strictlysupreme Chapter 529 The Heart of the Demon
Chapter 529 The Heart of the Demon
The Shadow Rift solved Thrall's problem, and he soon received the news.
The riots ended, and martial law was lifted three days later.
Orgrimmar returned to its usual bustling state, and the lurking crisis vanished once again. The only result was that the captured assassins yielded no information; they were like walking corpses, soulless puppets.
This tactic has a touch of the Shadow Mage style, and the identity of the enemy behind it is self-evident.
Witnessing the power of the Shadows once again, the Warchief's worries deepened. He was always reluctant to give up the power of the Shadow Council, yet he could not trust these orc warlocks who were willing to serve as demon servants.
Just as he needs allies among the Forsaken and the Blood Elves, the Forsaken themselves are synonymous with evil, and the Blood Elves are notorious for their fickle nature, believing in the supremacy of power.
In essence, orcs, trolls, blood elves, and even the Forsaken—these special undead groups—all believe in power, blood, and glory... Although they are distinctly different races and forces with vastly different appearances, they are indeed part of the core of the Horde's spirit.
The Minotaur are an odd exception. They love peace but are often bullied and forced to fight. They are also representatives of wildness and nature, and believe in the deception of Mother Earth.
Who is Mother Earth?
Elemental spirits, ancestral souls?
Tauren shamans and orc shamans share some similarities, but there are still significant differences between them... Among the Tauren, there are also some druids who have been guided by the forest god, so it is understandable that they have shifted their faith in Mother Earth to the balance of nature spirits.
The true Mother Earth is most likely... the Stone Mother Therazane, the mother of Princess Maraudon!
The ancestors of centaurs and tauren were very likely a union of life and earth, with the earth represented by the earth elemental lord, Stonemother... and life represented by the lineage of the druid gods, forest gods, white stag gods, and the moon goddess Elune...
The entirety of Kalimdor, the land of shimmering stars, the area once covered by the World Tree, is the domain of life...
Night Elves, Tauren, Centaurs, and other native races of Azeroth are the Children of Life...
Their contradictions and struggles, their alliances and beliefs, and their innate closeness.
Thrall's orcs were outsiders, the orcs of the new Horde, who could only survive in the Barrens and the wastelands of Durotar, and had to constantly face counterattacks and harassment from the quilboars.
The human settlers on Theramore, located in Dustwallow Marsh, are also stirring. Dustwallow Marsh is teeming with dragonkin and wild beasts, making it unsuitable for habitation. Their only path to expansion is southward into the desert, below Thousand Needles, through the Shimmering Flats, and into the Tanaris desert, where human sand bandits and pirates have long been active...
Thrall had too many things to consider: the interests and value of his allies, the intensity of the conflict with the night elves, and his relationship with Jaina, the human refugee...
In contrast, before people's lives improve, he doesn't want to bother with the remnants of the Shadow Council, as long as they don't go too far. These are the unpopular demon servants and traitors.
He easily assigned the task of finding the traitor to the idle foot soldiers...
This is an attitude and a kind of wisdom...
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Lorraine followed Lilith into the Ragefire Rift without looking back, and when she looked back, she was already quite a distance from the entrance.
Upon entering the Rift of Fury, the world transformed into a crimson wasteland, with lava constantly churning. Several forks in the road branched off from the scorching rock passages in the distance. Lilith, familiar with the area, led Lorraine around several monstrous insects and stone elementals, climbing to a relatively level path...
Lilith finally stopped, and looked down, searching for something on the rock face...
Lorraine followed her into the orcs' exile. Having held it in the whole way, he finally couldn't help but speak up: "Hey, Miss Lilith! Why did we have to come to this godforsaken place? I just wanted to hide with you temporarily, how did you end up here? Is it too late for us to get out now?"
Lilith turned her back to Lorraine and carefully explored the rock wall, ignoring Lorraine's questions.
Having witnessed the fiery temper of the undead Lilith, and seeing that she didn't respond, the rootless Lorraine helplessly stuck out his tongue and sat down on the stone steps, even though the temperature of the stone steps was comparable to that of a hand warmer.
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"Go back? Don't even think about it. We can only be free here. Otherwise, we'll be arrested and treated as suspects if we go back. Your Excellency the Cultural Envoy, do you want to go back and become a prisoner?"
"No, that's not it. Didn't I tell you? I have urgent business at Thunder Bluff! I can't afford to be late. Going into this sweltering cave now, I'm completely dry..."
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"Aren't you a mage? You can create water and food, how could you possibly die of thirst or starvation?"
"Oh yeah, how could I forget? Look at my brain..."
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Lilith seemed to have finally found something. She carefully examined the inscriptions hidden beneath the stone wall, then smiled and pulled Lorraine down to bend over. "Look, what's this..."
Lorraine shook her head violently, "I don't know..."
"This is encrypted runes, the mark left by my brother and his group. We have a base in Ragefire Chasm, you wouldn't believe it, would you! Haha, Guild Master is a genius. We found evidence here that the Fireblade Clan had secretly sided with the demons. They have several altars and lairs deep inside. The Shadow Council's largest base in Kalimdor is in Ragefire Chasm, you wouldn't believe it either."
"What? The Shadow Council? You mean Gul'dan's Shadow Council, the headquarters of an evil organization made up of warlocks and assassins who enslave orcs?"
“That’s right, otherwise why do you think our [Death Whisperers] became an SSS-level guild, with our guild leader enjoying the treatment of an Overseer... even though she used to be a First Sergeant Major just like you.”
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"That's not right. Since they know that Ragefire Chasm is the Shadow Council's largest stronghold, why not destroy it? Why leave it standing and use it as a place of exile? I also noticed that there's no one guarding the entrance to Ragefire Chasm!"
"Oh dear, what do you know? This is called giving them a break... following the clues... playing hard to get... being unable to help... finding joy in helping others... being happy to help others..."
"Huh?!" Lorraine's lips twitched. "What do you mean, a word chain game?"
Lilith, hands on her hips and head held high, said, "Anyway, my brother said the Great Chieftain bestowed the stronghold we captured upon us. A unique honor, and we have to maintain the illusion that this stronghold hasn't been discovered. The Great Chieftain had already prepared other passages and discovered their secret routes..."
"Oh, what does that have to do with you touching the stones here?"
"Idiot, I can't find my way either... You know I hate getting directions..."
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