Chapter 208: Naru's Password
Both Velen and Khadgar were very curious about what the "savior" in Adar's mouth looked like. When the griffon from Glory Castle descended from the sky, they were both drawn to one of the angels of the group - a mythical creature of the Church of the Light, whose religious texts mentioned holy angels.
Now a real angel appeared in front of their eyes, and the shock it brought to them can be imagined.
Prophet Velon's eyebrows twitched slightly, Naru, who had been helping them for 20,000 years, was a pure creature of holy light, and he felt the same power from this angel.
He couldn't help but wonder if the savior in Naru's mouth was an angel?
The griffons descended from the sky, and the riders and passengers descended.
Khadgar had seen another person in the group that he had not expected at all.
"Crassus, is that you?" Khadgar rubbed his eyes. "Hell, I wasn't dazzled?"
The mage of the Kenrito Council was still exactly the same as before, with long silver hair, and as usual, a delicate mustache that looked personable.
"Khadgar!" Crassus jumped off the griffin and strode towards the old but only in the prime of life. He hugged Khadgar in surprise and looked at each other. Although he had known that there would be such a meeting, when he did, he still felt the wonder of fate.
"We haven't seen each other in more than ten years, have we?" Crassus sighed.
"Yes, it's been almost fifteen years. You're still the same, haven't changed at all. Khadgar was filled with emotion. The last time he had been at the end of the First War and the destruction of the kingdom of Azeroth by the Orcs was back to Lordaeron with Ser Lothar, and where he met with Crassus and the others at the Kenrito Conference in Dalaran. He was only seventeen years old at the time. But it's already the same old appearance as it is now.
Seeing Crassus, who was still as handsome and chic as in the past, he couldn't help but feel gloomy in his heart. Normal people have experienced youth, but he has almost nothing. At the age of seventeen, he became an old man.
Crassus also sighed: "Time flies, fifteen years ago I would never have imagined that we would meet again in this world. ”
He looked at Khadgar. This is the same mage Dalaran they sent to apprentice Medivan the Guardian. More than a decade has passed, and Khadgar's strength has become unfathomable. I'm afraid that in today's Dalaran, there is no mage who can be more powerful than him. Even Crassus felt ashamed.
"You're improving again, Khadgar!"
The reunion between the two of them brought the expeditionary team and the rest of Shattrath City into a very harmonious atmosphere.
Jiang Weihan took the lead towards the prophet Wei Lun, and he saw at a glance the old prophet in the crowd, this is an elder worthy of respect. He bowed to the other and said, "Hello, Prophet! I am Jiang Weihan, the head of the Valoran Federation, and I am here on behalf of the Alliance, and I want to discuss important matters with you! ”
"Hello, Your Excellency." Velons also bowed in return. He saw the angel that attracted attention at the beginning fell behind Jiang Weihan, and realized that this young man was the leader. He couldn't help but wonder, is this the "savior" in Adar's mouth?
Viren had foreseen the future through the Atama Crystal given to him by Guò Naru, and these futures were confirmed. So he believed that Naru's judgment should not be wrong.
"Come, follow me, Ginger. Let's go in and talk! "Velen didn't stick to the common etiquette, and took them directly into Shattrath City." There is a depositor who wants to communicate with you. ”
He instructed the garrison officer Marrad to take the griffin knights to rest, and then personally led Jiang Weihan and a few others to the Holy Light Square.
"Is it Naru?" Jiang Weihan asked. His griffon as it approached the city of Shattrath. He sensed that there was a group of holy light creatures in the city that he was very familiar with, exactly the same as the Shidar and other Naru he had encountered in the warped void. He was sure that Naru in the city sensed his arrival as well, as he sensed the welcome and joy of the other party.
"Yes. Adar, the leader of Naaru, has asked me to invite you to come. Velen replied. It was only now clear to him that the young leader had been in contact with the Naru before. No wonder Naru would know about their arrival.
Jiang Weihan had a voice inside him guiding him forward, "Savior," as it called him. He didn't understand what that title meant. Previously in the Warped Void, the Naru led by Sidar called him "The Breaker", "The Changer", and "The Guide", and now Adar calls him "The Savior". All of Valoran's heroes obey him unconditionally, even willing to sacrifice themselves to protect him. It's certainly not just because he's the one who signed the contract.
Jiang Weihan couldn't understand how he made such an impression on them. He realizes that the world he lives in is not as simple as he imagined, and everyone who knows about it is secretive. More secrets are hidden in the mist, only for him to uncover.
Walking through the long hallway, he saw that most of the Draenei were rebuilding their homes. There are also many fighters who train hard in the square. They have suffered too much and are now trying to protect their people with their own strength.
Then he saw the gigantic Naru suspended in the central hall of the Place of Light—as if unaffected by gravity, floating silently above several raised platforms, emitting a soft and pure light.
"You're here."
"Come here."
"We've been waiting for a long time."
Three voices in a row came into Jiang Weihan's mind.
He stepped forward and looked up at this Naru, "Adar, do you know I'm coming?" ”
"My gut tells me that you will come."
"As you can see, it's as accurate as ever."
"Sidar told me about the Twisted Void."
"You're welcome back."
"This is the meeting we have been waiting for for a long time."
Adar's telepathy was almost uninterrupted, and he was able to express his meaning clearly in an instant.
Jiang Weihan asked, "So our goal is the same?" ”
He came this time to take away the Alliance troops from the Outlands, and by the way, he tried to win over the Draenei to join the Alliance in advance. The Draenei worshipped Naru as a god, and in order to convince the Prophet Velony and the other Delanees, it was obvious that they had to convince the Naru first.
"Of course."
"It doesn't matter if it's a near-term goal. Or further into the future. ”
"Naru will be on your side."
"We will always be like this."
Jiang Weihan was immediately encouraged, as if there were countless groups of Holy Light Legions standing behind him. "But why me? To be honest, I don't understand, I think you're seeing me. But it's a completely different person. I don't feel like I'm that great, I'm not that noble and invincible. In the past three years, especially in the last year, I have become more and more confused. Are you really sure that I'm the savior, or the guide, or something? ”
Jiang Weihan felt that in addition to being from the earth. There is nothing else special. While many of the messages in the game were consistent with Azeroth, there were too many of them that could peek into the secrets of time and know the past and the future. Not to mention the bronze dragons, even the Naru are very good at it. Even a nondescript being like Nao Zu can get a glimpse of the future. Foresight is really not a skill against the sky.
And the savior, reformer, and guide in Nalu's mouth seem to point to Jiang Weihan himself, why do they think so?
and what Kieran once said, it wasn't that they chose Jiang Weihan. Instead, Jiang Weihan chose them. Could it be that Jiang Weihan could still find the land of runes by himself?
Jiang Weihan felt more than once that these guys must have misunderstood him - such as mistaking him for someone else who they said they really had that kind of power.
"You can't go wrong."
"Sidar told you the password."
"When you unlock the password, every doubt will be answered."
"We all believe you're that person."
"Password?" Jiang Weihan recalled that in the warped void, when Sargeras tried to forcibly fuse his soul, the Naru people passed on to him a supreme power of holy light, which mentioned the "code", and it was this power that made him difficult to keep his heart and not merge with Sargeras.
He struggled to remember the codes: they seemed to be mysterious runes that resembled the physical makeup of the Narus. But he didn't recognize what it was, and it felt like the gibberish he saw on the webpage, completely unintelligible.
Jiang Weihan asked, "Is that your writing or something?" Can you sue me directly? ”
Adar replied, "Perhaps." Perhaps not - these codes, like our Naru itself, were stored in our consciousness at the time of our birth. For eons of time, we have synthesized all of Naaru's codes and studied them together, referencing the languages and scripts of countless worlds and civilizations, but it remains a secret to us. ”
"And how do you know I can unlock the code?" Jiang Weihan couldn't laugh or cry. Since these runes are innately innate to Naru. They don't know what they mean, how can he, an outsider, know?
"Intuition."
"We trust intuition."
"We think you're the one who can crack the code."
Adar's answer is not as sluggish as yours. Apparently he and the other Narus were very sure that their instincts could not be wrong. That's how they survive. An alternative instinct.
Just as Sidar would wait somewhere in the Twisted Void for Jiang Weihan to be banished into the Void by the power of the hourglass of time, his instincts told him that Jiang Weihan would appear there.
Then Jiang Weihan really appeared.
It's intuition again - Jiang Weihan has a headache, he should have guessed that Adar would answer like this.
He really couldn't figure out how he could unlock the secrets behind these runes, so he had to put the matter aside. He decided to get back to the point: "So, Adar, what do you think of our operation this time?" ”
"As I said, Naru will be on your side. Your will will will be our goal. ”
Jiang Wei really didn't know how to answer, he hesitated for a moment, and then decided to act according to his thoughts: "Then please drive your spaceship over, let's do our best!" The threat of the Burning Legion is imminent, so it's better to return sooner. ”
"I already gave the order to Muru three days ago."
"Storm Fortress is on its way here."
"It'll be there soon."
Adar was arraigned.
Jiang Weihanhan opened his mouth, and sure enough, Naru's intuition was still too difficult to understand......
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Back at the resting place, Kang Weihan called Quinn and Kyle. Staring at them, he asked, "Naru has answered my doubts, and I'm still confused—but I wonder how Valoran defines me?" ”
Quinn said, "You'd better ask Lord Kyle, Commander!" ”
Jiang Weihan turned to Kyle: "Kyle, you won't push it to anyone else, right?" ”
Kyle whispered, "If you're sure you want to know." I can sue you. ”
"I really want to! To be honest, this question has been bothering me for a long time! ”
Kyle said, "All Valoran's heroes know about it. It was at a meeting more than 900 years ago. ”
She mentions the constant appearance of void rifts in the Runeterras in the past, and the solution proposed by Kieran at that meeting to save Valoran: stop time, freeze everything, and let Valoran's life remain in a state of hibernation for more than nine hundred years.
Kieran believes that more than 900 years later, there is a strong presence that will help Valoran out of the crisis. We worked on this for more than 900 years, until Bud, the 'Astral Wanderer', returned to Valoran. Claims to have found that powerful storage zài. ”
Jiang Weihan pointed to himself and asked, "So the person found by this Astral Wandering God is me?" ”
"Yes."
"Where did he see that I was strong?" Jiang Weihan couldn't laugh or cry, and then he asked, "Who is this Astral Wandering God?" I've never heard of him before. The last time I was in the Warped Void I had a chance to summon him, but I used it to summon the Void Heroes. But it seems to be very powerful from the name. ”
When Jiang Weihan crossed, the hero of Bard had not yet been announced. Naturally, he didn't know.
Quinn explained, "He's an astral traveler who travels between planes. He once left behind some myths and legends in Valoran, but he rarely appeared. The vast majority of people don't know that there is such a hero, and no one knows how powerful he really is. Maybe it's comparable to the gods! ”
"Then I seem to be missing something." Jiang Weihan felt a little pity, a hero comparable to a god - that was definitely more powerful than the six heroes of the void he summoned.
Kyle said, "You shouldn't be stuck with your current strength. Think about the abilities that Kieran has taught you, and your doubts may be answered. ”
"When?" Kang Weihan's eyes lit up, and Kyle's words woke him up almost immediately—Kiran had said that his crossing was not due to the summons of Valoran's heroes. Rather, it is the result of the combined action of several forces. Including Kieran, Mnozdo, and himself. Even he himself set up a line for Kieran and Mnozdo.
Based on these, he immediately made up the context of the matter:
When he turns out to be a real powerhouse in the future. He connected with two heroes from different worlds, the Eternal Dragon King and the Time Keeper, and asked them to summon their past selves, who were still on Earth, into the Emerald Dream of Azeroth.
"But why should I do that?" Jiang Weihan was even more puzzled by this inference. It's as paradoxical as Nozdom traveling to the future to kill Mnozdo. The future Jiang Weihan is already strong enough, why should he summon his past self? In order to make your own crossing more reasonable?
He couldn't figure it out, maybe a doubt had been solved, but more questions were coming.
Jiang Weihan sighed and put these headaches aside. Anyway, these will be answered in the future.
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Kutch's plane flew over the deserted Hellfire Peninsula and the Zangar Marshes, and the landscape changed dramatically: both Grom and Sarufar were amazed. Although there are many differences between the current Nagrand and the rich savannah they remember. But at least it's still untouched, and it doesn't look like it's been polluted by evil energy in the slightest. Or as if it was poured into the sea.
The Zangar Marsh, which they had just passed, was geographically part of the former Talador plus the northern half of the Naglan. Formerly Talado was home to most of the Draenei, and Grom remembers that it was in Shattrath that they eliminated the last resistance of the Draenei.
"Sarufar, look at the map, how far is it?" Grom asked. He was a little nervous, this was a love that he hadn't had in many years—the last time maybe it was when his wife Gorka gave birth, right? Approaching his hometown, he felt timid, and he didn't know how to face these clansmen who had been abandoned by them.
"At our pace, it should be about half an hour." Sarufar was also nervous. It's not just Grom's son in Nagrand, his son Dranoche is here. After the last Battle of the Frozen Throne, he killed his son who had become a Death Knight with his own hands, and for a long time after that, he dreamed that his son in his native Draenor had turned into an undead and asked him why he did that.
This is one of the reasons why he fought for this task from other orcs.
He wanted to protect little Sarufar and make sure he didn't go down that pathetic path.
He only has such a son.
It was nearly twenty years ago since the separation, and Varok thought to himself, by now, little Sarufar should have already completed the coming-of-age ceremony and hunted the tarbu sheep with his own hands, right?
The scenery of Nagrand is unique. After Draenor shattered, a lot of wonders appeared. In addition to the primordial arcane torrents in the sky, many of the debris on the ground also levitated unreasonably, turning into small and large floating islands. Obviously, the plane is still high in the air, but you can see small pieces of land on the left and right, there are small patches of grass and vegetation on them, some even have trees on them, and some of them have water flowing out from nowhere, forming a natural hanging waterfall, which looks very strange and magnificent.
Through the window, Couch saw a large lake below, and next to the lake was a complex of buildings with a distinctly rugged orc style. He asked, "Gentlemen, see if this place is the destination marked on the map?" (To be continued) R655