Orgrimmar

It was Chromie who brought Aiden through time, of course it had to be her—because she brought Aiden to the Caverns of Time, and she was the one who advocated doing this.

"Remember what I just said, my dearest Aiden—do not change history, do not lose yourself, everything we experience is an illusion."

Chromie said this with her most serious attitude. She transformed back to her original form, becoming a giant bronze dragon, giving Aiden one last warning before starting this journey through time.

"I know," Aiden nodded.

Soridormi and Anachronos personally initiated the teleportation. The energy of the hourglass enveloped them, and Aiden felt the familiar power from the sands of time pulling at his body, about to take him to another world.

It was this power that brought him to the Twisting Nether in the first place, and it was this power that brought him back to Earth in a parallel space. Now, this power was about to take him to an unknown timeline of Azeroth.

The light and shadow in front of him changed, and when everything stabilized, they appeared in an unfamiliar space-time.

This space-time was now the 31st year after the opening of the Dark Portal.

For most of the last decade or so, wars have been raging due to various disputes, many of which were cataclysms capable of destroying the world.

Dark Portal Year 20: The Burning Legion invaded Azeroth for the second time, ultimately ending with the explosion of Nordrassil killing Archimonde.

Afterwards, the world calmed down for a few years amid small-scale turmoil, until six years ago when Doom Lord Kazzak reopened the Dark Portal, and the third Burning Legion invasion occurred, with Kil'jaeden almost breaking out of the Sunwell to destroy the world;

Five years ago, Malygos, the King of the Blue Dragons, believed that mortals' abuse of magic had led to various crises, so he sent the Blue Dragonflight to extract magic net energy everywhere, preparing for a "great cleansing" to eliminate all spellcasters. He condensed a vast amount of energy capable of destroying Azeroth ten times over, and it was only through the joint efforts of the Red Dragonflight and Dalaran that he was stopped;

Four years ago, the Lich King Arthas awoke from the Frozen Throne;

Three years ago, the Nightmare invaded, and nightmares shrouded the entire world, with the Nightmare Lord Xavius trying to forcibly merge dreams and reality;

Two years ago, Deathwing shattered the World Pillar, and floods, droughts, earthquakes, and tides scarred the land;

One year ago, "The Destroyer" Deathwing was finally defeated.

What world-destroying disaster will befall this year? It is not yet clear, but one thing is certain to shake the entire Azeroth!

Since Thrall stepped down and appointed Garrosh Hellscream as Warchief of the Horde, friction between the Alliance and the Horde has intensified. Not long ago, this localized conflict escalated into an all-out war—because the insane Garrosh used a mana bomb made from the Focusing Iris to destroy the entire Theramore!

Almost everyone in the city died! Rhonin, the leader of the Kirin Tor Council who came to support, died in battle! Jaina Proudmoore, the Queen of Theramore who escaped death, turned white overnight!

Everyone knew that this meant war, a war to the death!

Jaina quickly found a way to retaliate. Today was the moment for her to avenge Garrosh!

Aiden and Chromie arrived at this time. They were both in mid-air, watching Jaina wielding the Focusing Iris, guiding the magic that would be enough for her to take revenge.

The vast elemental power condensed under Jaina's command, and raging waves surged from the sea behind her, just like the anger in her heart and eyes. The sea breeze blew her white hair, and she remembered the destroyed Theramore in the recent bombing, her loyal subordinates and people, and her good friend Rhonin who sacrificed himself to save her. Every face appeared before her.

"I will avenge you, I swear!" Jaina gritted her silver teeth, staring at the hateful red earth in front of her with hatred—

Durotar.

The land named after the father of the former Warchief Thrall.

"Jaina!" Aiden saw an orc shaman wearing a simple robe rushing towards here. He would naturally not forget that figure, because in his timeline, this was his ally—

"Thrall!" Jaina saw him, "What are you doing here?"

Thrall's face was filled with joy and pain, his expression extremely complicated: "I am glad to see you alive, my old friend, but I was summoned here to... stop you."

He and many others thought that Jaina had also died in that tragic bombing. Fortunately, Thrall now saw that she had escaped the disaster.

Thrall strode towards her, his hands empty, Doomhammer still hanging on his back. In comparison, Jaina stared at him warily, holding her staff and the Focusing Iris.

"I saw a vision—Orgrimmar was attacked by a tsunami. It originated from this place. Therefore, I came here under the guidance of the elements to prevent this from happening. I never thought you were still alive, and... and you are the instigator of this terrible disaster."

Jaina immediately interrupted, sarcastically saying with hatred: "I know, you can't wait for me to die, right! You and Garrosh! You all want me to die!"

Thrall slowly walked towards her, saying painfully: "No, that's not the case. Listen to me, Jaina, I heard about what happened in Theramore. The Horde killed countless innocents in such a barbaric way, and I feel as sad as you do. The Horde has committed atrocities against Theramore, but if you retaliate against Orgrimmar in the same way, it will not bring anyone back to life, it will only take more innocent lives!"

"You feel sad?" Thrall's words made Jaina recall that tragic scene again, and her emotions immediately went out of control. She roared loudly at the orc in front of her, "The destruction of Theramore is all because of you, Thrall! It was you who let Garrosh, that beast, lead the Horde! I knew long ago that he would do something terrible one day, and now he has committed an unforgivable crime. It was you who gave him the power, it's all because of you!"

Thrall suddenly stopped, Jaina's accusation shocked him beyond measure.

"Then blame me, Jaina. By the souls of the ancestors, I also blame myself, but please don't avenge the fall of Theramore by killing my people!"

Aiden sighed softly as he watched this scene from high in the sky: "Thrall is indeed responsible for this matter because he misjudged people."

"That's right, my friend. But he couldn't see the future, so how would he know that Garrosh would make such a mistake?"

"You're right, maybe this is a problem with the system itself. Orcs have too high a status in the Horde, so much so that Garrosh, the new Orc Chieftain, can override other chieftains who are clearly more qualified, more experienced, and wiser than him, and become the leader of the entire Horde. There are too many drawbacks to this form of alliance, and it is not advisable."

"Looks like you have a solution? Aha, you must have thought of the organizational form of the Valoran League of Legends, right? You will have a chance to try it. But for now, let's just watch quietly!"

They strictly abide by the rules of traveling through the timeline and never interfere with the historical events here.

And the confrontation between the two below continued.

"People?" This word even more stimulated Jaina, her face immediately became as cold as ice, and her voice was the same, "They are not people, they are monsters! You too! Now I know how right my father was—orcs will always be orcs! But I realized it too late. I turned a blind eye to the nature of the orcs, and it's all because of you! It was you who made me believe that orcs are not bloodthirsty beasts, and believe that humans and orcs can coexist peacefully. Lies! Liar! Don't you see, your people are blocking the Alliance cities of Kalimdor and launching unjust attacks under the leadership of Garrosh. At this moment, Varian is leading the Alliance army trying to break the blockade. After I complete my mission, I will go to help him. I will never make a mistake again, Thrall, I will never be deceived by you again—I will destroy this city named after Orgrimmar Doomhammer, on this land named after your father!"

"Jaina! No, please, don't do this!"

"Get out!" Jaina glared at Thrall in front of her. The last trace of sentiment in her heart made her not want to kill this former friend.

"No!" Thrall stretched out his hands in despair, trying to summon the elemental spirits to block the giant wave, tens of meters high, behind Jaina. But the elemental spirits, which usually granted him endless power, were now terrified, because Jaina was using the Focusing Iris to command them, forcing them to join this feast of destruction.

The wind spirit summoned by Thrall made the raging waves even more turbulent, and the fire spirit he summoned was instantly extinguished.

In front of the Focusing Iris, his shamanic magic completely lost its effect. Even the elemental spirits could not resist the control of this magical artifact.

"You are trying to delay an unstoppable flood!" Jaina looked mockingly at Thrall's futile attempts.

The wind spirit stirred her robes and silver hair, and the face that had been beautiful and moving just a few days ago now looked extremely haggard.

"One last time, get out of the way, or I will kill you."

"Do it, kill me. Abandon everything that once brought you justice and compassion!" Thrall gasped, the fear of the elemental spirits making him mentally exhausted, but he still stood firmly in front of Jaina, "As long as I have a breath left, I will not allow this wave to destroy Orgrimmar!"

Jaina's determination wavered for a moment, but she immediately thought of the tragedy of Theramore. Garrosh had destroyed Theramore's future, and the orcs in Orgrimmar were still supporting their warchief's evil actions!

Her expression became firm again.

"Then so be it." In the tide behind Jaina, countless water elements, large and small, began to surge, and the giant wave, tens of meters high, also began to surge. It rushed towards the shore, towards the tiny orc shaman who was trying to stop this elemental tide.

At this moment, Aiden and Chromie both realized that something was wrong.

Of course, Chromie had seen this history. Before Jaina was about to flood Orgrimmar, the new Blue Dragon Aspect, Kalecgos, appeared and stopped her. The tide, which could have destroyed the entire Orgrimmar and even submerged one-third of Kalimdor, eventually dissipated.

But now that Jaina had already launched it, Kalecgos had not yet appeared!

Where did Kalecgos go?

—

In fact, Kalecgos was not far away. He had been searching for the aura of the Focusing Iris and was chasing towards Jaina's location. But a group of black dragons suddenly appeared out of nowhere and blocked him.

These dragons were not black dragons in the conventional sense—the black dragons, as Earth Warders, had obsidian-shimmering scales, and the dragon breath they spewed out also carried the aura of scorching magma, while these black dragons used a strange black-gray energy, and their appearance was also significantly different from genuine black dragons.

Kalecgos sensed that they were using distorted time powers, a black dragon with abilities similar to the bronze dragons!

Their name was—the Infinite Dragonflight!

This was a mutated dragon species of bronze dragons that disrupted timelines and disturbed normal history. As the Blue Dragon Aspect, Kalecgos was qualified to access such secret information. He just didn't expect that the Infinite Dragonflight would actually find him!

Although he was outnumbered, Kalecgos was not flustered. As a Dragon Aspect, even if these ordinary dragons had strange abilities, they could not be his opponents. His magic could easily crush these destroyers to pieces!

And that was what he did.

But no matter how powerful he was, the Infinite Dragonflight ultimately achieved their goal. Kalecgos was held back.

Aiden looked at Chromie, asking with his eyes, "What do we do?" They did not interfere with history, but history itself had deviated.

"Don't worry, let me see what happened." Chromie's expression became focused, and she began to use her ability to sort out the timeline. Soon, she found the result.

This result made Chromie's face show a heavy expression for the first time: "It's the Infinite Dragonflight, they held back Kalecgos."

"Then what about us? What do we do?" Aiden asked. At this time, he saw that Jaina had already launched the tide, and the surging waves had submerged Thrall. He was afraid that this great orc was already in mortal danger.

"It has already happened. The more we do, the more mistakes we make." Chromie's voice was low. She didn't expect to encounter such a failure on her first time travel.

"Don't watch, do you want to see the scene of the tide engulfing hundreds of thousands of people?" Chromie glared at Aiden, "Let's go find those Infinite Dragons to make trouble! These guys are really crazy!"

Then the two left here.

Jaina personally released this tide. She flew up, watching Thrall being swallowed by the giant wave and never floating up again, watching the water element lead the tide towards Orgrimmar under her command.

"Rhonin, Baine, Theros, Kinndy… my people and friends—I have avenged you!" Jaina's voice trembled. At this moment, she felt no joy of revenge in her heart, only endless fear and pain.

She killed Thrall, killed an innocent person, a friend. And soon after, her hands would be stained with the blood of more innocent people and countless lives. That was an invisible bloodstain. The giant wave would sweep away everything, but it would be truly there.

"Garrosh, did he feel guilty when he issued the order to destroy Theramore?"

Countless thoughts flashed through Jaina's mind, and at this moment, a phantom suddenly appeared in front of her.

A middle-aged high elf with a thin face and an extremely pointed chin appeared in front of her.

"Do you know what kind of consequences this tide will cause, Jaina?" He sternly stared at Jaina.

"No, no!" Jaina covered her ears and screamed, "I don't want to hear it!"

But he still said to himself: "In seven minutes, it will reach Orgrimmar. Ninety-seven percent of the creatures in that city will be completely swallowed, killed by the tide or water elements."

Jaina's behavior of covering her ears was of no use. His voice still clearly entered her mind.

"But this is not the end. The tide will continue. The Barrens, Ashenvale, Azshara, Mulgore… more than one-third of the entire Kalimdor will be affected, millions of intelligent creatures will die, and countless other destroyed creatures will be countless!"

Every word he said made Jaina extremely frightened. What was even more terrifying was that this was true.

Because this was the projection of the Bronze Dragon Aspect, Nozdormu. He naturally knew the things of the future.

"Oh, and I'll tell you some good news—the person you hate the most, Garrosh, will be defeated because he lost most of his army and population, and will eventually be captured by the Alliance and sentenced to death. But you don't have to be happy about it, because tens of thousands of people belonging to the Alliance on Kalimdor were also drowned. They will not appreciate your contribution."

Jaina stood there blankly.

Her revenge was complete, but she also became the enemy of the whole world. Then what was the point of her being alive?

It would be better to die!

Nozdormu seemed to have guessed her intentions, squinting his eyes and said: "Do you want to commit suicide? That is a coward's behavior, Jaina. Now I will give you a better opportunity, an opportunity to start over."

Jaina suddenly raised her head, "What opportunity?"

"An opportunity to return to before the Burning Legion's arrival, an opportunity to arrange your own future as you wish. As long as you help me complete one thing." The corners of Nozdormu's lips turned up.

Jaina had no reason to refuse such a thing.

She accepted Nozdormu's conditions, and then completely disappeared in this time and space. Everyone thought she was dead, and the things that happened later happened as Nozdormu said, but no one knew that the person who launched the tide that submerged one-third of Kalimdor was Jaina, who was no longer in this time and space.

Jaina would also not know that the time and space she was going to was the time and space where Aiden was; the point in time she landed on was the time when the Battle of the Frozen Throne took place; the thing she had to help Nozdormu complete was to fight against Aiden.

Everything was as if it were destined.

And when Nozdormu received Jaina, Chromie, who was not far away, immediately sensed his existence.

"Nozdormu has appeared! Let's go quickly!" Chromie immediately gave up the idea of going to teach the Infinite Dragonflight a lesson, and instead flew towards the original location. She used her fastest speed, wanting to get there as soon as possible.