Azeroth Shadow Trail

   Chapter 741 72. Eyes! Eyes are everywhere!

   "The day after I was brought to Kul Tiras by Howl and his wife, I was sent to the Church of the Storm's Sage Fortress in Stormsong Valley.

  Hal was a really good brother, he cared so much about me, sent me there himself, and stayed there for a few days waiting for me to recover. "

Nat Pagle, who had regained his sanity after being beaten up, would honestly cook a platter of fresh shrimp, twitch his mouth from time to time, and tell the captain and his newly acquired experience in the kitchen of his past experience. The "mentor" listens.

  Although he has been "charmed" for a period of time, he remembers these things very clearly, after all, his mind is clear.

   But when talking about these things, Nat also had an expression of "unforgettable past" on his face.

   He said in a strange tone:

   "I didn't think it was a problem before, but now that I wake up, it does feel weird to recall the days I spent in the fortress of the sea sages.

  As soon as I was sent by Hal, I immediately attracted the attention of the sea sages.

   They were amazed at me.

   They looked at me as if they were looking at a strange 'artwork'. Not only did they not treat me right away, but they also called out other people in the fortress and even Haixian apprentices.

   At that time, I was captured by the fear in my heart, and I was confused, but I can still remember that they also regarded me as a 'teaching tool' and taught those Haixian apprentices a lesson on the spot.

   Saying 'This is the end of disrespecting the sea', and some people say that I am 'the culmination of the sins of the sea'.

   That kind of weird situation continued until that night, and the news that I appeared seemed to have attracted big figures from the Church of the Storms, and several Dahai sages came to the fortress, and they checked me."

   Having said this, Nat blushed, and he gritted his teeth and said:

  “A very private kind of inspection.

   Then, I felt that the darkness in my heart was awakened by them somehow, my main consciousness fainted, and when I woke up, I had already gone to the cave inside the Temple of Storms.

   A female Haixian told me to appreciate the power of the sea, and taught me to distinguish the breath of ocean currents in the tides. She told me that this would be good for my condition. "

   "There are real benefits."

   Black pouted and said:

   "Look how 'healthy' you are now.

   A blink of an eye can frighten a lot of people, and if you expose your true form to the Hals, your good brother might be scared to death by you.

   Facts have proved that the Tide Sage is full of poison, and anyone who touches it will be injured. "

   "Well, not really."

  Nate rubbed his aching forehead and recalled:

   "Although most of the sea sages in the Temple of Storms are gloomy and withdrawn, there are also members who feel very warm, such as my mentor, Brother Pike.

   He was very kind to me. During my most helpless period, Brother Pike has been taking good care of me. He also sneaked me out fishing to try and cheer me up.

   Although I have no proof.

   But I can sense that Brother Pike is different from the other sea sages.

   He really wanted to help me. I was able to get out of my fears. In addition to reciting the Tide scriptures and praying for the help of the ocean, I was also thanks to the enlightenment of Brother Pike. "

   The young fisherman rubbed his panda eyes, turned his head and said to Natalie's tutor:

   "Brother Pike encouraged me as you did, Ms. Selling.

He told me that being a fisherman does not mean becoming a sin of the sea. The sea is tolerant and generous. As long as the fish I catch is not for killing but to fill other people's stomachs, then the act of fishing is the sea. allowed.

   He told me that the reason why I fear the dark things in my heart is because I don’t understand it enough. If I can transform the incomprehensible things of doom in my heart into a form that I can understand, then I have a chance to overcome it! "

   "Well, that's why you keep saying you're catching a big fish?"

   Natalie looked at her new apprentice strangely, she said:

   "You visualized the dark fear in your heart as a fish?"

   "Well, it's a murloc to be precise."

  Nate wiggled a finger and explained:

   "Relying on the knowledge I learned from the Tide Sage, I want to visualize it as a harmless fish that can be easily caught by me.

   But it is too dark, it was born with a little will of the abyss.

  It doesn't allow itself to be a harmless thing for humans and animals, so even if I try my best to transform it, its final form is still solidified into a white murloc with sharp teeth, ugly and weird, deep and evil.

   I asked my mentor Pike.

   He told me that it was probably because I was frightened by the white murlocs on the beach in Southsea Township as a child, so my fears merged with my initial fears. "

   "Well, that explanation makes sense."

   Natalie listened with relish.

   She stroked the Void Codex on her waist and said with conviction:

   "The method by which the sages of the tides use their own wisdom to transform the taboos of the void is very groundbreaking and worthy of my in-depth study.

   During the time when I was lost in the void, I also tried to transform the existence of the void that I could not understand into something I was familiar with and understood.

   In communicating with the lower energy levels of the void, this approach is indeed very effective.

   It can effectively prevent your mind from going crazy due to stress by looking directly at the indescribable things that cannot be understood. "

   "Hey, your 'Void Knowledge Academic Exchange' will be suspended for a while!"

  Black made a pause gesture. He was holding a dwarf pipe and looked at Nat Pagle with a strange look. After a few seconds, he asked:

   "Let me describe the characteristics, you can see if it is consistent with the murloc in your heart.

  It has pale skin like a dead person, dark red spots on it, and several red fins like bone spurs behind it, and its eyes shine with a mad and cruel dark red light.

   After the fish mouth opened, there were layers of shark teeth, and a red eel-like tongue with a fleshy sucker.

   In addition, its claws are very sharp and occasionally wrap around dark streamers.

   It can also speak.

   The most common phrase is 'I came from the abyss'."

  Nate was stunned.

   The fresh shrimp in his hand fell into the basin.

   He looked at Black in front of him with an unbelievable look. There was an undisguised surprise and fear in his eyes. After a few seconds, Nat came back to his senses. He rubbed his forehead and said:

   "The murloc in my heart cannot be said to be indistinguishable from what you described, it can only be said to be exactly the same. You are indeed a prophet, Captain Black.

  I can’t even hide such a secret thing in my heart from you? "

   "No, I just guessed, this time it wasn't my prophecy."

  Black waved his hand, he raised his brows, and said to Nat in a tone of joy and pity mixed with "bad luck":

   "I have good news for you.

   The 'fear of murlocs' in your mind is not entirely made up out of thin air.

   The guy who unleashed the curse of the void on you through the luminous night pearl is an evil creature that truly exists in the void where matter and dream meet.

   I have heard of it, I have seen it with my own eyes.

  It is called Mutanus, and has a very cool nickname called 'The Devourer'. It is a lowly servant of some great monster, feeding on sweet dreams and spreading nightmares to torment poor worms as unfortunate as you are.

   I even know where its lair in the material world is.

   And all you have to do is take a fishing rod and a group of companions who can kill demons and demons, go to its lair, fish it out of the nightmare, and then kill it. "

   "Is it that simple?"

  Nate was a little excited for a while.

  Especially this was said from the mouth of Black, whom he trusted very much. Nat knew the name of his enemy and its information, which made the fisherman feel that the opportunity to get rid of nightmares and fears was at hand.

   However, Ms. Natalie Selling has seen through it all.

   she asked quietly:

   "There is good news, and there is bad news. Come on, Captain, stop playing your bad tastes. What is the bad news?"

   "Bad news."

  Black took a washed shrimp from Nat's basket and threw it into his mouth, chewing it, shrugging his shoulders and saying:

   "That guy is a tough nightmare to deal with.

   Although it is an inferior murloc, it is estimated that it also has the title of Nightmare Lord. It is an evil existence that can travel through dreams, oppress pollution and devour the dream of the Great Druid.

  If it is summoned to the material world, its strength is likely to be at the level of legendary power.

   And trust me, such an evil guy will never appear alone. "

  The wicked pirate glanced at Nat, who was already dumbfounded, and said:

   "It is estimated that a fisherman can't handle this matter. Nat can fish it out of his nightmare at most. But if you want to get rid of it, the two of you, master and apprentice, probably need to recruit some extra powerful people to help.

   And that place is far away, I don't plan to go there at the moment, so you have to endure for a while.

All right.

   Don't look so disappointed, my chief fisherman.

  You are your own, and I will definitely help you with your affairs. "

  Black patted Nat on the shoulder, relieved a few words, and asked again:

   "You have been in the Temple of Storms for a long time, haven't you wandered there? For example, the dark cave protected by piranhas under the tidal altar where the sea sages pray daily, have you been there?"

   "No, Haixian apprentices like me are not allowed to approach there."

  Nate rubbed his head and said:

   "But I've been to the coast below the Temple of the Storm, and there's a lot of weird stone carvings there, I mean the kind that look very intimidating.

   Most of them are weird creatures in the ocean, big octopuses with many eyeballs, or weird half-human half-fish creatures, and some are simply carved with a whole tentacle sticking out of the water.

  The sea sages claimed that the reason why the stone carvings were so scary was to warn mortals to be in awe of the power of the sea.

   But in fact, those stone carvings are inscribed with inscriptions. "

   The fisherman moved his body uncomfortably and said:

   "Every time I read those weird inscriptions, I get chills down my spine, but as a Tide apprentice, I have to go there every day and read those inscriptions over and over again.

   There is also a desolate noble manor under the temple, where they are said to have lived for generations.

  I went to visit, but the owner of the manor was like a madman, rudely kicked me out with a shotgun, and said horrific words like 'I pray above, it waits below'.

   In short, now that I'm awake, I'm going to recall that the grand temple of the storm is really not a pleasant place.

   Although the sun shines, the darkness is still surging.

  There are too many secrets in the temple, most of them are weird on the bright side, but no one pays attention, and no one asks much.

  I think they are all like me, because they have recited the scriptures for too long, and their consciousness has been lost in the bewitchment of the sea. I could even see the eyes the first few days I was there

   Those weird dark eyeballs.

   is everywhere and frankly really freaks me out.

  Under the guidance of Brother Pike, I slowly walked out of that dreaded hallucination. "

"and many more!"

   Blake, who was eating shrimp with his head down, suddenly raised his head. He looked at Nat seriously as if he had caught some key words, and said:

   "When you passed by, did you see eyeballs? What kind of eyeballs, please describe them carefully."

   "Uh, I don't remember exactly."

  Nate with panda eyes scratched his hair, he recalled hard:

"It's the kind of yellow eyeballs gathered in the dark, like the compound eyes of spiders, and like the eyes of beasts or snakes, they will suddenly appear in my field of vision, distorting everything I see in front of me into weird look.

  When those eyeballs appeared, I would even see the sea sages around me turn into faceless half-octopus, half-human monsters, and their voices would be twisted into a sinister muffled language.

   That scene was enough to scare my soul out of my body.

  Brother Pike told me that it was a hallucination that occurs when the power of the sea is applied to him, and it is a normal situation. "

   "Gul\'kafhan\'shel.Yoq\'alshnkyywaqnuul. (Hunger drives those shadows that feed on lost souls.

   As soon as Nat finished speaking, Blake uttered a long series of words that made Natalie tremble in a strange voice that a human throat could never make.

   The young fisherman's eyes widened, and he exclaimed:

   "That's it! When I had an eyeball hallucination in front of my eyes, every Haixian around me was talking in this weird language, Captain, can you speak this language too?"

  Black didn't answer.

   He glanced at Natalie, who was trembling all over, the pirate moved his fingers, looked at Nat, and said:

   "What you saw wasn't a hallucination, you entered N'Zoth's realm unintentionally. Those eyeballs that terrified you were real.

  Congratulations, Nat, you have accomplished something that 99% of mortals can't accomplish.

   You inadvertently looked directly into the true face of the abyss, and you were able to come back with all your beards and tails.

   You are an amazing guy.

   But the news you brought back also proved my guess.

  The power of N'Zoth has polluted the Temple of the Storm, which has long since fallen. None of the Haixians living there are normal, they are all a group of lunatics who have completed the transformation of Ke'sil.

   Well, a lunatic in both physical and psychological senses.

very nice. "

  The pirate let out a long breath and said:

   "After I have solid evidence, I don't have to worry about accidentally hurting innocent people. Huh? What's the matter with your expression?"

   He looked at Nate, who was stunned beside him, and asked.

   The fisherman pursed his lips and looked straight at Blake. After a few seconds, he said in a trembling voice:

   "eyeballs. Just behind you, a lot"

   "It saw you"

   (end of this chapter)