Within the Sithe ruins.
"That 'Ninedust' fellow is much weaker than Darknorth. Its been a few million years, but he hasn't been able to catch any of us."
"That's normal! Did you think that every Daolord was as much of a freak as Daolord Darknorth is?"
The Emperor-class golems were excited to battle against Ninedust. Ninedust had indeed improved, and quite a bit at that! But with the Emperor-class golems all helping each other out, Ninedust had not been able to catch any of them during the past few million years.
"Endless." Ninedust spun the longstaff in his hands, his staff surrounded by thousands of whirlpools as it furiously swept towards the four Emperor-class golems attacking him. Two of them had assumed invisible forms which tied Ninedust down, while the other two fought Ninedust head-on.