The Old Gods that inhabit Azeroth are like malignant cells in the human body.
We know they are harmful, but we cannot eradicate them lightly.
What's more disturbing is not this.
If only all the Old Gods were as easy to deal with as C'Thun.
Although Yogg-Saron has many conspiracies and tricks, at least the coordinates of its lair are clear. As long as it can accumulate enough power, it can defeat Ulduar in one fell swoop.
In order to defeat Loken, break through Ulduar, and re-seal Yogg-Saron, Sarlayan has made many preparations in advance, and now all he needs to do is wait.
Only when the number of Titan artifacts secretly produced by Nalak'sha's engine accumulates to a certain amount will the time to counterattack Storm Peaks be truly ripe.
Compared with Yogg-Saron, N'Zoth, who is hiding in the deep sea, is more difficult to deal with.
After the death of Y'Shaarj, among the three ancient gods, Yogg-Saron is undoubtedly the strongest, and N'Zoth is the last.
However, the places where Yogg-Saron and C'Thun were sealed are very conspicuous. As long as the various races of Azeroth living on land work hard and plan hard, it is not impossible to defeat them.
In comparison, N'Zoth is much more difficult to deal with. Its prison, Ny'alotha, fell into the deep sea long ago when the sky fell apart.
Most of Azeroth's intelligent creatures live on land. Even Kul Tiras, known as the Kingdom of the Sea, can only dominate the sea and cannot touch the depths of the sea.
The Old Gods are an unstable factor that endangers the security of Azeroth, and they are inherently opposed to Sharlayan, who is determined to protect Azeroth and his family.
C'Thun has been sealed again by the dragon kings in the Second War of Quicksand, and it will be impossible for him to jump out and cause trouble again for at least tens of thousands of years.
Sarlayan has long formulated a package plan against Yogg-Saron, and he also has some plans on how to deal with N'Zoth.
It would be best if N'Zoth could be lured to land, but Sharlayan didn't think that tentacle monster would be stupid enough to give up its advantage in favor of short attack.
When the time comes for the decisive battle with N'Zoth, deep-sea combat may be inevitable.
With the exception of naga and murlocs, the intelligent races of Azeroth themselves do not have underwater combat capabilities.
The reason why Sharlayan agreed to use the Tide Stone to make a deal with Queen Azshara was that the Tide Stone, the long-broken Pillar of Creation, was indeed of no use to them...at least for the time being. It was better to use it in exchange for Naga.
Promise of peace for invasion of land.
On the other hand, Sarlayan had already obtained some information from the barrage.
Although the Nagas led by Queen Azshara are allies with the ancient god N'zoth, the two are not completely of the same mind. The proud Azshara secretly has her own plan and does not completely surrender to N'zoth.
There is no way to reason with stupid low-level creatures like fishmen, and it is basically impossible to win them over for your own use.
Based on the current situation in the sea, Sarlayan formulated two sets of conflicting plans after checking and filling in the gaps in the barrage.
Plan one is to rely on the slightly eased relationship from the previous transaction to further woo Naga and try to instigate Azshara and turn her and the Nagas against N'Zoth.
The implementation of this plan is quite difficult.
Azshara is indeed close to N'Zoth, but this does not mean that she will have a good impression of the land elves who once expelled her.
Azshara is a narcissistic, willful and powerful emperor.
Unless he possesses the absolute power to suppress someone like Sargeras and can conform to Azshara's own aesthetics, no one can expect to be treated as an equal by her.
The self-centered Azshara regards the entire world as her property. Even the demigods of the wilderness and the dragon guardian are not looked upon by her. The chance of convincing her to betray her as a mortal is extremely slim.
But at least there is hope. According to the barrage, if Sharlayan can show his strength and potential to Azshara, the probability of this plan is not completely 0.
Yes, sleeping clothes.
There is no room for two tigers in one mountain, except one male and one female.
Azshara will not accept anyone stepping on her head and giving orders. The only way to make her willingly give up control of Azeroth is to let her take the initiative to fall in love with him.
However, having said that, even the barrage believes that the success rate of this beauty trap is less than 10%.
The other plan is to completely break up with Naga.
The key to the plan is to assist the Water Elemental in resisting Naga's attack, thereby establishing a good relationship with the Water Elemental, and finding a way to summon the elemental entity of Tidehunter Neptulon from the Throat of the Abyss in the Water Elemental Realm to the material world.
Since the fire demon Ragnaros can use the summoning spell of the Dark Iron dwarves to project his own clone into the material world, there is no reason why Neptulon, who is also an elemental lord, can't do it.
The four elemental lords of Azeroth once fought a battle with the ancient gods in ancient times, but ended in failure and willingly surrendered to the Dark Empire.
After the Pantheon discovered Azeroth, the four elements followed the orders of the ancient gods and fought many fierce battles with the Titan guardians who came to Azeroth.
In the end, with the help of the vrykul witch Hela, the Titan Guardians imprisoned the four elements in four independent subspaces and banished all four elemental realms outside the material world of Azeroth.
After tens of thousands of years of changes, the four elemental realms, which are constantly at war with each other, gradually have different views on the ancient gods.
Ragnaros the Firelord and Al'Akir the Wind Rider are still loyal to the Old Gods, but Therazane, the Stonemother, has lost interest in the Old Gods' paintings and has made it clear that she is not willing to work with the Old Gods and Titan Guardians anymore.
Choose sides among others and maintain an absolutely neutral position.
Neptulon the Tidehunter is the only elemental lord who resolutely resists the ancient gods. The water elementals under his command and the Nagas loyal to N'Zoth have been fighting each other for many years. The hatred between the two parties has long been so deep that it is difficult to resolve.
Due to the lack of a group of high-end combat forces led by Neptulon, Azeroth's water element has been suppressed by Naga, who have a large number of people and good combat power.
The night elves happened to have established a cooperative relationship with the Hydraxian water element not long ago. If Sarlayan wanted to further win over the water element, he could use these subordinates of Duke Hydraxis as an entry point.
Being friendly to the water element means being completely hostile to Naga, and vice versa.
In contrast, Sarlayan is more inclined to adopt the second option, which is to cooperate with the water element... After all, that beauty trick is really unreliable.
The sea is the home of the water element. If it can receive the protection of the water element, land creatures may not be able to walk on the bottom of the sea as if they were on flat ground.
As for how to summon Neptulon from the elemental world... Sarlayan plans to first try to ask for experience from the Dark Iron dwarves.
However, the time is not yet ripe. Sharlayan will not officially begin to implement this plan until the Bronzebeard Dwarf princess Moira is kidnapped by the Dark Iron King Dagran Thaurissan.
"Um……"
Sarlayan looked at the statue on the test bench and hesitated.
He wanted to put his spirit into the statue to see if he could find any clues.
But the experience of being stalked by C'Thun last time was still fresh in his mind, and Sharlayan, who had suffered a loss, did not dare to act rashly.
Bwonsamdi came to help last time, but now Bwonsamdi has gone somewhere. If he is entangled by N'zoth again, no one will be able to save him, so he must be careful.
"Wait a minute……"
Sarlayan suddenly remembered something and struck his palm suddenly.
"That's right! Why should I try it myself? There's Xal'atath!"
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"...So, you want me to use Xal'atath to find out the details of this statue?"
Sarlayan solemnly explained to Onyxia, who had a somewhat troubled expression: "Yes, we are both ancient gods. Even if this statue is really a trap of N'Zoth, Xal'atath will not fall so easily. We
Allow sufficient reaction time.”
"Hey~"
Onyxia tossed the Blade of the Dark Empire up and down, sighed and said, "Okay, but I advise you not to have high expectations. I can't feel any energy fluctuations from this statue."
Sharlayan smiled nonchalantly: "This is Dalaran. If the statue emits alien energy, it will be discovered by the Kirin Tor guards in minutes."
"If I were N'Zoth, I would never use such a clumsy infiltration technique."
"The more ordinary things related to ancient gods seem, the greater the suspicion will be."
"Go ahead, Aoni, and disconnect immediately if any abnormality occurs."