"Who should I summon?" Aiden murmured to himself.
Recalling these past few days, he had indeed done many great things: Tirion was not exiled and even participated in the attack on Scholomance.
Because the acting Lord Barthilas wrongly led people to slaughter a group of Dalaran mages, Fording had now returned to his position as Lord of Hearthglen; then, because he reminded Dathrohan to be wary of the Orcs' prison break, Brox died, and Gavinrad might also be seriously injured or crippled; then there was the Alliance's attack on Scholomance—although Kel'Thuzad still ran away in the end, most of his efforts over the years had been in vain.
All of this combined had allowed the Heart of Valoran to absorb a great deal of energy from the distorted timeline, so much that Aiden felt like he had struck it rich overnight.
Images of Ahri, Sona, Janna, Caitlyn… beautiful and well-proportioned female heroes, flashed through his mind.
(T/N: Bro there's male Heroes as well, I would summon Karthus, Thresh or another undead for shit's and giggles)
Although Kayle was always by his side, this angel was too aloof, preventing him from experiencing the joy of having a good conversation.
But after some time , Aiden returned to the main topic—how to make himself and the Valoran heroes behind him more adapted to this world.
Kel'Thuzad's escape had left a shadow in his heart.
His understanding of history did not mean that he was omniscient and omnipotent; the past could be changed, let alone the ever-changing future?
As his actions interfered with the timeline, one day his "knowledge" would completely fail.
"I should ask the mad old man!"
Aiden grasped the Heart of Valoran, permeating his will into it, imagining the appearance of Zilean, the Chronokeeper.
Soon after, he felt his soul leave his body and enter a mysterious space, where the white-haired old man of time appeared before him, greeting him with a smile: "It seems you're doing well in this world!"
Aiden had a bellyful of questions saved up, and now was the perfect time to ask them, and he had to hurry—summoning this old man was "charged by the hour," the cost naturally coming from the energy of the Heart of Valoran.
"Old man, a few days ago I encountered a Bronze Dragon in this timeline.
She discovered that you blurred my future and warned me not to use this ability to tamper with the past, but she didn't realize that I came from a historical timeline in the past.
What's going on?" Aiden asked this question that had been on his mind for several days first.
After all, the Bronze Dragons were related to all his actions in Azeroth; once they discovered that he had actually come to the past history, then the fate awaiting him would inevitably be besieged.
"Good question, then, do you remember the concept of 'End Time'?" Zilean asked rhetorically.
"I remember, the Cataclysm version mentioned that if Deathwing destroyed the world, Azeroth would become like that, most people would die, and the rest would fall into madness."
"Then you must also remember Murozond, the Infinite Dragon."
Zilean organized his words, "The normal Bronze Dragonflight's Aspect, Nozdormu, in order to prevent the doomsday catastrophe, went to the ancient times to retrieve the artifact Demon Soul, and then used it to deal with the crazy Deathwing.
Two very interesting concepts emerged: taking things from a point in the past to deal with enemies in the present, and the present self traveling to the future to kill the future crazy self."
Zilean continued, "From the results you could see at the time, you successfully ended the arrival of the doomsday.
But was that the real doomsday?
This is a question worth considering.
Also as a Chronokeeper, the Bronze Dragonflight's Aspect Nozdormu has the ability to travel through time, doesn't the Infinite Dragonflight's Aspect Murozond have it as well?"
Aiden fell into contemplation, he guessed some of what Zilean wanted to express.
Because he remembered that in the game, Nozdormu also said when traveling through time to kill his future crazy self, that the real End Time had not yet arrived.
He would still fall into madness in the future, no matter what he did now.
"I can make such an analogy.
If I teleport you to two years later now to kill me in the future, then when the normal time passes two years, will I die in the hands of you in the past?
The answer is: no.
Because Chronokeepers exist at every point in time, from another perspective, we are immortal.
You killed me two years in the future, but the current me also exists at countless time points after the future, each point is a real me… do you understand what I mean?"
Aiden swallowed, although he was now a spiritual body and didn't have such a function, he still understood what Zilean wanted to express: Chronokeepers exist in time, but are also independent of time.
Using the ability to travel through time to kill is just a Guardian's avatar located in time.
The ability to be independent of time allows them to continue to exist at any point in time.
"So," he said his guess, "you think the real End Time happened at another point in time.
The Infinite Dragonflight used its ability to bring Deathwing from the past to the future?"
"Yes," Zilean nodded, "In fact, when a projection from another space can be received, its real time point has passed countless times.
It's like you Earthlings use telescopes to see a star that is hundreds of millions of light-years away is falling, but in fact it has already fallen hundreds of millions of years ago."
This is easy to understand.
Because the light representing the fall comes from hundreds of millions of light-years away, the scene that humans observe is of course hundreds of millions of years later.
"What exactly do you want to tell me?" Aiden asked, he probably knew what Zilean wanted to tell him.
"Haven't you already guessed it?" Zilean's eyes seemed to see through him, "That's right, in the real timeline, Azeroth has already experienced the real doomsday catastrophe, the End Time has long since arrived."
"Then how do we explain the world we are in now?" Aiden was distraught.
"This is the result of the joint efforts of the Chronokeepers of two worlds," Zilean looked at him with a smile.
Aiden was overjoyed: "You cooperated with Nozdormu?"
"No, it's Murozond who cooperated with me!"
Aiden's face immediately collapsed: Why did the villain cooperate?
Doesn't this mean that he was able to avoid the eyes and ears of the Bronze Dragons because the other party was doing bad things from the inside?
But come to think of it, the Bronze Dragonflight's Aspect Nozdormu is on the side of maintaining the timeline, while the Infinite Dragonflight's Aspect is on the side of destroying the timeline.
The energy of the Heart of Valoran comes from the distorted timeline, so Zilean's cooperation with the Infinite Dragonflight is simply a win-win situation—Aiden mocked himself: "I'm still too young, alas…"
"One last question, which hero should I summon?"
"That depends on what kind of trouble you are most troubled by now—but you have a lot of energy, you can choose to summon some other things from Valoran's homeland, such as a real hero, or a warrior who can fight for you, or even civilians.
You can't always just bring heroes into battle, summoner."
What the old man said made sense, so Aiden decided to do just that.
But now he doesn't have a fixed territory yet, so summoning soldiers and civilians can be postponed, summon a hero first.
What troubles him the most now is Kel'Thuzad, and the possible coming Northrend campaign.
To deal with such an evil existence, there is a hero who is very suitable:
"It must be as powerful as in the game!
Come out, my slayer of gods, ah no, the Night Hunter—Vayne!"
After the summoning ceremony ended, a cold girl appeared in front of Aiden.
She was wearing a tight-fitting one-piece leather jumpsuit, with a huge crossbow hanging on the scarlet cloak on her back, and a small arm crossbow hidden on her right arm to deal with emergencies.
The coolest thing was the dark red glasses, coupled with her indifferent expression, she was simply full of murderous intent.
This is one of the strongest late-game heroes in the game, the Night Hunter Vayne.
"Summoner!" She saluted Aiden expressionlessly.
"You're welcome, Vayne, welcome to the new world!" Aiden had a smile on his face, but he was scolding himself in his heart for being a masochist—Kayle was cold, and Vayne was also cold.
He always felt that with these two people around him, the surrounding temperature had dropped by several degrees.
It was a bit chilly.
Vayne greeted Kayle and then went straight to the point: "Commander, what is my mission?"
It's really simple and direct—Aiden asked: "How is your combat power?
I have a tricky task here."
"I can eliminate any evil existence," Vayne's answer was full of confidence.
Aiden turned his gaze to Kayle, who also nodded in agreement: "In terms of chasing and hunting evil creatures, Vayne is almost unmatched.
She is qualified enough to take on the task of hunting down Kel'Thuzad."
"Then I can rest assured," Aiden breathed a sigh of relief.
He still trusted Kayle's vision.
She wouldn't pit her teammates, would she!
Since Vayne liked to go straight to the point so much, Aiden was not pretentious either, and told her everything about Kel'Thuzad.
After understanding her mission, Vayne asked Aiden to take her to the underground Scholomance to observe the traces of battle and use her own method to capture Kel'Thuzad's aura.
At this time, many Alliance warriors in Scholomance were still busy.
Vayne asked a mage in Kel'Thuzad's secret room: "How far is this teleportation array?"
"Three to five hundred miles," the mage replied.
Vayne nodded and then left the underground city.
"You found it so quickly?" Aiden asked in surprise.
"I know the direction," Vayne replied confidently, "This evil creature can't escape my pursuit, I'm going on the road!"
It's really swift and decisive.
Aiden sighed and then gave her his gryphon, he couldn't let her travel on foot, could he?
Even if she could chase, Kel'Thuzad could escape far away with a teleport.