Ravenclaw

The appearance of the Sound Elemental Lord Murmur helped the Outland Allied Forces to delay for a long time, allowing them to take possession of the strategic Arakkoa Fortress ahead of time.

The Stormspire's sub-ships quickly docked at the top of the fortress. The warriors inside came out one after another, entered the fortress through the passages in the city walls, and guarded all the key entrances. The Void Reaver's airships opened all of their defensive weapons, and all of their air forces took off to meet the flying demons charging towards them.

Aiden saw many devices that looked like gun turrets on the city walls, but no one knew how to operate them. He followed the passage into the interior of the fortress. The soldiers who had entered to explore ahead of him took him to a place that looked like an armory: inside, there were neatly arranged mechanical constructs.

Combining his memories of the game, he guessed that these should be Arakkoa Destroyers—a type of mechanical warrior mass-produced by the ancient Arakkoa.

As more warehouses displaying these Arakkoa Destroyers were discovered, Aiden's heart grew more eager—if they could find the devices to drive the Destroyers and other defensive facilities of the fortress, what would they have to worry about in defending against the Burning Legion's attack?

This cylindrical Arakkoa Fortress buried in the Raven's Wood Mountains held countless secrets. From the outside, it was at least a hundred stories high and covered an area of more than three hundred hectares.

This was simply a miracle—Aiden believed that even with Earth's level of technology, it would be impossible to build such a huge high-rise building.

This also meant that it was a pipe dream for them to quickly investigate the secrets within—perhaps even if all of them went in to explore, it would take at least half a month to figure out all the rooms. What was even worse was that many places inside were locked, such as some important rooms and elevators that could directly reach the lower levels. They could not find a way to enter except by violent destruction.

But they simply didn't have that much time to spend on exploration.

Aiden ordered people to bring three Arakkoa Talon Priests and said, "Now we urgently need to borrow the defensive power of this fortress, preferably to drive these Arakkoa Destroyers and turrets. I hope you can provide assistance!"

Ishaal and the others looked at each other. When they were born, the Arakkoa civilization had already perished for many years, and these exiled Arakkoa had not inherited any ancient civilization at all. They even thought that the name "Arakkoa" was just a rumor.

"Only the Rukhmar followers of Skyreach hold some of the secrets of the Arakkoa civilization, but they were destroyed long ago when Draenor shattered," Ishaal said in disappointment.

Aiden asked unwillingly, "Can't you provide any help at all?"

The three priests lowered their heads in shame. If Archimonde hadn't destroyed Raven's Wood today, they might never have known that a glorious ancient civilization was buried beneath the land where they had lived for generations.

Ska'jik—another Arakkoa Talon Priest—suddenly said, "I know someone who understands the Arakkoa civilization!"

"Who?" Aiden and the other two priests looked at him.

"The Talon King—Terokk!" He slowly uttered this name.

But Terokk is already dead—Aiden looked at the three Arakkoa.

"We have a way to resurrect him."

"But according to legend, Terokk was… insane in his later years."

"Resurrecting him may be a very dangerous move."

Aiden was silent for a while, considering whether he should take this risk. He quickly made a decision—even if Terokk was crazy, he wouldn't have much power alone. Aiden believed that they could control the situation.

"Resurrect him!" Aiden said.

—

Murmur himself had no concept of good or evil, so whoever enslaved him, he would make a sound to kill them; whoever hit him, he would also make a sound to kill them. When he was happy, he would make a sound, and when he was unhappy, he would still make a sound.

His ability destined him to be born for destruction, because he was never a sound elemental who liked silence.

So when Archimonde rushed up, Murmur, sensing the hostility, immediately made a sound to fight him.

This was a battle between two destroyers.

Archimonde habitually summoned Fel Flames to protect himself, but Murmur's sonic boom still hit him without hindrance, making him feel like he had been hit with a hammer on the head. As soon as they exchanged blows, Archimonde suffered a silent loss.

But he immediately sent a red lightning bolt to hit Murmur in retaliation, causing the latter's light blue body to tremble.

The pained Murmur became even more furious. He roared, pouring all kinds of magic-laden noises into the minds of Archimonde and all the surrounding demons.

The strong sound waves rolled up everything nearby and spread in all directions. Some of the demons hit by the sound waves had their internal organs shattered directly, and some exploded directly. Even a powerful being like Archimonde had countless cracks on his skin.

This great battle lasted for more than ten minutes, but in the end, Archimonde was still more powerful. He risked an injury to his abdomen and finally found an opportunity to grab Murmur's body and tear this helper of Aiden into pieces.

But Archimonde could feel that Murmur was not truly dead. He came to this world in an incomplete form, and now what died was just an avatar of him with part of his power.

Archimonde had consumed a lot of power, and it was no longer meaningful to attack the city. He ordered the demons to stop attacking, as he needed some time to recover his strength.

Auchindoun's ruins hid many secrets, not just the terrifying Sound Elemental Lord summoned by the Shadow Council. The earthquake personally created by Archimonde not only released the imprisoned Murmur inside, but also caused other chain reactions.

In the huge cavern of Auchindoun, in addition to the Shadow Labyrinth occupied by the Shadow Council, there were two other forces: one was the Arakkoa led by Talon King A'xis, whose territory was called Sethekk Halls; the other was the Draenei soulkeepers who had originally guarded Auchindoun. When the Shadow Council summoned Murmur and caused a violent explosion, the Draenei priests who died in it became undead, but they still guarded the Auchenai Crypts.

After stationing in Skettis, Khadgar and the others did not find Grek'jik, the Arakkoa who had helped them enter here years ago to pursue the orc forces, because he was not in Skettis at all, but in Auchindoun.

Grek'jik helped Danath and the others back then in order to drive out the orcs in Auchindoun, so that the Arakkoa led by Talon King A'xis could take the opportunity to occupy this place.

The clever and cunning Grek'jik had obviously succeeded.

But today, the sudden earthquake buried most of the Arakkoa in Sethekk Halls in the ruins.

The panicked Arakkoa wanted to escape, but many were killed by the aftermath of the battle between Murmur and Archimonde before they even reached the ground.

Seeing the danger ahead, Grek'jik hurried back and ran into A'xis, the leader, who was coming this way. He grabbed the other party and said in a trembling voice, "Great Talon King, the old passage is no longer passable. Let's take another place to escape!"

Hearing what Grek'jik said, A'xis roared angrily, "I am the incarnation of the great Terokk! Let me rush up and fight those demons to the death! I will reproduce Terokk's glory and kill them single-handedly!"

Then he shouted loudly, "Who dares to complete such a great undertaking with me?"

The charismatic leader A'xis was almost like a savior to this group of Arakkoa. Hearing his call, the vast majority of Arakkoa chose to follow him.

No one could stop this furious and crazy Talon King. This group of brave Arakkoa warriors followed their king to the ground, to the boundless army of demons.

Grek'jik did not follow. Deep disappointment and sorrow flowed in his eyes. The brave and wise A'xis of the past was dead. The one in front of him was just a madman who fantasized that he was the reincarnation of Terokk!

I'm afraid that even if the real Terokk descended, he would not be able to reproduce his heroic deeds of single-handedly destroying the Arakkoa's nemesis, the Bloodmane Gnolls, and driving out these demons.

Grek'jik said to the Arakkoa who still maintained their sanity, "Let's go back."

"But what can we do after we go back?"

"Summon our god," Grek'jik gritted his teeth and uttered a name, "The great Anzu—only he can save us Arakkoa!"

In the Auchenai Crypts, a dark creature guarded by the Draenei undead was gradually awakening.

Deep within the crypt, the earthquake unearthed a creature almost identical in form to the current K'ure, a Dark Naaru. The two were once very close, almost inseparable friends.

The draenei all knew his name—D'ore—another Light Naaru on K'ure's ship, one of the draenei's saviors.

When the ship crashed on Draenor, D'ore died protecting the draenei within. Prophet Velen took his body out of the wreckage and found a place to bury him. Later, a massive complex was built around D'ore's tomb to commemorate him, and the dead draenei were buried there.

Later, this place had a sacred name—Auchindoun.

However, the draenei were unaware that the deceased D'ore had only exhausted his Holy Light essence. After being buried, he began the inevitable process of a Light Naaru's death—becoming darkened.

He unconsciously absorbed the souls wandering in Auchindoun, whether they were draenei or the orcs who later raided the place.

As long as he collected enough souls, he would be reborn in the form of a Light Naaru—just like what Aiden and the others were doing to K'ure now.

The sudden earthquake caused the death of a large number of creatures in Auchindoun, which provided a large number of souls for the dark D'ore. He frantically devoured these souls, striding towards the limit of a Dark Naaru—and then he would be reborn!

—

From the results, M'uru was undoubtedly a good helper for Aiden. Now, what the Outland Allied Forces needed most was time, and M'uru bought them valuable time with his sacrifice.

Archimonde, who was not lightly injured, went to rest after solving M'uru. The demons deployed near the Apex Fortress also began to withdraw.

The King of Talons, A'dal, led his arakkoa warriors out at this time.

"Kill these demons!"

"Kill all enemies!"

A'dal shouted loudly. He flashed into the dense enemy ranks and unleashed a massive Arcane Explosion with a wave of his hand. The exploding arcane energy shattered the demons in a large area around him.

A'dal could become the King of Talons, naturally he was not a weakling.

He was a powerful mage!

The arakkoa caught the Burning Legion by surprise. The demons, who had just suffered a setback in their attack, immediately launched a frantic revenge after discovering that the arakkoa were not numerous.

A'dal and the arakkoa warriors loyal to him were almost completely wiped out in the end, with only a few arakkoa escaping back. Kazzak personally killed the King of Talons, A'dal, but his heart was heavy.

The Doom Lord realized that the natives' resistance was more determined than they had imagined, and that the other side was not only determined—if there were a few more guys in the native legion with the strength of M'uru, plus the solid Apex Fortress in front of them, even Archimonde would probably be helpless.

This was one of the few tough nuts that the Burning Legion had encountered in the tens of thousands of years of its conquests.

A'dal, who claimed to be the reincarnation of Terokk, died heroically, but the real Terokk was being resurrected.

Aiden and the heroes gathered in a hall. Three Arakkoa Talonpriests were performing this action—or rather, more accurately, summoning Terokk.

This most powerful arakkoa hero of the ancient era had not died. After being cursed and driven mad by the Blood of Sethe, the ancient Arakkoa Talonpriests joined hands to seal this great king into the shadows.

Since then, the Arakkoa Talonpriests have guarded this secret for generations. They searched for a way to break the curse of the Blood of Sethe, while waiting for the opportunity to resurrect the great King of Talons.

However, as of today, the arakkoa have not only failed to find a way to break the curse, they don't even know what the Blood of Sethe looks like. Summoning Terokk was only a last resort.

The three Arakkoa Talonpriests poured their mana into a magic circle. As the ritual progressed, the light in the hall gradually dimmed. A twisted shadow appeared in the center of the magic circle, and it seemed to be devouring the light.

This shadow grew larger and larger, so that even though everyone was in the brightly lit hall, it was as if they were in the darkness of night.

When everything calmed down, a tall arakkoa appeared in the center of the summoning circle. He was dressed in ornate arakkoa clothing with many feather decorations, wore a mask symbolizing the supreme authority of the arakkoa, held a one-handed sword and hammer in his two withered, bird-claw-like hands, and carried a long spear painted in bright colors on his back.

When the three Arakkoa Talonpriests saw this person truly descend, they immediately knelt on the ground and kowtowed, "Great King of Talons, Terokk, you have returned!"

"The arakkoa are saved!"

"Please save us!"

Aiden looked at this Terokk who had emerged from the shadows—he remembered that the Terokk in Warlords of Draenor wielded a pair of curved blades and had a pair of red wings.

But the Terokk in front of him no longer had these.

Terokk's abnormally dark eyes swept over the three Arakkoa Talonpriests and the strangers surrounding him.

"I have heard your summons, my people," Terokk said, tightening his grip on his weapons. "Then, I will help you clear away the enemies."

"Great King of Talons!"

The three Arakkoa Talonpriests were almost moved to tears.

But what happened next horrified them.

Terokk, carrying a cloud of black mist, rushed towards the nearest hero—Krasus!

His dark eyes were filled with obvious killing intent, obviously he regarded everyone other than the arakkoa as enemies!

However, Aiden and others gathered here to prevent the possibly insane Terokk from attacking people. Although the scene in front of them exceeded the arakkoa's expectations, it was still within their defense.

Aiden's summoned thorny vines, Prophet Velen's Holy Light shackles, Khadgar's Polymorph, and Thrall's Death Grip, all the heroes acted at the same time in an instant. No one could ignore their methods, so Terokk was frozen in place before he could approach his target. Then Grom and Varok rushed up to subdue this guy.

But looking at Terokk, who was still struggling frantically, everyone began to have a headache. How should they communicate with such a madman and let him help them activate these facilities in the fortress?

"Is there any way to control the mind?" Aiden asked, looking at Prophet Velen, it seemed that priests had such skills—but then he remembered that only shadow priests would do that.

Velen certainly didn't.

Then Aiden remembered that Arakkoa Talonpriest Ishal wasn't a shadow priest in the game, so he quickly asked the other party: "Ishal, can you do it?"

Ishal was still frightened by Terokk's madness just now. Hearing Aiden's question at this time, he replied with lingering fear: "I know a little... but the great Terokk is too powerful, my mana can't control him at all..."

Aiden was a little unwilling. Could it be that a key figure was summoned, but he could only watch helplessly as he could not be used?

Onyxia hesitated and said, "Or... I'll try?"

Aiden asked in surprise: "You have a way?"

Onyxia said somewhat uncertainly: "If the arakkoa's aesthetic standards reach a certain level... or I can become the most beautiful arakkoa female?"

Aiden slapped his head. This black dragon princess is really... imaginative.

Although Terokk was subdued, he was still frantically shouting "Great Rukhmar, you have abandoned me", "Anzu, Anzu, Raven God, where are you? I need your help!", "The Blood of Sethe flows in my body", "I am cursed!", "Lithic, my poor daughter... I will avenge you!"

This King of Talons, who had lost his mind, spoke illogical words incoherently, appearing extremely mad.

"Wait..." Aiden heard a name mentioned by this madman—"Lithic". He remembered that Lithic was Terokk's beloved daughter, who was later murdered by his political enemies. Her death made Terokk grief-stricken, which was also the reason for his later fall.

If Onyxia turns into Lithic's appearance... Aiden thought of this method, would it make Terokk wake up, or help them?