Valeela's emotions gradually calmed down, and then she realized what she had done in front of Vilas, and stepped aside without saying a word with her face flushed.
Vileless glanced at Valeera, who instantly transformed into a chocobo, with interest, and took the time to give Sarlayan a "well done" look.
Sarlayan rolled his eyes angrily: 'These elders... are all old and ignorant.'
After all, Villeless was not a fun-loving person like Julian. After joking about his nephew's emotional problems, he quickly regained his composure.
"Are you really okay? The veins on your forehead popped out before, and your face looked very ferocious."
Sarai exhaled with fear: "Fortunately, thanks to the help of noble people, I can't be so careless in the future."
All members of the Twilight Hammer have been specially "taken care of" by C'Thun, and each Twilight Hammer is equivalent to a beacon for it to observe the outside world.
When the beacon was touched, it would naturally attract C'Thun's attention, and Sharlayan, who was infected with C'Thun's aura, was found by following the mark.
Fortunately, C'Thun's strength was greatly weakened by the seal of the quicksand wall.
If he faced the complete form of the ancient god, even with Bwonsamdi's help, Sharlayan would not be able to escape his fate.
Velez patted Sarlayan's shoulder in self-reproach: "I was careless. Fortunately, you are okay. Otherwise, I don't know how to explain to Julian and Inas."
Sarlayan smiled and shook his head: "It doesn't matter. Every time you take a step, you will gain wisdom. I will never be tricked by the ancient god next time."
Villes had few opportunities to deal with the ancient gods. All he knew about the ancient gods came from his younger brother Julian.
Since he had never personally come into contact with the ancient gods, Veles underestimated C'Thun's power, which led to this sudden crisis.
The sandstorm outside is still roaring, showing no signs of subsideping at all, but intensifying.
Although Villes can barely move despite the sandstorm, there is no need to risk that little time now.
He was still a little worried about Sarlayan's condition, so he happened to accept the invitation of the two juniors and stay in the cave with them to wait for the storm to go away.
…
When the sandstorm disappeared, a crescent moon hung in the clear sky again.
Since they had already rested in the cave for a while, the three energetic people rushed back to Cenarion Fortress overnight.
As expected, Villeless was very well prepared when he went into action.
He deliberately changed his vocal habits and stooped slightly, making it difficult for even acquaintances to recognize him at a glance.
Veles did not intend to contact the official night elves, so he took Valeera to the hotel first, and Sharlayan went to the fortress' administrative hall alone to report the situation.
Night is the time when the night elves are active. Hamuul and the tauren have not yet reversed the jet lag, and they have already gone back to their rooms and are fast asleep.
After reporting his name to Keda, Sarlayan ignored the chance to reminisce with the female archdruid and told her the information he had discovered with a serious expression.
Koda Steelclaw is a guardian druid who specializes in transformation. Her temper is not as violent as that of Shaun Moonclaw, another great druid.
After listening to Sarlayan's report, Keda kept frowning.
The steady Koda was not busy passing the news to the rear. She repeatedly asked Sharlayan for details, and finally confirmed it after getting the translated texts of the Twilight's Hammer from him.
"We have failed in our duty."
Keda said with some annoyance: "I didn't expect that group of strange alien races to have contact with C'Thun. I thought they were just simple lunatics."
Orcs and ogres are not native species to Azeroth. Koda has never seen such creatures before. He originally wanted to catch a few madmen and study them, but he never attacked them.
The existence of Zora's Hive has been basically confirmed, but the information about Rhaegal's Hive still only exists in words.
Keda, who always maintained the appearance of a giant bear, walked back and forth in the hall with some hesitation.
"Cenario Fortress has only existed as a surveillance outpost for a thousand years, and there are not many druids arranged to stand guard here."
"The reinforcements from the rear haven't arrived yet. I want to report the situation to General Shandis first. I hope she can arrange for manpower to arrive as soon as possible."
"Before this, we can only choose one of the camps as a target. As for the other side that has not yet been confirmed..."
Sarlayan understood what Koda meant and readily took the responsibility.
"Leave it to me, we will investigate the insect nest thoroughly."
Keda solemnly nodded to Sarlayan: "Please, but please be sure to pay attention to safety and don't let Inas feel sad for you."
"I will."
The Cenarion Circle is temporarily unable to spare the manpower to fight on two fronts, which can be regarded as playing into Veles's hands.
The intelligence that can be obtained through observation has reached its limit, and Verles hopes to actually fight against the bugs and test their abilities personally.
The Zora Hive is left to the Cenarion Circle, and the Rhaegal Hive is a good place for the Backlight Blade to be tested.
Veles has secretly issued an order, notifying the Backlight Blade elites scattered throughout Silithus to gather near the Twilight's Hammer camp in the east to first eliminate these lunatic lunatics.
…
"Crack!"
After killing the last low-level flying insect man with wings, Sarlayan flapped his partially changed flesh wings and suspended in the air to overlook the battle situation below.
The thieves of Backlight Blade have a very unified fighting style. They will never engage in head-on combat with the enemy, and they will always be stealthy and in-depth.
After destroying the Twilight's Hammer in the ground camp, the experienced thieves quickly found the secret entrance to the underground insect nest, and a group of 13 people sneaked in.
Since the Rego Nest is still in the construction stage, there are not many bugs inside, and the underground structure is not that complicated.
After basically killing the entire insect nest, Villeless ordered the thieves to burn the half-finished insect nest and kill all the eggs inside.
"These are just low-level bugs, and many of them are workers responsible for engineering operations."
Villeless said with some worry: "You can roughly get a glimpse of the fighting methods of these bugmen. It is likely that the Qiraji have a spiritual network that is connected to each other."
"They can share information through this network and record the enemy's fighting style and habits. Even if they die, they can pass the information to other members of the same race, allowing them to formulate targeted battle plans next time they encounter the same enemy."
This is the most frightening ability of the buggers who use the hive network to connect to each other.
Low-level bugmen have almost no self-awareness, they are just the lowest nodes in the hive network.
However, through these nodes, the intelligence they collect can be uploaded to the main network, so that everyone in the clan can learn and draw lessons from it.
The Backlight Blade wanted to find out the details of the bug people, but little did they know that the Qiraji bug people were also having the same idea.
While fighting different bug-men, the attentive Verless discovered a problem.
They seem to be becoming more and more familiar with their own fighting styles and habits.
Although due to the huge gap in strength between them, it is impossible to achieve any effect through these small means, but as the saying goes, a glimpse of one spot can reveal the whole leopard.
If those high-level insectoids with legendary strength obtain the same information, they can seize the advantage in a more targeted manner during the battle. This is obviously not good news for Velez.
"It seems that I will not be able to participate in the decisive battle against Ahn'Qiraj."
Stabbing the dagger into the body of the last reptilian bug-man, Verles sighed softly: "Your Majesty and the prince must be told this news. The night elves... do they know the characteristics of the bug-man?"
Sarai nodded calmly: "You should know, we can all find the problem, and the night elves who fought fiercely with the bugmen thousands of years ago will definitely not miss it."
Velez nodded: "Fortunately, the Qiraji Empire was crippled by trolls once in ancient times. If their civilization had not been cut off from generation to generation, with the hive network connecting the whole society, we don't know how far it has developed now.
Already."
Sharlayan believed that. Thanks to the trolls and night elves, they gave head-on blows when the Qiraji Empire was preparing to rise twice. Otherwise, it would be hard to say who would dominate Azeroth.
"The intelligence collection is almost done, we..."
"Buzz!"
A violent vibration came from deeper underground in the insect nest, and the elite team that sneaked into the Rego insect nest hurriedly lowered their center of gravity and stabilized their bodies.
"This is?"
Villes looked at his feet in surprise, as if something was rapidly approaching the surface from underground.
"spread!"
Under Villes's order, the thieves who were resting and recovering their strength jumped back in groups of two.
"Boom!"
A huge long-shaped insect emerged from the ground and penetrated into the wall of the insect nest at the other end in front of everyone.