Sinestra flew across the continent of Kalimdor. Dustwallow Marsh, Shimmering Flats, and Tanaris Desert all suffered varying degrees of flooding.
Among the islands in the South Seas, there was one called Kezan, ruled by a trade alliance consisting of five Goblin Trade Princes.
After years of development, this island had two ports. The Leakwater Port in the northwest was the main Goblin port on Kezan, controlled by the Leakwater Cargo Company, while Aedod Gage Port in the northeast was run by Baron Revilgaz and his Blackwater Raiders.
Besides these surface structures, most of the island was underground, with a series of volcanic caves, tunnels, and rooms spanning the entire island and crossing the ocean floor, connecting to the nearby islands to the west.
Rumor had it that during the War of the Ancients, Deathwing and his goblin slaves resided within Kezan's volcanoes. These goblin servants crafted an alloy armor for Deathwing to cover the body that had been cracked by the Demon Soul.
However, all of that was now insignificant, because with the appearance of the Twilight Dragon Mother, Kezan Island was experiencing massive earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and giant tsunamis!
The unprepared goblins were caught completely off guard. In the end, most of them had to hand over their life savings to Trade Prince Gallywix in exchange for boarding the fleet fleeing Kezan Island!
Subsequently, disaster struck Zandalar Island, the home of the Zandalari Empire. No land could be seen there anymore, only the tip of the pyramid sealed by the Great Seal stubbornly remained above the sea!
Not far away, a massive golden fleet floated in the waves, the trolls on board staring at their homeland with grief-stricken faces.
At this time, the Twilight Dragon Mother had arrived in the Kingdom of Stormwind, and the resulting tsunami submerged Stormwind's harbor.
Not only that, but she even brazenly roamed through the city, eventually shattering the two gate towers at the entrance of Stormwind with her giant dragon claws, collapsing several statues in the Valley of Kings, and then swaggering off to the north!
In Boralus, the capital of Kul Tiras, the people of the entire nation were gathered, facing the overwhelming waves. Unlike the Zandalari trolls, the people of Kul Tiras did not choose to abandon their homeland!
Jaina had brought a group of powerful mages from Dalaran, including her fellow senior brothers and sisters, Rhonin and Vereesa, as well as a Kirin Tor councilor: Ansirem Runeweaver!
Seeing that the tsunami was about to submerge the entire city, under the organization of Ansirem Runeweaver and Jaina, thousands of Kul Tiran Tidesages used their magic to activate a pre-prepared magic circle!
Soon, a hemispherical magical dome enveloped the entire city. The people of Boralus, through the translucent magical dome, saw the seawater above their heads and the sharks swimming around, letting out cheers of relief.
The disaster continued. Far away in Stromgarde, Galen was still observing. This performance by Sinestra was exactly the same as the actions of Deathwing he knew. These disasters were all unplanned!
Could it be said that people who sleep in the same bed can't have different dreams?
This was a provocation. N'Zoth felt he was ready, Cho'gall believed he could bring success to his master, and the Twilight Queen also felt she could take this opportunity to retaliate against her enemies.
Therefore, she willingly served as the vanguard of the Twilight's Hammer plan, flying around the Great Sea, bringing endless disasters to announce the coming of the Twilight Hour and the return of the Black Empire!
A declaration of war!
This was a declaration of war against the civilized world of Azeroth!
They originally thought they would be doing things silently, but they didn't expect them to become so arrogant!
Galen guessed that Sinestra's sanity was probably on the verge of collapse. The Eye of C'Thun, the Whispers of Yogg-Saron, the Teeth of N'Zoth, and the Heart of Y'Shaarj, so many terrifying things had all been incorporated into her body to enhance her power.
If it weren't for Nefarian, Onyxia, and Sabellian, the three demigod-level golden holy dragons, working together to set up layers of mental protection deep within her heart, Sinestra would probably be a complete second Deathwing by now.
Beep beep beep beep!
At this moment, Galen felt Ymiron's soul avatar in the Altar of Kings flashing frantically.
This was Azeroth's world-soul calling him through Ymiron, but the feeling was like Galen had received a bunch of unread messages.
Galen sank into his mind and connected to the soul communication.
"Galen! Galen! That black dragon outside! No, what's going on with that monster? My body hurts so much!"
Galen heard a series of cries. The cataclysm unleashed by Sinestra tore the earth apart, and Azeroth felt the pain.
Galen quickly comforted her, telling Azeroth to endure it, that the pain would soon pass, and that he had already prepared the Earthen Ring to begin healing the earth as soon as possible!
"No! I can't wait any longer, I'm in so much pain, Galen, quickly use the power I gave you to bring that monster down!"
"Hurry!"
"Kill it!"
"Ki... kill it!"
Pa!
The soul connection suddenly broke, it seemed that Azeroth's injuries had really hurt the inner world-soul.
At this time, Sinestra was speeding past the Stonewrought Dam between Loch Modan and the Wetlands. The Stonewrought Dam collapsed directly in the earthquake, and a huge flood poured into Loch Modan, submerging the entire basin!
The water level in the Wetlands rose even higher, and Thoradin's Wall, which had just been cleaned up, was once again submerged by seawater!
Closer!
Closer!
Sinestra crossed the highest peak of Dun Morogh, and the Bay of Baradin was already faintly visible. The Twilight Queen could even feel Galen's gaze from the Stormgarde Palace!
Sinestra's eyes were blood red, and her mind was full of madness!
Deepest in her memory, in a place that N'Zoth could not probe, there was a resentment towards Galen. It was he who used the survival of the Black Dragonflight to coerce her, it was he who forced her to join the Old Gods as an undercover agent, and it was he who sent the Heart of Y'Shaarj to make her suffer the pain of being possessed by the Sha!
She wanted revenge, she wanted to vent her anger!
"Roar!"
"Your pathetic kingdom will crumble in my wrath!"
"In the shadow of my wings, all things will turn to ashes!"
The people of Stromgarde could already see the terrifying beast in the center of the Bay of Baradin. At this moment, every citizen in the entire royal city felt immense fear, desperately watching the beast bring a gray tornado storm towards Stromgarde.
Galen's gaze was icy cold.
This Sinestra was probably puffed up, forgetting the fear of being dominated by the Crusade!
Then he would help her remember!
"Get out of my kingdom!"
Galen's whole body bloomed with golden light, and the Guardian of Kings appeared behind him.
This Guardian of Kings was even taller than usual, a full ten meters tall!
But that was far from enough!
Galen began to draw upon the Holy Light energy of K'ara, Urei, and De'ori!
The Guardian of Kings was raised another thirty meters, reaching a height of forty meters!
But this was far from enough!
Damn it, I shouldn't have let M'uru and A'dal go in the first place. What great Holy Light charging stations they would have been!
Now, regretting it is useless. Fortunately, Galen had backup energy.
"Ai, lend me your power! Let my Guardian of Kings grow bigger!"
The Heart of Azeroth on Galen's chest radiated light. Although the Star Spirit was only in its nascent form, the energy within it was undoubtedly vast.
The energy that leaked from her bleeding wounds alone could form a Well of Eternity. At this moment, Galen only borrowed a little, which allowed the Guardian of Kings to directly expand more than twice its size, reaching a height of eighty meters!
Holy crap!
Galen hadn't expected this. This height of eighty meters was even taller than Ultraman Taro, his favorite in his previous life!
The deepest part of Baradin Bay reaches about 86 meters, with an average depth of 18 meters. This was the height measured by Galen's naga forces. As long as the Guardian of Kings avoided the deepest part, it wouldn't be submerged at all.
And so!
In the astonished eyes of the Stromgarde citizens, a Holy Light giant jumped out from the palace, landing firmly in the center of Baradin Bay, steadfastly blocking the chaotic beast in front!
Not only were the citizens of Stromgarde stunned, but even Sinestra didn't react!
Bang!
The giant of light punched Sinestra in her iron jaw, directly hammering her down from the sky, heavily crashing into the sea!
Sinestra was unwilling to accept this. She quickly controlled her body to flip over, wanting to take off again!
But how could Galen give her the chance? His mind was connected to the Guardian of Kings' vision. The seawater only submerged the Guardian of Kings to its knees. He controlled it, striding forward through the water!
Bang!
Sinestra had just poked her head out of the water when she was greeted with another slap!
After two strikes, Galen gradually adapted to controlling the giant. So, he unleashed a flurry of punches at the Twilight Queen's location!
He didn't know how long it had been, five minutes or ten minutes, but Galen in the palace felt that the Guardian of Kings' attack speed had slowed down a lot, and the light on its body wasn't as bright as before!
Having watched hundreds of episodes of Ultraman fighting monsters, Galen very experiencedly judged that this was a sign of energy depletion!
Should he save the final blow?
If he killed Sinestra now, it would affect subsequent plans!
Splash!
Having endured Galen's frantic output, the Twilight Queen once again poked her head out of the sea. The previous iron jaw had been knocked off. Galen noticed that her previously blood-red and crazed eyes had regained some clarity!
Seeing that Sinestra seemed to have regained consciousness and distinguished between the greater and lesser threats, Galen controlled the Guardian of Kings' body and spoke a single word: "Scram!"
The waves brought about by this word "scram" spread throughout Baradin Bay, deafening the people of Stromgarde, Southshore, and the Wetlands.
Sinestra took a deep look at Galen, then struggled to flap her wings, flying towards the mouth of Baradin Bay without looking back!
She ran away!
The monster ran away!
The citizens of Stromgarde erupted in deafening cheers, while the Guardian of Kings turned into golden light and dissipated into the air amidst this widespread attention!
Soon, two salvage boats set off from the harbor towards the place where the giant and the monster had fought. After half a day of effort, under the full gaze of the people of Stromgarde, they transported back an iron jaw made of elementium.
When the salvage boats returned, a towering stone pillar had already been erected on the open space connecting the harbor and the city.
With the help of the Stromgarde guards, the iron jaw was connected to iron chains and then hung at the top of the stone pillar!
This scene caused the pride in the hearts of the Stromgarde people to swell to its peak!
Although they didn't know how other regions had been ravaged by this monster, they knew that this monster had been stopped in Stromgarde!
I am proud!
Although the authorities had not released any news, the giant of light suddenly appeared from the palace, and the salvage boats belonged to the Thoras'Tollbane royal family, and the city guards were dispatched by the king!
In addition, their king, Galen Thoras'Tollbane, was a powerful paladin, and the paladins of Stromgarde Cathedral also proved that the giant was very similar to one of the ultimate mysteries of the paladin, the Ancient Guardian of Kings!
All indications showed that the giant of light was summoned by their king!
It could only be said that, this time, the Cataclysm injured the whole world, but Stromgarde won big!
However, this could only be regarded as the first wave of the Cataclysm. Only Sinestra jumped out. N'Zoth still had the Twilight's Hammer, the four elemental lords, the naga, and so on under his command.
The earthquake caused by Sinestra directly damaged the barrier between Azeroth and the elemental planes. Those elements who had been imprisoned in the elemental planes for hundreds of thousands of years were already impatient.
Soon, they would break through the barrier and rush into the mortal world. Elements were born to worship chaotic creatures, and returning the entire world to a wonderful chaotic war was what the elements needed.
Moreover, Galen didn't even need to guess that once the seal of the elemental planes was broken, the warlike Firelands would inevitably be the first to invade the mortal world.
The cunning and scheming wind elemental lord should follow closely behind.
As for Neptulon, the water elemental lord in the Abyssal Maw, this guy was probably powerless.
The naga and the water elements had been fighting for control of the sea for nearly ten thousand years, and the water elements had always been at a disadvantage. If they wanted to enter the mortal world, they had to get rid of those naga occupying the deep sea first. It could be said that they had lost the prestige of the elemental lord.
As for the last earth elemental plane's Stone Mother, she probably wouldn't act easily unless the three elements destroyed most of the resistance on Azeroth and achieved an overwhelming victory. Otherwise, the earth elements would not easily go to war.
This was related to the characteristics between the elements, and Galen couldn't explain it clearly for a while.
The next thing was very clear. N'Zoth and his forces issued a challenge to the civilized world of Azeroth, so as the overlord of the Eastern Kingdoms, he had to respond.
Coincidentally, the speaker among the night elves, the overlords of Kalimdor, had also changed. Tyrande and Malfurion were managing the pollution of void energy in Silithus.
So, the leader of the Alliance, Galen Thoras'Tollbane, jointly invited the night elf highlord Jarod Shadowsong to hold a global conference in Dalaran, the city in the sky!