Chapter 161

After the memories of all blood elf members under Kael'thas who knew he had already defected to the Burning Legion were completely altered,

Only then did Luode bring Kael'thas back into the floating city.

"Lord Luode! This, this person is." A blood elf accompanying them, after seeing the terribly beaten Kael'thas, momentarily failed to recognize him.

But upon seeing the crimson robe the other wore and the three floating magic beads beside him, this blood elf mage's expression instantly turned strange.

"No! Impossible? You! You are? The prince?" The blood elf mage spoke doubtfully.

"It's me! Prince Kael'thas of the blood elves, the Sunstrider." Being seen like this is really embarrassing! But there's no choice; this is what the demigod demanded.

At that moment, Liadelin also slowly woke up; she only remembered that after the prince admitted his allegiance to the Burning Legion, Luode patted her shoulder, and then she fell into a deep sleep.

After that, she completely forgot what happened and didn't know.

"Lord Luode, what exactly happened? You, you? Prince?" Looking at the man before her beaten into a pig's head, Liadelin spoke doubtfully.

"It's me, Countess Liadelin, long time no see."

"You, what's wrong with you? Let me help you heal!" Liadelin said, and a soft holy light appeared on her hand, beginning to heal Prince Kael'thas's wounds.

Under the soft holy light, Kael'thas's face gradually returned to normal; his broken nasal bone and sunken eye sockets quickly restored, and the blood elf prince soon regained his former incredibly handsome appearance.

Although knowing the prince's defection to the Burning Legion made her uneasy, seeing him beaten so badly stirred ripples in her heart again.

This prince had always been worried about finding a way out for the blood elves; before learning this news, he had been deeply beloved.

"How to put it! There was a small mishap; I thought this prince had already defected to the Burning Legion, so I beat him up, but it turned out to be a slight misunderstanding." Luode said.

"A misunderstanding? Lord Luode, could you clarify for us?" Liadelin asked.

This time she received the Regent's order: to investigate the prince's situation and confirm whether he had defected to the Burning Legion; if true, the blood elf elite forces would soon come to attack.

"The situation is this: Kael'thas, for special reasons, had been lurking beside Illidan; to make Kael'thas obey his orders, Illidan confused many blood elves, training them into demon hunters, turning them into creatures like him.

He also imprisoned many blood elf soldiers in the Dark Temple of Outland as hostages to threaten Prince Kael'thas.

Left with no choice, Kael'thas could only feign agreement with Illidan and Jiaierjiadan to cooperate using fel energy.

We have now confirmed that Illidan wants to use several bottles of the Eternal Well's water.

In the Dark Temple, they plan to recreate a device similar to the Sunwell, then summon the Burning Legion's commander Kil'jaeden to descend upon Outland.

Then, through the Dark Portal, they would enter our world.

"The situation, it actually is like this; then the envoy prince we sent to contact you never reached your side, right?" Liadelin asked.

"Exactly, they were all killed by the demons sent by Illidan and Kil'jaeden, so that this prince would wholeheartedly serve them." Luode said.

"How outrageous; Prince Illidan trusted him so much, yet he betrayed us.

He has the Eternal Well's water; he could have long ago solved the Sunwell problem.

"Over these years, how many of our kin have been turned into the Insane? Our blood elf race has suffered so much hardship and torment; damn Illidan!" Liadelin spoke furiously.

The Eternal Well's water can completely restore the Sunwell, because the original Sunwell was created using a bottle of the Eternal Well's water left by Illidan.

Over these years, the blood elves have helped Illidan so much, yet all we want is just a bottle of spring water.

If you are willing to give it to us, the blood elves will regard you as a great benefactor and continue to aid you.

But you have deceived us, even turning our people into your hostages.

"Your Highness, so your ultimate goal is to defeat Illidan, then obtain the Well of Eternity's spring water from him, thereby completely healing the Sunwell, right?"

"Exactly! That's my plan. I came to Netherstorm merely to refine the void energy here and send it back to Silvermoon City to ease my people's magical addiction," said Kael'thas.

Regarding this explanation, several blood elf mages, as well as Liadelin, all nodded in agreement.

These void energy crystals, as soon as they were refined, the prince immediately sent them back to Silvermoon City, but over the past few months contact was suddenly lost.

"Lord Luode, how are our brethren in the Stormspire faring now?" Liadelin asked.

"Rest assured, not a single blood elf inside has died; I used my special power to let them all fall into a deep sleep.

"If it weren't for some misunderstandings, your prince wouldn't have ended up like this at my hands; I honestly thought he had defected to the Burning Legion," Luode said.

"But what about the fel infection on them?"

"That's easy to fix; they've only dabbled in fel magic, and as long as they are willing to follow the warlock's path, they can suppress the fel within them," Luode said.

These blood elves are only lightly tainted by fel, not undergoing the thorough transformation of fel orcs; they merely learned some fel magic, and I can even rescue severely fel orcs, let alone this bunch.

When the time comes, the many blood elf members heavily infected with fel will go to the pirate world to adapt to fel power, so there's no reason not to help me take on the World Government. "Well, the urgent priority now is to rush into Stormspire, gather all the blood elf members inside, and then we will take over this fortress.

"Actually, among my followers, only a portion have accepted fel; the majority of blood elves still wield arcane magic," Kael'thas said.

This Stormspire has actually undergone some magical modifications by the blood elves; otherwise, large-scale extraction of void energy crystals would be impossible. Thus some arcane mages are necessary, such as the chief astromancer Solarian, and a large portion of blood elf mages who have not accepted fel power still practice normal magic.

Everyone nodded and immediately began to take over the entire Stormspire; after Kael'thas's forces merged with those of the blood elves' floating fortress, the total numbered nearly ten thousand.

After confirming the prince's news, Liadelin immediately sent a letter to Luosema, stating that the prince had not betrayed his people.

He has always been seeking ways to save his people; now their goal is to seize the Well of Eternity's spring water from the demon Illidan.

Over the next few days, the entire blood elf populace gathered together.

Kael'thas also began helping Luode craft a fel artifact, and additionally presented all the fel magic teachings Kil'jaeden had given him to Luode.

"Lord Luode, I have already engraved enchanting runes on this skull; it inherently contains powerful fel energy, making it a perfect spellcasting implement.

"Now you can inset it onto your weapon; this time I am confident we can create an artifact." Kael'thas handed the modified skull he had finished to Luode and said.

Now, Azshara's skull has completely transformed, even its size altered slightly; the hollows of its two eyes burn with fel fire.

The skull was also carved with various magical runes; moreover, Kael'thas used some magic to reduce its proportions, allowing it to be inset onto Luode's spiked club.

Luode nodded, drew his spiked club, and then Kael'thas performed various enchantments, successfully merging the two weapons into one.

"All right, Lord Luode, your artifact is now complete; this fel artifact possesses tremendous power and can be used both in melee and for spellcasting," Kael'thas said.

The weapon's materials are excellent; first, the weapon part uses Titansteel, Legion fel iron, and Mithril, which naturally conduct fel energy quite well.

Adding the skull of this powerful demon lord, plus the top-tier enchanting inscription master of Azeroth's work, lets this weapon directly ascend to artifact status.

Speaking of which, some of the weapon's earlier glyph enchantments reminded him of a person—a human girl who once studied enchanting with him for a while.

After picking up the new weapon, Luode nodded in satisfaction; after the blood elf prince's mobile modification, the weapon's fel conductivity increased, already ascending to warlock artifact level, but Luode still wants to make it stronger.

Luode took out the demon soul energy he had previously extracted, then infused it into this artifact, and added some of his own soul energy as the main component.

The crimson and dark green demon soul chaotic energy was infused into this weapon; these demon soul energies are undoubtedly what this warlock artifact needs most.

As a large amount of soul power was infused, the weapon gradually began a transformation; Luode stopped infusing soul energy only when the weapon's capacity reached its limit.

"Lord Luode, what are you doing? Is this soul energy demon soul energy?" Kaisas said.

"That's right! I have the power to manipulate souls; when I came before, I slaughtered a large number of legion demons.

These demons' chaotic soul energy is just right to be infused into this weapon; I will give it life." Luode said.

Previously I didn't turn my weapon into a homunculus because I hadn't fully remodeled Azuton's skull, but now it's done.

"Kekeke! Great master, thank you for your blessing, thank you for giving me life." The eyes of Azuton's skull blazed with fel fire, and the skull spoke.

This weapon, after Luode's remodeling, became a powerful homunculus creature, similar to the emperor's sword Nabuwu of the old lady.

Azuton's soul is still in my hand! If he saw his own skull suddenly speak, I don't know what he'd think. "You are a fel artifact; I'll give you a name. You shall be called Hadisi, to bring death and destruction to enemies." Luode said.

"Thank you, master; my name is Hadisi, and I will bring death and destruction to all your enemies!" Hadisi said.

"Hahaha! Tell me what special abilities you have?" Luode asked.

"Great master, I have inherited the fel knowledge within this skull, as well as various fel spells; so, if you cast spells through me,

the power of fel spells can be increased manifold, and the fel energy consumed is less.

even when you fight others, I can independently emerge to cast fel spells at enemies, attacking them." Hadisi said.

"Hn! Not bad, not bad, your ability is good." Luode nodded in satisfaction.

The power of this fel artifact far exceeds my imagination! It can also independently become a warlock to cast spells.

"Hahaha! I have a companion, master, hello brother, I am Herios." The fel-flame homunculus, Herios, also ran out at this time.

"Hello, my brother; please guide me in the future, I am Hadisi."

Luode's two homunculus creations flew together in the sky, beginning to communicate.

"Truly truly amazing technology, this is too perfect, Luode demigod; I, I dare ask what the principle behind this is?" Kaisas's eyes shone as he looked at Luode's remodeled fel artifact.

To imbue a weapon with life is simply shocking! Moreover, this weapon is of artifact grade.

"Hahaha! This is a special ability I possess; if you have a suitable weapon, I can also perform this transformation on you, but it requires consuming some of your lifespan, that is, soul energy; otherwise this weapon won't obey you." Luode said.

Of course, the highest authority lies with me, for I am the owner of the Soul-Soul Fruit.

"Truly amazing! If possible, Lord Luode, could you help me remodel the three magic gems on my person?" Kaisas asked.

"No problem, but you need to spend ten years of your lifespan." Luode said.

(End of chapter)