Volume 8: The Road to the Ancient Dragon Chapter 480: Summoning the Power of the Storm Dragon
Dragonsong Castle——Conference Hall!
After two days, Asona and Angus finally returned to the castle with a large group of people. Before they could catch their breath, Murphy immediately convened a high-level meeting of the Dragon Knights.
In the hall, Murphy and other heroic generals gathered together.
Glancing at the people present, Roland, Asona, Vivian Nightsong, Angus, and Jaina, not only that, but also several Dragon Thunder Knights were among them.
Aidan (Leader of the Dragon Knights): "I have decided that the next dragon to be conquered is the Netherworld Dragon Freshanks."
"Are we going to launch a second crusade so soon? Lord Aidan is worthy of being the reincarnation of the Dragon God. He is decisive and far-sighted..." Angus instinctively began to sing his praises.
Murphy raised his hand to stop him from speaking.
Then he began to introduce the information of this target.
The Netherworld Death Dragon, Freshanks, was active in Shadow Isles, a remote island in the southern Endless Sea that was rarely visited by ships. Therefore, even the Explorers' Association knew nothing about this ancient dragon.
If it weren't for the information provided by the Dragon Cult, this dragon would probably never have been known to the world.
There is a space rift leading to the Shadow Realm on Shadow Island. Freshanks has absorbed too much death power and gradually transformed into a Netherworld Dead Dragon. It is said that it is half-alive and half-dead, completely different from the ordinary living ancient dragons. Because it is a death dragon, it cannot give birth to offspring. On the entire Shadow Island, it is the only dragon, making it perfect for being ganged up on.
After hearing this, Vivian Nightsong frowned slightly and said, "Lord Aidan, didn't you say before that you were going to look for the remaining two disaster dragons?"
Murphy shook his head. "No, this is a different time. Although the Disaster Dragon is sealed in prison and can be hunted accurately, since the last dragon-slaying operation was released early, I have reason to believe that the next operation may also be intercepted in advance. In this case, we should not focus on hunting the Disaster Dragon.
Other ancient dragons scattered around the world also meet the requirements.
I have made up my mind, Roland. Send out the dragon knights immediately and mobilize the fleet. I am going to set sail."
Roland nodded and said, "Lord Aidan, do you need me to go with the army this time?"
"No need, we can just use the same staffing as last time."
Murphy didn't give everyone time to react. After making the arrangements, he immediately led his men on the journey.
There was a reason for his quick action. Last time, he happened to be intercepted by someone. According to Murphy's judgment, the person who intercepted him must have planted spies around him, or had some kind of surveillance method.
Murphy's biggest suspect is Angus, who is the only hero among all his subordinates who is not a direct subordinate but an ally.
If there was a traitor, it would most likely be him.
But Murphy couldn't be completely sure, because there was really no reason. Since they had already agreed on cooperation with the Dragon Worshiping Cult, it was really inconsistent with their style to do something like this right at the beginning.
But there was one thing he was sure of, if the other party's goal was to release all the disaster dragons, he would definitely find a way to guide him to find the other two sealed prisons.
If you want to expose the opponent's weakness, you must act quickly and cause him to reveal his flaws.
It doesn’t matter if the other party doesn’t react at all. Just continue to slay the dragon according to the predetermined plan. As long as you transform into an ancient dragon, you won’t care about any conspiracy the other party has.
Two days later——
The Dragon King's fleet was sailing in the vast ocean. For this operation, Murphy specially recalled the fleet. Fortunately, he made a lot of money during this period, and several of his brothers formed their own fleets, so there was no need to worry about delaying the development of Northrend and Kalimdor.
With nothing to do, Murphy wandered around the boat and observed who the spy was.
Asona was sharpening his dragon-hunting axe and happily boasting to the crew.
This barbarian obviously couldn't be a spy.
Angus was spreading the teachings of the Storm Dragon to the crew. He was very eloquent, and he exaggerated the Storm Dragon to the extreme, which made Murphy, the person involved, feel a little inexplicably ashamed.
This guy still can't get rid of suspicion.
Jaina and Vivian learned ancient magic.
While teaching, Vivian also told Jaina the story of the Dark Night Empire, with pride in her tone.
Vivian Nightsong (Ancient Mage): "The Dark Night Empire made its ancient magic extremely powerful, because at that time we could practice by absorbing the power of the Well of Eternity, so the magic of each Imperial Mage Corps was powerful and the power of magic was extremely huge.
Of course, only nobles are qualified to practice magic around the Well of Eternity; ordinary civilians are not qualified.
Even so, due to the arcane energy radiation produced by the Well of Eternity, ordinary night elf mages are also quite powerful. Compared with the current human and elven mages, they are completely not in the same league.
Of course, because the study of magic is too simple and crude, many modern sophisticated magics are not common.
For example, for Slow Fall, we all directly learn Flying, which consumes several times more mana than Slow Fall, but the effect is also better. The spell for Flying is like this..."
Vivian read it to Jaina several times, but she didn't expect Jaina to perform it so easily.
Vivian was a little stunned, but soon shook her head with a wry smile and turned to introduce the history of the Dark Night Empire.
"Queen Azshara is the most powerful mage in history. Compared to her, the archmages of Dalaran are nothing.
Her power is enough to flatten mountains and burn lakes. Any race that dares to be hostile to the Dark Night Empire will be reduced to ashes before her magic, or be conquered and enslaved.
That’s right, the Dark Night Empire has a large number of slave races.
However, Queen Azshara also had her own troubles. Because she was too powerful, she could not find a man who was worthy of her and could become her spouse.
Therefore, Queen Azshara sent us to explore all over the world. At that time, the world was only one continent. As a member of Queen Azshara's Mage Corps, I was assigned to go to the north to find more magical resources and possible objects. "
Jaina's eyes lit up when she heard this.
"And what happened next?"
"I don't know. I encountered Bolerius in the mountains in the north and was frozen in the battle. Since I was frozen in Bolerius's prison, I lost consciousness until I was rescued from the dragon's nest by Lord Aidan not long ago. I tried to find out what happened to the Dark Night Empire from the library in Dalaran, but I didn't find any accurate information.
I did find some records about the night elves, but it seems that these night elves are not the group led by Queen Azshara..."
Murphy listened to their conversation but did not interrupt.
For most NPCs, the ending of Dark Night Empire is still an ancient secret and a forgotten memory.
Players can learn about history by searching for information, but NPCs don't have this ability.
Therefore, only the night elves and the guardian dragons knew the story of the War of the Ancients. Only some royal nobles of the High Elves had detailed history, and most civilians had no idea what their ancestors had experienced.
Of course, even if people know the whole story, they won't spread it around.
As a kingdom of mages founded by humans, Dalaran is not well aware of these ancient secrets.
Murphy walked to the bow of the ship, looked at the sea ahead, checked the nautical chart, and found that they should be not far from Shadow Island.
Suddenly, Murphy felt something in his heart.
A noisy sound rang in my ears.
Ektma (Storm Dragon Priest): "Great Aidandelon... Lord of Storms... Wyrm of Doom... I pray to you devoutly... I beg you to exert your supreme power... Bring the storm of destruction upon our enemies."
The sound was intermittent and became clearer and clearer.
[System prompt: Storm Dragon Priest Ektma has initiated a 'prayer ceremony' to summon the power of the storm. The current accumulated faith points are 2399. Do you want to respond? Yes/No.]
A number of faith points appeared in front of Murphy's eyes. Generally speaking, once the faith points generated by the prayer ceremony exceeded 1,000 points, a prompt would pop up in Murphy's faith system .
Murphy must deal with this, or respond to the prayer and perform a miracle according to the coordinates provided by the Dragon Priest.
If you refuse to respond, the other party is likely to be greatly disappointed, resulting in a decrease in the influence of the dragon's faith.
He clicked on the list of Storm Dragon Priests. Currently there were only about twenty Storm Dragon Priests, twelve of which were in Alterac, and all of them were guest priests of the Cult of the Dragon.
8 Centaurs and 4 High Elves.
The one who initiated the prayer ceremony was the high elf.
Mo Fei thought, is this going to start? Thinking about it, it's almost time.
Since the other party has initiated a prayer ceremony, just respond. This is what we agreed upon before.
Usually only priests are qualified to initiate prayer ceremonies, but there are not many requirements for those who participate in the prayer ceremony. All you have to do is pray loudly. With only more than 2,000 points of faith power, it seems that the influence of the Wind Walker family is limited.
Originally Murphy was going to deduct half of it, but after thinking that we are friends after all, he gave you a 25% discount and sent you a Storm of 1,500 Faith Points.
Click to initiate miracle - generate storm - generate a small storm of 1000 points, and with the remaining 500 points, I will give you a thunder-fall special effect.
With a thought, a storm was born in the direction of Quel'Thalas.
[System prompt: You used the miracle - secondary storm/thunder, the storm has been born. ]
Kaya Windrunner: Aidan, this storm is too small. Where is the map cannon?
Aidan: That’s good. The faith points you gave me are too few, so I’m already giving you the miracle at cost price.
At this moment, outside Silvermoon City, three armies have surrounded Silvermoon City on three sides.
The expeditionary force of the Night Elf Alliance was in the west, the Alliance army was in the center, and Prince Kael'thas also led the elven army to launch an offensive in the east.
However, although the momentum was huge, the offensive was not ideal. One monk carried water to drink, two monks lifted water to drink, and three monks had no water to drink.
The current situation perfectly illustrates this sentence.
Although the three parties are nominally an alliance, they all have their own agenda.
As a result, they did not use their full strength. Seeing that the attack was not going well, Kaya Windrunner summoned the only thousands of Storm Followers in the army to perform a summoning ceremony.
Unfortunately, the summoned storm was obviously not very powerful. Not to mention destroying the city walls, it couldn't even take down a tower. But it was not without help. At least it weakened the long-range firepower on the top of the city walls a lot.
Moreover, the special effects of lightning strikes also caused certain environmental damage.
Badao Wuqing stood in front of the Sun Realm Highlands, looking at the storm over Silvermoon City in the distance and couldn't help but frown. He was too familiar with the smell of this storm. Is that kid Aidan going to join the battle too?
However, the scale of the storm did not seem too big, and he felt less nervous. It was much smaller than the storm summoned by that guy last time.
He turned back to look at Grogo Evil Eye, "Hurry up and have your people speed up the progress. The enemy can't delay forever. We must complete our plan as soon as possible."
Before our eyes, the Sunwell, which was originally filled with arcane energy, has obviously weakened a lot. These days, the tribe has been desperately developing the value of the Sunwell, filling it with well water, purifying void crystals, and giving initiations to mages.
One third of the Sunwell's energy has been consumed.
However, Badao Wuqing was still not satisfied. These were just small amounts of money, and he finally got a big job recently.
Open the door for the three rich BOSS players who are in the Burning Legion. As long as you pull their real bodies over, 100 million will be deposited into your account directly.
This way we can earn back the money we spent on this military campaign in no time, so we cannot be careless.
The outline of a huge portal in front of us has been built. After some adjustments, it can be activated using the energy of the Sunwell.
The remaining energy of the Sunwell is enough to summon three legion lord-level demons into the real plane.
Nothing can go wrong at this time.
Silvermoon City must be defended.
…
Murphy just sent out a miracle.
The sound of prayer rang in my ears again.
Oscar (Goddess): "Storm Dragon Aidandelon, I call your name in the name of the gods. Please lend me your power so that I can punish the enemy in front of me with the power of the storm!"
[System prompt: Oscar, the oracle, initiates the 'oracle ritual' to summon the power of the storm. The current accumulated faith points are 4978. Do you want to respond? Yes/No.]
Hey, a messenger of gods?
Murphy hurriedly opened the belief system and found that the other party was actually a hero.
The messenger of God should be a heroic profession. Looking at the coordinates of the miracle, this should be Godwin summoning support.
When Godwin asked him to join the war, Murphy did promise to provide map artillery support. Of course, it was not free and required the power of faith.
However, Godwin did not have a dragon priest under his command, and Murphy thought that the other party would not ask for help, but he found a necromancer from somewhere.
The oracle is a heroic profession. Unlike ordinary pastors and priests who need to believe in a certain god or demigod of the wilderness, the oracle does not need to believe in any god, but can borrow the power of any god, but the price is also quite huge.
It is said that what is consumed is lifespan. Every time a shaman descends, the age of the character increases accordingly. When the lifespan is used up, the shaman will die naturally.
It seems that Godwin is anxious and even forcibly summons a miracle.
Well, you are a member of the alliance after all, so I'll give you a 40% discount. With nearly 5,000 faith points, I can give you a medium-sized storm with 3,000 faith points. It's not a loss at all.
Click to launch miracle - generate storm - generate medium storm of 2000 points, and with the remaining 1000 points, I will give you a blizzard special effect.
With a thought, a storm was born in the direction of Quel'Thalas.
Above the battlefield, a larger storm quickly formed, bringing with it ice, snow, and biting cold winds, sweeping towards Silvermoon City.
As soon as Murphy finished performing the miracle, he heard a voice in his ears again. This time the voice was unusually clear, and was mixed with all kinds of strange cries and sounds of fear before death.
Chiron Windsinger (Storm Dragon Priest): "Great Storm Dragon Aidandelon, we humble believers, here to pray for your help. These lives and souls are all sacrifices dedicated to you. Please show your terrifying power to the fullest, and we must wipe out my enemies."
[System prompt: Chiron Windsinger, the Centaur Storm Dragon Priest, has initiated a 'sacrifice ritual' to summon the power of a huge storm. The current accumulated faith points are 15,783. Do you want to respond? Yes/No.]
