodder because of its large size and slow crawling speed.
Although Ghaz'an was a low-ranking boss in the entire Outland, the monster's dying blow was still quite terrifying. The other two heads that were not nailed down were all pointed up to the sky, and the terrible Acid Spray swept an arc of nearly 180 degrees in the air.
This spray covered almost half of the low altitude on the battlefield.