Since the world of Draenor has a reshaping system, it naturally also has a place similar to Azeroth's Emerald Dream. However, its name is no longer the Emerald Dream, but is called the "Shadow Realm," and its guardian is the "Raven God" Anzu.
Aiden thought that if Anzu hadn't been killed in battle, he might have been able to take them all into his Shadow Realm to hide, and he wouldn't have to worry about finding a way out.
He had once entered Azeroth's Emerald Dream, which was an excellent place to hide from disasters.
"What a pity…"
Just as he was feeling sorry for this friend, a sapphire blue feather suddenly floated out of the void in front of him.
Aiden was very familiar with it. It carried Anzu's aura, and it must have come from the Raven God himself—
"Anzu?"
Aiden reached out and caught the feather. He asked in disbelief, "You're still alive?"
Prophet Velen and the others also looked at the feather, obviously having the same guess. They looked at each other, but the four Elemental Furies had all died in that violent explosion. Could it be that the Raven God was still alive?
Aiden felt a unique piece of information in the feather. He probed it with his mental power, and a thought from Anzu immediately appeared in his mind:
"Aiden:
The Old God residing in Nagrand is weakening, and the cursed blood on my body is gradually receding.
Kill the Old God Vanaar, and I will guide you into the Shadow Realm."
The content of this message was simply shocking—the elusive Old God had finally revealed his trace, and Anzu was still alive, and had pointed out a way for them to escape!
But this meant that they had just eliminated the "Polluter" and would immediately have to prepare to kill another Old God of unknown strength.
What's worse, Aiden had no idea that Kil'jaeden had already arrived with the elite of the Burning Legion and was fiercely fighting the Old God they were preparing to eliminate.
The battle situation in Nagrand had always been under Kil'jaeden's control, but Vanaar's power far exceeded his imagination.
Even after suffering several heavy blows and the death of the planet he was parasitizing, Vanaar was still very powerful. He had existed for too long, and his strength greatly exceeded that of the Old Gods parasitizing the worlds Kil'jaeden had destroyed before.
And in the past twenty thousand years, Old Gods with such strength had all needed Sargeras to personally eliminate them. With the successive deaths of Sargeras and Archimonde, this was the first time Kil'jaeden had independently taken on the task of dealing with such a powerful Old God.
Vanaar's minions and the Burning Legion's demons were fiercely fighting. In terms of quantity and quality, the two sides were evenly matched, but the problem lay in Vanaar himself—Kil'jaeden could not contend with this monster. The direction of his attacks would inevitably lead to the deaths of a large number of demons.
"It seems I still have to use it." Kil'jaeden tried to attack Vanaar with his powerful spells, but found that it didn't have much of an effect. Given Vanaar's size, such spells could only cause him a tiny bit of skin trauma.
Kil'jaeden drew a huge broken sword from the void—this sword was broken in the middle, leaving only the hilt and half of the blade.
But enemies who knew its name couldn't help but fear it—because this broken sword was Sargeras's weapon, one of the most powerful weapons in the universe—"Dark Seether."
The tip of the sword was held by Sargeras's successor in the Pantheon, the "Avenger" Aggramar, and was called "Flame Ripper." When the two were combined, the legendary most powerful weapon in the universe, "Dark Seether," would be reborn.
Even if the Dark Seether currently held by Kil'jaeden was only half of it, it was definitely one of the most powerful weapons in the universe. Kil'jaeden was very sure that it had the power to kill any Old God!
The moment this sword appeared from the void, Vanaar sensed it, and he couldn't help but feel a tremor in his soul.
He stared at the broken sword in Kil'jaeden's hand and said in disbelief, "This is… Sargeras's weapon?"
Old Gods have special means of communication. Even if Vanaar had never seen this broken sword with his own eyes, he had heard of its legend long ago. The deaths of countless Old Gods were proof of its power.
"That's right." Kil'jaeden poured his power into the broken sword, and it immediately burned with raging flames—a fire of destruction even more terrifying than fel energy, enough to incinerate anything.
"I'll use it to welcome your death!" Kil'jaeden flapped his wings and flew up.
Vanaar was terrified. With one in ten thousand hope, he waved the thorny spear in his hand, trying to block it. But this weapon, which could easily destroy a solid Legion fortress, was no different from a real wooden stick in front of the Dark Seether's destructive flames. Kil'jaeden simply waved his hand, leaving a huge gap in the spear. He believed that another slash in the same spot would completely cut it off.
"The most powerful weapon in the universe… the power to destroy everything…" Vanaar retreated while carefully resisting. Sargeras's fall was only a little over twenty thousand years ago. This amount of time was not enough to spread the Burning Legion's reputation throughout the myriad universes.
But Sargeras himself, as the Pantheon's most powerful warrior and conqueror, had appeared at the birth of the universe. In those countless billions of years, he had used the "Dark Seether" to kill countless opponents even more powerful than Vanaar.
The universe's most powerful warrior, combined with the universe's most powerful weapon, was a combination that had never allowed Sargeras to encounter an opponent who could match him.
Even if someone else held this broken sword, the power it could exert was enough to make Vanaar tremble with fear.
When Kil'jaeden rushed up and cut off Vanaar's spear with two strikes, Vanaar had the idea of running away—how could he possibly defeat an enemy wielding the Dark Seether?
"Block this demon, my servants!" Vanaar shouted loudly. He ordered his minions to besiege Kil'jaeden. Although this guy possessed Sargeras's weapon, he didn't have enough matching strength and definitely wouldn't be able to use this weapon for long!
Those minions around him who could fight the elite demons without losing ground pounced on Kil'jaeden, but the Deceiver merely waved his sword twice, and the flames splashing from the sword turned them all to ashes. No one could resist such power!
Kil'jaeden caught up and slashed Vanaar on the back. This time, it was no longer a painless attack. The flames of destruction tore apart Vanaar's skin and created a huge crack in his back. Blood spurted out wildly, even more violently than a flowing river!
"Ah!!!"
Vanaar cried out in pain.
He sensed that a seduced believer was lurking nearby. Seeing Kil'jaeden chasing after him again, he didn't want to test the power of the Dark Seether with his body again.
"Help me!"
And in the void beside Kil'jaeden, the Black Dragon Queen and her Twilight Dragon son suddenly appeared. As soon as the two dragons appeared, they frantically attacked Kil'jaeden!
The reason why Sinestra subconsciously came to Nagrand was because she was seduced by Vanaar. The Black Dragonflight had already fallen in Azeroth's War of the Ancients due to the corruption of the Earth-Warder Neltharion. And the reason for the fall was because of the seduction of the Old God N'Zoth.
After that, almost all Black Dragons began to serve the Old Gods. Even if some of them didn't directly obey the Old Gods, it was only because the Old Gods weren't prepared to use them.
Once the Old Gods acted, the cursed Black Dragonflight could hardly resist the Old Gods' enslavement.
Only certain freaks were immune to the Old Gods' control—such as Wrathion, who hadn't been born yet and considered himself the last Black Dragon in the world.
Sinestra came to Outland from Azeroth in the hope of avoiding the Old Gods, but she didn't know that there was an even more powerful Old God in this world.
She didn't even realize that she had been unknowingly seduced.
When Vanaar ordered her to attack, she could no longer resist such an order.
But it must be said that the timing of Sinestra and Dralgonax was too perfect!
Kil'jaeden never imagined that there would be two dragons with the ability to hide in the void, and that both of these dragons were directly or indirectly influenced by the Old Gods.
Sinestra unleashed a dragon breath attack the moment she appeared, scorching Kil'jaeden's undefended back. Even more terrifying was the attack from Dralgonax, whose claws appeared directly on Kil'jaeden's sword-wielding right arm!
No one could withstand such a sneak attack without any preparation, and the cunning Kil'jaeden was no exception.
He was hit.
Dralgonax's claws slammed heavily onto Kil'jaeden's right arm. Struck by the heavy blow, the broken sword in Kil'jaeden's hand immediately flew away.
Kil'jaeden was instantly enraged. He was always the one to ambush and scheme against others; when had he ever been ambushed himself?
He wanted to locate the "Dark Seether" immediately. When he saw the Old God extending several tentacles, trying to catch the sword falling into the void, he breathed a sigh of relief instead.
"The Old God also dares to try and pick up this sword?" Kil'jaeden revealed a mocking smile. He completely ignored or tried to stop Vanaar's actions, knowing that this guy would drop the broken sword himself after suffering.
He turned around, preparing to deal with these two despicable attackers, two giant dragons!
Kil'jaeden attacked Dralgonaxfirst, because this twilight dragon had caused him to suffer a loss, and he wanted to make this dragon pay the price immediately!
But just as the fel magic he unleashed was about to hit, this dragon immediately Into the Void , avoiding the spell.
Kil'jaeden was slightly stunned, then understood: "The special ability to freely switch between reality and nothingness? Interesting!"
He pretended to wait for Dralgonax to appear, but secretly prepared a spell. Seeing Sinestra preparing to launch another sneak attack, he secretly sneered, suddenly flickering and disappearing from the spot, appearing above Sinestra's head in the next instant, and stabbing a Shadow Bolt, a spell he had carefully prepared, fiercely into the black dragon's head!
Sinestra immediately sensed something was wrong the moment Kil'jaeden disappeared. When she sensed the other party appearing above her head, she was so frightened that almost all the scales on her body stood on end.
"Save me!" Sinestra panicked, instantly transmitting her thoughts to Dralgonax.
When the Shadow Bolt's magical energy had already broken through Sinestra's head scales, cut open her skull, and was about to touch her brain tissue, Dralgonax finally used his innate ability to pull his mother into nothingness.
Kil'jaeden sneered, "You think you can stop me like this?"
He raised his hands high and began to channel a spell. Around his body, the energy of shadow and flame surged wildly, stirring the surrounding stable space. The massive energy continued to gather, and even the air began to burn.
Dralgonax, originally hidden in nothingness, discovered that he was about to lose control of the space of nothingness!
Sinestra was both relieved and terrified in the void. A split second later, she would have had her brain destroyed by the Shadow Bolt and died completely. But would she be so lucky next time?
Not to mention next time, the spell that Kil'jaeden was currently channeling, which could tear space apart, was enough to kill them both.
Sinestra regretted why she had foolishly come to this damned place.
"Escape, escape back separately!"
She sent a message to Dralgonax with her mind.
In the instant before the void space was about to collapse, they both appeared from the void. Sinestra turned and flew away almost without hesitation, and Dralgonax also obeyed his mother's orders, hurriedly trying to escape in another direction.
Seeing that the black dragon he controlled was about to defect, Vanaar was about to force her to return to the battle almost immediately. But just at this time, his tentacles touched the "Dark Seether."
"With this weapon, I will become one of the most powerful beings in the universe!"
"No other creature will be able to stop me from inhabiting planets."
"I will have countless minions…"
"They will continue to parasitize countless worlds…"
The immortal Vanaar's mind was filled with fantasies.
But when his tentacles touched the broken sword, a huge pain was transmitted through the nerves of the tentacles to his mind, shattering all his fantasies.
When the Old God tried to forcibly grasp the sword with his hand, the Dark Seether began to burn automatically. The flames of destruction were even more blazing than when Kil'jaeden had infused it with power!
It refused to be controlled by the Old God!
Kil'jaeden watched this scene not far away. This situation was completely within his expectations.
"How could a sword that exists to destroy the Old God be controlled by the Old God?" A mocking expression appeared on his face.
But his hands didn't stop at all. Boundless shadow and flame devoured Dralgonax, this twilight dragon with unlimited potential.
When Sinestra flew away, she was only affected by Vanaar's thoughts for a moment, and then Vanaar took the initiative to stop controlling her because of the pain of forcibly holding the Dark Seether. She regained her freedom.
However, behind her, Dralgonax's miserable wails echoed from the shadow and flame.
"Mother, save me!"
"Mother!"
"Mother…"
Hearing Dralgonax's cries change from intense to weak, Sinestra's heart ached, and tears filled her dragon eyes. But she didn't dare to turn around at all, as that would only be courting death.
She flapped her wings with all her might, fleeing this hellish place at the fastest speed of her life.
But before she flew far, Sinestra saw a Naaru ship flying towards here. She sensed the aura of her daughter Onyxia inside.
Obviously, the people on the ship were going to Nagrand.
"She and those humans were also tempted by Vanaar?"
Sinestra had just lost a son, and she didn't want to lose a daughter.
She flapped her wings and flew higher, she would stop this ship and the people on board from seeking their own death.
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"Are you saying that Kil'jaeden is leading the Burning Legion and the Old God Vanaar in battle?" Aiden looked at the disheveled Sinestra.
Of course, only they were on the ship.
Sinestra nodded. She had transformed into a high elf, but the wound on her head had not even stopped bleeding, and the scalding blood flowed down her scalp, making her look very miserable. However, after the Prophet Velen cast a healing spell, her injuries finally healed.
Aiden learned from Anzu's feathers that he had to kill the Old God to be freed from Sethe's curse and restore his power. Only by controlling the Shadowlands would he have the ability to allow the people of Outland to enter his world for refuge.
After listening to Sinestra's account, Aiden understood that Anzu was able to send messages from the Shadowlands, probably because Vanaar had lost a large portion of his power.
"Which side has the advantage?" Aiden asked again.
This question made Sinestra a little embarrassed, she replied: "The Burning Legion originally had the advantage, but later a tiny little change happened, and now it's not clear who will win."
The small change she mentioned was of course referring to the fact that her and Dralgonax's sneak attack caused Kil'jaeden to lose the broken sword that could suppress Vanaar.
Now that she was far away, she understood that she had been tempted by the Old God to take such actions. Now that Aiden and others' mission had become to eliminate the Old God, her actions had obviously inadvertently screwed them over.
Sinestra then thought: 'But the Burning Legion is also a very terrible enemy, my actions can only be regarded as balancing the strength of both sides. Yes, that's right, that's how it is!'
Because they had never fought against opponents like the Old God before - the faceless ones in Stormwind City were just insignificant minions and of course could not be considered Old Gods - so Aiden, out of caution, brought a lot of elite forces, and even prepared to dispatch the Apexis guards from the Shattered Spire to fight the Old God.
But now it seemed that with Kil'jaeden at the front, they didn't need to invest so much power at all. It would be a better way to let the Burning Legion fight and then fish in troubled waters.