Galen had just collected the souls of several chieftains, not giving them a chance to return to the Twisting Nether. At this moment, he noticed that Alleria was clutching her shoulder with a pained expression.
Galen stepped forward and asked with concern, "What's wrong, Alleria? Were you injured just now?"
"It's nothing. I was careless when I got close to that female demon and she managed to cut me!" Alleria opened her palm and examined the small tear in her leather armor, no bigger than half a finger. She said it with complete nonchalance.
Galen also saw the small tear on Alleria's shoulder and didn't pay it much attention. He directly took out a bottle of Spring Water: "Alleria, when you rest later, use this bottle of Spring Water to clean the wound. It can remove scars! If the wound is deep, drink a few mouthfuls to speed up healing!"
Alleria was about to say that it was just a small wound and there was no need to make a fuss, but when she heard that it could remove scars, she immediately took it without hesitation.
Galen issued an order in the Origin Heart, instructing the Stormwind Legion's infantry to change their attack plan. The six-armed succubi and demon lords on the high ground, as well as the hellfire, were to be completely exterminated, while the Draenei darkswordsmen and fallen Draenei workers were to be captured alive.
He would ask Velen later if he wanted to deal with them. If Velen had no objections, Galen would not be polite. He planned to start on the Lightforged Draenei project after the Lightforged black dragon project was completed. After this batch of Draenei was Lightforged, the orcs would be next in line.
Just as Galen issued the order, he saw Alleria stagger two steps as if she had lost her strength, and she was about to fall to the ground.
Galen was quick-witted and grabbed her body.
"What's wrong, Alleria?"
At this moment, Alleria had already closed her eyes tightly and fallen into a semi-conscious state.
What's going on?
She was fine just now!
Could it be that wound?
Galen pulled away Alleria's hand that was covering her shoulder and saw that the dragonscale armor, which had only had a small cut earlier, was now emitting green smoke, and Galen caught a faint sizzling sound.
Galen tore open the leather armor and saw that the wound, which had stopped bleeding earlier, now had a pool of green energy attached to it, and it was even spreading!
A curse?
Galen felt the aura of fel energy.
He picked up Alleria and looked around. He found that only the Oshu'gun Temple on the cliff near the sea was relatively intact. The other Draenei-style houses had been destroyed in the artillery fire.
Galen quickly rushed into the Oshu'gun Temple and found a luxurious room deep within the temple, which should be the residence of a Sargerei high-ranking official.
Galen placed Alleria on the bedding. Anxious and concerned, he removed Alleria's breastplate. What came into view were the peaks covered with a layer of thin veil lining, the tips of the peaks looming.
However, Galen's attention was on the area from her shoulder to her ribs. A large area of pink skin was covered with green demonic fire, like a curse or a sacrifice. Galen tried to cast a mage's Remove Curse spell on it, and the brightness of the demonic fire dimmed slightly, but then it became bright again.
Seeing that Remove Curse had no effect, Galen then cast a Purify and a Dispel, but still had no effect.
What kind of ability is this?
I've never seen it before.
Galen was a little anxious at this time. Alleria was already unconscious, and he sensed that the ranger's life force was fading. Without thinking twice, he poured a large mouthful of Spring Water into her.
However, Alleria was unconscious, and the Spring Water could not be swallowed and spilled directly from the corner of her mouth.
Galen thought to himself that it wasn't the first time anyway, practice makes perfect. He drank a large mouthful himself, and then he leaned over and fed the Spring Water to Alleria.
Afterwards, Galen quickly entered the Origin Heart to search the memories of the succubus Teptessa!
The succubus Teptessa belonged to a branch of the Burning Legion's demons: the Destroyer.
The Destroyers were all female demons, and the biggest feature was that they had six arms. The most famous of their group were Matron Mother Malevolence and Shahraz, one was the later Destroyer captain, and the other was the supervisor who ruled the Pleasure Gardens of the Black Temple.
Teptessa was a member of a secret organization within the Destroyers, mainly responsible for monitoring the Draenei Archbishop Socrethar who had defected to the Burning Legion!
Alleria's injury was also caused by Teptessa. Before her death, she used half of her soul as the price to cast a curse on Alleria. She originally thought that even if she lost half of her soul, she could return to the Twisting Nether and slowly recover, but she didn't expect to be intercepted by Galen halfway.
Finally, Galen searched for the method to remove the curse!
Simply put, this was a composite curse, similar to a parasite, the kind with life, and it needed to be killed before it could be cleared.
Galen locked his mental power on the demonic fire on Alleria's body, and then his right hand was claw-shaped towards the demonic fire.
"Soul Siphon!"
A purple light connected Galen's right hand and the demonic fire curse on Alleria's body!
"Oh! No!"
A few seconds later, a wail came from Galen's palm. At this time, Galen was already holding a purple crystal in his hand.
At this time, the demonic fire on Alleria's body had dimmed a lot. Galen directly threw a Remove Curse on it, and the demonic fire turned into a wisp of black smoke and dissipated, and Alleria's wound also regained its blood color.
The next step was normal treatment. Galen covered the wound with his hand, and golden holy light slowly released, nourishing Alleria's wound bit by bit and promoting healing.
Galen's movements were very careful. Alleria had lost a lot of life force from being tormented by this curse just now. Although the holy light output would speed up the healing of the wound, it would continue to drain the life force in her body. Alleria would have to rest in bed for a while afterwards.
Just as Galen was concentrating on treating Alleria's wound, the ranger had woken up from her coma. The lingering touch on the corner of her mouth and the Spring Water made her guess what had happened. Then she found that her upper body only had a damaged light gauze underwear, and Galen was focusing on watching her at this time.
She had been seen naked! This situation directly made the originally generous ranger feel shy and uneasy.
"Ugh."
At the same time, the touch on her ribs made Alleria feel a strange feeling similar to an electric shock spread throughout her body.
Galen was startled by the sound made by Alleria, and he raised his head just in time to see Alleria's bright eyes and her blushing cheeks.
This shy appearance was not usually seen on the heroic Alleria, but this sudden injury caught her off guard and made her extremely weak, revealing her soft side.
For a moment, Galen was stunned.
"Alleria, you're awake!"
In the end, it was Galen who broke the strange atmosphere, because the wound had completely healed, he could only reluctantly withdraw his palm.
He couldn't help but clench his four fingers, as if recalling the smooth touch just now.
Alleria's lips moved, but Galen's hearing couldn't make out what she said.
"Huh?"
Galen leaned forward, tilting his upper body and bringing his ear closer, trying to get Alleria to repeat herself.
Then Galen felt a warm touch coming from his face, and his heart felt like it had experienced a slight explosion, a ticklish feeling coming from his heart.
I was kissed by Alleria!
Galen's surprise made Alleria even more shy, but Galen also reacted to the kiss.
I've seen what I needed to see, touched what I needed to touch, and now I've been kissed, should I continue to act like a beast, or be worse than a beast?
It made Galen a little embarrassed to have a girl take the initiative, so the black figure in his mind said, 'You kiss too, be proactive,' and then the golden figure raised his hands and clapped, saying, 'Yes, yes, don't hesitate.'
Galen lowered his head and kissed Alleria, and instantly Alleria's eyes became blurred, filled with mist.
As they kissed, Galen couldn't restrain his restless hands, and involuntarily placed them where they should be, the veil fell to the ground, Galen's hand covered the peaks.
After a long while, Galen raised his head, Alleria was already lost in passion, perhaps Galen could do anything and she wouldn't object, but Galen felt that it shouldn't be here, in a bombed-out building.
Galen covered her exposed body with the soft cloak behind him, then gently smoothed the scattered golden hair on Alleria's cheeks, then his fingertips caressed Alleria's delicate face back and forth.
"Rest for a while, Alleria, we have a long future ahead, I will always be with you."
Galen's words made the ranger's heart suddenly brighten, the man who originally had a crush on her younger sister made her feel guilty, and she had been suppressing herself.
She also understood that the longer she stayed by Galen's side, the deeper she would fall, but she really couldn't bring herself to leave, nor could she control her emotions. After arriving in Draenor, Sylvanas sent a letter saying that the war in Quel'Thalas prevented her from leaving, and she hoped that her sister could help Galen more on her behalf.
Therefore, Alleria comforted herself, 'This is my sister asking me to continue staying by Galen's side.'
Now, receiving Galen's response filled her heart with joy, only Sylvanas's side…
Galen looked at Alleria's furrowed brows, and understood what she was worried about, he placed his finger on her brow again and rubbed it: "Don't worry about anything else, leave it all to me!"
"Mm."
Alleria responded softly, curling up her whole body and hiding in Galen's cloak, leaving only a pair of eyes.
"Sleep for a while, you're still very weak."
"Mm."
Galen set up a Light Barrier around Alleria to protect her safety, then got up and left the room.
Galen also didn't know how to solve it in his heart, wanting to enjoy the blessings of two women wasn't that easy, especially when one of them was Sylvanas, even if the current Sylvanas didn't have the arrogance, domineering, darkness, and extremism of the Banshee Queen stage, she was still that rebellious ranger general!
However, in order to let Alleria rest well, Galen took the burden upon himself first.
This was responsibility.
On Socrethar's Rise, the soldiers of the Fel Horde were cleaning up the battlefield, and all the surviving Sargerei Darkfallen were captured and imprisoned in the square in the center of the Rise.
After calculating silently, there weren't many, only a little over three thousand people left, about two thousand Darkfallen Swordsmen, five hundred Darkfallen Warlocks, and the remaining five hundred were workers.
Although the number was a bit small, it was enough for the Cathedral of Light to Lightforge for a while, but he didn't know how many would explode at that time.
The terrain of Socrethar's Rise was particularly advantageous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the area was quite large, very suitable for building a fortress.
Galen always felt that the places he conquered belonged to the Crusade, what was that saying: "I came, I saw, I conquered!"
Even if this place once belonged to the Draenei, they lost Shadowmoon Valley, lost Talador, and even Shattrath City was taken back by the Crusade. Now looking at Velen's endless feud with the Horde, the Draenei people have settled in Azeroth, without any worries, their heads have turned to iron, and they only want to be reckless.
Since Velen gave up the idea of recovering lost territory, Galen unceremoniously occupied it. Socrethar's Rise was directly renamed Starsong Fortress, and a team of farmers was teleported from Ashran to station in the Rise, and began to build on a large scale.
Alleria woke up at dinner time, she changed into the new equipment that Galen left in the room, this new set of dragon scale armor came from Onyxia's dragon scales shed during Lightforging, which was several grades stronger than her previous set of red dragon whelp scale armor.
When Alleria saw Galen, her eyes first darted away, her cheeks flushed.
After the two broke through that layer of window paper, Alleria was a little unaccustomed for a while, but she instantly adjusted her mentality, and became generous again, only the way she looked at Galen no longer suppressed her emotions as before, and her actions became much more intimate.
Galen took Alleria's hand and led her into the town hall, which was hammered out by hundreds of farmers during the day, and the cost was unknown how many times over.
"Galen, the construction workers under you are really fast, they built such a huge building in just one day!" This was the first time Galen revealed a part of his secrets in front of a close person, even Sylvanas Galen was still hiding it, preparing to find a suitable time to slowly reveal it.
Of course, Galen was prepared to hide the existence of the Heart of Origin and the identity of the transmigrator for a lifetime.
"As long as there is enough manpower, it is not a problem to build another barracks."
"Bullshit! In Quel'Thalas, even if the masters dispatch a large number of arcane golems, they can't build two buildings in one day with hundreds of people!"
Galen's serious words made Alleria think that Galen was bragging, which made her miss the first time she was closest to Galen's secret.
"Alleria, we will rest here for a few days, and after Aragorn and Thranduil complete their strategic goals, we will advance to the Black Temple together!"
Alleria had no objection to this arrangement, today she and Galen expressed their feelings, and what she hoped most was to have more time together.
The Black Temple, formerly known as the Temple of Karabor, built by the Draenei, was a Draenei sanctuary with a harbor and the center of Draenei faith. The Path of Glory was a pilgrimage route connecting Shattrath City and the Temple of Karabor.
It was also the convergence point of the Draenor ley lines, filled with abundant energy. After Gul'dan led the Horde to conquer this city, the warlocks of the Shadow Council took a liking to its energy and occupied the structure, giving it a new name: the Black Temple.
Half a month after the Crusaders entered Shadowmoon Valley, the three armies each broke through their respective targets and gathered at the gate of the Black Temple.
With the help of Garona and the Hidden Knife, Aragorn flattened the Shadow Council's base, Gul'var, in two days, and then reoccupied the large Draenei town of Ambolar Village after a seven-day march.
The most difficult task fell to Thranduil and Amor. The Shadowmoon Clan, as an old Orc clan and one of the Seven Warlords of Draenor, had fortified the Citadel of Anguish and Shaz'gul into impregnable fortresses.
This was only because Gul'dan had split most of the Shadowmoon Clan's shamans to become warlocks and create the Bleeding Hollow Clan, and Ner'zhul had taken half of the army to support Tanaan, causing the Shadowmoon Clan to be unprecedentedly weak. Otherwise, Thranduil and Amor might have needed Galen and others to support them.
Shatana Bloodfury, a student on whom Ner'zhul placed high hopes, led the last 40,000 troops of the Shadowmoon Clan to retreat to the Black Temple, and the messengers she sent out for help were all intercepted by Garona, turning the Black Temple into an isolated fortress.
Just as Galen was preparing to launch the final offensive, Garona reported that a Broken army was marching towards the Black Temple from the northern coast of Elodor.
This aroused Galen's curiosity. Most of the Broken had been absorbed by Nubot into the Kurenai, and now they lived in Telredor. With the spread of shamanism, the deformities in their bodies had also been well controlled.
Could it be Akama?
The former Draenei High Priest who parted ways with Nubot?
Sure enough, as the two sides made contact, the other party revealed their identity. They belonged to the Ashtongue Deathsworn, and their leader was Akama, who would later be known as 'Two-Faced, Three-Knife'.
Galen carefully examined the tall Broken in front of him, who was wielding a scythe in both hands. He could feel the power of the elements from Akama's body.
"Have you been in contact with the Kurenai under my command?" Galen asked.
"Yes, Honorable Lord of the Crusade, Nubot taught me the ways of the shaman. It was I who threatened him with the lives of my people, forcing him to save the Ashtongue Deathsworn!"
Akama seemed afraid that Galen would blame Nubot for revealing the secrets of the elements without authorization. After all, to the Crusaders, the existence of the Ashtongue Deathsworn divided the Broken.
"I have no intention of pursuing Nubot's guilt. I said before that after he became the leader of the Kurenai, he would have a high degree of autonomy. As long as his decisions do not harm the interests of the Crusaders, everything else is trivial."
Galen paused, recalling the powerful combat power of the Ashtongue Deathsworn. Most of them were former Shattrath City garrison troops, also composed of Akama's old subordinates, while most of the Broken in the Kurenai were former Draenei civilians, with lower combat power.
Now that the recruitment of Hidden Knife members has entered a bottleneck, and new members need a long time to grow, if Akama and his Ashtongue Deathsworn can be absorbed, it will undoubtedly greatly enhance the strength of the Hidden Knife.
"Akama, Draenor is about to enter a new era under the efforts of the Crusaders and the Draenor Allied Forces. We will destroy the evil Horde and fight against the Burning Legion. Are you interested in joining us?"
"The Crusaders have abundant logistical supplies and can also provide you with sophisticated weapons and equipment. All the towns we control will be open to you, and I can even give you the Black Temple as a garrison!"
Akama was very tempted after hearing this. Since the fall of Shattrath City, the motivation for the rest of his life had been to kill evil orcs and demons. If joining the Crusaders could better achieve this goal, he wouldn't mind serving anyone.
"Honorable Lord of the Crusade, what do we need to give? Loyalty? Freedom? Or life?"
"I can give you a great deal of autonomy, just like your Kurenai compatriots. And I need your loyalty, and..." Galen called Garona over. "Garona will make the Ashtongue Deathsworn a selection base for my Hidden Knife troops. Of course, we will only conscript each warrior we select after obtaining your consent."
"Very generous conditions, I agree!" Akama readily agreed to Galen's invitation to join the Crusaders and become one of them.
In fact, it was also because, compared to the original timeline, the Kurenai Broken were backed by the Crusaders. The strong rise of this organization absorbed nearly 80% of the Broken in Draenor. The Ashtongue Deathsworn were not as powerful as in the original timeline and could only be considered a small force. From Shattrath City all the way to Shadowmoon Valley, they had a very difficult time.
"We can provide you with some equipment and attack the Black Temple together later!"
"As you command! Highlord!" Akama quickly entered his role.
Galen nodded lightly. As for Akama, Galen couldn't completely trust him like he did Nubot. Even if he had lofty ideals, Galen couldn't accept someone with a 'two-faced, three-knife' reputation.
Only after the war in Draenor came to an end, and all these newly recruited subordinates were pulled to Minas Tirith for conversion, could he trust them with confidence.
The invasion of four infantry legions and a gryphon knight squadron, as well as a large number of Broken, made the defeated Black Temple orcs extremely nervous. Their supreme commander, Shatana, looked desperate.
Half a month ago, the Shadowmoon Clan, which was still the overlord of Shadowmoon Valley, had become a stray dog. This change was too difficult to accept. Now, they could only hope that the magical barrier of the Black Temple could hold out until Warchief Ner'zhul returned to support them!
"Highlord, this barrier was originally the defense system of the Temple of Karabor. Now, the warlocks of the Horde have transformed it, changing the Holy Light barrier into a Shadow Ward, which requires enormous power to break. Perhaps I can lead the Ashtongue Deathsworn to sneak in from the temple's sewers and destroy the operation of this barrier from the inside!"
Galen recalled that the Black Temple seemed to really have a sewer area, which was full of disgusting green liquid.
"It would be best to break through from the inside. Akama, take people to sneak in from the sewers, and I will try to attack in my own way!"
"Cannon Barrage!"
"Volley fire!"
For a time, cannons roared. On the eastern sea of the Black Temple, the side flanks of twenty destroyers revealed their dark muzzles, followed by a fierce bombardment.
To the west of the Black Temple, after Akama left, Galen directly opened a portal, teleporting over a thousand cannons to launch an attack in coordination with the naval fleet.
The orcs inside the Black Temple stared intently at the sky above them. Fireworks exploded in their air, and a semi-transparent dark-black magical shield blocked the terrifying barrage. The orcs prayed in their hearts that the warlocks' formation could hold, otherwise, with the ferocity of the cannon fire, they would be buried in the bombardment the next moment.
The earth trembled. Even the Ashtongue Deathsworn in the sewers could feel the intense shelling above them, and dust fell from the ceiling from time to time.
Akama's heart was filled with surprise. He had heard about the affairs of the Draenor Allied Forces. He had also seen the fleet that Ner'zhul sent north for support. For the first time, he experienced the power of the Crusade. No wonder they could unite the conflicting Draenor races to fight against the Burning Legion and their lackeys.
Outside, after half an hour of persistence, gaps began to appear in the magic barrier, but they were quickly filled by the surrounding dark energy, which led to the thinning of that energy!
After an hour, the cannon squads stopped firing due to overheating of the barrels. Galen waved his hand, sending this batch of cannon squads back, and then directly brought in two thousand cannons this time!
Another new round of shelling!
The magic barrier had already begun to show flaws. The magic recovery on the barrier could not keep up with the speed of the shells' destruction. Scattered shells had already fallen into the temple, and the orcs were once again frightened and began to fall into despair!
The ammunition for this batch of cannons was still the old inventory from the base workshop from the first year to the fourth year after the Dark Portal was opened, including level one black gunpowder shells, level two refined gunpowder shells, and level three ultimate gunpowder shells.
Now that the base has been upgraded to a level four royal city, the technology of the blacksmith shop and workshop has also been upgraded and replaced, and they have begun to manufacture more powerful shells. The previous inventory is not only less powerful, but also occupies the inventory, so Galen used the Black Temple and Hellfire Citadel as areas for destroying gunpowder.
"The magic barrier is about to collapse!"
"Infantry! Form ranks! Advance!"
"Mage corps, follow up, use war magic together to give the opponent's magic barrier the final blow!"
With the issuance of Galen's order, the Stone Legion, as the first sequence, began to act.
After the Tidefury Legion put forward the proposal for full job transfer, the Stone Legion, as a legion with equally rich combat experience and ranked third in terms of establishment time, also began the schedule of gaining experience.
Under the leadership of Aragorn, five thousand heavy infantry advanced with shields in formation, with one thousand intermediate wizards in the middle and three thousand musketeers in the rear. After the wizards entered the range, large firestorms exploded on the edge of the magic barrier, and a large number of buildings not protected by the barrier were turned into lava in the flames.
"Beep!"
At this time, a clear cry came, it was Theron calling out his phoenix!
"Yan! Destroy that barrier!"
Yan was the name Theron gave to his phoenix. Galen could only complain that he was afraid there wasn't enough fire!
The phoenix Yan stayed in the sky above the Stone Legion, and a scarlet ray spewed out from her mouth, scorching the magic barrier of the Black Temple.
"Scorching Sun?"
"I just don't know if it can restore the lives of friendly units."
Galen muttered to himself, which made Theron have a black line on his face.
Boom!
The magic barrier of the Black Temple failed to persist until Akama and the Ashtongue Deathsworn's sabotage operation was completed, and it was directly broken in the Crusade's bombing!
After the magic barrier was broken, the cannon array and the naval fleet stopped shelling at the same time.
After the Black Temple is recovered, it belongs to the property of the Crusade. The casualties of personnel only need Aragorn and Galen to jointly use resurrection to offset them, and if the Black Temple is destroyed by artillery fire, it will take a lot of time and energy to rebuild it!
"All troops! Attack!"
The infantry of the Stone Legion quickened their pace, raised their shields and began to charge, and the wizards and musketeers behind them followed closely.
But the phoenix in the sky was faster. She swooped down and directly burned the Shadowmoon Clan warriors waiting in battle on the steps of the Black Temple to ashes!
"Theron, quickly call your pet back!"
Galen stopped the phoenix from showing off its power. These were all a group of mid- and low-level orc warriors. The phoenix killing them was equivalent to Theron's doing, and Theron, as the fourth hero of the Altar of Kings, was a legendary high-level based on Galen's strength once summoned. He can't get experience for killing small soldiers anymore, at least he has to be a high-level opponent like an elite leader to contribute experience points!
Theron regretfully recalled the phoenix. He had been worshiped by the high elves on Quel'Danas for thousands of years, and Theron had long been tired of the uneventful days. Only this kind of large-scale military conquest could barely pique his interest.
Galen didn't know whether it was good or bad to restore his previous memories.
The phoenix's swoop opened the defense camp of the Shadowmoon Orcs. Aragorn seized this opportunity and rushed over directly, opening the gap and constantly expanding it!
The Shadowmoon Orcs were retreating steadily, retreating from the steps to the square. At this time, Akama and the others finally played their role, attacking from both sides to clear the surrounding enemies and directly entering the temple.
In the Shadow Sanctum, Akama reported to Galen: "Great Lord, this sanctuary is the center of the entire temple. To the left, you can reach the banquet hall and the high council chambers, and forward, you can go to the prayer hall!"
Galen recalled for a moment, guessing that the banquet hall might be the Circle of Pleasure he was familiar with, the prayer hall might be the hall later occupied by the Blood Lord, and the high council chambers should be where the f4 are located.
At this time, in addition to the Thunder Legion and the Ashtongue Deathsworn, there was also the Gale Legion, with a large number of people.
"Akama, disperse your subordinates who are familiar with the inside of the temple, and each person leads a centurion to clear the entire temple, and don't let go of any rats!"
Akama nodded and personally led people to join the purge operation. Galen took Alleria and chose the passage on the left, all the way from the Shadow Sanctum through the banquet hall, the high council chambers, and finally through a door, following the spiral stairs to the top of the Black Temple!
The top of the temple was still the same, except that the famous demon hunter was missing. Galen was already thinking about what method he could use to deceive Illidan to Draenor after Draenor was unified by him, and let him take the lead in resisting the Burning Legion?
Galen half-squatted on the ground, striking a pose similar to Rodin's Thinker, his eyes deep and melancholy, his cloak covering his shoulders and back.
In Galen's right hand, he clutched the head of an Orc, green fel energy swirling in the eye sockets.
At that moment, footsteps echoed from the top of the temple steps. Akama, dressed as a Warden, Auryllia in her red mage robes, and Aragorn in his golden armor appeared on the temple platform, followed by twenty-five adventurers with various equipment.
Galen raised his head, his eyes like lightning as he looked at Akama, his eyes filled with rage: "Akama, your duplicity doesn't surprise me. I should have killed you and all your deformed brethren long ago!"
Akama raised the two scythes in his hands, pointing them at Galen: "We will end your reign, Lord of the Crusade! My people, and the entire Draenor, will regain their freedom!"
Galen roared towards the sky: "Well said, but it's meaningless."
Akama made a desperate gamble: "The time has come! We've finally waited for this moment!"
Galen stood up, saying with a contemptuous tone: "You're courting death!"
After speaking, Galen drew two blades, the Sword of the Brotherhood in his left hand, and Trol'kalar in his right. Then, he leaped into the sky, his cloak billowing in the wind!
Bang!
A sound of something landing on the ground was heard. The next second, the scene changed, and Galen rolled off the bed. Dressed in close-fitting underwear, Galen quickly regained consciousness, then climbed up and sat back on the head of the bed, clutching his heart.
Oh my gosh, why did I have such an unlucky dream!
Am I entering a dungeon?
Fortunately, I woke up quickly, otherwise, wouldn't I have been ganged up on by twenty-five guys?
Although Galen was confident in his strength, and could recharge his abilities with money at critical moments, even the strong can't escape plot kills sometimes.
I have much better things than that poor Illidan, including a lot of legendary weapons: the Eye of Sargeras, the Scepter of Sargeras, the Skull of Gul'dan, the Skull of Sacrolash.
It's time to leave the Black Temple. After the Crusaders moved in, the paladin bodyguards used the Holy Light to absolve the souls of a large number of Draenei civilians. It's still dark here because Gul'dan activated forbidden powers here. The Heart of Darkness, Karabor, exploded, and its fragments scattered in all directions, enveloping this area in void energy.
As a paladin, and one close to a demigod, Galen was extremely sensitive to void energy. This faint rejection stirred up some thoughts in Galen's mind, causing him to have wild dreams while sleeping, which wasn't strange.
If the Anguish Fortress and the Shadowmoon Clan prisoners of Shaz'gul hadn't needed to be settled, Galen would have left here on the night of the Black Temple's purification!
After Shadowmoon Valley was secured, Galen's grand excavation plan began, with multiple mines operating simultaneously in Socrethar's Rise, Shaz'gul, Shadowmoon Burial Grounds, Gu'vaar, Twilight Glade, Umbrafen, Aredor, and more.
Galen originally planned to solve the Fury of the Elements sealed by Gul'dan after the mine was completed and the hundreds of thousands of Shadowmoon Orcs were distributed, but now he had to leave early.
The Hand of Gul'dan is an artificially created volcano located in the very center of Shadowmoon Valley. The volcano is surrounded by scorching lava containing fel energy, making it one of the largest sources of pollution on the entire planet.
Because Galen had Gul'dan's original self under his command, he easily obtained the three Cipher of Damnation without having to run around collecting them.
The Altar of Damnation. Galen brought several high-level thugs under his command to find this place. The altar was still shrouded in a poisonous aura.
Galen threw out three Cipher of Damnation stones and began chanting. Suddenly, the surrounding area was filled with wind and clouds, and the extinguished volcano began to erupt. The green lava fell on the earth like raindrops, and the howling storm carried the sulfurous smell of lava towards the Altar of Damnation, causing Auryllia to cover her eyes, while the pungent smell made the female elf frown.
As Galen chanted, the surrounding winds grew stronger, and the surrounding lava erupted more violently. Thranduil created a small magical barrier above everyone's heads, blocking the fire rain falling from the sky.
Finally, the three Ciphers of Damnation seemed to open a different space suppressed by the Hand of Gul'dan!
A lava giant more than ten meters tall jumped out of the volcano!
This was an obsidian giant covered in green flames. After he appeared, he immediately focused his gaze on the Altar of Damnation where Galen was!
Because Gul'dan's sealing of Draenor's elemental spirits was a major event that shook the world, the environment around Draenor would record the echoes of this event!
At this time, a phantom of Gul'dan was floating above Galen's head, replaying the process of Gul'dan's great battle against Draenor's four spirits more than ten years ago, and then sealing them.
This green glory giant was named the Soul Echo of Cyrukh the Firelord, a collection of the will of the four elemental furies. When they realized they were about to lose to Gul'dan, they made a desperate choice to merge and transform into Cyrukh the Firelord, hoping that the power of the four elements could resist the power of fel, but unfortunately they still failed. The main body was shattered, leaving only the soul body sealed!
At this time, Cyrukh had been corrupted by fel energy. What Galen had to do was to shatter the Firelord and divide them back into the original four elemental furies.
"Doomsday is coming! Gul'dan! Die!"
The lava giant strode over, causing the earth to tremble. He stretched out his huge palm and slammed it heavily on Gul'dan's echo and the important task on the Altar of Damnation!
The four elemental furies originally possessed the strength of demigods, and their strength became even stronger after merging. In Galen's view, this merging ability was because the four elements came from the same source. They were all elements born from the Titan construct Gronn, somewhat like Pangu's primordial spirit transforming into three pure forms, but these four elements were a low-profile version.
This palm was astonishing, even if they weren't the main body, they still had the strength of demigods! The lava giant's palm was wrapped in green fel fire, and it also stirred up a howling wind, striking with the force of Mount Tai pressing down!
Hmph!
Galen sneered dismissively. These four elemental furies of Draenor were simply embarrassing themselves to the extreme. They were sealed by Gul'dan on their own territory. It would have been understandable if Kil'jaeden or Archimonde had taken action, just like the four elemental lords of Azeroth being sealed in their respective elemental planes. No living being felt they were embarrassing!
Because the ones who took action were the Titan themselves!
The four elemental furies were just watching the Burning Legion engaging in petty tricks, watching Gul'dan go from a deformed shaman apprentice to joining Kil'jaeden and finally growing into a demigod warlock!
Because of their cowardice, they personally hid themselves.
The Four Elemental Furies, upon learning of Kil'jaeden's power, believed that his goal in commanding the orcs' invasion was only the foreign draenei, and thus they dared not resist.
It wasn't until later, when the orcs used fel energy to gradually destroy Draenor's vitality and threaten the elements' survival, that they united to fight Gul'dan. Unfortunately, it was too late. Gul'dan had already gained momentum, and the ultimate result was the sealing of Draenor's elements!
Facing the Fire Lord's palm, Therandiel summoned the phoenix, and then a scarlet ray of fire pierced through the giant hand, sending rubble flying everywhere!
"Come forth! Four Holy Emissaries!"
White light flashed in the four directions of Fire Lord Sarluken—east, south, west, and north. Draenor's new elemental lords appeared. Ice Lord Ahune, Fire Lord Gaddon, Earth Lord Garr, and Wind Lord Thunderaan surrounded Sarluken!
"Roar!"
Sarluken roared to the sky, "Usurpers! How dare you!"
Sarluken, who possessed the will of the Four Elemental Furies, couldn't believe it. They had been sealed for more than a decade, and when they came out again, they discovered that Draenor's authority was gone!
Everything was fine before the seal, but after the unsealing, it was gone?
They were nothing now. Their bodies had been blasted apart by Gul'dan, and the authority within their souls was gone!
"This world no longer needs to exist! Destroy it!"
Sarluken, already corrupted by fel energy, simply gave up. Having lost everything, they wanted to drag the planet Draenor down with them!
"Heh! Wishful thinking!"
Garr unleashed the power of the earth, cracking the ground beneath Sarluken's feet and trapping him in place. Ice Lord Ahune attacked Sarluken with frost power, attempting to freeze his body. Thunderaan amplified Ahune's frost power with a gale, forming a blizzard that eroded Sarluken's body. Gaddon was using fire elements to drive away the surrounding green magma, dispelling the fel energy within it, preventing Sarluken from replenishing his power!
Along with the shattering of the stones on those obsidian bodies, the flames on Sarluken's body also weakened, and finally, with a loud crash, shattered into pieces!
Sarluken was the aggregation of Draenor's Elemental Furies. In his prime, Sarluken could even single-handedly summon wind and rain in the entire world of Draenor, recreating the glory of the titan construct, Gronn. Unfortunately, this was just an elemental echo that had lost its body, and the elements of Draenor were born too recently and were too weak. How could they be a match for the four ancient elements of Azeroth?
As Sarluken's body collapsed, blue, red, black, and silver-white rays of light burst out from the shattered body.
The blue one was the Spirit of Water, Ebrius, the red one was the Spirit of Flame, Isillia, the silver-white one was the Spirit of Air, Kaladious, and the last one was a stone man whose whole body was composed of black and gray rocks. He was Draenor's Spirit of Earth, Gorda'u.
Having lost their bodies and authority, they were at their weakest moment. They were like small waves, small flames, small gravel, and small whirlwinds, trembling in front of the new four elemental lords!
Galen could have ordered Gaddon and the others to devour these extremely weak four elemental spirits. After all, they originated from titan constructs, and their souls were incomparably pure. For the four of them, they would definitely be a great supplement.
Bang!
Four totems were thrown to the ground by Galen, and then he said to the four elements, "Submit, or dissipate. You only have one chance to choose!"
These were branches cut from the Eternal Tree. Galen planted the Eternal Tree he had obtained from the lottery in the Origin Land. This level-three Eternal Tree was more powerful than the level-one Tree of Life. Compared to the Tree of Life totems that would be burst, the totems made of Eternal Tree branches could completely accommodate the demigod's elemental spirits.
After Galen finished speaking, the four elements fell into silence. Finally, the keen Spirit of Earth, Gorda'u, said, "Draenor is recovering. Is this your masterpiece?"
"That's right. I brought four elemental lords from another world, revitalizing Draenor's elements and re-establishing the shamanistic order to fight against the corruption of fel energy!"
"This is our fault. If we had rejected the invasion of fel energy from the beginning, perhaps the land of Draenor would not have withered so severely!" The Spirit of Water, Ebrius, said regretfully.
The Spirit of Flame, Isillia, said angrily, "All of this is the orcs' fault! They are unforgivable!"
Galen felt that they were talking too much nonsense, all hindsight. So he reminded again, "Submit or dissipate. I'll say it one last time!"
Silence!
After the silence, the Spirit of Air, Kaladious, was the first to make a choice. He crashed into a totem pole, accepting the elemental contract on the totem pole without even looking!
Even if it was unequal, even if he would become a slave in the future!
The reason was simple. Among the new four elemental lords, Thunderaan's strength was the strongest. He had blasted Ragnaros in his prime, so his pressure on the Spirit of Air, Kaladious, was like a mouse encountering the king of cats, who could swallow him whole, skin and bones, and then turn him into nourishment to nourish Thunderaan.
With the Spirit of Air, Kaladious, taking the lead, the other three looked at each other and then entered the other three blank totem poles one after another.
Galen nodded in satisfaction, expressing satisfaction with the four elements' understanding of the situation.
Galen stepped forward to collect the four totems.
Galen planned to give the four elements of Draenor to Go'el to enhance his strength, but not now, at least not until that orc grew to ten years old and his soul was strong enough, otherwise he would not be able to control the demigod-level Draenor Four Spirits.
Galen left the remaining environmental management issues to Thunderaan and the others. The fel magma was removed from the earth by them, like scraping bones to remove poison. Garr directly used the authority of the earth to lift up the land near the Hand of Gul'dan, forming a mountaintop pool, except that the pool was filled with fel magma.
Then the four elemental lords summoned their shaman followers in the Holy Spirit Order to purify this pool of fel energy together!
This was a long process. To be honest, Galen had no way to help them, unless he used the Scepter of Sargeras to open a portal to a world destroyed by the Burning Legion, and then dumped this pool of green, bubbling fel magma over there!
This method was too risky, and it was easy for the Burning Legion to feel their way over from the portal along the fel energy. Then it would really be Galen getting punched over the internet!
Now the source of pollution in Shadowmoon Valley was under control. The mining base was not only a place for mining, but also the starting point of the afforestation plan. Galen's plan was nearing its end.
Galen set his sights on the final Tanaan Jungle!