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Chapter 1497 The Giant Nightmare Turtle Nemesis
For more than ten years since his debut, Sharlayan has dealt with trolls from various clans.

Until now, he didn't dare to say that he fully understood the troll's endless voodoo methods, and trolls from different clans could come up with some new tricks for him from time to time.

Sharlayan even suspects that the troll civilization has remained primitive and backward for more than 1 years. The main reason is that they have devoted all their energy to the study of voodoo, and have never thought of advancing technology.

Of course, this is just a joke.

Logically speaking, voodoo is also a part of the magic system, and magic and technology are just tools to pursue the truth, and in the end they all lead to the same goal.

What made Sharlayan unable to hold back was not the trolls' obsession with voodoo, but that they didn't use voodoo in the right way, and they were thinking about how to torture people all day long.

I used the barrage joke as an example.

Obviously, the research on gunpowder technology can further improve the power of explosive weapons and effectively enhance the country's military force and deterrence. Some people with clear minds just don't follow the right path and use it to blow shit in the latrine for fun.

Trolls... To be precise, trolls other than the Zandalari pretty much fit the metaphor.

No, the Atalai cultists have developed a new trick through voodoo methods.

Now that he has touched the study of voodoo at the soul level, Sharlayan couldn't figure out why Atalai didn't learn Zandalari.

With the help of Death Luo Abang Sandy, he had a deeper understanding of the concept of death, but instead used his brains to transform these one-time wraith self-explosive bombs.

There is one thing to say, it is a waste of money to be true.

Sharlayan could not understand the brain circuits of the cultists.

These self-explosive wraiths that can only be immune to all damage in a short period of time are not very harmful, but they are easier to cause first sight kills.

As long as you walk around like dogs and don't take the initiative to approach and touch them, the wraiths will not be able to cause any damage, and they will automatically disappear when the activity time reaches the limit.

The death of the six high-ranking Atalai priests must have alarmed the Atalai leadership who were guarding the core area at the lowest level.

After all, the Temple of Atal'Hakkar is the home ground of the enemy, and there are also nightmare forces hiding in the dark and ready to make trouble at any time.

Sharlayan didn't want to face the cult's frantic counterattack.

It is one thing to be able to beat it, and another to be able to do so.

Under Sharlayan's order, the Backlightblade thieves who had completed their respective missions sneaked away again on the spot.

Next, they will continue to go deep into the bottom of the temple under the leadership of Valeera. The main task is to find out the specific location of the Atalai leader and carry out the assassination.

Just in case, Sharlayan sent Jaina there too.

Jaina can't sneak, but she can use the mage's unique invisibility spell to enter the phase space, which is not so easy for trolls to catch her.

The Temple of Atal'Hakkar is a typical troll pyramid structure, and the lower the floor, the larger the area.

More than 100 thieves are distributed at the bottom of Nuo Da's temple, which is not crowded at all. Sharlayan, who intends to act alone, speculates that it will take at least several hours for the Backlight Blade to complete the assassination target.

The development of the situation was just as Sharlayan expected.

Fortunately, the thieves were quick enough to reach the bottom of the temple before the Atalai cultists blocked the descending stairs.

The stairwell is only that big, and if you move a little slower, the opponent will set up a formation, forming a situation where one man guards the gate and ten thousand men cannot open it.

...Of course, the actual situation is definitely not that bad. Atalai really doesn't necessarily have such a strong player.

The thieves of Backlight Blade need to take the initiative to avoid the Atalai troll screaming like rats blasting their nests towards the middle layer, which will inevitably cause their exploration progress to slow down.

With Valeera and Jaina personally sitting in charge, Sharlayan is not worried about the safety of the thieves.

Even if they were unlucky enough to meet the Nightmare Legion, these two heroines who were proficient in space teleportation could immediately move to the scene to resolve the crisis.

After the thieves split into two groups and began to move, Sharlayan stood at the central ring of the hall and observed the surrounding situation.

The structure of the bottom layer of the temple is not complicated, there are only 6 intersections in total.

To the north is the stairwell leading to the middle area, and a large number of Atalai trolls are swarming towards the middle area... although this is of no use.

There is only one road facing the south of the stairwell, and with Eagle Eye, you can only see a corner. Sharlayan can vaguely sense a familiar ominous atmosphere from the depths of this road.

There are two intersections on the west side and the east side respectively. If the information provided by the barrage is true, the two roads on each side are connected separately, and the final destination is two halls with different purposes.

The experience given by the bullet screen based on the game dungeon cannot be fully trusted. In the real Azeroth, the leader of the Atalai cannot always squat in one place and wait for the enemy to come and challenge him.

According to the barrage, the leader of the Atalai they know is called Jammalan the Prophet.

However, the information they know comes from a few years after the original history, and no one can guarantee whether there will be changes in the personnel of Atalai in these few years.

If you just apply the information provided by the barrage without thinking, you may suffer a lot due to inertial thinking.

That's why Sharlayan has never mentioned the name of the prophet Jammalan, so as not to make the thieves of Backlight Blade form a preconceived misunderstanding.

The personnel can be changed, but the use of the hall in the temple should not change drastically in a few years, especially when it involves the altar of Hakar.

If nothing else, the hall on the west side of the temple should be the altar used to worship Haka, replacing the abandoned altar on the water.

To the east is the administrative area where the Atalay core layer is located, and most of the Atalay leaders should be concentrated in this area.

Considering that Hakkar was beaten to autism by Sharlayan not long ago, the task of exploring the altar of Hakkar was assigned to the second unit of the Backlight Blade led by Jaina.

Valeera personally led the first team to explore the Atalay administrative hall in the east.

"As expected of a fanatical cultist who believes in Haka."

When the black panther transformed from Sharlayan headed south, he found many giant wind snakes that were descendants of Hakar, with various attributes.

Sharlayan didn't startle the enemy, he took the initiative to avoid these large spicy sticks, and continued to the south intersection.

The closer to the passage, the more obvious the oppressive atmosphere Sharlayan felt.

"it is as expected."

After turning the last corner, Sharlayan saw a huge beast with a black and green halo all over its body.

To be precise, it was a soul-body monster corrupted by nightmares.

It was a huge tortoise, quite similar to Tortola in terms of appearance, and similar in size.

But Sharlayan can be sure that this guy is definitely not Tortola.

Not long before departing for Draenor, Sharlayan also visited the Emerald Dream and communicated remotely with several demigods.

Except for the arrogant Goldrinn and the withdrawn Asaman who did not respond to the contact, all the demigods were alive and kicking in the Emerald Dream, including the tortoise demigod Tortola.

【This guy...could be Nemesis, right? 】

[It's not like, isn't Nemesis a very cool flame tortoise? 】

[That was its form after it was infused with flames by Ragnaros. The original Nemesis and Tortola had almost the same appearance. 】

[The positioning of Nemesis is very similar to that of Lycanthos to Goldrinn. It is the shadow of Tortola and his other side. 】

[In the original history, Twilight's Hammer wanted to use Nemesis and Lycanthos to replace Tortola and Goldrinn's identities as tortoise demigods and wolf gods, but they failed in the end. 】

"Shadow of Tortola..."

Sharlayan looked thoughtfully at the giant armored beast that had apparently completely lost its mind.

"This is Atalai's biggest reliance, right? This guy looks pretty good."

As the shadow of a demigod, representing the dark side of their wild nature, Nemesis originally had no entity in the material world, which is the main reason why it and Lycanthos were easily corrupted by nightmares.

"Could it be that all the demigods of the wilderness have a shadow of a dark side?"

The corner of Sharlayan's mouth twitched: "What are you playing? Split personality?"

【That’s not true. As far as we know, the only demigods with shadow faces are Goldrinn and Tortola. The others have not been heard of at least so far. 】

"alright."

Sharlayan kept sneaking around Nemesis. The big tortoise didn't notice anyone approaching at all, and kept its eyes tightly closed, motionless.

Sharlayan, who maintained the shape of a black panther, simply squatted down at the entrance of the hall in front of Nemesis.

"Let's wait for news from Valeera and Jaina first. As long as the big turtle doesn't move, I won't bother to bother."

"but……"

Sharlayan looked thoughtfully at the nightmare aura rising from Nemesis' body: "I don't know if it's possible to use these nightmare powers to trace back to the place where Valothen is recuperating... Let's try."

(End of this chapter)