Janna

The soldiers, who had never witnessed such ferocity and bloodlust from werewolves, were filled with fear.

As the werewolf that had been devouring hearts anticipated a gluttonous feast, a beam of sword light flashed. Before the beast could even sense the danger and evade, a greatsword cleaved its head off.

Behind the fallen werewolf emerged the figure of Garen, commander of the Demacian army. He shouted, "Form small squads! Several of you work together to fight them!"

These werewolves were akin to Warwick, the 'Blood Hunter' from League of Legends. While other armies might fear such opponents, the warriors of Valoran had encountered similar creatures before and remained relatively calm. Before long, they regained control of the situation.

Although the werewolves were elite, capable of taking on ten men each when united, the reinforcements were also elite troops. In particular, the Draenei paladins, as hero-class units, numbered only a little over two thousand, but their actual effectiveness was greater than that of twenty thousand ordinary soldiers. Once they stepped forward, the werewolves finally began to falter.

And when the Demacian army's warriors brought out their firearms, the werewolves were annihilated within minutes, with only a handful escaping back into the wilderness.

"What are the casualty figures?" Garen asked Darius, as his unit had been the first to be ambushed.

Darius's expression was grim. He had brought over twenty thousand warriors, but in the fierce battle that had lasted less than half an hour, he had lost over two thousand men. What angered him even more was that most of these soldiers' corpses were incomplete.

"They truly are terrifying monsters," Malrad said in a deep voice. "Even more terrifying than the orcs of old!"

This was high praise indeed. Orcs were born for battle, but werewolves were born for slaughter.

After some discussion, the werewolves were identified as a new type of monster spawned by the Nightmare's invasion.

The paladins and priests were healing the wounded. Those with more serious injuries received immediate attention, while many of the lightly wounded bandaged themselves. These minor wounds didn't warrant wasting the healers' holy magic.

The warriors were generally trained in battlefield first aid and knew how to disinfect and stop bleeding and apply bandages.

After a busy second half of the night, everyone was exhausted, but they had little time to rest. Dawn was breaking, and it was time to set off.

Link was an ordinary soldier in the Gilnean army. He didn't know if he was unlucky or fortunate. Just after completing his training and officially joining the army, he encountered the plague that swept through Gilneas. His family lived in the commercial district of Gilneas and all perished in that disaster. Later, Link followed King Genn in the retreat from Gilneas City and, after many twists and turns and several major battles, had luckily survived to this day.

During the battle that night, he was bitten by a werewolf, but that werewolf didn't fare much better. Having been on the battlefield for a long time, Link was already a very capable warrior. He killed the werewolf in a one-on-one fight. Very few human warriors could boast such a feat; many required a team of three or four to kill a single werewolf, so he was naturally admired by everyone.

Now, four hours had passed, and the feverish excitement from that intense battle should have cooled down, but he still felt very excited and eager to find another werewolf to fight one-on-one. This excitement soon led to a hallucination—a hallucination that he could turn into a werewolf.

Then, he saw double, and he felt an urge to pounce on and tear apart everyone he saw.

"No, this isn't right—" Link shook his head violently.

"Awooo!"

He heard a wolf howl not far away, and soon another place echoed the same response. Then, terrifying howls rang out one after another, just like the calls of the werewolves before they attacked last night.

"No, this isn't right!"

Link roared.

But the sound coming from his throat had also turned into a wolf howl. Then, his figure became taller and stronger, bursting through his clothes and armor. His mouth grew longer, his teeth became sharp, and four fangs grew out from both his upper and lower jaws. Hair instantly sprouted on his face and body.

Within seconds, Link, who had survived many close calls, had turned into a werewolf, just like the beasts that had attacked the camp last night!

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The changes in Dustwallow Marsh did not reach Aiden's ears immediately. To gain the power to enter the Emerald Dream and confront the soul of Xavius, he once again used the Heart of Valoran, preparing to summon more heroes.

After the trip to Outland, the energy accumulated in the Heart of Valoran was far beyond his imagination. The death of Archimonde, the rebirth of Outland after its destruction, and the great changes in Azeroth itself had caused the history of this timeline to diverge completely from the original storyline. Therefore, the energy gained was also far beyond his expectations.

There was no specific numerical value for this energy, but Aiden felt that it was almost equivalent to the total amount he had accumulated before.

"It's time to summon a large wave of heroes!"

Aiden thought confidently.

Except for Kile, Anivia, and Soraka, who could not be summoned, all other heroes were within consideration.

"First, the Fallen Angel, Morgana!"

Before summoning Morgana, Aiden had first asked Kayle if she minded. After all, these two sisters were enemies. As the first hero to be summoned, he had to consider the other party's feelings.

As a hero with god-level strength and with a profound understanding of the power of souls, summoning Morgana was certainly necessary. Although, due to numerous restrictions, she could only exert slightly more power than an average hero, it was still worth summoning her.

However, Aiden did not expect that summoning Morgana would consume far more energy than he imagined.

He did not quite understand the Heart of Valoran's rules for deducting energy points—he felt that the energy he spent summoning Kayle should have been very little. After all, he had only met Cenarius in the Emerald Dream and established a connection with him, which did not significantly change history.

Aiden quickly withdrew from the Heart of Valoran and found the angel sisters exchanging sarcastic remarks.

"Aren't you just summoned a little earlier than me? Give me two or three years, and I'll definitely catch up and surpass you!" The voice was slightly hoarse, but it sounded very charming.

Aiden had never heard this voice, but he could guess that it must be Morgana.

Faced with her sister's provocation, Kayle replied coldly, "Two or three years? Is that enough?"

Morgana raised her voice and said, "Four or five years at most!"

"Four or five years?"

Kayle's voice carried an emotion she usually didn't have, sounding a bit surprised, as if she were saying, 'Four or five years is enough? Should I give you two more years?'

Morgana was so angry at her tone that she trembled and said through gritted teeth, "Anyway, it'll be soon!"

"I hope I don't have to wait another ten thousand years." Kayle seemed very indifferent.

Morgana practically felt an urge to kill. She knew what that sentence meant. Ten thousand years ago, when she and Kayle parted ways, she had said that she would surpass her very soon. Unfortunately, she had never achieved her wish.

The other few were a little further away, listening to the excitement and incidentally hearing about the love-hate relationship between the two sisters from Nocturne.

"Hold on a moment, ladies," Aiden said.

"Commander," Morgana greeted him coldly. She thought to herself that if Aiden had summoned her first, her ten-thousand-year-old wish would have been fulfilled—but the other party had insisted on summoning her sister first, how could she feel balanced in her heart?

"I have something to ask," Aiden said, voicing his doubts. In fact, it was a doubt that had existed for a long time: Both being true gods, why did it take so little energy to summon Kayle, but so much to summon Morgana?

When Morgana heard this, her eyebrows almost stood up:

Was the commander implying that Kayle was good and cheap, while she, Morgana, had a low cost-performance ratio?

"Let my good sister explain it to you, Commander!" Morgana said unhappily.

Aiden thought that Morgana was just angry because she saw her sister, with whom she didn't get along, so he didn't think that the other party had such a complicated mental journey. However, he had always thought that the rebellious Morgana would give her sister Kayle a headache, but he didn't expect the opposite to be true—the younger sister was obviously on the weaker side.

He looked at Kayle, waiting for her explanation.

"You have fallen into a misunderstanding of thought," Kayle glanced at him. "The energy consumed to summon me is only a small part of your contact with Cenarius. More importantly, your arrival has added a branch of your existence to the original timeline, which is equivalent to 'creating something from nothing'. Your existence is the biggest change to the timeline."

Aiden immediately understood—so his Crossing was the biggest change to history—at least one of the biggest changes.

In other words, the energy spent to summon a true god like Kayle was definitely no less than the energy consumed to summon Morgana this time. It's just that he hadn't noticed it all along.

After resolving this doubt, he re-entered the Heart of Valoran—thank goodness he had just wanted to summon another true god, the Dragon God Ao Xing, but judging from the energy consumption of summoning Morgana, this was obviously not a wise move.

These god-level heroes can't use much more power than ordinary heroes when they first come out, but they have great potential to develop, and their future achievements will be higher.

The cost-performance ratio of summoning now is too low, so it's better to save it for later when there is a surplus.

After formulating this principle, Aiden began to carefully select other heroes:

"Let's try summoning a demigod-level hero first." Aiden's gaze swept over Azir, Renekton, and Nasus of the "Ascended" series, and then stopped on Ryze, whom he had always wanted to summon.

"The Rogue Mage—Ryze, it's you!"

Ryze, the guardian of Valoran, the bald mage, appeared. Aiden sensed that summoning him only cost a quarter of what it cost to summon Morgana.

"The Master of Metal—Mordekaiser, I hope you, the expert in manipulating souls, can help in the fight against Havis' soul."

The Master of Metal, parasitizing in a set of bronze armor, walked out of the summoning circle. He was a wraith that had existed for an extremely long time and was also one of the overlords of the Shadow Isles. Manipulating souls was his specialty.

"The Monkey King—Sun Wukong. Monkey Bro, I have the most faith in you!"

As a mythological hero who intruded into League of Legends, if Sun Wukong from Journey to the West went to Valoran in his complete form, then he would definitely be a true god-level powerhouse. However, Sun Wukong of the Valoran continent is just a projection of the mythological hero Sun Wukong—or it can be called an incarnation.

But the projection of a true god should not be underestimated. Aiden believed that one day, the Great Sage Sun would shine in this world.

After summoning a true god and two demigods, Aiden began to turn his attention to ordinary heroes. Moreover, ordinary heroes may not be able to exert more powerful strength than demigod heroes, such as the next one:

"The Tidecaller—Nautilus, I hope you live up to your name—Titans are one of the most powerful creatures in this world!"

Immediately following was a steel giant over fourteen meters tall, holding a several-ton anchor in his hand as a weapon, making people feel that just the anchor falling down could kill a large number of people, let alone swinging it?

This is also an amphibious combat hero, and Aiden is very optimistic about his strength. In specific battlefields, Nautilus is definitely a stronger existence than most heroes and demigods.

"The Storm's Fury—Janna."

As the favored one of the Wind Spirit, Janna can obviously exert extremely powerful strength in most occasions. She can create storms, cast defensive shields that strengthen allies, and also has powerful healing spells. Obviously, on the real battlefield, the Wind Witch will never just be a support.

At the right time, a storm will definitely cause unimaginable damage, which is definitely more terrifying than tens of thousands of troops!

Of course, Janna's beauty and sexiness also made Aiden happy to summon such a pleasing female hero.

"The necessary heroes are enough. Then the remaining energy can be used to summon some heroes that I like." The first hero Aiden thought of was Zyra, Rise of the Thorns—and then she was summoned.

Aiden likes Zyra because this hero used to be his scoring weapon in the ranked matches, and also because Zyra has a lot of seeds…

Before in Draenor, Aiden had the idea of summoning Zyra. At that time, Outland was completely broken, and he was afraid that the Shattered Spire would fall into outer space, causing the people inside to suffocate to death. So he fantasized about using Zyra, a hero who controls plants, to "photosynthesize", but later there was a better way, and this idea was naturally shelved.

"Next—Ahri, it's you!" Aiden decided to be willful to the end, and then summoned "the Nine-Tailed Fox" Ahri.