Brain

The cavity resembled a massive underground cave. The surface of the fleshy walls secreted a viscous, translucent liquid. Gelatinous strands hung down from the ceiling, like stalactites in a cave, or perhaps a curtain. Standing on it felt like standing on glue, making movement difficult.

Such an environment was bound to affect the combat prowess of the heroes. If Yogg-Saron had deployed its most elite minions here, it might have actually delayed them for a while.

However, it didn't do that.

Facing Aiden were only a few Faceless Ones, and one of them was even an 'acquaintance' – Loken after his corruption.

When Aiden was 'tricked' into Yogg-Saron's first stomach, he ultimately achieved victory unexpectedly. In contrast, Yogg-Saron suffered heavy losses. To prevent Aiden from capturing the corrupted Loken, it had to transfer him to a safer location.

Until this moment, Loken remained safe, but Yogg-Saron itself was on the verge of destruction.

It was now completely disregarding the impending arrival of the Titan observers. If it was destined to die, what difference did it make whether it was killed by these heroes or by the Titan system reshaping the planet?

The corrupted Loken was not in a good state either. Several massive tentacles were deeply embedded in his body. This Titan Watcher, who had betrayed the Pantheon, hadn't received justice after his fall but was instead being tortured by his master, appearing to be on his last breath.

His body kept twitching, his eyes were glazed over, and he looked like he was on the verge of death.

"What is this all about?" Aiden couldn't help but sneer. "Yogg-Saron, do you think this will threaten us?"

Without a doubt, Yogg-Saron was trying to threaten them by killing Loken and activating the arrival of the observers.

But since he had previously been willing to kill Loken to threaten Yogg-Saron, how could he possibly retreat now because Yogg-Saron wanted to kill Loken?

That it would resort to such a foolish move indicated that this Old God was grasping at straws in desperation.

"I know your identity, Aiden."

Yogg-Saron's indignant voice echoed within the cavity. "To achieve your goals, you are willing to sacrifice anyone in this world. I know that even if the observers arrive, you can escape. After all, those who are annihilated are just the mortals infected by us. According to the Titans' consistent thinking, they deserve to be purged. Am I right?"

"Your talent for sowing discord isn't quite up to par," Aiden sneered.

Before the Battle of Ulduar, Aiden had explained the potential dangers of this war to the other leaders, including the possibility of the observers' arrival.

Even if he, a genuine individual with Titan authority, wasn't here, the heroes of history could still defeat Algalon and make him cancel the order to reshape the world.

No matter how you look at it, this world wouldn't be destroyed. Unless there was a significant deviation in history, completely out of control, it would be a different story.

But was that possible?

"Is that so? I don't think so!" Yogg-Saron roared.

The tentacles embedded in the corrupted Loken's body suddenly exerted force. Loken let out a heart-wrenching scream, and his body made a mixed sound similar to cloth being torn. Then, in front of everyone, the former leader of the corrupted Watchers was torn to pieces by Yogg-Saron's tentacles!

Even if Loken had become a Faceless One, such injuries would definitely be fatal—the fragments of his corpse were scattered all over the ground, and he was as dead as could be.

Every hero had experienced more gruesome scenes than this, but Yogg-Saron tearing apart its own subordinate still sent chills down their spines.

"Loken is dead."

The four Watchers had different expressions. They could all sense Loken's death, as well as the special signal emitted by the device within his body.

According to the emergency mechanism, when the Pantheon received the signal, it would dispatch observers to descend.

Their time was running out.

"Hahahaha…"

Yogg-Saron burst into wild laughter. "Come on, come at me! I know you have a way to stop the observers from destroying the world, but there's a prerequisite, Aiden. Do you know what that prerequisite is!"

The prerequisite was that they had to see the observer and stop him before the confirmation code was sent.

Although Yogg-Saron could not escape its doom, killing it would definitely take time. No one knew whether the observer would directly send the code to destroy the world while the heroes were fighting Yogg-Saron in a bloody battle.

"We've already come this far," Aiden took a deep breath. "Keep moving forward! Kill Yogg-Saron first!"

He wouldn't give up on the plan to kill Yogg-Saron because of this. If they retreated now, they would really have no chance to completely kill Yogg-Saron!

"We may only have the last few hours left," Thorim, the Storm Lord, said in a deep voice. "Hurry up, otherwise—"

Otherwise, this world might really be formatted.

The Watchers were originally supposed to be on the side of the Titans. Their duty was only to guard this prison and try to maintain a detached position, not interfering with the operation of the world.

From their standpoint, no matter what orders the observers gave, they should unconditionally obey them.

However, after experiencing Loken's fall and framing, as well as their being controlled and awakening, these Watchers, who should only have mechanical thinking, also had emotions like other intelligent beings. They didn't want these mortals, who dared to fight against evil and even accomplished things that the Titans couldn't do, to be reported for destruction by the observers simply because they didn't meet the Titans' predetermined direction of evolution.

Perhaps killing Yogg-Saron would make the observers think that this world still needed more observation and wouldn't send a report to the Pantheon so quickly?

This was the most direct thought in the hearts of the four Watchers now.

However, what they didn't know was that even if Algalon really sent out the command to reset Azeroth, this command was almost impossible to execute.

Because Aiden had already met the master of the Pantheon. He was now Aman'Thul's brother, and the Pantheon could not possibly format Azeroth.

What's more, this also included a hidden underlying setting—if you looked at this world from the perspective of a game, Algalon's arrival was a specific plot point in the Ulduar crisis.

Since it was a "plot," of course, there were set ways to trigger and progress it.

The trigger was obvious: the death of the Watcher Loken. But the plot process must basically include this part—that is, Algalon making the decision to format, the heroes coming to stop him, and then the battle between the two further influencing the observer's judgment and triggering the final plot.

If the observer's plot was regarded as a plot task, his execution of the code to reshape the world must have a hidden prerequisite, which was to be challenged by the heroes.

As long as this challenge did not occur, the plot of truly sending the world-reshaping code would not be triggered.

The Watchers all thought that after the observers arrived, they would send instructions to the Pantheon based on their observation results, which was correct. However, the time for this observation was not limited. It was elastic, and this elasticity depended on when the heroes attacking Ulduar arrived at the observatory, truly faced the observer himself, and fought him.

If killing Yogg-Saron took a day, then even if the observers arrived within that day, they would not reply to the code. If it was three days, it was the same.

So, no matter what others thought, Aiden wouldn't be nervous.

Of course, he couldn't explain this to the other heroes.

Without a perspective higher than "World of Warcraft," it was impossible to see the trick.

If this world was really regarded as a game, then the real "players" were only the three Titans with the highest authority—Aiden, Aman'Thul, and Sargeras.

"There is no otherwise. We will definitely win, and the world will not be destroyed!" Aiden said firmly.

—

The final battle with Yogg-Saron was coming soon. After passing through the cavity, they did not encounter any strong resistance in the next few teleports. This was not only because Yogg-Saron's power was continuously weakening after losing its heart, but also because their unexpected way of advancing caused the other party to send a large number of minions to places they would not pass through.

In short, an hour later, they teleported from the cavity to Yogg-Saron's skull.

Aiden stood under Yogg-Saron's brain, feeling a little disgusted—this brain was many times larger than Yogg-Saron's heart before. However, due to insufficient blood supply, the blood vessels inside the light yellow brain tissue became dry and thin, and Yogg-Saron's own mental power was also greatly reduced.

He took out the staff and gem and nodded to the other heroes around him.

"Let's do it!"

Everyone else knew what they should do—facing such a brain, it would undoubtedly be a fantasy to destroy it with ordinary attacks.

They all stood under an oval magic barrier. The Watchers and Dragon Aspects joined forces to create this barrier, trying to ensure that Aiden's spellcasting would not be disturbed. At the same time, it also served as a protective umbrella for them in Yogg-Saron's skull, preventing them from being contaminated by those disgusting intracranial fluids and brain tissue.

"This moment has finally come."

Yogg-Saron's voice sounded in everyone's ears, sounding a little indifferent. "You have come to a realm that no one has ever reached before."

Before this, no one had ever been able to enter Yogg-Saron's brain, and no one had even entered the brain of a living Old God in this way—from this perspective, Yogg-Saron was right.

Aiden didn't want to pay attention to it. Who knew what tricks this evil god would play?

With the Old Gods, not only could you not believe even the punctuation marks, but you couldn't even listen to them.

Those who had been tortured and corrupted by their madness could prove this point.

Even if they were disgusted, suspicious, or hated them, listening too much would still lead to corruption.

Aiden activated the Staff of Sargeras, designating Yogg-Saron's entire brain as the target—