The Real Zilean

"I played the role of the Time Guardian, Zilean, and he played the Dragon King, Ao Xing... Haha, that was just a short trip. Actually, before the portal closed, we all returned to the World of Warcraft, after all, that's our home turf."

Aman'Thul casually cleared Aiden's confusion, then turned the topic back to continue answering the previous question about their constraints by the World of Warcraft settings:

"Before the portal was closed, we were indeed unconstrained. However, after this world truly ran freely, we were also confined to shells that fit our identities—this world is no longer just a world that can be arbitrarily modified by game companies or the Titan platform, but has evolved into a truly independent world with its own supreme rules. Everyone existing in this world is bound by it. Sargeras and I were originally part of it, so that's why—when Sargeras and I were arguing most fiercely, preparing to part ways, we both realized this, so we let it go."

"Then what about me?" Aiden pointed to himself. "I shouldn't be someone who originally existed in the World of Warcraft settings, right? I remember in the images that Titan Aiden didn't enter this world, but stayed on the imaginary Earth, leading combat robots to fight against the enemy."

"You're right," Aman'Thul smiled slightly. "I think it's very likely that this is the reason why Emma let you enter this world. Perhaps you are the key figure to unlocking the endless loop of this game world. Or rather, Emma thought of a solution and brought you here to implement it."

Aiden frowned. He wasn't even sure if he was that Titan, so how would he know what mission Aiden had entrusted him with?

"Then I have to think carefully—because I still have no idea what I should do. Except for having to summon Valoran... Right!" Aiden immediately remembered this and exclaimed: "Valoran! Only this! I should have thought of it earlier!"

Aman'Thul looked at him and nodded in agreement, "Perhaps that's the key." He was clearly very aware of what the Heart of Valoran was.

Aiden quickly took out the Heart of Valoran and, upon closer inspection, immediately recalled the last scene in the images Aman'Thul had replayed—Emma took out the League of Legends data disk and closed the World of Warcraft portal.

Wasn't that data disk the appearance of the Heart of Valoran!

The Heart of Valoran—is actually the data disk of the real game world of League of Legends!

Aiden suddenly understood—no wonder he could summon heroes and everything else from Valoran. It turned out that this small crystal was the entire League of Legends world!

"This, this is unbelievable! The whole world is in my palm?" Aiden was dumbfounded.

He remembered the image of Nozdormu he had seen in the Caverns of Time, saying that he would use the power of Deathwing to summon a continent. He had been clueless before, but now that he understood the essence of the world and knew the true face of the Heart of Valoran, he immediately had a clue.

It seemed that Deathwing must have some special permission to allow this data disk to be connected to the World of Warcraft portal or other similar reading devices!

It must be so!

"You know it is also designed. In the imaginary world, even if you turn it into a speck of dust, it can accommodate the entire universe!" Aman'Thul looked at the Heart of Valoran, his eyes gleaming. He nodded in agreement, "It seems that the secret lies in this Heart of Valoran. I look forward to seeing the day when the problem can be solved."

He fully agreed with Aiden's guess that the Heart of Valoran likely held the real solution to the End Time. And Emma's idea of bringing another game world here was definitely a brilliant idea.

"So, I'll go back to my timeline now and continue to work towards connecting to the Valoran world?" Aiden, now finding his purpose, suddenly felt full of motivation. He couldn't wait to explore the secrets behind it.

Whether he was Titan Aiden or not, perhaps it could only be revealed in the Heart of Valoran.

"Of course, you can leave at any time," Aman'Thul nodded.

"By the way—how should I contact you?" Aiden was about to activate his ability to return to the real world when he remembered this important question. Aman'Thul had now become the only person he could truly communicate with—everyone in the World of Warcraft, even the League of Legends, suddenly seemed like NPCs to him. Even if they were all real beings with flesh and blood, everyone's cognition was limited to their own world, and Aiden couldn't fully communicate with them.

Only Aman'Thul, who also came from Earth and knew the truth about this world, could.

"I'm afraid it won't be soon," Aman'Thul replied, "This time, I used my own authority to come here. In the future, I'm afraid we can only meet in the real world—that is, the classic Azeroth storyline."

He was also somewhat regretful. Aiden's thoughts were also his own. In the Pantheon, he couldn't even communicate honestly with his wife, Eonar. Because she couldn't understand his mission, nor did she know the truth of the world, let alone the world outside the world.

For everyone except him, Sargeras, and Aiden, this world was everything.

"How do I get to the real world? Where is the storyline of the real world now?"

"To enter the classic storyline from the free script, you can only choose to enter the classic storyline world after completing the game—that is, after experiencing the 'End Time' in your timeline. As for now—the classic storyline is in the same era as your timeline, still in the 21st year after the Dark Portal."

"A reminder, you'd better arrive before the End Time happens in the classic storyline—otherwise, this world may really be lost," Aman'Thul instructed, his body gradually becoming translucent. He looked at Aiden, "My time is up. I hope we can reunite soon, my brother!"

Aiden agreed. He nodded solemnly, "I know, I will work hard!"

Aman'Thul's figure disappeared before his eyes, and everything returned to peace. Aiden still felt some reluctance in his heart. Regardless of whether he was Aman'Thul's brother or not, Aman'Thul did treat him like a brother.

He looked back at the realm of Nozdormu, only to realize that there was no realm of Nozdormu at all. There was only a void here. He guessed that this was likely a space specially constructed by Aman'Thul to meet him.

A one-time space.

In reality, he was still outside the network formed by the timeline.

After locating the world he was in, Aiden's mind sank into it, and he instantly disappeared from this unknown space.

The light and shadow in front of him changed, and Aiden quickly appeared in the real world.

"Did I forget something...?" Aiden pondered.

When he saw a pair of huge eyes with narrow, vertical pupils staring at him, he temporarily focused his attention on what was in front of him.

In front of him was a huge bronze dragon, and it was looking at Aiden with unfriendly eyes.

This was an old acquaintance of Aiden's, but their relationship wasn't friendly—this was the Bronze Dragon King Nozdormu, and also the mission target he had to achieve before this time-travel mission began.

He had already seen in the timeline that the other party would return to this world one day earlier than him.

Now it seemed that was indeed the case.

"You really came back!" Nozdormu's voice carried an undisguised anger.

Obviously, this Bronze Dragon King had also seen when Aiden would appear here.

Aiden deliberately looked at his Staff of Time, and immediately felt confident.

The crystal at the top of the staff had absorbed a large amount of Sands of Time on another timeline, becoming more powerful than before.

He had already learned from Aman'Thul that other timelines were randomly generated worlds calculated in real time, and were actually just illusions.

Returning to the real world, Aiden had prepared himself mentally for it to return to its original state.

But to his surprise, the purple crystal at the top of the staff still had golden Sands of Time flowing within it, making the entire staff look both mysterious and beautiful.

The power gained on other timelines had been brought to the real world.

This was a great surprise!

Aiden was a little overjoyed, but he also remembered what he had forgotten before—he had met Aman'Thul, but he hadn't asked how he could truly become invincible—if Aman'Thul had casually granted him the strength of a Titan, he would have been able to walk sideways in Azeroth.

But that didn't happen.

Aiden glared at Nozdormu without backing down, "Don't provoke me, really."

He put away the staff and strode outwards.

Now he was in a good mood, otherwise he would definitely have to have a good "talk" with Nozdormu.

The current Staff of Time was his reliance to fight against Nozdormu.

He still had some goodwill towards that Nozdormu outside the timeline, at least the other party's attitude was very friendly.

But what was this Nozdormu in front of him?

If the other party dared to provoke him again, he wouldn't mind smashing the three Timeless Hourglasses like he did with the Nozdormu on the previous timeline, absorbing all the Sands of Time, and making the bronze dragons forever lose their capital to be arrogant—in fact, even if he didn't do this, when the Cataclysm came, the Bronze Dragon King would still lose his divine power because he was dealing with Deathwing, so he had no psychological burden in doing so.

At worst, he would replace Nozdormu to fight against Deathwing at that time—this was originally one of Aiden's tasks.

The main thing was that what this Nozdormu had done in recent years was almost all to hinder his actions, and he had already become a major villain, with a tendency to transform into the Eternal Dragon King in advance.

No one knew what Nozdormu, who possessed the power to travel through timelines, would do in the future.

If it really caused a catastrophe, it might be too late to regret it.

It was just that, in view of the fact that Chromie and that Nozdormu outside the timeline had guided him, he was willing to give the other party one last chance.

Nozdormu was stunned for a moment when he saw Aiden turn around and leave.

He remembered that he still had something to talk to the other party about, how could he just let Aiden leave like this?

"Aiden, wait!"

Aiden stopped.

"I admit that there was a misunderstanding before... but you will still do those things, won't you?" After Nozdormu returned yesterday, he had learned about what had happened in the past from Soridormi and Chromie.

Aiden did destroy the World Tree with the Dragon King's Blade, but that was because the Nightmare Essence had contaminated Nordrassil.

If he hadn't done so, the Nightmare Lord would have become uncontrollably powerful.

Aiden did bring the Nightmare into the Emerald Dream, but it wasn't he who caused the Nightmare invasion, but he who ended the Nightmare Lord.

These two things had already happened, and Nozdormu knew that he had greatly misunderstood Aiden.

But he was still brooding over the other things:

Aiden would definitely end Malygos together with Alexstrasza in the near future.

He would also use Deathwing to summon a continent, which was simply the greatest destruction to Azeroth!

The most unforgivable thing was that he would also use the Staff of Time to extract all the energy from the Caverns of Time, causing the bronze dragons to lose the divine power bestowed by the Titans, and never be able to fulfill their responsibilities!

"What things?" Aiden asked back.

After seeing the web-like timeline, he undoubtedly understood the essence of time even more than the bronze dragons.

This made him completely let go of his fear of the mysterious power of "time".

Because of this, Nozdormu could no longer cause him any great trouble—because he now possessed even more powerful divine power than Nozdormu!

Nozdormu glared at him and said loudly, "Killing Malygos, cooperating with Deathwing... and destroying the Caverns of Time!"

"To correct one point," Aiden re-summoned the Staff of Time, "Destroying the Caverns of Time—I've already done it."

Nozdormu carefully watched the Sands of Time flowing in the purple crystal at the top of the staff, and suddenly became extremely terrified.

He pointed at Aiden, trembling all over: "You, you...!

"Nozdormu," Aiden stared at this Dragon King, "I have seen content far beyond your imagination—I will go to kill Malygos, because you misunderstood my purpose, because it was you who instigated him to seize Jaina's Focusing Iris, because you made him have the crazy idea of launching the Nexus War.

Don't you understand? If he dies, you will be one of the important reasons that lead to his death!"

Nozdormu seemed to be under a spell, he couldn't stop backing away, even hitting the wall of the cave, causing soil, sand and boulders to fall.

"No, no, it's not like this, it's not like this!"

He couldn't believe that his words led to Malygos's death in the future.

Shouldn't it be because Alexstrasza betrayed the Guardian Dragons and united with this "destroyer"?

He was warning his good brother, not harming him!