The Great Thief

Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales

Sorrowless’ announcement of his retirement indeed made Lu Li feel quite regretful.

It was as if a huge mountain on his heart had been lifted.

As for Wendelian, there was no saying how dangerous she could be. When she was in Gale Legion, she didn’t even make it to a position of club leader.

In fact, the leader of Gale Legion was always Gaze.

“Notify Sky Moon that we are First Clearing Mount Hyjal.”

His steps had become lighter and Lu Li decided to lead everyone to the Instance Dungeon in order to celebrate.

Hyjal Summit was one of the Instance Dungeons of the Caverns of Time. It was like the other two Instance Dungeons of the Caverns of Time. The power of darkness and evil had pervaded the flow of time, trying to change the past, and the direction of the present and future.

If they were successful, the whole of Azeroth mainland would be destroyed. Players had to fight in order to ensure that the progress of Mount Hyjal’s history wouldn’t be altered.

The difficulty was very high, but with the levels that players were at now, there was no need to comment. As the quality of equipment gradually increased, the previous few Instance Dungeons could even be cleared by most Elite teams.

After all, members of the First Clear team were wearing T5 Epic set items from head to toe.

The major guilds were busy with matches while ordinary guilds quietly sneaked into Instance Dungeons. They all dreamed of taking a First Clear, but unfortunately, their abilities were average. Not to mention, this Instance Dungeon had such a high level of difficulty that everyone could only share different versions of their failed experiences.

The end goal of this Instance Dungeon was to protect the World Tree.

Everyone focused their strength on defeating Illidan, who was on a selfish pursuit of power. However, they were all enjoying everything this crazy one had created on his way.

Before the heavens fell and the earth cracked, Illidan Stormrage took the first Water Sample of the Well of Eternity.

He then came to the lakeside at the top of Mount Hyjal and poured the water into the lake. A second Well of Eternity quickly formed on the new land of Kalimdor.

Malfurion Stormrage very quickly discovered this new Well of Eternity. In order to ensure that it wouldn’t become a gateway for the Burning Legion’s invasion again, and by considering the potential disaster that destroying the new Well could bring, he could only ask for help from the Netherwings.

The red dragon Alexstrasza planted an Oaktree in the middle of the lake.

This tree would grow to cover and protect the well water’s power. They named this world Tree ‘Nordrassil’– the ‘Crown of Heaven’.

Alexstrasza blessed the World Tree. As long as the World Tree remained, the Night Elves would be immune to all diseases. The bronze dragon Nozdormu also blessed the World Tree. As along as Nordrassil remained, the Night Elves would keep their eternal youth. The green dragon Ysera connected the tree to her dream realm, so as to allow Druids to enter into Emerald Dream through the World Tree.

However, these peaceful times didn’t last long as Acride came.

Under the guidance of Medivh, Saar and the Kalimdor tribal leaders, Jaina Proudmoore realised that they needed to put aside their differences. At the same time, Malfurion and Tyrande’s Night Elf leader also realised that they needed to join forces in order to protect the World Tree.

After they all reached a consensus, Azeroth’s various races began to strengthen the protection of Nordrassil to the best of their abilities.

In the end, it was still through Malfurion relying on everyone’s power that Acride was destroyed and the Burning Legion driven out of the Well of Eternity.

This last battle shocked the earth of Kalimdor. The Burning Legion was unable to absorb the power of the Well of Eternity, and disappeared to dust in front of the allied camp from Azeroth.

Yes, this was a story of the past.

Now, there was someone who wanted to tamper with history. Players needed to fight side by side with the legendary heroes and finally subvert the evil plot of the great demon Archimonde.

This Instance Dungeon had a lot of pre-quests.

No one could enter without first completing them.

The first precondition was to reach level 70, which nearly everyone here had done.

The second requirement was to finish the first two Instance Dungeons of the Caverns of Time, but this had been accomplished earlier.

The third were the chain quests regarding the Vials of Eternity. The difficulty of these was high and involved many other Instance Dungeons.

As a member of the First Clear team, these were all basic requirements that needed to be met.

When the two lovebirds Lu Li and Water Fairy were together, they did not only spend their time playing around.

Naturally, these chain quests had been completed ages ago.

As long as these pre-requirements were met, they could enter into Mount Hyjal.

The players attempting the Instance Dungeon needed to travel four years into the past, when Malfurion, Tyrande, Saar and Jaina were fighting the Burning Legion and Archimonde. Their mission was to stop the Infinite Dragons from influencing the path of history.

Mount Hyjal was a pleasant place. Players could find T6 set equipment that was dropped there.

In fact, after the Zul’Aman Instance Dungeon was released, it would be even easier to clear this Instance Dungeon with the upgrade in equipment. The difficulty of Zul’Aman was lower than Mount Hyjal, but there were a lot of Bosses.

Unfortunately, Zul’Aman still wasn’t open yet. They needed to wait until the next patch was released.

Not only would a few smaller 15-man Instance Dungeons like Zul’Aman be opened, but so would larger Instance Dungeons like the Isle of Quel’Danas and Sunwell Plateau.

After entering the Instance Dungeon, the first thing they saw was an Alliance campground.

The commander here was Jaina – the Jaina from four years ago – who they would help in fending off waves of monsters.

These monsters had high HP, but were all rather short-sighted. They wouldn’t open fire until they were right in front of their opponents.

The NPCs here could not be healed, but Jaina would cast Brilliance Aura, providing everyone within a 20-yard radius 100% Mana Regeneration.

The best strategy was to send tanks to take care of the NPCs, and allow them to recover in between waves of monsters.

Before the first Boss arrived, there eight waves of random monsters, such as Ghouls, Crypt Fiends, Necromancers and Abominations.