Azeroth mobilized all available forces to participate in the war, in order to cope with the surprise attacks of the two major evil forces, the Old Gods and the Void Legion. Queen Azshara's surprise attack on Pandaria certainly brought great trouble, but compared to Dimensius the All-Devouring and its Void Legion, the naga's threat was nothing.
Faced with the invincible and rogue Dimensius, no one had any way to deal with it.
The main topic of most of the Alliance meetings in the past few days has been when Dimensius suddenly sneaked into which place and how much damage it caused. The existing defense methods are simply ineffective against it!
This was the sixth Alliance summit, and as usual, even the wisest mages and the most brilliant commanders could not think of a way to deal with Dimensius. If this continues, Dimensius will probably destroy the Alliance in a few months.
"If Lord Aiden comes back..." Someone couldn't help but bring up this topic, and immediately everyone else looked miserable.
The teleportation array was completely cut off, and now no one can leave Azeroth, and naturally people from other planets cannot return here.
Prince Arthas was furious, clenched his fist and hammered his thigh: "Are we just going to watch that Void Lord come and go freely?"
The others were silent.
In the past few days, they have dispatched the strongest forces and used all kinds of methods they could think of, with only one purpose—to restrain Dimensius. But all of them failed.
Unless a miracle occurs, they can only watch Dimensius wreak havoc on Azeroth.
Just when people's emotions were at their lowest point, a virtual projection appeared in the hall, and a distinguished ethereal appeared, bowing politely to the Alliance leaders and said: "We have a way that may solve your troubles."
"Halamad?" Most of the others had seen this ethereal before. Although ethereals look almost the same to normal humans, except for slight differences in clothing, making them indistinguishable. However, the Star Trader's leader Halamad's unique voice and style of doing things still have very obvious personal characteristics. Everyone had met in this way before, so someone recognized him.
"Yes, it is me." Halamad nodded.
Night Elf Commander Jarod Shadowsong suddenly asked: "The entire Azeroth is now blocked, how did you project over here?"
This was obviously a question worth noting. After his reminder, the other leaders also reacted—could it be that the ethereals have some means to ignore Dimensius' interference with teleportation?
Doesn't that mean they can bring back Aiden and those powerful reinforcements who are still trapped in Silithus?
"I know what you are thinking, but in this regard, I may have to disappoint you—we do not have the means to break through Dimensius' seal." Halamad shook his head.
"So you are now in Azeroth, right?" Jarod stared at this Node Prince.
Night elves rarely deal with ethereals. Although ethereal merchants have officially started trading in Azeroth in the past two years, Mount Hyjal has not yet been opened to them. There is no friendship between the two sides, so naturally there is no scruples when speaking.
"Your insight is admirable, Lord Jarod." Halamad did not deny it. In fact, he is indeed in Azeroth now. He did not continue to argue with Jarod about this issue, but said to the others, "Shouldn't the focus of your attention be on solving your current troubles?"
"You're right, Prince Halamad—so what is your solution?" Daelin Proudmoore asked.
He was not very enthusiastic, because many of these ethereals are boastful merchants, and it is unlikely to rely on them to deal with Dimensius.
What's more, he heard that the ethereal's hometown was destroyed by Dimensius. If they really had a way, how could Dimensius be so arrogant today?
"I would like to introduce a distinguished guest to everyone—" Halamad took a step to the side, and another fully armed ethereal with two swords appeared beside him, "This is Commander Amir, the leader and supreme commander of the Ethereum. He will answer your questions."
The Alliance leaders were noncommittal and waited for the other party to continue.
Commander Amir was a very serious ethereal. He acted like a soldier and did not beat around the bush. He said directly: "Dimensius has always been the target of our pursuit. For a long time, we have also been looking for ways to deal with it. When it is able to move freely, almost no one can restrain it, let alone kill it. So the key to fighting Dimensius is to confine it to an area where it cannot move freely. Only when it cannot freely enter and exit the Twisting Nether can we have a chance to kill it."
Anna nodded and said: "This is the same as the results of our tests—but the question is, how can we restrain it?"
Amir said: "Dimensius likes to stay in places with Void Rifts very much. After years of observation, we have found that every time it returns to the real world from the Twisting Nether, it always likes to find places with relatively large Void Rifts, where its consumption of shuttling will be very small, and it can also replenish energy in the Void Rifts. So the first step we have to do is to find the largest Void Rift in Azeroth, or artificially create a Void Rift large enough for us to implement our plan."
"Artificial creation?"
"Yes."
"But—that requires many mages to forcibly extract arcane energy from the magic network using spells. It is impossible for Dimensius not to notice. Will it be so stupid as to run into it?" Anna frowned.
"Success depends on human effort." Amir obviously cannot be sure whether this method will work, or rather, it is actually impossible to guarantee the success rate.
Anyway, the ethereals have countless time to hunt Dimensius. They have had countless failures before, and this failure is not unacceptable.
But for the people of Azeroth, they cannot afford the result of failure—because that may mean that Dimensius will eventually devour this world!
"There is a way." Kalecgos, the blue dragon representative of the Dragon Council, suddenly said, "There is a way that should be able to deceive Dimensius."
As soon as this handsome blue-haired young man spoke, more than half of the people present's eyes lit up. Obviously, they also remembered that the blue dragons do have a way to do such a thing.
The Blue Dragonflight was originally the guardian of the magic network, and it is very easy for them to extract energy from the magic network. What's more, they did this once two years ago.
The Nexus War—that was truly an earth-shattering war. No participant can forget the desperate moment when the Blue Dragon King Malygos used the Focusing Iris to extract a huge amount of energy from the magic network, enough to destroy Azeroth ten times, and imported it into the Oculus, preparing to launch a great purge of casters and spellcasting races.
At that time, everything was irreversible. No participant will forget that desperate moment—fortunately, Aiden successfully modified the attack target at that time, turning bad things into good things, and instead eliminated two Old Gods.
Undeniably, if it weren't for Aiden at that time, I'm afraid most of the people present would have been torn to pieces by the violent arcane energy two years ago.
The last time the blue dragons extracted energy from the magic network also caused many Void Rifts to appear on the earth. These rifts are not so easy to heal, and Dimensius is using them to easily enter Azeroth.
There is no doubt that the Blue Dragonflight has the ability to create Void Rifts. Last time they used it for evil, but this time they want to stop evil.
Everyone saw a glimmer of hope, and the atmosphere of the meeting suddenly became warm. Ethereum leader Amir also told the Alliance leaders all the plans: they plan to build a huge mana furnace on the Void Rift. This furnace can convert void energy into pure arcane energy through closed pipes and related facilities. This will be a huge temptation for Dimensius.
Once it enters the pipeline, the ethereals will close it, and after isolating the energy, Dimensius will not be able to use its perverted phase shift ability to escape into the Twisting Nether. Next, naturally, it will be time to attack it and eliminate Dimensius!
The feasibility of this plan is very high, and the situation in Azeroth is critical, and everyone has no time to consider so much. After some discussion, this artificially created Void Rift and Mana Furnace will be built in Icecrown Glacier in Northrend. On the one hand, it is because no one lives here and will not harm the innocent. On the other hand, it is also close to the Nexus, Dragonblight, and Storm Peaks. The Blue Dragonflight, Dragon Council, and Ulduar guardians will be able to get there quickly.
After the meeting, this matter was immediately launched.
Just as the blue dragons were extracting energy from the magic network, the ethereal's spaceship also arrived at its destination a day later. In fact, the Ethereum has been tracking Dimensius' trail for a while, and the ethereals always want to seize any opportunity to avenge Dimensius.
Some time ago, when Dimensius was in Silithus, it was a bit difficult for the Ethereum to track it—because that was not within the scope of the ethereal's ability. But Azeroth is different. The Star Trader arrived here two years ago.
After detecting that Dimensius was going to Azeroth, Amir immediately ordered the elite Ethereum armed forces to come to Azeroth one step ahead and hide. The ethereals' spaceships were well hidden, and the Alliance forces did not notice. At the same time, because the Alliance had to deal with the joint attack of the Old Gods and the Void Legion, it did not have the energy to investigate the Ethereum armed forces that had quietly entered the country.
With the support of the Star Trader, the Ethereum's actions were one step faster than the Avengers—the latter is the most powerful military force of the ethereal race, but the Ethereum has a more gentle attitude and likes to unite with other races to fight against Dimensius, while the Avengers will ruthlessly destroy any force that hinders their revenge by any means.
By the time the Avengers arrived, Azeroth had been sealed off.
They were one step late.