strictlysupreme Chapter 586 The War of the Internet
Chapter 586 The War of the Internet
Regardless, Lilith was convinced that the exit lay ahead, the exit they had been searching for.
On the map, the Beastmaster's words all prove that the road ahead is correct.
Lorraine insisted on turning back to verify her suspicions.
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Lorraine suddenly stopped, like a rebellious child who wouldn't listen to adults. Lilith, annoyed, just kept walking forward... ignoring Lorraine's warnings, she was disgusted by the slowpoke.
Lorraine had no choice but to immediately dispatch a team of her underlings to enter the Avenue of Stars ahead of her.
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To be honest, the underground Fiery Rift is extremely hot, dark, and oppressive...
Even the Forsaken, accustomed to sleeping in coffins, dislike hellish environments, especially with lurking enemies and dangers... Lilith had long wanted to leave. She had originally been eager to explore Ragefire Chasm, but upon entering, she found it to be nothing special...
Even the one that the president had repeatedly warned against waking up... was directly blasted into pieces by Lorraine, and Lilith seemed to find it pointless.
Once the initial excitement wore off, even a dangerous being like Garona seemed to have been dealt with by Lorraine's three seemingly appearing underlings. Lilith realized that the infamous Ragefire Rift, the dangerous area her brother had always forbidden her from entering, was nothing special.
So what if there's a demon?
So what if there are lava dogs?
Isn't it just a possibility of getting lost in the underground abyss?
All you need is Lorraine by your side, and everything will be easily solved...
The undead girl was so oblivious; she had no idea what dangers Lorraine had gone through to defeat that lava behemoth that even a whole regiment couldn't kill...
Just like most girls, she has no concept of money, no awareness of the importance of making sacrifices, and thinks that money comes easily and that everyone can live happily.
Anyway, someone will feed them...
Anyway, as long as you work hard, you can reach the pinnacle of life...
If you're unhappy, I'll just serve you noodles. The most important thing in life is to be happy...
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The instinct for life and death is ingrained in the bones of hunters, especially death hunters. Lorraine couldn't help but think of another independent individual, an assassin belonging to the Queen's undead sentinel force, [Chrysanthemum Tea].
That kid also had an eccentric personality and looked down on everyone at first.
Viewing everyone as prey, only prey will become complacent...
It's been almost half a month since I left Dalaran. What has Chrysanthemum Tea been up to? Is she also going through life and death, completing secret missions to eliminate dissidents for the Queen, or is she like most of the death hunters in Undercity, hunting down their targets everywhere?
Her Majesty often said, "What are we if not suffering slaves? Anyone who stands in our way must die!"
The Death Hunters and Undead Sentinels, along with the Royal Terror Guards and the Hand of Vengeance, the Defiler Legion, the Gravekeeper Force, and the Shadow Ranger Guard, all carried out this order.
I had once considered joining the elusive undead assassin squad, but my teacher said that Lorraine's personality wasn't suited to be a thief, even though she could have been a well-rounded warrior, a melee mage wielding a hammer...
It's been several days since I left Undercity, and time is running out!
Gritting his teeth, Lorraine knew Lilith was right, and quickly led his men to follow. In the tunnel ahead, the gems shone even brighter and more dazzling—emerald green, blood red, azure blue, purple, and golden yellow...
Lorraine even considered stopping and prying them off the wall; they looked quite valuable.
Rows upon rows of precious gemstones: rubies, emeralds, citrine, chrysoberyl, jade, shadowstone, tiger's eye, malachite, green agate, moonstone, Azerothian diamonds...
Mixed in were some things Lorraine didn't recognize, and each one was dazzling.
This is worth far more than the foundations we dug out in Ambermill back then. I remember I also had a windfall at the time, but after all this fuss, it seems like a lot of the gems were lost in that battle.
Losing three days of memory felt like being robbed while hungover. Upon closer inspection of his pockets, he realized that many things were missing, and he hadn't had time to organize many materials and scrolls. All the fighting and killing along the way had made him seem to have forgotten a lot.
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"The gemstone can't be removed... it's soldered shut, what a pity."
Someone has already tried it; it's none other than Lilith.
She shook her head, looking at Lorraine...
The gems here act like natural lighting fixtures; something sustains them, rendering ordinary destruction completely ineffective. Even if Lorraine ordered Yegosh and the other two to take turns smashing the walls with their weapons, attempting to forcefully break through and obtain the gems would be futile.
An ancient power guards this tunnel.
Even the three powerful Death Knights couldn't budge the gem wall in the slightest; Lorraine and Lilith felt a pang of regret...
Soon, they will both be horrified by their own actions...
I almost thought the cave was going to collapse.
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Lorraine didn't turn back. He was determined to dig for treasure. Following his teacher's principle that a thief should never leave empty-handed, he and Lilith shared the same goal: to find the gems on the wall.
Unfortunately, it soon backfired...
Perhaps some mechanism was activated, or perhaps the Death Knight's powerful strike triggered a mechanism.
Lorraine and Lilith could tell that the exit was not far away, probably only a few hundred meters away.
This place, which seemed close, had actually been a very long time to travel, at least several hours, yet they still couldn't get close. Even so, the team, driven by the evil intention of digging for treasure, soon had no choice but to speed up their run.
The entire Stone Man Tunnel began to tremble violently as the gem wall was attacked...
Lilith and Lorraine exchanged a glance and knew they'd gotten themselves into trouble...
Is a temple escape scenario unfolding?
No no no...
After the thieves were discovered, the man and woman blushed and hurriedly fled. In reality, their two deathly pale faces weren't truly bloodless; they simply sensed a strong tremor and were convinced they were about to be buried alive. Regardless of whether their henchmen could keep up, they consciously sped up their escape...
As he ran, Lorraine suddenly stopped again.
Seeing Lorraine stop, and his henchmen follow suit, Lilith was furious... and quickly yelled, "You're going back? The cave's going to collapse!"
"What are you looking at...?"
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"What's that?" It was something a maniac, someone who'd always utter such things, especially the fear of alarms. There were terrifying sentinels with the Eye of the Dead, the Eye of the Ghost, the Eye of Kilrogg...
Lilith felt a chill run down her spine and involuntarily looked up.
She then realized why Lorraine had stopped.
The tunnel's vibrations weren't caused by Lorraine and Lilith's violent attempt to remove the gem, but rather by the image displayed overhead...
As if to dispel the concerns of the plague messenger Lorraine, or as if to prove their identities, Lorraine and Lilith were surprised to find that after the great tremor, the entire illuminated corridor of the Gem Tunnel became dazzling and transparent, and soon they could see a magical sight when they looked up.
The environment around Lorraine and Lilith became blurred and transparent.
It was as if they were surrounded by countless meteorite belts, finding themselves in a bizarre river of time, where a single glance upwards revealed a distant battle scene...
If Ragefire Chasm was merely a portal to a fissure discovered by chance within the underground city of Orgrimmar, then deep within Ragefire Chasm, at the point where Lorraine and the Beastmaster parted ways, in the secret ancient ruins where the giant maw of the stone golem once stood open, the entrance to the Land of Fire is now wide open, and countless fire demons of varying sizes, resembling creatures from the elemental plane, are attacking one after another...
Among them were not only hellhounds, lava hounds, various rock creatures, and volcanic giants, all emerging from one crack after another...
Wave after wave.
The Beast King, leading three colossal beasts—a giant bear, a wild boar, and a giant eagle—fought alone against all sides...
Behind him, the legendary swordsman of the Fireblade clan, a fellow resembling Musaro, with a burning banner on his back, guarded a rift alone, ready to slay any elementals or beasts that peeked out from within with his fiery blades—including fireflies, hellish imps, and shadow demons...
When faced with tough opponents, the Sword Saint activates his clone form... When faced with too many monsters, he unleashes his true Blade Storm, spinning wildly through the horde.
The other gaps were also guarded by different groups of people. A goblin harvester, like a Gundam, was slaying rock giants. Wave after wave of attacking monsters were repelled, and these heroes often only had brief moments to catch their breath...
Fortunately, it seems that there are people taking turns to guard the network and prevent the real abyssal monsters from emerging.
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