C'Thun: I'm Innocent! [Daily 10k, Please Subscribe]

With Ysera's cooperation, Deren put on an act as well.

Under C'Thun's enormous gaze, he remained utterly still. As long as he kept chanting form is emptiness, emptiness is form in his heart, he would be fine.

After a while, having acted enough, he still asked, "Let's get back to what we were discussing. What exactly was the War of the Shifting Sands? You stayed quietly in An'qiraj for tens of thousands of years, then suddenly, over a thousand years ago, tried to break out and destroy the world? I find the Druids' story somewhat untrustworthy."

"They're lying. This damned place has nothing but sand. The Qiraji came here and pledged themselves to me, surviving on my energy. Where would I get enough energy to sustain them all? So I normally kept them dormant to conserve energy. Who knew that a thousand years ago, Druids suddenly came to this desert intending to transform it? They charged into An'qiraj and woke all my insects. Then the attacks began. They started the war! My insects were all asleep!" C'Thun angrily protested.

"Then what was going on with those dragons next door? Your insects attacked the Caverns of Time, which brought the dragons into the war?" Deren asked about something else.

C'Thun answered unhappily, "How the hell should I know? A few Qiraji insects suddenly followed the Druids who had gone to seek help from the dragons and attacked the Caverns of Time. Think about it—insects are insects. No matter how arrogant they are, would they really fail to recognize the gap between themselves and dragons? The insects had already driven off the Druids, and the matter should have ended there. Then the dragons suddenly joined the war, which caused it to escalate further."

Deren stroked his chin. "So those so-called insects that