This was the second day of Aiden being a lord.
Actually, he wasn't a lord in the purest sense; in terms of status, it wouldn't be wrong to call him the ruler of a country.
However, the territory was too small, and he had no awareness that his status was equivalent to a king.
Being a commander was much better, like in the fortresses of the Warcraft world, listening to a group of underlings shouting "Hello, Commander" and "Greetings, Commander" every day felt great.
Just after breakfast, Vayne appeared before him with complete armament: "Commander, I feel that Kel'Thuzad is not far from us, I'm going to hunt him down!"
"Are you sure?" Aiden asked.
He was very happy that Kel'Thuzad was in the Hillsbrad Foothills, because once this guy went to sea and then went to Stormwind City, who knows how much damage it would cause.
And if he was here, no matter what he did, it would at least be within Aiden's power.
"I haven't captured his aura yet, but my intuition tells me so," Vayne's answer was simple and direct, but at this time Aiden was willing to believe her intuition.
"Then I approve it."
"I need some support," Vayne said, this was the first time she had asked for support, which surprised Aiden, "My Silver Bolts used to be made by a special magic workshop.
Now I don't have many bolts left."
"Alright, no problem, I'll summon them later.
Are there any other needs?" Aiden readily agreed.
Vayne was not polite and said directly: "If you want to find Kel'Thuzad and his evil servants as soon as possible, I need a good partner."
"Who?"
"Demacia's best scout, the Wings of Demacia—Quinn."
Aiden thought for a while and felt it was necessary.
Quinn could not only help Vayne find the target quickly, but in the future wars, this female hero who could use the eyes of an eagle to scout the enemy's situation would also be of great use.
So he temporarily postponed his beautiful wish to summon Janna, Ahri, Caitlyn…
Aiden comforted himself: Actually, Quinn looks good too, it's just that the equipment is ugly…
What was worth comforting was that summoning Quinn consumed less energy than he expected, at least less than summoning Vayne.
After the light of the summoning portal disappeared, Quinn, wearing a leather armor and carrying a crossbow, appeared in front of Aiden.
Her shoulder was standing on the blue-gray giant eagle Valor, also staring at him motionlessly.
"Wings of Demacia—Quinn, greetings, Commander!" Quinn gave a standard military salute.
Aiden nodded and smiled: "Welcome to the new world, Quinn, and your partner Valor!"
He carefully looked at this newly joined hero, Quinn did look good, her eyes were sharp, her face was cold, and she had the demeanor of a heroic female soldier.
"Wearing a green military uniform must look good," Aiden thought in his heart.
"Demacia's military uniform is too ugly!"
After meeting, Vayne introduced the situation here to Quinn.
They looked like a pair of best friends, was it because they both used crossbows?
Aiden didn't know, but by noon, both of them were no longer in Durnholde.
A Demacian soldier told him that the two had ridden out of the city on horseback to carry out their mission in the morning.
A pair of workaholics!
It's still good to have Kayle, always by my side.
But so far, she has only taken off her helmet twice in front of people, once at the Stratholme blessing ceremony, and once yesterday when he was talking to the people.
After seeing her real face, Aiden felt that the golden helmet was very obtrusive every time he saw it, and he had the urge to throw it away.
After thinking about it, he still didn't dare—how about hiding it secretly?
Aiden thought distractedly.
In the morning, according to the reports of the various officers, he supplemented the various tools and materials they needed in a targeted manner.
Such as large machinery and energy needed for reconstruction, as well as training equipment for soldiers in the barracks, and so on.
Counting the consumption of summoning Quinn, there was still more than half of the remaining energy.
With the idea that the energy spent can only get greater benefits, he prepared to summon another hero.
And by the way, summon the things needed for the "Holy Transformation Ceremony" that Kayle said before.
Once again immersing his mind into the Heart of Valoran, Aiden chose a hero he had been looking forward to for a long time, and then used his thoughts to summon his virtual image: Ryze, the Rune Mage.
However, his summoning did not receive a response.
"Could it be that there are not enough energy points?" Aiden thought.
But obviously this kind of energy is enough to summon two Vaynes.
He had already made the choice of hero before summoning.
The reason for choosing Ryze was because this hero completely conformed to the definition of "justice", and was also a mage in the complete sense.
Reality is different from the game, in the game, the AP that causes spell damage are called mages, so that heroes like Ziggs, the Hexplosives Expert, are also classified as mages.
But in fact, Ziggs and Viktor are not mages in the pure sense.
As the guardian of Valoran, Ryze is naturally a true mage, and also proficient in various spells.
Considering the alliance with Dalaran, Ryze is obviously the most suitable mage to represent Valoran.
But why can't he be summoned?
When Kayle was summoned at the beginning, it didn't require so much energy.
According to Zilean, Kayle is a true god with divinity!
Much stronger than Ryze.
Of course, at this time, he didn't know how much energy he had spent when summoning Kayle.
He thought that he had only spent the energy he had obtained when he met Cenarius and was given a mark!
But in fact, it far exceeded his knowledge.
Aiden suspected that he didn't open it in the right way, when the last time the disappeared Zilean suddenly appeared in front of him and answered his doubts.
"You can't summon Ryze not because of the energy problem," Zilean said, and then he began to popularize some secrets of the Heart of Valoran that Aiden didn't understand:
"Ryze obtained a power that all mages crave from the scroll on his back—the power to merge with the Valoran magic network.
This allows him to have endless and inexhaustible mana.
And in the end, he became the guardian of the magical power of Runeterra, a true demigod.
Even in Valoran, he can completely rival the gods.
But while gaining powerful power, the magic net bound him to Valoran.
If you want to summon him, either the Heart of Valoran has ten times more energy than it does now, or you have a powerful vessel that allows him to break free from the magic net and descend on Azeroth."
"What kind of vessel?" Aiden asked.
"A vessel with powerful magical power.
For example, a magical artifact, such as the body of a mage with outstanding magical talent, or even powerful magical energy, many can be used.
But it must be strong enough and outstanding enough.
Because the strength of the vessel will directly affect the strength of Ryze.
In the future, you will encounter some heroes who need vessels, most of them follow this principle.
So I suggest you can exchange for a conversion stone first.
Don't worry, it's very cheap."
As soon as he mentioned magical artifacts, Aiden immediately thought of the Book of Medivh, the Skull of Gul'dan, and the Eye of Sargeras.
If he remembered correctly, the first two were in Dalaran, and the remaining one was in the Tomb of Sargeras.
Putting aside the Book of Medivh that the Dalaran mages couldn't let go of, Aiden began to think, if he proposed to use an evil thing like the Skull of Gul'dan to summon a powerful righteous hero, would the Kirin Tor Council agree?
Worth a try!
He thought so.
Anyway, there is nothing to lose by mentioning it.
Moreover, the Skull of Gul'dan will play an important role in the near future.
After the Scourge breached Dalaran, this artifact fell into the hands of Tichondrius, the leader of the dreadlords, and was used by it to pollute Felwood.
Then Illidan, because of Arthas's deliberate inducement, absorbed the power of this artifact and became a demon.
Causing him to never be recognized by the night elves, and never be able to turn back on the dark road.
This is enough to show that the Skull of Gul'dan is obviously a disaster.
Keeping it in Dalaran has no other use than to invite the Scourge to invade.
Thinking this way, Aiden felt that his chances of persuading them had greatly increased.
So he quickly asked: "If there is a vessel, will it still need energy to summon the hero?"
Zilean replied: "It needs to consume some basic energy to summon the hero, if the vessel is strong enough, it doesn't need additional energy."
Aiden nodded secretly, expressing his understanding.
"By the way, Kayle suggested that I learn their holy power, will this conflict with the time magic you taught me?"
"No.
Their Eternal Clan's holy power is indeed very powerful and has its own unique features.
But it will indeed affect you learning some other magic, such as dark magic."
"Forget it, I don't want to learn dark magic," Aiden shook his head, and then thought of the question he wanted to ask most today, "Can the skins of those heroes in the game be used in reality?"
Zilean was a little surprised, but still answered truthfully: "The 'skins' you understand are actually divided into two categories in reality: One is that this hero has appeared in this form before, such as Kayle's 'Silver Judgment' is just a change of armor and weapon paint; One is a purely entertainment accessory, only for decoration, such as Graves' 'Pool Party'—you can't force a gunslinger to fight with a water gun.
For the former, you can communicate with the hero yourself, if they are willing to modify it, there is no problem, for the latter, you need to find them a makeup artist—I heard Leblanc likes to do this!"
Aiden prepared to summon Ryze because of the needs of reality, and now he needs to find a replacement—without too much thinking, he quickly found his target: Syndra, the Dark Sovereign, Lux, the Lady of Luminosity, or Annie, the Dark Child.
Annie was too young to let her be Valoran's representative to Dalaran, Aiden felt it was inappropriate.
Then between cute girl and mature woman, he decisively and resolutely chose Lux.