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Emma had already assigned Sargeras and Aman'Thul to investigate the incident of monsters from the game world invading reality. She herself focused her energy on how to deal with these invading monsters.

She used her authority to create many super weapons to arm those combat-type intelligent robots that were produced, and sent them to eliminate those monsters. "Titan" Aiden was the supreme leader of these armed forces.

When Aiden saw an exact copy of himself leading a mechanical army and fighting fiercely with the game monsters, he couldn't help but feel very strange. He had previously seen the process of Emma creating the three Titans with the highest authority—although the "Aiden" in front of him was a real person model, and the skin and other things were bionic designs, the inside was still made of cutting-edge technological electronic components, which was no different in essence from Aman'Thul's platinum robot.

He almost had the urge to dissect himself—to see whether the inside was flesh and blood or machinery, to see whether he was a real transmigrator from Earth in the 21st century, or a Titan who had been instilled with a transmigrator's memory.

After the combat robot army was armed with fantasy technology, its combat power was unimaginably powerful, but this did not give humanity an advantage in the war. The monsters seemed to be endless. After killing a batch, more would emerge, and they could never be completely eliminated! What was even more terrifying was that the later they appeared, the more powerful their abilities became. Emma had to manufacture more combat robots and stronger weapons to fight against them!

These monsters were constantly evolving!

In 2447, Aman'Thul sent a message through the Titan platform that he and Sargeras had finally found the reason for the monster invasion after investigation: these monsters were actually launched attacks under the parasitic control of a virus in the universe. It was a figurative virus of unknown origin, and its characteristic was that it could absorb imaginary energy and then evolve.

All game worlds are constructed from imaginary energy, and these viruses have almost endless sources of energy. They devour the materialized game world and grow uncontrollably.

To eliminate this kind of monster, there may be only one way—to clear all worlds constructed with imaginary energy and restore everything to its original state!

Seeing this, Aiden naturally thought of Vanaar. This primitive Old God had confirmed that when the power to reshape the world was activated, the power of destruction in the universe also began to grow.

Obviously, the imaginary energy of reshaping Draenor was the culprit that allowed the Old Gods to develop and spread. In other words, no matter what, there will always be a day in the future when the entire World of Warcraft will be completely occupied by the Old Gods.

"Is this the essence of the End Time?" he couldn't help but think.

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This was a very terrible discovery. Not only are those game worlds constructed from imaginary energy, but in fact, in addition to the original Earth of the imaginary world, the "Fairyland on Earth" created later by Emma and her team—that multi-layered, magnificent world—is actually also constructed from imaginary energy.

If all traces are to be erased, it means that humans will lose eternal life and everything they possess under the special protection rules of this world! They must leave this world, return to their original Earth, continue their original lives, and continue to be ordinary people!

After people have enjoyed eternal life and unimaginably generous environments, how many people are willing to accept ordinary lives and accept the threat of birth, old age, sickness, and death?

Almost no one is willing to do this.

People can only hope that completely formatting the game world will calm this invasion.

The government and the Heart of the Titans did so. They formatted most of the game worlds.

"Warhammer", "Star Wars", "Future Fantasy", "DOTA", "Fallout", "Diablo", "StarCraft", "GTA", "Call of Duty", "Half Life"…

Countless classic remade games and innovative game worlds were completely formatted. All the data inside, or the planets and creatures that actually existed because of imaginary energy, were completely annihilated after the background command was issued, leaving only the final "World of Warcraft" and "League of Legends" temporarily spared.

It was not because these two were the most popular, but because the two Titans with the highest authority, Sargeras and Aman'Thul, were still in these two worlds. No one had higher authority than them to delete them, and neither did Emma.

In any case, people confirmed that this behavior was effective.

After countless game worlds completely disappeared, the monsters invading the real world suddenly decreased by more than half. In the end, only the Old Gods and Void monsters continued to attack. When Aman'Thul and Sargeras come out, everything will likely be contained.

However, before the two Titans with the highest authority appeared, all humans in the imaginary world were suddenly attacked by weakness and diseases. Before, they would only suffer brain death if they were attacked and killed by monsters in the game world, but now, even if people did nothing, they lost their healthy bodies, and everyone felt that they were gradually weakening.

The protection rules originally set by Emma had a larger-scale collapse. These rules, which originally maintained human immortality, could no longer operate correctly.

Unknown fear enveloped all humans, and some people began to evacuate the imaginary space and return to their original Earth. Then they found that they had regained their health!

From this moment on, the imaginary space turned from a paradise on earth into a dangerous and terrifying hell!

In 2449, humans began the second great migration. More than forty years later, most humans returned to their original Earth.

In order to prevent the monsters in the imaginary world from invading the real world, they completely closed the Titan system and completely sealed the connection channel between the imaginary space and the real world.

Only a very small number of people remained in the imaginary world to study the real reason for all the changes and to find a way to completely solve the invasion of monsters in the imaginary world.

Aiden saw that Emma and Kate had been staying in the imaginary world. They formatted all the "Fairyland on Earth" on the upper layer of the imaginary Earth, and together with other people who stayed in the imaginary world, they lived in seclusion on the originally existing imaginary Earth and continued their research. "Titan" Aiden protected them—because they originally did not belong to this world. After the initially set protection rules failed, there were still figurative virus monsters that often appeared out of thin air to attack these people remaining in the imaginary world.

They identified all the humans who originally did not belong to this imaginary world as enemies that must be eliminated, but they did not interfere with the creatures who originally lived in this world at all.

Vanaar's words once again echoed in Aiden's ears:

"I don't know when, the power of destruction appeared silently. Some Old Gods were corrupted by this irresistible force. They became crazy and began to murder all the lives on the planets created by the Mother Stars, including the messengers of those gods."

"After this, the gods used their technology to bring the Mother Star to an unknown dimension and completely sealed themselves off. Then they created the Titans and gave them the responsibility of annihilating and sealing the Old Gods, trying to restore order to the universe."

"God's messengers" are undoubtedly the players. The complete closure of the Mother Star is also completely in line with what Aiden sees now. Emma did create the Titans, and the Titans have been fulfilling the responsibility of annihilating and sealing the Old Gods in the World of Warcraft, trying to restore order to the universe.

Aiden had experienced so many things in the World of Warcraft. He didn't expect that the only one who told him the truth about the world in the end was this Old God!

The last picture of the video was Emma taking out the data disk representing the "League of Legends" world and then closing the connection port of "World of Warcraft".

Everything ended here, and only the dark void remained in front of Aiden.

"What happened next? How did I come to this world?" He looked at Aman'Thul and couldn't help but ask.

"I don't know either. The information flow I received was interrupted here." Aman'Thul shook his head. He looked at Aiden, "I only know that you were originally by Emma's side to protect her. I think she must have sent you to the World of Warcraft. Only you yourself will know what special mission you have."

Aiden was very clear about his past. He felt that he could not be the robot that Emma separated from the Eye of Sargeras in this video spanning hundreds of years.

"Then do you confirm that I am that Aiden?" He was referring to the Titan who was one of the three Titans with the highest authority alongside Aman'Thul.

Aman'Thul nodded seriously: "I think so."

"How do you judge?" Aiden questioned in his heart: 'Can't you see that I am a transmigrator from OG Earth?'

Aman'Thul replied pointedly: "Authority—you do have all the authority of my brother, 'Titan' Aiden. No one can impersonate this."

"Authority… alright, I see." Aiden was completely unable to refute this.

He knew that he must have a close relationship with that "Titan" Aiden, and perhaps this relationship was the reason why he would transmigrate from Earth to the World of Warcraft.

And—speaking of which, he himself brought the Eye of Sargeras to Earth in the first place, and everything that happened afterward was inextricably linked to him.

But the problem is that he doesn't know what special mission he is carrying after his isekai. Even before seeing this video, he didn't know that there were such complex secrets hidden behind the world.

Aiden didn't plan to continue to dwell on the issue of his identity. Whether he is "Titan" Aiden or not is no longer important. Now that he is already in the World of Warcraft, it is better to figure out the current situation first—Aman'Thul must know what he should and should not do.

He asked: "So what time is it now? Also, the timeline I am in, and the relationship between you and Sargeras, and this World of Warcraft… I have a lot of questions that I haven't figured out yet."

"That's exactly what I'm going to explain to you next," Aman'Thul replied, "I lost contact with Velen in 2450. As for what year it is in the real world, if the time flow hasn't changed after the portal closed, it should be 2469 now."

Aiden nodded, indicating he understood, and motioned for him to continue.

"Now you know that 'World of Warcraft' itself is a game world. Although it has been compiled by the Titan platform and is now a real, existing world, it still follows the rules set when it was first created—the timeline being one of the most fundamental rules."

"Essentially, the so-called timeline of this world is not linear or web-like. When the game was completed, the game company offered players two ways to play: one was the canonical script, which was the classic gameplay offered by Blizzard in the 21st century. Players participated in a pre-set historical process where everything was strictly limited; the other was the free script—where players played historical figures and freely interpreted history."

When Aiden heard Aman'Thul seriously saying words like "game," "Blizzard," "players," and "World of Warcraft," he couldn't help but feel a strong sense of incongruity. It was as if the person next to him wasn't the "Father of the Gods" of the Pantheon, but a fellow enthusiast discussing the plot of World of Warcraft.

However, his explanation was easy to understand. When Aiden heard that in the "free script," players played characters from the plot, he immediately thought of the situations where history was very different from the canonical history on those other timelines—could it be that these worlds were originally created by players who changed history through their experiences?

Aman'Thul glanced at him, as if he could directly see his inner thoughts: "You're right, those worlds where Blackmoore raised Thrall to overthrow Lordaeron, where Arthas didn't fall but became a great hero who saved the world, and even those where Jaina had a reverse harem, collecting Arthas, Kael'thas, Kalecgos, and the like… were all created by players under the free script."

Aiden couldn't help but laugh when he heard about Jaina. Only a seasoned chuuni player could do such a heaven-defying thing. And Aman'Thul actually said this in a complaining tone, which completely refreshed his understanding of this Titan.

He stopped laughing, related it to his current situation, and asked: "So, the timeline I'm currently on is also a free script?"

"Yes."

"Then what about those timelines I traveled through with Chromie before? What are they?"

"Those are all phantoms—your travels with Chromie are like triggering a hidden quest in the game. Coming to these worlds is a necessary step in the hidden storyline quest. Those worlds are all evolved in real-time based on the existing situation of the timeline you are on—so you will see everything on the web-like timeline as if it is destined—that is not my conspiracy, nor is it the conspiracy of the Pantheon or the Titans, but the underlying setting of the game itself."

Hearing Aman'Thul's explanation, Aiden suddenly understood—sure enough, those things about the past determining the future, and the future reversing the past, those complex causalities and determinisms, are actually just "settings."

Although the free script is called "free," it is not completely free. He got the travel quest because the system was set to make up for the cause and effect of the Frozen Throne battle that happened before. Blackmoore is destined to become king, which is also required by the plot.

Aiden is currently unable to compete with the "system settings."

He was a little embarrassed—when he destroyed those three hourglasses in the Caverns of Time, and saw those web-like timelines that challenged his worldview in the Time Kingdom not long ago, he thought everything was a Titan conspiracy. He didn't expect that he had misunderstood—after Aman'Thul exposed him, he was a little ashamed of his reaction at the time.

After getting out of the original unsolvable mental dead end, Aiden only felt that his eyes were suddenly clear, and the whole world was greatly different because of this experience.

"Continue, what then?" He urged Aman'Thul.

"You should basically understand the problem of the timeline. Then it's time to talk about the differences between me and Sargeras." When Aman'Thul mentioned this name, the smile on his face faded.

"The three of us Titans are the only ones who know the truth of this world, and we also have the highest authority. When Sargeras and I were sent to find the source of the Old Gods' invasion, we had different divisions of labor. I was responsible for checking and maintaining the Titan platform system, and he was responsible for clearing, modifying, and deleting infected data within the system. So, specifically in the game world, I can retrieve, maintain, modify, and restore all original data through the background. As you can see, all Titan systems and Titan creations are basically implemented based on my authority."

Aiden nodded to show his understanding.

Aman'Thul continued: "Sargeras's authority is to investigate, destroy, and delete abnormal data—you can understand that he has a GM account, but with higher authority. In theory, he can destroy all data that he deems illegal. As long as he retrieves the data or model and deletes it, he can destroy everything corresponding to it: planets, galaxies, gods… everything."

Retrieve the model—Aiden immediately thought of the spell that Archimonde used to destroy Dalaran, so he asked: "Archimonde was also able to directly destroy Dalaran on the sandbox because of this, right?"

"That's right, exactly. He and Kil'jaeden, as Sargeras's assistants, obtained a portion of the authority. Just like I also granted a portion of my authority to the Titans."

Aman'Thul nodded in confirmation, and then continued: "When the connection portal between the World of Warcraft and the real world was closed, this world began to run freely. We could no longer get support from the outside world, so I suggested that we should rely on the world's own settings to create some creatures to help us resist the Old Gods. This is also my area of responsibility, so the Pantheon began its journey of creation. Sargeras was solely responsible for fighting, dealing with the Old Gods that had already appeared, and creatures from the material library such as the Abyss Demons, which were our enemies in the setting."

"Later, we found that every time we used imaginary energy to maintain these worlds, the overall power of the Old Gods would increase a little. This would be very detrimental to us in the future. Therefore, Sargeras proposed to completely destroy all the worlds that had been transformed, so that the Old Gods would lose their parasitic roots. However, after testing, I found that even if we did this, the power of the Old Gods would still increase."

"...Because the bottom-level setting of World of Warcraft includes a description of the 'End Time.' Regardless of whether it is a free script or a classic script, the world will eventually experience this moment. No matter what we do, as long as this universe exists, that day will inevitably come."

Speaking of this, Aman'Thul sighed. "Then a dispute arose between us—Sargeras believed that the mortals in the setting could not be more powerful or better able to fight the Old Gods than ourselves. It would be better to directly destroy the underlying structure of this world to change the direction of the future. However, the plot I parsed from the underlying structure told me that these creatures in the setting could indeed exert unimaginable power. Then you know what happened—"

"Sargeras's betrayal?" Aiden asked thoughtfully.

"Yes."

"Was his betrayal a setting or something else?" Aiden couldn't help asking, "Also, since he is so strong, why did he die? And that battle in the Twisting Nether… he didn't seem to recognize me."

Hearing Aman'Thul's narration, he had a lot of questions again.

In the classic plot, there is such a scene—the division between Sargeras and the Pantheon gradually arises. He began to doubt his mission and eventually fell, forming the Burning Legion and starting the journey to destroy the universe.

Aiden was a little unclear whether this real World of Warcraft must have such a scene to conform to the "setting"?

"The reason for his betrayal may be both," Aman'Thul replied. "There were indeed differences between us, and the plot setting of World of Warcraft also led to this. So when the differences occurred, we both realized this and followed the change. We each went our own way to see who was right in the end."

He looked at Aiden: "As for why he died—first, because the Azeroth of the canonical storyline is very important, I couldn't let him target it for destruction, so I gave him a little trouble; second, because of the setting, he has such a catastrophe, and he will inevitably return in the future. And the reason he doesn't recognize you is because you are just his clone in the free script."

Aiden clicked his tongue: "But—shouldn't your authority be higher than the producers who originally set up this world? Would this setting still constrain you?" Aiden didn't understand. Normally speaking, the three of them are the real owners of the highest authority, could the company that developed this game constrain them with the game settings?

You should know that when they were preparing to format all the game worlds, they were unable to format World of Warcraft and League of Legends because of the existence of these two. At the same time, he was also a little curious, what kind of roles do Aman'Thul and Sargeras play in the game world of League of Legends?