Tarim thought he had learned the most painful lesson of his life, but he had clearly never heard the saying, "It's easy to invite a god, but hard to send him away."
Aiden and the others completely ignored Tarim and continued to dig inside his body, even speeding up their progress.
The conflict between them and the Old Gods was not a conflict of interest, but a matter of life and death. This meant that there was no room for compromise between the two sides. Tarim was at his wit's end, and even if he wanted to save himself through compromise, Aiden and the others would never agree.
This was a rare opportunity to eliminate Tarim. Anyway, they could leave at any time after killing him, so why rush?
They were well aware of this, so they didn't waver in the slightest.
Finding that his enemies were unmoved, Tarim began to panic. He hurriedly shouted, "If you don't get out now, your army outside will be completely destroyed!"
"Hmm?" Compared to the other nonsense, this sentence, which had no evidence to support it, successfully caught Aiden's attention.
He felt that he had only been gone for a day. Even if Tarim's minions colluded with the elemental creatures to invade on a large scale, Xireth still had hundreds of thousands of troops. Moreover, the teleportation arrays between Azeroth and Xireth were already open. The Burning Legion, the Pantheon, the Xireth Allied Forces, the Angelic Host, plus the forces of Azeroth, so many troops combined together, it was impossible that they couldn't defeat Tarim's minions!
So Aiden had reason to suspect that the other party was just trying to scare him.
Seeing that he had finally caught his attention, Tarim immediately said, "I'm not lying to you! 'The All-Devourer' Dimensius and his Void Legion have come to Xireth! Before long, he will devour this world!"
"That guy?" Golganneth exclaimed.
Dimensius was not an unknown figure, and could even be said to be famous. He was not the strongest creature in the universe, but he was the most troublesome—he had no allies, and all creatures in the universe, or rather, all living worlds, were his food.
Such a monster was clearly intolerable to both the Burning Legion and the Pantheon.
But for tens of thousands of years, Dimensius and his Void Legion had remained at large, still like a swarm of locusts in the vast universe, devouring one once-vibrant world after another.
Ordinary Titans were not Dimensius's opponents, and the Pantheon Titans had also tried to deal with him. Although Dimensius was not capable of killing Pantheon Titans, the Pantheon Titans could not deal with Dimensius either. Golganneth had personally fought Dimensius, and after that, he never wanted to deal with Void creatures again.
Aiden was of course very clear about Dimensius's background. In fact, more than a year ago, when Azeroth experienced various natural disasters, leading to widespread hardship and a severe food crisis, he and the leaders of the Alliance considered buying food from the Etherium. However, those Ethereals proposed an additional condition—that they promise to help them kill "The All-Devourer" Dimensius in the future.
In fact, this guy was just a minor character in "World of Warcraft", with a powerful background but a rather pathetic death. He could freely travel between the material world and the Twisting Nether, which made him almost immune to all damage. Moreover, he himself was powerful, and with that free-traveling ability, he became even more difficult to deal with.
This was also the biggest reason why Dimensius could still run rampant as a universal enemy. Even Golganneth, using the full power of his artifact, could not completely subdue him. One could imagine how tenacious this Void Lord was.
"I'm not lying to you—Dimensius tore apart the teleportation channel outside, making the entire Xireth channel very unstable. His Void Legion arrived shortly after you entered my stomach. Now your troops outside are isolated and helpless, and are no match for Dimensius!"
Tarim was very satisfied with the shock shown by the two Titans and Aiden, which made him feel much more balanced.
"So—Dimensius is your ally?" Aiden questioned.
"Ha, not really, just mutual exploitation. He just happened to be passing by Xireth," Tarim said smugly.
Now he was not in a hurry. To send away these three scourges, he had no choice but to betray his temporary ally—moreover, he and Dimensius were not allies in the normal sense. Because Dimensius's mad devouring behavior was even more thorough than the Burning Legion's destruction of worlds, he was also the common enemy of all the Old Gods.
How could Tarim cooperate with such a guy? He just wanted to use the other party's Void Legion to help him eliminate the enemies outside.
War produces corpses, and now gathered in Xireth were very powerful troops. Those creatures were all top-quality delicacies to Tarim.
No matter who won the war on the ground, the ultimate beneficiary would be him—Tarim!
Because after digesting those delicacies, no matter who was left on the ground, they would eventually become his delicious meal, and would eventually be broken down and digested, becoming part of his body.
This plan was originally not to be told to outsiders, but unfortunately, he miscalculated the previous step, not expecting Aiden to fully understand his fatal weaknesses, so that he was controlled by others. Therefore, in order to save his life, he could only send away the three killing gods first, and then slowly plan for it.
"I have expressed enough sincerity. The opportunity to save your subordinates is right in front of you. What do you think?" Tarim asked leisurely.
He was very confident that these people would definitely choose to return to the ground. Especially Aiden, as the leader, he had already learned that this human commander cherished his "servants" and "minions" very much, and would never sit idly by while his subordinates were in danger.
The three looked at each other and exchanged plans on the mental network.
Then Aiden shouted, "Then send us out!"
"You go back to the previous place first, and I will spit you out!" Tarim immediately got his wish, and his attitude became a little arrogant.
Now it was not him begging the three people in his stomach.
He had even planned to make them taste some suffering when he vomited out these three groups of "delicacies."
It's just that he was really no match for Aiden and the other two when it came to playing with intelligence.
Aiden took the lead in returning through the "tunnel" they had dug out, and said, "You send me out first."
"What about the other two?" Tarim asked.
Aiden replied as a matter of course: "Of course they are continuing to dig—otherwise, how would we know if you would play tricks?"
Tarim immediately hated it so much that his teeth ached, and he could only put away his little thoughts. Because while Aiden was returning, Aggramar and Golganneth were indeed continuing to dig.
After some tossing and turning, Aiden successfully went against the current from Tarim's esophagus, passed through Tarim's outer shell in Xireth, and then flew out of an open giant mouth.
Tarim did not lie, the Void Legion had indeed invaded Xireth.
And the destruction caused by the actions of "Devourer of Worlds" Dimensius was not limited to Shirsess. When it descended, the Pantheon, the Burning Legion, the Eternal Kingdom, and Azeroth all had teleportation channels leading to Shirsess, and Dimensius was best at destroying these things.
Under normal circumstances, Dimensius's influence on space-time energy would only cause the plane teleportation arrays to fail, but now the situation has become very different—because Sargeras had a top-secret project—the Mirror Channel—one end of which was also connected to Shirsess.
The essence of the Mirror Channel is a simplified Titan platform constructed from Sargeras's soul disc, and in theory, it possesses most of the functions of a Titan platform. Sargeras built it in order to connect to the already closed Titan platform through the Mirror Channel, thereby bypassing the restrictions imposed on them as NPCs after "World of Warcraft" began running autonomously, directly jumping out of this world and returning to Earth.
However, after the construction was completed, Sargeras realized that activating the Mirror Channel required the combined authority of three Titans with the highest permissions. And because his actions severely interfered with the operation of "World of Warcraft," the "system" itself defined this behavior as "illegal," thus forcibly arranging the plot of Sargeras fighting against Aman'Thul.
It was because of this that the war between the Pantheon and the Burning Legion, with Shirsess as the battlefield, took place.
Even though Aman'Thul and Sargeras were both very clear that they were not enemies but brothers, and should even unite, the "system" forcibly initiated their confrontation!
So, obviously, Dimensius came here not by coincidence, but because the "system" needed it to appear here.
At the same time, the system also needed Dimensius to complete another task—which was to destroy the "Mirror Channel," completely aborting Sargeras's plan to escape the constraints of this universe by relying on the simplified Titan platform!
Therefore, while Dimensius's arrival would normally only cause the teleportation arrays to fail, now its energy collided with the Mirror Channel, creating an unknown and terrifying impact.
This impact has not yet fully revealed its appearance, but even just the tip of the iceberg is shocking enough—because just after Dimensius descended, two Old Gods were also teleported to this world!
Dimensius's energy seemed to have merged with the Mirror Channel, causing some Old Gods who originally heard Taliim's message in other planes to descend to Shirsess through the mutated channel in a completely impossible way—this is simply unbelievable!
As everyone knows, the Old Gods reside on planets in the form of parasites. They exist because the planet exists. If they leave the planet, they will lose the foundation of their existence, either returning to their original form or completely perishing.
Historically, there has never been a precedent for adult Old Gods leaving the planet they reside on and teleporting directly to another planet. Nor could there be a teleportation array that could transport mature Old Gods away. Because they are just too huge!
But such a thing really happened today. And it seems to be just the beginning…
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When Aiden returned to the ground of Shirsess, it was already evening. This place was still the Land of Exile, but the location was not Mount Vientiane where he had left, but a place near Y'Shaarj's landing site.
More than ten days ago, he had first met Gorgannash here and had a little conflict.
And now, there was a chaotic battle going on here—Faceless Ones, demons, mortals, giants, angels, Void creatures…almost all the warriors belonging to all forces were here, and battles were breaking out everywhere from the ground to the sky.
Superficially, it seemed that the Faceless Ones and Void creatures were fighting against the allied forces of the Burning Legion, the Pantheon, and the mortals. In this melee, it was impossible to tell who had the upper hand.
As soon as Aiden appeared, within a few breaths, an angel warrior quickly approached and shouted in surprise: "Creator?"
Only the angel legions from the Eternal Kingdom would call him that.
Aiden nodded in acknowledgment. He asked directly, "What is the current situation?"
"Creator, half an hour after you left, a Void Lord named Dimensius entered Shirsess and summoned a large number of Void creatures, as well as two mature Old Gods. These two Old Gods each summoned their own minions. One Old God landed near Mount Khardar, and Queen Kayle has led our people to intercept it. The other is being dealt with by Kil'jaeden, the commander of the Burning Legion. The ordinary Titans of the Pantheon are fighting with Dimensius near Mount Vientiane."
The angel warrior explained the battlefield situation in concise language, and Aiden instantly had a clear understanding in his mind.
The battlefield was basically still around the Land of Exile, which was a good thing. But he couldn't figure out how Dimensius could summon Old Gods?
Could it be that, as Taliim said, this Devourer of Worlds had already colluded with the Old Gods?
He couldn't care about that much for the time being. After the angel pointed out the direction, he immediately flew towards the direction where Kayle was—originally, he could have used teleportation spells to reach the battlefield instantly, but with the invasion of the Void Lord, this method had become ineffective, and he could only fly over.
Fortunately, with his current ability, even flying was very fast. Just over forty minutes later, he arrived at the battlefield of the angel legions.
As early as ten minutes ago, he had clearly seen the appearance of that Old God under the moonlight—it had to be said, the other party was really too big!
This was an Old God whose appearance was somewhat like a pangolin. Its body was covered with a layer of deep blue scales, and its pointed beak in front was covered with sharp bone barbs. It always kept its head very low, and its short legs were basically lying on the ground, making its abdomen almost close to the ground.
However, this did not mean that its abdomen was very soft—in fact, the defense there was not much weaker than the scales on its back, and even divine weapons could not harm it. Making such a movement was purely because of its nature and combat skills.
This was a mature Old God, with a body length of over 100,000 meters. Ordinary people in front of it were not even worthy of being called ants, truly smaller than dust.
This was the proper form of an Old God!
Aiden used the moonlight to read out its information:
"God of Burrowing" G'hoggur
Characteristics: Burrowing, Reflection
Weakness: Low poison resistance
Of course, the detailed information was much more than this, but Aiden only needed to know this much was enough.