Deathwing's betrayal dealt a heavy blow to the Black Dragon clan from every angle.
On the one hand, those black dragons who followed Deathwing and surrendered to the ancient gods had been crazily hunted by the other four-color dragons for a long time, and suffered extremely heavy losses in these ten thousand years.
On the other hand, before the two factions of black dragons separated, Deathwing unsurprisingly adopted Shunchang's strategy of rebelliousness and forced all black dragons to take sides.
Although there were many black dragons who escaped that catastrophe, they were basically all powerful ancient dragons. The inexperienced younger generation failed to detect the Dragon King's rebellion in time, and a large number of them perished in the closed-door internal fighting.
After that, the black dragon clan experienced a series of vicious events such as the escape of the dragon queen and the loss of a large number of dragon eggs. When all the turmoil gradually subsided, Deathwing was annoyed to find that there were very few pure black dragon eggs left in his hands.
This is also the main reason why Deathwing asked Nefarian to transform the colorful dragon and the twilight dragon successively, because he needed more subordinates, and the dwindling black dragons alone were no longer enough to meet Deathwing's manpower needs.
It has to be said that Saberian and Nefarian are both very good at acting. They have always shown a loyal look in front of Deathwing, and they did not hesitate to get their hands dirty for this.
But as Nefarian said, the Black Dragon Royal Family, who were born before Deathwing's rebellion and were not contaminated by the mad blood, had their own plans, and they were not of the same mind as the increasingly crazy Deathwing.
Sinestra and Abyssian worked hard for many years and finally recalled the senior black dragons who were disheartened by civil strife and lived in seclusion in the mountains and forests.
But this can only solve the problem of the high-end combat power of the Black Dragon clan to a certain extent.
Today's orthodox new generation of black dragons has fewer numbers than the blue dragons after Senegos returned with dragon eggs.
It’s no wonder that Sinestra valued the batch of pure dragon eggs hidden by Saberian so much. No joke, these remaining eggs are the hope for the revival of the black dragon clan.
Injured by the boiling lava inside Deathwing's body, Sinestra, the hero's mother who was supposed to be the most fertile, has long lost the ability to lay dragon eggs.
Today's Black Dragon clan has a lot of high-end combat power, but there is a serious shortage of younger generations to support the population base of the entire clan.
As we all know, the fertility rate of dragons is even more tragic than that of high elves.
If the current situation continues, according to the predictions of the Longmian Temple, even if they can successfully defeat the Wings of Death and reclaim the power of guardianship of the earth, it will take at least a thousand years...or even longer for the Black Dragon clan to initially recover.
For immortal species, a thousand years does not sound like a long time, but in this world that is always troubled by disasters, no one can guarantee what the situation will be like after a long thousand years.
Even the blue dragon, which was almost exterminated, is gradually recovering its strength. It is strange that Sinestra, who is worried about the future of her tribe, is not in a hurry.
You must know that the Black Dragon clan was the undisputed leader of the Dragon Sleep Temple, but now it has been reduced to the bottom. This huge gap is unacceptable to Sinestra, who has personally experienced the glorious period of the Black Dragon.
Although Onyxia is lazy by nature, she has a good view of the overall situation, and she also has a sense of responsibility for her tribe that a royal family must shoulder.
It is true that Onyxia, as her sister, voluntarily gave up her qualification to inherit the Black Dragon King, leaving the position of Dragon King to her youngest brother Abyssian in the family, and has lived in Quel'Thalas with her man ever since.
But this does not mean that Onyxia does not care about her mother's family.
Every time she received Sinestra's summons, Onyxia never once resisted her mother's order, even though she always looked reluctant and lazy on the surface.
Under Onyxia's urging and supervision, Sarlayan entrusted the Wildhammer Griffin Knight to send a personal letter to Nethergarde Keep before leaving Northeron.
He commissioned the local defenders to go to Draenor through the Dark Portal and deliver the letter to the undead clan who settled in Frostfire Ridge.
After completing the preliminary preparations, Sarlayan came to the cold Storm Cliffs again after several transfers. Under the personal welcome of Elonaya, he met Azadas who was still busy repairing Ulduar.
"Oh, you finally got the Shadow Flame Seed."
Azadas, who was covered in black and gray, saw the black fire in Sarlayan's hand at a glance, and put down the forging hammer in his hand.
"This thing..."
Azadas tried to draw the power of the earth from the Shadow Flame Seed. The sudden rise of black flames made him shrink his fingers subconsciously.
"Sure enough, Neltharion... no, Deathwing did some tricks to it, and mixed it with a lot of void power from the ancient gods."
"Black dragon girl." Azadas turned to look at Onyxia, who came with Sarlayan: "Help me, use your magic weapon short knife to suck away the excess void power in the fire. Impurities.”
Onyxia pulled out the Blade of the Dark Empire smoothly, and cooperated with Azadas's movements to extract the void energy that did not originally belong to the fire.
With the cooperation of the two, Azadas extracted wisps of earthy yellow light visible to the naked eye from the fire.
"Salayan, are you ready?"
Under Valeela's encouraging eyes, Sarlayan nodded firmly.
"Come on, it's time to activate the last of my recessive genes."
"Okay, it might feel a little uncomfortable, just hold on."
The honest man Azadas didn't talk so much. He took a fierce grip with his right hand and kneaded the refined khaki flowing light into a ball of light that seemed to be substantial. He pressed it into Sarlayan without hesitation. chest.
At this point in the ceremony, Valeera and Onyxia, who had retired after their victory, consciously withdrew more than ten meters away and stood side by side with Elonaya, who was watching the whole process.
"Well!"
Azadas never joked. He said it was a little uncomfortable... but it was actually very uncomfortable.
Compared with the lively arcana, gentle life, dreams and illusory time, the most profound understanding that the power of the earth brings to Sarlayan is undoubtedly the weight.
According to the rules of the material universe, elemental forces will have duality, and the power of the earth is undoubtedly one of the elemental forces.
The positive characteristics of the power of the earth are thickness and solidity, while the negative characteristics are stubbornness and inertia.
To put it more simply, even with the help of Azadas, the guardian of the earth, Sarlayan's progress in activating the black dragon gene is still very slow, mainly because of the inertia of the power of the earth itself.
With the exception of Elonnaya, everyone present is a demigod. In theory, there is no need to eat to replenish energy, and naturally there is no need for excretion and sleep.
Even Alonaya, who is in a poor state, does not have the troubles of eating, drinking and urinating that ordinary people have due to her special body structure.
Under Valeera and Onyxia's sleepless and insistent watch, the ceremony lasted for a full week.
At noon on the seventh day, Onyxia, who was a little distracted, suddenly felt abnormal fluctuations in the power of the earth in the hall, and immediately came back to consciousness and opened her eyes wide.
Onyxia's movement woke up Valeera, who was also a little distracted, and both of them realized that the most critical moment was coming.
Just as they thought, after seven days of hard work, the inert power of the earth finally gradually integrated into Sarlayan's genes.
Azadas no longer needs external assistance for catalysis. Where outsiders cannot see, the last part of the gene sequence hidden in Sarlayan's body is officially activated.
As Azadas with a relieved face took the initiative to retreat, Sarlayan took a deep breath and took the initiative to absorb all the overflowing power of the earth into his body.
Five different powers automatically began to circulate in Sarlayan's body. This time, Sarlayan did not need to expend energy to accumulate power and integrate them.
With just a thought, the five non-interfering powers naturally merged into one, transforming into a very mysterious golden power.
Azadas sensed some dangerous aura, and used his shaping power to instantly build a strong secret room to temporarily protect Sarlayan.
They say it's to protect Sharlayan... but actually this move is to protect the defenseless Valeera, Onyxia, and Elonaya.
Sure enough, as soon as the secret chamber constructed by Azadas took shape, a violent force spread out from the center of the secret chamber, and was blocked by the rock-solid shaping power.
This energy wave was released by Sarlayan unconsciously. After regaining consciousness, he quickly realized that he was in trouble, and quickly recovered the escaped power like an arm and a finger.
However, Azadas's hastily constructed chamber was breached from within Sarlayan.
It's not because of uncontrollable power, but a simpler... physical method.
"hold head high!"
As the stones that made up the secret room were scattered to the ground, a giant dragon with a golden light all over its body appeared in front of everyone's eyes.
Yes, that was an adult dragon with brilliant golden scales.
