When he heard the rumble of the stone door opening, Aaron's first reaction was that Brann was acting randomly again. However, judging from the way the stone door continued to open slowly after Brann let go of his hand from the door, I'm afraid it was really not Brann's fault that the door would open.
"The enemy is coming." Brann stood next to Aaron in a defensive posture, raising two huge warhammers in his hands, looking cautiously at the passage behind the door, waiting for the owner of those heavy footsteps to come out of the passage.
"Not the same?" Aaron's eyesight is not as good as Vereesa's. He cannot clearly see the identity of the enemy through the dim passage in front of him. He can only judge from the heavy footsteps that the size and weight of those enemies are far beyond ordinary people, at least at the same level as Iron Vrykul.
"These guys look similar to Vrykul, but their skin color does not look like steel, and they seem to have Lightning on them." Vereesa squinted his eyes and carefully looked at the enemies rushing over. As he said this to Aaron, he pulled out the bow string and gave a tentative blow to the enemies who were getting closer and closer.
An arrow was wrapped with electric light and went straight through the narrow passage towards the enemy. With the faint electric light on the arrow, Aaron also saw the identity of the enemy - a group of Vrykul with pale golden bodies, and faint electric lights flashing on the surface.
"Stormforging Vrykul?" Aaron recognized the identities of these enemies. The technology Stormforging should be regarded as a technology developed by Titan Keepers to solve the impact of Curse of Flesh on Taian's creation., in addition to Loken, there is also Odyn who has this technology in his hands. Unfortunately, Odyn is still trapped in Halls of Valor. Of course, these guys in front of him are the subordinates of Loken.
Vereesa's arrow flew in front of the leader Stormforging Vrykul in the blink of an eye. This Stormforged wanted to dodge the arrow, but was still hit in the arm. Unfortunately, the opponent's body was really hard, and Vereesa's blow was just for testing and you did not use your full strength. As a result, the arrow only left a very faint trace on the opponent's body, and the opponent's footsteps even stopped.
"Get ready to meet the enemy!" The expeditionary force also entered a battle situation at this time. The Paladin team composed of Tyr's Guard and Blood Knights formed the first line of defense around Aaron. The rangers and mages took advantage of the enemy not getting close and continued to interfere with the enemy's progress with various long-range attacks.
While trying their best to avoid interference from the expeditionary force, the Stormforgeds began to fight back. Some threw weapons such as handaxes and short spears at this side, while others used various thunder and lightning spells. For a time, the passage was filled with the sound of Lightning explosions.
"Kill these intruders!"
"For the master!"
Stormforged yelled random slogans and rushed in front of Aaron. These Stormforgeds with the power of thunder and lightning on their bodies are stronger than ordinary Vrykuls, but they are more powerful than the steel Iron Vrykuls that have not been Curse of Flesh.
After being trained in the battle with the Iron Legion, it was not too difficult for the soldiers of the expeditionary force to deal with these Stormforged. The only trouble was that the narrow passage was not conducive to the expansion of the expeditionary force. Fortunately, the other party was also restricted by this.
In the end, the expeditionary force successfully repulsed the enemies who rushed out and pushed the forward into the interior of the building.
"There are two roads here. Which side should we go to? Should we continue to divide our forces?" Vereesa asked, pointing to the road ahead.
The expeditionary force is currently located at a T-junction. On the left is a closed stone door. In front of the door can be seen the mechanism for opening the door. On the right is a passage, but the end of the passage cannot be seen clearly.
"It's better not to divide the troops hastily in this place." Aaron shook his head. Although he was already in Halls of Stone at the moment, Aaron still couldn't remember the specific details inside this hall. He only remembered that the route in the map of this copy seemed to be more complicated. Maybe there were many forks inside?
For this reason, Aaron feels that it is better not to divide the troops casually. The question now is which way is better to go.
"I think the patterns on this door are worthy of attention." Brann seemed to be very interested in the closed stone door on the left, and wanted to go over and study it carefully.
"Brann, stop moving! Stop, don't go forward." Aaron saw Brann's actions and immediately shouted without thinking.
Brann stopped and said to Aaron, "Aaron boy, you have to believe me, I will definitely be careful this time and will never open this door."
"No, you'd better not go anywhere until I decide where to go."
"No, it doesn't matter if I want this dwarf to go over and study it. If you want to open this door, you must use this thing." Kael'thas pointed at a stone platform a few meters in front of the door and said, "I can sense that this thing is connected to the stone door. I guess it is the key to opening the door."
"This is the mechanism that opens the door." Aaron looked at the stone platform and vaguely remembered something, and asked Kael'thas: "Your Highness, could you please check if this stone platform is connected to other areas?"
Kael'thas cast a few detection spells, looked at the passage on the right, and nodded. "As you said, this stone platform is indeed connected to that side."
"That's right," Aaron nodded. He finally remembered that in order to open the Sjonnir door in this place, he needed to go to the right and do something first. This matter seemed to be related to Brann, but he really couldn't remember what to do specifically.
No matter what, I had to go to the right now. But just as Aaron was thinking this, he heard a muffled sound from the closed door, revealing a narrow crack.
"This time it really has nothing to do with me!" Brann spread his hands. He was still standing some distance away from the stone door. It seems that the opening of the door really had nothing to do with him, but Aaron was still seriously thinking about one thing: Should Brann avoid it before cleaning up Halls of Stone? It felt like this guy seemed to be entangled by some kind of curse.
"You will face death!" After the stone door opened, a huge Stormforging Giant came out from behind, roaring angrily at the expeditionary force, with eye-catching lightning shining in his palms.