"I feel quite comfortable here." Stellagosa said to Aaron while cleaning up the ice worms that suddenly emerged from the ground, "Aren't these ice worms afraid of me?"
Stellagosa's questions are also normal. There are few creatures in Azeroth that are not afraid of the giant dragon. For example, the ice worms in the north of Dragonblight would never dare to appear in front of the giant dragon. However, the ice worms in this Halls of Winter have no fear at all.
"Of course, these bugs are..." Yamierde, who came in with Aaron and the others, was interrupted by an attack fired from the passage before he could finish his words.
Because Aaron probably couldn't fight Hodir this time, Ice Giant was mostly sent to the other two routes by him. As long as Anmilde followed him, if he could communicate with Hodir when he saw him, it would be a little more convincing.
"Master Hodir cannot be disturbed, you are all going to die." A group of Ice Giant drove ice worms and ice elements to rush over from the passage. Judging from the unclear expressions of these guys, these guys may have to fight to make them quiet.
In order to avoid killing these Frost Giant, which would cause unpleasantness to the Frost Giant who came with the expeditionary force, everyone in the expeditionary force put in a lot of effort to subdue all this wave of Frost Giant. The next work is left to the few Val'kyr who came with them. These Val'kyr who have been transformed not long ago already have the ability to help others eliminate the influence of Old Gods.
If these Val'kyr are unable to catch up, there will be Xal'atath to hold the line, and the other two teams will also have Annhylde and Aradne to follow, in order to pull Titan-forged, who was affected by Yogg-Saron, back to their own camp as much as possible.
It's a pity that Iron Legion was so severely affected that not even Xal'atath could do anything, otherwise Loken's steel army could be used to deal with him now.
After dealing with all the Frost Giant wandering in the twisted ice tunnel, Aaron was already standing at the door of the hall where Hodir was staying. You could see a giant motionless statue standing in the center of the hall, it was Uldir.
Different from Titan Keepers that Aaron has already seen, Hodir looks more like a more primitive barbarian than Vrykul at first glance. Hodir is only wearing a piece of clothing. The species of fur was indistinguishable, with a belt with a skull pattern wrapped around his waist, and a thick log in his hand. After noticing that Aaron and others came in, the expression of King Ice Giant, who was originally standing in the hall like a statue, immediately changed.
"You are..." Hodir stared closely at the people who entered Halls of Winter, and his expression changed from shock to anger. "Mortals, this is not the place you should come. You will pay the price for trespassing here."
With that said, Hodir already waved the wooden stick in his hand and smashed it in the direction of the expeditionary force. There were some runes that Aaron couldn't understand engraved on the wooden stick. As the wooden stick fell, the runes on it also shone with blue light. After the wooden stick fell to the ground, a cold air spread along with the vibration of the ground.
The soldiers of the expeditionary force who entered the hall were somewhat caught off guard when they encountered the vibration on the ground, and the ensuing cold air condensed into a layer of frost on everyone within the coverage area.
"This, it's a bit cold." Aaron looked at the frost on his body and found that the originally thin layer of ice thickened rapidly, probably turning into ice cubes and freezing him in it.
Aaron hurriedly moved his body and shook off the broken ice from his joints. As for the ice frozen on the armor, there was nothing he could do.
"Everyone, be careful and don't stay in one place." Aaron reminded everyone loudly, while quickly rushing towards Hodir, holding the warhammer in his hand and heading straight for Hodir's ankle... The higher parts were out of reach.
Just as Aaron was rushing forward, he suddenly heard the cry of a raptor from behind, followed by a rolling heat wave. This blazing temperature even slowed down the ice growth on Aaron's body from continuing to freeze.
There was no need to look back, Aaron knew that this must be the fire phoenix summoned by Kael'thas. Ao's flying speed was much faster than Aaron's Charge. In the blink of an eye, it passed over Aaron's head and went straight to Hodir's chest that was not covered by fur.
Aaron could also hear Kael'thas's slightly frustrated voice coming from behind. "Oh, teach him a lesson."
"Controlled elemental creature?" Hodir showed an unknown smile after seeing the fire phoenix, "I once stuffed Al'Akir into Skywall with my own hands. Let me see how strong you are."
Hodir waved his wooden stick to block the fire phoenix that was rushing towards him. Ao, who had some wisdom, hurriedly dodged, but was still hit by the wooden stick that made a whistling wind. The fire phoenix let out a wail and was almost knocked to the ground.
Fortunately, elemental creatures can recover quickly as long as they are not torn into pieces. The ferocious fire phoenix, which was aroused, bypassed the wooden stick in Hodir's hand and sprayed a mouthful of blazing flames at Hodir's face.
Hodir had no intention of turning his head to avoid it. When he saw the approaching flames, he actually opened his mouth and blew out a breath of cold air, which actually offset the cold air and even turned into a ball of ice that froze Ao's head.
Although the ice was quickly melted by Ao's own heat, Aaron, who followed closely behind, still saw a magical scene with his own eyes: blazing flames frozen by ice.
But even though he was very surprised, Aaron finally didn't forget his goal. With Ao's cover, he used his feet hard, jumped up high, and hit Hodir's knee with a hammer, even faintly knocking back the tall and burly giant half a step.
"Okay, boy, come again!" Hodir smiled instead of getting angry after receiving this blow, but showed a slightly surprised expression when he saw the warhammer in Aaron's hand. "Boy, who are you from Tyr?"
"Don't worry about that, let's have a good fight first." Aaron simply used the Avatar state, and his body quickly grew in size until he was almost the same as Hodir.
"Stop, stop, I've had enough fun." Hodir faced Aaron, who was ready to fight with full firepower, but threw away the wooden stick in his hand, indicating that he didn't want to fight anymore.
"Huh?" Aaron, who was in the stone giant state, quickly put away the war hammer in his hand upon seeing this, "Weren't you affected by Yogg-Saron?"
"Well, it's a long story, so let Freya explain it to you." Hodir waved his hand, "I have seen your strength. In order to cope with the coming battle, you should save some energy."