Aftermath and Afterthoughts

After a few minutes recovering from the backlash of using his abilities in overdrive, he got up and removed the little squirrel Mona from his stomach. Taking a look around he saw that the air was now without the blue gas and without a malevolent feeling to it anymore.

He saw Trag and Emma on watch, looking over dutifully, but they didn't seem like they were too worried, most of the anguish spirits had already been burnt away, and now without someone controlling them, they didn't pose much of a threat.

The place still had its sickly trees and blackened ground, the place still kept its grey and dull feeling.

Even if they killed the heart that brought the corruption to Thros, the place was still in suffering and agony, it would be best to find a way to bring the Thornspeakers to this place and allow them to heal it with effort and time.

The hole which rhe heart stood was still there, when he looked inside he couldn't see much further and it looked very deep.

I guess this is like the Rift of Aln, a connection to other realms, it will be hard to remove the Nightmare whole, it will be mostly about containing it then... Hopefully Selia will be fine by then.

I then made a connection to the physical plane, making a small portal just like Ulfar had done, this month was not wasted only on doing chores and tasks, but also in training the techniques he passed me.

Synchronizing wih the draconic Wills inside me made me have a much easier time learning anything related to them, even if I was not a druid as powerful as someone like Malfurion Stormrage or a shaman as powerful as the future Thrall, I was still able to improve at a very fast rate, and learn more about the workings with the Spirit and Wills, I had a path foward to follow now.

Compared to shamanism and druidism, arcane studies usually were about learning how to write artificial Wills and attributes to which then the mana would respond and give results. It was not about going to the source of the Will and learning to make use of it with your own like those two ancient crafts.

Arcane had the versatility to be able to immitate most of the effects of other magic, but it was unable to directly use the power of the already present Wills in all things. Atleast not without a very, very huge amount of knowledge and comprehension that would be something only a Guardian of Tirisfal could be able to do... there was only one Guardian in more than two thousand years since its first inception by the Council of Tirisfal, where they all gave their power to a single mage to aid him in hunting demons and other strong threats. The line of guardians ended with the betrayal of Medievh, the Last Guardian who opened the Dark Portal which the Horde came through.

Comparing myself to someone like a Guardian would be idiotic to say the least... I'm only here for two months, the Guardian however is the object of millenia of studies and effort of more than a single group of people.

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The island of Fate's End had been accumulating treasures and items for a very long time, two thousand years of people going missing inside the Blighted Lands led to a small fortune to accumulate with time.

More important than the money were the lost artifacts in the pile of treasure... there were heartstones, something which was very rare, to the point where even ancient people like Emmarel had only seen a couple of times.

The hearthstone was an artifact that allowed someone to phase through space to the place that one considered his home. That is why it is a "hearth" stone, it was capable of even traveling through dimensions and had a strong ingrained Will into a small stone, making it a must acquire item for anyone that tends to travel alot, like me for example.

There were also armor from adventurers, weapons, staffs and many things which would usually very useful for the common adventurer...

The only thing that made me interested however were the trinkets and staves... usually they allowed for a better utilization of magic, I wanted to understand how a staff works so that I can craft one for Selia in the future, and trinkets were very interesting things, usually they had simple direct effects that one could activate. If I could learn to craft some it would give us an edge in unexpected circunstances.

I was now wishing to learn more about crafting, afterall many things that were impossible to do normally with only your own power could be achieved if you designed an item to aid you. After all didn't humans learn to work with tolls instead of their bare hands? Why couldn't I do such as well?

So, I left part of the loot with thw party while taking the heartstone, two staves and the trinkets, Mona also took a staff that suited her, the rest was either equipped or put into the same bags we had the liquid fire on to sell later.

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Back at Drustvar, I came to Athair and tell him about how I dealt with the source of corruption in Thros, but it would take effort and attention to not allow it to spread once again. With that I held my end of the deal and could finnaly leave for a titanic facility.

I stood before the sleeping Selia, caressing her head while letting a gentle glow, come out of my hands, it was made of all my healing abilities combined, in my human form I was doing my best to mend her as I could, even if it would not fix the problem it could mitigate it and buy precious time for my next journey, after it was over my plan was to heartstone my way back and heal her. Only after would I consider the future...

For now my destination was the closest and safest titan facility I could think of... Uldaman in the Badlands. It was awfully close to Blackrock for my comfort, but I managed to evade them once, I could do so again.