Hurricane

Xavius's cunning and caution exceeded everyone's expectations. He seemed to know the heroes' purpose in coming here, so he was unwilling to give them the chance to obtain his branches.

Faced with such a tricky situation, everyone was still pondering countermeasures, but the son of Cenarius—the 'Keeper of the Grove'—had already made his choice.

Remulos fearlessly charged towards those black, withered branches. Separated from the Dragon Aspects' protection, he was immediately bound by the twisting branches, two of which transformed into spears, directly piercing his chest, intending to kill him!

"Come back quickly!"

"Be careful, Remulos!"

His dangerous action shocked Cenarius.

Remulos turned a deaf ear to this. He completely abandoned his defense, allowing the two wooden thorns to pierce his chest. The only thing he did was to use his hands to firmly grasp them afterwards!

"Now!" Remulos shouted, suppressing the pain of his pierced internal organs.

Everyone understood his intention. He was actually preparing to use his body to lure Xavius's attack and create an opportunity for others to cut off the branches!

Cenarius's eyes were bloodshot. "Why, why do you have to do this?"

Everyone knew the consequences of doing this. Perhaps this was just a desperate measure, but couldn't he wait a little longer and give everyone some time to think of a better solution?

But Remulos had already made a sacrifice. In order to not let his blood be shed in vain, two key heroes, Jax and Brox, rushed up under the cover of the others.

Xavius obviously noticed their intentions. He immediately wanted to prevent these two people, who had just cut off some of his branches, from getting close, so he suddenly shot out countless wooden thorns carrying the power of darkness, wanting to kill them.

Aiden and Kayle immediately applied Holy Protection to them, and Khadgar also lent his power to Brox, allowing this death knight to advance rapidly!

Everyone was doing their best to open a path to Remulos's side for them.

Aiden once again used the power of time, making the flow of time around him extremely slow. Brox, empowered by the Lich King's power, was filled with strength. His consciousness became extremely clear. Although his movements were slow, Xavius's attacks also became extremely slow.

He tried his best to use his combat skills to avoid most of the attacks that could be dodged. Although Holy Protection protected him, preventing him from being harmed, the force on these branches would not be offset. He tried his best to prevent these attacks from hindering or slowing down his actions.

Brox arrived at Remulos's side first. The hero's chest was bleeding profusely. Under the slowed-down flow of time, Brox saw this blood like a red flower blooming rapidly, revealing a shocking beauty.

"This is a respectable hero."

Brox had such thoughts in his mind. He knew what kind of action he should take to express his respect to the other party.

He raised the Dark Destroyer high, pouring all his power into it. After the transformation of the dark crystal, the silver-black axe blade lit up with a frosty light. Under Brox's control, it drew a perfect arc, like a new moon, slashing towards the withered branches that pierced Remulos's chest.

Xavius certainly sensed this attack. He sneered in his heart—Remulos's sacrifice would be meaningless. He had already seen through these people's thoughts, so how could he possibly let the other party achieve their goal?

Although Remulos desperately grasped the branches that pierced his body with both hands, his strength was still too weak compared to the Nightmare Lord. Xavius could break free of his branches with a little force!

He wanted to make these people feel completely desperate when they thought they were about to succeed, so he decided to do this at the last moment.

But Xavius never expected that he had just pulled out most of it, and the attack that he sensed was still a moment away had already slashed at his branches!

The time blessing that Aiden applied to the Dark Destroyer allowed its attacks to always arrive a moment faster than the enemy expected. This special attribute made a great contribution at this time!

Xavius sensed the pain coming from the ends of the branches. They were like his hands, and the pain of being cut off directly entered his soul.

But fortunately, this branch was relatively thick, and he had already pulled it out in advance, so it was not completely cut off. Although he suffered a little trauma, as long as he took it back in time, he could still make these people's efforts come to nothing!

However, at this moment, Jax, who was only one step behind, saw this scene. He glanced at it and decisively threw the oaken axe in his hand.

This throw instantly affected everyone's hearts. Success or failure depends on this one move!

After throwing the axe, Jax had a strong feeling—it would definitely hit the target!

This legendary axe of Cenarius was destined to be remembered in history by Jax's throw. It rotated twice in the air, and finally the axe blade accurately split into the gap that Brox had cut before.

"Crack!"

The black, withered branch was completely cut off!

This time, with preparation, how could everyone allow Xavius to take back the broken branches again? The seriously injured Remulos grabbed the broken branch that was about to fly back. Not far away, the 'Fallen Angel' Morgana used magic to instantly imprison Xavius's soul, causing all his movements to pause. Then, Alexstrasza opened her mouth and sucked Remulos back to her side.

The flow of time returned to normal, and Remulos's chest immediately began to bleed profusely.

"Remulos!" Cenarius shouted loudly. He reached out and hugged his son, preparing to cast a healing spell to heal him.

"Father..." As soon as Remulos opened his mouth, he felt the blood in his chest surging into his throat. He coughed, choked by it, and blood immediately flowed from his mouth and nose. He looked at his angry father, stretched out his trembling hand, and handed over the blood-stained withered branch.

"Well done, Remulos, well done." Cenarius grabbed his hand and injected the healing energy of nature into his body.

"I... have atoned..." Remulos showed a difficult and painful smile. "Avrilla... I... have atoned..." His eyes had already begun to lose focus.

"No, don't talk, Remulos, you will get better! It's not your fault, no one blames you!" Cenarius shouted.

Before he returned to the real world, he already knew that Remulos had killed Avrilla in a frenzy when he was controlled by the Nightmare Lord. But this was not Remulos's fault. Cenarius did not blame him. It was all because of the Nightmare Lord!

"I see Avrilla... She is waving to me..." Remulos showed his last peaceful smile, and his hand weakly drooped down.

Cenarius's healing energy could no longer enter his body.

Aiden sighed softly. He saw the fall of a hero.

The holy light released by the Naru illuminated this place, so everyone in the black mist saw the scene of their battle. Everyone witnessed Remulos's sacrifice, and it was because of this that they achieved their goal.

"We will avenge Remulos, for all the lives sacrificed in the Nightmare invasion! I swear!" Ysera's sad and firm voice reached everyone's ears.

Alexstrasza shouted excitedly: "No need to wait long, revenge is at this moment! Who is willing to bring this withered branch stained with the blood of a hero into the dream to completely eliminate the Nightmare Lord?"

"I will go!" Malfurion stood up, "This responsibility must belong to me!"

Cenarius stood up and handed him the black, withered branch. His golden eyes shot out an unprecedentedly stern light: "You must succeed, Malfurion!"

"I will, Lord of the Forest."

"Wait!" Tyrande called to Malfurion, who was about to leave. She prayed for Elune's blessing and applied it to Malfurion's body. "Elune will protect you from being affected by nightmares—go, Malfurion!"

A clear moonlight merged into Malfurion's body. He felt his consciousness was unprecedentedly clear, as if he could see through all the mists.

Ysera cast a portal and sent him into the dream.

Having been turned back by the heroes, Xavius became furious. He shouted: "You will not taste the taste of victory. In a few hours, the fusion of dreams and reality will be completed! I will become the master of the world! By then, you will all become my slaves!"

Although Xavius was roaring, more and more dragons and knights broke through the darkness and came to the Pillar of Holy Light, to the two Dragon Aspects and the heroes.

Just then, the whole world shook again, and even the air trembled terribly. The phantoms in the dream suddenly appeared in everyone's field of vision. The scene that Aiden could only see on the moon was now visible to everyone!

"What is that!"

"What's going on?"

"A phantom?"

Countless people were surprised and uncertain.

Ysera became anxious and nervous when she saw this scene: "We have to hurry! The Nightmare Lord in the Emerald Dream has revived again! The fusion of dream and reality is accelerating!"

"Only now do you realize? Don't you think it's too late?" Xavius's sarcastic voice reached everyone's ears, "This process is irreversible. In a few hours, I will become the King of the World!"

The green mist, which had been gradually receding due to Aiden obtaining the Dream Guardian authority and Ysera awakening, was now coming with an unparalleled ferocity. The entire world was shrouded in mist, and all the creatures in the world were plunged into complete confusion.

The real battle only truly began at this moment!

In a corner of southern Dustwallow Marsh, Archmage Arugal suddenly found it ten times easier to summon werewolves than before. He felt he could summon all the werewolves! This time, no one would be able to stop him! Everyone would face his power!

Just as Arugal launched his summoning, in a layer of the Emerald Dream, the werewolves sleeping under the Mother Tree G'Hanir awoke in large numbers and disappeared from the mist one by one. They felt the call of the real world. Thousands of years of slumber had ended, and now it was time to return to Azeroth!

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After Malfurion came to the Dream, he transformed into a giant eagle and flew towards Mount Hyjal, where the Dreamwake Coalition was located, at his fastest speed. He found Aiden there and told him what was happening in the real world.

In fact, after obtaining the Dream Guardian authority, Aiden's thoughts had been synchronized with the real world, and he already knew what was happening there.

After Remulos died in the real world, his soul in the Dream suddenly fell into a deep sleep. Perhaps before falling asleep, this Guardian of the Grove did not know what his sacrifice in the real world had brought about.

"Come with me." Aiden knew what to do after holding the withered branch.

He took Malfurion through G'Hanir into the internal facilities of the Dream system, reactivated the authority, and started the system emergency plan.

Previously, he could only enable the Guardian authority. The other two systems, the "Celestial Active Defense System" and the "Illegal Data Clearing System", were both in an unusable state. When he just got the withered branch, he learned from the Guardian authority that this was the "source of corruption", which was the virus polluting the Dream system.

The Titan head above emitted a beam of light scanning the withered branch, and the system voice automatically began to work:

"Scanning source of corruption"

"Analyzing virus structure"

"System recovery starting..."

"Startup complete"

After the voice ended, the two unusable systems finally returned to a usable state.

Aiden immediately used the two systems. All hope of defeating the Nightmare Lord now rested on this thing!

The Illegal Data Clearing System was successfully enabled. In the entire Dream, the black mist representing the spread of Nightmare power began to recede. All the soul bodies could feel the surrounding turbid air becoming fresher, and the negative emotions that plagued them everywhere also retreated from their minds.

This system successfully curbed the spread of Nightmare power. But it was not enough—Aiden continued to activate the "Celestial Active Defense System", but the system voice ruthlessly prompted: "Insufficient energy"!

"What kind of energy is needed?" Aiden asked immediately.

"Requires initial god authorization."

Aiden was impatient. Where could he find an initial god now? Did he have to pray sincerely?

He glanced at Malfurion next to him and immediately woke up—how could he forget this key figure?

He pulled Malfurion over and said urgently: "It's up to you!"

Aiden told this Archdruid the methods he knew at his fastest speed, presumably only he could summon the power of the initial gods. All of this seemed destined. Malfurion won the task of sending the withered branch into the Dream, and then Aiden brought Malfurion here, and the other party happened to be the one who had summoned the "Will of the World" in history!

Malfurion came to Tyrande's equipment like he was being pushed onto a duck rack. In fact, everything he had seen from entering the interior of the G'Hanir tree to now was impacting his original worldview. These huge Titan devices, this ruin, and what Aiden said were all things he had never thought of in his more than ten thousand years of life.

But thinking of the extreme crisis in the Dream and reality, he had no time to carefully inquire about everything in front of him, and began to call for the help of the "Will of the World" as Aiden said.

Aiden watched from the side, but soon he found that the mysterious Will of the World was not the Earth Mother he imagined, because he heard voices such as "Detected Elune energy" and "System starting" from the system voice, and saw a crescent mark light up on the forehead of Malfurion, who was closing his eyes and praying sincerely.

Without a doubt, at this moment, it was Elune who was showing her power!

The Moon Goddess was helping the creatures of Azeroth to fight against the Nightmare Lord in this way. She provided the key, irreplaceable power, but did not do anything extra.

Malfurion's expression became focused and pious. He murmured, calling for the existence that Aiden said could help them resist the Nightmare Lord.

Soon he received a response from a great will.

"I will bring down gales to sweep away all nightmares; I will bring down heavy rain to wash away all stains..."

Such a voice rang in the minds of every creature in the world.

Then the "Celestial Active Defense System" was activated.

Suddenly, whether it was the Dream or reality, whether the weather was sunny or rainy before, whether it was day or night, every corner was swept by ubiquitous gales.

Wherever the hurricane passed, the Nightmare minions, which were rampant because their master was about to become the master of the world, disappeared like dust; torrential rain poured down from the sky, and wherever the rain passed, the creatures who had been entangled in nightmares for a long time woke up one after another. The forests and vegetation that had become withered by the corruption of Nightmare power re-bloomed with vitality and sprouted new buds. The green mist and black mist that had infiltrated the real world completely dissipated, and even the black mist protecting Xavius's body on the cliffs of northern Azshara completely disappeared. The Nightmare minions on the plains, seas, and in the air who were fighting against the Azeroth coalition forces were naturally disintegrated in the rain and disappeared without a trace.

People who had been sleeping for months woke up from their dreams, and their families and loved ones who had been waiting bitterly shed tears of excitement.

For them, this Nightmare disaster that threatened the entire world was just a long nightmare. Those who woke up were lucky, because there were still many people who would never wake up again. Perhaps they did not receive timely care, or were discovered too late, and were eventually swallowed by the Nightmare.

But this war has not been won. The raging celestial phenomena only killed the Nightmare Lord's servants, offset part of his power, and did not stop the irreversible fusion between the Dream and reality.

Only by truly killing Xavius, destroying his body and soul, can this disaster be truly eliminated!

Aiden left the secret space where the blueprint system was located with the withered branch, summoned all the army, and prepared to find out the Nightmare Lord's soul and launch the final decisive battle!

And in the real world, this decisive battle had already begun ahead of schedule, or rather, had never stopped.

When the gales and torrential rain swept through the two worlds, Xavius's body was completely exposed to everyone's vision. This terrifying giant tree brandished its claws, striving for the last few hours to dominate the world!