At the time of the autumn equinox, the wind is high and cool.

On the outskirts of Stratholme, 12 kilometers south of Stratholme, in the endless golden wheat fields, you can see farmers busy with the autumn harvest.

Thanks to several spring rains at the beginning of the year, this year's crops are growing very well, which can be called a rare harvest year. This meant that they could leave more food in addition to their share of the local landowners, the Rivinedell family.

Even the recent rumors of orcs – it is said that the orcs have breached Dunhold Castle, which is in the center of dozens of shelters, and the people in the south are worried about whether the tribes that poisoned the Eastern Continent more than a decade ago will make a comeback – they can't dilute the joy of the harvest.

However, as the owner of this land, the Rivendell family has a deep sorrow within it.

Something happened three days ago.

The Lord's only son, Master Oryx Rivendell, fell off his horse on his way to the regional capital of Stratholme and was seriously wounded in the head.

It's not uncommon for ordinary people to be put aside.

After all, if a horse stumbles, whether it is stepping into a nest and breaking the horse's legs, or encountering a coyote and being frightened, it can cause the rider to fall off the horse and be injured.

But Oryx is an ordinary person, he has been trained in orthodox martial arts since he was a child, and he was baptized to join the Knights of the Silver Hand at the beginning of last year as an adult, and became a glorious paladin. It can be said that he is good at martial arts and horsemanship, and the average good hand in the army, ten or eight can't get close.

With his skills, even if he really encounters an accident, he can land steadily with a turnover, how can he be injured?

According to passers-by, the young master was still talking to fellow passers-by one second, and fell down without any sign the next second.

It was also passers-by who carried the young master to the Alonthos Chapel for treatment, and by the time the priest on duty recognized the young master's identity and sent someone to deliver the news to Rivendell Manor, it was already the afternoon of the same day.

When the servants in the manor found out, it was a matter of great anxiety.

The young master is the heart of the master, he joined the Silver Hand Knights as soon as he became an adult, and the future is limitless, so he points to him to glorify the family ancestors.

The old man went out a while ago, saying that he was going to greet a close friend who had returned from afar, and if he learned about it, he would not have to die in a hurry?

But that's not all.

After some diagnosis, the priests discovered that Oryx had only broken his skin, and that he was not in a coma at all. Most of them fainted before falling off the horse, which led to the fall of the horse.

But even these priests, who were well versed in sacred magic and medicine, couldn't tell what the cause of the coma was.

The servants had no choice but to use a carriage to drag Master Oryx back to the manor to recuperate, and asked someone to ask the Knights of the Silver Hand for help. But no matter how many high-ranking priests in the Knights came, they just couldn't wake up the young master.

Yesterday morning, the young master finally woke up.

The scene that should have been joyful didn't take long to make people even more worried.

Because the young master locked himself in his room, he didn't eat or drink for a whole day, and he didn't open the door when anyone called him. The servant who climbed to the second floor and picked up the window saw that the young master was standing naked in front of the dressing mirror, repeating a language that no one understood.

According to the servant's retelling, it seemed to be these syllables muttering—"Wode Maya, is the swollen and spicy?" ”

Some people think that the young master is possessed by some evil.

"Or ...... Let's find someone to show the young master, shall we? Isn't there an orc to be executed in a few days in the city, and it is said that Lord Uther, the head of the Knights, and Lord Dasohan, the deputy head of the Knights, will also attend the execution ceremony. I went to beg the young master's partners in the group, maybe I could invite these two adults, and they would definitely be able to find out what happened to the young master. ”

"I'm afraid the Holy Light won't be able to cure the young master...... If you want me to say, we'll have to go to the mage master of Dalaran. ”

"Has the letter to the master been delivered?"

"No, I didn't say where to go when the master left, where are we going......"

At this time, on the third floor of the Rivendell Mansion, outside the room of Young Master Orix, a group of servants were discussing countermeasures word by word.

Suddenly, there was a click, and the door opened.

Young Master Oryx, whose hair was messed up like a chicken coop, walked out with sleepy eyes open.

The old butler Langton looked happy, and hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "Young Master, are you ...... Are you alright? ”

"Well, it's nothing, it's just a little headache." Aurex Rivendell said casually and walked straight up the stairs, "Can anyone tell me how many years it has been in the Black Gate calendar?" ”

The housekeeper was stunned, what is this called a problem?

The "Black Gate" refers to the Dark Gate that connects Azeroth to Draenor, through which the orcs invaded Azeroth, as everyone knows.

But what is the Kuromon calendar?

No one in Lordaeron would use such a strange calendar. However, it is said that in the kingdom of Storm in the south, in order to commemorate the sacrifice on the occasion of the death of the country, some people used the parallel Black Gate calendar to express the year in addition to the national calendar.

Butler Langton thought for a moment and replied hesitantly: "Young Master, it's the year 1068 of the Lordan Lun calendar, if you ask how many years have passed since the opening of the Dark Gate, don't you ...... Thirteen years after the Second War, if the opening of the Gate of Darkness were to be the first year of the Black Gate calendar, I think it would be the 19th year of the Black Gate calendar you are talking about...... Well, the end of '19. ”

In front of everyone's eyes, Young Master Oryx was like a lightning strike, as if he had heard some earth-shattering news, and he stayed on the stairs for a long time.

"Uh...... Master? ”

"I'm fine."

Ochrix, pale-faced, waved his hand and staggered down the stairs, standing on the second-floor terrace, looking into the distance.

Everyone looked at each other.

"Did the young master break his head? Thinking you've been in a coma for years? ”

"I think so, let's find someone to show the young master......"

The servants whispered.

……

The golden wheat fields stretch as far as the eye can see, and the fallow square-shaped fields are scattered among them. As far as the eye can see, the Rivendell Manor, surrounded by hundreds of houses, seems to sit on a huge chessboard.

Looking at the beautiful scenery of the Stratholme area, Chu Han still couldn't believe that he had actually crossed over - he just slipped while taking a shower, and then hit his head on the toilet and fainted.

According to common sense, he felt that he was probably killed, or he would not meet the prerequisites for crossing. If he can live again, he will definitely tell his compatriots all over the world that he must pay attention to non-slip when showering.

Who is he now?

The only son of the famous landowner Baron Rivendell, Oryx Rivendell!

The historical story of this father and son perfectly represents the Blizzard-style father-son plot that is related to the Scourge Legion - either the son saves his father and puts himself in it, or the father saves his son and does not save the white-haired man in the end.

Daddy is a large landowner in the Stratholme area, and a close friend of Kel'thugad, a former member of the Kenrito Six Council who rules Dalaran.

That's right, it's the "Lich King's most trusted lieutenant".

In the 19th year of the Black Gate calendar, he repeatedly violated the ban on studying psychic spells, and was finally expelled from the Kenrito Council. Not long after, he went north to Northrend under the summons of the Lich King Neozu, took over the olive branch of the former orc elder and now the "vanguard general" of the Burning Legion's invasion plan, and returned to China to secretly form a cursed sect to spread the plague.

Chu Han's cheap son, Baron Rivendell, not only participated in it, but also funded the formation of the Cursed Sect with him, which can be called the patriarch of this evil organization.

The fall of Stratholm was due to half of the credit of the large landowner.

After the fall of Lordaeron, Baron Rivendell received the power promised by the Lich King and became a Death Knight Commander, commanding hundreds of thousands of undead scourge towns to guard the capital of Stratholme.

Quite dramatically, his son, who is the original owner of Chu Han's body, Oryx Rivendell, is the complete opposite of his father, a devout paladin.

After the fall of Lordaeron, Aurex traveled from place to place, following the remnants of the Silver Hand and the Ashes Messenger Alexandros Mograini to form the Crusaders who integrated the remnants of the Silver Hand, and fought for many years in the devastated homeland.

After the Crusaders split into Silver Dawn and the Scarlet Crusaders, Orix joined Silver Dawn due to his misgivings about the latter's fanatical creed, and continued his fight against the Scourge in Eastern Lordaeron. Until with the help of adventurers, the soldiers of Silver Dawn successfully fought into Stratholme, smashed the Yellow Dragon, and ended his father's depraved life at the cost of his own life.

But in reality, all these efforts are useless.

Shortly thereafter, Naxxramas returned to Northrend to recuperate, resurrecting Kel'thugad with the Vital Chest, and rescuing Baron Rivendell, who had died at the hands of his son, as one of the new Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, replacing the fallen Alexandros Mograine.

Not only that, but the bones of Oryx Rivendell, who died in Stratholm City, were also stolen by members of the Scourge Legion, and enslaved him with powerful necromancy, transforming into a powerful death knight to continue his father's defense of Stratholme City.

At this point, all of Orix's efforts were in vain, and instead of saving his father's enslaved soul and cleansing him of his heinous sins, he put himself in it and became a slave of the Lich King.

This is the story of this father and son.

Chu Han's resentment towards this father and son is simply not too deep, and the main reason is that the undead war horse that will never exist in the non-chieftain's drop list.

So how many years is it now?

It was the end of the 19th year of the Black Gate calendar, a terrible year brewing with storms!

Just a few months later, a terrible plague will break out in the vast land of Lordaeron, and at first people thought it was an isolated event, but the Scourge Legion was actually a pawn of the Burning Legion, directly kicking off the Third War......

Over the next decade or so, the catastrophe ensued, and Azeroth ushered in one of the most catastrophic periods in its history.

Chu Han, who came through it, happened to stand at its starting point.

Thrall, who inherited Orgrim's mantle, had just stormed Dunhold Castle and liberated all the orcs, and was about to make a statement to the Kingdom of Lordaeron that he had no intention of continuing the war.

Kel'thugad, who had been expelled by Dalaran, is afraid that he has returned. Chu Han knew that the best friend who his cheap old man, Baron Rivendell, had gone to greet him a few days ago, and nine times out of ten he was referring to Kelthugad, and the two would soon conspire to form a cursed sect.

Egwene is about to resurrect his son, Medivan, with the last remaining magic of eternal youth.

At the beginning of the following spring, Medivan will come to the Northlands as a prophet and be banished to the soul state of the Twisted Void when he dies because he is entangled with a wisp of soul in Sargeras, and what he sees and hears about the invasion plans of the Burning Legion warns the world in the form of prophecy.

Soon after, Prince Lordaeron and the Sea Princesses went on a mission to investigate the plague and embark on a path to depravity. Immediately after that, the plague of Kel'thugad and Stratholme broke out and slaughtered the city, and the prince went north to pick up the magic blade, slay the "root of all evil" and returned from success, killing his father and king in the Hall of the Throne, and then marched eastward, holding the sorrow of frost, and riding on the wave of plague to sweep Lordaeron.

The kingdom of Lordaeron, the most powerful and glorious of the Seven Kingdoms of mankind, will be reduced to a paradise of natural disasters in the midst of sorrow in the wilderness, and this is the end......

"How did I travel to such a ghost age, but I'm still in Lordaeron." Chu Han's mood was complicated, and he still couldn't believe the crossing.

The previous period of life was unremarkable, but it was also better to ensure the safety of life. How can this come to the perilous Azeroth, or the beginning of the most chaotic period of history in history?

It's one thing to yearn for it, it's another thing to put yourself in the shoes of all this. He understands now, this is called Ye Gong Haolong.

Want a social animal who was working overtime a few days ago to instantly turn into a hero who leads the trend of history? It's better to make a chicken a big devil practical.

Reason told Chu Han that in the face of the imminent catastrophe, fleeing south was the best choice. Because you're not a player who can be resurrected when you die.

It's not like sitting in front of the computer, complaining about the plot that all the main creators left and quickly turned from old to strong in the hands of Flor's team, and it was just a big deal to be disappointed AFK, no big deal.

This is a real world, and you are a living person, and there is only one life, not to mention that there are countless fates that are far more terrible than death.

Not to mention the existence that directly or indirectly destroyed Lordaeron, even a small injury, a small but irreversible plague infection that even Alexstasa the Oath of Life could not cure, could kill him.

Taking 10,000 steps back, even if he wants to do something, how difficult is it to rewrite history?

People always think that they have seen everything clearly from God's point of view, and they are complacent about the change of a certain historical node, but they don't know that the history of Warcraft is never an immutable chessboard, which is dismantled and not moved at all.

When history gradually moves away from the original plot and into the unknown, can you still rely on information superiority to confront those enemies who are far more powerful, more cunning, and more difficult than you?

Not to mention the real chess player, in fact, the Lich King Naozu who has been thrown into Azeroth as a tool, but has been plotting to stand on his own; It was the Burning Legion's lieutenants, Akmund and Kilgardan; is the fallen titan Sargeras; It is a force of the Void that is malevolent to Azeroth......

It is an existence that stands at the top or apex of the six origin forces and holds unimaginably huge powers.

At the end of the day, big fists are the last word. Otherwise, even if you are a traverser, if you don't have power, the so-called traverser perspective is useless.

If you travel to Alsace and other existences, it may not be without the energy to rewrite history.

But Chu Han is just Oryx Rivendell, an ordinary aristocratic heir. The family property is a little richer, but what is the use of historical trends?

That's it, if he is given more than ten or twenty years, he may not be able to gather sand into a tower and accumulate enough power to reverse history.

But in a few months, disaster is coming, and there is no time.

He understood all these truths.

However, when I say a thousand things and ten thousand, there is a passion in my heart.

If you are willing to be ordinary and retreat after the fact, wouldn't it be in vain to live this life? As soon as this idea came to mind, it never lingered.

Moreover, with the extension of the time scale, as long as the Burning Legion is not eliminated for a day and the Void Force has not collapsed, Azeroth, which is the most powerful Titan Star Soul in the universe, will never have a peaceful day!

Where can you escape? Can you leave this planet, leave Draenor, and leave all the places where the plot takes place?

There is no escape, you can only face it.

"Don't follow me, I'll go out for a walk."

Chu Han said a word to the servants behind him, left the mansion, walked through the extremely extensive manor, and entered the village outside.

It is a medium-sized village centered on the Rivendell estate and spreading out in all directions.

The Rivendell family owns 20,000 acres of fertile land in the south of the city, which is almost 120,000 acres of land, square, almost nine kilometers horizontally and vertically.

The family raised a large number of tenant farmers and relied on farming for the Rivendell family to make a living. Together, there are about 1,800 people, and they live in the village outside the manor.

Aside from handing over a certain percentage of the harvest at harvest time, the main reason they were content here was that the Rivendell family, unlike most landowners, would pay them a certain amount of money on a monthly basis.

Although it is not much, it is a dependence on the poor to make ends meet.

What a small town should have, it has here.

The clanging sound of striking iron was heard from the blacksmith's shop. The blacksmiths were busy mending and crafting farm tools.

There are also several large hotels at the entrance of the village, which are always troubled by people. None of the caravans, with their large carriages, could afford the high cost of staying in Stratholme. It is only a dozen kilometers away from the city, and it is the best stopover point.

It was busy farming, and there were almost no pedestrians in the village.

A few children were playing in the street, and a probationary chaplain was helplessly grabbing a group of children who were trying to dig into the back garden of the manor to pick fruit to eat.

In this day and age, education was always the preserve of the aristocracy. However, the Church of Light, which is unanimously respected by the Seven Kingdoms of Mankind, provides free education, including literacy, to children of the common class - but few parents will send their children there.

It's hard enough to live, no matter how young a child is, he can help with some work while the farm is busy, and it is even possible that just because of this labor force that is not counted as labor at all, the family can have a surplus after the autumn, and not have to be busy for a year and still owe the landlord money.

Looking at the Stratholme area, the wealthy Rivendell family would give the tenant farmers relatively good treatment, so that the pressure of life was relieved, and they were able to send their children to church school, hoping that when their children would grow up, they would go to the city to find a more promising errand than farming.

Da Da Da ......

A caravan from afar walked along the main road of the village and town, and the pack horses pulling the carts as they went, and the eggs of horse dung fell on the dry dirt road, snapping and slapping into shriveled dung balls.

A small ball sewn from scrap fabric flew out of a corner and landed right in the horse manure. The children, whose faces were stained, came running and picking up the balls from the horse manure, and you fought for them, and then giggled away.

The breeze is blowing, and the years are quiet. But who knew that the terrible Third War was quietly brewing in the tranquility.

Chu Han sighed faintly.

As he was about to return, a heavy book fell from the sky and slammed into the ground in front of him, kicking up a cloud of dust.

He couldn't help but be stunned, and hurriedly looked up to see that there were no griffons flying in the air, not like a rider had fallen.

The cover of this book looks like it is made of metal, about a fist thick, and it is heavy. The surface is covered with intricate ornamentation, and a flat hourglass is inlaid in the center. The fine golden sand flowed down through the narrow central pipe at a constant speed, gradually filling another flat glass ball.

The direction of the sand seemed to be constant by some kind of magic, and even though the book was flat, the sand still flowed unnaturally towards another glass orb. Judging by the speed of flow, the sand will soon be drained away, and the other end will be filled.

This must be a magical item, and just by looking at it, you know that it must be extraordinary.

After hesitating for a while, he took off his shoe and threw it over, smashed it, picked up another branch and poked it for a long time, and only after making sure it was safe did he step forward and pick it up.

It was really heavy to start, and it had to look like a dozen catties, and he was finally able to be sure that the flat hourglass inlaid on the book cover was indeed solidified by magic in the direction of flow. Because even if the book is turned upside down, the sand will maintain its original flow direction against gravity.

He flipped through it.

Each page is painted with a different pattern on the edge, whether it is an hourglass, a clock, or a primitive sundial, all related to time.

Under the influence of some magic, the yellow sand on the pages of the book swelled to form the text with illustrations.

Chu Han found that all about the life of Oryx Rivendell is in this book.

What year was born, what did you do when you were a child, when did you receive an education, what famous teachers taught you, what did you learn unintentionally, when did you join the Order of the Silver Hand, when did you first become a paladin's attendant, and when did you have the status of a full paladin...... It's all on top!

There are about thirty or fifty pages in total, and the pictures are lifelike, and they even move! It's not so much an illustration as a video image played on a soft, paper-thin display.

He flipped back again, and the contents of the book finally came to the last few days.

In the accompanying picture, Oryx is riding a horse, but is suddenly hit by a humanoid silhouette falling from the sky, falling off his horse, hitting his head on a rock and falling into a coma.

Chu Han knew that the vague humanoid outline was his own soul that had crossed over.

Flipping back, Oryx, who had been replaced by the traverser, woke up, walked out of the manor with a solemn face, picked up a heavy book that fell from the sky in a certain alley, and was looking down to read it. And the picture of the book in the book, it is also the book of time that Orix is looking at this book with pictures that show the scene at this time!

Chu Han was stunned for a moment, and moved his body, and the people in the book actually made the same action.

He was shocked, and instantly realized that this book was probably really related to time, and it was definitely the creation of the extraordinary races. It was the most mysterious force in the universe, and it did not belong to any of the six primordial forces.

At this point in time, except for the timekeeper Nozdorm, who received the blessing from the Titan Almansur, and the Bronze Dragon Legion under his command, no mortal has ever been able to understand the mysteries of time!

Could it be that what happens when the hourglass and sand set in the book cover run out?

"This is my traverser perk?" Suddenly, a few words popped into his head, and he couldn't help but laugh dumbly.

Also, it's all nightmare difficulty starting, so it has to be a standard version of the traverser.

"Since it's about time...... Let's call it the Book of Time. ”

With this in mind, he put away the book, which was too crowded to delve into the mysteries of the book.

Finding a way to find no one and make sure that the books he was carrying were not discovered, he sneaked all the way back to the mansion, ready to go through it again when he got home.