97 [Kael'thas Invitation]
Passing through the portal, Oryx once again appears in a space that seems to be independent of the material world.
The starry sky of the universe is vast, and under the towering spire stand two councillors, still hidden under the shroud of illusion magic, unable to see their height and physique faces.
"Your Excellency, what do you ask of us?" The councillor on the left asked, his voice sounding ethereal under the influence of magic, like an echo in a canyon, making it impossible to tell where the voice belonged.
Compared to the last meeting, there was a little less arrogance in his tone, because Orix was no longer what he used to be, and he had the capital that was valued by the Kenrito Council - it was not the high position of the Hand of the King, which was nothing to them, but Orrix had the ability to foresee the future.
Oryx said with a solemn expression, "I have once again received a revelation from the Light...... In the dark, he did not reveal a clear future for me, but he did send a warning that the Burning Legion might be deflected elsewhere by the defeat of the Scourge Legion.
On the eastern coast of the Endless Sea, a shattered archipelago, there is a city called 'Sulama', inhabited by the blood relatives of the Night Elves, and the city contains majestic magical energy. Their leader, once a warrior on the front lines of the fight against the Burning Legion, has recently fallen into confusion and threatens to grovel to the Burning Legion in exchange for the peace of the people;
In the southeast of the Twilight Forest, an abandoned mage tower;
In addition, there is the Dark Gate. The door that the orcs used to invade our world still has the potential to open again. The Burning Legion may first reach the orc's former home and use it as a stepping stone to invade Azeroth through the remaining passages of the Dark Gate;
and a mountain far beyond the Endless Sea, where the Night Elves are sacred and home, and where there is a bottomless fountain of magic......"
Oryx couldn't make it too clear.
I can only pretend to see a vague vision from the revelation of the Light, and then combine my limited knowledge with the rough knowledge of magic, and express it in my own words.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to explain why he knew so much about the Children of the Night, Karazan, and the New Well of Eternity.
After all, the Holy Light will not bring enlightenment to a person at the same time, and throw a set of "Chronicles of the Membrane Beast World", a full set of "Membrane Beasts" and the Membrane Beast Comfort Encyclopedia, and then list the massive quest texts in the game for more than ten years as popular science.
The members of the Council of the Six can understand these words, and even the most ordinary mage can do the same thing, because only the most basic geographical knowledge is involved.
Dalaran was of course aware of the existence of the Broken Isles, the Children of the Night, and the Night Elves, and much of his knowledge of the latter two came from the High Elves.
How could these two councillors not know what the bottomless "magic fountain" in Oryx's mouth meant, which was not the New Well of Eternity.
Needless to say, the High Elves knew about the Night Elves, and it was normal for them to know something about the Children of the Night.
After the collapse of the heavens and the earth, Darthrema Sunstrider and the robes suffered from the Druids' ban on arcane magic for 2,800 years - although history has shown that the Night Elves forbade arcane magic because no one really understood the Burning Legion's motives for destroying the world at that time, and only regarded the roots of the War of the Ancients as the Burning Legion attracted to arcane magic—in their minds, the druids who often traveled back and forth between Valsara and Mount Hyjal, those who lived east of Valshara but still used arcane magic, and the compatriots who have also created a magical source of majestic arcane energy are really living a good life.
Aurex can assert that while the canon does not say when the Children of the Night changed their appearance, it is reasonable to assume that they must have been associated with the Night Elves and High Elves for 10,000 years—only that the former did not like them because they were still abusing magic; The latter didn't have much to do with them, otherwise their magic wouldn't be a generation behind Quel'Thalas.
He could even say that before Darth Rema crossed east, he was afraid that there were many high-class elves who could not bear the rigidity of the Druid sect and crossed the sea to settle down in Sulama City.
As for Karazhin......
That's not to mention.
The councillor on the left said without much fluctuation, "Thank you for the reminder, Your Excellency. The locations you are talking about, in fact, we have been on guard for a long time. ”
"That's great," Oryx duly showed a hint of astonishment that a narrow-minded light-minded lightist should have, "I'm really on the edge of my seat with the Light's warning, and you've already taken it into account. ”
Seeing his appearance, the councillor on the right side explained: "Your Excellency Saint doesn't know that if the Burning Legion wants to descend into our world, it needs an unparalleled teleportation channel to transport troops......"
He raised his two hands, clenched them into fists, and moved his left hand first to signal, "This is our world." ”
He moved his right hand again and said, "This is their world." ”
Then two layers of mist were created with magic, wrapping the surface of the two fists, and finally each of the two fists stretched out a finger, piercing the membrane, and aligned together, "And my two index fingers are this teleportation channel." They need to stab through the spatial barrier outside of their fists.
It also requires the muscles at both ends to work together and lift one finger each to complete the connection. The muscles that drive the fingers are the energy sources that supply the teleportation channel, which can be 'magical energy' or the essence of demonic life.
You may ask why one finger cannot connect two fists, because there is a limit to the length of the fingers, and there may be powerful spells that can extend the length of the fingers indefinitely, but neither fist has enough 'muscle' to keep the fingers of that length stable - at least not on our fist, and most likely not on them.
In other words, a teleportation channel of this magnitude requires the efforts of two worlds together.
And the locations you mentioned meet one of the necessary conditions - have a sufficient amount of 'magical energy', or the spatial barrier is very weak, and the required 'magical energy' is greatly reduced.
We've already sent people to monitor these locations. In fact, there are many similar locations in this world, such as the home of the Blue Dragons in western Northrend. However, it was clearly impossible for the Burning Legion to provoke those beings, but ...... I'll still ask the Red Dragon, who is helping us investigate the Scourge Legion, to inform the Blue Dragons to be on guard. ”
The other party's science popularization is very simple.
Oryx pretended to go from not understanding to understanding, and nodded repeatedly. This is a transcendent knowledge of magic, and whoever can access it except a mage, he must behave reasonably.
"I'm relieved," he said with a sigh of relief, "may I ask how the situation is in Northrend, and is there any sign that the Scourge has sent its main force across the sea to attack us?" ”
"As far as we can see, no. The main force of the Scourge is still in the Icecrown region, but the spider undead are more active. The lawmaker on the right-hand side said.
It occurred to Orix that the Spider Demon would dig through an undersea tunnel all the way from Northrend to Lordaeron.
But he was soon amused by his own idea, which is indeed possible, but the time it will take will also be calculated in decades.
"What about the orcs? Will the Scourge develop a plague specifically for the orcs, turning them into undead to attack us? ”
The member on the left replied, "You know, Your Excellency. The Orcs have now entered the Arathi Highlands and signed a non-aggression pact with King Garin Torbairn, who has just succeeded to the throne of the Kingdom of Stormgard. Even if they turn against us, we can easily stop them with the ancient but still strong walls of Soladin. ”
Oryx shook his head, "However, perhaps the Lich King will take advantage of our ideas and give us a blow in the head. ”
"Your Excellency, this is a logical chain with no solution. We think what the Lich King thinks, and the Lich King thinks what we think. However, both sides can only make the best choice based on the actual situation. We can only increase the investigation of all hidden dangers, and if the Lich King does something we didn't expect, it can only be due to the asymmetry of information between the two sides. The two councillors shook their heads in unison, and one of them replied with a smile.
"Okay, I see. Dalaran has contributed so much in this calamity, and on behalf of my colleagues, I salute your Council, and the Church of Light and Lordaeron will do everything in their power to help if needed. ”
……
After the meeting, Oryx returned to the parlor on the middle floor of the castle, preparing to return to Rivendell with Jandis Barov.
But the guard at the gate said she had gone to report to the council and would be back in half an hour.
Oryx was not in a hurry, so he waited in the living room. Standing in front of the walls made transparent by magic, looking at the most glorious magical capital of mankind, I pondered a question in my heart.
Now that the third war is going to happen, if it happens, it's hard for him to make his knowledge of history as prophetic as he did two months ago, and to make the Northlands aware of the relevance of the Scourge to the Burning Legion, and to achieve such remarkable results.
Even the High Elves have launched a deeper cooperation with Dalaran, and even the Dragons have raised 120,000 points of vigilance.
The High Elves are arrogant, and in the canon history they believe that the Scourge has nothing to do with them, let alone Quel'Thalas. But they are not stupid, once they know that the natural disaster is the pawn of the Burning Legion, they will never behave like in the official history again. Because their ancestors experienced the battle of antiquity 10,000 years ago.
The dragons are very injured, each with their own worries, and in the official history, they did not play their due role in the rise of the Scourge Legion. But that's also because of the lack of understanding of the connection between the Scourge and the Burning Legion.
None of the powerful beings of this world, nor the leaders of the nations, nor the people or organizations with great power in their hands, need Oryx to stand before him, teach him what to do like a child, or denounce his own stupidity, arrogance, and short-sightedness.
Most of their erroneous behaviors stem from the lack of information and are the shackles of the times.
As long as you find the right way to eliminate the disadvantage of information asymmetry, after piercing this layer of extremely thin window paper, everything will fall into place, just like the meeting with the root just now. Needless to say, those big people who knew the Burning Legion's motives for destroying the world naturally took most of the possibilities into account.
But this layer of window paper, only Oryx can pierce it.
The road ahead is not easy, the ruts of history have gone in different directions, or rather, into their own unknown territory.
As he once thought, with the initial defeat, the evil forces that were originally in a backward position have reacted and returned to the starting line.
When he can no longer rely on his understanding of the timeline to profit from this war between good and evil, he can only work hard to strengthen his power, find more allies, and engage in an open battle of wits and courage with the evil forces such as the Elder Gods and the Burning Legion.
What the Burning Legion will do next, he doesn't know.
Something suddenly occurred to him, and he opened the Book of Time and flipped to the first page.
A line of small print jumps out onto the page.
[World Line Torsion]: 2.15%
This is a newly discovered feature he discovered the other day, and this simple number is nothing more than the difference between this timeline and the original history. If the twist exceeds 5%, he will be able to successfully advance from a beginner to an intermediate timewatcher and unlock more features.
2.15% may not seem like much, but it is quite impressive compared to the magnificent history of Azeroth.
But half a second later, the number went from 2.15% to 0.75%, and then to 9.63%, and it was constantly changing.
While the upper limit is uncertain, even jumping to the teens in the teens a few times, the lower limit has always been 2.15%. In response to that statement, Azeroth is not a static chessboard, to be dismantled and unmoved.
The timeline is always in flux, as strong as the Book of Time, as strong as the organization that created the Book of Time, and it is impossible to find a clear and certain future among billions of possibilities.
If the lower limit of twist is higher than 5%, then he will be promoted to [Intermediate Time Warden] and unlock more features of the Book of Time, and receive a lot of rewards.
Oryx thinks that the so-called [timeline torsion] should be the torsion of the front. Otherwise, the world will be destroyed in the Third War, and the twist will rise to a very high value, and the reward for increasing the twist will be an encouragement for the holder to do bad things.
After all, it is easier to do bad things than good deeds, otherwise the righteous side will not wait until the last moment to destroy evil.
Tuk Tuk ......
There was a knock on the door, and Oryx blinked, and Mrs. Jandis usually knocked on the door twice, and it should not be her who was outside the door.
He straightened his clothes and opened the double doors of the living room.
Really.
Standing outside the door was a High Elf with an otherworldly temperament - in the eyes of humans, all High Elves have an otherworldly temperament, and the Eternal Song Ranger and the Far Wanderer Ranger will not stink their feet even if they run in the forest all day in breathless boots.
"Your Excellency," the High Elf bowed gracefully, "Prince Kael'thas invites you to his abode. ”
Oryx was stunned......
Kael'thas ?
Invite me? Diagram of the Avenue of the Heavens