The Nexus is located on the westernmost side of Northrend, thousands of kilometers away from the Dragonblight. Even dragons would need about three days to fly there. Moreover, the Blue Dragonflight within the Nexus is not to be underestimated. They are well-rested and ready to give the enemy a head-on blow!
Malygos knew this well. He was confident that his calculations were correct, so he let the Dragon Accord arrive without paying them any attention.
The Dragon Accord is a dragon army formed by the five colored dragonflights to defeat Malygos. This is a true alliance of the five Guardian Dragons—even the Blue Dragonflight, who was being attacked, had a place in it.
Kalecgos and other enlightened blue dragons won a seat in the Dragon Accord for the Blue Dragonflight through their performance in the Nexus War. The blue dragons who supported the crusade were naturally also members of the Dragon Accord.
Since Neltharion betrayed his brethren and became Deathwing, the Black Dragonflight had become the enemy of almost all dragons, and even all races in the world. Deathwing's actions over tens of thousands of years had brought countless disasters to the mortal races.
However, after Princess Onyxia submitted to Aiden, some black dragons and dragonspawn who were unwilling to follow Deathwing or become servants of the Old Gods, upon hearing this news, successively swore allegiance to Princess Onyxia and joined her command.
Now, with Onyxia and Sabellian as the leaders, and with the support of powerful black dragons such as the black dragon assassin Falstad and the black dragon Nalice, the Black Dragon Protectorate Army has gradually taken shape. Therefore, the Black Dragonflight also joined the Dragon Accord this time.
The other dragonflights were very happy to see the return of the Black Dragonflight. Deathwing's betrayal had caused unimaginable pain and shock to the other Guardian Dragons. For tens of thousands of years, the Obsidian Dragons, representing the earth guardianship among the five colored Guardian Dragons, had been absent, and the dragons had even tacitly acknowledged that there were only four Guardian Dragonflights left.
Onyxia's participation proved to them that not all black dragons succumbed to the Old Gods or Deathwing.
Now, the system of Guardian Dragons is facing the most severe challenge. The formation of the Dragon Accord is to stop the mad actions of Dragon Aspect Malygos. Onyxia leading the Black Dragonflight to join undoubtedly gave the other Guardian Dragons a shot in the arm.
Red Dragonqueen Alexstrasza even praised this action as "a great return."
After ten thousand years of tribulation, although the five Guardian Dragons are no longer the original composition, at least it is complete.
Aiden stayed in Dragonblight to discuss the invasion plan with the leaders gathered here. However, after Death Knight Brox led the Frost Wyrm Legion to set off, the Red Dragonqueen gave him a meaningful look, and Antonidas did the same.
Aiden seemed not to feel the strange gazes of the two and remained the same.
However, these two, a top mage and a Guardian Dragon, keenly realized that what remained here was just his body, and that speaking was only due to the Mirror Image spell.
He himself had already cast Soul Walk, quietly hiding behind the Frost Wyrm Legion, following them to Galakrond's Rest.
Aiden had experienced illusions of various historical events in Azeroth on the network of timelines, and he had long been familiar with the historical evolution of this world. When he discovered that the Scourge was excavating Galakrond's Rest, he immediately remembered this historical event.
Originally in history, this operation also ended in failure, and the Red Dragonflight and adventurers stopped Overlord Antiwok. However, this was not the end. Later, the new Blue Dragon Aspect Kalecgos, who had lost his divine power, excavated a very important artifact from Galakrond. Aiden felt that he needed to go there and take it out earlier, which might have some special effects.
More importantly, Blackmoore, the agent of the Infinite Dragonflight, had always been a thorn in his side. He recalled the things this guy had done in history and felt that he needed to take more precautions in this world.
Aiden understood history, and the Infinite Dragonflight also understood it. This also meant that Blackmoore also had the advantage like him.
As for who could win, it depended on who could deceive the other better.
There is no destined future in this world. Aiden understood this, so those "histories" seen on other timelines were just a reference. Because of this, he didn't think he would lose.
In order to ensure the safety of the excavation, Antiwok brought elite troops from the Scourge. There were only four or five hundred of them in total, but the unit types were all powerful death knights, super abominations, necromancers, liches, bone dragons, and other undead with very strong combat power.
After receiving Blackmoore's warning, Antiwok could only accept the other party's proposal: divide most of the Scourge elites to ambush at the entrance of the cave—that is, inside Galakrond's skeletal mouth. Antiwok, along with his pet storm giant Sias, and Blackmoore continued to excavate, releasing the artifact inside as quickly as possible. Once freed from the artifact's imprisonment, Galakrond could be resurrected. At that time, no matter how many enemies came, they would only have a dead end!
Antiwok stood on Sias's shoulders, transforming from a "supervisor" to a "laborer." Now, he couldn't stay idle either. To speed up the excavation progress, he began to cast spells to soften and weaken the internal permafrost and ice, which would inevitably greatly increase Sias's excavation speed.
"Quick, quick, closer!"
"That box that locks my soul, dig it out!"
Galakrond's soul babbled in Antiwok's ear. The undead commander could feel the trembling excitement of the Dragon Father's soul, but he was indeed a little irritable—why was this guy always causing trouble when he couldn't help at all?
If the action failed... Antiwok couldn't imagine what the outcome would be.
The Scourge sent elite troops to ambush, and the Forsaken Legion was no less impressive. Broxigar himself was a hero who had faced "The Defiler" Archimonde and "The Nightmare Lord" Xavius. No one in the Scourge could make him fear, even if the current Lich King Arthas stood in front of him, he had the confidence to fight him.
These elites?
Just a group of lambs to be slaughtered!
Broxigar jumped off the Frost Wyrm's back and rushed in first. Two death knights ambushing in the dark were preparing to sneak attack, but their attacks were too weak and powerless for a death knight as experienced and powerful as Broxigar.
Before the two death knights' attacks could reach, a beam of icy blue axe light flashed, and the two death knights were immediately chopped into four pieces.
"Charge in, kill the Scourge!" Broxigar raised "Dark Rivendare" and shouted.
Under his leadership, the Forsaken Legion pierced into the ambush like a blade. The contrast in power quickly made the battle lose its suspense, because none of the undead elites could stop Broxigar. All they could do was buy time for the master underground with their true deaths!
Aiden, in his soul state, passed directly through the enemy ranks during the battle and entered deeper underground. In more than two months, Antiwok led this group of Scourge to dig a tunnel hundreds of meters long, but for Galakrond, it had only reached his stomach.
Aiden came all the way in and saw a pile of large stones chiseled into several pieces in his throat. Tens of thousands of years had passed, but now you could still see the traces of blood soaking the surface of these stones.
"Is this the stone that Malygos threw into Galakrond's mouth during the ancient war, which ultimately led to the death of the Progenitor of Dragons?"
Aiden reached out and touched the surface of a larger piece of rubble. He activated a spell, and the retrospective time was reflected, directly into his mind. He saw Azeroth tens of thousands of years ago, and a fierce decisive battle was taking place on this land:
Tens of thousands of years ago, when the five Guardian Dragons were still in their proto-dragon forms, in order to stop Galakrond's mad hunting of all proto-dragons and his attempt to destroy the world, they ultimately launched a brutal decisive battle with him.
Malygos and Neltharion came up with a way to kill Galakrond, a very risky way: they wanted to throw a boulder into Galakrond's mouth, causing him to die from pain and suffocation!
This was absolutely a crazy and almost impossible delusion—at this time, Galakrond was hundreds, even thousands of times larger than the other proto-dragons through predation and devouring. Malygos and the others were as insignificant and powerless as flies to Galakrond. Their most powerful attacks could only tickle him.
In the end, Malygos and Neltharion joined forces to grab a sharp-edged boulder. They competed for this mission, where the sacrifice was far greater than the chance of success. Ultimately, Malygos carried the boulder and, taking advantage of the opportunity gained by his other brothers and sisters fighting to the death, flew into Galakrond's open mouth and accurately threw the sharp boulder into his throat!
But this did not represent victory.
Galakrond lowered his head, almost coughing out the boulder stuck in his throat. It was even certain that if there was no external force to push it deeper, the Father of Dragons would definitely be able to do it.
Malygos decided to sacrifice himself to be that "push"!
He once again risked his life to rush into that open dragon's mouth, trying to freeze the stone with his frost breath, allowing it to continue its mission and preventing Galakrond from breathing. However, Galakrond was too large, and the airflow erupting from his throat and his own body heat could quickly melt the ice, soon "reversing" the stone out of his throat.
Malygos's only way was to use his body to prop up the stone and push it upwards!
But his strength was still too small.
Aiden watched this scene as an observer. He was a little nervous. Although he knew that the five proto-dragon heroes would eventually win, the enemy in front of him was too powerful. If it were him, he would hardly find a chance to win.
At this moment, another charcoal-gray proto-dragon charged in, wrestling with another plague proto-dragon. He was bruised and battered, but still full of vitality.
Aiden knew his identity—Neltharion.
At this moment, he and Malygos were brothers, not by blood, but relying on each other for life and death!
Seeing Malygos trapped in the dragon's mouth, Neltharion rushed in, shouting at him, "Fly! Fly quickly!"
At this time, only a very few of the proto-dragon race had developed simple intelligence. Most were still just beasts, completely unable to communicate. Malygos and the other five proto-dragons could only communicate with very simple language.
Seeing Neltharion rushing in, Malygos hurriedly shouted, "I must stay! You go!"
"Fight side by side! Like family!" Neltharion swatted away the plague dragon entangled with him. He stared at the boulder stuck in Galakrond's throat and shouted to Malygos, "I'll stay, you go!"
If it were in an environment filled with the smoke of war, coupled with a little poignant background music, such a dialogue would inevitably create a tragic scene that many film masters could not capture.
But the scene of Neltharion and Malygos's dialogue was not under the smoke of war, but in Galakrond's open mouth, trying to cough out the stone. They were standing on each other's tongues and lower jaws! There was only desperate stench and disgusting saliva here, as well as the Dragon Father's sharp teeth that would tear them apart if they took a wrong step.
The plague dragon that Neltharion had swatted away rushed up again. To prevent it from causing trouble, Malygos stretched out his claws and twisted its neck, turning it into a complete corpse.
Neither of the two proto-dragons was willing to leave. Malygos was the first to push up, trying to push the boulder deeper into the throat, but his strength was still too weak, and he could hardly push it any further.
"Get out of the way!"
Neltharion shouted. This future Earth-Warder showed strength and explosiveness far exceeding other proto-dragons at this time. He, bearing the plague dragon's corpse and the boulder, used a vast amount of power that several Malygos could not gather, roaring as he pushed them into the depths of Galakrond's trachea.
That was a position where Galakrond could not cough out the foreign object in his trachea.
The Father of Dragons let out a painful roar. He knew he couldn't do that, so he stopped the pointless coughing, only wanting to bite these two little flies in his mouth to death!
Galakrond did not succeed. Finally, Malygos found an opportunity, took Neltharion, flew out of the dragon's mouth, and escaped from death.
And Galakrond, for revenge, was bound to catch up and kill them both. However, he stumbled several times, flying into the sky and falling down again, breaking and collapsing several mountains, but still did not achieve his goal. Finally, suffocated, he fell from the sky and never got up again.
The place where Galakrond died is now this place in Dragonblight.
Aiden withdrew his hand and sighed.
Tens of thousands of years ago, Neltharion and Malygos were both true heroes. What made them become what they are now?
Was it because of the underlying "settings" of the Warcraft world, or because of the influence of the Old Gods, or something else?
Thinking that he would face Malygos soon, Aiden felt hesitant for the first time—the Nexus War that Malygos was waging must of course be ended, but was there still a chance for the Blue Dragon Aspect to be saved?
He was once a hero, a competent guardian for tens of thousands of years. The Nexus War may be the only wrong thing he has done in his life.
"He has no right to judge us, so when he launches the Nexus War, we must resist."
"Then… do we have the right to judge him?"
Aiden questioned himself from a neutral perspective, and he woke up—from the moment he learned that Malygos was about to launch the Nexus War, he had been participating in this war with the purpose of killing the other party. But after experiencing the illusion seen by backtracking time, he woke up.
"This is not the only solution. If Malygos can be saved—then doing so is worthwhile."
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Under the guidance of Galakrond's soul, Antiok worked hard to use magic to loosen the frozen soil, the undead giant desperately dug, and Blackmoore helped with all his strength. Before Brox led the troops to attack, they finally dug out the thing that imprisoned Galakrond's soul.
"I saw it, it must be this thing!" Antiok had sharp eyes and saw some silver-white metallic luster exposed in the soil.
"It's it, it's it!" Galakrond's soul shouted madly, "Take it away, take it away, and I'll be free!"
"Let me do it!" Blackmoore jumped into the pit, ready to reach out and take out the object. But before his hand touched it, the metal block suddenly flew into the air by itself, flying straight towards a direction behind them.
"Who! Who is pretending to be a ghost!" Antiok shouted sharply.
He was about to succeed, how could he tolerate others coming to pick the fruits of his labor of several months at this time?
Blackmoore gripped his sword with both hands and had already strode up.
Just in the place where the silver-white thing was suspended, a figure gradually became clear from the illusion.
It was Aiden, he grabbed the magic weapon.
When Blackmoore saw that it was him, he stopped. The other party was holding the Staff of Time and Silver Judgment in his hands. After several encounters, he knew how powerful this hero was—he would not forget the impressive scene eighteen years ago—the bronze dragon used the power of the artifact that controlled time—the Sands of Time—to exile this person into the time stream but failed to kill him!
After contacting the Infinite Dragonflight, Blackmoore knew how powerful the Sands of Time was. At least he himself would never be able to resist its exile.
Although he was robbed of the fruits of his labor, Blackmoore still endured it.
However, Antiok had never seen Aiden's true power—or rather, his understanding of this Valoran leader still remained in the period of the Frozen Throne War.
Antiok had joined the Scourge Army very early, but his territory was in the northwest of Icecrown Glacier, not in Icecrown Citadel, and he did not follow the Lich King and Archimonde to conquer the Eastern Kingdoms across the sea, so his understanding of Aiden completely stayed on some fragmented rumors.
Now that Antiok had the powerful backing of the undead giant, he felt that there were not many enemies in the world who could stop him. Therefore, he drove "Lightning Envoy" Sias under his butt and strode up angrily.