As the sun rose over the horizon, a magnificent and beautiful landscape emerged in the center of the endless sea. As the light gradually strengthened and visibility increased, everyone in Storm Fortress clearly saw that the sea beneath the floating fortress had disappeared, replaced by a boundless expanse of land.
"Valoran!"
"Long live Valoran!"
"Long live Valoran!"
Thousands of chaotic voices eventually converged into a single sound filled with immense excitement.
Aiden listened, his heart filled with a tremendous sense of accomplishment and excitement.
When he first arrived in Azeroth a few years ago, he felt that he might not even gather enough energy to summon all the Valoran heroes in his lifetime. But in just over five years, he had exceeded his goal—he not only summoned all the heroes but also brought their world to Azeroth!
"Change history, distort the timeline to gain summoning energy," he always remembered Zilean's instructions. His accomplishments today were not due to luck. Almost every change in Azeroth was related to him. He participated in, guided, and even altered all major historical events. And, at least for now, all these changes were positive and constructive.
He didn't choose a dark path, didn't unscrupulously try to save Valoran by leading Azeroth in a worse direction, and didn't even consider such an idea.
In fact, if he had really taken that path, such as killing Tirion Fordring when he was exiled, or eliminating the orcs when Thrall and the unrisen Horde were still vying for territory in the Arathi Highlands and Stromgarde, or targeting anyone who could influence the world's pattern in the future, it would have generated a huge amount of distorted energy.
But he didn't.
"You look happy."
He heard the voice of the angel Kayle beside him.
"Yes."
Aiden nodded.
"Me too."
Kayle wore a pure smile.
Aiden turned his head and noticed that the angel wasn't wearing her helmet—Aiden looked at her in surprise, remembering that the last time he saw Kayle without her helmet was three years ago—back when the Burning Legion hadn't arrived and they were still building Los Angeles on the ruins of Durnholde Keep.
"That's rare!"
Aiden laughed, "I mean, you voluntarily not wearing your helmet."
Kayle rested her hand on the railing of the transparent porthole. Not only was she not wearing her helmet, but she had also removed her gauntlets. Without her weapons, helmet, and gloves, the "Judicator" made people forget the "judgment" and transformed into an angel symbolizing love and beauty.
Perhaps it was because those equipments always represented the guarded, serious, and aggressive aspects of Kayle's personality. Only after putting them down did she truly look like a female angel.
"If one day, war is far away from us, I might seal away my weapons and armor."
Kayle paused, her gaze fixed on the War Academy, which shone brightly in the morning light. "I hope that one day I can be far away from conflict and slaughter, living a peaceful life."
"That day will come."
Aiden suddenly felt that Kayle's image had become fuller—she was the first hero he summoned and the person he trusted unconditionally. But after several years of being together, he couldn't find a way to describe Kayle—what remained in his mind was always the "Judicator" wearing a helmet, serious and rigid, dutiful, and almost never revealing any personal emotions. She seemed to be born for battle and never cared about anything else.
Perhaps only when arguing with Morgana would she reveal a slightly more human side. Although the sisters had different positions and opposed each other, they were, after all, sisters for many years, and that would never change.
Perhaps because of the differences in their life forms and values, Kayle always kept her distance from others and wasn't too enthusiastic towards anyone—perhaps the concept of "enthusiasm" didn't exist in her dictionary?
But today, Aiden realized that Kayle also had a sentimental side.
"That day will come."
Kayle repeated the sentence, her face suddenly filled with smiles. She turned to Aiden and said very seriously, "If that day comes, it will definitely be because of you."
"This…"
Aiden couldn't directly look at her smile, which was truly breathtaking—it wasn't that he hadn't seen beautiful women. Valoran and Azeroth, the two worlds, never lacked stunning beauties; nor was he unable to resist temptation. For example, Ahri had a penchant for pranks and teasing people, and she would always intentionally or unintentionally seduce Aiden—not because of liking or admiring him, but simply to show off her charm.
Aiden would admire their beauty, but he wouldn't feel uncomfortable because he was merely appreciating it.
But he couldn't handle Kayle's smile. He felt his heart racing with just one glance.
Aiden replied with a guilty conscience, "The world is so big, I'm just an ordinary person. How do you know that I can end the conflict?"
Kayle pointed to the War Academy below and said matter-of-factly, "But you have already saved the two worlds of Valoran and Azeroth."
Aiden smiled wryly, "I'm afraid things aren't that simple."
He was thinking about the discovery of the imaginary world and the birth of these game worlds.
Even today, he couldn't be sure if he was "Titan" Aiden—the intelligent robot with the highest authority. But he could be sure that, regardless of whether he was or not, the birth of these game worlds was inextricably linked to him.
If he hadn't brought the Eye of Sargeras back to Earth in the first place, Emma and the others wouldn't have explored the Imaginary World, the transformation of the Imaginary World wouldn't have happened, the game worlds wouldn't have been born, and the invasion of monsters would naturally have been out of the question.
Under the entanglement of cause and effect, everything was so confusing. Aiden really wanted to see what kind of secrets were hidden behind the world, and what secrets he himself had that he didn't know.
"Yes, this matter won't be that simple. The vast majority of my tens of thousands of years of memories are occupied by strife and slaughter. Peace and tranquility are always so out of reach." Kayle put away her smile, then looked at Aiden and said seriously, "Commander, now that the Valoran continent has appeared, then I think it's time to tell you a secret."
"Oh? What is it?" Aiden asked.
He never knew that Kayle had any secrets hidden from him.
"Before, you asked me if any Titans had visited the Eternal Kingdom, and I answered 'yes'."
"Yes, you said that."
He remembered that it was in Outland. At that time, when they entered the Titan laboratory at the bottom of the Shattered Spire Fortress, the scanning beam identified Kayle as an "Angel of the Eternal Kingdom."
But this system should obviously be the Pantheon's system. At that time, he couldn't help but guess, could it be that the Titans of the Pantheon had also visited the world of "League of Legends"?
At that time, he didn't know that "World of Warcraft" itself was a world created by programmers using Imaginary energy. He still thought that what Zilean said at the beginning, that "Valoran and Azeroth were projected onto Earth, which allowed the people of Earth to construct such a world view in the form of games," was true.
At that time, Kayle admitted that the Titans had indeed visited.
Later, although Aiden knew the essence of the world, he had long forgotten the casual question he had asked at the beginning.
Now that he thought about it, this matter was indeed too abnormal—these were clearly two different worlds! Before he unfolded the Heart of Valoran yesterday and connected it to the Azeroth system, or rather, before he transmigrated, the two should not have had any intersection at all!
Aiden suddenly reacted, his eyes fixed on Kayle.
Kayle also looked at him and said in the clearest possible tone: "In the 'High Sanctum' of the Eternal Kingdom, there is a statue of a Titan. Our angel race has always circulated a legend that this Titan created us and this kingdom." She paused, looking seriously into Aiden's eyes, "That Titan statue looks exactly like you, both in appearance and name."
Aiden was struck by lightning. Before Kayle said the answer, he had made countless guesses, and he thought that the most reliable one was the mischievousness of the programmers who built these two Imaginary Worlds, doing some easter eggs or something.
This was not without precedent.
For example, Soraka, the Starchild, has a skin that says, "I am not a Draenei priestess, nor am I a Pandaren first aid trainer," because she has the same blue skin as the Draenei. Similarly, Warcraft also mischievously added a female Pandaren first aid trainer named "Soraka" in the Mists of Pandaria version; there is also Alistar, the Minotaur Chieftain's famous line: "The highest state of a warrior is to be able to open a shield wall without holding a shield"; there is also Taric, the Gem Knight, who broke into the underground fighting club of the Warcraft world, and so on…
It is also very interesting for the two most popular games in the world to tease each other and create these small easter eggs. Hundreds of years later, it is also very possible that the remakes of the two classic games will reproduce these easter eggs.
Besides, before he transmigrated, these two games had not stopped operating. Perhaps Riot Games did release background stories about the Eternal Kingdom later, and it was not impossible to add an entry about a Titan creating this world in the middle.
But he never expected the truth to be like this.
At this moment, Aiden's heart was almost collapsed—alright, that was a joke—but just when he thought he had understood the essence of the world, he found that there were more hidden behind the fog.
Kayle continued: "I think the Eternal Kingdom still hides some secrets, waiting for you to unlock them."
"How to go?" Aiden asked.
He really wanted to know what was going on with that "Titan" Aiden in the Eternal Kingdom.
"When we are stronger, we can open a portal to the Eternal Kingdom in Valoran," Kayle replied.
Aiden took this matter to heart. After he finished the affairs of Azeroth, he would definitely go!
But now what he was most concerned about was the matter at hand—he suddenly felt the change of the timeline, at this moment—Dark Portal Year 24, a brand new continent appeared in Azeroth, and the fate of the two worlds was truly connected from this moment.