The battle within the Storm Temple intensified with Thorim's resurgence.
Thorim, known as the Storm King, possessed remarkable speed, and coupled with his great hammer, his attack power was considerable. Galen could withstand most lightning, but after enduring three heavy blows to the chest, he found it increasingly difficult to bear.
"Damn it! This guy is like a Flash, while I'm like a clumsy Hulk!"
Galen began to consider how the Flash and Quicksilver were defeated, but he realized that Thorim's physical strength far exceeded these superhumans, making complete replication impossible!
"A mere warrior demigod couldn't defeat this strongest Storm King; I need to add some ruthlessness!"
A silver light flashed in Galen's eyes, indicating the use of the King's Summoning. However, this time, which demigod's power would Galen summon?
At this moment, a lightning spear formed in Thorim's empty left hand and was swiftly hurled, whistling towards Galen's face!
However, this fully charged, certain-hit attack was dodged by Galen!
"The power of the timestream? Impossible!"
It turned out that Galen had summoned the power of the Bronze Dragon Aspect, Nozdormu!
No, not necessarily. Given Galen's opportunistic behavior with the King's Summoning, he most likely used the power of the Eternal Dragon Aspect!
Because the Eternal Dragon Aspect's dragon soul was still lying in the Altar of Kings, using his power in this way would not only prevent the King's Summoning power from being discounted but also halve the consumption!
"I admit I underestimated you, half-giant, but do you think that having the power of the timestream means I can't attack you? Sometimes, when your speed reaches its limit, it can also affect time!"
"Die!"
Thorim unleashed another barrage of attacks, but Galen had already activated a protective shield imbued with the power of time. Thorim's warhammer, filled with storm and lightning energy, failed to defeat Galen despite multiple attacks.
The Storm King was furious. This method of using the power of time to accelerate or reverse time, a means of superimposing or spreading time in a short period, caused each of his attacks to hit empty air, infuriating him.
However, Galen didn't want the current stalemate. What he wanted was to subdue the Storm King, but his best physical attacks and Holy Light power couldn't keep up with Thorim's speed.
Now that he had the power of the Eternal Dragon Aspect, he could try to counterattack!
At this moment, Galen remembered Chromie's most proficient time spell: summoning countless past and future versions of oneself from the timestream to assist in battle!
In short: a gang fight!
That's it!
This move suited his taste perfectly!
Then Galen tried it!
But after several attempts…
Nothing happened!
Soon, Galen guessed the reason!
He remembered that Chromie had once told him that his timeline had been solidified and was trending towards becoming the main timeline!
Therefore, among the myriad timelines of Azeroth, there was only one timeline with this 'Galen'!
His native Galen body, the otherworld soul plus the Origin Heart-bound Galen, was unreplicable!
Damn it!
Galen originally wanted to try the feeling of communicating with himself, but now it seemed impossible.
After cheating, Galen only superficially understood the acceleration and reversal of time, directly nullifying the Storm King's speed advantage. Relying solely on the power of the storm, he couldn't hurt Galen and was quickly defeated!
"Hati! Come out and help me!"
Besides taming a proto-dragon matriarch of lightning, Veranasi, the Storm King Thorim also had a powerful Titan war wolf, Hati!
With Thorim's call, a blue spectral wolf wrapped in lightning appeared in the sky. Its whole body was entwined with lightning, and it was said to have accompanied Thorim in battles for tens of thousands of years. No enemy could escape Hati's pursuit!
It was said that besides the Storm King title and the Titan-granted power, he was also known as the God of the Hunt by the Ice Vrykul!
But he actually tried to use a pet to attack Galen?
Was he not afraid of death!
"Come out, Magmadar!"
The ancient lava hound king, subdued in the Molten Core many years ago, was summoned by Galen again!
Galen summoning Magmadar was already giving the Storm King face. If he wanted to bully him, there were now a bunch of pseudo-demigod animal Loa in the Holy Light Church at his disposal.
As soon as the lava hound appeared, it pounced on the Titan war wolf. Soon, the two legendary peak-level animals began to tear at each other, with magma and lightning scattering everywhere!
"Storm King, what other skills do you have? Use them all!"
Seeing that he was being countered in every way, Thorim felt somewhat stifled, but he was unwilling to admit defeat!
"Humph! Half-giant, I admit I underestimated you just now! I see that the female you brought is a dragon! This temple space is too small, let's go outside and fight again!"
Uh!
What did Thorim mean?
Was he going to switch from foot combat to mounted combat?
But could his proto-dragon Veranasi compare to my Onyxia?
I can ride her when I have something to do, and I can ride her when I have nothing to do, can you do that?
Although Onyxia was eager for this suggestion, Galen rejected it!
Mainly because he had the King's Summoning active, and that thing cost money!
Soon, Galen activated the Vengeful Six-Wings state, pinning Thorim to the ground in his strongest Holy Light angel form, and finally forcibly teleported him to Un'Goro Crater to convert him into a follower!
The great adventure of the Storm Temple was over, and Galen didn't want to continue playing this kind of adventure game. Next, he would find the Ice King Hodir, and Galen was preparing to change to a gang fight strategy…
After being converted, Thorim rode his storm proto-dragon, leading Galen towards the east of the Storm Temple.
"Grand Commander, the Frost Giant's territory is in Dun Niffelem, east of the Storm Peaks," Thorim explained to Galen while recalling: "Back then, I mistakenly thought that Hodir had killed my wife, and driven by the flames of anger, I killed the Frost Giant King Angrim, who was Hodir's most beloved leader of his followers. This directly triggered the war between the Ice Vrykul and the Frost Giants! The aftermath of that war lasted for twenty thousand years and has not stopped to this day…"
"I never thought that all of this was actually a conspiracy by Loken, who has been corrupted by the Old Gods!"
Looking at Thorim's regretful appearance, Galen didn't say much. The sins he committed needed to be resolved by himself.
"But later, you will have to do something even more heartbreaking…"
The two rode their dragons over the Frost Giant's fortress, approaching Hodir's Ice Temple.
Thorim was still brewing his words, thinking about how to resolve the hatred between himself and Hodir?
Or perhaps a temporary truce would suffice, just a pause in the fighting. Once Loken is dealt with, he'll surely understand that he too was betrayed by his own brothers…
"Hey! Bald Hodir… I, Thorim, have come to seek revenge in person!"
"Where are you? Come quickly!"
Quick… come… quickly…!
Galen's words echoed in the empty Temple of Winter!
Thorim's handsome face was blank with bewilderment!
His innocent face was filled with disbelief!
What?
What is this?
What am I hearing?!
Is my new master setting me up like this?
He suspects that they don't need his strength at all, that their real goal is his death!
Thump!
Thump!
Thump!
A blue giant over ten meters tall appeared, striding forward. He wore light armor, was completely bald except for a small braid in the back, and his blue skin was due to the Frost power that coated his body, practically a part of his being!
This was a guardian who wielded absolute zero-temperature ice magic, but despite using ice magic, his temper was as fiery as a fire elemental user!
"Thorim, I didn't expect you to hide in your temple for twenty thousand years and still dare to show your face! Now that Loken has fallen into slumber, I want to see who can stop me!"
The Winter King appeared, saw his nemesis, immediately pulled out his warhammer, and after uttering harsh words, charged towards Thorim!
Galen, in his human form, patted Thorim's large boots and whispered, "It's up to you, Thorim!"
"Hey… Wait, Highlord, weren't we supposed to be making peace?"
Thorim was anxious!
"That's right, beat him until he submits, until he's truly convinced, and then won't your two factions' ten thousand years of conflict be resolved!"
Only Galen's words echoed in the air, his figure already vanished!
That actually sounds quite reasonable…
Thorim felt his heart sink lower and lower…
With the Titan fathers' whereabouts unknown, Loken's fall, and the decline of the other Keepers already worrying him, now following such a master, the future doesn't seem too bright!
"Stop! Hodir! I didn't come here to fight you!"
"Boom!"
The Frost Warhammer and the Storm Warhammer collided fiercely!
"Oh? You weren't shouting that just now!"
Hodir didn't care about anything else now. Ten thousand years ago, he was living peacefully in this temple when Thorim inexplicably ran over and accused him of killing his wife, and to avenge her, he even slaughtered his most capable subordinates.
He couldn't tolerate this, but just as both sides were mobilizing their armies for a life-and-death battle, Loken appeared and arbitrated the situation.
Although he didn't care, he just felt that Loken was biased!
Why could Thorim fight whenever he wanted and stop whenever he wanted?
Did he really think he was easy to bully!
The more he thought about it, the angrier he became, and the Winter God radiated a chilling aura!
For a time, blue lightning and white frost danced in the temple!
The battle lasted a day and a night!
Both sides fought until they were exhausted!
Finally, in a flash of teleportation light, the temple became empty!
… … … … … …
After Galen brought the Storm King and the Frost King under his control, there was no more power to exploit in the Storm Peaks.
Under his will, Northrend, which had been peaceful for a while, entered a state of war again!
The Alliance, relying on its forward positions and the floating city of Dalaran, launched a fierce attack on the Gate of the Scourge, and the rear of Icecrown Glacier was also not peaceful.
With the offensive of the armies of Stromgarde, Kul Tiras, Stormwind, and Gilneas, Jotunheim and Aldur'thar fell into the hands of the Alliance one after another, and the central Ymirheim was directly exposed to the Alliance's advance!
However, the Scourge was still able to withstand it. When Ner'zhul built Icecrown Citadel, he built the southern part of Icecrown Glacier into a grid area. Although the Alliance broke through the north, the south still had independent walls to defend!
It must be said that Ner'zhul was a qualified old fox.
On the southeast side of the Storm Peaks, the Zul'Drak trolls, who had been retreating steadily under the Scourge's attacks, originally thought they could get a breather after the undead retreated, but unexpectedly, a troll force of unknown origin invaded from the Grizzly Hills, occupied most of their land, and captured a large number of their people!
Then, the even worse news was that the Loa worshipped by the Zul'Drak kingdom's trolls had collectively disappeared!
Originally, in order to obtain the power to resist the Scourge, the Drakkari trolls began to imprison the gods they worshipped, extracting power from them!
If the Scourge hadn't retreated, their next step would have been to slaughter the gods, or perhaps they already had!
At least the Loa had already sensed that the aura of the wind serpent Loa Quetz'lun had disappeared, and he had obviously been killed by his own priests!
Galen originally wanted to play the game of beating trolls last, but he was afraid that this group of insane, cruel, and murderous frost trolls would get addicted to killing and slaughter the remaining serpent Loa Shirvallah, the northern bear Rhunok, the mammoth god Mam'toth, the panther Loa Halazzi, and the rhino god Akali, so he sent his troll forces to invade Zul'Drak.
Galen had already taken control of all the forest trolls in the northern Eastern Kingdoms, and even the most stubborn Amani trolls had been pacified by Sylvanas.
After Galen took Zul'jin, he moved all the trolls to the Hinterlands.
This time, there were three troll warbands sent out by Galen: the Tas'dingo Vanguard Warband, the Wovon Shadowpine Warband, and the last and weakest one, Zul'jin's Amani Warband.
However, among these three troll warbands, the most ferocious fighters were the smallest Amani Warband!
They were frantically conquering cities and territories, constantly absorbing the frost troll captives!
Zul'jin couldn't help it. Originally the most powerful forest troll tribe, the Amani had fought the high elves for too long, and after cooperating with the orcs, they had been going downhill all the way. If it weren't for the help of the Zandalari trolls, they would have been wiped out ten years ago.
Now that the remaining forest trolls had been divided by Tas'dingo and Wovon, the Amani could only seize this opportunity to absorb new members from the frost trolls to rise again!
Coincidentally, this time the frost trolls used all sorts of bad moves, actually imprisoning the Loa gods?
Zul'jin asked the four Loa he worshipped, the Lynx, the Dragonhawk, the Eagle, and the War Bear, to rescue the frost trolls' Loa, and then used righteousness and faith to absorb those lower-level frost trolls!
Zul'jin recognized the reality. Now that he had become a vassal of the Crusade, he would follow the Crusade's rules and rebuild the Amani!