Chapter 307: Ulduar Crisis
Of all the disasters that Azeroth has suffered, which one is the closest to the real destruction?
The war between the Titans and the Elder Gods in Ancient Times?
Not counted. Because the Titans wielded far more power and technology than the Elder Gods, several of the Elder Gods and their minions were quickly defeated.
Tens of thousands of years ago, Galakron mutated under the influence of the Elder Gods?
It's not counting, a monster that can be choked to death by a big rock, saying that it can really destroy the miè world, I'm afraid no one will really believe it.
So does the War of the Ancients count?
Sargeras nearly descended on Azeroth, and the Burning Legion defeated the rebels, leaving countless immortals dead in the catastrophe.
But this war was only relatively close—it was not as devastating as the collapse of the Earth caused by the explosion of the Well of Eternity at the end. And in the end, Sargeras still didn't succeed.
The next birth of the Scourge Legion and the second invasion of the Burning Legion all have certain threats, but whether it is the timeline where Jiang Weihan is now, or in the "classic plot", these are nothing.
As for the later Nightmare invasion, the birth of Deathwing, and even the birth of the Iron Horde further aback, these are all threats, but in general, it is another crisis that really threatens the survival of Azeroth - the Crisis of Ulduar!
Ulduar is a prison built by the Titans to hold the ancient god Yogsaron. When the Titans left Azeroth, they appointed several Guardians to manage the prison and observe how the world worked.
Lorcan, the King of Wisdom, is the leader of these six guardians, but no one could have imagined that the guardians of the Titans could not withstand the pollution of the ancient gods, and Lorcan, the prime guardian, became the first to fall.
After his allegiance to Yogsaron, he made it his lifelong goal to free his master and the other Elder Gods, and he slowly began to carry out the plan that he had planned for tens of thousands of years.
First, he's going to rid the land of Azeroth of the second-generation Titan creations that are more resistant to the Flesh Curse—the Storm Giants and the Rock Giants.
These giants are the most loyal of the Titan Guards, and they are powerful. Lorcan had the highest authority in Azeroth, so he easily provoked the infighting between the Storm Giants and the Rock Giants, and eventually consumed most of the two powerful creations in the infighting, no longer posing a threat to the Elder Gods.
In order to corrupt the other Guardians, Lorcan plotted to kill his brother Sif, the wife of Storm Lord Thorim, and blamed the Frost Giants, and finally lured Thorim to his own territory, where he was defeated and corrupted by the Elder Gods.
Several other guardians, such as Hodir the Ice King, Mimiron, the King of Creation, and Freya, the King of Life, did not escape Loken's machinations and all became servants of the Elder Gods.
Of the Guardians, only Tyr, the Lord of Order, noticed the clues and went into hiding, avoiding Loken's gaze. But how could he stand up to Loken on his own? Even because he left the Temple of Order, his strength and authority were weakened a lot, and it was impossible to defeat Locan.
It was only when Azeroth's elite forces were crusading against Lorcan that he came up with a way to correct Ulduar's mistakes with the help of these mortal powers.
But it's really not an easy task.
The root cause of the Guardian's fall lies with Locan, and if Locan is killed, the Titan Device will immediately send a signal to the Pantheon to report the death of the Prime Guardian, and then an observer from the Pantheon will descend and find out what happened.
The ecology and operation of Azeroth is very different from what the Titans expected, and coupled with the threat and pollution of the ancient gods to the Titan world, the observer will send a signal almost 100% to ask the Pantheon to activate the failsafe system and format and restart the world.
That means that all life on this planet will be destroyed, and every qiē will be restored to the appearance of the Emerald Dream Realm.
Jiang Weihan experienced such a thing in Draeno. If there is no effective way to dodge, it means that everyone will die without resistance.
Whether it's Sargeras, the Burning Legion, Deathwing, or the Elder Gods, when they want to destroy the Miè world, people always have the power to resist, but when the object of the Miè world becomes a Titan, no one can resist, because the Miè destroyer doesn't even have to come to this world to destroy Miè.
Kill Algalon?
Not to mention whether it can be done, even if it does, I am afraid that after receiving the information of the death of the observer, the Pantheon will either send a higher-level agent, or directly think that the ecological environment of the planet Azeroth has deteriorated to the extreme, and then they will directly activate the formatting system from the remote end.
Jiang Weihan went through all the plots about Ulduar in his heart, and slowly had ideas in his heart.
The Titans had the power and the reason to destroy Miè Azeroth, but he couldn't just make them enemies.
In fact, after the meeting between the Time Nation and Al-Mansour, regardless of whether Jiang Weihan himself admits it or not, his identity as a "Titan" has been confirmed. Titans are "their own people". If Algalon arrived, Jiang Weihan believed that they would be able to get the other party to go back obediently without even having to fight the observer.
Jiang Weihan was thinking about how to deal with the threat of the ancient god Yugsaron.
Although Ulduar's plot has been advanced by several years, in fact, this plan has been planned for tens of thousands of years, and the plan to release Yugsaron has been in progress since the fall of Loken. Advancing or delaying it by a few years will hardly affect the internal situation in Ulduar.
According to Jiang Weihan's train of thought, solving the crisis of Ulduar seems to be in order to kill Lorken in the Lightning Hall, and then lead the army all the way into Ulduar, re-liberate the guardians who have lost their minds, and then take these guardians to Yugsaron's prison and seal them again - it seems to be over.
This is the safest way to do it.
Because of his special status, they don't have to think about what observers have to defeat within an hour of coming, they have plenty of time to deal with Yogsaron. Even because of the addition of the four guardian dragons, the power to attack Ulduar is several times stronger than in the classic plot - you must know that it was originally Brian. Copperbeard took the elite of the Explorers' Guild with him, and the Council of Kenrito completed the attack on Ulduar and the resealing of Yugsaron. Not even with help from the Alliance and the Horde - because the two gangs met in Dalaran and remembered the old and new hatreds of Icecrown Fortress not long ago, King Varian and Garrosh had a fight, and then broke up.
Now with the Alliance and the elite from the Horde, the heroes of Valoran, the four dragon kings and the dragon legion, it is almost impossible to accomplish such a thing.
Therefore, Jiang Weihan was not thinking about resealing Yugsaron, but how to use the existing power to inflict heavy damage on this ancient god!
It's better to let it not jump for thousands or tens of thousands of years!
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Azeroth's most famous explorer is not Brian. Copper beard. Especially after he led an expedition to excavate the Titan ruins of the Badlands, Uldaman, more than two years ago, he established his position as the chief explorer.
Valoran also had a well-known explorer, much younger than Brian, but his achievements were also well-known in Valoran's circle of explorers.
He was the chief explorer of Phi City, Ezreal.
The two equally famous explorers met with the same interests and quickly became good friends.
This time, both explorers and their respective expedition teams were summoned to the Temple of Dragon's Sleep because of a "big job"!
As soon as he heard that it was another expedition to the Titan Room, Brian immediately became excited. Jiang Weihan didn't tell the explorers any more news, only that they were going to the Storm Crags to explore a Titan Chamber. In recent years, "Titan" has become the hottest term in Brian's eyes. He found some information about the origins of dwarves and gnomes from the Titans that he excavated one after another, as well as some clues about the Titans creating the world of Zào.
Until then, people didn't even know there was such a thing as a "Titan" - Brian was very eager to find more information about the origin of the world in this real yàn room called Ulduar. So after receiving instructions, he immediately set off with his expedition to the top of the mountains of the Storm Cliffs.
In order to protect the safety of these explorers, a group of powerful heroes have also joined the expedition. Azeroth's elite troops followed, slowly making their way to the icy mountains there.
Jiang Weihan will not go into the details about Ulduar at high speed Brian naturally has his reasons.
If the Elder Gods were to be able to detect all of their conversations and marches, their every overt plan would be detected by the other side and they would respond accordingly.
Therefore, the real plan must not be spoken, and even the intention should not be lightly revealed.
The last time he was able to kill Blackmore was almost proof of this, but Jiang Weihan was not 100% sure. As a result, Twilight's hammer still has a charged Rainbow of Focus, and it seems that their multicolored dragon plan has not been affected by the actual impact, but only the death of a high-ranking servant.
There is no big mistake in being careful, this will not affect the plan to attack Ulduar, Jiang Weihan decided to use this strategy to test the details of the ancient gods again.
Only by knowing yourself and knowing your opponent can you win all battles!
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Brian. Although Copperbeard didn't get any more information about Ulduar from Jiang Weihan, his natural keen sense of smell allowed him to quickly find clues about this Titan Solid's room, and he took the opportunity to touch Ulduar's rock hall.
The Hall of Rock is part of Ulduar, and there is a place called the Ancient Court, which has a Titan host system that automatically answers questions. This is where Brian learns what he's trying to figure out.
For example, the dwarves and the origin of the world, such as the Elder Gods and the Flesh Curse, and some changes within Ulduar. The information he received here was very satisfying, and he finally solved many of his previous puzzles and came into contact with part of the truth of the world.
Limited Truth—It Should Be Said.
Because from Jiang Weihan's point of view, these are all plots, settings, and even all the people who exist in this timeline can be regarded as a string of numbers in a certain sense - although they really exist in zài, the reason for the existence of zài is not because of the birth of the universe, the creation of the Titan, or the evolution and civilization accumulation of tens of thousands of years, but because the people of the other world created this qiē.
No matter how real this world is, in the end it is a group of programmers from Earth who built it based on the peculiarities of the imaginary world. The change in this world is not because of the struggle and reproduction of living beings, but because the invisible hand is controlling this qiē.
The truth is always hopeless, and Jiang Weihan has no intention of telling anyone. He is now a part of this world, and he is not sure that what he has witnessed is true. Hidden behind this world is still an invisible fog, waiting for him to uncover.
The Ulduar crisis is just one of those steps.
When the expedition and the heroes attacked the Hall of Rocks, the owner of the Hall of Lightning, not far away, the "Lord of Wisdom" Loken, immediately learned of this. He knew what the opponent was doing even before they attacked.
"Master, isn't it time for us to move on to the next step?" In his own temple, Lorcan humbly knelt on one knee and exchanged ideas with his master, who did not have zài in front of him.
"I see it." From the depths of darkness came the voice of the ancient god Yogsaron. It has been closely following developments. When Cthun had died before, it had realized that these mortals would be the next target. There is no doubt about it.
The Elder Gods qualify as the Pantheon's greatest enemies, not only because they have the unique abilities that invade the real world, but also because they are among the species that know the "truth" of the world.
There is a difference between what they know and what the Titans know, or what humans know in the real world.
Yugsaron is well aware that the existence of the ancient gods is due to the creation of this identity and all the things in this world by the creators outside the world, but it does not fear the real creators of the world—that is, the programmers who built this world as Jiang Weihan knows—but all the ancient gods are instructed by a strong mind to destroy the world and the humans in the real world.
In the "setting" of the game World of Warcraft, the Elder God is just a monster, a kind of ultimate boss that runs through the plot line, and ultimately cannot escape the fate of providing equipment and achievements for players who enter this world. This is the plot set for the Elder Gods by the company that made the game of the imaginary world.
However, since a player was killed by the Elder Gods and mysteriously brain dead in reality, the "setting" began to fail.
Not only in the game world, but even in the upper reaches of the earth in the imaginary space, the protection rules in the "Wonderland on Earth" built by the Titan Heart on the platform, something that can also be regarded as a "setting" has begun to fail. Humanity no longer has immortality and health, and faces the onslaught of monsters from countless game worlds.
Similarly, the Elder Gods in World of Warcraft no longer follow the "setting" and eventually provide players with gold, equipment, and achievements, instead they become the "killers" of the player, from prey to hunters. The "player" became the target of their hunt.
Breaking free from the rules, the Elder Gods immediately posed a great threat to this world.
Previously, when Yugsaron was in control of the Lich King Arthas, he uttered an infinitely rampant sentence: "We obey the power that is not swayed by time, the power that is not swayed by fate. No one can fight this power, not even the Titans and the Burning Legion! Whoever stands in our way will be ruined! ”
Although arrogant, this quote does describe some of the qualities of the ancient gods:
Because of understanding the nature of the world, they are not bound by a web-like timeline. The minds of every Elder God in every timeline are interconnected. They know what is happening and what has happened on all timelines. It is precisely because of this that it is almost omniscient and omnipotent;
Because of the breaking of the original "setting", their fate is no longer limited to being finally defeated or even eliminated by historical figures under the influence of the plot, or by various miracles and coincidences;
Because their power is not only permeated throughout the World of Warcraft, but also maps to the real world outside, they are almost unstoppable. Because even the Titans don't have a way to destroy them. And as time grows, they will grow stronger and stronger, and eventually they will rule the whole world!
As Yugsaron said, whoever stands in the way of their ancient gods will be destroyed!
"Come to Ulduar, my servant. Entertain these intruders with a feast. Yugsaron's low, eerie voice came into Lorcan's head.
Lorcan immediately exclaimed, "Yes, my master! ”
Yugsaron looked up the plot of Ulduar on other timelines, and it knew that in normal order, Brian would follow. Copperbeard would lead his forces into the Hall of Inazum, killing Loken and eventually Ulduar, freeing the other Guardians and eventually resealing it.
The seal does not mean death, and Yugsaron knows very well that if there is a chance to break the seal, who would be willing to stay in a dark prison?
Even though he knew that the Elder Gods would triumph over time, Yugsaron didn't want to be one of the people who watched the drama in prison - just like Cthun, who was inexplicably bombarded by the Rainbow of Focus, and tens of thousands of years of power were almost wiped out, and it was unknown how long it would take to truly recover.
According to the calculation of time, such a Cthun obviously does not have the ability to join the carnival of "the end of time".
The Elder Gods will be victorious, but that has nothing to do with Cthun.
Yogsaron wished that he would be the Old God who shared the victory, rather than staring at other Ancient Gods with envy to accomplish that great deed!
"Enzos, plans are underway." It communicates its thoughts to another ancient god.
"Hmm." That's how the other side responded. R1152