Elune

The "news" of Aiden's death was only known to a very few people. The vast majority were unaware. Many ordinary people didn't even know about the battle that had taken place on the ancient beach, didn't know that a multicolored dragon named "Aozhuo Kexiong" had almost destroyed the world they had lived in for generations, and didn't know that Karthus, Aiden, and others had saved everything at the cost of their lives.

People always cherish things after they lose them. For example, Aiden—without his guidance, the Alliance was now almost like a headless fly.

The continent of Pandaria had been discovered, and the pandaren of the Wandering Isle, who had been wandering for thousands of years, had embarked on a journey to return to their homeland. They became the best link between the Alliance and the pandaren of Pandaria, and the trolls could be considered the common enemy of the Alliance and the pandaren, so the two forces that had never met should easily come together.

This was originally expected. Everything had been agreed upon at the Alliance meeting before the seal was opened.

But what to do next caused a split within the Alliance—because the Alliance originally planned to launch an operation in Pandaria to completely eliminate the trolls, but this proposal was rejected by the Shado-Pan, who represented the pandaren. The Alliance was in a dilemma.

The pandaren love peace, dislike fighting, and are unwilling to let the flames of war burn in their homeland, nor do they want the hatred of the outside world to continue on this peaceful land. This is not only because of their nature, but also because of a huge hidden danger in Pandaria—the matter must start with an Old God named "Y'Shaarj."

Y'Shaarj is different from other Old Gods—it is not tentacled, but a seven-headed behemoth with an incomparably ferocious appearance. Each of its heads represents a negative emotion. Legend has it that it devours hope and releases despair, sucks in courage and exhales fear.

In the ancient times of Azeroth, during the war between the Titans and the Old Gods, Y'Shaarj was killed by the Titans, but its last terrifying breath covered the place where it died, and from then on left a terrible shadow on this land that could almost never be eradicated.

The place where it died was Pandaria, and the shadow it left behind was the Sha, which could collect people's negative emotions and materialize!

Doubt, confusion, rage, hatred, anger, fear, arrogance—these seven emotions each correspond to one of Y'Shaarj's seven heads. As long as the negative emotions emitted by the intelligent creatures on this land accumulate to a certain degree, Y'Shaarj's clone will descend again.

The Shado-Pan pandaren, who have guarded Pandaria for generations, are very clear about the threat of the Sha, so they are unwilling to let the conflict between the Alliance and the trolls continue on this land—because that will surely cause the Sha to descend!

The Alliance's plan to advance into Pandaria was immediately met with the greatest setback.

What to do next? The leaders of the Alliance expressed their opinions, but unfortunately they failed to reach an agreement.

Some felt that they should build a good relationship with the Shado-Pan and try to persuade them; some saw that the trolls were about to gain a foothold and were prepared to ignore the pandaren's warnings and forcibly pursue the trolls; others wanted to bypass the Shado-Pan, contact the forces related to the Valley of the Four Winds, solve the famine problem that was troubling the Alliance, and then consider other things…

Because they lacked a leader who could convince everyone, or who could make a final decision, no one could convince anyone in this discussion.

The leaders were used to following Aiden's advice, but now the Valoran Federation was no longer speaking—they were busy resurrecting Aiden and Karthus—so the leaders of the other Alliance countries were a little divided.

But soon they shifted their attention to another direction, because Pandaria sent back an important military intelligence report—an advance force of the Alliance was counterattacked by the trolls, and more than a thousand elite vanguard troops were killed in battle, almost completely wiped out by the trolls!

This news shocked everyone, so much so that it immediately became the focus of everyone's attention. In regular warfare, the Alliance had never lost so much strength at once.

And according to the intelligence report, this vanguard force was not ambushed, and the number of people was not at an absolute disadvantage—but the trolls' strength suddenly increased greatly, as if they had divine assistance, and they easily defeated the elite of the vanguard!

People almost suspected that what they saw was a malicious joke, or intelligence that had been exaggerated countless times, but they knew that there was no room for jokes in the extremely serious matter of military intelligence. Every number in the intelligence represented a once-vibrant life.

What caused the elite of the vanguard to be unable to defeat trolls of equal numbers?

Their doubts did not last long. The priests of the Darkspear troll tribe brought relevant information—although this ally of the Valoran Federation did not have a strong intelligence network, and only a dozen headhunters participated in the vanguard, they did bring the truth:

The Zandalari trolls were not "as if" they had divine assistance, but they really had divine assistance!

Because of the arrival of the Cataclysm, the distance between the Emerald Dream and the real world became very close. The night elves took this opportunity to resurrect many ancient guardians and demigods who died in the War of the Ancients, but this was not the patent of the night elves—the gods believed in by the trolls also existed in the Emerald Dream in the form of souls. They also seized this opportunity.

And when some powerful gods believed in by the trolls were resurrected, the troll believers gained unimaginable divine power.

Troll beliefs are extremely diverse. Countless troll families and tribes, both large and small, worship different gods. The number of these LOA gods is uncountable, but there are a few that all trolls worship in common.

These gods are very ancient and very powerful. They even claim that the Moon Goddess Elune is one of them—of course, whether Elune acknowledges this is another matter.

But undeniably, these gods are indeed very formidable.

Among the gods, the first to be resurrected was the "Serpent Goddess" Ula-Tek—the strongest among them.

She merely bestowed a small blessing upon the troll warriors fighting the vanguard, and these followers easily defeated their opponents.

So now everyone can stop arguing—this suddenly emerging and enormous external conflict has once again unified the Alliance's will. Whether it's for revenge against the trolls or for other reasons, they must continue to fight. Because they can no longer retreat!

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When Aiden "woke up" again from the final explosion, he had returned to a familiar place—the Emerald Dream—the strange world he had first encountered when he transmigrated.

He had also entered here during the Nightmare War, but the situation was different now. This time, he came inside in the form of a soul, becoming a "dead person" in name.

Dying once is truly a terrible feeling. He will never forget the sensation of being burned to ashes by the raging fire when he smashed open the Chromatic Dragon's heart. Fortunately, he won't be stuck in the Dream forever. He died in a good era—he believed that he would be resurrected again before long.

Because of this mood, he relaxed a lot, treating it as a long vacation for himself, traveling to another dimension.

Thinking like this, all his depression disappeared.

It's just that someone always pours cold water when you're happy. He hadn't taken a few steps when an "uninvited guest" automatically came to his door—but it wasn't a malicious guest, nor the resurrected Nightmare Lord, but the "Moon Goddess" Elune—the true god Aiden had once seen during the Nightmare Crisis!

True God—for a long time—actually, in the game, Elune was the only true god officially recognized, and she was very likely the most powerful being in the universe—of course, Blizzard loves to "retcon," that is, overturn the original setting, so later she was no longer the only true god, and even some LOA gods worshiped by the trolls could rival Elune.

That being said, Elune's power is beyond doubt.

A ray of bright moonlight suddenly appeared in front of Aiden, and Elune appeared in the beam of light. Then the anomaly disappeared, and the goddess's silver eyes gazed at Aiden. Aiden didn't know why the Moon Goddess would appear here, but he still greeted her: "Hi, long time no see, my goddess!"

The tone of his voice was very teasing, but he didn't think the other party would mind—you know, the last time they met, she had asked him for help. In any case, this goddess still owed him a favor, so she couldn't just turn her back on him, right?

"If you mean face-to-face, then yes, it has been a while." Elune walked closer to Aiden. She emanated a faint, soft moonlight, looking beautiful and ethereal, and her voice was soft and melodious. Even setting aside her identity, her current image is definitely a model of a goddess.

"However, I have been watching your every move, so the greeting 'long time no see' is not appropriate." Elune said very seriously, and didn't seem to be joking.

Aiden couldn't help but widen his eyes: "Always? Every moment?"

The Moon Goddess nodded as a matter of course.

Aiden was immediately embarrassed: "This, this… my privacy?"

He wiped away non-existent cold sweat and looked at Elune opposite him with a strange gaze—thinking that his eating, sleeping, working, and even going to the toilet or other very private actions were actually being watched by someone the whole time, he immediately felt a lot of pressure.

He didn't know that the Moon Goddess had such a perverted hobby before…

Elune asked bluntly: "Are you shy? But there's no need to be—to make an analogy, would you feel shy from observing one or two ants and being aroused by their behavior?"

" … No." Aiden shook his head awkwardly, but he couldn't help but complain about this goddess in his heart—even if you treat me like an ant, you don't have to say it so bluntly…

Besides, Elune appeared in the image of a night elf. Although there are differences from humans, they basically have the same aesthetic, and there is even no reproductive isolation between the two races. At least on the surface, there is no huge difference like "humans and ants."

But then he thought of the love affair between the Moon Goddess and Malorne, and suddenly felt that it made sense. Anyway, he would definitely not go… after a doe.

"I came to see you because I have a few things to tell you." Elune changed the subject, but her first sentence immediately ruined Aiden's good mood—she said, "The first thing is about your resurrection—your subordinates in the mortal world cannot resurrect you."