Now Aiden finally understood why he was recognized as a Titan by the Titan system.
He had made many guesses before, thinking it was because he had been forcibly fused with Sargeras, which led him to obtain some of his authority, or even that he was just impersonating a real Titan named "Aiden."
Now it seems that it was caused by the "self" under the theory of causality.
The future self sent the current self to travel through time, the future self gave him the Eye of Valoran, and the future self wanted him to save the world?
What a ridiculous thing!
The current Aiden couldn't understand why the future self would do such a boring thing.
Aman'thul beside him gently patted him, "Keep watching, my brother."
Now Aiden really has no way to refute it. From this perspective, Aman'thul is really his brother—even Sargeras is!
Now, if he wants to join the Pantheon, he is one of the top figures; if he goes to the Burning Legion, maybe he can directly become the boss because Sargeras is dead!
What happened later basically did not exceed Aiden's expectations.
Emma, who had analyzed the real Titan technology, tried to apply these things to the earth. The "Titan Heart" Technology Company truly became a company that possessed the 'eye' of a Titan and developed and applied Titan technology.
This technology, which was completely different from Earth's technology, allowed Titan Heart Company to develop rapidly in a short period of time, and more and more scientists joined the project to develop the Eye of Sargeras.
Aiden Williams and his wife grew old one after another, but Kate still maintained the appearance of a woman in her twenties. She knew that her ability to stay young must be a blessing from Aiden, so she began a life of seclusion to avoid more attention.
The same was true for Emma. No matter how her age increased, her appearance remained that of a twenty-year-old.
She devoted all her energy to research, so she didn't have to worry about being disturbed by others.
In 2101, Emma was already 85 years old. She made greater breakthroughs in her research on the Eye of Sargeras.
She successfully separated the three highest authorities and implanted Aman'thul's authority into a platinum robot. Sargeras was naturally implanted into a bronze robot. As for Aiden's authority, it was implanted into a realistic robot that looked exactly like him, which Kate made based on her memories.
The product personally developed by Emma—the artificial intelligence robot "Titan" officially appeared on Earth.
Aiden looked at this incredible scene and couldn't help but say to Aman'thul: "This is not me, is it? I am not a robot, I come from the Earth in the 20th century! I have flesh and blood, how could I be a robot?"
"Then keep watching," Aman'thul responded calmly as usual.
Aiden really couldn't wait for time to speed up so that he could see what would happen next. He originally thought that he could predict the subsequent plot changes when he saw Emma analyze the three highest authorities, but who knew that there would be such a magical twist here?
He was not disappointed, a bigger surprise was yet to come.
In 2130, Emma developed the Titan system platform, and artificial intelligence gradually spread to every corner of the world.
In 2137, under the leadership of Emma, human scientists first came into contact with an extremely mysterious world—they called it "Imaginary Space." This was originally a world that only existed in a mathematical sense. Some people called it the mirror image of the world—just like people can see the same self in the mirror, but cannot touch it.
The mirror world is a reflection of the real world, and it is a shadow to the real world. For the mirror world, the real world is just its mirror image.
This discovery only had scientific significance and no practical significance. Everyone thought so. So, after bringing about a wave of academic discussion, it was quickly forgotten. It was not until more than two hundred years later, in 2367, that Emma's unremitting efforts allowed the three Titans with the highest authority to possess extremely high intelligence. They took the initiative to open up some of the highest authority to Emma. Only then did Emma discover that when she came into contact with the imaginary world again, she could actually freely "compile" this world!
She can create an independent space and freely set all the rules in it. From the basic material composition to the operation of the universe, from the evolution of life to the civilization system, she can compile and formulate it through the Titan system platform! And these rules will be truly presented in the space of the imaginary world after being input into the system!
She became the creator god of the imaginary world!
After a period of time, she found a way to enter the imaginary world from the real world. She opened up a place in the imaginary world where she could allow entrants to live forever, and then entered this world with Kate, who had also been living in seclusion for hundreds of years but had remained immortal. Later, more scientists and workers who voluntarily and secretly developed this world evaporated from the human world and appeared in this imaginary space where they could enjoy eternal life.
This place is on the upper layer of the imaginary space Earth, a delicate world full of poetry and painting.
Aiden gasped, he remembered the last conversation with the ancient god Vanaar, who mentioned the most important name, which was the origin of all ancient gods—"Mother Star"!
In his description, it was a constantly changing world divided into different levels. It contained a pure mechanical world, a magical world, and many more fantastic and unimaginable worlds.
At that time, Aiden thought that the Mother Star was the Earth, but Vanaar's description made him deny this. How could the Earth be a multi-layered world?
But when he saw Emma use the highest authority to compile this independent space on the upper layer of the imaginary world Earth, he suddenly realized—"Mother Star" is the Earth!
Now that Emma can add the first layer of picturesque world on it, she can certainly add those technological worlds, magical worlds, and more worlds in the future.
For example, "World of Warcraft", for example, "Valoran"!
The answer that he had originally denied now became the real answer again.
"Mother Star" is actually the Earth in the imaginary space! It is the mirror world of the parallel Earth that Aiden traveled to!
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The video continued. Later, as Aiden had expected, Emma and her followers transformed the Earth in the imaginary world, turning it into a multi-layered, beautiful world, in order to allow immigrants from the real world to enjoy the pleasure of eternal life.
She did not selfishly hide this secret from others, but after perfecting the rules of the imaginary world, she tried to let all the people on the real Earth come here to enjoy eternal life.
When these transformations and rule settings were completed, Titan Heart, secretly controlled by Emma, contacted and cooperated with the government, telling them their purpose.
No one can resist the temptation of eternal life. In 2402, the great migration began, and the people of Earth gained eternal life in this new world.
In the middle, many people who considered themselves ambitious and capable of turning the tables tried to seize control of the imaginary world, but they all disappeared. In this world where authority determines everything, Emma has the highest authority second only to the three Titans, and no one can harm her by any means, and she can freely control the life and death of anyone in this world!
After the great migration, Titan Heart opened up some ports to the government and the public to access the Titan system, allowing them to compile the imaginary world and develop worlds that do not harm human safety within the scope and monitoring of Titan Heart.
When humans gain eternal life and no longer have any material needs, spiritual pursuit becomes the highest need. Therefore, most of these open ports are used to build game worlds—completely real game worlds.
Seeing this, Aiden was completely convinced that his previous guess about the origin of Azeroth was not wrong.
This is indeed a man-made game world. This world is indeed controlled by a group of super programmers. It's just not with any bad taste or ulterior motives, but purely to create for the "players" who have already gained eternal life.
2431. The first imaginary space game world "Remastered World of Warcraft" was launched. In the following time, other classic games such as "League of Legends" were also gradually remastered and began to operate.
"2431 — — So that's what it means!" Aiden recalled the first time he came into contact with the Dark Naaru's password, when he deciphered the information belonging to K'ure. It was written: "Authentication Period: 2431 — — ? ? ?" Without a doubt, 2431 was the year the remastered World of Warcraft went live, and the Naaru were the "player" auxiliary system in the game.
Simply put, it was a system that digitized the world. After all, although the remastered World of Warcraft could be considered a real world to some extent, players still needed some auxiliary tools to help them judge the enemy's health, status, data, and their own strength, and so on.
That's the origin of the Naaru!
Aiden thought of how the Naaru all regarded him as a savior, bestowing upon him lofty labels such as "Rule Breaker," "Guide," "Transformer," and "Savior," and always executing his commands and instructions without hesitation.
Therefore — —
"Am I also a 'player'? And what happened later?" When Aiden saw this, most of his doubts had already been resolved. However, he also had some new questions:
If he was a player who had immigrated to the imaginary space to gain eternal life and enjoy the real-life version of World of Warcraft, then was his birth just a "setting" in the plot? In order to play the Titan Aiden, who held a lofty position in the original world, and enjoy the pleasure of saving the world, did the Titan system give him a memory of "being born on Earth, then traversing to the World of Warcraft with the Heart of Valoran to complete the saving mission"?
Was he actually one of the immortals, and perhaps his name wasn't even Aiden?
Because according to the current situation, the real Aiden was one of the three people with the highest authority over the Eye of Sargeras. If memories could be set, it was entirely possible that he wasn't the real Aiden.
If this was really a game, now that he understood the truth, he just wanted to wake up immediately and confirm who he really was!
After knowing the truth, he found that this game wasn't fun at all!
"Keep watching." Aman'Thul still said the same thing.
Aiden really couldn't even get angry at someone with such a temperament.
He could only continue watching, perhaps what happened next would still subvert his previous guesses. What he had seen before had already subverted his understanding several times.
Aiden thought that next would be the Earth people enjoying eternal peace in the imaginary space, and endless life would be spent entertaining themselves in different game worlds, but only twelve years later, the Titan system's maintenance center detected that a player who was adventuring in the real Azeroth died in the game, and their body in reality also died — it was brain death, the kind that would never wake up!
Emma had long set the rules of the imaginary world, that those who entered would be protected by the rules and would never die — but these players still died!
The rules she set had failed!
Before the maintenance staff could find the cause, brain death incidents occurred one after another. The maintenance staff discovered that these deaths were all caused by players being killed by various distorted monsters in the game.
"Old Gods!" Aiden immediately saw the "culprit" who killed the players in the playback video!
Such deaths were not only occurring in the World of Warcraft. It was just that it had a larger number of users, so it accounted for more than a quarter of the number of deaths. There were also examples of bodies dying in reality after being killed by various distorted monsters in other game worlds.
In World of Warcraft, they were the Old Gods; in League of Legends, they were Baron Nashor in Summoner's Rift; in Diablo, they were Hellspawn; in StarCraft, they were the "Overmind"…
Almost all the monsters in the game worlds had mutated!
After discovering this phenomenon, all imaginary space games were shut down indefinitely, and all players were forcibly logged off.
Seeing this, Aiden was once again dumbfounded. His previous speculation was overturned again. The Earth's immortals were not able to enjoy eternal peace, but faced unknown crises after only a dozen years.
And looking at the situation, it was clear that he himself was not playing the role of a player who didn't know his identity, playing the supreme "Titan" Aiden of the future world — unless he was unable to log out of the game normally for some reason and stayed in the World of Warcraft.
But this possibility was too low. If he was really an ordinary person of that status, he would definitely be kicked offline.
Now he was convinced again that his isekai did have a special reason.
Aiden suddenly remembered a sentence Vanar had said: "The great power to reshape the world is actually the source of the original Old Gods falling into depravity."
Now he had witnessed the great power to reshape the world — even the great power to create the world out of thin air.
If Vanaar's guess was true, then was the emergence of these Old Gods due to Emma and others drastically modifying the imaginary world, causing the universe itself to reject this behavior?
He eagerly wanted to know the answer, so he shifted his attention to the screen and continued watching.
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In order to investigate the root cause of the problem, Titan Heart Corporation activated the highest authority and had the intelligent robot Aman'Thul and his brother Sargeras lead all the intelligent robot "Titans" into the various game worlds of the imaginary space in different forms to find the cause of the virus and try to fix it.
Seeing this, Aiden smiled knowingly.
He finally understood why the Titans were metal — because they were essentially robots. So their creations were also similar to robots. For example, rock creations, mechanical creations, but no flesh and blood creations — because they did not rely on mating to reproduce.
And why was Sargeras's soul a disc? Because that was his data disc. And the Eye of Sargeras was another data storage component on his body.
In the World of Warcraft, Sargeras and Aman'Thul were naturally the leaders of the Pantheon. One was the Father of the Gods, and the other was the strongest warrior.
Aiden took a special look at Aman'Thul, who responded with a smile, but no matter how he looked at it, the smile was a bit bitter.
In other games, these two brothers also had various different identities, sometimes angels, sometimes gods, sometimes God, but they were all on the side of maintaining order, and they all possessed supreme power.
Of course, they did not appear out of thin air, but directly used the original settings in these games.
However — Sargeras's fall did not seem to be as described in the World of Warcraft plot, there must be a deeper reason — Aiden guessed that there must be differences between the two brothers in their handling of the Old Gods.
But before these two brothers could thoroughly investigate the cause of the abnormal deaths of players, a large number of materialized monsters suddenly poured out of the port connecting the imaginary space to Earth — they had various distorted forms, all monsters from different game worlds, but they had the same purpose — to invade and destroy the real world!
After discovering the source of the problem, the government immediately called a halt to all civilian research and development projects in the imaginary space, and Titan Heart Corporation also completely shut down the connection ports that the Titan platform had previously opened to the government and the public. All the imaginary worlds created other than the Earth in the imaginary space were completely shut down.
Emma had been in charge of Titan Heart Technology Company's development of the imaginary world for hundreds of years, and nothing like this had ever happened before. But after opening the data ports to other institutions, such changes occurred, and everyone suspected that someone had used these ports to do something shady!
People demanded a thorough investigation of this incident.
But the Titan system was always under Emma's monitoring. She and the technical staff had checked them one by one and did not find any serious loopholes that could cause such a game monster to invade reality.
She also did not understand what had happened to cause such an invasion to occur?