Aiden would not rashly follow Sargeras to the opponent's base camp. There was absolutely no basis of trust between him and Sargeras. More importantly, he and Sargeras had completely different attitudes towards dealing with the invasion crisis of imaginary world monsters.
The difference between them was no less than the difference between Sargeras and Aman'Thul, so Aiden had to ask clearly.
"Where are we going?"
"A place that can make our wishes come true," Sargeras deliberately kept it a secret.
"Mirror World?" Aiden frowned.
"It seems you already know," Sargeras was not surprised. He looked proud, "To be precise, it's the Mirror Passage. I spent many years building it. Since you figured it out yesterday, you should be very clear about what the Mirror Passage can bring us." He looked at Aiden, his eyes revealing powerful confidence: "If we join forces, we can solve the entire crisis of the imaginary world!"
"But how do you know it will definitely work?" Aiden asked.
"You should be very clear that this is an act of correcting 'mistakes'. We will not encounter any resistance, so how could it not work?" Sargeras was full of confidence in the Mirror Passage. He believed that this would definitely solve the crisis of the imaginary world perfectly. The source of the monster invasion would be cut off at its root!
"Where does your passage lead to?"
"The real world."
"Then what are you going to do?"
"Like performing surgery, we'll cut off whatever is broken."
Sargeras's answer was logical and left no room for rebuttal. He added: "Only by completely destroying the distorted parts of the imaginary world can we truly contain the crisis. We can't do anything in this world at all, and we are still bound by the hidden 'settings'. Only by going to the real world to reopen the system platform and completely cutting off this last tumor can the crisis in the imaginary world be resolved, and we can return to our original world!"
The human prophet's face wore a calm and composed expression, and the content of his words sounded like he was talking about a surgical operation, but the actual content concerned the countless creatures under the framework of the entire 'World of Warcraft' universe.
Even if excluding those worlds that Aiden had never seen, heard of, or reached, just Azeroth, Draenor, and Xireth, three planets alone, would have tens of millions of ordinary people who would truly perish when Sargeras truly achieved his goal.
Although they were created, when this world became real, they were no longer mere data and code, but living beings with flesh and blood.
Aiden couldn't bring himself to make that decision. He didn't have such a heart of stone.
"I don't agree with this plan," Aiden couldn't help but retort, "The method you said is not the only way."
"But this is the safest and quickest way, isn't it?" Sargeras stared deeply at Aiden, his eagle eyes blooming with a frightening light, "I know you sympathize with those creatures and pity their fate. I can understand, but I don't agree—you should remember your original identity and forget those false memories! My brother, Aiden, we are not from this world, we are far above this world!"
"False memories," Aiden felt as if he had been hit hard.
This was something he had always suspected—were his memories of living on Earth for more than twenty years before he transmigrated real or fake?
If they were real, it meant that he and the other "Titan" Aiden, who was restored by Emma from the Eye of Sargeras, were not the same person, but only obtained the authority of this Titan for some special reason.
If they were fake, it meant that he might never have lived on Earth, or even transmigrated at all—everything might have been memories created under this "free script" in order to achieve some goal for him.
It should be known that if the time of this "Remake of World of Warcraft" is used to correspond to the real time outside, it should be around 2460 AD. And many years ago, when humans withdrew on a large scale, the Titan platform had already been shut down, not to mention whether virtual energy can truly allow people to travel through time. Because in the real world background, "changing history by traveling through time" itself has many paradoxes, and some scholars believe that it is simply impossible.
Aiden didn't want to deny himself. He didn't want to become a non-existent person. Even if he lived for hundreds or thousands of years in the World of Warcraft, he would never think that this was his hometown. He was born on Earth, this was his "mark", and he didn't want to lose this mark.
But in this world now, even the memories of gods can be created, so what is impossible?
Aiden smiled bitterly.
"But I still don't agree with your method!" Aiden took a breath, then looked at Sargeras, "I only really figured it out yesterday that the invasion of the imaginary world by monsters in the game world, and the collapse of the rules of the imaginary world itself, are caused by the universe's own corrective behavior due to the difference between the mirror image and the entity. Is that right?"
"Yes," Sargeras nodded.
He and Aman'Thul entered the game world earlier than Aiden. Although these two Titans spent more time than Aiden to figure out this problem, they eventually thought of it.
It's like a person looking in a mirror: if the person outside the mirror makes any moves, these changes will inevitably be reflected in real time on the image in the mirror.
If the person outside the mirror makes a scissor hand, the person in the mirror will of course also make a scissor hand; if the person outside the mirror takes off his hat, the person in the mirror will do the same.
But back then, Emma led the scientists to explore the imaginary world, but forcibly changed this common sense—the person outside the mirror went to the mirror, but the person in the mirror did not come out of the mirror.
As their steps became larger and larger, the difference between the imaginary world, that is, the mirror image world, and the real world became larger and larger. It's like the naming is Zhang San looking in the mirror, but seeing that the mirror reflects not himself, but Li Si!
This is artificial distortion, a subversion of common sense.
And this "common sense" magnified to the standard of the universe becomes the law of the universe.
Initially, the "Heart of the Titans" spent nearly a hundred years testing the imaginary world to see if humans could truly control it. For anyone, the temptation to jump from an ordinary person to a god is irresistible.
From 2367, when Emma compiled the imaginary world with the help of three Titans with the highest authority, to 2422, when the Heart of the Titans opened some access ports to the government and the public, allowing some companies and governments to build imaginary worlds on the Titan system platform, and then to 2443, before the first player in the game world died of brain death. Even further back, tracing back to 2137, when Emma first discovered the imaginary world.
For such a long time, spanning several centuries, the universe itself did not produce any changes because of human's transformation of the imaginary world, so that humans were completely immersed in the enjoyment of the imaginary world, this fairyland on earth.
And by 2443, all the contradictions broke out, and have not been resolved to this day.
A few years ago, during the Outland War, when Aiden learned from the Old God Vanaar that the existence of the Old Gods was to solve a "mistake" born in a certain universe, he had always wanted to figure out what the "mistake" was. Yesterday, he finally determined—wasn't the "mistake" the difference between the real world and the mirror image world?
Humans cannot fight against the laws of the universe. Human's transformation of the imaginary world only changed their mirror image, but did not change themselves.
Faced with such a "mistake", the rules that exist in the "mirror" itself will erase these changes!
And this "erasure" manifested in the imaginary world is to abolish those rules that originally did not exist, allowing Earth immigrants to live forever and be healthy, and then destroy all buildings and worlds that should not exist!
This is also why the entire imaginary world is being attacked everywhere, but the Earth in the imaginary world is safe and sound.
In some respects, the Old Gods are not wrong, they are just executing the will of the universe.
The so-called "Twilight Hour" of the Old Gods, the so-called "End of Time" of the entire universe, isn't it the universe's will itself using these Old Gods to completely destroy the artificially created imaginary world of 'World of Warcraft'?
Aiden had already figured these things out yesterday, but he also had his own position.
It is not wrong for the Old Gods to execute the will of the universe; it is not wrong for Sargeras to return to the real world and solve the crisis of the imaginary world monster invasion that has been plaguing humans for a long time, fulfilling Emma's original request; it is not wrong for Aman'Thul to want to control the situation and prevent it from getting worse; it is even less wrong for Aiden to want to do everything possible to protect the people and allies who support him.
After these thoughts turned around in his mind, he returned to the current topic: "Sargeras, I know you want to solve the crisis by directly formatting this world. But I think there are still problems with this approach."
"Hmm?" Sargeras frowned.
He didn't think there was anything wrong with his plan, but he was curious what Aiden would use to refute him.
"We all know that the Earth in the real world immigrated to the imaginary world, and later returned to the real world because of the crisis," Aiden looked at the other party, and seeing that the other party did not comment, he continued, "We assume that 'the mirror image and reality must match' is the law of the universe, then 'change' is the root cause of the outbreak of the imaginary world crisis. Do you agree?"
Sargeras nodded.
Aiden asked: "And the Earth in the imaginary world and the Earth in the real world have also embarked on completely different paths, then according to this law, will this crisis spread to the real world?"