The four Dragon Aspects and the guardians were all outside. While the other heroes charged into the dream to attack Yogg-Saron's brain, they were outside protecting the Kirin Tor mages who were casting spells from being affected by the illusion, and also clearing away the remaining tentacles and Faceless Ones.
Not long after Thrall and the others rushed into the dream, the archmages felt much more awake! The scene before them no longer overlapped with the illusion as it had just now, making it impossible for them to tell where they were.
However, the illusion still existed, but at least people were able to realize that the most terrifying scene appearing before them was an illusion, and only the scene in Yogg-Saron's lair was real.
The time that Kael and the others had entered the dream was limited, and although they eventually found Yogg-Saron's brain, they couldn't break it in one go. They would have to enter the illusion at least one more time to have a chance to completely shatter Yogg-Saron's brain, which was supporting the dream!
In Yogg-Saron's lair, overlapping illusions and reality plagued everyone. The spell that was about to be completed was almost indefinitely delayed. To attack Yogg-Saron's main body, the illusion had to be broken!
The first phase of the illusion ended, and everyone was forcibly ejected from Yogg-Saron's mental world.
However, the two who entered first, Aiden and Medivh, did not appear.
Ysera had been observing and protecting the heroes who entered the dream, and she was the first to notice the abnormality. But without her asking, Kael had already taken the initiative to go over and tell her about it.
"The commander and Medivh did not appear in the illusion about the Dragon Soul just now."
"I already know." Ysera's expression was solemn. She was responding to Kael, but her gaze was directed at the magic barrier in the center of the lair, while her true vision had already surpassed the visual range of reality and was searching in the illusory unknown.
"I'm looking for them, give me a little time!"
The Green Dragon Queen activated her power, searching for any illusions that might exist around but had not been discovered by her, trying to find the whereabouts of the two. If they were indeed teleported to other hidden illusions, then she would be able to find them with a little time!
With the return of most of the heroes who entered the dream, the mutated tentacles and the endless stream of Faceless Ones in the lair could no longer pose a great threat to the others. They began to counterattack in an orderly manner, waiting for the second dream to open so they could enter again to find Yogg-Saron's brain and destroy it!
Ysera was the guardian of the dream, and also a master of illusion. After she fully activated her divine power, she quickly discovered the abnormality: "I found them!"
The Green Dragon Queen raised her voice, "It's Aiden! He is returning!"
Just as her surprised voice came out, more incredible exclamations came from the crowd:
"The illusion in front of me is fading!"
"Look, the magic barrier that surrounds Yogg-Saron!"
Just as Ysera sensed Aiden's return, people noticed that Yogg-Saron's lair immediately underwent a huge change—the illusion that had plagued everyone completely disappeared in an instant. The most terrifying scenes and the overlapping of reality would no longer appear before their eyes.
Even more unbelievable was that the magic barrier that the Kirin Tor mages had spent a lot of time preparing to break, which protected Yogg-Saron's body, also became dim and dull when the illusion disappeared, and finally disappeared like a punctured bubble!
The Kirin Tor mages' spells had not yet been completed, but the magic barrier had disappeared on its own!
"Could it be related to the disappearance of Lord Aiden and Prophet Medivh?"
No one could explain the wonderful changes before them. This was certainly a beneficial scene for everyone, and apart from Aiden and Medivh, who had disappeared first, it was clear that no one else could change the situation.
Perhaps their disappearance ultimately led to this result!
"It must be, it must be them!"
At this time, Aiden flew out of the huge, dark blue pit. He was wearing a layer of golden shield, which was the strongest defensive spell "Divine Protection" he had learned from Kael. The Silver Judgment was still burning with holy flames in his hand, but the Staff of Time in his left hand had turned into something else.
Khadgar could see clearly that it was the head of "Atiesh", the artifact in Medivh's hand just now!
After Aiden flew out, he landed in the middle of the crowd. He had a very solemn expression on his face, and facing the concerned gazes of everyone, he opened his mouth and said in a deep voice: "Medivh and I were schemed against—it was Yogg-Saron's trap."
"We were teleported into Yogg-Saron's stomach, the Aberrant Loken and Cho'gall were waiting for us, as well as the power of Yogg-Saron himself. We tried our best, but..." He said guiltily to the others, "I'm sorry."
Aiden walked to where the Kirin Tor mages were and handed the remaining half of Atiesh to Khadgar: "This is Medivh's relic, he hopes you can forgive him."
"I...you said he...already?" Khadgar couldn't accept such news at all, and he widened his eyes in incomparable shock.
The relationship between him and Medivh was almost indescribably complex.
Twenty years ago, Khadgar became Medivh's apprentice, but at that time, Sargeras' soul controlled this guardian, planning a series of actions to subvert Azeroth. In the end, Khadgar joined forces with others to kill him.
Twenty years had passed, and now Medivh had regained his own consciousness, no longer dominated by that dark and fallen soul. Khadgar had no reason to hate such a Medivh. Although they hadn't talked much when they met not long ago, he had already called the other party "teacher."
But why would such a powerful guardian fall in this place, just after meeting once?
Everyone wanted to ask for details, but now Aiden seemed to be in a heavy mood, and with the disappearance of the illusion and the breaking of the magic barrier, they would face Yogg-Saron directly next. The specific details could only be asked afterwards.
After handing the broken staff to Khadgar, Aiden turned and shouted loudly to everyone: "Heroes, now is the time for us to take revenge on Yogg-Saron! This Old God will surely be burned to ashes in our anger!"
What happened in Yogg-Saron's stomach made him extremely angry, and now he just wanted to take revenge immediately!
People could understand, especially those Valoran heroes who knew the meaning of the Staff of Time to Aiden.
That was Zilean's artifact, and Zilean was the "guide" who brought Aiden to this world.
As soon as he finished speaking, a huge and terrifying head suddenly emerged from the pit in the center of the lair, which was spitting out a dark blue light. Dozens of mouths full of sharp teeth were constantly making swallowing motions.
"Madness will completely devour you! Submit to the power of the god of death!"
Yogg-Saron's evil voice came from those dozens of terrifying giant mouths, echoing constantly in this closed cave, sounding extremely terrifying and chilling.
What was exposed in this giant pit was only a small part of Yogg-Saron's body, but that terrifying power had already enveloped everyone, making them tremble!
Only at this moment did people realize that they were about to face a true god! An evil god that even the Titans could not defeat!
Aiden saw the fear in many people's eyes. He once again set an example, raised the Silver Judgment, and angrily charged towards Yogg-Saron, "Die, evil god!"
"Aiden...he looks very murderous."
Thrall noticed that Aiden's eyes were red. He seemed to have lost the Staff of Time, but he was still unstoppable with only the Holy Sword left. He charged forward rapidly, and all the Faceless Ones who tried to stop him were cut down to the ground by his Holy Sword, dismembered one by one, and then turned into ashes in the holy flames while wailing.
But it had to be said that such a violent offensive successfully aroused the courage in people's hearts, and they also rushed up together, roaring and launching an attack on Yogg-Saron's main body!
Kael frowned slightly, flew forward silently, and came to Aiden's side, who was fighting bravely.
The four guardians were also about to join the battle. The Lifebinder Freya saw the situation in the field. This was the most critical battle, but the rage and courage erupted by the heroes made them completely gain the upper hand. Yogg-Saron's main body turned countless giant mouths, wanting to devour them, and also constantly released various claws and tentacles to attack these mortals, but the attacks of this Old God seemed very weak.
It seemed...very weak.
"The emotions of mortals… are a bit too agitated." Freyja looked at them worriedly and said to Hodir, King of Winter, "Hodir, we must ensure that these people's minds are not affected by Yogg-Saron."
"The cold will protect them." Hodir nodded in agreement.
"You are being a little too cautious!" Thorim, the Storm King, strode towards the battlefield, ready to join the fight. "Yogg-Saron has become very weak. It must have been that human who severely injured it inside! If we don't seize this opportunity to defeat it, when will we ever?"
"Haha, a fun battle, I want to join too! Let us ruthlessly ravage this Old God and take revenge, revenge!" Mimiron followed behind Thorim and rushed forward.
He summoned a large number of mechanical creatures to entangle the Faceless Ones. The memories of being controlled by Yogg-Saron in the past few years had deeply humiliated the guardians. Now that there was a chance to punish Yogg-Saron, who wouldn't want to do it themselves?
"Let's go too, let's end this battle quickly!" Alexstrasza looked at her sister.
"Yes, let's go."
The four Dragon Aspects also joined the battle.
Everyone could feel that although Yogg-Saron was struggling to resist, it was already extremely weak. This was a rare opportunity!
The most difficult part was over, and all that was left was to defeat Yogg-Saron's main body. Wouldn't that solve the Ulduar crisis?
Following the killing of C'Thun, the heroes of Azeroth were about to defeat another Old God!
And all of this was thanks to Aiden, the leader of Valoran, who was unleashing his fury on Yogg-Saron's main body!
How did he and Medivh make Yogg-Saron so weak?
People were attacking while being curious, but now was certainly not the time to ask.
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When Aiden saw Medivh sliding in from Yogg-Saron's esophagus, he couldn't help but be taken aback. The formidable strength that this guardian had shown in the previous battle made him completely believe that the two of them working together could truly turn Yogg-Saron's stomach upside down.
"Hold on, I'll help you!" Medivh's appearance immediately shocked Cho'gall and the Aberrant Loken.
The two of them together couldn't defeat Aiden, and it had been proven before that they couldn't defeat Medivh either. Now that these two were united, their side had almost no hope of winning!
Unless Yogg-Saron had some attack that could be launched from inside its stomach—perhaps the corrosive acid flowing everywhere in its stomach was one of them, and the constantly wriggling stomach walls were another. However, if these things were to truly cause damage, unless Aiden and Medivh both didn't use protective spells and allowed the acid to corrode them.
But that was impossible.
"Is this what they really mean by 'it's easy to invite a god, but hard to send him away'?" Aiden even had the leisure to indulge in wild thoughts for a while.
Yogg-Saron clearly wanted to trick them in alone in order to implement its evil plan, but it seemed that the Old God's calculations were nothing more than that.
Yogg-Saron's conspiracy seemed a bit… a bit clumsy. It was far from being comparable to N'Zoth!
The Old God hidden in the deep sea had a plan where every step was interlocked, and everything from the launch to the follow-up was within its expectations. Even if Aiden and the others had won the Nexus War last time and even killed an Old God along the way, N'Zoth had ultimately succeeded in getting what he wanted.
As for Yogg-Saron, Aiden felt that this guy's specialty probably wasn't in conspiracy and trickery, but in corrupting the enemy's spirit.
Aiden looked at Cho'gall and suddenly felt that something was wrong—he immediately realized something—wasn't Cho'gall in the Twilight Highlands before?
The Twilight's Hammer serves all the Old Gods. Cho'gall previously served C'Thun, and later had a close relationship with Deathwing, and Deathwing was N'Zoth's servant… Cho'gall was closely connected with C'Thun, one of the three Old Gods who had died, and the current N'Zoth, but he was the most estranged from Yogg-Saron.
Since he appeared here—Aiden instantly felt his hair stand on end.
This might be a conspiracy!
Medivh leaned over, raised his staff, began to cast a spell, and shouted to Aiden: "Aiden, I'll deal with Cho'gall, you hold Loken back! Kill them!"
"alright!" Aiden replied briefly. He rushed towards Loken in response, and Loken also rushed directly towards him.
Cho'gall summoned a corrupted Shadowflame and was also casting a powerful spell.
All four people present launched attacks.
In the blink of an eye, the spell was completed, and Aiden had only just rushed out a few steps.
While charging, Loken summoned a large number of violent lightning bolts, which flew towards Aiden like countless hideous silver snakes.
"Die (feel my power)!" Cho'gall launched the first attack, firing a huge ball of shadow energy, while the one-eyed head on the left stared at Aiden, fully activating the evil power of the Old God C'Thun, and emitting a mind-confusing ray.
However, his target was not Medivh, but Aiden, who was rushing forward!
They tried to hit the attack to take down one of them first.
Aiden was able to contend with these two people alone before, and it was still the same now.
Such an attack looked terrifying, but it actually lacked real threat.
As usual, their spells would soon be blocked by Aiden's shield, or annihilated by holy fire, or dodged by him stopping time.
But at this moment, an unexpected attack silently hit Aiden's back!
There was only one person behind him—Guardian Medivh!
Medivh had just raised his staff and released a powerful mental attack, targeting not Cho'gall, but Aiden!
No one would have expected their staunch ally to launch a sneak attack on them. Aiden could block any attack from the front and entrusted his back to his ally with confidence.
"Death!" Loken roared.
At this moment, it was not Loken's will that controlled this aberration, but the Old God Yogg-Saron!
Aiden was shocked by Medivh's mental attack and was completely unable to make any movements. Then, Cho'gall's evil gaze, shadow energy, and Loken's corrupted lightning completely hit the unprepared him.
The intense magical light completely drowned him in various destructive energies.
After a breath, the three looked at the site of the explosion.
There was no complete human form in the middle, and even the aftermath of the explosion blasted a huge hole in Yogg-Saron's stomach wall, and countless fragments of flesh and blood flew out.
In this situation, who could find which part belonged to the enemy?
"Dead, dead (vulnerable inferior creature)!" Cho'gall shouted.
The aberrant Loken made an ugly sound like grinding teeth: "All the plans were for this moment. We succeeded! Haha, this man, his journey has come to an end!"
"Yes, my master." The Medivh who launched the sneak attack first had a twisted body and turned into another appearance.
This was not the resurrected Guardian Medivh at all, but the resurrected "Twilight Father" Benedictus!
Yogg-Saron's will possessed Loken and said in a voice full of hatred: "This man killed C'Thun and repeatedly disrupted our plans. Now we have finally completed our revenge!"
"Yes, without him, those people outside are not to be feared." Benedictus replied respectfully, looking up at Cho'gall, his tone flattering, adding words such as "great" to the title.
"The time is right, let's proceed to the next plan! I can't wait to see the scene where everyone becomes my servant! Dragon Aspect? Guardian? Hero? Hmph… I look forward to seeing their madness!"
Yogg-Saron made an evil sound.
Its will withdrew from Loken's body, withdrawing the power attached to it. As a master of illusion and a god of death, Yogg-Saron also had to use these powers to weave the next perfect plan—a plan that would make everyone unable to distinguish between reality and nightmare!
"Let's also prepare to act according to the plan, great Twilight Lord." Benedictus looked up at Cho'gall, his tone flattering, adding the word "great" to the title, which had a clear flattering taste.