Whirlpool

War has come.

The violent earthquake declared this message to the world.

Everyone understood that this could only be the tremor caused by Deathwing breaking the World Pillar.

The "World Pillar," as the name suggests, is a pillar supporting the reality of Azeroth.

It is rooted in the Earth Elemental Plane, which is the center of Deepholm.

This is not just a pillar; in fact, it is also one of the important structures that the Titans shaped the world with, and it is a very crucial part of maintaining their modified world system.

Before being transformed by the Titans, the planet was no different from the ordinary planets people recognized.

For example, before the arrival of the Titans, Azeroth's core was magma, the outside was the crust, and above the crust were the oceans and land.

After the Titans shaped it, the overall structure of this planet underwent earth-shattering changes, becoming complex and sophisticated.

Now, the complete Azeroth can be divided into three parts: the real world, the elemental plane, and the Emerald Dream.

A planet transformed by the Titans should be such a tripartite world.

These three levels exist independently, yet they are integrated with each other.

They completely overlap, but because of the special frequency of fluctuations, they are both within sight and beyond reach.

But those who understand this structure know that the three have always influenced each other, and a single strand can affect the whole body.

For example, during the Nightmare Crisis, Xavius could control the entire world by forcibly merging the Dream and reality; during the War of the Three Hammers two hundred years ago, the Dark Iron dwarves were also able to summon Ragnaros, the Fire Lord, from the elemental plane to Blackrock Mountain.

If you compare it to a computer, then the real world is the computer hardware, the elemental plane is the software, and the Dream is the backup data.

The "World Pillar" is an important tool that formally supports these three independent planes.

It is like a memory stick; after it is unplugged, the entire system will not be able to run.

Once it collapses, the distinction between reality, the Dream, and the elemental plane will become very blurred.

If it is not repaired, Azeroth will gradually return to its original appearance in an unprecedented cataclysm: the Titans' transformation of it will all fail.

The elemental plane, the Dream, and the real world will completely merge, and of course, the sealed Old Gods will also break free from their cages.

This is not a good thing; the Nightmare Crisis alone, when the Dream merged with reality, almost led to the end of the world.

No one dares to imagine what kind of power the Old God N'Zoth, freed from his restraints, can unleash.

— —

Los Angeles General Staff Headquarters.

It is now the third day after the start of the war.

Everyone gathered around the holographic map of Azeroth from Titan technology.

The staff officers summarized the information, and several constantly flashing red dots appeared on the spherical map.

The areas of these red dots on the desktop were enlarged, and the situations were presented to everyone.

These places are the Maelstrom, Deepholm, Uldum, and Mount Hyjal.

"The vanguard has entered Deepholm through the Maelstrom, and the troops are encountering attacks from earth elemental creatures!"

— — This is the message from the vanguard entering Deepholm.

The earth elementals of Deepholm are all the children of "Mother Stone" Therazane.

Aiden remembered that in the original history, shouldn't this Mother Stone be neutral?

Why didn't the vanguard encounter the attacks of the Twilight's Hammer, but instead fought with the children of Mother Stone?

He thought that there must be some unknown changes in this.

The vanguard's duty is to determine whether there are still important enemies such as Deathwing in Deepholm.

Leading the army are shamans from the Earthen Ring and elite troops from Thunder Bluff who cooperate with them.

Of course, the main responsibility of the Earthen Ring is not to fight, but to repair the World Pillar and prevent further merging of the elements, reality, and the Dream.

As for why Therazane would order the earth elementals to attack the vanguard, it was because she "accidentally" received a message that her missing daughter Theradras was killed by this group of enemies who invaded the Earth Elemental Plane!

Therazane didn't believe this message at first.

When Deathwing shattered the World Pillar, she was very worried about it.

The good news is that Deathwing, who had been bothering her for thousands of years, ran away, but the bad news is that his servants left here have a part of the World Pillar fragments, and she may not be able to take the fragments back with her own ability.

As the master of the Earth Elemental Plane, she sensed the vanguard as soon as they entered Deepholm.

She sent her children to question whether they had killed Theradras.

The tauren chieftain Cairne Bloodhoof's son, Baine Bloodhoof, responded on behalf of the vanguard.

The straightforward Baine readily admitted that they did kill Theradras.

He didn't know that Theradras was the daughter of this Mother Stone.

The two sides immediately quarreled, and eventually a conflict broke out.

The earth elementals and the vanguard started fighting.

Princess Theradras is Therazane's third daughter.

She is "slim and sexy" and looks "beautiful as a flower" — of course, from the perspective of earth elemental aesthetics.

She is very pleasing to her mother, but later she left Deepholm and went to the outside world.

In the many years that followed, Therazane never received any news about this daughter.

Mother Stone never expected that this farewell would become a farewell forever — not long ago, someone told her that Princess Theradras went to the outside world a long time ago and married "King of the Forest," the demigod Cenarius's son Zaetar — which was considered a good match.

But three years ago, she and her husband were attacked by a group of tauren.

The tauren attacked Maraudon — the love nest of Princess Theradras and Zaetar, killing their offspring — the centaurs, and finally exterminating them and completely destroying Maraudon!

Mother Stone is a soft-hearted person.

She didn't want to believe such news at first, but there are indeed many tauren among the people who entered Deepholm.

They are aggressive and look around for something after they come out of the Earth Shrine, and it seems that they are not kind.

The Earth Shrine is Deathwing's territory.

It is very likely that these people who came from the Earth Shrine are Deathwing's evil servants!

Therefore, her messenger came back and told her that those tauren were arrogant and did not feel that they had done anything wrong in killing Theradras.

This really angered Mother Stone, and she regarded these people as Deathwing's servants, which made her determined to let her children and the vanguard start a full-scale war!

On the other side, Baine Bloodhoof certainly didn't think he was wrong.

For thousands of years, the centaurs have almost exterminated the tauren.

If it hadn't been for the help of the Valoran Expeditionary Force more than two years ago, I'm afraid their tauren would have ceased to exist.

The centaur, a race that is inherently plundering and fierce and brutal, should not exist at all.

After gaining a firm foothold, at the request of Thunder Bluff, the Valoran Allied Forces readily sent troops to help the tauren attack Maraudon, and broke through the centaur's lair in one fell swoop, and killed the centaur's mother Princess Theradras, who was entrenched in Maraudon.

There is no doubt that "War Shadow" Hecarim must have been the most active in the battle to conquer Maraudon.

He killed countless centaurs, and collected countless centaur ghosts to create ghost cavalry, and his strength has been greatly increased.

Although the information that Mother Stone knows has a biased position, most of it is correct, but one thing is completely wrong — it was not the tauren and the Valoran Allied Forces who killed Zaetar.

Zaetar was killed by his offspring, the brutal centaurs, thousands of years ago.

The war started inexplicably.

The leader of the Earthen Ring, Muln Earthfury, and the leader of the vanguard, Cairne Bloodhoof, discussed and judged that the earth elementals were likely to have taken refuge in Deathwing, or that Mother Stone had returned to the embrace of the Old Gods, so they resisted while sending the news back to Los Angeles.

— —

As for the vicinity of the Maelstrom, a sudden large-scale naval battle took place.

One side of the battle was the Kul Tiran navy, who were escorting the vanguard into the Maelstrom and maintaining alert around them.

However, basically no one thought that there would be enemies attacking from the sea, because Deathwing had no navy under his command.

This is what everyone knows.

But at this time, the shadows of masts and sailboats vaguely appeared in the thin sea fog.

When this news reached Admiral Daelin Proudmoore, the naval commander of the flagship "Courage," he frowned.

"Could it be merchant ships traveling between the two continents?"

"The Eastern Kingdoms have become like that, who would come to do business between the two continents?"

Admiral Daelin felt that this guess was not reliable, and he ordered the carrier-based helicopters to take off from the deck to scout.

After seeing the convenience of helicopters, Admiral Daelin, as a naval warfare expert, naturally thought of using this aerial weapon in naval battles.

Therefore, he specially modified some naval warships to allow them to take off and land helicopters, and purchased a batch of armed helicopters from the Valoran Federation and Gnomeregan, and entrusted the training of a group of naval aviators.

A squadron of more than a dozen helicopters flew towards the fleet that was sailing towards them.

If the enemy is coming, the helicopter squadron can confirm the enemy's situation and allow the commander to make a strategic decision to fight or retreat.

If they are going to fight, these helicopter units can not only fight, but also guide the fleet's artillery fire to accurately attack.

Daelin has conducted many naval exercises, and this time may be a chance for actual combat!

The naval aviation helicopters painted with the Kul Tiran emblem quickly approached, and the situation in the distance quickly became clear.

The command room received their report as soon as possible:

"Report, report… enemy sighted!"

"It's a troll fleet!"

"So many warships, hundreds and thousands!"

Several extremely shocked voices came from the radio communication channel.

"We are under attack, repeat, we are under attack by the enemy fleet!"

The pilot's voice became very flustered.

"Tass has been hit! He's crashing!"

"Cover him, cover him!"

"Bail out, bail out!"