It took Aaron a lot of time to persuade Maiev to give up the pursuit of Illidan. Although the hatred is gone, Maiev's stubbornness remains. The will of a jailer who can guard a prisoner for ten thousand years must be stronger than steel.
For Maiev, the demon that was predicted to invade again ten thousand years ago has been repelled, so Illidan should continue to be imprisoned in the cage, and if Illidan is unwilling, then Maiev would not mind escorting Illidan back in person.
The contradiction lies here. Maiev is determined to put Illidan back in the cage, while Illidan has absolutely no chance of returning to his life in captivity. It seems that in order to resolve this contradiction, only one of both parties must die.
Since Maiev failed to kill Illidan with one risky move, it seems that the only one who should die is Maiev herself. In fact, Maiev herself had already expected this. She came to Outland with the obsession of dying.
This strong thought made Aaron realize that Maiev could not be persuaded, but Aaron had no intention of convincing her. Instead, he called out a certain fake Val'kyr that had not appeared for a long time.
Even though Maiev was determined, he was still defenseless against Xal'atath's mental spells. In the end, he could only be instilled with a concept: Illidan's duty has not yet ended, and he must wait until Burning Legion is destroyed before he can be captured again.
"This woman's spirit is really tenacious," Xal'atath wiped away the non-existent sweat after doing all this. However, despite the huge consumption, Xal'atath's hint finally took effect.
According to Xal'atath, this hint will gradually lose effectiveness as time goes by, but Maiev's idea itself is actually not that firm. As long as this period of time has passed, this Watchers will probably give up hunting Illidan - as long as Illidan does not appear in front of this guy.
In the end, Illidan opened a portal leading to Azeroth, and threw Maiev and her Watchers in. As for where the other side of the door is... Illidan doesn't know, but it should be at Kalimdor.
Having solved the problem of Maiev, Illidan can finally start training those Night Elf who followed him to Outland. These elves will follow Illidan to become Demon Hunter, forming a special force to hunt and kill Legion demons.
It's just that the training process of Demon Hunter is a bit too scary, even Aaron, who is well-informed, can't bear it.
At the beginning, the Demon Hunters were only training combat skills. Because their boss was good at using war blades, these Demon Hunters also had to learn how to use war blades to fight. This weird weapon was not among Night Elf's traditional weapons, so the Night Elfs were a little confused about what to do at the beginning. Aaron even heard complaints from some people.
But when the ceremony to become Demon Hunter began, these Night Elf realized how gentle and harmless the previous training was.
Just like Paladin people who want to become Paladin must accept the infusion of Holy Light, Demon Hunter people also need to introduce Fel into their bodies.
It's just that the process of absorbing Fel is really beyond the ability of ordinary people. Aaron originally thought that these Demon Hunter only need to be absorbed from the imprisoned demons. Just take Fel, just like those elves Warlock of Eldre'Thalas. However, when the ceremony actually started, Aaron realized something was wrong.
Illidan ordered his Demon Hunters to attack the unfettered demons one by one, and rely on their own strength to defeat the demons. The training during this period of time gave most of these recruits the ability to fight against the demons, but many people were still injured or even died, but Illidan remained unmoved.
When Demon Hunter defeated their opponents, Illidan issued a jaw-dropping order, "Take out the hearts of those demons and eat them!"
Just attacking the demons was not difficult for these Night Elfs who had a deep hatred for the Burning Legion, but letting them directly use the flesh and blood of the demons was not acceptable to everyone. However, driven by the desire for revenge, some of these Night Elfs finally took the lead until everyone started to act.
Seeing this scene, Illidan nodded with satisfaction. As for letting these Night Elf drink the devil's blood after that, it was only a few hours ago.
After the Demon Hunters endured strong nausea and completed Illidan's request, and traces of Fel corrosion began to appear on their bodies, Illidan held Eye of Sargeras and flew to the tops of the Demon Hunters, casting a spell with a wide range to envelope these Demon Hunters.
Runes filled with Fel fell on the Demon Hunters one after another. The Fel in their bodies was aroused and turned into patterns that condensed on their body surfaces. Their eyes gradually turned into ashes under the burning of Fel until only clusters of Fel Fire were left beating in their eye sockets.
During this process, Demon Hunters were constantly being devoured by Fels and turned into Fel Fires because they could not bear the pain. By the time the ceremony was completed, at least one-tenth of the Night Elfs had already bid farewell to this world, and it is still unknown how many of the remaining Night Elfs could eventually become Demon Hunters.
After watching a ceremony, Aaron asked Illidan about the necessity of doing this. After all, with his help, these Demon Hunter could directly absorb the Fel from the demon's body. won't be that difficult, but one or two things tell Aaron that in the end you can only get a group of Warlock, not Demon Hunter who can fight the devil.
"Only by defeating the Dragon Soul in their bodies can they truly become Demon Hunter who have an abnormal understanding of the devil and Burning Legion and can be reborn in Void. Only in this way can they make the devil frightened."
Illidan said that he did not want to waste his troops like this, but Demon Hunter must first become a demon before he can become an excellent hunter, and the best way to turn a Night Elf into a demon is to let him devour the soul of a demon.
Aaron was dubious about Illidan's explanation, but he had no intention of interfering with Demon Hunter's training. However, he could not see the subsequent training and growth of Demon Hunter for the time being, and had no way of confirming whether Illidan's cruel training method was correct or not.
According to Illidan's estimation, it will take at least one or two years for these Demon Hunter to stabilize. Before that, he can only stay in Outland to seek development, and Aaron cannot stay here for so long, otherwise Covenant City's big housekeeper may come here to arrest people.
After confirming that Illidan did not conflict with the various forces of Outland, and that Illidan seemed to have no interest in conflict with them in the short term, Aaron began to plan to open up the connection between Outland and Azeroth - but before that, there were still some things that needed to be dealt with.