"Great Overlord of the Firelands, Master Ragnaros the Firelord, please heed the call of your humble servant, and turn your gaze upon Molten Core!"
The dwelling place of the Firelord's avatar was a massive cavern, the very heart of Molten Core.
This cavern had a wide staircase around its perimeter, with a vast pool of magma at its center.
At this moment, the manager of Molten Core, was on the central platform, summoning his master's will to descend.
The magma in the center of the cavern began to churn, the Scarlet liquid surging like a stormy sea.
Then, a colossal elemental creature, its form a blend of orange and Scarlet flames, burst from the magma's surface and into the cavern.
Executus, overwhelmed by his master's supreme power, trembled on the ground, his lack of legs rendering him prostrate.
"Why have you summoned me, Excutus?" A wisp of the Firelord's will had forcibly squeezed out from its seal in the Firelands, projecting itself onto the energy avatar in Molten Core!
"Master! Molten Core has been invaded by enemies. We fought valiantly, but the enemies are too strong! Garr, Geddon, and the four fire imp leaders under my command have all fallen in battle. Only I and Golemagg remain to defend!"
Observe the art of language! The original situation was that Molten Core was ambushed, and these assigned guards failed to mount an effective resistance and were defeated one by one. But in the mouth of this manager, it became that the enemies were too strong, and they fought valiantly but gloriously died in battle.
Unfortunately, he underestimated his master's tyrannical nature. The Firelord's ambition was to seize Azeroth and turn it into a sea of fire to please the Old Gods.
Molten Core was a forward base he had established, placing an energy avatar here to change the environment of the entire cave, making it easier for fire elemental life to be born. This was a factory created for the full-scale invasion of Azeroth!
Now, the manager he appointed, Excutus, called him over to tell him that Molten Core was about to fall!
"Worthless!"
"They are all dead, why are you still alive!"
After speaking, Ragnaros swung the warhammer in his hand and smashed it down fiercely!
"No, Your Majesty, spare me!"
Unfortunately, Ragnaros didn't care about this, and the warhammer in his hand didn't stop.
Boom!
With a loud noise, Executus and the rock beneath him turned into ashes!
"Who is it! Who dares to invade Molten Core, who dares to disrupt my plan!"
Ragnaros roared in anger, raising his hands high, and the magma beneath him rose three feet!
Then, a large number of firewalkers and flameguards crawled out of the magma. At the same time, the magma splashed on the rock walls, and the rock walls began to peel off. After the rock fragments landed, molten giants and lava rumblers began to form.
"Minions, go, drown the enemies ahead! Turn them all into ashes!"
Roar!
Then, the molten giants led the way. These giants, tens of meters tall, took five or six meters in one step. Behind them were the lava rumblers, their underlying rocks moving quickly, followed by the firewalkers and flameguards. They were like Baron Geddon, only several sizes smaller, densely packed, like a tide, pouring out of Ragnaros's cave.
Galen noticed the arrival of Ragnaros's consciousness at the first moment. The combat power of this Firelord's true form among the demigods was also top-notch. Compared to the Firelord, Ursoc and Ursol, these wilderness demigods were at the bottom of the demigod ranks. But now, Galen's highest limit for the King's Summoning was to summon the power of a low-level demigod. Higher demigod power required unlocking the next stage before it could be summoned.
However, Galen couldn't possibly enter Molten Core without leaving any backup plans.
"King's Summoning!"
As Galen began to spend money, his body rapidly changed. From a human nearly two meters tall, he transformed into a water elemental over eight meters tall!
Duke Hydraxis!
The leader of the Hydraxian Waterlords!
A demigod-level water elemental lord.
In the first moment after transforming, Galen cast the spell that flooded his mind: "Separate Water Essence!"
Molten Core, as a place created by Ragnaros to nurture fire elemental creatures, was able to give birth to fire elements so easily not only because it was located deep underground and always had magma, but also because Ragnaros had set up seven special runes in Molten Core.
These seven scorching runes carved in Molten Core were a type of energy conduit that could transmit the energy of the Firelands, activating the fire elements here!
At the same time, it was also an anchor point for Ragnaros, connecting Molten Core and the Firelands together, allowing him to project power and will through this channel.
Now that the guards in Molten Core had been almost completely cleared, with the death of the manager, Executus, all seven runes of the Firelord were exposed.
Galen quickly created seven portions of Water Essence!
He once again sighed, it was really good to have money, saving a lot of effort from having to establish diplomacy with the Hydraxian water elementals, and then helping them kill air elements, fire elements, and earth elements.
Damn, this water elemental legion was just too much. It was hostile to all elements. Although Galen would sooner or later have to clear out those ambitious elemental lords in the future, Galen didn't want to get on Hydraxis's ship.
Wasn't it better to defeat them one by one?
The will of a demigod was indeed vast. In an instant, he sensed the location of Ragnaros's avatar. Likewise, the Firelord also discovered his mortal enemy, the water elemental!
A series of angry roars came from the distance of the cave. Obviously, Ragnaros already knew what this water elemental was going to do next.
Originally, he planned to wait in his resting cave for his army to eliminate the invaders, but he didn't expect the enemy to try to extinguish his runes. The Firelord couldn't sit still, and he began to walk towards the exit of the cave, intending to stop Galen's actions.
Unfortunately, it was too late. Under the control of Galen's mental power, seven portions of Water Essence accurately landed on the Firelord's runes!
Sizzle!
Sizzle! Sizzle!
Sizzle! Sizzle! Sizzle!
The Water Essence poured on the rune plate, constantly emitting smoke. The originally Scarlet rune turned into a dark black stone slab!
"No!"
Ragnaros roared unwillingly!
Galen's use of the Essence of Water to extinguish the Fire Rune of the Fire Lord was equivalent to closing the passage that Ragnaros had set up to connect the Firelands and Molten Core.
Brothers, what does this mean?
It means Galen pulled Ragnaros's ethernet cable!
The network cable is pulled, but his energy avatar remains in Molten Core!
Heh heh heh!
Galen's water elemental hand waved, and everyone present was instantly blessed with a Water Shield!
Sylvanas and the others instantly felt a burst of coolness, without the scorching sensation from before.
Sylvanas watched Galen's water elemental form stretch out its flowing water head, staring with round eyes, feeling a burst of amusement, almost unable to hold back her laughter.
"Galen, are you Azeroth's favored son? Last time it was the power of Ursoc, the Wild God, and this time it's the power of a Water Elemental Demi-God Lord. How many surprises are you going to give us!"
Aurelia was shocked. As a High Elf who had lived for over a thousand years, she had never experienced such magnificent events as she had in the past few years. Compared to following Galen to fight the Black Dragon King and the Fire Lord, fighting the Forest Trolls was like a brawl between villagers in the countryside!
"This is all thanks to the good teachings of Gandalf!" Galen once again activated the blame-shifting technique!
Gandalf, who was summoning water elementals to replenish the team, widened his eyes at this moment!
What happened?
Am I going to brainstorm again?
"This matter concerns the secrets of the Titans, please keep it a secret!"
Grandmaster Gan is brainstorming, and the prince passes it to me, and I can pass it to others. Mentioning the Titans is not only mysterious and highly credible, but also the mortal races of Azeroth at this stage know very little about the Titans' information, so there is no fear of being exposed.
Besides, not to mention the Titans, even the Guardians appointed by those Titans are still playing in Ulduar.
Sure enough, Alleria, who was more curious, immediately assumed that Galen and the others must have obtained some opportunity in a Titan ruin when she heard that Galen and the others were related to the Titans, and she immediately filled in a lot of things in her mind.
"Alright, time is money, my friend. Let's go deal with the Fire Lord's clone!" Speaking only took thirty seconds, and Galen's resource bar was constantly ticking like a timer, with the numbers decreasing like flowing water. If they talked for a few more sentences, 10,000 gold coins would be gone!
The Fire Elemental army had already charged halfway. With a wave of Galen's hand, several hundred water elementals appeared out of thin air.
"Charge!"
Galen's water elementals took the lead, followed closely by Gandalf's water elementals. The Royal Guards, Knights, and Hunters also moved.
The water elementals took the lead and collided with the Magma Giants in the front row of the Fire Elemental army. These Magma Giants were born after fire elementals calcined rocks. They have bodies made of rock, and their defense is much higher than that of pure water elementals.
The Magma Giants shattered a water elemental with a few slaps. After the water elemental exploded, water splashed everywhere, and when it splashed on the fire elementals, there was a burst of white smoke, and the red light on the fire elementals dimmed a lot.
Although the Fire Elemental army was fighting on their home turf, they were at most a group of elite soldiers, lacking high-level combat power to suppress the formation. Galen and his team, led by Galen, Gandalf, and Medivh, continuously cast Frostbolts, and the Windrunners continuously drew their longbows, opening a passage for the Royal Guards, constantly piercing through the fire elementals' army!
Soon after, Galen and the others' eyes suddenly lit up, and they entered a huge cave. The light here was more orange-red and brighter than outside. Galen saw at a glance that the Fire Lord Ragnaros's clone was standing stupidly in the center of the lava pool.
They had rushed into the core area of Molten Core, Ragnaros's lair!
Galen turned his head and glanced at the Fire Elemental army, and found that they had already begun to turn their direction, preparing to continue to encircle and suppress the invaders.
Galen raised his water elemental arm, and a large water ball with a diameter of more than one meter flew towards the entrance of the cave.
"Water Style: Water Cannonball."
Galen, who was suffering from chuunibyou, always felt that the power of the skill would be weakened by three points if he didn't announce the name. He silently dubbed his big water ball.
The water ball bombarded the top of the cave entrance, and the hot rocks were affected by the thermal expansion and contraction caused by the attack of the water cannon, and a large amount of gravel began to fall, and then the passage into the cave collapsed a part, directly blocking the route for the Fire Elemental army to support!
The sound of the rock collapsing finally attracted the attention of the Fire Lord's clone, and he turned his body to face Galen and the others!
"Why is there water here!" Lacking Ragnaros's will, this clone was like a flame puppet, only acting according to instinct. Water elementals were the life he hated the most, and Galen's water elemental state directly angered him!
"Let the flames purify everything!"
Ragnaros's clone waved the Sulfuras hammer in his hand, and the magma instantly rose several meters, covering the sky and covering Galen and the others.
Galen swung his hands in a circle, and a huge blue shield enveloped everyone!
Under Galen's shield, the Fellowships witnessed this powerful attack. The overwhelming magma made them feel powerless to fight back, while Galen's understated Water Shield gave them a sense of security.
"Alright, little girls, young men, the sightseeing tour of Molten Core is over, you should go home!"
While maintaining the shield, Galen greeted the Fellowships. The following is a battle of demi-gods, and they will be affected if they are not careful. Whether it is Ragnaros or himself, it is not good if this unknown AoE accidentally hits someone.
"Khadgar, activate the return scroll I gave you, and take Gui'erjiana and the others back to Minas Tirith, and also take away my loyal soldiers."
"No problem, Galen!" The older Khadgar understood that the battle at this level was too dangerous. He himself had suffered this kind of suffering when fighting the fallen Medivh. Two spells of aging curse made him feel powerless in these years.
Too miserable.
The Royal Guards and Knights escorted the Fellowships and Hunters back, and after walking away, Khadgar activated the return scroll and left Molten Core.
"Now it's our turn to fight back, let's get him!"
Hydromancer Duke Hidraxis, leader of the Hydraxian Waterlords. Even Neptulon the Tidehunter, the current master of the Abyssal Maw, used to tremble before the might of the Hydraxian Waterlords in their prime.
At this moment, the water elemental duke that Galen had transformed into was more than six meters tall, a meter shorter than Ragnaros's avatar. However, the fire elemental was merely an avatar, lacking in intelligence, only capable of wantonly unleashing its energy.
After the monstrous magma landed, it slowly retreated back into the magma pool. Galen also stopped maintaining the Water Shield at this time, and everyone unleashed their strongest attacks the instant the Water Shield disappeared.
Frostbolt, Arcane Blast, Gale Arrows!
And Galen's massive Water Cannon!
Ragnaros's avatar was caught off guard and hit by everything!
"Flames will consume you! Purifying flames!" Ragnaros's avatar threw out a large fireball. Galen didn't block it, and the fireball shot towards the crowd. Seeing that it was about to hit Gandalf, Aragorn leaped up, activated Divine Shield, and used his body to block the large fireball.
Aside from being knocked away by the fireball and slammed hard against the wall, Aragorn was unharmed.
Seeing that the attack hadn't produced much of a result, Ragnaros's avatar once again gathered power!
"Taste the flames of Sulfuron!"
A ring of flames rapidly erupted from his body, blasting towards the crowd in a circular arc!
Galen crossed his water elemental arms in front of him, adopting a defensive posture, not only protecting everyone behind him but also causing the Water Shield to reappear. This successfully avoided the flame damage from Ragnaros's Hand!
At this moment, Ragnaros's warhammer slammed onto Galen's arms with a bang, directly knocking him back several steps.
This was the closest Galen and the others had been to Ragnaros. Galen could clearly observe the rolling of the magma on his torso!
One hammer, two hammers, three hammers!
Ragnaros repeatedly swung his Sulfuras warhammer, roaring madly in the flames. The huge sound echoed in the enclosed cave, and each attack caused Galen to splash with water!
Galen had to use his mana to create new water from his core to repair the damage. Fighting in the enemy's territory of flames meant that Galen's power couldn't be replenished. All of this depended on the gold in Galen's resource bar to hold on!
"Let me show you the power of the Firelord! You shall…"
Bang!
It turned out that during the attack gap created when the Firelord was speaking, Galen landed a right hook heavily on Ragnaros's chin. The power was so great that it directly interrupted his words, and because he was forced to interrupt his words, a large amount of smoke and fire squeezed out from both sides of his head.
Coupled with his two long horns, he looked like an angry, smoking bull.
The Firelord's upper body felt like it was about to fly up, which showed how powerful Galen's angry punch was. He felt that if it were Nefarian, this punch could have blown his dragon head off!
This was due to the water element's restraint against the fire element, as well as the added bonus of Galen's own physical strength.
"Gandalf! Stop slacking off! Hit him hard!" Damn it, after fighting for so long, I've tanked tons of damage, not only taking the most hits but also dealing the most damage. Don't you few damage dealers feel ashamed!
"Frost Domain!"
Gandalf finally started to exert his strength. He no longer maintained those water elementals. Under the suppression of his rank, the three-meter-tall water elementals couldn't cause too much damage to Ragnaros.
This Frost Domain was Gandalf's understanding of the Arcane Laws when he achieved the legendary rank. These mages with extraordinary talents could indeed cultivate three or even multiple disciplines, but once they reached the highest realm, or wanted to surpass the legendary rank and achieve demigodhood, they had to comprehend the domain of power.
Gandalf often used frost spells, while Aegwynn and Medivh often used arcane energy attacks. Was it that they didn't know other evocation spells? No, it was because the direction they comprehended determined that these spells dealt more damage than other spells.
To put it bluntly, their talent points were in this area. As soon as the Frost Domain came out, the surrounding rocks were covered with a layer of frost. The damage dealers behind them breathed a sigh of relief. The Firelord's overflowing heat had finally dissipated!
Glacial Spike!
A large number of hailstones began to form, then rushed towards Ragnaros like a storm!
Galen mixed a lot of private goods into these hailstones, blasting Ragnaros with Water Cannons one after another.
Medivh and Aegwynn's arcane attacks were also constantly attacking Ragnaros's head, and the pure arcane energy exploded on his face, causing confusion in his sight and hearing.
Sylvanas and Alleria were constantly using Gale Arrows to cut the flowing magma on the Firelord's body. That magma was his flesh and blood. Under the cutting of the sharp arrows, large chunks of flesh and blood splashed and fell into the magma, and the temperature of the magma was constantly rising.
An Orb of Frost flew out, slowly rotating towards the Firelord!
Gandalf's second powerful skill had arrived!
Galen watched this spinning Orb of Frost, which also shot out many ice arrows. He had a whim and held the Orb of Frost in both hands!
Then he quickly walked forward and approached Ragnaros.
Holding the Orb of Frost in both hands, he slammed it hard into the Firelord's chest!
The Orb of Frost continued to shrink in the high temperature, and Galen had to transfer new frost power from his hands to replenish its volume!
Just as the Orb of Frost was about to approach Ragnaros's core, Ragnaros struggled free of Galen, and the warhammer in his hand slammed hard towards Galen's head. Galen raised the remaining Orb of Frost, just in time to collide with the warhammer. The Orb of Frost couldn't hold on and burst open.
However, Galen had already discovered at this time that Ragnaros's avatar seemed to have shrunk by more than half a meter and was now about the same height as his water elemental body.
There's something to it!
Generally speaking, elemental bodies rarely take damage. As long as his core and soul are not damaged, he can use the core to continuously generate new elements to repair his body. Especially in this home field full of fire elements, Ragnaros shouldn't be shrinking.
He wasn't like Galen, who was reluctant to spend money to directly burn 300,000 to become bigger and taller!
Unless his core was damaged!
"Keep going! He's injured! Strike while the iron is hot!"
Galen was excited. The way he had just fought had sparked his interest, and he seemed to have found some new ideas!
Ice Armor!
Literally, a thick stream of water was squeezed out of his body, and then frozen by him with ice energy. This ten or twenty centimeters thick layer of ice could at least withstand several hammers from this Firelord avatar!
Then there was a crude ice sword. Saying it was a sword, it was actually more like a big ice stick held in his hand.
The three mages and two rangers behind him began to attack to finish him off, and only Aragorn was leisurely watching the show, only providing some auras and occasionally casting a Holy Light!
Galen held the ice sword in his right hand and grabbed the spi… Ice Orb in his left hand, and once again engaged in a close fight!
After some struggling, Galen and the others successfully blasted apart this offline-hosted Ragnaros energy avatar.
Although it was an avatar, the Fire Lord's true form was at the peak of a demigod, and the avatar he created contained his elemental essence, which did cause Galen a lot of trouble.
As the Fire Lord's avatar dissipated, Galen could feel the group of fire elementals he had sealed outside the cave directly dissipate; they were created by Ragnaros' power, and with the dissipation of Ragnaros' avatar, this power also collapsed. The cave returned to calm, and the temperature was no longer as scorching as before.
After Galen dragged the remnants of Ragnaros' avatar ashore, he dispelled the Summon King spell, and his figure slowly transformed back into a human.
He casually threw out a Fire Totem.
Bang!
However, this time, after the Fire Totem lit up for a moment, it directly exploded!
Galen was taken aback for a moment, guessing that it shouldn't be a problem with the materials. Galen dared to guarantee that the Tree of Life he obtained from the Heart of Origin, even if it couldn't compare to the genuine Azerothian Tree of Life on Mount Hyjal now, wouldn't be too far off.
It should be that Ursol's strength tier didn't exceed the Fire Lord's, so the elemental totem he made couldn't extract the remaining essence of the Fire Lord from the broken Flame Core.
As the Fire Lord's avatar dissipated, the warhammer in his hand also turned into magma and flowed back into the lava pool; it turned out that this was also an illusion.
Galen rummaged through the fragments on the ground, and a reddish-purple circular fragment attracted his attention. Unlike the other fragments that emitted elemental light, this crystal-like object was iridescent, and it was clear at a glance that it was an extraordinary item. It should be the core of Ragnaros' avatar, and also his energy source: the Eye of Sulfuras.
Regardless of whether it was or not, Galen directly put away this crystal, along with the essence of the Fire Lord.
"Work's done!"
Galen turned around and said to the others, "In a while, Ms. Aegwynn and Medivh will stay behind to reinforce the seal of the Flame Lord's runes, and completely seal the elemental rift between Molten Core and the Firelands!"
Galen was completely not giving Ragnaros a chance to take revenge, blocking the last bit of passage he could use to reach Azeroth from the Firelands.
Well, when the Summon King spell unlocks the top-tier demigod authority in the future, he would find a chance to trick the Fire Lord into coming to Azeroth to kill him, and Galen had already thought of the black intermediary to trick the Fire Lord over: none other than Deathwing!
"We'll start acting now." Aegwynn was also a decisive and efficient woman; she directly divided the work with Medivh, seven Flame Runes, she was responsible for four, and Medivh for three.
"Come out, Geddon! Garr!"
Galen took out the Fire Totem that sealed Baron Geddon and the Earth Totem of Garr. A miniature fire elemental and earth elemental appeared in front of Galen. The original five-to-six-meter-tall fire elemental was now only the height of Durin, which shows how poor his state was after being killed, but it was better than returning to the Firelands to wait thousands of years to be reborn.
"Geddon obeys!"
As the saying goes, a wise man submits to circumstances. At this time, Baron Geddon was bound by the Fire Totem and had no ability to break free. When a man is under the eaves, he has to bow his head. He could only switch camps again.
However, the earth elemental Garr remained silent.
Geddon's, the three-surname slave's, performance made Galen very satisfied. He was afraid that the subjugated elemental creatures would be stubborn and inflexible. Originally, they were to be used to enhance combat power, but as a result, they became a drag because they didn't cooperate.
However, because of Geddon's performance, Galen was no longer prepared to give Geddon to Thrall. With Thrall's current strength, he wouldn't be able to suppress this kind of bullying fire elemental, and he might not be able to use it freely.
Anyway, Blackrock Depths still had a fire elemental Isalien who wasn't weak and a fire and earth elemental Locrust, Galen specifically instructed Durin to leave these two elemental creatures alive. Their legendary early-stage strength was just right, so that Thrall could get through his youth.
Among them, Galen was more optimistic about Locrust. It is said that Locrust chose to stay away from Molten Core because he deeply hated the treacherous and deceitful nature of the fire elementals. This powerful creature deliberately angered the Fire Lord, and then was expelled from Molten Core, forced to guard Blackrock Depths in isolation.
This is simply a clear stream! Thrall is still young, giving him Baron Geddon might corrupt little Thrall, so it's decided, it's you!
According to Galen's understanding of Thrall in his previous life, he should be a shaman with affinity for four elements. This is an amazing talent that not every shaman or mage can possess.
Normally, a talented person will only be favored by one element, such as the Wildhammer dwarves, their affinity with air elements allows them to soar better in the air, the Bronzebeard dwarves have a fiery temper and are more likely to gain the favor of the fire element, of course, the Dark Iron dwarves are an exception, they are cursed by the Fire Lord, almost cutting off contact with other elements, only the fire element will be close to them.
There are also the naga in the seabed, they will only choose to conclude a contract with the water element, Galen's friends, the tauren shamans, believe in the Earth Mother, they prefer the earth element.
So people like Thrall are rare, earth, fire, wind, and water, as the big brother, he must prepare them for him early.
"The Fire Lord Ragnaros has been driven away by us, I will leave Molten Core to you to take care of in the future, also, there is still a lava giant Incinerator alive in Molten Core, subdue him, this is a test for you, if you fail, then pray I don't find you"
Geddon's small eyes glanced at Garr next to him, seeing that this colleague who betrayed Prince Thunderaan with him was still not speaking, he could only respond to Galen.
"Please rest assured, master, we will definitely guard Molten Core!"
Galen occupied this place because of the environment here. Ironforge has a large furnace to draw out underground magma, and so does Blackrock Depths. The existence of magma allows them to not need to find other energy sources to burn and smelt metals, making them a famous blacksmith race in Azeroth.
Molten Core is closer to the earth's core, and the magma temperature is higher than the magma near the surface in Ironforge. With the assistance of Geddon, a half-step demigod, Galen plans to turn Molten Core into a place specializing in forging high-level weapons and equipment.
It can also be lent to the Dragonflights, the temperature here and the energy in Geddon's body are conducive to the hatching speed of dragon eggs.
Hmm, publicity, it must be publicized throughout Azeroth, turning Molten Core into a rentable venue, Baron Geddon, the stoker and part-time nanny, eighty gold for a big hammer and forty for a small hammer, no bargaining!