Azeroth Shadow Trail

   Chapter 667 220. We unite!

  Jean stood alone outside the room, and the king's expression was unsightly.

   There were still blue-purple bruises and claw marks on his neck. The surrounding royal guards were loyally guarding the king, and the entire courtyard had been under martial law.

Little Rhona and Liam were brought back to Gilneas City by Queen Mia, who came in a hurry. The defense system of this manor was fully activated, but not to defend against foreign enemies, but to avoid the cursed Darius. Lord Crowley fled.

In the house in front of him, the great druid who came to hear the news is suppressing the **** for the northern lord, but Jean is a very keen ruler, and he can probably guess the druid's expression just by looking at the expression of the druid talking just now. Not good.

   The wolf howls from the room, mixed with pain and madness, seemed to confirm the increasingly ominous guess in Gene's heart.

   "Your Majesty, His Majesty the Pope and Master Antonidas are here."

   The captain of the royal guard walked quickly into the chilling courtyard, and whispered something to the gloomy king. Jean nodded, made a gesture, and immediately the attendants invited the Archmage and His Majesty over.

  The old Pope will be leaning on the sacred staff, walking without lameness, and his legs and feet will be strong. He walks like the wind without anyone's support, and he walks quickly under the guard of the great knight Da Suohan.

   And Antonidas looked a little tired.

   was apparently caused by the heavy cleanup of the Dalaran crater during this time.

   The two old men were woken up in the middle of the night and rushed over through the portal, but neither of them were angry at being disturbed to rest, because the matter in front of them was a bit tricky.

   No, it's tricky!

   "Your messenger told me that the lord of the north became an orc?"

   The Pope asked Jean with a puzzled face:

   "Is it the green 'orc' I know? Is there such a strange curse in this world?"

   "No, Your Majesty, not an orc."

   Without waiting for Jean to speak, Antonidas, leaning on the staff of the Archmage, took the initiative to explain:

   "Should be 'Wolfman'."

   "Yes! It's a werewolf, and that Elf Druid called Darius."

  Gene frowned.

   He looked at the Archmage and said:

   "Master Antonidas has seen werewolves before? Do you know how to deal with them? Do you have a way to lift this curse?"

   "I saw it once, but it was a long time ago."

   Dalaran's leader, the Archmage, hesitated for a moment, twisted his white beard, and explained softly:

   "In the early years, our Dalaran archmage, Ur, who was famous for his uniqueness, accidentally summoned a werewolf to the material world in a summoning experiment.

   certainly caused a stir in Dalaran.

   even attracted Medivh's attention, and the dark-infested demigod guardian himself came to Dalaran to interview Master Ur for several hours.

   Later, it is said that under his persuasion, Ur gave up his research on werewolves and sealed his summoning spell.

   When facing the question of the Council of Six afterwards, Old Ur told us frankly that the werewolf was a deformed and degenerate product of a dark power.

   They have human nature remaining, but they are firmly suppressed by wild animal nature, and this animal nature is not controlled by any external force.

   This wild will of the beast is said to have come from a powerful and mysterious demigod of the wild, and there are few creatures in the world who can match this will of the wild.

   And Ur also told us that the werewolves lived in a strange plane far away from the material world, and the werewolves he summoned were only a small part of the huge number of wolves.

   They are forced to sleep in that plane to appease their restless wild hearts.

   He said that such creatures should never appear in the material world.

   They are a terrible threat to any race and civilization.

Ur said that he recorded the spell to summon werewolves, and his research and understanding of werewolves in his book of Ur, for future needs, but he also promised us that he would not put this taboo knowledge to teach anyone. "

   "What about Master Ur? And that book?"

  Gene asked anxiously:

   "Perhaps we can bring him in and save my brother by finding Master Ur's research in that book. Gilneas is willing to pay anything for it.

   I want Darius to wake up as long as he lives!

  My God, his daughter is still waiting for him!

  I promise little Rona that she will see her father early tomorrow morning."

   "This Ur is dead."

  Antonidas said regretfully:

   "Old Ur is living more and more um, free.

   He lost his adherence to the mage code and began to summon those strange alien creatures arbitrarily, causing a lot of losses to Dalaran.

  We were forced to banish him from Dalaran after repeated admonitions, and we haven't heard of him since the Orc Wars.

Until more than a month ago, an archmage accidentally discovered Ur's whereabouts and his death, and after an autopsy by a Dalaran physician, we concluded that Ur died in an embarrassing 'accident' .

However, his book of Ur has been brought back to Dalaran. After the previous ravages of Deathwing and demons, we sealed the book and handed it over to Mage Arugal, a disciple of Ur for safekeeping. .

   As far as I know, Mage Arugal just left the station and headed for his hometown of Gilneas. "

   "The book will go back to Gilneas?"

  Gene suddenly smiled.

   He let out a long sigh of relief. Although a book of Ur might not be able to solve Darius' problems, it could at least give them a direction and hope.

   With the help of Druids who should know a lot about werewolves, perhaps Darius can survive this wave of disasters.

   "Send secret agents of the royal family, and immediately go to the border of the country to find and **** Master Arugao back to his hometown."

  Jean turned back and ordered the royal guard to say:

   "Be sure to bring back the Arugal Mage and the Book of Ur as quickly as possible, I need his help."

   "As ordered."

   The captain of the guard took the order solemnly, turned around and strode out of the yard.

   After he left, the old Pope, who had been listening to the conversation between Jean and Antonidas, suddenly asked a question, and he said with a serious expression:

   "Gene, the werewolf curse of the northern lords is contagious, right?"

"This"

   Faced with this question, the king hesitated for a moment. He looked left and right, and brought his majesty and the archmage to a house in another part of the courtyard, where three royal guards were lying on the bed.

   They all fell into a coma and showed the same symptoms as when Lord Darius was brought back.

  The high fever persists and the consciousness is not clear.

   All of them had wounds that had been scratched by the claws of the northern lord before, and Mr. Karenan, the royal physician of Genn, was nervously treating the wounds for the three guards.

   At his hand is a set of intricate and delicate herbal cauldrons only used by alchemists, in which some strange-smelling potions are being boiled.

   "This curse is indeed contagious, and I almost got hit."

  Jean touched his bruised neck. He turned back in fear and said to the horrified and serious Pope and the Archmage:

   "The druid told us that the werewolf curse has an effective period, and before the human body is not mutated and beastly transformed, special medicines can be used to temporarily suppress the changes of animal nature and body.

   However, this medicine will gradually become ineffective as the number of uses increases. For those who are infected by scratches, it will take up to a year to enter an irreversible beastization.

   And for powerless civilians, the curse will only last longer after being scratched by a werewolf.

   Although I hate to think so, my brother Darius has become a dangerous 'source of infection'.

  Fortunately, I placed him in this closed manor in the mountains ahead of time, otherwise I would not dare to think about the consequences of his escape. "

   "Will it be fatal?"

   The Pope's expression became more serious, and he asked again.

  The busy Royal Physician, Mr. Carrenan, wiped the sweat from his forehead, turned back and made a courtesy to the Pope, and then explained:

   "No, Your Majesty, the Werewolf Curse is not fatal.

   In fact, if you ignore the uncontrollable wild beastization it will bring, this curse will turn a powerless woman into a killing machine that can rival elite soldiers at the moment when the mutation takes effect.

   According to my previous conversation with the Great Druid Lord, the characteristics of the werewolf curse are also very strange.

  If you are attacked by a werewolf, as long as you don’t die on the spot, you can basically survive and become a part of the curse power.

   I just saw the mutation of the northern lord with my own eyes. After becoming a werewolf, his strength, speed and vitality have almost doubled.

  I. I have a suspicion. "

  The old doctor secretly glanced at the face of the king, swallowed his saliva, and said in a low voice:

   "I think the werewolf curse may not be the extreme evil we think. From my experience of practicing medicine for most of my life, it is more like a "blessing" of power for all-round enhancement of life.

   It's just that there is something wrong with the way this 'blessing' is released.

   Perhaps the legendary wilderness demigod ignored the issue of animal nature, and its powerful will of the wilderness was by no means something that anyone’s mind could bear. "

   "I would never call it a 'blessing'!"

  Gene yelled loudly:

   "Dr. Carrenan, don't bring up such deviant thoughts of yours again! Look what that curse has done to my brother!"

   "But it is indeed a 'blessing of power'."

   In the sound of Gene's scolding, the door behind everyone was gently pushed open, and the three of them turned their heads and saw Omulon, a tired-looking Great Druid, walking into the place with his wooden staff.

   The Arch Druid nodded to the Archmage Antonidas, who had talked and fought together before, and made a natural courtesy with respect to Pope Fao.

  Finally, he looked at the three royal guards in the house and said to Gene who was still angry:

   "The Curse of the Werewolf. Or 'Wolf Form', when it was born as an extremely dangerous Druid spell, was indeed a prayer for salvation and protection.

   It really comes from the blessing of the demigod 'Silver Wolf' Lord Goldrinn to the Druids.

  In essence, the werewolf form is no different from the storm crow form, the giant bear form, and the flower tree man form we use. It is the crystallization of the Druids' perception of the power of nature.

   It's just that the wild power of the silver wolf is too 'stable' compared to other demigods.

  It is probably because Lord Goldling worships the will of the free wilderness. He believes that the violent beast can make the warriors stronger and fearless, so he did not take the initiative to eliminate the wild beast in this power when he blessed him.

   Your physician, Mr. Carrenan, is right.

Although the    werewolf curse is a product of depravity and distortion, it is not evil in itself, it is just a manifestation of natural anger, although once it falls on an individual, it is an out-and-out disaster. "

"I see."

  The pope and the archmage, who are very self-disciplined and literate, nodded again and again.

   This explanation is understandable and acceptable to them. But Jean, a reckless warrior, would be a little over the top. Although he also understood the ins and outs of the werewolf curse, he still carried a burst of anger and said relentlessly:

"So, you Druids who guard the natural balance, why do you create such a dangerous uncontrolled power! I heard that the strong among you all practice in dreams, so you are sleeping too much, Have you lost your mind?"

   This is a bit rude.

   But after all, it was the night elf druids who were at fault. Although the sky-whistler sank his face, he made an explanation after a few seconds of silence:

   "Because we have faced wars too, Your Majesty Jean.

   Just as you humans faced the invasion of the orcs, more than 9,000 years ago, the kingdom of the Kaldorei Moon God, which had not recovered from the ravages of the ancient wars, also suffered a terrible threat of war.

   And the enemies we faced at that time were much crazier than the orcs.

  Those demon satyrs rushing out of the burning green fire have destroyed almost every home we have except the holy mountain, you want to know why our companions pursue the power of wild werewolf?

   is easy!

  Because we too were cornered!

  Our people are also longing for salvation from nature!

   A group of radicals among us accepted this cursed force despite the danger of losing ourselves

   With a scale of less than a thousand people, they forcibly blocked a hundred times their number of demons. They sacrificed their minds in exchange for the safety of more than 100,000 civilians.

   I don't think this sacrifice is an evil.

   Or, as you put it, a 'sin'. "

The words of    Sky Screamer were full of solemnity. He looked at Jean with an embarrassed face and sighed and said:

   "But I can understand your mood at this time, Your Majesty. I have good news to tell you that the Lord of the North has regained some sanity, despite being still driven by his bestiality.

I have to take him back to Moonglade, ask the arch druids to heal him, and wake up more compatriots to study how the werewolves escaped from the Emerald Dream, we must fill this loophole before the situation gets worse .

   Also, there is bad news. "

  The Arch Druid looked at the people around him and said:

   "I can already confirm that the Lord of the North is not the first werewolf to be infected in this era. The werewolf who infected him has not yet been discovered, but it must now be within the borders of Gilneas.

   Lord Darius can hear his call.

  You must catch the werewolf before it spreads the curse on a large scale, otherwise, the whole of Gilneas will become a huge 'wolf's nest'.

  The next target after their assembly is likely to be other cities on this land, until the entire human kingdom is turned into their kind.

   and 'Headwolf'. "

   Heavenly Whisperer Omulon said in a heavy tone:

"Once the Alpha Wolf is also summoned to the material world, the wolves will have a leader, and they will become ten times more dangerous. And with the Alpha Wolf's hatred for the Cenarion Order, once it completes the unification of the wolves, Luna The kingdom will also face a war.

therefore"

  The Arch Druid looked at Jean, His Holiness the Pope and the Archmage, and he said sincerely:

   "I will report this to Mount Hyjal. Perhaps soon, an envoy from the High Priest of the Moon God will come to the Eastern Continent."

   "Everyone, before the disaster is detonated, we must unite."

   (end of this chapter)