Terokk

But the question is, how would they know what Lithic looked like?

He voiced his thoughts and concerns, and after the three Arakkoa priests listened, they looked at each other. Finally, Ishaal said, "Our Skettis has always had the Tomb of Terokk, which contains a portrait of Terokk's daughter, Lithic."

Now they couldn't think of any other way, so they could only try this—if they were trying to deceive a normal person, there would definitely be many problems with someone transformed based on a portrait, but now they only needed to deceive a madman.

Half an hour later, Onyxia finally transformed into the Lithic that the three Arakkoa priests remembered. She only felt awkward all over, and looked at Aiden and asked, "Do I look hideous now?"

If he were to answer truthfully, Aiden would definitely nod, but now Onyxia was helping, and he couldn't dampen her enthusiasm, so he replied, "To the Arakkoa, you are definitely a peerless beauty—if you don't believe me, ask Ishaal!"

Ishaal indeed nodded and said, "Lord Aiden is right, your current appearance is enough to make all male Arakkoa lose their minds."

"Ah, really?" Onyxia immediately became complacent. She looked at the gorgeous feathers and decorations on her body, and now she found this appearance quite novel, and no longer felt the awkwardness she had felt just now.

Aiden brought this newly minted "Lithic" before Terokk.

"Father, I've come to see you!" Onyxia's acting skills were clearly at the level of a movie queen. It could be seen from how she could play the nobles of Stormwind City around in circles. Her voice was filled with natural excitement, as if she really was a daughter seeing her father after a long separation.

Terokk, who had been talking nonsense, looked intently and immediately exclaimed, "Lithic? Lithic? Is that you, my poor daughter!"

"It's me, I am Lithic, Father!"

Terokk looked at her in disbelief. He stretched out his withered claws and gently stroked his daughter's face. The tenderness from his palm told him that this was not an illusion.

"Lithic, my daughter! You've come back to life!" Terokk cried with joy, a glimmer of light appearing in his dark eyes.

"Yes, I have come back to life, Father!" Onyxia was deeply involved. She threw herself into Terokk's arms, sobbing softly, but in reality, she winked triumphantly at Aiden, who was looking at her over Terokk's shoulder, as if to say, "Am I amazing?"

Aiden gave a thumbs up. He had to admit, Onyxia was definitely a method actor!

Terokk suddenly asked, "Lithic, where is your bracelet?"

Onyxia was stunned and asked, "What bracelet?"

Terokk supported her shoulders, his eyes filled with hope: "The bracelet you gave me!"

Onyxia blinked. How would she know what that bracelet was?

She quickly reacted: "Didn't I give it to you? Where did you throw it?"

"You don't have a bracelet?" Terokk asked with suspicion.

Onyxia replied, "I gave you the bracelet, Father. How could I have a bracelet?"

This was the logic a normal person would have. Naturally, something given away would not be in their own hands.

But Terokk was a madman now, and he wouldn't act according to logic. He suddenly pushed Onyxia away violently and shouted, "You don't have a bracelet! You are not my daughter! Where is my daughter? Give me back my beloved Lithic!"

Seeing Terokk lose control of his emotions, Grom and Varok once again restrained him.

Everyone looked at each other. It was clear that there had been hope for success, but it was ruined by a bracelet?

Aiden also had a headache. He remembered that bracelet—historically, Lithic had personally made only one bracelet and given it to Terokk. This was Terokk's favorite gift, and he always wore it on his wrist. After Lithic's death, he missed her even more, and his love for Lithic could only be entrusted to this relic. Because of this, this bracelet was given extraordinary power.

Later, Aiden remembered that the task mentioned that the Talon King Aegiss had obtained this bracelet. Perhaps it was because Aegiss was influenced by Terokk's will in the bracelet that Aegiss thought he was Terokk reincarnated.

But now Aegiss was still in the Shadow Labyrinth of Auchindoun, and it was unknown whether he was dead or alive. How could they find this equally crazy and paranoid False King and obtain Lithic's bracelet?

—

Aiden never expected that this bracelet had now fallen into the hands of Grizzik.

This clever Arakkoa did not follow Aegiss to his death. He chose to return to the crypt with the equally rational Arakkoa and try to summon Anzu, the "Raven God," to help them.

The Arakkoa possessed this secret method, but their first attempt ended in failure. Because they lacked a key item that Anzu was familiar with. Without a key item, Anzu would not appear from the shadows at all.

But soon this item appeared—it was the bracelet that Aegiss had obtained, the one Lithic had given to Terokk.

After Aegiss died in battle, the Arakkoa around him lost their fighting spirit. Seth, the "Dark Weaver" who was second only to Aegiss in status, immediately led these Arakkoa to retreat. He took the bracelet from Aegiss's body with him.

Seth and a very small number of Arakkoa finally escaped the demons' pursuit and returned to their own territory.

Seth decided to support Grizzik. He contributed this bracelet and personally participated in the summoning.

With this bracelet carrying Terokk's aura, Anzu, the "Raven God," sensed the aura of his most steadfast believer and finally descended from the shadows into this world!

These Arakkoa thought that with Anzu—the help of this Arakkoa god—they could defeat the demons, but the reality was not as beautiful as they imagined. Even Anzu in his prime could not defeat Archimonde now, let alone now that he was weakened a lot in order to resist Sethe's curse?

But Anzu was not prepared to sit idly by. He sensed that there was still a dark creature in this dungeon, and he decided to subdue it. With its dark power, Anzu felt that he had the capital to fight.

The dark creature he had set his sights on was Naaru D'ore.

Anzu led this group of Arakkoa through the ruins of Auchindoun, heading to find D'ore.

What happened next was full of twists and turns: As the spokesperson of darkness, Anzu conquered D'ore. Then he led the Arakkoa to break out of the ground and break through the encirclement, but there were too many demons, and they could not fight against them. So this army retreated—or rather, fled—towards Shattrath.

Because Archimonde was chasing them from behind.

And when they were about to be caught up by the demons, a group of reinforcements descended from the sky and saved them—it was Thrall and others who were following Grandmother Gaiaan to Nagrand to crack the curse password.

They took a sub-ship from Tempest Keep to Nagrand, and with the help of Kael'thas, they successfully cracked the curse password, completely restoring the connection between Outland and the elemental spirits, and obtained several powerful allies—the four powerful elemental furies of earth, wind, fire, and water!

On their way back to Skettis from Nagrand, it was because the Naaru piloting the ship sensed the aura of the dark Naaru on the ground that they landed. After figuring out the situation, Thrall decided to save these people.

So the four elemental furies and the demigod Kael'thas all unleashed their power. The power of earth, water, fire, wind, and annihilation turned the chasing demons to ashes. Archimonde could only watch helplessly as the enemies he had been chasing for so long boarded the sub-ship and escaped into the air!

But in addition to anger, Archimonde also became silent.

He saw the power of the four elemental furies. Each of these elemental lords possessed strength comparable to that of the sound elemental lord M'uru he had encountered the day before. Obviously, these mortals had requested the help of more transcendents.

The Burning Legion's road to conquest was becoming somewhat difficult. This was the situation Archimonde was now facing. He decided to try to siege the city. If these mortals obtained the defensive power of the fortress and caused the siege to fail, he would prepare to help Kil'jaeden in the Twisting Nether. Only his good brother could help him at this time!

The ship carrying Thrall and the others back brought too many surprises to Aiden: the four powerful elemental furies, the Raven God Anzu, and a dark Naaru—their high-end combat power immediately increased greatly, and now they finally had the capital to resist the Burning Legion!

Everyone's faces showed smiles. They could finally stop being as frightened as they had been before! The days of uncertainty were gone forever!

Khadgar and the others met the surviving Grizzik, and it could be considered a reunion of old friends—although this cunning Arakkoa had ulterior motives when he initially approached them, it is an undeniable fact that he helped the Expedition. Moreover, they are now fighting side by side against the same enemy, making the reunion even more precious.

Just as Aiden had thought before, it seemed that even fate was helping them.

Lithic's bracelet was found, and the plan to deceive Terokk could continue. There was even Anzu, the Raven God who didn't know how many years he had lived.

While arranging for Onyxia to transform into Lithic again to act, he found Anzu, thinking he could obtain some important information from this Raven God.

"Speak, what do you want to know from me?" Anzu appeared very indifferent, even though these people had actually saved his life.

Aiden said, "This fortress, I want to know how to activate it? If the Apexis technology inside can be used by us, it will inevitably reduce many casualties in our process of resisting the Burning Legion."

"That's meaningless." Anzu's eyes shone with a dim light, and his voice also seemed indifferent, "We will all die sooner or later. The only difference is whether these demons will do it, or another group of demons!"

This god seemed very frustrated and pessimistic, and he could not see a trace of hope in his eyes.

Aiden would not agree with his point of view. He retorted, "But we can't sit still and wait for death—if we can even defeat the Burning Legion, what other power can threaten us?"

"Hahaha—how ridiculous." Anzu's voice was sarcastic, and he stared at Aiden as if mocking his ignorant remarks, "The Burning Legion is just an outsider. There are existences in this world that are even more terrifying than them. Even… those people couldn't eliminate them!"

"More terrifying than the Burning Legion?" Aiden pondered the other party's words and asked, "Are you saying… the Old Gods?"

Hearing this name, Anzu's feathers stood on end. He suddenly became extremely nervous, stared at Aiden, and asked loudly, "You know? Tell me quickly, why do you know?"

Seeing Anzu suddenly become nervous, Aiden knew that his guess had become a reality.

Outland, or rather Draenor, also has the existence of the Old Gods.

Aiden heard Anzu say that "those people" could not eliminate the existence, and naturally had associations. He was learning some unconfirmed secrets in the game from this ancient god.

"So, the Titans did come to Draenor?"

"Titans…" Anzu realized that the human in front of him obviously knew more than he imagined. It was not surprising that the other party knew about the Old Gods. And the name "Titans" evoked his very distant memories.

"Draenor?" Anzu suddenly laughed, but the laughter seemed shrill and crazy, "At that time, this place was not called Draenor, but Arrakis!"

His eyes became dazed, immersed in distant memories, and a dusty history was being told through the mouth of this ancient god:

"Before the ancestors of the Orcs were even born, before the oldest Apexis civilization in this world appeared, before the Arakkoa were even created, at that time, the sky of Arrakis was ruled by three gods. How young we were at that time—Rukhmar, Sethe, and me, Anzu…"

"At that time, the Titans descended. I don't know where they came from, but I know they were very powerful."

"They smelted the earth, sculpted mountains, created life, spread civilization… and also expelled evil."

"They chose us, gave us gifts, shared their technology, and made us immortal; they called us—Guardians."

"In return, we were driven by the Titans to carry out the mission given to us by the Titans, to fight against the Old Gods entrenched on the planet Arrakis, and to faithfully fulfill the responsibilities given to us by the Titans. These are only small costs compared to what we have gained."

"Later, the Titans left, leaving only their observers to monitor the operation of this world and to monitor whether we were fulfilling the responsibilities of the Arrakis Guardians."

"After the Titans left, we still loyally guarded Arrakis, until Sethe—the Wind Serpent God—was corrupted by the resurrected Old God. He killed the unprepared observer and encouraged me and him to kill Rukhmar, promising to rule Arrakis together with me."

"But I discovered his abnormality, agreed on the surface, but secretly reminded Rukhmar to be vigilant."

"Later, Sethe launched an attack anyway."

Speaking of this, Anzu suddenly let out a burst of neurotic laughter. He looked at Aiden, and his voice became strange:

"The land under your feet is where Sethe once attacked Rukhmar. One side was Rukhmar, the other was Sethe, and I was secretly hiding on another nearby mountain."

"I personally saw Sethe being corrupted by the Old God. I will never forgive his betrayal!"

"When Sethe and Rukhmar were fighting fiercely, I personally took action to end him. Before he died, he issued a vicious curse, wanting to use his blood, which was polluted by the Old God, to pollute the sky, the earth, and the sea—in order to prevent the curse from happening, I swallowed his body, eating every bit of bone and flesh!"

Speaking of this, Anzu's eyes revealed almost morbid madness, and his voice became vicious:

"But there was still a stream of Sethe's blood that flowed out. Worse, I was cursed—my wings became fragile, and my body became hunched—becoming the ghost-like appearance you see now."

He ridiculed himself, "Rukhmar and I both thought we had won, but these countless years of pain have gradually made me understand that Sethe and his master are the real victors. All our efforts have been in vain. Hahaha, tell me, isn't this very sad, very ridiculous?"

Anzu stared at Aiden, his eyes full of pain.

Aiden silently digested this information.

The three gods who ruled the sky mentioned in Warlords of Draenor were actually guardians appointed by the Titans?

This means that Anzu and their status are equivalent to the five Aspect Dragons of Azeroth, but the Anzu in front of him really makes him unable to believe that the other party was once an existence as powerful as the Aspect Dragons.

And the battle between the Old Gods and the Titans is almost a reenactment of the history of Azeroth, and Sethe's fall is even the same as Neltharion's.

It's just that Sethe did it more thoroughly—he first killed the observer, and perhaps also destroyed the Titan's laboratory, which also explains why the Titans transformed this world, but did not leave a Titan defense system that restricted the entry of extraordinary power.

This history is simply shocking, and Aiden's shock can be imagined.

But this is not the problem he should be concerned about now. Although Anzu satisfied his curiosity, what he wants to know now is whether Anzu can help him activate the system in this fortress.

"For such a thing, you should ask Rukhmar for help, not me." Hearing Aiden's question, Anzu almost mocked and replied, "After we killed Sethe, we found that the observer had been killed by Sethe. Rukhmar wanted to contact them through the device left by the Titans, but the system had been damaged, and she could not send a signal. Later, she has been committed to restoring the Titan's system, although in the end she was not able to successfully restore contact with the Titans, but she also created the Apexis civilization—a technological civilization simplified according to the Titan's laboratory technology."

Anzu once again told a dusty history, proving the relationship between the Apexis civilization and Titan technology. Then he revealed an even more shocking news:

"This fortress is built on top of a Titan laboratory."

Aiden clicked his tongue and said, "Could it be that we have to find Rukhmar to activate the device in this fortress?"

"That's right." Anzu replied.

"Then what should we do?"

Anzu showed a strange smile: "Find a group of believers and priests who believe in Rukhmar."