Chaos Ritual

After watching the video, the Great Lich felt a surge of relief; thankfully, he had discovered it in advance.

The power displayed by the Dreadlord in the video was far greater than his own. The two powerful attacks alone, Rain of Chaos and Gate of Hell, would have been enough to give him a run for his money. Even so, he was ultimately defeated by Azathoth, and essentially killed solo. This was quite frightening. The High Lich pondered how he could win against Azathoth, but he sadly realized that there was no good way to deal with an elemental boss immune to Curse, Finger of Death, and Banshee Wail. He could only overwhelm it with sheer numbers. If he was unlucky, his entire army would be wiped out; if he was lucky enough to overwhelm it, his army would likely suffer heavy casualties.

This army is the foundation of his livelihood, worth more than a million RMB. It's simply not worth using it to fight a war of attrition.

Thinking of this, he hurriedly returned to the game.

"Retreat! Everyone retreat! We're going back to the Great Graveyard!"

The 100,000- Undead army made a feint at the border before turning back and retreating to the Great Graveyard. However, despite the retreat, the sheer scale of the march made it impossible for them to go unnoticed. They encountered countless adventurers and players of various monster templates along the way, and many witnessed the march. Many then connected the Lich King's strange actions with the death of the Dreadlord, and soon a post was published online.

The Dreadlord met his end on the battlefield, and the Great Lich retreated in disarray.

This morning, something truly shocking happened: the Scarlet Crusade's commander-in-chief Dathrohan, was discovered to be an imposter, the Dreadlord Balnazzar. Furthermore, the Water Elemental Lord Azathoth actually killed Balnazzar —three skeleton-level enemies defeating six! It's like the protagonist's halo has possessed him!

However, that's not the whole story. Just as the Dreadlord was defeated, the High Lich Fulaimaosi led an Undead army towards the Eastern Plaguelands. Clearly, the High Lich was in league with the Dreadlord, aiming to wipe out the Scarlet Crusade from within. Unexpectedly, the beautiful Abbendis of the Scarlet Crusade enlisted the help of the Elemental Lords Azathoth. It seems even Azathoth couldn't resist the Dreadlord. This put the High Lich in an awkward position, and he was so frightened that he fled.

Strictly speaking, the analysis in this post is completely fabricated. The Lich and the Dreadlord don't know each other at all. However, there's no way around it, since demons and Undead are inseparable. The Scourge was once an affiliated force of the Burning Legion Scourge, and the three Dreadlord commanded a considerable number of Undead armies. This makes people subconsciously connect the actions of the Dreadlord and the Lich.

Then, people saw the video Abbendis posted online.

To everyone's surprise, the Scarlet Crusade was being exonerated. All their previous evil deeds of indiscriminate killing, burning, looting, and pillaging were now attributed to the Dreadlord, who claimed they were framed and manipulated. Now that Balnazzar's plot had been exposed and Balnazzar had been eliminated, the Scarlet Crusade was naturally being redeemed from villains.

The Abbendis sisters, key leaders of the Scarlet Crusade, gave a speech announcing their intention to appoint Tirion Fordring as Highlord and lead the Scarlet Crusade to join the Alliance. This move, however, is no less impactful than the video of the Dreadlord's death.

It's important to know that the Scarlet Crusade has hundreds of thousands of troops, making them a monster force rated as "generally powerful." Strictly speaking, their forces are even larger than those of the Blood Elf, although their high-end combat strength is relatively weak. Now that they have joined the Alliance, the Alliance's power has increased significantly.

Furthermore, the Scarlet Crusade has always been a good place for the Alliance and Horde 30 to level up. Now that it's been cleaned up, not only will Alliance adventurers no longer be able to kill Scarlet Crusade for leveling, but Horde adventurers will also have little to gain if they want to kill Scarlet Crusade, since the chance of getting loot from killing heroes is very low (except for story-driven kills), far less than from bosses.

Leaving aside the heated discussions on the forums about the Scarlet Crusade's actions, let's just talk about Fulaimaosi, who led the Undead army back to the Great Graveyard Nazarick, still somewhat shaken.

Just as I was pondering whether to strengthen the defenses of some of the Great Graveyard or expand the composition of my forces, a message suddenly came in.

Zhurong (Elemental Lords): "How's it going, Fulaimaosi? Did you take down that Azathoth?"

Fulaimaosi (the Great Lich): "Kill him my ass! If you're so capable, go do it yourself! Making me die is utterly outrageous!"

Zhurong (Elemental Lords): "Damn, what do you mean by that? That Azathoth is just a three-skull-level boss, and he's on a long and arduous expedition with hardly any troops. How can you, a mighty four-skull-level Lich out like that?"

Fulaimaosi (Lich): "Damn it, you still have the nerve to say that? First of all, that Azathoth is already a level four skeleton now. Do you know why? Because he killed a level six Dreadlord and advanced directly."

"That freak can even take down a six-skull-level Dreadlord. If I go, I'll just be cannon fodder. If you're so capable, go and do it yourselves. Don't send me to be your cannon fodder. No way."

Zhurong (Elemental Lords): "What? No way! Don't make up such an absurd excuse."

Fulaimaosi (High Lich): "If you don't believe me, go check it out on the official forum homepage."

Zhurong immediately logged onto the homepage, and soon everyone in the Elemental Will had watched the video.

Then the members of the Elemental Will panicked. This was too powerful! They were all Elemental Lords, so how could there be such a huge difference in their abilities?

After reading it, everyone looked at each other in bewilderment.

Houtu (Earth Elemental Lords): "What should we do now? This Azathoth is too powerful!"

Tianwu (Elemental Lord of Air): "Why don't we make peace with him? We haven't officially sent troops yet, so we haven't completely broken off relations. He should agree to peace talks."

Gonggong (Frost Titan): "What peace talk? We're all elemental beings. Don't you understand the saying 'rivals among equals'? Unless we give up on the title of strongest boss, it's a fight to the death. The developers definitely won't allow two elemental bosses to be among the strongest bosses. How can we make peace!?"

And you don't need to be afraid. No matter how strong he is, he's just one person. As long as we occupy all his territory first, leaving him with nowhere to run or hide, what's there to fear from a lone commander? We not only can't make peace with him, we need to act quickly. When he comes looking for us to fight, we'll lure him to Neptulon or Ragnaros and let the Elemental King deal with him. No matter how strong he is, can he defeat the Elemental King?"

After discussing it, the group agreed that Gonggong was right, and so they made the decision.

At the same time, Xiao Yu hurriedly returned to the Tower of Amalarui. According to the information Abbendis had given him, the great Lich Fulaimaosi could attack at any time, so he needed to prepare for battle.

But after waiting and waiting, until the afternoon of the sixth day, even though Amalarui had prepared everything needed for the ceremony, the High Lich and his army still hadn't appeared. Xiao Yu was puzzled and checked the forum, where he found the post about the Dreadlord colluding with the High Lich. Although the post itself was full of nonsense, the information inside left Xiao Yu speechless. He hadn't expected the High Lich to back down halfway through.

Xiao Yu breathed a sigh of relief, but also felt a pang of regret. He had already stacked six layers of Annihilation, and if that Great Lich came, he would probably just be there to give away reputation points. It seemed there was nothing he could do now.

However, it's all good. As long as he becomes Chaos Elemental, even if he can't match the strength of his current sixth-level Annihilation state, he will still be very powerful, so he has nothing to fear. The most urgent task now is to carry out the Chaos Ritual as soon as possible. He can already feel that the instability of his body has reached a very dangerous level, and there is a possibility of him exploding at any time. Even though he knows that he must Annihilation the seventh level before he will explode, he is still extremely nervous.

Amalarui (Resurrected Flame Spirit): "Lord Azathoth, the Chaos Ritual is ready and can begin at any time."

Azathoth (Water Elemental Lord): "Then let's begin, you Big Water Cunt, Agnes, you two take the men and guard the valley, don't allow anyone to approach this place."

At this moment, the Tower of Amalarui was completely surrounded, with armies of Water Elemental and Undead densely distributed around it. Gargoyles filled the sky, and Water Elemental covered the ground, so much so that not even a mosquito could get in.

And Xiao Yu was finally about to begin his advancement ceremony.

Azathoth entered the Tower of Amalarui and arrived at the Alchemy Hall on the top floor. As soon as he entered the hall, Azathoth saw an old acquaintance.

Azathoth (Water Elemental Lord): "It's been a long time."

Esmehalda (Archmage the Kirin Tor): "Yes, it has indeed been a long time."

Seeing Esmehalda, Xiao Yu felt a pang of emotion. The two were old friends; it was she who answered his summons the first time. After going through so much, they hadn't seen each other for a while, and he had actually missed her a bit.

Esmehalda is now a 1-star hero, which is quite an improvement. Of course, it's still nothing compared to him, who is already a four-skull-level boss.

The elemental lord and the female mage looked at each other, both feeling a sense of change. At this time, Amalari came over.

Amalarui (Resurrected Flame Spirit): "I imagine you, as comrades and companions who once defeated the evil Demon Lord Amalarui together, must have a lot to say. However, given that you could explode at any moment and blast us all to pieces, and I don't really want to die again just three days after my resurrection, shall we begin now?"