Stormwind Wizard God-Chapter 297: Invention

Are we looking for some kind of monster?

Even though she was vomiting all over the place, Vanessa still stood up tremblingly, pulled out her dagger, and looked around vigilantly.

Duke gently stroked Vanessa's head.

"A divine creature like the like the one we're looking for is harmless. But... it can also be a huge nuisance."

There were obviously many question marks on Vanessa's forehead.

Even after experiencing teleportation more than once, Alleria still couldn't adapt to the bumpy ride that felt like all your internal organs were shaken out, mixed, and then stuffed back into your body.

It took them a while to finally have the mood to look around this strange underground city.

Gnomeregan was built 172 years ago. This technological wonder city in Dun Morogh has been the capital of the dwarves for generations.

Two years ago, it was obvious that there was another confusion of time and space. Corresponding to the incorrect 21%, the major event that should have happened 20 years after the Dark Portal happened two years ago: a group of evil stone palate monsters, or cave dwellers, invaded many areas of Dun Morogh, including the dwarf main city.

In order to kill these invaders, the stone palate monsters, which are much larger and stronger than the dwarves, the great craftsman Mekkatorque ordered the emergency radiation tanks in the city to be opened for a desperate fight.

While waiting for the stone palate monsters to die or escape, the dwarves were also looking for ways to avoid radiation. Unfortunately, although the stone palate monsters were infected with toxicity after being irradiated, their attacks did not stop or weaken in the slightest.

Those dwarves who were not killed by the radiation were forced to flee, finding refuge in the nearby dwarven city of Ironforge. High Tinker Mekkatorque assembled a council of think tanks to devise a plan to retake their beloved city.

Of course, before the dwarfs succeeded, this place was a typical lawless place.

In fact, before Duke crossed over, he remembered that the dwarfs' battle was not successful. It cannot be said that there was no progress, but only the so-called progress of retaking a gate...

What Duke and his two companions saw was a city with a very steampunk style. There were huge metal structures everywhere: tall and heavy cantilevers, steam or unknown gases gushing out everywhere, and swirling and shining lights...

Although Duke really wanted to help the dwarfs gain a reputation as a high-tech company.

However, Duke, who came from a more modern and technological society, could not give a higher evaluation of those huge iron walls and the mechanical devices where each piece of iron could only be fixed with unsightly oranges.

Of course, for the entire world of Azeroth, everything here is undoubtedly black technology.

Well, in this world, apart from the truly black technologies left behind by the Titans of creation, the races with the most high-tech elements are undoubtedly: the goblins, who have a desperate spirit and are extremely prone to explosions no matter what they do; and the dwarfs, who are crazy and prone to making mistakes.

Just as the earliest steam engines were probably not as powerful as a horse, the dwarf technology is a bit like this now. Even if a certain creation is epoch-making, it is very likely that it will not be able to defeat a violent demolition household...

The Elf Ranger General who admires nature is now unhappy. He feels that he wants to give Alleria a Steady Shot on everything she sees.

Duke rubbed his brows and directly opened the ice barrier. The fierce cold wind swirled clockwise in the shape of a tornado and surrounded Duke and the other two.

"This is..." Vanessa looked at the huge ice cover with a diameter of 20 meters, which was moving forward with Duke's progress. She was so surprised that she couldn't speak.

She had always known how powerful Duke was, but she had never expected that Duke could use this cover to drive away all the purple dust floating in the air.

Time was running out, so Duke didn't explain too much, and led the two girls to the depths of Gnomeregan through many twists and turns.

Alleria was surprised because it looked like no one had been here for a long time. Duke was obviously very familiar with this place.

"Have you been here before?"

"No, but I have read about this place in detail in the book."

Duke said something that even he himself didn't believe - it was obvious that he was so sick of clearing a dungeon with his brother's alt-account that year.

There were cave dwellers only half the height of a person wandering around everywhere, or even shorter, crazy leprosy dwarfs covered with disgusting bubbles, but Duke easily solved them with the Ice Lance of the Mage's Hand.

Duke had no feelings at all about this monster that could only cause trouble to the Adept Mage.

One floor, two floors, three floors, it was like a picnic. Duke took the two girls through rooms and boxes, fell from various high altitudes, and finally arrived at the fourth floor of Gnomeregan.

It was a huge steel passage. The fourth-floor passage in reality was much larger than Duke had imagined. It was fifty meters wide and over thirty meters high.

The steel passage has iron floor and steel handrails throughout.

Alleria and Vanessa's dynamic vision easily captured a strange object shining with red light at the far end of the passage. It was hard to describe what it was. It was about the same size as a dwarf, with short limbs, but with a very small chest and a very large head.

Of course, that so-called head is just a red light that scans the surroundings repeatedly.

Duke raised his thumb and pointed at the thing in the distance.

"A mobile alarm system, commonly known as the 'Ghost Spirit'. Of course, this thing poses no threat to us. But... Vanessa, sneak over there and see if it can find you." Duke turned to Alleria: "As for you, please place a few Freezing Traps in the direction of the 'Ghost Spirit'."

Freezing Trap: Any monster that steps on the trap will instantly turn into a large block of ice, unable to move for a short period of time.

This is a skill that almost all hunters and rangers have.

Vanessa and Alleria nodded and did as they were told.

More than thirty seconds later, Vanessa arrived in front of the so-called "demon spirit".

Stealth is a thief skill that goes beyond physical techniques. It can use the Focus Energy unique to professional thieves to distort the light around the body, achieving an effect that is invisible to the naked eye.

Vanessa is very young, but no one can deny her outstanding talent as a thief.

She was very confident that no one would be able to discover her unless they got very close to a hunter or ranger who specialized in countering stealth.

She was wrong.

Just as she was about to walk past the evil spirit in stealth mode, the strange iron lump suddenly made a sharp sound.

"Intruder spotted! Intruder spotted!"

Not only was the red light on the huge red lamp shining brightly, but there was also an extremely sharp sound. The next moment, several huge metal objects rushed towards this side.

Vanessa wanted to move quickly by Sprint in stealth mode to get away from this strange thing, but who knew that creature's arm would shoot out a flashing Flare, illuminating everything within a few meters as bright as day.

Directly broke Vanessa's invisibility.

"Ah!" Little Vanessa finally screamed.

Those metal creatures also came, but they all stepped into Alleria's trap and turned into large chunks of ice.

At this time, Duke shot an Ice Arrow and froze the demon spirit into a big block of ice.

All of a sudden, the entire huge steel passage returned to calm again.

The astonishment on Vanessa's face had not yet subsided, and it was obvious that she could not accept that her stealth was broken by such a strange thing.

Duke smiled and asked Alleria, "How does little Vanessa's stealth level compare to the trolls?"

"At least it's better than 80% of the trolls."

"That's enough."

"That's enough?"

"That's enough!" Duke said with certainty.

After sniffing the air, Alleria pointed to the end of the passage and said, "There seems to be a guy who can be called the boss there."

Duke smiled and said, "Whatever. That's not my goal."

Duke walked over, unfrozen the robot, and then stood there, instructing the dexterous Vanessa to disassemble the mobile alarm robot.

A long string of data appeared on Duke's retina.

"You have obtained preliminary structural drawings of the Mobile Alarm System."

Actually, this is not entirely true. As an engineering student who studies construction equipment, Duke has already figured out the structure of this monster.

In general... gnomes are fucking geniuses!

They actually used the technology of the steam age to play with automatic control technology. The crazy enemy detection system was actually able to sense vibration and heat. This was a move that was beyond the limitations of the times, like Tesla, Edison, and Einstein.

Of course, it's not that the robot's technological content is so high that it explodes. It's that the dwarf used a lot of simple, violent, and miraculous devices when designing this thing.

For example, the principle of this vibration sensor is similar to the ancient "seismograph" before Duke traveled through time, but it is more sophisticated. It uses gears to activate the vibration sensor every time the demon takes a step. In that short gap, no one would realize that it is actually sensing the vibration within a diameter of tens of meters around it in a static state.

Once there is a vibration, it enters the next stage.

Tested with a heat-sensing stone. When it passes again, it will automatically fire flares in the direction of the heat source to further confirm whether the target is invisible or in a concealed state.

Three types of confirmation ensure that there will be no misjudgment.

The last one is the insane high-frequency horn alarm.

Add to that the unscientific and magical power system.

A Mobile Alarm System robot came out.

Duke didn't go to the final boss. It was not an easy task to clean up Gnomeregan. In addition to cleaning up the dwarf traitor, he also had to plug all the cracks between the rocks and clean up the not-too-weak radiation. Duke didn't have the time to do this.

So Duke took the two girls and went straight into the engineering laboratory.

A day later, Duke returned to his private army and brought back a large number of the latest models of demon spirits.

"system AI, are you sure this thing is okay?" Duke had dark circles under his eyes and visible fatigue on his face. But in order to ensure that the 30,000 troops were no longer constrained, everything was worth it.

"Dear host, I am absolutely sure. All gravity sensors have been set to 150 kilograms. Only humanoid creatures that exceed this number will trigger the alarm. And according to the host's habits, I set the most eye-catching warning sound for the demon spirit."

"That's good."

Duke almost emptied the entire engineering laboratory in Gnomeregan. I guess McNeill, the traitor who betrayed the master craftsman and all the gnomes, would probably go crazy on the spot when he found out.

So, after Duke gave some brief instructions, the army set out again.

Few people know that there is actually an engineering laboratory on the fourth floor of Gnomeregan. No one knows what Duke has invented in that laboratory and moved the things in the laboratory to Karazhan.

The soldiers of Stormwind looked curiously at a bunch of strange mechanical gadgets with tree bark on their heads running around the army.

"Tick-tick" makes a strange noise.

Then there was no effect until that night.

Windsor was puzzled by Duke's arrangement. He only left the minimum number of sentries, but deployed a "quick reaction force" of at least 200 people. It was a cavalry that was forbidden to sleep all night, and the equipment was also strange - a lasso with steel wire? A long-handled battle axe that was rarely used by cavalry?

What the hell is that?

"Well, I've been a soldier for so many years. I've been fighting for almost two years. This is the first time I've heard such a strange order - asking us to 'hunt down' trolls after hearing the alarm in the middle of the night, and it's best if we can get them alive?"

"I heard that if you don't chop off the head of a troll or pierce its heart directly, the wound will basically heal itself after a while?"

"Yes, there are basically no trolls near Elwynn Forest. There are only a few around Nightwood occasionally. But in Lordaeron, trolls are the norm, right?"

"What kind of alarm is it?"

None of the cavalrymen knew.

As night fell, they soon found out what the alarm was.

Suddenly, in the pitch-black night, they heard a shrill cry for help.

"Help me! Murder! These fellows are going to cut me into pieces!"

If the person shouting this was a real person, there would be no problem. The problem was that the person shouting was obviously an electronic voice full of mechanical flavor.

Since this was an order from above, the cavalry moved out quickly. When they arrived, they found a strange 'demon spirit' with a flashing red alarm light being chased by two trolls.

"Come and save me! Someone is showing off here! I can't hold this situation anymore——"

Shouting incomprehensible words, the robot tried its best to run with its short legs. Originally, it could not outrun the troll, but when the troll saw the cavalry coming, it immediately ran back.

Chasing a troll who is a master of stealth in the dark is a very scary thing, and you may be killed at any moment.

At this moment, the cavalrymen laughed.

The troll was sprayed with some special paint, which still glowed brightly even in the dark night. The troll seemed to want to wipe it off, but the more he tried, the bigger the stain became.

Will there be any suspense when two ordinary troll scouts lose their concealment and face a squadron of aggressive cavalry?

The next morning, the entire force saw the Quick Reaction Force's spoils.

"Troll! Freshly made, cute and lively troll!"

"If you dare to go in and fight with me bare-handed, I will definitely tear you to pieces!"

"Silver scale breastplate, one piece of hardware..."

There was chaos in the army and the logistics camp. A group of rustic Stormwind soldiers who had never seen a troll before were scrambling to see the captured troll.

There were all kinds of people doing all kinds of things in the camp, and Windsor saw that something was not right, so he gave those guys a good beating.

As more and more trolls were captured, many soldiers who had lived in the relatively comfortable Elwynn Forest all their lives saw a troll for the first time.

A veteran who had experienced at least five major wars and was now a second lieutenant in the Alliance took a dagger and directly cut off a finger of the tied-up troll. Then he fed a piece of meat to the troll, pointed at the finger that had begun to regenerate, and explained loudly.

"See? This is your new enemy - the troll!" The lieutenant grabbed the hair of the troll who was trying to bite him, so that every soldier who was close to the troll could see clearly.

"Our ancestors have been fighting these guys for generations. You were lucky enough to grow up in a relatively comfortable environment. But Stormwind fell, and the orcs who captured our hometown mixed with the trolls who once fought bloody battles with our ancestors. Now they are all tribes. Greenskins are all bad guys. But it doesn't matter, you just need to figure out the weaknesses of your enemies."

The lieutenant demonstrated on the spot how to cut the troll's throat.

"Wow——" Almost everyone thought the troll was dead.

However, even though he was spitting blood and looked extremely miserable, everyone was shocked to find that the troll's throat was healing on its own, with less and less blood coming out, and in the end he even had the strength to curse in Troll language.

Such a magical scene scared many people.

"Holy Light, are these evil creatures immortal?" a soldier asked tremblingly.

"Don't be silly, there is no immortal creature in this world. You can't kill him because you haven't found a way." After saying that, the lieutenant stabbed the troll's heart with a sword. In the next ten seconds, the troll struggled violently, and then, he finally stretched out his legs and died.

"Oh oh oh——" The soldiers finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Trolls are hard to kill, but they are not truly immortal! Stab them in the heart and they will die, as will chop off their heads. Due to their strong recovery ability, unless you are sure that you can keep the weapon in their heart for more than ten seconds while ensuring your own safety, it is strongly recommended that you go after their heads. You can pierce their heads with a gun or chop them off with a sword. It's clean and efficient, and leaves no trouble."

The above is the lively scene.

Alleria followed Duke to inspect the camp. Wherever Duke went, there were loud cheers.

"Sir Edmund, you agreed to take us back this time!"

"Master Edmund - when are we going to beat the orcs?"

Alleria was surprised: "I... I have never seen such a strange morale in an army."

Duke turned around and asked, "Why is it so strange?"

"Because of my request, they are now required to pursue a tribe of more than 100,000 with only 30,000 people! The outcome is likely to be annihilation... Why doesn't anyone feel scared or desperate and painful?"

Alleria bit her lip. After her initial reckless madness for Quel'Thalas wore off, she began to appreciate Duke's difficulties and the courage and determination it took to send 30,000 elite soldiers to pursue the Horde. Alleria felt very sorry.

Duke 'naturally' put his arm around Alleria's shoulder and pointed at the soldiers who were busy practicing and attending classes.

"Do you know why no one is afraid? Because the scene before them gives the Stormwind warriors a strange sense of familiarity. They feel like they are back in victory mode."

"Victory mode?" Alleria had no idea how close her face was to Duke.

"Yes. I will prepare them mentally first, and then when they face an enemy they know very well, they won't be afraid at all."

That's right! The unknown is always scary.

When you thoroughly understand everything about the enemy, all their brutality and terror will become just a topic of conversation after dinner rather than a heavy psychological pressure.

Duke once used Naga as an instructor to train batches of Stormwind warriors. Facts have repeatedly proved Duke's wisdom and foresight.

"Lord Edmund is our god of prophecy."

"He always leads us to victory."

"Well, anyway, a commander who can fool the enemy leader is always more reassuring than an idiot leading us."

All Alleria heard in her slender ears was the almost deified worship and trust in Duke. For some reason, Alleria felt sweet in her heart.

Was it my momentary curiosity that led to the birth of a legend?

Or is this just fate?

Thinking of all the suffering he had endured for Duke, and thinking of how much Duke had done for him now, how would he face Duke when his hometown was safe?

For a moment, Alleria's heart was in chaos.

Just then, Duke blew a breath into Alleria's long ear as if to play a prank.

"Ah!?" After realizing that it was Duke who was teasing her, Alleria wanted to bite Duke to death. If there weren't so many people around watching, Alleria swore that she would definitely teach Duke a lesson.

"What are you thinking about?"

"Wondering, when will this damn war end?"

"This year," Duke said with great certainty, "I will tell you my conclusion after the battle of Quel'Thalas is over."

Inference, and more inference.

Although it was just a judgment based on intelligence, Alleria felt like she was fighting with the god of fate. She felt extremely relieved.

"Okay, I believe you."

When Duke easily breaks through the siege and subtle pressure created by the troll scouts, everyone will feel that the trolls are just that simple.

On that day, Duke's army marched a full 80 kilometers.

Even though this is Lordaeron's own territory and even though the roads here are easy to travel on, this is still an incredible thing.

When Orgrim learned that Duke's troops were only 50 kilometers away from his army, he almost gritted his teeth.

That night Orgrim organized a fierce counterattack.

He planned to mobilize the entire tribe's army to eliminate Duke's tail first.

However, when the Horde ran for 20 kilometers, they found red lights all over the mountains. A bunch of strange metal humanoids shouted: "Help! Orgrim is attacking at night!"