Chapter 342: The Cloud of War
All the while, the "Old God" Enzos has been the final victor in almost any struggle.
It is the best at controlling people's hearts, seducing and depravity, and it is itself extremely intelligent and calculating. Whoever possesses such a trait will be extraordinary, and Enzos is one of the best.
Before the Titans returned to Azeroth, Enzos was the most powerful of the Elder Gods. To protect himself, Yugsaron must unite with Cthun to fight it.
It was also because it was so powerful that the Titans sealed it at the bottom of the deep sea, a place that no one could reach, in case Enzos was rescued.
However, during the War of the Ancients, Nesario fell, Queen Aishara and her followers all turned into Naga, and Harvis, the "King of Satyre" who had defected to the Burning Legion, became the "King of Nightmares".
These important villains eventually became his minions under Enzos's careful calculations.
The invading Burning Legion was banished back into the Twisted Void, the exploding Well of Eternity tore the earth apart, and the races that resisted the invasion suffered heavy losses.
In the end, Enzos became the biggest vested interest behind the scenes. Yet almost no one notices its small movements.
Enzos laid it out carefully, weaving a perfect plan over the course of tens of thousands of years.
As long as a qiē goes according to the plan, one day it will break the ban, heavy? Reign new over the entire land, eventually counterattack the Pantheon, destroy all the Titans, and let the power of the Elder Gods permeate the entire universe!
This sprawling project has been going in the direction Enzos envisioned. Even if there were occasional setbacks, Enzos at least achieved his minimum goal no matter which time.
It's like the Austronuclear war. Although Cthun is dead, at least Enzos has been given an energized Rainbow of Focus. The plan to create a colorful dragon is still not lost.
Aside from the Ulduar crisis, Enzos didn't expect Yugsaron to actually die—though it got a glimpse of Jiang Weihan's bottom line. But he didn't make anything, because the "loss" was too big.
After all, Yugsaron is the god of the ancients, and with the addition of Cthun, the two gods of the ages died, so that it was left with only one evil god to move forward.
But from another point of view, at least Jiang Weihan used this "trick" on Yugsaron, and Enzos will naturally be on guard in the future, and he will never follow in Yugsaron's footsteps.
Thinking about it this way, in fact, it is not a loss.
Only this time forced Jiang Weihan to travel back to the calculations of the ancient war. It failed completely. The result is completely out of its control.
Before Jiang Weihan revealed the facts, even Enzos himself thought that if Jiang Weihan did not travel to the period of the Ancient War to complete that history, Azeroth would really be ruined.
This is not a conspiracy, but a legitimate conspiracy.
It laid out the carriage and gave Jiang Weihan this choice: either obediently travel back and give it time to prepare Deathwing; Or watch the world completely ruined in a few minutes!
Enzos didn't think he would fail, because even a slightly sane person knew what to do.
This wasn't even its plan, it just happened to know that Jiang Weihan had crossed over. Therefore, when Jiang Weihan proposed to take the initiative to lift the seal of the elemental plane, Enzos did not panic at all.
As long as Jiang Weihan goes back for a few months. Deathwing has long been ready.
But Jiang Weihan's choice was completely different from what Northdom expected, and the result was unrecognizable - even if Jiang Weihan didn't cross it, the world would not be ruined! Whether he completes history or not, Azeroth will not suddenly disappear beyond that point in time!
"Nope. No! That's impossible! ”
Enzos couldn't accept that his perfect plan would fail in such a way.
Every "it" in the infinite timeline sees such a scene: if no one completes this "time travel mission", then the world will really be ruined!
Enzos couldn't figure out why it was like this now, its frenzied mental power traversing the web-like timeline. I want to find out why.
I don't know how long later, it saw something like this:
There are several branches of this timeline that have very different outcomes at the "traversal" point in timeline.
There is a timeline in which Jiang Weihan listens to the advice of Nozdom and Ysera. Enter the Gate of Time and Travel Back to Antiquity to save the world.
After he returned. The memories of those who crossed paths with him 10,000 years ago have finally been unsealed.
And Enzos has taken advantage of the time of these months to prepare this qiē. Deathwing shatters the World Pillars of Deep Rock and flies out of the earth with the multicolored dragon Klomatus.
Clomatus held back several dragon kings, and Deathwing took the opportunity to launch a cataclysm.
Because Thrall in this world is not strong enough, no one can replace the "Earth Guardian" to merge the five dragons, and they are all eventually killed by Cromatus in the Dragonbone Wilderness.
Deathwing succeeds in unleashing a cataclysm, and the "end of time" arrives. Enzos became the ruler of Azeroth......
That's Enzos' plan. A qiē is exactly as it was expected!
But it was just a parallel space, just a possibility of the history of this timeline, and it didn't mean anything to Enzos in the current world.
Enzos saw another fork in time, and that Jiang Weihan didn't cross the timeline.
And when that time had to be crossed passed, all of Azeroth instantly became a different image - it became the base camp of the Burning Legion. The earth was red and lifeless. The demons gather around the Well of Eternity, extract its energy to strengthen themselves, and then join the battlefields of the universe in a steady stream, destroying world after world under the leadership of the powerful legion leader Sargeras.
――This was supposed to be the ending of Jiang Weihan's non-crossing, but why didn't it come, but became a possibility of a parallel world?
The result of the real world is that Jiang Weihan did not cross over, but the world did not instantly become occupied by the Burning Legion. A qiē is the way it was, just like it was before.
Enzos's question was destined to be unanswered.
It felt like its head was going to explode at the very different results it had seen, except for a frantic roar. Nothing can be done.
――
After settling the matter, Jiang Weihan continued to the Storm Cliffs. Prepare to open the seal of the elemental plane.
In fact, he was able to answer all the questions of Enzos and Nozdom.
He had just fooled Nordorm and Ysera with a set of half-truths. In fact, the fundamental reason for this phenomenon is because he understands the underlying setting of "World of Warcraft" and knows part of how it works.
When Nightmare invaded a year ago. When Jiang Weihan and Chromiton Guò Time Cave go to find the missing Nozdom, he learns for the first time from Almansur why World of Warcraft exists.
Although the world is real, its rules of operation are based on the original programmers' assumptions.
For example, in the Battle of the Frozen Throne, Nozdom summoned so many "thugs" from other worlds, and Jiang Weihan would later travel to these worlds to give these thugs a reason to appear.
For example, Nozdom saw Jiang Weihan do several things in the future - cutting down the World Tree, entering the dream with Moteng, and destroying the Cave of Time to absorb the Sands of Time - these are all fulfilled in the later plot.
However, this is not some predestined fate, but a "supplement" calculated by the World of Warcraft system based on the current number jù in real time.
If Jiang Weihan doesn't know the system settings at all, and fully agrees with and abides by its operating rules. So whether he crosses or not, the result will be the same as they expected from Nozdom:
crossing, then Enzos's next plan can be launched; If you don't cross over, after a certain point in time, the world will become what it looks like has been occupied by the Burning Legion for 10,000 years.
But he knew the nature of the world, and it was different.
In fact, there is no "memory blocked by time" at all, but the plot of his time travel to the ancient war to save the world is set in the current "free script".
If he travels through time, he intersects with those people in antiquity—the heroes of Cenarius, Maloron, the Malfurion brothers, Tyrande. When he returns, these people will be added to his memories under the influence of the "system". So that a qiē looks like it should be.
If he doesn't cross over, it is equivalent to not entering this plot and not receiving this task. The system has two judgments: the first is the failure of the task, as a punishment. It was just as Nozdom and Enzos saw, and the world instantly became occupied by the Burning Legion, and every qiē was destroyed.
In fact, this is the result of real-time number jù deduction.
The other nature is that nothing happens. Following real-world principles, the future is full of changes. The past does not predestinate the future, and the future cannot change the past.
The War of the Ancients had already taken place. Azeroth was not occupied by the Burning Legion 10,000 years ago, so how could it be that Jiang Weihan suddenly became occupied because Jiang Weihan did not cross over?
Then the logic becomes incomprehensible - and therefore there is no "time-shielded memory".
Because Jiang Weihan knows the nature of the world, and knows that those real-time calculus numbers need to be supported by corresponding plots, and as the core task of this free script, or the only "player", how can the system wipe him out? That's why he refused to cross the mission without hesitation.
In order to make a clear explanation, the system changed the idea that Nozdom and Ysera had "if Jiang Weihan didn't travel through the world, he would be ruined" to the result of their memory being affected by Enzos.
And that's just another real-time calculation.
After experiencing this incident, Jiang Weihan realized more deeply that everything in the entire World of Warcraft is a chess piece under the control of the "system", a number that can be modified at will, and an NPC of flesh and blood.
This is the first time that Jiang Weihan has a direct confrontation with the "system setting", although the previous plots are more or less different from the classic plots, but in general, they are still the result of appearing within the framework of the system.
Only this time, he jumped directly out of the framework of the system.
And this attempt paid off the most.
The first round - Jiang Weihan wins!
"Fight with the sky, the fun is endless"
"Fighting with the ground, it's fun"
"Fighting with the system, it's fun"
Jiang Weihan felt that his whole body was much more relaxed.
He is well aware that because of the victory in this round, the plot of the "system" will change more and more in the future.
Deathwing didn't get enough time to prepare, and the colorful dragon was still incomplete because he didn't cross it, and the "cataclysm" that caused the world's catastrophe was probably even more unrecognizable.
Under the influence of the butterfly effect, the world will really go in a completely different direction.
He saw the dawn of victory.
"So let's start the next round!" Jiang Weihan came to the host of the Rock Hall, ready to open the seal of the elemental plane with his own authority.
Verify permissions...... Tong guò"
"Command Accepted: Open Elemental Plane Seal"
"The Seal Opens ......"
Jiang Weihan looked at the constantly flashing signal lights and information flow of the Titan system in front of him, and only felt relaxed: "It's really a memorable day." ”
"Activated, Elemental Plane Current State: Unsealed"
Jiang Weihan felt the earth shake slightly. It was as if he heard the sound of a bottle being uncorked.
In his senses, the four elemental planes of earth, water, fire, and wind, as well as the Emerald Dream, these unique spaces became very close to the material realm of Azeroth.
He knew that the Elemental Plane had truly lifted the seal.
In fact, these worlds are originally overlapping with the real world, but the fluctuation frequency is different, and under normal circumstances, people can't sense these planes, so they can't enter them. And when the seal is lifted, it becomes much easier to get in and out of the elemental plane.
Time was short, Jiang Weihan immediately started the teleportation and used the teleportation beacon to return to Pearl City.
The heroes were already waiting for him here, and when they saw him return, everyone stood up.
Jiang Weihan didn't have any extra nonsense, and went straight to the point: "According to the plan, let's go our separate ways!" ”
"War is coming."
Yes, the war is coming.
The storm fortress floating above the Endless Sea, the sub-ship Essoda over Mount Hyjal, the energy ship over the Eastern Kingdoms, and the airships cruising everywhere all showed a solemn momentum.
――
The Elemental Plane Seal was lifted, and the world immediately became different.
The Dream Weaver Isera told Sù Malfurion that it would be much easier to resurrect the Immortals because of the proximity between dreams and reality, and she had the Night Elves follow her instructions and set out to resurrect the Immortals who had died in the War of the Ancients.
For example, Godring the "Wolf God", Malorn, the "Waykeeper", Avena, the "God of Ravens", etc., all died in the Battle of the Ancients. As immortals, their souls return to the Emerald Dream. Believers can be resurrected if they are willing to pay some price.
There is also the "Guardian of the Jungle" Remulos, who was killed in the Nightmare War, and he is also on the list of resurrections.
In normal times, the price would be extremely high. And now, because of the distance between dreams and reality, it is much easier to resurrect the immortals.
Other countries of the alliance are also acting.
The Storm Fortress had arrived above the Maelstrom before Jiang Weihan opened the seal of the elemental plane. (To be continued......) R1292