For the rest of the journey, Shandris and Galen did not communicate. Galen was too embarrassed to speak, and Shandris felt guilty for bringing up a sore subject...
So, Galen sat on Aggamon neck, while Shandris watched him worriedly from his shoulders as Galen bounced up and down with the boar's movements.
The green dragon, hid far behind the boar demigod's rear, turning a deaf ear to the outside world, staying far away from the new leader's scandal.
The further north they went, the more severe the Nightmare's corruption of the forest became. Sometimes, entire mountains of forest turned black, looking as if they had been burned. Scarlet demonic patterns were entwined on the twisted black branches, and even black, rotten fruits grew on them, which was quite disgusting.
Besides the trees and plants, the earth was also twisted. The once lush green ground was covered in ashes, with no sign of life.
Xavius's corruption of the Emerald Dream didn't happen overnight. In the original timeline, he silently eroded this dream world until, eight years later, the Nightmare launched a full-scale invasion of Azeroth through the Emerald Dream.
At that time, the situation was even more serious. Teldrassil was about to wither, and most of the residents were trapped in the Nightmare's dreams and fell into a deep sleep. Tyrande even risked her life, joining Brool in venturing deep into the Emerald Nightmare to save Malfurion.
However, Xavius could only be considered a minor nuisance; N'Zoth behind him was the real final boss.
While pondering, Galen suddenly looked up, gazing at the clouds in front of them!
Shandris, who had been watching Galen, saw his movement and also raised her head, looking towards the sky.
"Galen, what's wrong?"
"Something is spying on us!"
As soon as Galen finished speaking, a huge black shadow pierced through the clouds and swooped down towards Aggamon!
"Black dragon!"
As a sentinel general, Shandris's sharp eyes were the first to clearly see the black shadow in the sky!
"That's impossible! How could there be a black dragon in the Emerald Dream?"
As a high-ranking member of the night elf race, Shandris knew that the Emerald Dream was the base of the Emerald Dragonflight. Even the druids of their race had to obtain the permission of the green dragon queen, Ysera, to enter and practice within it.
Black dragons were the sworn enemies of the dragons!
How could it be!
"No, it's not black."
Galen corrected Shandris, repeating again: "It... it's not a black dragon... it's a green dragon."
"Green dragon?"
Shandris was puzzled. She trusted her eyes, but Galen said it was a green dragon?
Were one of them colorblind?
"It is indeed a green dragon, one of my kin!"
Emeriss, who had been hiding in the back, came forward: "It should be Ysondre, who is responsible for guarding the Great Barrows in Ashenvale, watching over the Dream Portal there!"
Ashenvale Forest was north of Feralas Forest. Galen and the others had been speeding along and were already close to Mount Hyjal.
"He has been completely corrupted by the Nightmare, so his whole body looks black!"
Ysondre roared as he passed over their heads, and the strong wind he brought with him blew Galen's hair across his face.
"Arrogant!"
That was too arrogant. Even Deathwing wouldn't dare to expose his abdomen to him!
Galen took out a long-handled weapon from his backpack!
From its appearance, this was a spear with an ice-blue body. The top of the spear was full of menacing spikes, and the sharp triangular blade highlighted its indestructible combat power!
Sonic Spear!
This was a spear that Galen had forged using the sharpest middle finger claw of Neltharion, along with a large amount of Saronite. The appearance was based on the Sonic Spear he had collected in his previous life!
Galen held the middle of the spear in his backhand, and after quickly aiming, he threw the spear out with force!
That wasn't the end!
The moment the spear left his hand, a emerald green vine grew out of the center of Galen's right palm!
As the spear flew out, the vine grew longer and longer!
"Hit!"
Galen looked at the Sonic Spear flying away and whispered a word!
This miserable wail resounded throughout the world, as if the clouds were about to be shaken away by the sound waves!
Shandris's eyebrows twitched. She had already seen the spear that Galen had thrown hit the lower half of the black emerald dragon!
Ysondre's lower abdomen had no hard dragon scales to stop it, and the spear directly penetrated his body under the action of great force!
Not only that, but the vine connecting the spear grew frantically at this moment, starting from the dragon's legs, entangling his entire body!
Galen pulled hard on the vine in his hand, and the vine was stretched tightly at this moment. Aggamon also stopped running, and the mane on his back wrapped around Galen's feet like hands!
Among the four Nightmare Dragons, Shadow of Eranikus was the most powerful, capable of fighting Ysera's chief consort, Eranikus, to a one-for-one draw. Emeriss was the most bizarre, while Ysondre was not weak, capable of killing the weakest, Terolar, without transforming.
However, unfortunately, Ysondre's opponents were Galen and Aggamon, two demigods, making it easy to deal with a legendary peak dragon.
The pulling lasted for a few minutes, and as Ysondre became exhausted, he fell!
Bang!
The giant dragon landed, and the next thing was easy to handle.
Aggamon rushed up with a wild charge, and then followed up with a stomp!
If Galen hadn't stepped in to stop him at the critical moment, Ysondre would have been a puddle of mud at this time.
After the familiar dragon slaying, soul extraction, formation setup, and resurrection one-stop service, Galen's team happily welcomed a new member.
This set of unreasonable and un-Azerothian procedures stunned Shandris.
"Galen, what is this?"
Shandris looked dumbfounded.
"This emerald dragon has been corrupted by the Nightmare. Only by killing him and using a magic circle to 'purify' the Nightmare power within him can he be restored to normal!"
At this time, the newly resurrected Ysondre opened his eyes and began to cast spells, enduring the severe pain in his lower body.
In a cloud of smoke, the dragon's figure began to change. The wings shrunk and turned into small bumps, then disappeared. The foreclaws turned into arms, and the hind limbs twisted and rotated outward, turning into a pair of purple long legs.
After the transformation was complete, a night elf girl similar to Emeriss appeared in front of Galen and the others.
"Oh, well, it's not him, it's her..."
If he had known it was a female dragon, he wouldn't have blown her chrysanthemum with a spear. Now it's good, she has become his new follower, how embarrassing.
"Ysondre, why are you here, and why are you blocking our way?"
Emeriss asked her compatriot.
"It was Lord Eranikus who summoned me, Shadow of Eranikus, and Terolar, and asked us to come and stop you from going north, only because I was in Ashenvale and arrived the fastest."
So that's how it was. It seemed that they had been noticed by this Nightmare Tyrant the moment they entered the Emerald Dream. However, he didn't know who was coming, so he easily sent his subordinates to intercept and eliminate them.
If that's the case...
Galen decided to wait for these gourd babies in place