Blackmoore

Aiden summoned his weapon and was even ready to stop time, but before he could act, an abnormal energy fluctuation suddenly came from in front of him. A figure wearing black plate armor and a long cloak appeared out of thin air, blocking him.

This was someone Aiden had become very familiar with recently—Aedelas Blackmoore!

The future version of the man dueling Orgrim below, the version that became an agent of the Infinite Dragonflight!

"You look like you're about to do something rash," King Blackmoore said, resting both hands on the Gorehowl greatsword, his calm gaze fixed on Aiden, who was about to take action.

Aiden exhaled. "I knew it wouldn't be that simple. I should have known."

Now that this "Time Hunter" Blackmoore had been born, the past must have already happened. According to some theories of space-time and causality, no matter what Aiden did, he couldn't change the past that had already occurred.

But he had to try! If he succeeded, then the Blackmoore in front of him would have no basis for existence—perhaps he would be directly crushed by the power of time!

"Where are your masters? Didn't they come?" He shifted his attention from the duel below to the opponent in front of him.

"I am enough to deal with you!" Blackmoore raised the greatsword and charged towards Aiden. After being modified by the power of the Infinite Dragonflight, he was much stronger than his original self below, and he had enough confidence to defeat Aiden.

Aiden had fought this guy many times during this period, and he would never fight the opponent head-on. Blackmoore was confident in dealing with him, and he was also confident in defeating Blackmoore!

The location of their battle moved from the air to the ground, avoiding the main battlefield. Aiden constantly used natural spells to interfere with the opponent, and took advantage of the opponent's difficulty in moving to use Holy Fire to splash ranged attacks, and if Blackmoore used the twisted power of time, he could also use the same power to reverse it.

Their one-on-one duel would always turn out like this—Aiden had endless tricks, while Blackmoore always used brute force to overcome skill, struggling to cope.

Aiden could suppress Blackmoore, but it was very difficult to kill him. Without an excellent opportunity, it was even completely impossible. Because if Blackmoore, who had been modified by the Infinite Dragonflight, wanted to escape, it would be difficult for Aiden to keep him.

So, in the end, Blackmoore achieved his goal.

Because Aiden wanted to stop the yet-to-be-grown General Blackmoore, but now he still hadn't done it.

Without his intervention, Aedelas and Orgrim's duel quickly came to a conclusion.

Aedelas roared, raising Gorehowl above his head, and then performing a jumping chop. Orgrim raised the Doomhammer to block, but he couldn't completely block it. Although the power of the greatsword didn't destroy the stone hammer, it broke the wooden hammer handle.

Orgrim was knocked to the ground, and then Aedelas strode forward, using his sword to cut off the loser's head, and stripping off the legendary black plate armor from his body. He lifted the chieftain's head high by the braid in one hand, and grabbed the black plate armor with the other, standing in front of the headless corpse and roaring loudly.

The blood still spurting from Orgrim's neck splashed on his face, making him look as ferocious as a blood-soaked demon.

When the orc warriors saw their chieftain killed, they couldn't believe that the strongest orc would lose to a human in a one-on-one duel! They completely lost their fighting spirit and were on the verge of collapse.

The human soldiers were stunned for a moment, and then began to cheer loudly!

Aedelas's icy voice, as if coming from hell, resounded in the dead orc army: "Surrender, or die!"

Many orcs were shocked and wanted to lay down their weapons. At this time, an orc warrior carrying an axe suddenly roared and rushed towards Aedelas, shouting as he charged: "Orcs will never be slaves!"

This axe-wielding orc was Orgrim's most trusted deputy, an orc from the Thunderlord clan, Varok Saurfang!

"loktar-ogar!" Some orcs who were also unwilling to surrender followed this high overlord to charge.

When Aedelas saw these orcs charging up, he casually threw Orgrim's head and armor on the ground, grabbed his greatsword, and took the initiative to launch a charge against this group of orcs who couldn't tell the situation.

In just two short minutes, all the orcs who were unwilling to surrender were killed in battle, and the rest were shocked and chose to lay down their weapons.

Blackmoore recited the orc battle cry in a mocking tone—"loktar-ogar!"

Of course, he knew that this sentence meant "Victory or death", or it could be translated as "Give me victory, or give me death", which would be a stronger tone.

But he had already proven with facts that orcs would also surrender!

Although Aiden was able to suppress King Blackmoore on the surface, he couldn't break through the opponent's blockade and directly affect the battle situation over there. Noticing that Orgrim had still died, he could only sigh in regret.

The cloak on King Blackmoore was already tattered, looking like even a beggar wouldn't want to wear it, but he showed a victorious smile: "History is history, you can't change it. Whether it's the past or the present."

Aiden wanted to deny it, but this scene in front of him was indeed the case. However, he always felt that the other party seemed to have other meanings in saying this sentence.

"It doesn't matter, I have a lot of time." He replied indifferently.

Blackmoore could block him for a while, but he couldn't block him forever. There were at least ten years before Blackmoore on this timeline became king and became an agent of the Infinite Dragonflight, and he didn't believe that he couldn't find a suitable opportunity in ten years!

"Is that so?" The Blackmoore in front of him gave Aiden a meaningful look. A black, twisted space-time door opened behind him, and he slowly retreated into it, with only the last sentence coming out.

"I'm afraid you don't have that much time."

Aiden was a little surprised to see this Blackmoore leave. This guy had tried every means to stop him, not allowing him to destroy the history of the past self killing Orgrim, but now he was leaving—if Aiden took action now to kill the Blackmoore who had not fully grown up, wouldn't all the efforts of the guy who just left be in vain?

King Blackmoore must know that Aiden has the strength to easily kill himself in this timeline. It can be said that it is as easy as flipping a hand for Aiden, who possesses the power of time, to kill him.

Now that Blackmoore is leading his troops to gather the surrendered orcs and trolls in Blackrock Spire, preparing to launch a counterattack against the Alliance forces led by Grand Marshal Lothar.

If he succeeds, then without a doubt, his road to the throne of Lordaeron will become a smooth path.

But what if he fails?

He will be doomed and become a common enemy of the Alliance and the Horde!

Aiden knew in his heart that there was a high probability that someone else would appear to stop him from changing history, otherwise Blackmoore, who had just served the Infinite Dragonflight, would not have left so easily, he had clearly not been defeated.

No matter who this person is, whether it is the Infinite Dragonflight army led by Anachronos who has not appeared before, or the true Infinite Dragonflight King Murozond, Aiden wants to take advantage of this last opportunity to try, to try to change history!

After making up his mind, Aiden rushed to the side where Sir Lothar was at his fastest speed. If there really was some external force preventing him from changing history, then it must be before he really took action. Regardless of whether this action will succeed or not, it will at least verify the speculation in his heart.

Whether the past history can be changed!

—

When Marshal Lothar led the Alliance troops to the previous battlefield, both sides of the battle had disappeared. Only hundreds of orc and human corpses were left on the ground.

A soldier from General Blackmoore's command told him that General Blackmoore had repelled the orc forces that came to attack and seriously injured Chieftain Orgrim. The remnants of the Horde retreated into Blackrock Spire, and Blackmoore took people to pursue the enemy.

The soldier stayed here to inform Lothar and let him take this opportunity to completely kill Doomhammer and defeat the Horde!

This was clearly a very normal battle report, which even contained good news that excited everyone. However, after Sir Lothar heard it, he felt very uneasy. There were a large number of Horde troops in Blackrock Spire, even if Blackmoore pursued the victory, he shouldn't directly chase into it.

Wasn't he afraid that he would fail to pursue the enemy and instead be besieged by the enemies in Blackrock Spire?

This abnormal performance made him unable to be happy.

Sir Lothar had noticed Blackmoore long ago. This was a very calm and cunning man, even a bit cruel. How could he do such a reckless thing?

"This really doesn't seem like the cautious Blackmoore I know," Turalyon commented after hearing this.

"Could it be that he is confident in killing Orgrim, so he did this?" Uther said from the side.

This was also the only possibly reasonable explanation Lothar could think of: Blackmoore might want to take this opportunity to solely claim the credit for defeating the Horde.

If that were the case, Sir Lothar would actually be very happy.

He didn't care about these empty titles and merits. After the war victory, he could take Varian back to Stormwind to rebuild their home. Those merits were indeed very important to the others in the Alliance, but they were useless to him.

Sir Lothar felt very uneasy, and he had some bad premonitions. But he couldn't ignore it. If Blackmoore, who had chased into Blackrock Spire, was really captured or even killed because he didn't get support, it would inevitably bring great negative impact to the Alliance. Someone would definitely accuse him of not providing adequate rescue or having ulterior motives. It was even more likely to cause this war, which was clearly the Alliance's final cleanup of the Horde, to continue to be delayed, leading to unknown results.

You must know that Blackmoore is now a hero watched by the entire Alliance, and an idol in the minds of many people in the Kingdom of Lordaeron. He is also one of the key figures who enabled the Alliance to quickly force back the Horde, forcing them to Blackrock Mountain with no way to retreat, and having to face the Alliance army with superior forces in a head-on decisive battle—the other one is naturally the commander of the entire army, Sir Lothar!

"Let's go up too, hopefully nothing will happen." Lothar gave the order, and the Alliance army began to advance towards Blackrock Spire.

At this moment, in Blackrock Spire, Blackmoore had already set up a trap, waiting for the prey to take the bait. Orgrim's head and Blackmoore's past victories against the Orcs provided enough deterrence. The Orcs entrenched in Blackrock Spire quickly chose the latter between death and surrender.

More importantly, Blackmoore promised them a better way out than being destined to fail and become prisoners—he would lead these Orcs to continue fighting until he ascended the throne!

Even the dumbest Orcs understood that after Orgrim's death, they could no longer win this war. If this human general could fulfill his promise, it would definitely be the best way out for these Orcs and Trolls at the moment.

And Blackmoore immediately proved to them that he was not trying to deceive the Horde's warriors. Because after the Horde surrendered, Blackmoore's first order was to have his soldiers and the Orcs set up an ambush in Blackrock Spire, preparing to kill the Alliance's supreme commander and those important generals!

This was a great cause that Orgrim had failed to accomplish in his lifetime, but now Blackmoore was going to lead the Horde to complete it.

The surrendered Orcs began to truly and willingly serve him!

—

Aiden wanted to get rid of this guy, so before Lothar's army rushed into Blackrock Spire, he had already arrived here one step ahead. He was ready to directly assassinate Blackmoore!

He didn't deliberately hide his figure, and Blackmoore's subordinates naturally discovered him. A group of Orcs who had already surrendered rushed up without saying a word, preparing to eliminate this "fly" who had strayed into the trap.

Blackmoore, who was staying in a hall, frowned upon hearing the report.

"A human broke in? Are you sure you don't recognize him?"

"Yes, General!"

At this moment, an Orc covered in blood broke into the hall and stammered in Common: "Gen, General, that human, rushed, rushed up. Can't hold it, we!"

"I know!" Blackmoore grabbed his greatsword, strode out, his gloomy eyes flashing with cold light, "My plan will not allow anyone to destroy it. Since you dare to come, then don't leave!"

Aiden could sense Blackmoore's location. Although the other party sent Orcs to stop him, and was hypocritically trying to cover up the fact that he had become the new master of these Orcs, these ordinary people simply didn't have the ability to stop him. He easily broke through the encirclement and strode towards where Blackmoore was.

What was gratifying was that Blackmoore was also rushing towards him.

This general, who had just beheaded the Horde's Warchief and still carried a murderous aura, quickly appeared within Aiden's field of vision.

"Who are you?" he asked in a deep voice.

"Someone who came to kill you." Aiden didn't want to waste words and immediately launched an attack.

At this time, anyone could appear in front of him and prevent him from changing history. He had already raised his vigilance, clenched the Staff of Time, and was ready to dispel any factors that might affect his killing of the person in front of him, such as stopping time, slowing down time, teleportation spells, imprisonment spells, and so on.

Hearing Aiden's answer, Blackmoore roared: "Even Orgrim was no match for me, no one can kill me!"

He raised the Gorehowl and also launched a charge. Now was the time when his confidence was at its strongest, and he felt that no one could defeat him in a one-on-one fight!

"Time, stop!" Aiden suddenly used this spell as he charged towards the other party.

Only this way was the safest—time stopped, and it was by no means easy for any external force to stop him.

The surrounding space turned gray, and Aiden slowly and firmly passed through the stagnant space, walking step by step towards Blackmoore.

The anger that was frozen in Blackmoore's eyes was still burning. Time had stopped, and he couldn't make any movements, but his mind could still turn. Seeing this strange scene, he fell into absolute horror.

"Stop time—how could there be such a person!"

"My grand plan, my hegemony, is it going to be destroyed by this human who appeared out of nowhere?"

"No, I'm not reconciled! I'm not reconciled!"

Blackmoore roared in his heart. He had not lost to any enemy, but he had lost to the power of time!

Aiden withstood the pressure and approached Blackmoore step by step. The silver-white Judgment in his hand lit up with blue holy flames. Soon it would be able to chop off Blackmoore's head, and all traces of Blackmoore in the future would no longer exist. There would no longer be a time hunter to disrupt his original timeline and destroy their upcoming Nexus War.

He quickly approached enough distance and raised the Holy Flame Burning Sword.

"Stop!"

At this time, a group of uninvited guests really appeared directly from the void.

It wasn't the Infinite Dragonflight led by Anachronos who had repeatedly come to cause trouble before, nor was it Murozond, the Infinite Dragon King who could bring Aiden the greatest pressure, but—the Bronze Dragonflight of this world!

"Stop, intruder!" Anachronos, the leader of the Bronze Dragon, roared. It was this Bronze Dragon Prince's army that had come!

Time Stop could restrict many targets, even the Bronze Dragons, but Anachronos took out a golden hourglass.

The Hourglass of Time, this artifact appeared once again!

Before, Anachronos, who had become an Infinite Dragon, used it to cause the separation of Aiden and Chromie, and now Anachronos, the Bronze Dragon, was going to use it to stop Aiden from eliminating the real destroyer!

Aiden would never be willing to fail like this. He saw the other party reversing the hourglass, and the stopped time had been restored, and Blackmoore had regained his actions.

But he couldn't violate the laws of physics and forcibly stop the charge just now.

He was crashing towards Aiden, as if he was going to commit suicide, because Aiden's raised sword was waiting for his neck to be delivered.

The Bronze Dragonflight was shocked and angry when they saw that things were still continuing. If Blackmoore died, then everything would be over.

Anachronos reversed the hourglass again, also wanting to stop time to restrict Aiden's attack, but the prepared Aiden immediately used the power of the Staff of Time to immunize the stopped time and continued to swing his sword towards Blackmoore.

His sword was only a foot away from the other party's neck, and the scorching holy flame was already scorching Blackmoore's skin.