In fact, even if the two of them do not plan to return in the near future, they have to return to the Hanhai Protectorate.
Because on the night when Li De and Nogfogg decided to return, a disaster occurred in the Hanhai Protectorate!
The incident happened in the deep sand plain. That night in the settlement near the ancient city of Petra, people were sleeping when they suddenly felt the world spinning!
The whole earth is like a dustpan, and people feel like they are like beans in a dustpan. They have completely lost control of their bodies and can only bump up and down with the roar of the earth.
The whole process lasted a full two minutes!
After the earthquake ended, the ancient city of Petra was surrounded by ruins, and only this wonder still looked relatively complete.
"What the hell is going on?! Haggard! Haggard! Where are you?!"
Chen Stormstout held two people on his left and right arms, and carried two more on his shoulders. In such a disaster, being able to save six people at the first time was already his limit.
The Brewmaster stood in the ruins and shouted at the top of his lungs. The person who was stationed here with him to manage the wasteland reclamation group was Haggard, the Minister of Civil Affairs. Now, no matter how much he shouted, he still couldn't get a response, Chen Stormstout's heart was already cold.
Half of it.
Even he could barely protect himself from such a massive earthquake, and Haggard might have been killed unfortunately.
"Master Chen, I'm here..."
Just as Lao Chen was thinking this, a feeble voice came from the distance. If Lao Chen hadn't been so smart, he might not have been able to hear the other party's cry for help.
When they came to a collapsed wall, Haggard, whose face was covered in blood, had one of his legs smashed into it, and was now struggling to move away the wall that was pressing on him with one hand.
Old Chen could tell at a glance that his other arm was dislocated. He let go and saved the man. Chen Stormstout stepped forward and moved the fallen wall away. He did not rush to help Haggard up after that.
Instead, he stroked the other person's arm with his hand and helped him take the hand with a bang.
"What exactly is going on?"
Haggard, who was helped up, said in shock that in the face of natural disasters, people will realize how insignificant they are. The impact tonight is even stronger than the orc war.
"There's no time to think about this! It's only right to save people as soon as possible!"
Chen Stormstout roared in his ears, which suddenly woke Haggard up.
"Yes, yes! Disaster relief should be organized immediately!"
Haggard's eyes were filled with ruins, and Haggard's heart was bleeding. How many casualties would there be among the people in such a disaster? Soon Haggard discovered that due to the sudden incident, the escort team also lost contact, and they may have also suffered a huge loss.
Loss, how should they provide disaster relief?!
Seeing that Haggard was a little confused, Old Chen immediately spoke quickly.
"I'll be here to guard you. Go back to Gadgetzan quickly to get in touch and report the matter to the Protector. If the disaster in Gadgetzan is not serious, please ask Niebuhr to mobilize troops for rescue immediately."
Haggard shook his head and said.
"We need to get in touch with Gadgetzan as quickly as possible. I'm injured and can't move quickly. It's better for you to go back to Gadgetzan. I'll stay here to organize disaster relief for survivors."
However, Chen Stormstout's tone was stern and left no room for argument.
"Stop dawdling! Listen to me! I have to stay here!"
As he spoke, the wine master stared intently at the ancient city of Petra. On the top of the mountain of the ancient city, a red figure made of lava appeared!
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Chapter 320: Elemental Disaster
The warning from the Soul Walker actually came true!
An idea flashed through Chen Stormstout's mind. The lava body more than ten meters high was particularly conspicuous at night, like a red lamp lighting up the ancient city of Petra.
"What the hell is that?!"
Haggard said in surprise, Lao Chen walked forward without looking back.
"Don't waste time, we need the army! There are many lives here that need us to protect!"
This sentence woke up Haggard. Looking at the huge elemental creature on the mountain in the distance, he understood that Lao Chen had a reason to stay.
"I understand, you must hold on!"
After that, Haggard limped into action. At this time, several surviving soldiers gathered around him. Everyone did not forget their responsibilities and reported to Haggard as soon as possible after getting out of the predicament.
Haggard took away two soldiers and left the rest to rescue the victims and assist Lao Chen.
They were lucky enough to find an undamaged motorcycle on the edge of the ruins, and the three of them drove towards Gadgetzan.
Listening to the sound of the motorcycle starting, Lao Chen focused on confronting the positive elemental creature.
"It's really interesting. I didn't expect that this gap can really lead to the elemental plane. The environment here is not bad."
The elemental creature made a dull sound and walked slowly down the mountain.
Its whole body is made of lava, and its upper body looks very strong. Its relatively narrow lower limbs are made of several spherical rocks, which are connected together by magic energy to form a huge disc-shaped foot. The stone disc rotates to make it
It has the ability to move.
Soon it noticed the existence of Lao Chen among the ruins of the descending world. The fire elemental creature raised its thick arm and announced its arrival to Lao Chen.
"Mortal, surrender to me! I am Garr, the adjutant of the lord of the fire element! This land will come under the rule of the fire element!"
The four ancient elements of earth, water, fire and wind are ruled by four elemental lords. Garr's allegiance is to Ragnaros, the fire elemental lord and the fire demon king.
In ancient times, the elemental lords were defeated by the four ancient gods and were forced to become minions of the Dark Empire. Later, the Titans came to Azeroth, created an army of Titan Guardians, defeated the elemental lords and sealed them to the elemental plane.
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In the long years since then, the elemental lords have constantly tried to escape from the elemental plane and come back to the real world.
Just "not long ago" Ragnaros encountered an opportunity. It was during the War of the Three Hammers between the dwarves. The Dark Iron dwarves used a ritual to summon Ragnaros, which turned the reckless Dark Iron dwarves into a fire elemental.
slave.
However, that summoning had considerable limitations. The Dark Iron dwarves used the powerful energy of the underground lava to resonate with Ragnaros' soul in the elemental plane. In fact, it did not truly break the elemental plane into the physical world.
obstacles.
Ragnaros' true form has not yet arrived, and even his scope of activity is limited to the Molten Core inside Blackstone Mountain.
Different from the summoning ceremony of the Dark Iron Dwarves, the power of the ancient city of Petra truly affects the elemental plane!
Transforming the natural environment of Tanaris, the ancient city of Petra extracted a large amount of the power of the earth element and the power of the water element. The stability of the real world is based on maintaining the balance of the four elemental forces.
The huge impact caused by the elemental imbalance created a gap in the elemental plane!
The changes here attracted the attention of Ragnaros, and he and his army of elemental creatures were ready to move. The gap created by Petra was still relatively small, unable to allow the huge elemental lord to pass.
Therefore, Ragnaros sent his adjutant Garr to fight in the front line. If there was resistance outside the gap, he would immediately kill him and create conditions for more elemental troops to come. At the same time, he would find a way to expand the gap so that Ragnaros could truly fight.
Be free!
"Fire element! Go back to where you should be! This place does not belong to you!"
Gal's arrogance made Chen Stormstout very angry, and he immediately choked back without showing any signs of weakness.
"What a bold mortal, ignorance will make you pay the price!"
The insignificant mortal dared to resist, which made Gal, who claimed to be indestructible, extremely angry. Fury is a character shared by all fire elements.
"Master, what should we do?"
Several dozen people gathered around Chen Stormstout asked anxiously.
"Leave the enemy to me, you go to the rescue now and transfer our people as soon as possible!"
As he spoke, Chen Stormstout climbed up to the ancient city of Petra and took the initiative to attack Gal!
"Stupid mortal!"
Gal's heavy fist was wrapped in flames and came down on Lao Chen. Lao Chen did not dodge and raised his fist to stun Gal's blow.
"boom!!!"
The collision between the two formed a shock wave, and the ruins closest to the ancient city were so shaken that cracks appeared!
Garr and Chen Stormstout each took a step back. The Fire Demon Adjutant was extremely surprised, and said in a dull voice mixed with anger and a bit of approval.
"Mortal, you are very strong, but I only used 20% of my strength in this blow."
The old man's beard and hair were a little frizzy due to the high temperature of the fire element, but the Brewmaster didn't care, and instead spoke contemptuously.
"Haha, but even so, my evaluation of you is: not as good as Sui Yan."
Garr didn't know who Suiyan was, but he could tell that it was a derogatory comment on him, and the two sides fought again.
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This earthquake was extremely destructive, and Gadgetzan was also severely affected. Fortunately, with complete infrastructure and efficient organizational structure, as well as the blessing of several Loa, it was finally safe.
After the earthquake, all functional departments in the city took quick action.
Brad, Niebuhr, Van Cleef, Birgwitz and others arrived at the scene immediately. Li De was not in the Hanhai Commandery, so the order jointly issued by them was also valid.
Everyone unanimously decided that the Hanhai Protectorate would enter a first-level alert state and immediately contact Li De and other areas.
"We must find out where the source of this disaster is. The damage in Gadgetzan is so serious, and it is easy to imagine other places."
In the headquarters of the emergency committee, Van Cleef said with a worried face.
There was a leak in the house, and it rained all night. At this moment, Bacquel Dumas, who was in charge of managing the teleportation array, came to report that Li De could not be contacted now.
Arcane magic is inherently a precise subject. Even the slightest influence will cause the magic to fail, let alone such a difficult magic as cross-continental transmission?
The chaos just now caused the teleportation array to malfunction. After inspection by Barker Dumas and several other mages, it was found that there were as many as 37 magic circuit faults! Now the mages are busy repairing it.
"Must be quick!"
Regarding this kind of force majeure, Van Cleef had nothing to say. He could only tell Buckel to hurry up. There was no point in losing his temper at this time. On the contrary, it might cause the mages to make mistakes due to blind urging.
"Where did the source of this disaster appear?"
Niebuhr pondered for a long time and said the key to the problem. At this moment, the shadow of old Garni appeared in front of everyone.
"The source of the disaster comes from the deep sandy plains."
Old Gani, who had always been informal, also stopped joking at this time and said with an extremely serious expression.
"Deep sandy plain? The ancient city of Petra?!"
Van Cleef reacted immediately. Li De had mentioned the soul walker to him some time ago. After that, Van Cleef also contacted the Bureau of Geostatistics to investigate the natural situation in Tanaris.
However, after investigating for a period of time, he still couldn't find the solution. In the end, Van Cleef became somewhat relaxed about this matter, but he never expected that it would finally come true at this moment!
Look at old Gani again, his face full of sadness.
"The ancient evil power has awakened. It is a horror that even I have never seen..."
Among the Loa, Old Garni is the oldest, but even he was born in the wilderness after the collapse of the Dark Empire. For him, the era when the elemental lords were raging was a distant legend.
"This problem is serious, we need to get in touch with the reclamation team quickly!"
Brad suddenly stood up. If what happened tonight was just a simple natural disaster, then all they had to do was disaster relief work. But now that they had received the revelation from Old Gani, everyone knew that besides disaster relief
In addition, the Hanhai Protectorate will also face powerful enemies!
"Let's assemble the army now!"
Niebuhr was the first to make a statement, and other departments followed suit.
The vanguard led by Niebuhr bumped into Haggard who was rushing back halfway.
"It was Master Chen who saved me. He is facing the enemy alone!"
After meeting his companions, Haggard, who had been highly nervous, finally released his emotions and shouted loudly to everyone.
"What kind of enemy is that?"
Niebuhr asked with a solemn expression. He did not expect the enemy to come so quickly.
"Huge enemy! Covered in lava!"
"It is indeed an element..."
Gani, who was following the team, had a true expression on his face.
"We have to rush there as soon as possible! We can't let Chen Stormstout face the powerful enemy alone! I'll go first!"
Gani shouted to everyone that as a scavenger of soul energy, Gani's attainments in life and soul are very high. Even if he has never actually faced an elemental army, he can estimate the size of the enemy based on theory alone.
powerful.
Elemental power constructs the natural world, and the reason why this ubiquitous elemental energy can be embodied into elemental creatures is that soul energy plays a vital role in it.
Without the existence of souls, elemental creatures are just piles of dead matter.
It is precisely because of the soul that the power of the elements can be expressed. Shamans can harvest the wisdom of nature by communicating with elemental creatures in the soul.
However, unlike Gorongas, Azeroth has the existence of star souls, and the souls of the elements are also more powerful, unlike the gentle kings of elements in the Elemental Throne of Nagrand.
The elemental rules of Azeroth are that the souls of elemental creatures will be
Those elemental creatures sealed in the elemental plane, whose souls had accumulated over these long years, would be so violent and tough that Old Garni could not even imagine.