27. Elonaia's search --- for the upcoming Ji Hai year [19/20]
Xueliu Plain has found many allies on the side of the mortal coalition. The mortals have tightly twisted into a rope under the guidance of an ambitious goal. And at the level of the guardian, Ai, who is standing on the side of the coalition,
Lonaya breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that the power of mortals was increasing day by day, and they could now confront Loken's Stormcast Legion head-on.
She stood on the snow slopes of the Snow Stream Plain, watching the high-spirited mortal legions stationed in this sacred land of creation, and seeing these weak flesh and blood creatures unite to form a force that she had to look directly at.
Power, this epic war between ants and giants made this female guardian feel passionate. Inspired by the unyielding mortals, she finally made a decision.
It's time to find allies among the Guardians!
Before leaving, Elonaya gave some instructions to Muradin and Brian, and then on a snowy morning, she quietly left the Snow Flood Plain and rushed towards the Temple of Storms in the south of Storm Cliffs.
There is the temple of Storm Guardian Thorim, who was broken down by the death of his wife and set up a trap by the traitor Loken. Finally, he was tortured by vicious words and left Ulduar sadly.
For thousands or even nearly ten thousand years, he has been alone on the top floor of his Temple of Storms.
This is a sentimental and lonely guardian.
In these thousands of years, he has watched the changes in the entire Storm Peaks. He is unwilling to interfere in anything, not even willing to pay attention to the requests for help from his own family, the Vrykul people living in the Storm Peaks. Loken tens of thousands of years ago
The war provoked by the Guardian Familia has never ended. The vrykul here have been fighting an endless war with the ice giants living in the mountains northeast of the Storm Peaks.
Thorim is the god of storms, thunder and lightning, and hunting. This is the lofty title given to him by his dependents. In legends, the angry storm guardians single-handedly set off thunder and lightning storms that can even compete with the wind elemental army Aura.
In the Battle of the Lord, Thorim was also a fierce general among the guardians. Every time he flew over the battlefield on his powerful thunder ancestor dragon mother Velanas, he waved the warhammer in his hand.
Umir will summon thunder and lightning that drowns everything, burying all his enemies in the storm and lightning.
Even those enemies who dared to provoke Thorim survived the first air strike. When they tried to fight the powerful Thorim in close combat, the two powerful Titan wolves Hati and Sun Chaser who were tamed by Thorim
, will also follow his brave master onto the battlefield. No enemy can survive the attack of Thorim and his beasts until the end... In the past tens of thousands of years, Thorim's war has never been defeated.
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When the Storm Guardian still retained his sanity, he was a benevolent and majestic ruler. He protected the Vrykul tribe in the Storm Peaks. Even when they suffered the curse of flesh and blood, he did not abandon them.
This kind of protection is engraved in the bones of the local Vrykul clan. Even after Thorim's will collapsed, his dependents still did not abandon him.
The most powerful Vrykul tribe here, the female Vrykul warriors of Brunhilda Village, hold a grand hunting ceremony every year. Only those huntresses who have hunted the most and best prey are eligible.
Riding the Storm Ancestral Dragon, soaring in the sky of the Temple of Storms, eager to win the favor of his god Thorim...
Well, this Vrykul tribe also appeared when Brian introduced the Storm Peaks environment to Zhou Zhuo... This is the she-wolf tribe that can catch men.
Yes, there are only women in this powerful Vrykul tribe, not men.
It is also the tradition of Brunhilda Village to ride on the Ancestral Dragon and soar in the Temple of Storms, calling Thorim's name. It is said that tens of thousands of years ago, Thorim's wife Sif was in this ceremony.
She was favored by Thorim and became the sacred and noble spouse of the guardian... So this tradition has continued. Unfortunately, Thorim, who is still dejected by the death of his wife, has no interest in choosing anymore.
My second wife.
He was like a stone statue, staying so quietly on his throne. In thousands of years, he did not even move his body. Even his most loyal hound, Zhuri, was too lonely from time to time.
Will sneak away to certain places in the Storm Peaks to have some fun.
And today, on this very ordinary day with nothing to remember at all, Thorim's ten thousand years of loneliness finally came to an end, although the form of this end was slightly problematic.
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"Wow"
The cold, knife-like winds on the Storm Cliff became docile at this moment. They gently blew up the cloak of the mysterious visitor, seeming to express their respect to this noble person. Under the cloak, what was exposed was
The two visitors with bronze-like steel bodies and cloaks jumped from the back of the Storm Ancestral Dragon, which had always been violent but now seemed extremely docile, and landed on the devastated main hall of the Temple of Storms.
The guardians of Ulduar have their own temples throughout the Storm Peaks. As a fortress garrisoned during war, the Storm Temple stands like a pillar on the ground. Its height is more than 200 yards, and it can even be viewed from here.
To the distant shadow of the titan city of Ulduar.
In front of the two visitors, in the center of the palace, which had been turned into ruins because no one had cleaned it for a long time, on the throne surrounded by weak storms and thunder and lightning, the whole body was made of steel and dotted with lightning gems.
The handsome guardian with a flying wing crown, Thorim, seemed to be asleep. He supported his face with his left hand and closed his eyes. On that handsome face, his brows were furrowed, as if he was dreaming.
Something bad has happened.
The long period of solitude made the Storm Guardian's vigilance drop to the extreme. He didn't even notice the two uninvited visitors until one of them coughed lightly.
"Ahem...my brother."
Len reached out and unhooked his hood. He looked at Thorim in front of him and said in a deep voice:
"Dream, it's time to wake up!"
The voice of the Great Guardian Rai seemed to have some kind of magic. Under his call, Thorim, who had been sleeping for thousands of years, opened his eyes after a few seconds. The decadent guardian who woke up from a dream subconsciously
He lowered his head and saw the great guardian who had shrunk his body and stood in front of him like a mortal... The leader of the guardian who had not been seen for tens of thousands of years, Lai!
This made Thorim suddenly think that he was not awake yet. He reached out and patted his face, making a sound of steel colliding.
Thorim's doubts are normal, because even before he collapsed, in Aldu'ar more than 20,000 years ago, Rai's whereabouts had become a mystery. The great guardian seemed to have encountered someone.
This kind of disaster has not been contacted by Ulduar for thousands of years. The troops sent by Loken to search for Rai in the south of the world found nothing. The great guardian seemed to have disappeared mysteriously.
"I must be hallucinating..."
Just like his title, Thorim's voice was as deep as lightning and thunder, but there was a trace of decadence that could not be concealed in the voice. He stood up from the huge throne and said something unaccustomed to it.
Taking a step forward, Thorim's body quickly shrank, and soon became the same human size as Rai.
The three of them were like dwarfs standing in a giant's palace, looking at each other.
"Honorable Lai, is it really you?"
Thorim stretched out his hand, seemingly intending to touch Rai's body to confirm that he really existed, but was blocked by Rai's hand. The great guardian was not used to letting others touch his new body.
The body, after all, is the structural body that Sargeras once used. Who knows if there is any curse left in it.
Behind Rai, the Shaper Azadas, who was as loyal a guard as he was thousands of years ago, took a step forward and shouted to Thorim:
"This is the Great Guardian, Thorim. We are here today because there are some things that we need your help with!"
Thorim turned to look at Azadas who had a new body, and he said with some emotion:
"Ah, Shaper Azadas, the last time we met was more than 20,000 years ago. I'm sorry that I couldn't help you when you were chased by the crazy Iron Legion. Wait for me
The family members reported this matter to me, and when I rushed to help, the respectable Tire, he had already... Well, that was really a tragedy."
"That's not a tragedy, Thorim!"
Hearing Thorim mention what happened twenty-five thousand years ago, Azadas's rock-shaped face suddenly flashed with anger, and he shouted loudly:
"That was a conspiracy! An ugly betrayal and ambush! Loken betrayed us, Thorim, it was he who started all this behind the scenes! The war between the fire giant and the ice giant, the earth spirit was slaughtered by the iron dwarf, the flesh and blood
The spread of the curse, the disintegration of the guardians, the death of Chief Tyr, and even...even the war between you and Angrim, the king of ice giants, all of this is Loken's conspiracy!"
"You are wrong!"
Thorim's eyes widened, and streaks of lightning flashed in the corners of his eyes. This lonely guardian seemed unwilling to recall the tragic past, and he said with some pain:
"That's not a conspiracy! Angrim killed my wife, and I avenged Sif. Driven by the fire of anger, I made a wrong decision, which directly triggered the war between the storm giant and the ice giant.
, causing the storm giants to be on the verge of extinction, and the aftermath of that war still remains on the Storm Cliffs today..."
"Look there!"
Thorim pointed to the valley east of the Temple of Storms, and he said somewhat desolately:
"I killed Angrim, the King of Giants, and I killed Hodir's favorite leader of the Familia, which caused my Familia and the Ice Giants to fight each other for tens of thousands of years. The hatred between the two sides has been completely irresolvable. I
He was the one who caused the Guardians to fall apart, I know...but I don't regret it! And Loken, Loken is right."
"If Sif is still alive, and she sees me doing such a thing for her, it will definitely shame Sif, and she will be ashamed of me... That's why I chose self-exile, my brothers.
..I have done something truly wrong. I no longer have the face to return to holy Ulduar, and I can no longer face our brothers."
After saying that, the Storm Guardian was like an old mortal, his waist was a little stooped, he turned and walked towards his throne, he waved to Rai and Azadas behind him, and he whispered:
"That's it, let me die so lonely. This is my punishment... I destroyed the order established by the Titans for my own feelings. I am a selfish person... I no longer deserve to be
Become one of you."
Azadas's face was filled with anger. He stepped forward to scold Thorim, who was completely blinded by Loken's rhetoric and malicious thoughts, and asked him to come to his senses, but he was stopped by Rai.
The great guardian looked at the back of Thorim in front of him. He could feel the pain and self-blame in Thorim's heart. The brave guardian in front of him was indeed confused by Loken, but the knot in his heart was him.
It was a set up by himself. Unless he saw the truth and unless he untied the knot in his heart, no one could use words to persuade him to rejoin the battlefield.
The problem is... there seems to be no time left for Thorim to untie his knot.
Mortals will attack the Hall of Lightning at any time, and they have no idea that the ancient god Yogg-Saron in Ulduar has laid a trap for them, and the entire Ulduar may have fallen.
Rai must enter the city before the mortals enter Ulduar...or help the mortals when they are about to be defeated.
This great guardian still obeys the order of the Titans in his heart. What's more, when he met with Elune, the sleeping planet spirit begged him to help and protect these brave mortals. Elune is more important than anyone else.
Everyone knows that this matter cannot be entrusted to High Lord Tyrion...
It's not that she doesn't trust Tyrion...
If it were Tyrion, then the high lord would only watch indifferently as these mortals stepped into the trap, and would even encourage them to move forward bravely, and then happily harvest their brave souls. Although it was also for Elune, but the planet
Ling does not want to base her growth on the sacrifice of brave mortals for her.
"I know you are in pain, my brother."
Rai shook his head and took a step forward. The black cloak on his body was rustling in the wind. He looked at Thorim in front of him. He stretched out his left hand and a steel sword dancing with thunder and lightning jumped in.
In the hands of the Great Guardian, he said to Thorim sitting on the throne:
"But unfortunately, there is no time left for you to feel sorry for yourself. I don't care what you have done in the past, and I don't care what you are willing to do for what reason. Those so-called mistakes are just insignificant to the current situation.
Small problem, I order you as the Great Guardian, you must rejoin the battlefield!"
"This world needs your power. You must work with us to eliminate the traitor Loken and his followers and retake Ulduar!"
"Or...I use another way to help you become a qualified Titan warrior again!"
Lai flipped his wrist, and while the sword wind roared, he whispered:
"And I also know that you are eager to see the truth, no matter how it is!"
"The enemy is there! My brother, it's time to wield the sword."