Recaps

Angmar led the adventurers through Sgelari’s changing hydra heads and defeated the demigod on their first attempt, then divided the loot. Xiao Yu watched through the Magic Mirror of True Knowledge and decided Sgelari needed discipline for speaking out of turn.

• Angmar directed the adventurers as Sgelari’s first six heads emerged in stages and fell to their attacks.
• Three final heads appeared, and Angmar had Legolas send his white lion to trigger the Serpent of Immortality’s Devour before the group attacked.
• The adventurers defeated the Serpent of Light, the Serpent of Darkness, and the Serpent of Immortality, leaving Sgelari dead in the pool.
• Angmar praised his command, looted five pieces of epic equipment, and arranged to divide them using DKP.
• Xiao Yu watched the fight through the Magic Mirror of True Knowledge and concluded that the dungeon had become easier after he and Li Feng optimized it.

After clearing Sgelari’s Lair, Angmar led a fifteen-player group into Naga Cavern, confident that his command skills would carry them through. The group defeated three bosses at heavy cost and began fighting Virgil Angerscale, whose threatening entrance unsettled Angmar.

• Angmar chose to run Naga Cavern after the group divided Sgelari’s Lair’s five gear drops.
• Angmar dismissed an Alliance player’s warning and led his group into the fifteen-player dungeon.
• Angmar’s group defeated the Naga Wavewalker using his basic tank, healer, and damage-dealer strategy, but received only four pieces of blue gear.
• The Murloc Leader summoned a huge army at low health, nearly wiping the group before Gandalf directed frost mages to freeze the murlocs and help secure victory.
• The group struggled against the dragon turtle’s high defense, damage reflection, and Devour skill, losing seven players before defeating it.
• After battling through more mobs, the group reached Virgil Angerscale; uneasy about the captain’s strength, Angmar ordered Boromir to charge.

Angmar’s party wiped three times against Virgil Angerscale before identifying his aggro-clearing skill and defeating him. They reached the final boss, Lady Xiwadelin, but her magic resurrected her slain warriors, and a priest’s attempt to dispel them failed.

• Virgil Angerscale’s attacks and summoned naga overwhelmed Angmar’s party, wiping them after the boss reached half health.
• After three more wipes, Angmar assigned Bilbo and Frodo to interrupt Tranquil Water and Gimli to control the summoned adds.
• Angmar’s party defeated Virgil Angerscale, looted his poor drops, and moved on to Lady Xiwadelin.
• Lady Xiwadelin summoned naga warriors, and Gimli helped the party kill them with area attacks.
• Lady Xiwadelin revived the slain warriors as Mutated Naga Warriors, but a priest’s Begone, Evil Spirit spell had no effect.

Angmar’s group repeatedly failed to defeat Lady Xiwadelin after her mind control mutated each controlled adventurer into a powerful threat. After retreating to Yarvis City to repair their gear, Angmar discovered an unfamiliar dungeon marker at the Elemental Proving Ground.

• The group wiped when Lady Xiwadelin controlled Gimli, who turned on his teammates and broke their formation.
• Angmar changed the tactics, but the controlled priest unleashed a barrage of mutated spells and wiped the group again.
• On the next three attempts, a controlled druid, warlock, and rogue each transformed and killed the party.
• Angmar ended the attempts after the group lost experience and equipment, then learned other groups were also stuck at the final boss.
• The group left the dungeon, repaired their equipment in Yarvis City, and gathered at the Ring of Elements.
• Angmar noticed a dungeon marker beside a large arena-like building labeled Elemental Proving Ground.

Angmar brought a powerful party into the Elemental Proving Ground after hearing conflicting accounts of its difficulty, but he refused Murloc Profiteer’s offer to buy a lucky charm. Xiao Yu secretly assigned Angmar’s group a punishing boss lineup, leaving them unaware of the danger ahead.

• Angmar heard adventurers disagree about the Elemental Proving Ground’s difficulty and learned that its bosses were supposedly chosen at random.
• Angmar assembled a ten-person party with four fire mages and entered the instance, where Murloc Profiteer tried to sell him a Gladiator’s Lucky Charm for 3,000 platinum coins.
• Angmar rejected the charm and led the Middle-earth Supreme Guild into the arena.
• Xiao Yu watched Angmar’s instance copy and ordered package B, a weak, medium, and strong sequence of bosses.
• Xiao Yu explained that he controlled the supposedly random boss combinations to encourage different groups to buy charms, while Angmar entered the arena unaware of the plan.

Middle-earth Supreme's group defeated Poseidon and forced the polluted water elemental elder Big Water Cunt to concede in the Elemental Proving Ground. Their final trial began when Azathoth, the water elemental lord, entered the arena as their next opponent.

• Luluqi announced the trials, and Poseidon challenged Angmar's group as their first opponent.
• Boromir tanked Poseidon while the group attacked, and Poseidon conceded after his health fell below half.
• Luluqi introduced Big Water Cunt, whose poisonous mist forced Angmar's group to rely on ranged attacks and the druid's cures.
• Angmar's group managed the poison and mist, bringing Big Water Cunt below half health before he conceded.
• Luluqi named Azathoth as the final opponent, and the water elemental lord entered the arena to face the group.

Xiao Yu, as Azathoth, established his formidable boss image by wiping out Angmar’s party with two devastating abilities. After reviving, the party bought an amulet from the Murloc Profiteer and reset the dungeon, leaving them about to face a new boss assignment.

• Xiao Yu let Angmar’s party attack Azathoth, whose fire resistance made their opening damage far weaker than expected.
• Azathoth unleashed Deep Sea Maelstrom and Biting Wind Protection, repeatedly tossing the adventurers through the air until they all died.
• Angmar and the others complained that Azathoth’s abilities seemed impossible to overcome, and Angmar decided to reset the dungeon.
• The Murloc Profiteer taunted the party and claimed his amulets could help them win, so Angmar bought one.
• Angmar’s group reset the Elemental Proving Ground, prepared for another attempt, and waited to hear which boss they would face.

Angmar’s party defeated the three bosses in the Elemental Trial and claimed equipment and battleground marks. After Angmar equipped a replacement armor, he led the group toward the Lost City battleground.

• Angmar’s party easily defeated the water elemental elder and frost spirit without losing anyone.
• Luluqi announced that Necrom, a three-headed descendant of Sgelari, was the final challenger.
• Angmar assigned Boromir, the druid, and himself to tank separate heads, and the party drove Necrom below half health before the guards forced it back.
• Angmar’s party claimed ten class-appropriate equipment pieces and Elemental Champion’s Marks from the treasure chest.
• Angmar chose the Sea Serpent Hide Battle Armor, equipped it, and suggested that the group go play the Lost City battleground.

Angmar led the Middle-earth Supreme Guild through the Lost City battlefield, using Naga insignias to summon reinforcements and win the first match. After finding an epic spear in the vault, he took the guild into more battlefields, where they lost to a coordinated Horde team and immediately queued again.

• Angmar gathered eighty guild members, learned how Naga commander insignias summoned battlefield reinforcements, and split the raid to capture two insignias.
• Angmar’s raid defeated Naga commander No. 3 while Gandalf’s group secured the other insignia, allowing the Alliance to summon a water elemental elder and a steam tank.
• Angmar led the reinforced guild through the Lost Temple, defeated the Naga high priest, and won the battlefield with MVP honors.
• Angmar opened a treasure chest containing the epic Shark Rider’s Spear, then paid for the guild to enter another battlefield.
• Angmar’s guild fought a coordinated Horde team for two hours and narrowly lost, so Angmar led everyone into another match.

Xiao Yu reviewed The Immortals studio’s first day of revenue on Lost Island and planned to expand his territory and elemental legion while recruiting powerful adventurers. He ended by studying dungeon battle recordings, beginning with a team’s fight against Lady Xiwadelin.

• Feng Caixin presented the studio’s earnings, which totaled 77,720 coupons alongside gold coins and rare materials.
• Xiao Yu estimated his monthly profit and realized he could save enough for surgery in about nine months, though he worried that adventurer traffic might decline.
• Xiao Yu decided to develop Lost Island, build a larger elemental legion, and seek alliances with exceptionally strong adventurers.
• Xiao Yu asked Feng Caixin for recordings of teams that cleared Naga Cavern and the Elemental Proving Ground without a Gladiator’s Lucky Charm.
• Xiao Yu began watching the Naga Cavern recordings to assess Lady Xiwadelin’s strength.

Xiao Yu studied videos of adventurers clearing Lady Xiwadelin and the Elemental Proving Ground, learning how powerful parties countered the bosses’ abilities. He discovered Teddy fighting as a tank and watched Glory War Soul begin building a wall to deal with Azathoth.

• Xiao Yu compared three parties’ methods for stopping Lady Xiwadelin from resurrecting naga warriors and resisting Old God's Gift.
• Xiao Yu recognized Water Falls Without a Trace, Fish That Doesn't Eat Cats, and Teddy in the Moonlight Travel Group’s video, where Teddy served as the main tank.
• The Moonlight Travel Group used Elune's Light of Protection to resist Old God's Gift, and all three parties defeated the Son of N'Zoth through high damage.
• Xiao Yu reviewed the parties’ Elemental Proving Ground clears and noted that the guild parties faced the strongest boss lineup while the Moonlight Travel Group faced a weaker one.
• Glory War Soul’s party began constructing a wall in a corner of Azathoth’s arena after learning to exploit the brief period before the boss used its skills.

Xiao Yu watched adventurers overcome Azathoth’s dungeon skills with creative tactics and powerful equipment, then considered how to recruit them. He planned to lure the Moonlight Travel Group with a revenge storyline based on Azathoth’s past.

• Glory War Soul built a stone mound to escape Deep Sea Maelstrom, then used fire to counter Ice Barrier and cleared the dungeon.
• The Moonlight Travel Group used Water Falls Without a Trace’s Magic Protection Barrier to withstand Azathoth’s skills and clear the dungeon.
• Xiao Yu judged the successful adventurer groups strong enough to recruit, while noting that their dungeon victories did not mean they could defeat him in the open world.
• Xiao Yu decided to approach the guilds with business offers and win over the Moonlight Travel Group through honor and a storyline.
• Xiao Yu recalled Azathoth’s tale of revenge, began planning a script, and fell asleep.

Xiao Yu used quests from charming NPCs to draw the Moonlight Travel Group toward Hydra City. The adventurers reached the city and gathered around an old sea turtle as he began a story from several hundred years ago.

• Xiao Yu recruited Glory War Soul and Heavenly Kingdom Dynasty by offering them equipment, money, and game information in exchange for their help.
• Xiao Yu sent water nymphs, a little murloc, and sirens to lead the Moonlight Travel Group through a chain of quests.
• The adventurers helped the little murloc get a shark mount and a Shark Rider's Lance, then learned about Hydra City and its storytelling sea turtle.
• The Moonlight Travel Group delivered a love letter between a siren priestess and a mermaid maid to earn the Sirens' Blessing.
• The sirens guided the adventurers to Hydra City, where the old sea turtle began telling them a story from several hundred years earlier.

Xiao Yu rejected Neptulon’s order to withdraw from the Prime Material Plane and publicly declared that Azathoth’s era had begun. Neptulon severed the Water Elemental Lord’s access to the Water Elemental Plane, leaving Xiao Yu to continue his plans without its support.

• Mentos and several dozen envoys arrived at the Ring of Elements with a message from Neptulon.
• Neptulon ordered Azathoth to return the Water Elemental Legion to its own world and stop intervening in the Prime Material Plane.
• Xiao Yu insulted Neptulon and told him that his rule was over, impressing the watching adventurers.
• Neptulon warned Azathoth that the outside world would teach him the cost of his choice, then ended the communication.
• Xiao Yu’s reputation with the Throne of the Tides fell to indifferent, and the Path of Whirlpools in Hydra City was closed.

Xiao Yu rejected Elemental Will’s offer unless it paid him three million, then recruited adventurers to find a way to reopen the Dark Portal to Draenor. He sent the Moonlight Travel Group and two other guilds after the solution while preparing to attack Silvermoon City for the last Seed of Elements.

• Mentos offered Azathoth an alliance with Elemental Will, but Azathoth demanded three million and refused when Mentos could not agree.
• After Mentos threatened to expose his player identity, Xiao Yu dismissed the threat and decided to prioritize attacking Silvermoon City for the last Seed of Elements.
• Xiao Yu explained that he needed to reach Draenor and asked the Moonlight Travel Group to find a way to reopen the closed Dark Portal, triggering the legendary story quest [Draenor's Expedition].
• Baoyue Liuguang accepted the quest on behalf of the Moonlight Travel Group, and Xiao Yu also summoned Glory Soul and the Heavenly Kingdom Dynasty as backup teams.
• Xiao Yu ordered his elemental guards to prepare for the attack on Silvermoon City.

Xiao Yu assembled a vast elemental army and launched a surprise assault on Silvermoon City to steal the Seed of Elements before adventurers could respond. The chapter ended as blood elf sentries spotted his forces surging up the Sunfury River and sounded the alarm.

• Xiao Yu reviewed Silvermoon City's faction rating and chose to attack at two in the morning, aiming to seize the Seed of Elements and escape.
• After assembling more than twenty thousand elementals and allied troops, Xiao Yu led his army across the sea to Silvermoon City.
• Xiao Yu ordered the First Legion to ride a magically raised tide up the Sunfury River toward the city.
• At an outpost, Ailun Mingyi and Sergeant Kanlei noticed an unnatural cold, falling snow, and a wall of water carrying water elementals upstream.
• Sergeant Kanlei recognized the attack and sounded the alarm horn.

Xiao Yu led an elemental army toward Silvermoon City, exploiting the breach left by the Dead Scar. As the blood elves prepared their defenses, a torrent of seawater surged through the scar toward the city.

• Blood elf warriors fought the elemental army at an outpost, but Xiao Yu broke through and captured Ailun Mingyi and Maxila Chenxing after Maxila’s Dragon’s Breath helped them escape the watchtower.
• Xiao Yu ordered Sairen to imprison the two blood elves, then led the rest of his forces toward Silvermoon City.
• Xiao Yu chose the unrepaired breach at the Dead Scar as his way into the city.
• The sea elemental elders and water elemental elders cast Tidal Spell together, sending seawater upstream into the Dead Scar.
• Aldur Scorchmark watched from Silvermoon City’s wall as a torrent rushed along the Dead Scar.

Azathoth led his elemental army through Silvermoon City's breached wall to seize the Seed of Elements, but Horde adventurers rallied to defend the city. His Personal BGM System activated during the battle, and he drove the adventurers away before continuing his assault.

• Azathoth swept aside blood elf defenders at Dead Scar and led his elementals into Silvermoon City.
• A summoned water elemental player recognized Azathoth and alerted Zhurong, while Horde adventurers began rushing to Silvermoon City's defense.
• Azathoth ordered reinforcements as the growing adventurer forces surrounded him and forced him to consider whether to withdraw.
• His Personal BGM System activated, granting him a buff as he used powerful attacks to freeze, scatter, and kill adventurers.
• Azathoth restored his health with Elemental Absorption, and the demoralized adventurers retreated or watched from a distance as his music faded.

Xiao Yu’s Azathoth drove toward Silvermoon City’s palace, where Lor'themar, Rodman, and Halduron confronted him. As Azathoth gained the upper hand, Sylvanas arrived and struck him from behind, leaving the battle poised to escalate.

• Xiao Yu watched the adventurers flee, then ordered the elemental army to keep attacking Silvermoon City despite heavy losses.
• Lor'themar, Rodman, and Halduron appeared at the palace and challenged Azathoth as adventurers gathered to watch.
• Halduron fired Multi-Arcane Shot, but Azathoth deflected the arrows with Biting Wind Protection.
• Rodman restrained Azathoth with Elemental Imprisonment, but Azathoth's Fission Orb broke through his defenses and wounded him.
• Azathoth prepared to fight Lor'themar, but a sudden attack drained more than 30,000 health from him.
• Sylvanas arrived atop a bat and revealed herself on a palace tower, telling Lor'themar he needed her help again.

Xiao Yu’s assault on Silvermoon City was stopped when Sylvanas arrived and inflicted heavy damage on him. He withdrew his surviving forces to sea, gained reputation for the plot event, and learned that a blood elf fleet was pursuing them.

• Sylvanas appeared in Silvermoon City, and Xiao Yu decided to retreat after seeing his forces collapse.
• Xiao Yu announced that he would let the defenders live, but Sylvanas attacked him with Withering Shot and Black Corrosion Arrow as he tried to escape.
• Xiao Yu used Furious Tornado and the Power of the Tides to retreat, then ordered the remaining water elemental legions to withdraw through the Dead Scar.
• At Sunsail Anchorage, Xiao Yu received 1,759 reputation points for completing the Flooding Silvermoon City plot event and counted the heavy losses to his army.
• A shark rider reported that the blood elf fleet was pursuing Xiao Yu’s retreating forces out to sea.

After his failed assault on Silvermoon City, Xiao Yu planned to lure Liadrin’s blood elf fleet into an ambush so he could retaliate and seize the Seed of Elements. He feigned a powerful attack, then fled under fire, and Liadrin ordered the fleet to pursue him.

• Xiao Yu recognized that he had grown overconfident after his victories and decided not to fight the blood elf fleet near its harbor.
• Xiao Yu ordered his hidden forces to retreat and lie in wait offshore while the two battered elemental legions remained visible as bait.
• Xiao Yu spotted Liadrin commanding about fifty blood elf warships, including vessels armed with arcane weapons and Magic Shields.
• Liadrin attacked Xiao Yu with a ship-mounted arcane weapon, and repeated blasts destroyed several water elementals.
• Xiao Yu pretended to prepare a powerful attack, then turned and fled, fooling Liadrin into believing he had escaped her range.
• Liadrin realized Xiao Yu had tricked her and ordered every warship to pursue the water elementals.

Liadrin’s blood elf fleet pursued Azathoth into a sea ambush and was surrounded by his hidden forces. As the fleet tried to escape under relentless attacks, Liadrin survived a hydra barrage, but the battle remained dire.

• Liadrin ignored her mage’s warning and ordered the fleet to keep pursuing Azathoth.
• Azathoth summoned his concealed sea army, surrounding the fleet with sea beasts and blocking its retreat with thousands of water elementals.
• Azathoth’s forces attacked the fleet, sinking several smaller ships as Liadrin ordered her warships to turn and fight back.
• The blood elf fleet’s arcane towers and mages inflicted heavy losses, but hydras and charging sea beasts slowed and damaged the ships.
• A colossal beast lifted Liadrin’s flagship from below, but the chief shipboard mage used wind magic to stop it from capsizing.
• Nine hydra heads attacked Liadrin, who used Divine Shield to survive as their breath blasts shattered the deck beneath her.

Liadrin used the Holy Light to kill one of Sgelari’s nine heads, but the enraged hydra destroyed the warship and left her stranded in the sea. With her Holy Light exhausted, Agnes and the ice elementals captured Liadrin by freezing her inside a massive block of ice.

• Liadrin activated Holy Enrage, empowered herself with Holy Light, and flew at Sgelari’s shadow-attribute head.
• Liadrin pierced the head and injected Holy Light into it, triggering a slaying effect that killed it instantly.
• Sgelari crushed the warship, forcing Liadrin and the chief mage to jump into the sea.
• Liadrin fought off a shark and spotted water creatures dragging blood elf sailors underwater.
• Agnes ordered the ice elementals to capture Liadrin alive, and they froze her inside a massive block of ice until she lost consciousness.

Xiao Yu’s forces defeated the blood elf fleet at Sunstrider Isle, and he learned that Liadrin and the fleet’s chief mage had been captured. In an anti-magic prison, Liadrin discovered that the chief mage had once imprisoned the water elemental lord Azathoth in the very same cells.

• The blood elf fleet broke through the water elementals’ encirclement, but only a third of its ships escaped.
• Xiao Yu received notice that Azathoth had won the Battle of Sunstrider Isle and earned 345 reputation points.
• Wotkud reported that the water elementals had captured five blood elf heroes, including the fleet commander and chief mage.
• Liadrin awoke in an anti-magic cell and failed to break through its barrier with the Holy Light.
• The chief mage told Liadrin that she knew Azathoth and had once imprisoned him in the same cells.

Azathoth questioned the captured Leah Bloodmoon and learned she knew where to find the final Seed of Elements. Rather than ransom her, he persuaded her to swear allegiance, then ordered her to retrieve the Seed.

• Azathoth brought Leah Bloodmoon to the Water Elemental Temple and questioned her about becoming a Horde hero.
• Leah explained that she had spent her savings on Horde reputation and offered to help Azathoth find the Seed of Elements.
• Leah revealed that she had studied Alamarui's research and knew the history and locations of the Seeds of Elements.
• Azathoth refused to rely on Leah for the Seed, but offered to spare her if she swore allegiance and accepted a contract.
• Leah signed the agreement and swore allegiance to Azathoth, who accepted her oath and assigned her to retrieve the Seed of Elements.