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"Ha, the future is full of variables, my friend!" Aiden laughed heartily after hearing his explanation. Then, he put away his smile, pretended to be serious, and replied, "Thank you for your 'encouragement.' Then, you will have the honor of witnessing such a scene!"

"Is this really the time for you to be joking? You humans have such thick skin!" Queen Alexstrasza couldn't help but complain.

Although she was the first to declare that she would stay and had fully prepared herself to sacrifice herself, Alexstrasza even believed that it would inevitably be her final end. However, she had no regrets about dying for her duty.

Moreover, she had her beloved by her side!

Krasus insisted on staying, saying that if the world was to be destroyed, being able to die beside the one he loved most would be his greatest happiness—this sentence simply melted Alexstrasza's heart.

But who would want to die if they could live?

If she could live, she would definitely return to the Red Dragon Shrine with Krasus and lay many, many dragon eggs… But this beautiful vision was like a flower in a mirror or the moon in the water in the face of cruel reality—desirable but unattainable.

Alexstrasza appeared very anxious in this state of apprehension. However, after hearing the conversation between Khadgar and Aiden, she inexplicably relaxed a lot.

—Just take this mage's nonsense as truth for once!

"This is not a joke," Aiden said with a smile. "Hope is a wonderful thing, perhaps the best thing in the world. And wonderful things never die."

Ysera said with delight, "So we have obtained an immortal amulet, right?"

"That's right, Lady Ysera." Aiden nodded, then winked at the Red Dragon Queen, "See, your sister is more insightful than you!"

Everyone laughed heartily—if it were in a peaceful and tranquil environment, such as an outing in the countryside, or entertaining guests and friends, or traveling and enjoying the scenery, this would be the most harmonious environment between friends, confidants, and lovers.

It was a pity that such a setting was lacking now.

They were in the Nexus, a Titan's abandoned testing ground, with ruins and rubble everywhere after the rampant energy, and a dragon was burning madly in the sky, about to explode—it was about to destroy the world!

"I am Chromatus, the most powerful dragon!" The dragon uttered the most arrogant words, but no one could refute it, "You can never defeat me, hahahahaha…never!"

Aiden looked up at the sky, then smiled and said, "Protect yourselves!"

"What can I do?" Kael'thas asked in a low voice. Her eyes under her helmet were revealing worry and unease, emotions that had rarely appeared in her long life, even making her feel unfamiliar and puzzled.

Aiden thought for a moment and replied solemnly, "Cheer me on!"

Behind him, wings of holy light unfolded, and the sacred power allowed him to fly freely.

The relaxed atmosphere suddenly solidified, and people's expressions became calm. The Dragon Aspects looked at each other, then took the lead in flying into the holy light barrier created by the naaru.

Everyone could feel that the deformed monster in the sky was becoming more and more unstable. His body was facing disintegration, and the energy erupting from the inside out would completely destroy the world.

The Dragon Aspects flew up, no longer stingy with the divine power bestowed upon them by the Titans. This majestic power intertwined on the holy light barrier, adding many beautiful colors to this layer of pale golden barrier.

At this time, Aiden had also flown to Chromatus's side.

Khadgar, Krasus, and Kael'thas were standing outside the barrier.

Krasus said, "Do you think he can succeed?"

"Of course he can." Khadgar replied, winking and imitating Aiden's tone, "If you ask Aiden this question, he will definitely say, 'Remove the 'can he?'—don't you think so?'"

Kael'thas, who had been wearing a stern face, couldn't help but chuckle when she heard him say this and imagined Aiden saying that.

"Alright, I admit you have a point." Krasus shook his head. He looked at the sky and couldn't help but say, "I wonder what it feels like to face the Chromatic Dragon at this time?"

If Aiden could hear Krasus's question, he would definitely answer: "It feels like standing next to a pile of nuclear bombs about to explode."

Right in front of him, Chromatus's body was constantly cracking, like extremely dehydrated and parched land, covered with irregular cracks. Aiden's scalp tingled at the sight, and he couldn't imagine how intense the pain must be.

Chromatus let out a deafening wail in this pain, and the blazing black-purple flames spewed outward from the cracks in its body, so that the dragon seemed to be ignited, exuding terrifying high temperatures.

The Chromatic Dragon's skin could not be destroyed even by most artifacts, which shows how terrifying the power that was tearing apart its body was.

When this shell completely disintegrated, it would be the time when that power truly erupted!

This moment was coming.

All of Chromatus's heads turned to stare at Aiden in front of it. Its wings were burning, its tail was burning, and even its throat was burning. It could no longer make a sound at this time, but it conveyed its emotions with its eyes.

The burning twelve eyes were revealing the same meaning: "You cannot stop the Twilight Judgment, no one can stop it!"

At this moment, the Chromatic Dragon's most fragile eyes exploded one after another. It opened its huge mouth and let out a silent wail, and the fiery flames spewed out of its hollow eye sockets, looking extremely terrifying.

Aiden was in front of this dragon, holding the Scepter of Sargeras and the Focusing Iris tightly in his hands. No one knew that his palms were sweating, and even his back was wet.

This was not because of the heat, but because of nervousness—he understood the operation of this world, knew its essence, but this could not prevent him from dying. Once he failed, even if he was a Titan with the highest authority, he would face death.

The power that was about to erupt from inside the Chromatic Dragon's body and destroy everything would not distinguish between good and bad. The only one who could survive was probably N'Zoth at the bottom of the deep sea—it would break free and become the only survivor.

Perhaps even this self-destruction was one of N'Zoth's plans? Because it would be the only beneficiary.

Aiden knew that he only had one chance, a fleeting opportunity. He couldn't even guarantee how successful this opportunity would be, thirty percent or fifty percent. Because no one had ever done the same thing, he had no reference.

At this moment, he knew that he should be more focused, but his heart couldn't help but think of other things—such as whether this scene came from the "system's" backlash?

Because he had done too many things that touched the system's settings, the history of Azeroth was now completely different. All the changes and pressures accumulated to this day, finally forming a violent eruption—now the "system" was giving him an unprecedented predicament—

The Chromatic Dragon was an unkillable monster, but keeping it would destroy the world; killing it would still destroy the world.

It was like a giant wheel that would not stop once it started, crushing any obstacles that tried to stop it from moving forward, and heading towards an inevitable end.

No matter what Aiden chose, it seemed that the Chromatic Dragon's destruction of the world had become a foregone conclusion.

This seemed to have become a dead knot, an impossible mission, just like a game in which a player in the current version could not defeat a BOSS no matter how hard they tried, but the game team never weakened it through patches—the Chromatic Dragon in front of him had become such a NPND (no-patch-no-down, referring to a BOSS that cannot be defeated without weakening the version patch) existence.

And this was not a game, there was no repeating the exploration, no dying and resurrecting to come again, Aiden could not wait for the next system patch to correct and weaken Chromatus.

Normally speaking, there would not be such an impossible mission in a healthy system.

When Aiden saw that Chromatus was about to explode, he tried his best to find the possible "completion of the mission"—or rather, a way to prevent Chromatus from self-destructing.

When he saw the other party's disintegrating body, he thought of—before, the Scepter of Sargeras and the Focusing Iris could not read the Chromatic Dragon's model, because Chromatus absorbed the Titan Energy Orb, and with the protection of this Titan artifact, the scepter and gem, which also belonged to the Titan artifact, naturally could not work.

Now the Titan Energy Orb was still in Chromatus's body, but the Chromatic Dragon's body had become fragile—the conflict between the Chromatic Dragon gene and the Twilight Dragon gene made it no longer have a shell that was difficult to destroy even with artifacts.

So Aiden thought of a way—if he could dig open the other party's body before it exploded and find the Titan Energy Orb, perhaps he could stop the explosion!

This was the only feasible method he could think of.

Now was the moment to verify whether this method was effective!

"Failure means death!" He reminded himself in his heart.

Aiden turned his attention back to Chromatus's body. When he saw a scale suddenly fall off the other party's body, he launched—he used all his strength, and his body once again emitted golden flames. This pure energy isolated the dark purple flames from the Chromatic Dragon, preventing him from being burned.

Then he rushed up, raised the Scepter of Sargeras in his hand, and slammed it hard into the wound on Chromatus's chest that he had previously cut open with the Dragon King's Blades.

"Clang, clang, clang," the head of the staff was like knocking on a brick, seemingly without any effect, but now Chromatus's body itself had become very fragile, and these few blows knocked off a large piece of flesh near the crack.

It seems that the method is effective!

Aiden was immediately greatly encouraged.