Light's Dawn of Azeroth

Chapter 524, Section 63: Just now, the Vigilant War Commander issued the Extinction Order! - Bonus Chapter [15]

(Bonus chapter for the "Online Game Fans" brothers [1/5])
White soldiers wait outside the Gem Palace on Sunwell Plateau.

He didn't understand why he had been summoned here, but upon hearing that it was an "emergency," he rushed over immediately.

At this moment, the group included not only him, but also Arthas, who looked sorrowful, a large number of junior officers, and even some dragonborn commanders who followed Sir Uther.

The white soldier looked around and spotted someone he knew. He quickly went over to greet Ms. Vereesa, the commander of the Sin'dorei Ranger Force, and then asked in a low voice:
"What's going on inside the palace? What are we supposed to do here?"

"Don't ask, just wait patiently."

Vereesa had clearly taken a hint from her two older sisters, and her face was now tense and very serious. But seeing that everyone around her was also watching her, Vereesa couldn't hold back anymore and whispered:

"It's a war! The Vigilant needs our strategic thinking and command capabilities to win this war, and I've heard that the outcome of this war will directly affect the power structure of the Void Realm."

Although it may seem unrelated to the material world, believe me, it is precisely the outcome of this war, which is taking place far away and is destined to remain unknown to most people, that will directly impact our future.

Therefore, it must be taken seriously.

We were just substitutes.

"I must take over command positions while the generals rest and do everything in my power to prevent the situation from worsening. That's all I know."

"Is that so?"

The white soldier adjusted his helmet and exchanged a glance with Arthas, who was still grieving beside him.

They couldn't understand how junior officers like themselves could possibly have any "command ability," but they would soon find out just how desperately the Zerg's "command nodes" were short-staffed.

"The commanders have come out!"

A shout came from ahead, causing those waiting to look up. They saw Marshal Lothar and the Sun King, utterly exhausted, being practically carried away from the temple, supported by the Phoenix Guards.

Their faces were deathly pale, cold sweat streamed down their foreheads, and as they were led away to rest, Lothar was still shouting at Grand Duke Bolvar Fordragon, who would be taking over command from him:

"Bolvar! That high ground must not be lost! It's the only way to the Overmind's hive. I used up all the forces of twenty-three command nodes to defend it."

You stay there!

We must protect our sovereign's safety at all costs. The war has reached its climax; we must hold out until I return!

"Stop talking, Marshal, you need to rest."

Captain Faria stepped forward and used a forced hibernation spell to put Lothar to sleep, while the other Lightforged led the exhausted commanders into the adjacent rooms.

They only had four hours to rest, and Nuboton and the other alchemists had prepared potions to ensure the commanders' mental recovery.

However, General Sandys Feathermoon fared rather poorly.

She was so engrossed in the war that she showed signs of being "assimilated," constantly shouting, "Baku! Kill that Faceless General! Kill it and we can launch a counterattack!"

Well, nobody knows who "Baku" is, and nobody knows which direction to counterattack, but judging from General Sandy's ferocious expression, she's really gone mad.

He looks exactly like a gambler who's going all in.

And it seems that she was "forced off the plane" just when she was about to "win", so she resisted very fiercely, and Irene had to rush up and give her a "punch to numb" before she could rest.

"The second batch of 'reserve commanders' must be deployed immediately!"

Phoenix Guardian Farondis appeared at the palace entrance, waving his ice staff and shouting:

"Each person takes over from their superior and enters a war node. The third rotation will take place two hours later."

Most of those present were soldiers, with excellent execution skills. They rushed into different palaces, sat in the command chairs, and were "deployed" to the battlefield following the same procedures as before.

The white pawn was very lucky to be at the end of the second batch.

He endured the nausea and let the brain worm cover his forehead. Before his consciousness could be fully received when it was "airdropped" to the battlefield, his insect hive was hit head-on by a "biological bomb".

The blood-red, fleshy ball-like thing struck the top of the insect hive, its impact shattering the hive's structure. The blood-red parasitic spores it released subsequently killed all of Varian's Prophet insects in a very short time.

Okay.

The legendary "nuclear bomb attack at the start" actually happened to the White Pawn, forcing him to redeploy to the nearest Zerg hive.

A moment later, Varian finished receiving the message. Even though he had prepared himself mentally, he was still taken aback by the mess he was facing, and then he started cursing wildly:

"Muradin, you bastard! How did you do this? You messed up 27 out of 34 command nodes in your war zone! You're leaving me with only 7 nodes. How am I supposed to launch a counterattack?"

"You lazy bum, go away and cause trouble for others, okay?!"

It's no wonder Varian breached the defenses.

The main reason was that the battlefield situation he entered in place of Muradin Bronzebeard was too bad. This area was located in the middle of the Chaos Coast, near the area where the Overmind's hive was located, making it one of the most intense battle areas on this continent occupied by the Shadow Chaser.

It's not that Muradin doesn't know how to play; he's a dwarven war hero after all, and his ability to hold the position during a high-intensity assault proves his worth.

The enemy was clearly planning a "decapitation" strike.

While launching attacks on all sides to besiege the Shadow Chaser, the Void creatures also dispatched a continuous stream of Void armies to storm the Shadow Chaser's Overlord's lair, as the Void creatures knew very well that it was the core of the swarm.

Once the Overmind is eliminated, the will of this newly revived Zerg swarm will collapse instantly.

"Charge! Charge!"

Bai Zu saw the countless Void creatures charging towards him, forming a "blood and flesh storm" as they stepped on the ground. It was the first time in his life that he had ever witnessed thousands of Faceless Ones charging together.

Countless grotesque beasts of flesh howled and surged forward amidst the Faceless Ones' ranks, trampling and destroying everything in their path.

The creeping fungus spread by the swarm carries black and white evil energy, which can enhance the swarm's combat power and suppress other void creatures. However, in the face of this formed, destructive torrent, the creeping fungus covering the ground and the thorn bugs hidden within it are completely ineffective.

In this situation, all micro-management becomes meaningless.

If he couldn't withstand the enemy's frontal assault, Varian's ingenuity would be useless. He could only continue Muradin's tactics, activating the swarm's savage pheromones and ordering them to charge forward.

And so, under the watchful eyes of the White Soldiers, thousands of warrior insects stormed out of their positions and clashed violently with the Faceless Ones opposite them like two merciless iron guards.

Without hesitation, without fear, without doubt.

Both sides are fighting for their own gods; it is a war with no way out, a war to ensure the destruction of the other.

Varian didn't know if there were other commanders like him on the other side, but he wasn't thinking about that now. With the help of the Swarm's Will, the White Pawn kept issuing orders.

It's not even considered micromanagement, because each of his insect armies survives on average for no more than ten minutes on the battlefield.

Meat grinder.
Varian could only use this word to describe the battle before him.

“I can’t let them hold me back forever; I need support.”

The white soldier cried out in the psychic network of the swarm's will:
"Does the commander in the central region have any spare capacity to provide support? I need you to send a highly mobile force to my war zone to cut off the rear of this Faceless Legion and give me some time to encircle and annihilate them."

"White Soldier, stay strong. The other commanders don't have enough resources to support you. The enemy is launching a full-scale attack, and the battlefield on the Chaos Coast has been completely divided up by them. Their military strength is several times that of ours, and the Flesh Continent above us is constantly giving birth to more and more void creatures."

Garrod Shadowsong's voice rang out at the point where the white pawn was, saying:

“Buy time!”

"But my war zone is doomed."

Varian countered:

What's the point of buying that little bit of time?

"Of course it works!"
The Queen of Blades has led a raiding party into their flesh-and-blood continent, attempting to dismantle the 'Heart of War' from within—the only chance your previous commanders had created together.

Garold said:

"All sacrifices are meaningful; don't let personal emotions get in! Every insect's life you perceive is 'currency' in your hands, and you must use them to exchange for equal or higher-value results."

Now, grab your 'coin bag'.
"Smash it out like a madman!"

"As ordered."

The white soldier paused for a moment, then responded loudly.

He returned to his command node, hardened his heart, and calculated the exchange ratio with a detached attitude, constantly mobilizing the Zerg swarms from the remaining war nodes in the war zone.

The good news is that with most of the war zone lost, the efficiency of the large incubation rooms under the White Army's command has been maximized due to the abundance of biomass, without the need to disperse biomass.

Faced with such terrifying attrition, the White Soldiers did not choose to continue producing Warrior Bugs or Thunder Beasts.

In the current battle, adding a few more Ultralisks won't change the overall situation. Varian has hatched a batch of Banelings and started using a crazy suicide tactic to maintain the front line, followed by extreme maneuvering to buy time.

High above the divided Chaotic Coast Continent, in the center of the suspended Heart of Flesh and Blood continent, Anvina had gathered all the Shadow Chasing Insect Tyrants and Dream Eater Kings, and she had successfully commanded them to penetrate deep into the Heart of Flesh and Blood continent.

But this is an entire continent!

To shatter it, Anveena would need to conjure another Heart of Sargeras, so the Sunwell Gladiator opted for another plan. She would detonate the Sha energy on the battlefield!

After the Overmind devoured the Heart of Y'Shaarj, the manipulation of Sha energy became the Shadow Chaser's "secret technique".

With the war now at this stage, while the Shadow Chasers have no emotions, the Faceless Ones and other Void creatures do. Even if their emotional changes are not as drastic as those of mortals, the negative emotions they accumulate during this terrifying march of death are enough to create a "Shadow Bomb".

"Hold on! You have to hold on!"

Anvina commanded the twelve Shadow Chasers to simultaneously set up nodes for the release of demonic energy at twelve nodes in the Flesh Cavern deep within the Heart of Flesh continent.

The swarm she commanded had been doing this the whole way.

"Queen of Blades, the central part of the Chaos Coast has been breached! The enemy's Faceless Legion has broken into the Overmind's Hive war zone! The Swarm Governor suggests that you accelerate your strategic progress."

The report from the Swarm Will node made Anvina tremble.

The worst happened.

The swarm of Zerglings and Void creatures were engaged in a battle of numbers, yet the Void creatures managed to outmaneuver them with a decapitation strike. The Queen of Blades gritted her teeth; she now had to make a decision.

The elite force under her command could return to the Chaos Coast to help the Overlord, but that would mean she would have to abandon the strategy she was currently implementing.

The number of Shadow Chaser Insects has increased, but their elite status is not yet complete.

When faced with a combined attack from the servants of the Void Gods, the flaw of insufficient quality became glaringly obvious.

If there were more preparation time, and all the basic combat units of the swarm were replaced with warrior swarms, ensuring that each hive had a Ultron, and increasing the number of swarm tyrants to more than three digits to fill the command nodes of the swarm's will, then this war might be easier.

However, we can't really criticize the Shadow Chaser for developing too slowly. After all, it's only been less than twenty days since the psychic network of the Swarm's Will was completed and awakened.

If we consider the period from when the Vigilant cast the Overmind into the Sea of ​​No Light after defeating C'Thun until now, it's equivalent to the Overmind, starting from scratch, working with the Vigilant to enable the Shadowbugs to complete three mass ascensions in just over a year, occupying an entire coastal continent, and killing a dying Lesser God.

This record can by no means be described as "bad".

time!

The problem still lies in time.

"Are you going to lose?"

Anvina clenched her fists, her heart filled with resentment.

She could only choose between detonating the evil energy to disrupt the flesh and blood continent and returning to defend and rescue the Overlord, which meant she could not achieve a perfect victory.

This is her "graduation assessment".

Although the graduation assessment would involve facing an attack from the servants of seven Void Gods, which was indeed quite daunting, she was unwilling to leave such a stain of failure on her resume as a "World Protector" that had not yet begun.

"The great cycle of reincarnation has always been like this: the weak perish, and the strong live!"

Perhaps sensing Anvina's emotional fluctuations, the Storm Lord Kerruk, under her command, suddenly spoke:

"The eternal cycle should be like this. If we perish here, it only proves that the time for the Swarm to rise has not yet come! The great cause that the Shadow Chaser could not accomplish should be left to the Swarm of Saviors. This is a fierce war for the entire universe, and only by being placed in a place of death can we survive!"
As a leader, you should be more resolute!

"You make it sound so easy."

Anvina made a comment.

But she made a decision. She could not let the Shadow Chaser's journey end here. This was the power that Master Diakum had accumulated in the Void. Now that he had broken ties with the Void Gods, the Shadow Chaser had become his only tool to interfere with the Sea of ​​No Light.

"Blow it up!"

The Blade Queen's roar reverberated at the node of the Swarm's will; she roared:
"Destroy this heart of flesh and blood! If today is our doomsday, we will drag our enemies down with us into that cycle of calamity!"

Countless hisses echoed within this mental network, responses from every insect hive still resisting, even the Overlord's wailing reverberated within it.

The Overmind's hive has been invaded, and even the Overmind itself has been forced to join the battle.

But it is also responding.

He clearly agrees with Anvina's decision at this time.

Even if it means that its overlord's enterprise is cut short before it is fully established, the swarm can have a second "overlord," but the first victory of the Great Cycle can only happen once! As the former void reflection of the Vigilant, it has already lived up to its short but glorious life by being granted such honors.

"buzz"

The boundless malevolent energy on the entire battlefield was completely extracted at this moment, and the power transformed from the various negative emotions that were scattered across the battlefield surged into the Heart of Flesh and Blood continent in the high sky in a black and white intertwined manner.

As the nodes set up by Anvina were detonated one after another, amidst the roaring and tearing of the malevolent energy, the continental shelf of the flesh-and-blood continent suspended high in the sky was shattered, allowing the filthy malevolent energy to break apart and dance wildly from all directions.

The materialized demon roared and surged, capturing the growing void creatures almost instantly.

Manipulated by negative emotions, they began to fight each other, black blood scattering like rain, and the fiendish energy rift tearing through the center of the flesh-and-blood heart continent seemed to be splitting it in two.

Such weapons of war are clearly self-sustaining.

Its cursed life force was dissipating, and it could no longer even maintain the hovering flight that wielded its filthy "blood vessels." A slightly regretful groan came from afar, and then, under a cold command, this continent, which had already died and was contaminated by the swarm, fell like the falling sky.

They plummeted towards the central part of the chaotic coast where the Overlord resided.

Finally, under Anvina's heartbroken gaze, the flesh and blood continent crumbled and shattered, crashing onto the continent where the insect swarm resided, like a falling "Axis".

The collision of the two continents was catastrophic. The terrifying weight that pressed down instantly caused the flesh and blood to collapse, and the Chaos Coast continent where the swarm was located collapsed and was lost in the waves of the Sea of ​​No Light.

This scene directly caused severe damage to the swarm's mental network, and the recruited commanders were all "forced out".

In the final moments before being escorted off this battlefield he was destined to remember for the rest of his life, Bai Zu witnessed the entire continent collapsing into the dark sea.

Even if the Void Gods lost their war fortresses, they still had other means to send more servants.

From the rifts that opened like gates to the abyss, a vast horde of faceless beings, man-eating shadow bees, monstrous dragons, and dark essence surged into the still trembling continent.

The swarm is finished
They put up a fierce enough resistance, but did they lose?
"Ow!"

Before Bai Zu's consciousness fully returned to the material world, he heard a rather familiar roar. It was the roar of a dragon, and he was sure he had heard such a deep and exaggerated roar somewhere before.

Deathwing?

Correct!
That's its roar, but why is it appearing on this battlefield at this time?
Anveena also heard Deathwing's roar.

No, it should now be called the "Black Devourer." After Mother World completed its life incubation, it was sent to the battlefield of the eternal cycle of the Sea of ​​Light with almost no time to linger.

At this critical moment when the swarm was on the verge of collapse, the Black Devourer flapped its enormous wings, which were wrapped in "black mist," and flew across the ravaged battlefield of the collapsing continents.

The invisible void spores were "generously" scattered across the battlefield, and the special power called "Mad Dragon Spores" rained down on the bodies of the Shadow Chasers that were still able to move.

It was as if a flammable fuel that was about to go out had been suddenly doused with an accelerant, causing the dying embers of the insect swarm to reignite fiercely.

As Anvina stared in disbelief, the insects "infected" by the spore viruses scattered by the Black Devourer began to molt one by one.

It was a drastic mutation in a short period of time that catalyzed the dragon genes in their bodies into a twisted, frenzied, destructive, and furious pathology, driving the insects to release all the potential of the dragon genes in a short time by burning their life force.

As the black carapace shattered minutes later, a swarm of "Black Devouring Dragons," clearly symbolized by the insect swarm, roared as they appeared.

Depending on the original body size, these hatched Black Devouring Dragons are all different.

It's not just a specific type of insect that undergoes this transformation; any insect with dragon genes will experience this catalysis. Don't ask how it's done.

The answer is simply that the "code" is written like this!

When Diakum created the Black Devourer, he set such underlying code for it. The release of the Mad Dragon Disease is obviously a kind of "rule effect". The first pot of gold of the Dragon Gene Shadow Chaser was mined from broken dragon eggs. The current form of the Shadow Chaser is basically based on the exaggerated life effect of the Dragon Gene.

The Black Devouring Dragons, or the Black Devouring "Insects," are now very hungry and thirsty.

Driven by their activated predatory instincts, the "Gluttons" flapped their enormous elytra and followed the Black Devourer into the sky.

They must devour enough flesh and blood to survive before their lives burn out, so one can imagine how ferocious their attacks will be.

The sight of tens of thousands of Black Devouring Dragons spreading their wings simultaneously was a vast and overwhelming spectacle, blotting out the sky and causing even the Faceless Ones and Krahis who were rushing out of the Abyss Gate to stop and watch. Even the Void Gods who were observing the battlefield shouted curses.

Who gave you permission to use such a wild idea as a blood and flesh curse?! Isn't this massive "mass promotion" a violation of the rules?
But their curses cannot change reality.

In that brief moment, the "swarm elite" that Anvina had just been marveling at was completed, like a puzzle piece finally being placed with its final, finishing touch.

Yes, these catalyzed Black Erosion Dragons cannot live for long; their vitality is in a state of being squeezed and turbulent.
Yes, these mad dragons lack reason and are even difficult to control quickly by the will of the swarm; yes, they will only attack any opponent that is not on their side when they are in a state of rage.

Yes, they have many drawbacks and can only be used in a short-term situation!
But now that the exchange has reached this point of ruthless and bloody conflict, why should I care about your situation?
The fall of the Heart of Flesh and Blood continent may have killed two-thirds of the Shadow Chasing Insects in an instant, but the remaining third of the insects, led by the Black Devourer, all "bewitched into dragons".

They are still a swarm of insects.

They are the desperate swarms of insects that are born only at the very end of the most desperate wars!

Diakum unleashed his "final weapon," issuing an "extermination order" to all void life forms on the battlefield that were not on his side.

Now, the flesh and blood servants of that void deity have answered.
(End of this chapter)