Only the spellcasters themselves knew how powerful their respective spells were.
If they were well-prepared, dodging a single spell wouldn't be too difficult, but now the spells reflected by Malygos's magic shield had almost become a shotgun attack, spreading over a large area.
Dodging one or two wouldn't be enough to escape the attack range of the other spells.
Many mages became panicked.
They hadn't even scratched Malygos's skin before they had to experience the effects of their own attacks!
"Do not panic, heroes!"
Alexstrasza, the Red Dragon Queen, raised her voice, making sure that everyone there could hear her.
Before she spoke, almost everyone suddenly had an extra layer of shield burning with the flames of life.
"The Red Dragonflight's shields will protect you! Attack with confidence!"
Her words were not an exaggeration.
Those scattered spells that hit the flame shields simply failed to break through their defenses.
Alexstrasza's divine power protected these heroes, shielding them from harm.
But how to break through the magic-absorbing and reflecting shield on Malygos?
Ysera spoke at this moment.
"The power of the Dream will help you pierce the void, attack, heroes!"
Her voice was very gentle, but it still reached everyone's ears.
All the heroes at the Eye of Eternity felt their vision become hazy—as if they were in a dream filled with green mist.
However, this haze did not affect their vision; instead, it allowed them to see the enemy's weaknesses.
The mages launched another round of spells.
This time, the magic shield didn't directly absorb all the spells like before.
A portion of them successfully pierced the defense and attacked the protected Malygos.
The injured Dragon Aspect roared in fury: "Alexstrasza, Ysera! Traitors, traitors!"
Malygos would never sit still and wait for death.
This was his home ground.
He summoned his Blue Dragonflight, his offspring flew out of the void, and those spellcasters who had sided with him also flew over on disc-shaped magical devices.
The real battle truly began at this moment.
Aiden carefully dodged Malygos's arcane breath.
Whether he contributed to this chaotic battle was unimportant.
His greatest task was to prevent the Focusing Iris's energy from being activated.
Now, in the center of this platform, the Focusing Iris was still continuously pouring arcane energy into the Nexus.
According to Malygos's previous settings, once the energy transfer was complete, the "Great Purge" would begin.
Then it would be too late!
Malygos was undoubtedly the owner of the Focusing Iris and the Nexus.
While he was alive, only someone with higher authority than him could stop this process.
But even if everyone tried their best, it would be impossible to kill Malygos immediately.
This was a Dragon Aspect—and this place was Malygos's domain.
Even with Alexstrasza and her sister, as well as the Wyrmrest Accord, killing Malygos would not be an easy task.
Perhaps by the time everyone truly completed the kill, the Great Purge would have already begun.
Not perhaps, it was certain!
Although Aiden had not yet touched the Focusing Iris, he could feel that half of its energy had already been injected into the Nexus.
In twenty minutes at most, this process would be completed!
Malygos was now only concerned with this matter.
He guarded the Focusing Iris, and anyone who dared to approach it would face his relentless fury and fierce attacks!
Aiden cautiously approached a little closer.
The other heroes also knew the importance of his mission, and they all restrained Malygos from the front, attracting his attacks and attention, creating an opportunity for Aiden to approach the Focusing Iris.
Aiden summoned a Holy Shield for himself.
Behind him, Kayle and Morgana were also ready to respond at any time not far away.
Although the sisters were hostile to each other, their respective shields complemented each other perfectly!
This was certainly not the time for them to argue.
Both angels were doing their best to assist their commander in completing this arduous task!
Just as Aiden was about to reach the Focusing Iris, Malygos was fiercely attacking Chromie and Onyxia, two dragons who were restraining him.
Alexstrasza and Ysera were both guiding spells from afar, protecting these mortals, and most of the other dragons were also dealing with the Blue Dragonflight that had come to support them.
Among the Wyrmrest Accord, Chromie and Onyxia took on the responsibility of confronting Malygos head-on.
This was not a good job.
In just two or three minutes, Onyxia became very embarrassed—almost no better than when she was exposed in Stormwind City and then besieged by Aiden and several other heroes.
Even though she was a top-ranked powerhouse in the Black Dragonflight, she was still far behind a Dragon Aspect.
If it weren't for Chromie, a Bronze Dragon who could always grasp Malygos's weaknesses, to cover her, she would probably have been torn to pieces by the opponent by now!
"I can't hold on, I can't hold on anymore!" Onyxia shrieked.
"I'll help you!" At this time, a strong and bold voice sounded from behind.
Braum, carrying a heavy shield, stepped on a flying disc and quickly rushed over here.
He had just slapped a Kirin Tor mage who had sided with Malygos to death and seized this flying device from the other party.
Under Rhonin's explanation, he quickly learned how to operate it to move.
This thing was simply a divine artifact for a warrior like Braum who was not flexible in movement.
He heard Onyxia's exclamation and controlled the disc to fly over as soon as possible.
In the battle of Icecrown Citadel, he raised his shield to block Malygos, and now he could do the same!
Just as Braum rushed up, countless rays of various colors fell on him, lightning shield, flame shield, holy light shield, frost shield, magic shield, thorn shield…
The heroes present applied all the beneficial states they could apply to him.
Braum immediately felt his body filled with inexhaustible power.
He rushed in front of Malygos and made a rough voice from behind his heavy shield: "Malygos, face me!"
Braum's height was very tall among humans, but no matter how tall a human was, facing Malygos, who was tens of meters long, he would not be much taller than his claws.
"Insignificant and humble mortal, you will pay the price for your ignorance and arrogance! Your courage cannot compensate for your stupidity!"
Malygos opened his mouth and spewed out a breath of angry dragon, even dragons would not dare to stand in front of such a dragon breath, let alone a mortal?
He knew that in the next second, this arrogant human would be completely decomposed by this furious arcane energy, hiding behind the shield would be useless!
But two seconds later, that annoying voice came from behind the shield again:
"Malygos, dealing with such soft attacks is as simple as drinking water for me!"
Obviously, Braum's taunt level was very high, even Malygos could not resist it.
He knew that the other party was trying to anger him, but he was still angered.
"Then change one!" Malygos roared, he flapped his wings, and the originally stable arcane energy of the Eye of Eternity became unusually manic.
In this dimension that seemed to be in the vast and boundless starry sky, twisted arcane energy formed countless vortices, and light purple electric sparks were born from the vortices and dissipated to the surrounding.
The destructive power among them made the heroes who sensed it shudder.
"Evacuate quickly!" Alexstrasza only had time to shout like this.
Even if she could bless everyone with flame shields, such a group defense spell would be fine against ordinary spell attacks, but it was not enough to resist such arcane sparks.
If these heroes relied on having shields to resist hard, they would definitely pay an extremely painful price!
The entire space was filled with raging and wandering arcane sparks.
The originally neat lineup of the Wyrmrest Accord was now fleeing everywhere to avoid the sparks, appearing embarrassed.
Malygos was very satisfied with his masterpiece, he laughed wildly, without those spellcasters constantly blessing Braum with protection, how could he resist his powerful attacks?
Malygos raised his front claws and grabbed Braum fiercely.
It was at this moment that Aiden approached within sufficient range.
Braum completely attracted Malygos's attention.
Seeing that the opportunity was rare, Aiden almost immediately flashed to the Focusing Iris.
He extended his mind to the Nexus as quickly as possible, and the first message came quickly: Energy injection 73%…
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Then Aiden saw the preset attack targets in the Arcane Map—Dalaran, Los Angeles, Karazhan, and many other places with a high concentration of spellcasters. The entire Azeroth, both continents, were covered with conspicuous red attack targets!
Humans, Orcs, High Elves, Highborne… countless races were included.
Seeing this, Aiden's heart turned cold. If the attack were to descend, it would definitely be a disaster more serious than the Scourge invasion or the Burning Legion's invasion!
He quickly directed his consciousness towards the Focusing Iris, wanting to control it to stop the energy transmission. But just then, Malygos noticed his actions.
"Trying to ruin my masterpiece!" the Blue Dragon Aspect roared. He abandoned Bronn, whom he had been wanting to kill with red eyes, and even didn't bother to block the attacks from other heroes that he could have easily dodged. Upon noticing Aiden's actions, he immediately turned his head, arcane energy gathering in his front claws.
Malygos began to cast an incredibly powerful spell: pale blue magical runes lit up everywhere around the platform. They intertwined and flickered, enveloping the entire platform, and the surrounding energy surged towards it frantically.
"Danger, fly up quickly!" Alexstrasza sensed the powerful magical fluctuations and immediately warned everyone.
Aiden was almost about to gain control of the Focusing Iris, but a strong warning sign appeared in his heart. His intuition told him that if he didn't leave immediately, Malygos's magic would definitely destroy him!
"Die!" Malygos raised his claws, having completed the spell. The shining magical runes disappeared instantly, and a crisp sound of stone breaking echoed from the platform. Aiden felt the vibration beneath his feet, and a crack had already spread across it. He realized that the platform was collapsing, falling downwards, and the uncontrolled energy was destroying this place!
"Go quickly, Commander!" Kayle shouted behind him.
She and the Morgana sisters simultaneously cast their defensive spells. A golden holy shield enveloped Aiden, followed by a layer of blue dark shield, making him immune to all magic!
"Boom!" A violent explosion spread from inside the platform, and Aiden was blasted into the sky by the rebounding energy. However, thanks to the protection of the two layers of shields from the angel sisters, he was not harmed in any way.
He opened his wings of holy light in mid-air to gradually stabilize himself, his eyes fixed on the fragments of the platform that were sliding into the endless void.
The Arcane Map and the Focusing Iris, these two key items, were completely hidden in the explosion, and no one could find them anymore!
"Hahaha…" Malygos's wild laughter came from below, echoing throughout the space. "You have failed, I will succeed soon!"
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In this situation, no one could stop the Arcane Map from completing its charging!
The heavy and even desperate expressions on the faces of the heroes attacking the Eye of Eternity further highlighted Malygos's arrogance and conceit at this moment. The "Spellweaver" proved to everyone that no one could defeat him in his lair!
Alexstrasza's mournful voice echoed in the sky as she flapped her wings and charged towards Malygos, shouting, "Stop Malygos, stop him!"
"We're together!" Ysera followed almost immediately.
In Aiden's hand appeared the octagonal magical artifact excavated from Galakrond's stomach, the Titan-made memory storage device. He looked at this exquisite little thing, even if it could work and restore Malygos to normal after he was subdued, once the Great Cleansing began, Malygos would never be forgiven.
Regardless of whether he would repent because of this, the races and people who were about to be bombarded by the Focusing Iris's energy would never forgive him!
"So, is it still needed now?" Aiden only felt that this light little thing weighed a thousand pounds.
He had placed too high expectations on this little box. Its function was to allow the selected dragon to re-experience the battle against Galakrond and save the world from the perspective of one of the original dragon hero from tens of thousands of years ago. This might allow some confused Dragon Aspects or dragons to find their direction again, but others might not—such as Malygos in his current state. He insisted that he was right. Even if he re-experienced the great battle from his own perspective tens of thousands of years ago, he still wouldn't think that what he was doing was wrong.
There must be someone who can stand up and prove that he is indeed wrong.
Aiden knew who could do it, but he didn't think that person would come here.
He put away the octagonal artifact, sighed, and then summoned his sword and staff.
Saving Malygos was just a pipe dream. There was indeed a third ending, but it wasn't the one Aiden had hoped for—persuading Malygos to give up the Nexus War, but rather the Nexus War being launched, Malygos completing his planned Great Cleansing, while angry avengers killed him in the Eye of Eternity.
This would be a war without victors, the worst possible outcome.
Holy flames ignited the Silver Judgment, and Aiden's profile appeared somewhat lonely in the blue firelight. In the end, everything still had to be resolved through battle.
If the Great Cleansing was launched, Aiden could only think wryly—"The Heart of Valoran will definitely collect unimaginable amounts of energy."
Only at this moment, he would rather history had not been distorted, Malygos being successfully killed before launching the Great Cleansing, even if the Heart of Valoran couldn't extract a single bit of energy from it.
Before, everyone was still concerned about the Focusing Iris and couldn't attack with all their might, but now, with the platform collapsing, everything was different.
Faced with the completely insane Malygos, the Dragonmaw clan only had one common belief—even if the Great Cleansing came, Malygos would have to pay the price of his life for his atrocities!
Kill him!
Aiden joined the battle, turning all the pent-up emotions in his heart into violent attacks. While everyone was still tentatively attacking, he activated the energy of the Staff of Time, froze time, broke through the barriers of the gray space, and flew directly from a distance to Malygos's head.
When time resumed, almost all of Malygos's scales stood up because he felt Aiden standing on his head, holding the burning holy sword upside down, gripping the hilt, and stabbing it down fiercely, seemingly wanting to directly pierce through Malygos's head!
Even though a dragon's skull is very thick and its defense is very strong, Malygos didn't dare to use his body to withstand such an attack. The brain is the most fatal weakness for any creature. Once that sword pierced through the skull, Malygos would die on the spot!
The Blue Dragon Aspect had no time to think about why Aiden would suddenly appear directly on his head from a distance. He didn't sense any magical energy fluctuations similar to teleportation or flash. If there were, he would have been able to defend himself before the other party launched an attack, but he didn't.
Malygos could only use his life-saving means!
The burning holy sword in Aiden's hand easily broke through the dragon scales and dragon skin of the attacked part of Malygos's hindbrain, and blood hadn't even had time to spread out because the sword was still stabbing down. It only needed a few tenths of a second for the tip of the sword to break through the Dragon Aspect's skull and touch the brain that maintained his life and will.
Just then, Malygos suddenly erupted with extremely strong frost power all over his body, but it wasn't to attack Aiden, but to freeze himself—he emitted pale ice mist all over his body, and a layer of ice armor almost immediately covered his blue dragon scales. Aiden immediately felt as if he had stabbed a stone, and the sword could hardly go any further. He fully activated the holy light energy, and the holy flames spreading on the Silver Judgment became more intense. The ice around the wound was immediately melted a little, and blood gradually surged under the activated flesh.
The scorching of the holy flames was destroying Malygos's defensive magic! Aiden was greatly encouraged, he believed that as long as he put in more effort, he could truly melt the ice and pierce through Malygos's head!