Azeroth Shadow Trail

   Chapter 1454 87. Excellent genes, worth collecting

  Although well-informed by the well-informed tundra strata transportation network, the nerubians have long known about the rise of the Lich King in the north of Northrend and the war between the undead and the trolls.

   But they didn't care too much about these two forces.

  The nerubians who have been hiding underground for more than 10,000 years have never intended to pay too much attention to the surface.

   This is the experience of their long-term hidden existence.

In the eyes of the nerubians, the thick and cold permafrost in Northrend is the most perfect defense and shelter, a hidden sky that belongs to the nerubians alone. The Demon Kingdom is isolated from the chaotic surface world.

  The nerubians consider themselves to be bystanders and recorders in the long history of Northrend, observing and recording everything on the surface with a detached attitude.

  They have witnessed the invasion of demons, they have witnessed the battle of the ancients, they have witnessed the fall of dragons, they have witnessed the collapse of the earth.

   They never express their views on everything they observe, and they never intend to intervene in external affairs. They are accustomed to hiding in silence and being protected by the darkness of the earth.

   Most of them stubbornly believe that no matter how chaotic or terrible things happen in the outside world, it will not affect the long-term stability of the underground kingdom.

   But to be honest, the "enclosure" lifestyle of the spider demons can't be considered bad.

  They voluntarily hide under the world, which is better than learning the "ideal" of conquering the world after a disagreement between the qiraji and the mantid.

   Of course, the nerubians can survive under the land of Northrend for more than 10,000 years. They must not only be good at hiding, they also have their own defense and military power.

  When the nerubians built their first underground city, Ankhet, they considered a series of issues such as surface warfare and foreign enemy invasion.

   Therefore, these insect nobles set up many levels, city walls and gates for their territory to defend against foreign enemies, and also specially created labyrinth-like tunnels to hide the real entrance to the underground kingdom.

In addition to these "architecture and art" style fortifications based on the dark empire, the nerubians also used the mysterious skills handed down from the aqir empire to tame many wild and powerful spiders in Northrend as the city's protector.

  According to the records of some bizarre documents whose source is difficult to determine, the big spiders who guard the city of the Nerubians have been mysteriously domesticated by the Nerubians for generations, and their strength is similar to that of some weaker beasts, Loa.

   It can be said that the nerubians have achieved the ultimate in self-protection.

   If it is a frontal attack, even if the military power of the entire human civilization is filled in, it will never be possible to defeat the heroic city of the Nerubians in a short period of time.

   And once the battlefield is placed in the ground beneath the permafrost that the Nerubians regard as their homeland, it means that the initiative of the war is completely handed over to the Nerubians.

   In the war mode where the nerubians can attack from underground tunnels in all directions, and the invaders can only passively attack in the underground with complex terrain like blind men, even if the legions of Titan creations participate in the battle, it is difficult to achieve a brilliant victory.

   From this point of view, Maris’s previous emotion was not a problem at all.

  The underground world of Northrend is completely ruled by the Nervous Nerubians. As a civilization that was born in the fallen power but then moved towards independence, the Nerubians have the capital to be proud of.

   But the problem is that a title like "Never Fall" itself seems to be anathema to the defense system.

Most of the cities that were considered absolutely impossible to fall were not destroyed from the front. Just like the sudden outbreak of the war, no one could have predicted in advance that His Majesty the Lich King, who had recently risen in Northrend, would not be able to do anything. In the war of conquest of the insect kingdom Azjol Nerub, a group of insects will be the vanguard of the war.

   And this attack came too suddenly!

   It took less than five minutes from the appearance of the Elder Ancients to the attack of the insect swarm army, so fast that even the "friends" beside Blake were completely unpredictable.

  Things that even the allies can't think of, the Nerubians who are the targets of the attack must be even more unexpected.

The intrepid mantid heroes stormed into the unsuspecting Nerubian city like a whirlwind with the elite warriors who survived the battle with the demons in the world of Draenor. The Nerubian guards who rushed to face the enemy even one He was cut into pieces by the mantid swordsmen before he could make it through.

The sacrifices of the    guards did buy time for the city defenders to close the gates of the city walls.

   But the problem is that everyone is a bug, and their ancestors are still a family. It is not necessary to play underground raids in front of the Qiraji swarm.

  Under the call of the Elder Venerable, Auro, the giant worm lord, the king of the Nydus worms from the ruins of Qiraji, soon made a strange and low neigh.

   It was like a crimson long snake traveling through the ground, and in just a few minutes, it dug a huge tunnel leading to the inner core of the Nerubian city.

The terrifying giant worm roared and protruded its huge body from the center of the Nerubian city in a way of destroying the earth. It bent down amid the smoke and dust from the cracking of the rock, and swept all the surrounding buildings with a 360° sweep. on the sky.

   This terrifying offensive stunned the Nerubians who had been peaceful for thousands of years.

  These peculiar insect-human nobles with a human-shaped upper body and a spider-like lower body have absolutely no idea how to deal with the disaster in front of them.

   Some of them are calling the lower-level nerubian soldiers to go with them to the front line to resist the invaders, and some are trying to escape with their families before the invaders can invade the city.

   But unfortunately, in front of the Qiraji Nydus worm, a biological war machine that was born for underground raids, there is no difference between "front line" and "rear" at all.

  At the same time that the mantid invaded the city, a large number of Qiraji worms also rushed into the city of the Nerubians along the tunnels opened by the Nydus worms.

These "old relatives" who came from the same civilization more than 10,000 years ago, but have long since differentiated into different factions and different forms, have no idea of ​​reminiscing the old times when they meet, and no matter how the nerubians try to use psychic magic and qiraji and mantis The demons exchanged and talked, and the vicious bugs who rushed into the ancient kingdom in front of them had only one reaction.

kill!

   Kill what you encounter!

   Even the little spiders and six-legged flying insects that the nerubians tame to relieve their boredom will be dragged out of their warm and dark dens and eaten to death!

   Those spider eggs should also be moved and shaken, and then used as "fine wine" to "supplement" the berserk workers and insects.

  Qirajis are of course cruel, but their evil deeds today have nothing to do with their cruel nature. There is only one reason for all slaughter, and that is the ancient sages asked them to do so!

   The ancient venerable said, the supreme she wants to see a river of blood!

  Then, as loyal servants of the darkness, they must dedicate a real "blood flow" to the Supreme Lord.

   "Tsk tsk, this is a bit too brutal, right?"

  When the city walls of Ankhet, the largest and the first underground city in their history, were completely under the control of the insect swarm, the venerable Elder Elder and her human "boyfriend" set foot on this heretical land.

  Black looked left and right at the nerubian corpses that were torn apart by the raging swarm.

  Those guys also wear bug robes made of strange fabrics, and they also know how to embellish their clothes and limbs with gold, silver or gems.

  The pirates even saw a nerubian holding its beloved lyre in his arms before he died, which means that although the nerubians are the branch with the smallest number of worms, they are definitely the branch with the highest degree of civilization development.

  When the Qiraji were still drinking blood and the mantid was still dedicating everything to the great reincarnation, the nerubians actually started to study music.

  Tsk tsk tsk, I can only say that it is indeed a former insect noble.

   "Cruelty?"

  Black's complaints immediately aroused the dissatisfaction of Xalatas, and the lady of the ancient Venerable said in a very unhappy deep voice:

   "I have entrusted the little master, your mentor, Liresa, to convey my will, and I have given these nerubians the choice to return to the Aqir Empire, but how do they respond to my kindness?

   They don't even allow Lireza to step into their city!

   The kindness I gave to their king was not valued by that stupid king at all!

   But that's my messenger!

   That is the messenger representing the will of the swarm. "

  Xalatas swept across the capital city of the Nerubian Kingdom in front of her with an incomparably gloomy gaze. She spat out a bright red snake letter and said incomparably coldly:

   "If their so-called 'intelligence' is not enough for these subterranean creatures to understand the qualities necessary to survive, I don't mind the dire consequences of teaching them in a different way to disobey an ancient Venerable.

   Not to mention the fact that these descendants of the Aqi Empire actually chose to hook up with Yogg Saron, and it was really disappointing! "

   The ancient Venerable snorted, raised his glamorous fingernails and flicked them, saying:

   "I gave the nerubians their place in my Aqir Empire, but now that they have dedicated their allegiance to my dead rivals, I don't need them to continue.

   Anyway, what my empire needs is nothing more than the lost genes of the Aqir. "

   Having said this, Xalatas grinned, moved his body like a snake, circled the pirate twice, buried his head in the pirate's arms, and whispered softly:

   "My little master, does my viciousness and cruelty make you hate me? It's okay, you can say it, and I will correct my style according to your request."

   "Uh, that's fine, don't change it."

  Blake glanced at the cold eyes of the Lord's guards around him, he coughed, patted Xalatas's head and said in a low voice:

   "Would it not be the end of the world if the changes were worse? It would be better for me to take risks and bet on the next you, I think it may be more in line with my needs to accept the dark and depraved you now.

   I mean, the present is flawless in my eyes. "

   "Well, my little master, you are so good at talking."

  Xalatas looked like a nympho, with his hands folded in front of his chest, his glamorous eyes almost shining with stars.

Of course, if you don't consider the nerubian corpses that were bitten to pieces by the raging swarm because of the order of the ancients, and the chaotic background of the underground city that was being slaughtered frantically, Xalatas's current situation The **** speech may be more persuasive.

   "Supreme Venerable! Good news! Really good news!"

   Just as Saratas and her little boy were playing sweet you, me, and me, a noisy voice broke the touching scene.

Rikal, the most expert at genetic modification among the mantid heroes, descended from the sky with two strange flesh and blood organs. It knelt down in front of Xalatas, who was lying in the arms of the pirates, with a very excited tone. Report to:

   "We have collected valuable genetic samples from these weak nerubians, and those ancient genetic fragments from the Aqir Empire are the key to making the swarm stronger again.

   It's enough to reshape your minions in a matter of years.

   We have obtained the most important Nerubian genes, my supreme lord, the mysteries and evolutionary paths of all the warriors and destroyers of the Aqir Empire full of darkness and glory will be open to us!

   We also caught the nerubians' "city guardians", those powerful hunting spiders that only need a little genetic modification to integrate into the swarm's attack sequence.

  Under your leadership, the re-emergence of the Insect Empire that made the world tremble is just around the corner"

   "Well, so, you came to disturb my good mood for such a trivial matter?"

   Xal'atas stared at the mantid hero who was so happy to be carried away in front of him with a bad tone, and seemed to be angry that the Cleaver had rudely disturbed her intimate post with Black.

   But fortunately, the ancient venerable also knew that these heroes had their own faults, and did not intend to anger her, so after a few seconds, under the comfort of the pirates, she also calmed down, and said coldly:

   "It's just that these samples are not enough! Far from enough! I also want to see the genetic sequence of the most powerful individual that can be born in the nerubian civilization and even the entire swarm civilization.

  The King of the Crypt of the Nerubians is in this city!

  I have smelled its breath, the swarm warrior named Anub'arak is commanding its lords, trying to lock me and attack me.

   It is a king who loves his people, and he is willing to challenge an ancient Venerable for the survival of this city.

   Even I was moved. "

   "Escort! There are assassins! Quickly escort!"

   As soon as Xal'atas said that the king of the nerubians was preparing to attack, the smelly pirate Black immediately played his "image" in the eyes of the other bugs perfectly.

   He stretched his voice and screamed exaggeratedly.

   asked the Guardian of the Swarm to come back to protect the Old Ones as soon as possible, although Xal'atath was not afraid of the raids of several crypt lords based on the current strength of Xal'atath.

   But Black's "superb performance" still made Saratas laugh.

  After laughing, Blake felt a slight vibration from the ground not far away, and he knew that was where the crypt lords were about to raid.

   But the pirates and Xalatas had no intention of taking up the fight at all. On the contrary, the two dog men and women took a few steps back, deliberately leaving the battlefield to the real fighters.

   "I said, you and your goddess can be in charge of a crypt lord together, that thing is thicker than you can imagine, and it is almost the bloodiest life form in the whole world.

  You two can be careful, don't overturn the gutter. "

Black was smoking a pipe and instructed Nathanos and Sylvanas who were adjusting their bows beside him. He glanced at the front again. General Lireza had already drawn out his long bow, and her swarm princess was fighting. Favorite Yaerji is also in place.

   At the very center of the battlefield, where the ground has begun to crack, is His Majesty the Lich King Lothar, wearing a black lion armor and holding Frostmourne.

Obviously, he wants to solve the king of the nerubians himself, so as to complete the first conquest of the nerubians by the undead natural disaster. Well, it is when he is going to join hands with Black to teach the alliance before the war begins. .

   This also represents Lothar's respect for the Nerubian king.

   Isn’t there a saying to say?

  The blood of every king must end with the sword.

   (end of this chapter)