Ankhet is an out-and-out enemy-occupied area. Sarlayan and Onyxia destroyed the guards and captured the faceless men, causing quite a stir. The Fallen patrolling nearby quickly discovered this place.
abnormal situation.
As soon as Sharlayan and Onyxia spread their wings and took off, at least hundreds of Fallen surrounded them, refining the void energy in their bodies to release spells remotely at the two giant dragons in the air.
Onyxia, who was leading the way, was not deterred at all, and sprayed out a mouthful of Shadow Flame Dragon Breath.
Affected by Deathwing, Onyxia has two different attributes: shadow and earth. Her dragon breath naturally contains a certain amount of void power.
When the same kind of forces collide with each other, the one with higher quality will inevitably devour the one with lower quality.
Sarlayan and others sneaked along the way, but they did not see any Fallen who surpassed Onyxia in terms of strength, and there should not be any in the entire Fallen group.
Onyxia's dragon's breath left a "scar" of churning lava on the ground, and all the void spells that attacked her were forcefully swallowed by the Shadow Flame dragon's breath, without any splashing.
As a derivative of the Nerubians, the Fallen are relatively strong in land combat, but in air combat...
To use a not-so-appropriate analogy, is it wrong to ask the Earthworm, which can only drill into the ground, to fight against the air?
【This is my escape route! You oil the road!】
[Fortunately, the Nerubians dug a large gap in the underground space, otherwise it would be really difficult to fly in this place. 】
As the barrage said, the height difference in the deep underground where the ancient kingdom of Ankhet is located is at least hundreds of meters. It is unknown how many years it took the Nerubians to dig out such a large underground space.
Such a wide space allows Onyxia and Sharlayan to spread their wings and fly without worrying about hitting the ceiling as soon as they take off.
Onyxia relied on her strong defense to clear the way in front. The Fallen's spell hit her without any pain or itching, and was unable to break through the defense.
Sarlayan's front paws were still holding the faceless man who had been knocked unconscious. The densely packed fallen ones on the ground made him understand the psychology of patients with trypophobia that Danmaku had previously mentioned.
The further you advance toward the upper level where Azjol-Nerub's defense line is located, the more exaggerated the number of fallen people are, almost reaching the point of being crowded.
Although the fallen have low intelligence, they are like worker bees ordered by the queen bee. They have strong discipline and can show strong coordination ability when attacking the enemy.
After receiving the order from their superiors, tens of thousands of fallen people on the ground uniformly released various long-range spells into the air.
Onyxia is not afraid of these injuries, but Sharlayan cannot rely on her abnormal physical fitness to resist.
As a last resort, Onyxia took a deep breath and once again breathed the Shadow Flame Dragon Breath downwards while flying at high speed.
The powerful dragon's breath created a small vacuum zone in the enemy group, thus disrupting the originally neat pace of the fallen.
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At the same time, the Faldorei elite scouts led by Shista returned to Azjol-Nerub's border defenses first.
Due to the language barrier between the two sides, the Azjol Nerub soldiers who stopped Fal'dorei didn't know what they were talking about at first.
Fortunately, body language is common across all races.
Under the dancing explanation of Faldorei scout, the general guarding the border roughly understood what they meant.
"Will the Fallen launch a major attack soon?"
This general, who belongs to the underground spider demon clan, is somewhat dubious.
According to past practice, in order to reduce losses and avoid replenishing the supply of troops, the Fallen will not attack again within a short period of time after each attack, but will first "digest" the Azjol Nerub who were captured by them.
Before Sarlayan and others sneaked into Ankhet, the border defenders had just repelled a new round of Nerubian attacks. Logically speaking, they would not attack again so soon.
As a member of the Nerub noble crypt spider demons, the general named Anuchinsky had his own intelligence channels and had a vague understanding of the recent major events in the royal city. It was said that foreign reinforcements were about to arrive.
The appearance of the spider-shaped Faldorei is similar to that of the Nerubians, but they are very different in nature. Anuchinsky can tell at a glance that they are the so-called foreign reinforcements.
Considering the position and attitude of his royal brother, Anuchinsky hesitated for a while, and finally chose to believe these foreign friends who could not communicate with words.
"Climb the city wall! Everyone is on alert! Get all the ballistae ready to fire!"
Facts have proved that Anuchinsky's choice was correct.
The unaware Azron-Nerub garrison had just obeyed the order and returned to their posts. Before they had time to wonder, the sound of fierce fighting came from the depths of the lower passage that had already calmed down.
The Crypt Spider Demons are so huge that Anuchinsky cannot stand on the city wall. With his height, he can directly see the outside scene over the 5-meter-high city wall.
A large number of Fallen were crowding out from the depths of the passage. Different from the previous orderly attacks, the formation of the Fallen was somewhat scattered, which made Anuchinsky very confused.
But soon, his questions were answered.
"hold head high!
"
A huge black dragon flying in the sky breathed out flaming dragon breath and flapped its wings violently as it passed over the insect swarm. Behind the black dragon was a smaller member of its own race who was always covered in gold.
"...dragon?"
Anuchinsky, who was born into a noble family, could be considered someone who had seen the market before. When he saw the two giant dragons flying high, he was stunned for a few seconds.
"Why are there giant dragons underground? And... why did they burst out of Ankhet?"
Although there are still many questions in my mind, now is obviously not the time to get to the bottom of it.
Anuchinsky still remembered his duties and shook his head to put away the messy thoughts.
"Fire the ballista! Avoid the friendly forces in the air and hit me hard!"
"Boom!"
Azjol Nerub is also an ancient race that has developed for tens of thousands of years. Due to the lack of communication with the outside world, their technology and magic development are relatively backward, but they are not far behind, except that they do not have firearms.
The large-caliber crossbow arrows fired from the Nerub people's specially-made ballistae hit the Fallen's stormtroopers one after another, further disrupting their already somewhat scattered formation.
While Anuchinsky was directing the battle, he focused part of his attention on the two giant dragons that continued to approach.
When he noticed the deformed tentacle creature held under the claws of the smaller golden dragon, Anuchinsky's eyes suddenly shrank, and he recalled the ancient history he had read in books when he was a child.
"That's...the Faceless One?!"
To most Nerubians, the Faceless Men are legends that only exist in history books.
But Anuchinsky knew that as the mouthpiece of the ancient gods, the Faceless Men had never really been far away from the Nerubian civilization. They lurked in dark corners where the general public could not observe and made trouble.
It is true that Anuchinsky had never seen the Faceless Man with his own eyes, but through the higher education he had received since childhood, he was able to identify the deformed tentacle monster at a glance.
The appearance of the Faceless Man made Anuchinsky instinctively realize that there was a turning point that would change the overall situation. He forced himself to concentrate, gave orders loudly and energetically, and devoted all his energy to battlefield command.
After escaping the danger and returning to the friendly defense lines, Sarlayan and Onyxia's tense nerves were finally relieved, and the exhaustion suppressed by adrenaline doubled back.
Even Onyxia, who has an amazing physique, is deeply tired from breathing dragon's breath many times in a row, let alone Sharlayan.
Even with Onyxia drawing most of the firepower from the front, Sharlayan would never be unscathed during this breakout.
Fortunately, his vitality is strong enough, and the parts injured by the fallen will heal automatically soon.
But while using his vitality to continuously repair his wounds, Sarlayan's physical strength was also rapidly depleted.
Sarlayan couldn't even stand firm when he landed behind the city wall. The huge dragon body staggered as it landed on the ground on three legs.
In order to avoid falling to the ground in embarrassment, Sarlayan immediately changed back to his human form and stepped on the faceless man whom he threw on the ground as a support to stabilize his body.
After Onyxia folded her wings and landed on the ground, she quickly transformed into a human form, and rushed forward to support Sarlayan, whose center of gravity was unstable.
"Are you okay?"
"Huh~" Sarlayan, who looked a little pale, exhaled a breath and forced a smile to Onyxia: "It's okay, I'm just a little weak."
"Sure enough, under the crazy attack of thousands of troops and horses, I still can't get through the legendary bush of thousands of flowers without even a leaf touching me."
Onyxia rolled her eyes angrily: "Stop joking now, why don't you go and take a rest first, and I'll check on this guy."
"Need not."
Sarlayan raised his hand and rubbed his temples heavily to cheer up: "We don't have that time, do you still have the energy left? Pry out important information from the faceless man's mind as soon as possible."
"I suspect that there may be some shady secret cooperation between Yogg-Saron and the Lich King. Otherwise, it cannot be explained why they have such a tacit understanding and launch a large-scale attack at the same time."