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50. Interceptors from the Darkness

While the reborn players, led by the Illidari and under the cover of artillery fire, were locked in fierce combat with the Legion, in a corner of the battlefield, amidst a cluster of shattered meteors, in a place unseen by any drones, an attack on the Legion was brewing.

In this area far from the core battlefield, three Burning Legion warships were quietly anchored. The flickering fel energy around them indicated that the three warships were on alert. Behind the warships, a dark, irregular crystal shimmered with an unnatural aura. With each flicker, the space around it would tremble slightly—clearly, this irregular crystal was the 'key' to something.

Just as the crystal completed another flashing cycle, a thick beam of light, white-hot and wrapped in azure lightning, shot out from the depths of the void without warning. Before the legion's warships could react, it struck the crystal viciously. In the blink of an eye, a huge hole that could be easily observed without any equipment appeared on the crystal!

"Hit...something's wrong!"

As the crystal was destroyed, spiderweb-like scratches appeared in the surrounding space. At the same time, the images of the three legions' warships disappeared into the universe like bubbles. This abnormal phenomenon startled Tannis for a moment before she quickly realized what had happened.

"&%……(*&……! Entity projection? It's a trap!"

"But the core of the magic circle is definitely here, how come?"

"Clearly, the Legion Commander used illusion to conceal the true core of the magic circle—how could we have fallen for such a simple trick! High-energy reaction at 12 o'clock! It might be the real core of the magic circle!"

Just as Tannis, Sunderland, and Onyxia, who were in charge of raiding the magic circle node, realized something was wrong and began to quickly adjust their tactics and find a solution, the destroyed irregular crystal floating in space tilted itself, refracting colorful prisms. In an instant, the entire cosmos was shrouded in a veil of 'illusion'!

"Here it comes! Top speed! Escape!"

The instant this high-energy entity solidified, Tannis saw the message "You are being stared at" pop up on the virtual screen in front of her right eye, and without a second thought, she issued the command.

"receive!"

After catching a glimpse of the outline of the warship flying out of the shattered crystal out of the corner of his eye, Sunderland didn't hesitate at all. He started the engine and disappeared from the battlefield in a flash. The instant Sordbregas left, a devastating beam of light swept across the battlefield.

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"To place one's hopes on a fleeting shooting star—"

"boom!!!"

"It keeps murmuring, telling me memories of childhood—"

"Crackling and popping!!"

"If we had treated it as a fairy tale back then and viewed it with cold indifference—"

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh!!"

If we give up now, we'll never have a chance to seize our lives...

"Rip!"

To the accompaniment of the melodious strains of 'Infinity,' Tannis sat in the captain's chair, her mind completely focused. Her hands frantically pounded on the control panel projector of the Sordbregas, causing the warship to perform one incredible maneuver after another. Beside her, Sunderland, eyes closed, intently controlled the energy flow within the warship, maximizing its performance. In the fire control chair, Onyxia, a launcher in each hand, a fanatical, slightly wicked smile on her face, unleashed a torrent of firepower upon the surrounding enemies. Clusters of diffused energy exploded in the void, slinging debris, meteorite fragments, and even worse things towards the edge of space.

"It's coming again from the ten o'clock direction!"

After temporarily disconnecting the two overloaded energy circuits and connecting a new one, while simultaneously arranging for the ship's maintenance robots to reinforce several slightly damaged sections of the outer deck, Sunderland quickly reviewed the information gathered by the still-intact reconnaissance drones and immediately projected the valuable intelligence he had selected in front of Tannis, while also issuing a warning.

"Onyxia—fire a Plasma Disintegrate Cannon at it! Sunderland! Recover the drone."

"Understood...fire!"

As soon as Sunderland finished speaking, a black beam of light, which appeared incredibly profound even against the dark backdrop of the universe, wrapped in crimson lightning, ripped through the starry sky and slammed heavily into the outermost shield of Sordbregas. In the blink of an eye, several red markers lit up on the display screen.

"Phase transition shield overload rate is 30%! Slight melting of the outer shell is observed!"

"Rapid-fire cannons No. 3 to No. 5 are temporarily unavailable!"

"Speed ​​reduced to 95% - Request Overload Ra-den's Claw!"

"Overload! Initiate forced jump!"

"Yes!"

Before the second beam of light hit Sordbregas, the agile warship had already forced its way into the subspace at the cost of overloading and damaging some of its components. After Sordbregas disappeared, a massive battleship with a huge, eye-like crystal at the front and legion insignia engraved on its body flew out of the void and docked where Sordbregas had been.

'Did he run away? My nemesis....'

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"Hu-hu-"

After confirming that she was temporarily safe, Tannis lay back in her chair and gasped for breath—although the 'fatigue' system was not implemented in the World of Warcraft world of Azeroth, she was still inevitably experiencing mental exhaustion.

"That thing... I've never seen it in the Legion before..."

Onyxia, who had been maintaining a high level of interception, adjusted her seat, lay back, and began drinking the fire-infused beverage she had concocted in this world to recover her overexerted mental energy.

“Glenova...”

Sunderland, who was in relatively good condition, stared at the projection of the warships fighting against her group on the screen, hugging her arms and gritting her teeth. During her interactions with the players, she had learned that her appearance and the warship she piloted actually had a 'prototype' on Earth. So, she managed to get her hands on anime related to her prototype and happily watched them. Afterward, this Wind Lord was depressed for more than a day. Then, she took it upon herself to hate everything related to the Dark Star.

"No wonder you were playing this song, so you recognized what it was after all..."

Feeling slightly better, Tannis habitually rubbed her temples and reached out to stroke the screen in front of her, making the image of the warship hunting her clearer.

"So, why did this thing emerge after this magical node was destroyed? It seems to have nothing to do with Azeroth at all!"

After listening to Sunderland's description of the warship that was hunting them, Onyxia stared at the warship on the screen, whose appearance was full of dark beauty, and her entire head was filled with question marks—yes, genuine question marks.

"Most likely... this is related to the fact that the Sargeras currently fighting us, although he is Sargeras, is not the real Sargeras."

After thinking for a while, Tennys gave an uncertain answer.

"Ha, Sargeras isn't Sargeras? Uh, that seems right, it really isn't Sargeras."

Although she didn't realize it at first, Onyxia quickly figured it out—admittedly, the Sargeras that appeared in Azeroth in World of Warcraft had the aura of Sargeras, the power of Sargeras, and perhaps even stronger, and also had the purpose of Sargeras, but in essence, it was not Sargeras—the Destroyer, although still the Destroyer, was merely a Fallen Titan in appearance.

"So, could it be that this guy referenced all sorts of random things in Earth's databases, copied and pasted everything related to 'world destruction' into his army?"

"It's quite possible. After all, Kil'jaeden and Archimonde were eliminated too quickly. It's not impossible for 'Sargeras' to come up with something new. After all, the answer in other timelines is that the Legion always suffers setbacks when facing Azeroth... Signal detected, that thing is catching up!"

"You cannot escape the clutches of the Dark Star, Kane, Kaynar... Your souls, along with Sordbregas', will be buried forever in the deepest abyss..."

As the three were discussing matters, the void began to tremble, and arcs of light symbolizing the warp scattering in all directions. The crystal on the bow of a legionary warship, shaped like a Glenova, flickered, and it slowly emerged from hyperspace. Beside it, wingmen rose and fell, their deadly cannons locked on.

"They even got our names wrong."

"Dark Star? I wonder if Sargeras will like this new title?"

"Feelings really are a copy."

"What would happen if it were someone else instead of us encountering it?"

"I don't know, but since it's a replica, it's much easier to handle. Sunderland! How's the self-repair going?"

"No problem with the battle!"

"You remember Glenova's weakness, right?"

"If it really is 'Glenova'."

"very good..."

Tanis reached out and pulled all the overload switches in front of her to their maximum. Listening to the whooshing sound of energy flowing through the pipes, a smile appeared on her lips. Amid Onyxia's roar of "How dare you ignore me!", she stretched out her hand.

"Let's go!"

51. The Dawn That Unveils the Seal

"call out--"

With a sword flash so fast that ordinary people couldn't even catch its trajectory, the right foreleg of an Abyss Lord guarding the bridge was severed at the root, filthy demonic blood splattering everywhere. Seeing his superior suffer such a terrible blow, the Destruction Priest who was fighting alongside the Abyss Lord hastily abandoned his own combat with his opponent and quickly began chanting incantations, guiding evil power in an attempt to heal his superior's wound.

However, they were a tiny bit too slow...

"die!!!"

Just as the Abyss Lord was howling and desperately summoning the most powerful, deadly rain of flames it could muster—a rain so intense it could scorch even the soul—and forcibly forcing back Varian, who was clad in armor bearing the insignia of Stormwind City, to retreat for treatment, a roar that made even the soul of such a great demon tremble entered the depths of its head, causing it to pause for a moment!

"Mortal... Aww!!"

Before the Abyss Lord could find the source of the sound, Garrosh's battle axe, imbued with holy light and propelled by the fully loaded accelerator, smashed through the top of the bridge and was deeply embedded in its skull. The immense power mercilessly tore apart the Abyss Lord's flesh, and the raging flames burned its skin!

"Roar!!!"

In the instant its life began its countdown, the corrupted fel energy within the abyss went out of control, turning the great demon into an unstable, massive fel energy bomb. However, just before its fel energy began to tear through its already weakened skin, burned by the Holy Light, a thruster spewing blue-white flames struck its still-intact chest armor, propelling the great demon's remains towards the other side of the bridge.

"The effect is good."

Seeing the Legion demons in front of him being torn to pieces by the Pit Lord's self-destruction, Garrosh casually pulled out his personal bolter and finished off several demons that still had health bars on the screen. After helping the others deal with the Destruction Priest who was in shock because of his master's death, Varian carried Salamani to Garrosh's side.

“Things are going a little too smoothly, Garrosh.”

"I also think these demons are completely vulnerable."

Garrosh let out a heavy sigh inside his power armor and instinctively reached to reload his bolter, only to find that the magazine was now brand new.

"Ha, I'm still not used to the 'automation' system in this world, which makes the battles somewhat 'ridiculous' in a way."

"But this undoubtedly makes combat easier for many people, Garrosh. You can't expect everyone to have undergone rigorous training."

"That's true... the enemy!"

However, without Garrosh's reminder, the battle-hardened Varian had already keenly spotted several uncoordinated figures on the screen, as well as the black and red sphere flying towards him. Without hesitation, he pulled out a specially made disposable shield generator from his waist and threw it forward, while retreating rapidly with Garrosh!

"Zizzizi!"

Amidst the faint sound of plasma flowing, several black and red spheres flew in and canceled out the shield generated by the shield generator. The remaining energy dripped onto the ground, scorching several holes in the ground forged from evil steel. At this moment, the attacker's figure also appeared at the end of the passage.

"Power armor?"

Varian paused for a moment, watching several warriors at the end of the road, clad in thick, heavy armor and wielding chainsaw-like weapons he knew all too well, striding towards him and his group. Each warrior bore an eight-pointed star with an eye-like center engraved on their bodies. However, the reborn warriors fighting alongside Varian were even more stunned—many of them were intimately familiar with various games, and thus easily recognized these distinctive figures.

"These guys, are they the sons of Horus? Why are they here?"

However, there wasn't enough time for the reborn to think about this issue. Amidst the desolate battle cries, these warriors, whose style was very similar to Varian's and others' warbands but who should never have appeared in the Burning Legion's ranks, brandished their weapons and completely clashed with Varian and his group. Blades flashed, and the first batch of reborn who hadn't fully adjusted were instantly sent back to the resurrection center in the rear!

"We have returned! False gods, die!"

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"..."

Sargeras... or rather, the Destroyer of Worlds in Sargeras's form sat in his chair, his expressionless bronze face fixed on the battle scene floating before him. He could see clearly that although his soldiers were still putting up a fierce resistance, it was only a matter of time before the seal was broken.

"The counterfeit...didn't work. It seems mortals are more resilient than I imagined..."

After gently extinguishing the ripples in front of him, the Destroyer slightly raised his head and looked ahead. There, two enormous crystals, seemingly containing something ominous, were gently undulating.