When selecting candidates to enter Yogg-Saron's cage, Aaron was actually very hesitant. Titan Keepers had all fought with Old Gods for a long time. Yes, the time it takes for Yogg-Saron to corrupt Loken can be calculated in units of ten thousand years. Although the current status of several guardians is not at its peak, there is still no need to worry in the short term.
However, it is not so easy for ordinary soldiers to resist the mental invasion of Old Gods. During Temple of Wisdom, many soldiers experienced varying degrees of mental confusion when faced with Yogg-Saron's tentacles. Now that they are faced with Yogg-Saron, it is really worrying.
If possible, Aaron would really like to take just a few Titan Keepers to besiege Yogg-Saron, but according to Archaedas and the others, Old Gods's body itself is already very huge. From There are countless tentacles extending from Old Gods's huge body, and these guys will continue to create Faceless Ones from themselves. When actually fighting Old Gods, there must be a certain number of ordinary soldiers to contain the power of Old Gods, so that the opponent cannot concentrate all its power.
You know, with Old Gods's huge body, if they were to concentrate all their strength, even the most powerful Titan Keepers would not be able to compete with it.
So, in the end, Aaron let those soldiers who performed relatively well when passing in front of Yogg-Saron's tentacles be the first batch of pioneers to enter the Old Gods prison, while the rest were on standby outside.
Aaron has already instructed the soldiers to withdraw immediately once they notice something is wrong with their mental state, and have soldiers from outside fill in. In order to prevent the soldiers from not being able to notice their abnormal state, Aaron also asked those Val'kyr who came with the army to pay attention at any time The status of ordinary soldiers - these creatures, which can be regarded as Undead, are very good in terms of mental endurance, otherwise Ner'zhul would not dare to cooperate with Yogg-Saron without worrying that his soldiers would be incited to rebel by Old Gods.
Behind that unrealistic door is a broken staircase. After all, no one has come here for tens of thousands of years for maintenance. You can also see many passages excavated by the Undeads here, but neither Faceless Ones nor Undead can be seen here. Only the gravel everywhere and the soil that has not been completely dried can prove that there were still people here not long ago.
As the expeditionary force gradually deepened, the shocks from under their feet became more frequent and violent. Obviously, it was not long before Yogg-Saron could escape. After realizing this, the expeditionary force accelerated its pace. However, it was stopped by Old Gods's most powerful minion-Kraxxi in the passage that was only separated by a wall from Yogg-Saron's prison.
There are only three Kraxxi standing outside Old Gods's cage like a wall. It seems that there is one less than when they assisted Loken before, but the leader A Kraxxi is much larger than the Kraxxi that Aaron has seen before. It should be the most capable general under Yogg-Saron.
The Kraxxi named General Vezax immediately gave everyone a warning as soon as he saw the expeditionary force: he began to summon a large group of elemental beings before the expeditionary force came to him.
Among them are the fiery and pure Fire Elemental and Air Elemental, as well as the fire demon, fire eagle and Storm Dragons living in Elemental Plane. For a time, the sealed earth Scorching flames rose in the lower space, and gusts of wind intensified the fire. Brann, who was at the front of the team, even had the illusion of returning to Ironforge in front of Great Forge in the center.
In ancient times, the four Elemental Lordss became loyal minions of Old Gods after being defeated by the Old Godss. Even though they were imprisoned by Elemental Plane later, there is still an inseparable connection between the elements and Old Gods, especially Fire Elemental and Air Elemental was the worst. Later, when Deathwing launched Cataclysm, Ragnaros the Firelord and Fengshen Al'Akir were loyal allies of Old Gods. As a result, Azeroth's various forces later attacked their respective hometowns and pinned them all to death in their hometowns.
Now General Vezax directly summoned a massive amount of Fire Elemental and Air Elemental to fill the underground space, almost pushing the unprepared expeditionary force directly into Halls of Reflection.
Fortunately, these summoned elemental and semi-elemental creatures were only the most common types, and there were no relatively elite high-level elemental creatures. In addition, Vezax only wanted to block the expeditionary force to buy time for Yogg-Saron's recovery. This allowed the expeditionary force to stabilize its position after the initial panic and began to clean up these elemental creatures.
However, while the expeditionary force was fighting a large number of elemental creatures, Vezax started another action. He began to summon Saronite crystals one after another. These crystals produced by Old Gods's power had powerful and strange power, but Vezax did not use these evil crystals to do anything, as if they were just accumulating numbers.
Aaron has forgotten what will happen after these crystals appear, but he has a hunch in his heart that if Vezax cannot be organized, when these crystals accumulate to a certain amount, the expeditionary force will definitely be unlucky.
However, Aaron was anxious but could not change the current situation where the expeditionary force could only advance slowly. The strength of these elemental creatures was not very strong, but the expeditionary force rarely dealt with similar enemies before. In addition, the appearance of a large number of elemental creatures even changed the environment of the underground space to a certain extent. Some soldiers were already feeling unwell - they did not prepare fire resistance agents in advance.
"Is there something wrong with those crystals?" Vereesa, who was near Aaron, noticed that Aaron would cast a worried glance at Vezax from time to time.
"Can you shoot from here to there? Try to see if you can break those crystals." Aaron decided to let Vereesa try. If he could, he wanted to rush there directly to stop Vezax, but the existence of Air Elemental's creatures made the sky above the battlefield very unsuitable for flying. Now he could only hope that his long-range attack could reach there.
Vereesa nodded and retreated slightly to avoid being affected by the attacks of elemental creatures. Then he took a deep breath and pulled away the Titans' Strike in his hand. An arrow wrapped in lightning hit a Saronite crystal. However, the arrow only left a slight crack on the surface of the crystal and failed to completely shatter the crystal.
Vereesa had previously discovered that Titans' Strike would continuously inject the power of thunder and lightning into the arrows when she drew the bow. Now that she needed to enhance the power of the arrows, Vereesa extended the time of drawing the bow, hoping that this time she could crush the target with one arrow.
However, as the charging time got longer and longer, Vereesa also discovered another problem. The more lightning power poured into the arrow, the longer she maintained this posture, the greater the power she needed to consume. Moreover, the lightning power on the arrow also began to spread towards Vereesa's hand, giving Vereesa an increasingly strong sense of paralysis.
Enduring the numbness in her hand, Vereesa narrowed her eyes. All the movements in the underground battlefield had nothing to do with her at this moment. Only the crystal that stopped spinning after being summoned was left in front of her eyes.
After having a premonition that the arrow was powerful enough, Vereesa gently let go of the bowstring, and the arrow shining with dazzling lightning hit her target like a meteor, directly shattering the crystal and turning it into a ball of steam.
Vereesa's interference work prevented Vezax from accumulating a sufficient number of crystals until the expeditionary force rushed to his feet. Faced with the siege of four intact guardians (Mimiron lost his body, which had a huge impact) and thousands of expeditionary troops, no matter how powerful Vezax was, he could not escape the fate of being killed.
However, at the moment Vezax fell, everyone in the expeditionary force heard a strange and inexplicable voice from the cage before they had time to take a breath:
"I am a lucid dream.
The monster in your nightmares.
The devil with a thousand faces.
Tremble in my true form!
Surrender before the God of Death!"
Yogg-Saron, out of trouble.