Timeline Invaders

The dragon race and the night elves are both quite familiar with this period of history.

The fallen Archdruid Fandral Staghelm lost his son Valstann in that battle, which led to his intense obsession with resurrecting his son, ultimately causing him to become an accomplice of the Nightmare Lord.

Ysera and Alexstrasza were naturally aware of this as well, as their respective offspring, the green dragon Mylune and the red dragon Korialstrasz, were both heroes who sealed the Qiraji.

However, this seemingly normal statement was incredibly shocking to Aiden and Anna!

Arygos's origins had completely changed from the history they knew!

In the history known to Aiden and Anna, years later, Krasus, Rhonin, and Broxigar traveled to the ancient times and participated in the War of the Ancients.

Before Deathwing destroyed the blue dragonflight, Krasus rescued a batch of blue dragon eggs.

Later, after the War of the Ancients ended, Krasus returned to the past and handed the dragon eggs back to the blue dragonflight thousands of years later.

Arygos was hatched from the dragon eggs after the time travel.

Moreover, during the War of the Shifting Sands thousands of years ago, it was clearly Arygos who sealed the Scarab Wall, not his sister, the blue dragon princess, Azuregos!

In this world, Arygos, who should have been imprisoned inside the Scarab Wall, was free and had never participated in the War of the Shifting Sands.

Only now did Aiden and Anna realize that this world was different from the world they knew!

It wasn't just the future that had changed because of Aiden and Anna's arrival, but the past was different as well!

Then, who had changed the past before them?

The mere thought of this question sent shivers down their spines.

This question would have to be explored later.

With the help of "traitor" Kalecgos, the difficulty of the coalition's attack on the Nexus would be greatly reduced.

Although Alexstrasza was determined to stop Malygos at all costs, Malygos, deep within the Eye of Eternity in the deepest part of the Nexus, was even more powerful than he was outside.

She and Ysera, along with a group of mortal heroes, might not be able to defeat him.

Therefore, Kalecgos's help was essential.

This was actually a win-win collaboration—Kalecgos's involvement would ensure that the coalition considered the thoughts of the ordinary blue dragons when attacking the Nexus, rather than exterminating the entire blue dragonflight.

This way, Kalecgos could also achieve his wish of preserving his people as much as possible.

When discussing the specific plan, Ysera said, "My green dragonflight will deal with the threat of the blue dragons in Winterspring."

Alexstrasza said, "Our red dragonflight will be responsible for the part in Northrend."

The dwarven king of the Wildhammer clan, Falstad, said, "What about the Eastern Kingdoms? If there are any there, our Wildhammer dwarves can handle it!"

After agreeing on the general plan, the five mages, Khadgar, Rhonin, Anna, Kassadin, and Kael'thas, followed the red dragonflight across the sea to the Dragonblight in Northrend, preparing to open portals directly to Northrend from places like the City of Silvermoon, Dalaran, Mount Hyjal, and Dalaran.

The allied forces of various races also retreated one after another.

Aiden led the Valorant forces back to the Fields of Justice, hoping to resolve the threat of the Worgen before the Nexus War.

In history, Gilneas would become a nation of Worgen, mainly because of Gilneas's isolated policy of self-defense behind walls.

The closed environment left people with nowhere to escape.

Now, the Worgen were still born due to various accidental reasons, but they would definitely not be on the scale of what happened in history.

Aiden was thinking about these things when a curious voice suddenly rang in his ear: "What are you thinking about, Aiden?"

Aiden was stunned.

It had been a long time since anyone had directly called him by his name, because of the various halos around him and his special status.

When he looked up, he found that the surrounding space had turned light gray.

This was a scene he was very familiar with—the phenomenon of time being stopped.

He looked in the direction of the voice and saw a small figure sitting on a rock by the roadside.

It was a cute gnome mage, and also someone he knew—

"Chromie?" Aiden called out the other party's name.

"Mhm, it's me. I'm glad you still remember my name."

Chromie showed an expression of enjoyment.

"Why choose to meet in this way?" Aiden asked.

He was referring to stopping time.

Chromie tilted her head and looked at him, answering, "Because your status is different now.

Look, the angel behind you was about to draw her sword as soon as I appeared—how unfriendly!

In comparison, you are really too kind!"

Aiden turned his head and saw that Kayle was indeed staring in Chromie's direction, summoning her Judgment Blade.

At the end of the Battle for the Frozen Throne, Nozdormu was severely injured by the heroes.

Kayle was preparing to chase after him and kill him when Chromie appeared and rescued the bronze dragon aspect.

Kayle naturally wouldn't have a good attitude seeing Chromie appear.

Moreover, at the meeting not long ago, Kalecgos also mentioned that Malygos's madness seemed to be incited by Nozdormu.

Now, the heroes around Aiden regarded this Guardian of Time as a mortal enemy.

"So, what is your purpose?" Aiden asked.

He had no ill feelings towards Chromie.

In fact, when he first came to this world, his first meeting with Chromie allowed him to truly relax and boldly fulfill his responsibility to change the world.

Strictly speaking, their grievances with the bronze dragons were actually just personal grievances with Nozdormu.

If the bronze dragon aspect could be replaced by someone more rational and enlightened, Aiden would be very happy to see it happen.

"Alright, I wanted to reminisce a little longer—I've observed your growth over the past two years, and I must say, you are truly a person who constantly creates miracles!"

Chromie didn't hide her admiration, but thinking of the matter at hand, a serious expression appeared on her face.

"I 'overheard' your Azshara meeting, alright, it was eavesdropping—but I also agree with your views that Malygos's behavior is undoubtedly wrong, and it is necessary to stop his actions.

However, I want to add some things, some things that you didn't talk about, didn't discover, very important things!"

"I'm all ears."

"Kalecgos was right, his little friend Tyrygos discovered that Nozdormu revealed the news to Malygos that Jaina possessed the Focusing Iris—alright, I know you gave her a new identity, called Anna—what I want to say is, this is true, it was indeed Nozdormu who said it."

Aiden nodded and said, "It was within my expectations.

But you wouldn't have come all this way just to tell me this news, would you?"

"Of course not, that was just a side note.

I came for something more important—I want to talk about something that concerns the safety of the entire world—our timeline has been invaded by a group of evil enemies!"

Chromie looked worried, she glanced at Aiden, "Timeline invasion, do you understand?"

Aiden nodded.

But he felt a little uneasy, was this invasion referring to him, or something related to him?

Seeing him nod, Chromie immediately patted her head: "I forgot that you possess a portion of the power of time, sorry, a low-level mistake—but that's good, I think you must be able to understand this complicated thing more easily than others.

Simply put, people from other timelines have 'smuggled' into our timeline through abnormal means.

I must tell you that this behavior is very dangerous because it will simultaneously disrupt two or even more timelines, making the river of time dangerous and vulnerable.

And the Old Gods are best at exploiting this vulnerability!"

"Are you talking about the Battle for the Frozen Throne?" Aiden pondered.

In that battle, Nozdormu summoned a large group of heroes from other timelines, such as the white-haired Jaina, the Lich King Arthas, the death knight Saurfang, the gladiator Thrall, Varian, and so on.

Although most of them have died one after another, Anna and the Lich King Arthas are still here.

Could their existence cause chaos in the timeline?

"I know you're talking about Jaina and Arthas—not the pair currently on their way back to Theramore, they do have such hidden dangers, but I'm talking about another one now."

Chromie's words relieved Aiden's worries.

If Chromie asked Aiden to eliminate Anna and the Lich King Arthas, or banish them back, then Aiden would really be at a loss.

He had no psychological burden to eliminate the latter, but Anna was already a comrade who had fought alongside them many times, which was emotionally unacceptable.

Chromie shrugged and said, "They were summoned by Nozdormu, so let Nozdormu worry about that problem. The invaders I'm talking about are another group of guys who have been trying to pollute the timeline, someone who sneaked into our world with the help of a group of 'Eternal Dragons'."

Eternal Dragon - Aiden was of course familiar with this name. They are essentially still Bronze Dragons, but their leader is Nozdormu after he went mad. He renamed himself Murozond and led his children to call themselves the Eternal Dragonflight, wantonly invading various timelines in an attempt to change history.

In fact, there is no essential difference between this and what Aiden is doing now, but Aiden is doing it to make Azeroth move towards a better ending, while the Eternal Dragons are trying to make the world move towards a worse ending - such as helping Deathwing launch the Cataclysm to destroy the world!

The reason for this is very complicated. People infer from the game plot of the past that it is because the future after the end of Deathwing's destruction of the world is even more broken due to the corruption of the Old Gods, and the real "End Time" is coming. Therefore, the future Nozdormu had an idea: such a future world is not as clean as letting Deathwing destroy the world in the first place!

So Nozdormu, who witnessed the real End Time, went mad, changed his name to Murozond, and then went back to the past to help Deathwing. At the same time, the current normal Nozdormu discovered that he would go mad in the future and even wanted to help Deathwing destroy the world, so he led the heroes to travel to the future and kill the crazy him.

Since then, the Bronze Dragon Aspect and the Eternal Dragon Aspect, which essentially belong to the same Nozdormu, have entered a dead end because of the different future visions they saw, and are deeply trapped in the illusions of time and the entanglement of cause and effect, unable to extricate themselves.

"Who's coming?" Aiden asked.

"Let me think..." Chromie tapped her head and immediately remembered, "His full name is Aedelas Blackmoore. Does that name sound familiar? Aha, the Warchief Thrall should be more familiar - he is the lord of Durnholde who trained Thrall in this world."

How could Aiden not know this ambitious guy? Blackmoore tried to train Thrall to be raised as a pet who was only loyal to him, and then at the right time, let Thrall lead the orcs in the prison camp to riot, and then build an orc army to overthrow the Alliance and help him realize his great dream of ruling the entire world - or rather, a pipe dream.

The result is predictable. He didn't succeed, but instead got himself involved. In the end, he died at the hands of the orcs he had personally trained.

"But the Blackmoore who came to our world is not simple, you should not underestimate him." Chromie looked at Aiden solemnly, "I observed this person's past through the timeline. In his timeline, the Thrall he adopted starved to death in just a few days because he didn't eat milk - so in order to achieve his goal of ruling Lordaeron, he began to work hard himself. He created a powerful mercenary army and personally killed the Horde Warchief Orgrim Doomhammer in the final battle at the end of the Second War, and finally led the orcs who surrendered to him to overthrow the Menethil family's rule over Lordaeron and crowned himself King of Lordaeron."

"Sounds like... a remarkable big shot." Aiden was speechless at the deeds of Blackmoore in another world.

This is simply putting the protagonist template on Blackmoore!

Training mercenaries, single-handedly killing Orgrim, subduing the orcs, and overthrowing the rule of Lordaeron, becoming king himself... If he told Blackmoore, who had not died three years ago, that if he didn't think about relying on Thrall in the past, but worked hard himself, he could achieve this level, what would he think?

Chromie nodded solemnly: "You're right, he is definitely a difficult opponent. He himself is very powerful, not to mention that the Eternal Dragons are sheltering him."

"So, you want us to be careful of this person? Has he also come to this world?"

"The meaning is very close, guess again?"

"Let us kill him?"

"Closer - alright, I'll just say it, this guy is a dangerous person, he may have played an important role in the Nexus War. I don't need to tell you the importance of this war, right? Once you fail, Azeroth will be finished - if it is not destroyed by Malygos, it will be destroyed by the upcoming Old Gods. So if you want to win this war smoothly, you can't ignore Blackmoore."

"Thanks for the reminder." Aiden smiled.

"You really don't know what I want to say?" Chromie looked at Aiden distressedly, "I thought you were a smart person!"

Aiden smiled without saying a word.

How could he not hear that Chromie wanted him to track down and even kill this Blackmoore?

But now he still has a lot of things to do. He plans to solve the worgen's trouble before the Nexus War begins, and then plan the future path of the Valoran Federation, and try to make some beneficial changes in this world. For example, building a real Summoner's Rift, introducing the rules of League of Legends, and trying to use this method to resolve possible disputes.

Chromie rolled her eyes, making an exaggerated dizzy appearance: "I knew it, I knew you definitely didn't want to do this job - but I have to say, you can't shirk this matter, no one can replace you except you."

"Can't Thrall do it?" Aiden mentioned a name.

This is the person who originally helped the Bronze Dragons repair the timeline in history. The current Thrall may not be as powerful as himself seven years later, but he is definitely a very powerful shaman.

"He? Of course not!" Chromie flatly denied, she stared at Aiden, "Only you, dear Aiden, only you can do it!"

Aiden sighed: "What do you want me to do?"

Chromie smiled with satisfaction: "You go to the Caverns of Time with me, I'll help you find Blackmoore, you go and solve him, and everything will be done! It's that simple!"

"Go to the Caverns of Time?" Aiden immediately looked at the little gnome vigilantly, "Do you think I will go to the Caverns of Time now? Nozdormu hates me to the bone, can I go to his lair? He will definitely tear me apart with his own hands, right?"

"Don't worry, I won't harm you!" Chromie guaranteed, "I promise that this time Nozdormu will not stop you - in fact, he can't wait for you to go!"

Aiden looked at Chromie with suspicion.

Chromie smiled sheepishly: "alright, this is true - but he hopes you never come back - alright, as a friend, I've even told you this honestly. But don't worry, you won't come back through 'this' Nozdormu's consent."

Aiden still refused to believe it easily, he politely declined: "I think I should solve the worgen crisis, and who knows if this will delay the Nexus War?"

"Don't make excuses, my friend!" Chromie looked at him with an expression that saw through him, "I know what you're thinking, so let me pay you some interest first - this action will not delay you from solving the worgen crisis, or rather, this crisis can be perfectly solved without you even taking action, and it's very fast and safe. As for the latter, you don't have to worry about it, without solving this Blackmoore who invaded the timeline, your Nexus War will definitely, absolutely, absolutely not succeed! Pay attention to my wording, friend, because it's very important, so I emphasized it three times!"

Aiden was silent.

Seeing this, Chromie was almost going crazy, her fleshy little face was flushed with anger, she shrieked: "What do you want to believe!"

"No need to say it!"

Seeing Aiden say this, Chromie immediately looked frustrated.

"After I arrange things here, I will go with you."

Hearing Aiden's next sentence, Chromie immediately jumped up happily.

"Aha, I knew it, you won't let a good friend down! I knew it! You're so cute, I really want to kiss you!"

Aiden helplessly shrugged at this crazy Chromie.

When time returned to normal, Chromie had disappeared without a trace. Kayle was summoning her Judgment, but the target had disappeared.

She glanced suspiciously at that direction, and found that there was indeed no sign of Chromie.

Kayle turned to look at Aiden, who nodded, and she realized that it was not an illusion just now.