Neltharion is indeed here.
He was still recovering from his injuries. In the battle of Grim Batol, the Demon Soul was crushed and he was seriously injured. The serious injury made him plan to stay in Deep Rock Continent for a longer time. , waited until the new source metal plate was installed and suppressed the flames bursting out of his body before restarting his plan.
But the sudden increase in whispers in his ears made it impossible for him to rest in peace and recover. Although the corruption of the ancient gods had penetrated into Neltharion's blood and essence, he actually still retained some "unique" logic. , at least he is not willing to listen to the mercy of the ancient gods, but after going crazy, he no longer has the ability to distinguish, and many times he does not know that everything is actually fueled by the ancient gods.
The wounds on his body that have not yet healed made Neltharion very manic, but if he did not go in the direction of the whispered instructions, he might not be able to complete the installation of the source metal plate.
In order to go in the direction guided by the whisper as quickly as possible, Neltharion even suppressed the growing desire for destruction and did not cause horrific disasters along the way. He planned to travel as stealth as possible.
However, he also knew that the noise caused by his re-flying in the sky of Azeroth must be "not small". Maybe those mortal races could not detect it, but it was only a matter of time before his brothers and sisters who had regained their strength would notice his traces.
Neltharion never imagined at this moment that the whisper that drove him almost crazy was actually the "distress signal" from the ancient god, and this signal directly led him to the battlefield where the dragon and the natural disaster were fighting the steel army. Three of his four brothers and sisters had been waiting there for a long time.
However, Neltharion was not the only one who received the signal from Yogg-Saron. The believers of the Twilight Sect and the remaining ancient gods also received the crazy message from Yogg-Saron.
Not to mention how many devout believers there are in the Twilight Sect who can withstand Yogg-Saron's indiscriminate mental pollution, the other two ancient gods only had deep doubts when they received the signal-
What kind of monster is Yogg-Saron doing?
After Aman'Thul decisively killed Y'Shaarj, Yogg-Saron became the most powerful of the three remaining ancient gods, so after being defeated, Yogg-Saron also enjoyed a special Big gift package.
That is, Ulduar, the palace that monitors the guardians of the ancient gods, is directly above the prison of Yogg-Saron. This is a special treatment that the other two ancient gods do not enjoy.
N'Zoth and C'Thun were both trying their best to escape from the prison. In fact, the three of them had already explored some of the loopholes in the prison over a long period of time, which allowed them to communicate with each other in some ways.
Of course, these exchanges of information were all "carefully selected" by them, because the ancient gods were not just trying to get out of trouble, they also wanted to be the only one out of trouble, so that they could more easily deal with the remaining two. The ancient gods who were not out of trouble carried out "inheritance inheritance".
It's a pity that in the tens of thousands of years, they have tried all kinds of methods and exhausted all means, but they can't do anything about the prison they are in.
Until the arrival of the Burning Legion 10,000 years ago, the explosion of the Well of Eternity caused the ancient continent of Kalimdor to fall apart, and no matter how strong the cage was, it could not survive the explosion.
Sure enough, after the great rupture, the three ancient gods noticed that the prison had become a little weaker, and these slight weaknesses became the dawn of their escape from the prison.
Yogg-Saron and C'Thun successively found loopholes in their prisons, leaving only N'Zoth dormant in the depths of the sea, without any movement.
C'Thun and N'Zoth don't know what kind of trouble Yogg-Saron has encountered at this moment, but this does not affect their intention to help. After all, although they have been able to mobilize some power to affect reality, this power is definitely not used for Helping a future enemy.
The remaining prison also blocks their vision, so they can only rely on believers to know what is happening in the distance. And in Ulduar, where Yogg-Saron is located, no matter how long the two of them stretch their hands, they can still Can't reach in.
So N'zoth and C'Thun only heard Yogg-Saron's cry for help, but they didn't take it to heart. They even thought that maybe Yogg-Saron had slipped out of his control, overturned the car, and was killed by those Titans. It would be best if the guardian was beaten to death.
Therefore, the only "friendly forces" that could help Yogg-Saron out of trouble were actually blocked one by one before Alsace's plan began. Now he was facing Alsace alone.
While Yogg-Saron was trying to send out a distress signal, he also did not forget to be cautious about Arthas, although he still had a hard time believing that Arthas had the means to kill him.
Frostmourne is a terrifying magic sword, but it still cannot swallow the entire soul of an ancient god. Even though the Light of Dawn is a powerful sacred object of holy light, it will take a long time to destroy the entire body of the ancient god. years.
If not these two powerful weapons, then the power of Alsace itself?
But Arthas was very strong, but how could he be as strong as the Creation Titan? If he is not a starry sky giant like the Creation Titan, how can he kill an ancient god?
Yogg-Saron used his dark wisdom to think crazily, but he still couldn't think of the answer.
While avoiding Yogg-Saron's offensive, Arthas has marked an energy transmission node on Yogg-Saron's body, but this is only a very small part compared to Yogg-Saron's entire body. Even if Arthas wants to Use holy light to annihilate the void, but what effect can this little damage have?
Yogg-Saron was puzzled, but he did not stop attacking Alsace. He waved his tentacles and swatted at Alsace with the rioting void energy.
However, Arthas no longer evaded. He just stood in the middle of Yogg-Saron's attack and slowly raised the light of dawn that turned into a shield.
At this moment, the holy light crystal embedded in the center of the dawn light burst out with unprecedented light - the holy light falling from the sky directly penetrated the thick clouds that remained unchanged for thousands of years on the storm cliff, and penetrated the majestic mountains, just like the light dropped by the gods. The spear struck directly into the cave buried deep in the ground, responding to Alsace's call.
The battlefield outside Ulduar even stopped for a moment. Many dragons and natural disaster soldiers looked at the sky in shock, not knowing what was happening.
And it was at this moment that Yogg-Saron suddenly felt the shadow called "death" instantly enveloped him, but the attack from his tentacles was too fast and he could no longer take it back!
The universe was born from the collision of light and darkness. When the two most mutually exclusive energies in the world collided, it was no surprise that a violent vibration occurred. This vibration caused ripples in time and space, like a falling star. The dragonfly on the water made a small circle on Azeroth.
The necromancers far away in Icecrown Citadel sensed some kind of call. They used the ritual that had been arranged long ago to inject all the Sunwell water given to them by Arthas into the magic circle at this moment. The well water containing huge energy became The first "wave" that drives the soul engine!
It's a pity that the amount of water in their wells is still too small, and they can only drive the engine for a short time, but this time is enough. With the roar of the engine, a massive amount of energy is injected directly into the top of the Ice Crown Fortress through the conduit - -Frozen Throne.
The huge energy passed through the lens-like Frozen Throne, and under the positioning of the command helmet, it hit the sky.
"boom!"
Like a loud noise of shattering glass, the blue sky of Icecap Glacier suddenly shattered. Amidst the lightning and fragments of space cracking, a ferocious spire stood upside down in the sky.
The main tower and the spire of Icecrown Fortress seemed to be reflected in the water, and at the moment when the sky broke, the thick black mist suddenly formed into clouds and flowed backwards from the broken sky.
"What happened to Icecrown?!"
The changes in Icecrown Glacier can be seen from almost everywhere in Northrend, and Malygos and Nozdormu, who had just withdrawn from Ulduar, witnessed this scene with their own eyes.
Malygos looked at the sky in horror. He looked at the upside-down spiers in the sky and screamed uncontrollably, "The curtain between the Shadow Realm and reality... is broken?"
Nozdormu was also staring at the scene in the sky, but he said nothing. His relieved expression showed that he seemed to understand something, but the Bronze Dragon King did not intend to tell his brother.
Except for Alsace and the Necromancers who already knew part of the plan, everyone was shocked. Just when the black mist in the abyss was about to pour out, a piece of flesh and blood was as thick and towering as the spire. Tentacles suddenly appeared out of thin air, as if extending directly from the void, and thrust straight into the abyss.
It was not a simple "poke", the squeezing of the tentacles seemed to bring great pressure to the space, pushing back the black mist that was originally spreading towards Azeroth.
Then, the tentacle suddenly burst out two completely different energies, one was holy light, and the other was void.
The explosion and shock caused by the energy collision soon occurred in the sky above the Ice Crown Fortress. The violent vibrations directly cleared the nearby clouds, and even shook off the snow that had not melted for thousands of years on the snow-capped mountains, forming a roaring ring. Avalanches change the terrain of glaciers and mountain peaks.
After the explosion, the broken curtain in the sky began to slowly reorganize, until the reflection of the ferocious spire and the strange dark red sky were replaced by the everlasting blue sky.
What happened in just a few dozen seconds made all the witnesses unaware of what happened, and only a few people saw some clues.
Malygos has returned to the position of the dragon alliance. He changed back to his human form and looked at the sky that had returned to its original state. "So the other side of Icecrown Glacier is the Shadow Realm? No wonder it is surrounded by the cold death energy all year round." cover."
"What just happened, Malygos?" Alexstrasza hurried over. "What lies behind the curtain makes me feel deeply uneasy."
"A huge energy suddenly erupted in Icecrown Citadel, penetrating the curtain between our world and the Shadow Realm." Malygos explained, "But the ancient god's tentacle suddenly appeared again, and the power contained in it The power of void and holy light collided and exploded. The power generated by the explosion of these two powers can not only cause the vibration of time and space, but also repair time and space, so the broken space curtain has been reorganized."
"Twice." Nozdormu, the usually taciturn Riddler, suddenly took over. "There was a shock long before the curtain was broken. It was this shock that first caused the curtain to weaken, and this ancient god's tentacle was The second time just neutralized the energy impact of the first and Ice Crown Citadel, allowing the broken time and space to be repaired."
"Did you see anything else?" Malygos turned and asked.
"This is all I see," Nozdormu shook his head. "The Shadow Realm has its own unique laws and order. It is the kingdom of death, and time is meaningless to death."
Malygos was silent for a moment, and then said, "Maybe we should ask Arthas. This matter probably has something to do with him."
"Yes." Nozdormu emphasized, "I have been paying attention to him for a long time. He is the most unique one among the thousands of time streams - the time stream collapses, destroys and is constantly reborn in him. He and Yogg-Saron's fate was not meant to be like this, and neither was yours."
"Oh, fate?" Malygos didn't care about Nozdormu's statement. He glanced sideways at the Bronze Dragon King, "Let's not mention this for now. Tell me, Neltharion is here. Where is he now? ?”
Nozdormu calmly took half a step back and said in a deep voice, "On the way here."
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"What have you done?!"
Yogg-Saron simply couldn't understand it. He thought that most of his believers and servants were lunatics, but today he knew what a real lunatic was.
Alsace actually relied on some of the nodes marked in his body to gain temporary control over part of his body. It was at the moment when his attack collided with Alsace that Alsace was able to forcibly control it. With this section of tentacles, the instability of space allowed Yogg-Saron's tentacles to easily pass through the void, penetrate directly into the abyss, and even penetrate directly into the river of the underworld.
Before Yogg-Saron could break free, Arthas controlled the tentacles and forcibly connected it to part of the Styx.
Immediately afterwards, Yogg-Saron regained control of the tentacle, and when he was about to drag it back from the Maw, he discovered that the tentacle was tightly embedded in time and space due to the explosion, just like Yogg-Saron. He usually uses his tentacles to extract energy from the void, but this time, what he extracts is not energy, but a part of the river of the underworld.
Yogg-Saron couldn't calm down anymore. He wanted to immediately cut off the connection between himself and this tentacle, but the Styx River also has "water pressure", and the high-pressure water will naturally squeeze into low-pressure areas - like countless Compared with the souls of this world and the attributes of the Styx, Yogg-Saron is on the low-pressure side.
As a result, this pressure made this part of Yogg-Saron's body and the river of the underworld more and more firmly embedded, and more and more sinful souls poured directly into Yogg-Saron's body, treating his body as The new river channel began to be accompanied by the endless collision and destruction of the Styx River.
Yogg-Saron clearly felt that those souls were frantically washing away his body. What was even more terrifying was that they were eroding Yogg-Saron's control over his body.
As Arthas discovered, the Ancient God's body has extremely good energy conductivity, which allows the soul to flow through his body with extremely low resistance and will naturally not be dispersed to other places with high "resistance." Even the ancient gods cannot bear such a continuous and endless soul impact.
The current Arbitrator has not yet shut down, and the souls thrown into the abyss by the Arbitrator are not fuel-efficient lamps. Even in their confused soul state, when they collided with the power of Yogg-Saron, they did not hesitate. Showing his claws in fear.
Yogg-Saron could easily kill one or two souls like this, or even enslave them. But when countless souls poured into his body, treating his body as a river and a battlefield, Yogg-Saron could Saron was powerless to stop him.
After all, he is just an ancient god on a planet, not a void king who can swallow the entire physical universe.
Arthas is not in a good state at this time. It is nothing to fight Yogg-Saron with a real sword and a real spear. But while controlling the body of the ancient god, fighting against the ancient god, while delivering energy, at the same time It's another matter to have your hands free to confirm whether the coordinates guided by the command helmet are correct.
This series of seemingly effortless and lightning-fast operations made Arthas mentally and physically exhausted. He was staring into the dim light of dawn, breathing heavily, and his original Titan form could no longer be maintained. , changed back to a normal human appearance.
The furious Yogg-Saron immediately wanted to kill Arthas and solve his own problems. Fortunately, his body was huge and he could still hold on for a while. As long as no one disturbed him, he was still confident of cutting himself off from the Maw. related.
But Alsace was not afraid at all. Instead, he showed a smile that showed success in his conspiracy, "You go to someone else's lair to steal things, and you don't even care about the owner at all?"
Arthas' words caused Yogg-Saron's thinking to freeze for a moment in horror. Soon, he felt that the flow of the River Styx suddenly became more terrifying.
This sudden increase in traffic became the last "mountain" that broke the camel's back. Yogg-Saron's tentacles were instantly crushed into seaweed in the water by the wave of souls, and began to sway crazily.
"You...this can't change...the fate of...Azeroth..." Yogg-Saron's will is also sent farther and farther with the rolling wave of souls. Although he will not die for a while, but The erosion of such a huge and complex Styx made his control over his body weaker and weaker.
After more than ten seconds passed, Yogg-Saron's body completely became the river channel for the branches of the River Styx. An ancient god who had made trouble on Azeroth for countless epochs completely disappeared into the River Styx.
Alsace couldn't help but let out a long sigh of relief.
He admitted that he was gambling. If the warden hadn't "helped" him just now, then he might have to take a break and rest for a while before he could solve Yogg-Saron's problem again.
In that case, some of his arrangements may have become useless, but the result is good, and he made the right bet.
Arthas deliberately controlled Yogg-Saron's tentacles to intercept the flow of the River Styx, because he knew that the Pantheon of Death and the Void forces would not deal with them. When Yogg-Saron's tentacles stretched into the abyss, they were so short. For a moment, the warden would only think that he was an ancient god who wanted to "steal electricity" regardless of life and death.
As the ruler of the Maw, how could the Warden tolerate the Old God messing around in his own territory? However, Arthas' operation caused the Ancient God's tentacles to be completely buried in the space. The Warden would have to spend a lot of time in the underworld. Work was started in the river to "dig" out the tentacles, or to directly increase the flow to support this "greedy" ancient god to death.
Anyway, the Styx is actually a cosmic rule. It will eventually return to the abyss of the Shadow Realm. As long as the ancient god is supported to death, the soul that has escaped will still return to the abyss. It is just equivalent to restarting a new life. It's just a river festival.
This is indeed the case. The Styx tributaries that Arthas and Yogg-Saron "joined forces" to steal from the Maw will eventually flow back to the Maw from the place closest to Azeroth and the Shadow Realm. And this time, in the eyes of the warden, it is possible to open up more rivers, allowing him to obtain more through transactions with more beings who can travel through the real plane, such as Hela and Muezala. Much soul.
However, the warden's idea was good, but Alsace had already made sufficient preparations——
Generally speaking, the soul will follow the Styx back to the Maw from the place closest to the real plane and the Shadow Realm. However, this location on Azeroth is Icecrown Citadel, and underneath Icecrown Citadel, now It's a bunch of soul engines like water pumps.
Maybe when the warden has nothing to do one day and goes to the River Styx to count the countless souls in person, he might find out that there are fewer souls flowing into the Maw?
