Cold and gloomy, this was the first thing Saljan and Valilla felt when they entered the portal.

Before they could regain their vision, their skin had a stress response, and they subconsciously aroused a layer of goosebumps.

The ensuing sense of threat caused Sallian and Valera to reflexively roll to the left and right sides to dodge.

"Boom!"

The roar of some kind of heavy object hitting the ground exploded in the ears of the two, and there was no time to communicate, or even to think about it, and the instinct of survival drove the two who were full of tacit understanding to quickly adjust their posture and continue to maintain high-speed maneuvering.

In terms of mobility, the humanoid Sarlian is far inferior to Valeera, who is nimble on his hands and feet.

After rolling around on the ground, Sarean immediately used the Druyin Transfiguration Technique, transforming into a majestic silver wolf.

Using all four legs, Salaan finally caught up with Valeera's footsteps, found a simple natural cave nearby, and hid in it.

"Boom! Rumble! ”

Loud noises continued to emanate outside the cave, and you could faintly feel the violent fluctuations of magic caused by the collision of different spells.

Obviously, the previous attack was not aimed at the newly arrived Sarian and Valeera, and there was already an armed conflict going on nearby...... Or rather, war?

"Gan!"

Salaen, who was killed by the doorman, is still a little frightened, and Valeera next to him is also trying to calm her breathing and nervousness.

Although he didn't see exactly what the object he had just attacked was, his body instinctively told Sarren that it must not be hard-wired.

"I'd like to see which god is so enthusiastic?"

After adjusting their mood, Sallian and Valilla had time to carefully observe the outside environment.

Nozdorm had never left Azeroth in his life, and the location he chose for his ordeal was one of the same time streams that Azeroth had experienced in the past.

However, both Sarjan and Valilla subconsciously ignored a question.

Nozdorm never said he would send them to the branch timeline to be put to the test.

Other words...... The point in time where Saljan and Valera are now may also be an important historical node in the main body of time that Azeroth has already experienced.

That's right, just like the experience of Ronin, Crassus, and Broxus being sent to the Battle of the Ancients.

While confirming that they were still in Azeroth, Sarjan and Valera looked at the dim sky outside the cave with blank expressions.

"This ......," Valilla paused for a moment with a dull expression before asking in an astringent tone, "Sarjan, we are indeed still in Azeroth, right?" ”

"It should be...... Right? ”

The Saljans were also a little unsure about this, as the environment here was completely different from the Azeroth they were familiar with.

The air was filled with a sickening, rich void power, almost to the point of energy materialization.

The sky that should have been blue and clear was also obscured by the power of the void that filled the atmosphere, causing the entire sky to look black and foggy.

"I have a guess that I don't want it to come true." Saryan smiled bitterly and rubbed his eyebrows: "...... here"

Valeera took a deep breath, and then immediately coughed a few times subconsciously because of the too strong void power entering her body.

"Ahem! Unfortunately, my guess and you should be the same. ”

"We, I'm afraid, were sent by Nozdorm to the darkest period in Azeroth's history."

Salaan and Valera looked at each other with bitter expressions on their faces, and at the same time uttered what they had guessed.

"Empire of Darkness."

……

At the time of Azeroth's birth, there was no life on the planet, only primordial elements.

Fire, water, earth, and wind—the four elements of fire, water, earth, and wind—were entrenched in the primordial Azeroth, and they fought with each other.

Catalyzed by the arcane energy that unconsciously escaped from the Azeroth Soul, the Elementals gradually acquired their own will, and over a long period of time, the first creatures of Azeroth, the Elemental Creatures, were formed.

Since then, the surface of the planet of Azeroth has been covered in a turbulent elemental frenzy, and these wild elements are ruled by four terrifying beings known as the Elemental Kings.

This chaotic war led by the four elemental kings has lasted for countless millennia, and each of them wants to make Azeroth what he wants to be, until ...... A group of visitors from outside the world have descended into the world.

In order to corrupt the entire universe with the power of the void, the Void Lord, who lives outside the material universe, indiscriminately casts the seeds of the void on the planets of the material world.

And the life forms hatched from these seeds were the cancer of the planet that came to be known as the ancient gods.

Long before Sargeras was still hunting demons in the vast universe, the power of the Void had quietly penetrated the material world.

Sargeras, who was still a Bronze Titan at the time, witnessed a planet with the soul of the world being completely corrupted by the Elder Gods.

In order to avoid the birth of the Dark Titan, he slashed the hopelessly incorrigible planet with his sword, and from then on regarded the Void Lord as a mortal enemy who was far more threatening than the demons.

Coincidentally, the Void Lord, who cast a wide net, was lucky enough to sow some of the Void seeds on Azeroth, the nascent planet that also hosts the Star Soul.

The Void Seeds that fell from the sky began to devour each other before they even landed.

Only five Elder Gods have finally landed on the surface of Azeroth and successfully hatched: Cthun, Yogsaron, Aschaji, Enzos, and Sarathas.

The Elder Gods who parasitized Azeroth did not get along with each other, and continued to fight against each other as soon as they landed.

At the same time, the territorially minded elemental kings also discovered these alien objects and did not hesitate to take the initiative to attack them.

The melee between the elementals and the old gods lasted for an unknown number of years in the original Azeroth, and the nascent star soul of Azeroth was also badly damaged in this savage planetary civil war.

Saratas, the weakest of the Old Gods, was the first to fall during the war, and its limbs were devoured by the other four Old Gods, leaving only a claw and a few soul fragments behind.

This claw of Salatas was crafted into a weapon by the followers of the other Old Gods, the Blade of the Dark Empire in the hands of Onexia.

After a long war with the Elder Gods and their followers, the Four Elements were eventually defeated and forced to submit to the rising power of the Elder Gods, who helped them establish the Dark Empire, the earliest civilization in Azeroth.

Until Azeroth, the young planet hosted by the Star Soul was ruled by the forces of the Void until Agrama, who patrolled the universe.

The Elder God unscrupulously plunged his roots into the earth in an attempt to corrupt Azeroth's Star Soul once and for all, giving birth to the Dark Titan, who would be at the behest of the Void Lord.

And in the process, the internal strife within the Dark Empire has never stopped, and the four ancient gods have been engulfed by the four elemental kings to fight each other, and this history has become the most chaotic and darkest period in Azeroth's recorded history.

The thought of this gave Sallian and Valera a headache.

Although Sarren had come into contact with the Thousand-Eyed Demon Cthun in the Second Battle of the Quicksands, Cthun was in a sealed state at that time, far from his prime.

Sarean wasn't sure if the old gods in their heyday had stepped into the realm of true gods, but he was sure that while the Dark Empire was still in existence, there would inevitably be a lot of kserakhi.

Each of them possessed at least demigod-level strength, and the powerful Guardian of Order, Tyr, was unable to defeat them with one enemy and two enemies, and could only stop their pursuit of Azadas and Aronnaya by detonating themselves.

"Calm down, don't be nervous just yet."

Under the reassurance of the barrage, Sarian took a deep breath and adjusted his mentality.

"We need to be sure first, where did Nozdorm send us to the Dark Empire, the most powerful early days? Or the mid-to-late stages of Titan Guardian Descent? ”

If the Titans hadn't yet looked at the early days of the Dark Empire in Azeroth...... Salian can just hit GG.

Not to mention the Elder Gods and Elemental Kings in their heyday, even the Kseraki and Elemental Lords under their command are not something that Sarren, a rookie who has just stepped into the threshold of a demigod, can touch.

But Sarean is confident that Nozdorm will not be so devastated.

He boldly guessed that the time chosen by Nozdorm should be after the Pantheon noticed Azeroth and sent the Titan Guardian to lead a large number of Titan creations to start a counterattack.

…… Otherwise, he had no idea how Nozdorm's test would be accomplished.

"Late Dark Empire......"

Valera forcibly suppressed the uneasiness in her heart and said thoughtfully, "In other words, is it the period when the Well of Eternity may have stabilized after Ashaji was pinched and exploded by Amansur?" ”

"Huh?"

Valera's words sent a flash of inspiration through Saljan's mind: "The Well of Eternity...... ? ”