The Saronite Crystal exploded with a thunderous crash, and countless shadows swept through the Underground World like a tsunami.
Shadow lifeforce touched the remains of an Old God that had rotted for millennia, restoring vitality to the blackened, withered flesh.
The revived husk of the Old God grew wildly, eventually sprouting over a thousand enormous tentacles, each roughly ten meters tall.
A forest of tentacles sprang up, completely blocking the mission team's path.
Vezax patted the icicles lodged in his chest and absorbed the power erupting from the Saronite Crystal. His wounds quickly healed.
That damned mortal actually shattered the gift my master bestowed upon me!
The life core of an Old God had been blown apart by a surface creature, reduced to nothing.
In his fury, Vezax swiftly took control of every Old God tentacle beneath the Chamber of Heart.
The purple tentacles writhing endlessly upward seemed to gain consciousness, instantly ceasing their aimless swaying.
Beneath the tentacles, suckers like those on an octopus's arms crackled with currents of shadow.
"We need to get out of here as soon as possible. Vezax controls this entire tentacle forest. There's nowhere to dodge!" Xal'atath tried to wrest control of the tentacle forest from Vezax, but the shadow lifeforce released by the Saronite Crystal obeyed Yogg-Saron's will.
Xal'atath was merely the lingering spirit of an Old God and had long since lost her physical manifestation of energy. She had already lost this struggle for power before it even began.
Medivh had not expected the Saronite Crystal's explosion to trigger such an enormous energy reaction.
The mountains surrounding the Chamber of Heart were actually the remains of some decaying living tissue.
Now tentacles towered all around the mission team. Looking up, they saw the red sky obscured by tentacles, with only a few