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The idea came from a plot bunny posted by Bobmin and Alyx so thank you to them too.
Halls of reflection(heroic).
The last two weeks had been spent raiding and doing battle grounds just to be able to get to this.
There was a gear requirement to even queue up for this and when he had dinged 80 he could almost hear the laughter from the game when he tried to select this instance.
He had done the prequels to this just yesterday and he had been warned by so many people about both the difficulty and the exact strategy to survive what was essentially a long series of waves of mobs.
The drops were still pretty fantastic but it was hard to beat raiding and pvp gear.
He had finally purchased the last of his sanctified set an hour ago and immediately queue up for this dungeon.
The hall where he reappeared was a drab and gray place. The only patches of color were the 4 people that appeared around him. A human priest and a human warrior immediately stepped two steps forward and turned around. It took another second for the rogue elf and the hunter dwarf to do the same.
He took a step to the left before speaking.
-'Hey everyone.'
-'Hey.'
-'Hey.'
-'Yo.'
-'Hey everyone, Hey Sairius, it's me Kelinda.' Said Breena. the rogue.
He smiled at this.
-'Hey Kelinda, nice rogue, fully decked I see, way to go.'
-'Yup this is my Arena character but I felt like dungeoning a little this morning.'
-'This morning?' The priestess asked.
-'Oh yeah, I'm in the UK so it's morning here.'
-'London?' The dwarf chimed in.
-'Yup.'
-'Lucky you, I'm in Ohio.' The warrior chimed in.
-'I'm in California.'
-'I'm in Washington state.' The hunter joined in.
-'Nice to meet you all. Shall we go?'
-Wait let me do buffs.'
-'Can I get some water?' The priestess turned to him.
-'Here you go.' he thought at her as he traded the stacks of water.
The buffs took a surprisingly long time. Between his and the priestesses they only had 5 but it was still a good minute before they were done.
-'Everyone knows the drill here?'
-'Yeah, stay behind the pillar.'
-'Out of LOS.'
-'Yes I did it twice already.'
-'Great, let's go then.' the warrior started towards the main room.
Frostmourne hung in the glacial air in the middle of the huge room.
The pedestal was only a few feet above ground level but the sheer size of the weapon made Harry dread the encounter with it's master.
As he turned to look for the monsters Jaina appeared. She walked up to the pedestal looking like just another player.
The first words out of her mouth had him and and Breena laughing.
-'Do not touch the dreaded blade as it would suck out your soul.'
And of course this was just the queue every other player that wasn't laughing took to jump onto the pedestal and try to touch the blade.
As Uther and Jaina spoke of the king the human warrior gave the brief on the fight ahead.
-'Ok, here's how it goes,' Niark pointed to the far wall. 'they come in wave from the alcoves and do dps at a dist. So everyone needs to go out of LOS and pound the mages.'
-'Ok.'
-'Gotcha.'
-'Ok.'
-'At wave 5 Falric comes out and he debuffs like there's no tomm. So mage you better get that dispel on quick cast.'
-'NP.' Harry nodded as he opened his spell book to the relevant page.
-'Then 5 more waves and Marwyn.'
-'That's where we wiped last time.'
-'Right, he does those ground thing that increase shadow dam. And then he hits the tank usually with a 4k dot on 12 that if you dispel it hits everyone in the group.
-'So no dispel then?' It was Breena who spoke up.
-'Actually yes but only if everyone can take at least 4k right there.'
Both he and the priest nodded.
-'Once we get this guy it's looting the corpses ok?'
-'NP.'
-'Yup.'
-'Just make sure you don't go to the next zone until I tell you ok?'
-'Are we ready then?' Harry nodded at the imposing figure in dark blue armor that had just stepped up to the floating blade.
The fight itself was on the upper tier of anything Harry had ever been in before.
Those were fighter that knew what they were doing on both sides. The phantom fighters knew exactly when their hits would stop the most powerful spells and when to turn back to the warrior on their side.
Even with the protection of line of sight it was a challenge to destroy mages who cast spells as hard as he did if not harder. Harry's advantage lay in the fact that he had those talents. They enabled him to cast faster and not get interrupted as much. More then a few times his spell hit his target as the phantom was barely finishing his casting.
The riflemen had some quite strong attacks and their rate of fire was superior to the mages.
It seemed to him that their only saving grace against them was that they had no LOS and could only run to them and start meleeing.
The first time he had seen a mercenary was when it had turned up right behind their priest and stabbed it in the back. Harry had actually been shocked to see the sheer drop in their priests life bar. He was comforted in the fact there seemed to be only one per wave and they could only do the disappearing act once a fight.
Harry was evoking to recoup both health and mana when Falric stepped out of the far alcove.
It was obviously a warrior almost twice the size of anyone of them.
The translucent shape of his spiked armor simply accentuated the air of menace that he exuded.
Stepping out of their cover Niark charged in a blink to the monster and tried to stun him in place.
This was the cue for everyone to bring in their 2 cents of destruction. As he started casting he saw Breena disappear from sight to his right and make her way to the right of the monster.
The first fear effect took him by surprise as he started fleeing. This was an artificial fear and he had to watch himself as an spectator in his own body running first away from then to the left.
He was comforted by the fact that the warrior had already shaken the effect ad was charging once again.
The fight itself was surprisingly long even when considering that they spend quite a bit of their time running away rather then fighting.
When finally the last sliver of health dropped off he could not stop himself from exulting.
-'Booya!'
-'LOL.'
-'ROFL.'
-'HAHA, yeah good job everyone, just don't relax yet, the other 5 waves are just going to get bigger.'
-'Water and food everyone.'
It only took about 30 seconds for most food and drinks to be consumed and with the juiced things that his mage powers had to offer it only took everyone about 10 secs of sitting down to be back to full health and mana.
Which it turned out was a good thing as Jaina on top of the pedestal called out for the next wave.
It turned out that this was exactly the same thing, 5 waves of 5 phantoms. Same powers, same strengths and powers.
It only took about 3 or 4 minutes to get rid of this set and then there was Marwyn.
Marwyn started in by attacking the priest. The damage he caused with his obliterate was actually scary to see on the frail human. Harry was thanking his luck that he had not tried this on him. He was after all just as squishy as him. He was still casting when the first shadow well opened at his feet.
Jumping back he let fly with two DOT's before standing and casting once again.
Niark's health clicked down all of a sudden and three seconds later it once again clicked the same amount. He was reaching for his dispel magic when he remembered the admonition at the beginning of the fight.
With trepidation he continued casting an arcane barrage and kept an eye on the dwindling life bar.
A sigh of relief actually escaped when the first heal from the priest brought the bar almost to full.
It was still a strange thing to trust other people in tight corners like this, he was too used to having to do everything on his own.
It was at least two full minutes before the huge life bar of the monster before them finally dropped to an acceptable low and finally he dropped to his knees and died.
This time it was Breena who cheered.
-'Yeah, we rock!'
-'That we do dear,' Sylvan, the priest, acknowledged with a nod. 'Ok, feel free to loot now people.'
His vision was actually obscured by all the purple, blue and green artifacts that requested his attention.
Having only access to cloth allowed him to select greed for almost everything as soon as he saw the material. The gold however kept flowing in.
-'Ok, next is really the last part of the dungeon.' Niark chimed in.
-'Sweet, almost done then?'
-'LOL.' Sylvan laughed.
-'Actually no,' Niark shook his head. 'We go in and Jaina freezes the king in place.'
-'Then he breaks out and we have to run like hell away from him.'
-'Yup and what's worse is we get 5 blocks of ice that block our way in turn and we have to kill the waves of mobs before we can break the ice.'
-'Which isn't that bad compared to the ones we've just done but here's the kicker,' Niark sat down to eat. 'Arthas is following us at walking pace and he's got this death aura which hits you for 4 or 5k a second.'
-'So we have only a minute or so for each wave.'
-'Rebuffs and popo ready for everyone then?' Harry chimed in.
-'Pretty much cuz if you die the changes of resurrecting you are slim to none.' Sylvan added.
-'Ok.' Breena was sitting with her own food near the corridor to the rest of the instance.
-'Oh BTW, there are a couple of mobs between us and Jaina so don't just run straight forward ok?'
-'OK.'
-'Yup.'
The corridor that had opened was just as bleak as the rest of the fortress but at least now the giant skeleton that stood in the middle of the corridor was not even a little scary.
It was Breena who gave the coup de grace this time and they swiftly continued up to the place where there guide was engaged in single combat against Arthas.
-'We don't have to fight him but the faster he gets low health the faster we can move on.'
-'Gotcha.'
-'Ok.'
-'Let's do this!' Breena stated as she swiftly stabbed the monster of a man in the back.
It was only a few seconds of casting spells before Jaina screamed at them to get out.
The run itself was not bad. With his blink he was quite capable of staying in step with their guide.
He was still passed by Breena sprinting by him as the first ice block fell.
The wave of mobs was mostly trash with a few of the multi-limbed monstrosities and those Frankenstein doctors following.
Once again Niark was the one taking care of most of them with Harry using AOE's to clear the trash.
The first wave finished with the Lich King still a considerable distance away and as Jaina destroyed the block they simply ran to the next one.
It caught Harry by surprise when he realized that this wave had been sent from where Arthas stood and was moving barely faster then the dread undead.
They all had to move back and start attacking them much closer then was comfortable.
The cost in mana of all those area spells as well as the instant cast one he was using to get the stragglers was starting to take it's toll.
As they arrived at the third barrier he stood against it and started evoking once again. The glyph for this spell was one of the best investments he had made. It meant that even in the middle of the fight he had one more heal then normal and it gave him full mana.
Refreshed he used his barrage to finish off the two pests still alive and turned to run as the barrier fell.
The fourth barrier seemed to be the most difficult. Arthas was slowly gaining ground and Sylvan was actually getting close to running out of mana. Running forward Harry used his frost nova to stick the corpses to the ground and give him a chance to recuperate a little.
The sight of the fifth and supposedly last actually got the blood pumping.
With a smile on his face he started rotating his arcane barrage and missiles on everything that showed as a target. He was close enough to see the bright glow in the Lich King's eyes as he stepped slowly forward.
Niark was actually starting to suffer from the snowstorm surrounding the monster when the barrier finally fell.
Rushing forward everyone stepped onto the stone balcony outside of the dreaded tower.
He was about to ask what happened next when the fliers arrived and started shooting at the mouth of the cavern.
With a sigh he saw the heavy stones block the tall human away from them.
-'Is that it?' Breena asked.
-'Yup that's it, now we just get onto the flier and get the heck out of here.'
-'Sweet. Thanks guys.'
-'Yeah thanks.'
-'GJ everyone.' Niark congratulated.
Harry was running up the gangplank when he noticed Breena keeping pace.
-'That was fun.' She whispered.
-'It was, It was my first time doing it too.' Harry whispered back.
-'Yeah I saw the two achieves pop up, wtg.'
They both stepped onto the flying boat and walked to the treasure chest sitting on the deck.
Breena had just finished opening it when Harry noticed the tiny black square sitting behind it.
-'What's that?' He asked out loud.
-'Dean's laptop?' It was Niark who answered.
-'The laptop?' Sylvan added a second later.
-'Yes.' Harry stepped towards it as the loot popped up on his screen.
-'That's been here for about a month and a half now.'
-'Yup, it's not clickable so no one bothered about it why?'
-'Oh my god it's dean's laptop.' Breena exclaimed.
As Harry thought at the laptop he could see the little progress bar indicating that he was retrieving something.
-'Hey you can click it!' Exclaimed Niark.
-'Yes, it's what brought me here.' Harry said absentmindedly as he opened his backpack and examined the item.
-'What does it do?'
-'What is it?'
-'Harry?' The last comment came slowly as if Breena was afraid to ask.
Not Breena.
-'Hermione?'
Having no comments on it Harry thought at the artifact .
-'Oh My GOD Harry! where are you?'
As those words came to his ears he felt the whole world tilt around him and he disappeared.