When Benedictus first joined the Twilight's Hammer, his position, while lower than that of the organization's creator Cho'gall, was still considered transcendent as the Twilight Father responsible for perfecting the doctrine. They were almost equals.
However, the situation is different now. Cho'gall has obtained the power of C'Thun, becoming more powerful and more insane. Perhaps one day he will grow into another free Old God, transforming from the Lord of Twilight into an evil god ruling the world.
As for Benedictus himself, he can at most replace Cho'gall's original position, becoming the highest-ranking servant of the Old God. Therefore, he must recognize the change in their status and play his role well.
The Twilight Father did not feel wronged; on the contrary, following such a leader, he felt that the future was infinitely bright.
According to the plan, C'Thun will now use his avatar to transform into Aiden and return to the surface, spreading false information to those heroes while inciting their emotions, leading them to attack Yogg-Saron himself.
The "Aiden" on the surface is playing the same role as the female Vrykul "Sara" in the classic storyline.
Sara could not gain trust, but Aiden is different; his reputation in Azeroth is too high! Especially after fabricating a story of being schemed against in Yogg-Saron's stomach, others will not doubt his actions even more.
As long as a little more time passes, those people outside will be led by that fake Aiden, unknowingly having their minds weakened, and finally completely becoming Yogg-Saron's slaves!
By then, the four Keepers, the four Dragon Aspects, and the most elite heroes and transcendents of Azeroth and Valoran will all serve the "God of a Thousand Mouths!"
Once the plan succeeds, the mortals of Azeroth will no longer be able to resist the Old God's corruption, and Yogg-Saron will be released soon after. Then Deathwing will appear and destroy the Titan's seal, releasing the most powerful Old God N'Zoth and all the elemental creatures from the elemental planes!
Azeroth will return to the way it was tens of thousands of years ago before the Titans arrived, and after that, the Titans will no longer be able to seal them again!
The "End Time" is about to become within reach.
This is the result of Yogg-Saron completely siding with N'Zoth.
Yogg-Saron is indeed not good at conspiracy and calculation, but N'Zoth is a master in this regard. This entire plan came from his hands. Originally, after the Nexus War, the situation became unprecedentedly severe for the Old God side, but after N'Zoth's planning, the situation will be completely reversed.
Until this moment, Yogg-Saron truly realized the benefits of siding with this most intelligent, most cunning, and most powerful Old God. Past grudges became insignificant in the face of real interests, and now it began to sincerely serve N'Zoth.
Welcoming the return of the Old Gods is the highest purpose of the Twilight's Hammer. This change also made Benedictus feel honored.
According to the plan, after killing Aiden, the greatest hidden danger to the Old Gods, Benedictus and Cho'gall would return to the surface and completely defeat those deceived mortal heroes.
Benedictus had just reminded Cho'gall, but before he could get a response, he was horrified to discover a figure suddenly appearing behind Cho'gall. He was raising a divine sword burning with blue holy flames, horizontally slashing towards Cho'gall's head!
It was Aiden!
He wasn't dead!
Not only was he not dead, but he had turned the tables, launching a counterattack that completely exceeded the enemy's expectations!
After absorbing the power of C'Thun's heart, Cho'gall's body had undergone tremendous mutations. His whole body was covered with evil eyeballs, mutating in the direction of the "God of a Thousand Eyes." Of course, his back also had eyes, and in order not to obstruct his vision, he only wore a simple loincloth.
But even with eyes on his back, he failed to react in time.
Believing that he had successfully killed Aiden, he completely relaxed his vigilance. Now they were inside Yogg-Saron's stomach, and before Yogg-Saron died, there was no safer place in the world than here.
Just like they followed N'Zoth's plan, using Benedictus to transform into Medivh to ambush Aiden, Cho'gall really had no defense at all.
When he noticed Aiden's surprise attack through the vision of his back eyes and realized that he should dodge, it was already too late.
Aiden, who jumped out of the space-time membrane, had used all his energy at that moment to ensure a sure kill. When he appeared, the holy sword burning in his hand was only a dozen centimeters away from Cho'gall's left head.
In less than the blink of an eye, Silver Judgment would chop off Cho'gall's two heads!
Even if he obtained the power of the Old God, Cho'gall's reaction speed could not allow him to avoid such an attack. Unless he could instantly turn back time!
Cast a defensive spell? Even an instant spell requires a casting action.
Use teleportation ability? That also requires preparation time!
Dodge with action? That's even more impossible!
At such a close distance, Cho'gall had no way to completely avoid Aiden's attack!
If he was facing Aiden, he might still have a chance to use the powerful ray from the single eye on his left head to interfere with the opponent's attack, but now he was facing away.
Before launching the sneak attack, Aiden had already calculated everything!
Without any miracle, everything was as it should be.
Silver Judgment drew a blue arc in Aiden's hand, and the blade embedded into the ogre's neck before Cho'gall could utter the first syllable.
Aiden only felt a slight sense of stagnation. Although the ogre's neck was thick and Cho'gall's skin was strengthened by evil forces, it was still like paper in the face of an artifact infused with vast holy light power!
Cho'gall's insane left head didn't even have time to say a character before it was chopped off. The head soared into the sky, his madness and distortion frozen in that evil vertical pupil eye.
But this was not the end.
Cho'gall had two heads, and being cut off one would indeed severely injure him, but he would not die because of it.
Aiden knew this well. The sword in his hand continued to slash under the blessing of immense power. His gaze kept tracking Cho'gall's movements, and seeing the opponent rolling to the right, he instantly adjusted the direction of the blade, making it tilt downward.
"No--" Cho'gall's right head felt the great pain of his other head leaving his body. He was shocked and angry, and uttered the first syllable.
Although the two-headed ogre only had one name and shared one body, his two heads had different consciousnesses and cognitions, and could almost be completely regarded as conjoined twins. The left head was like his brother.
Now his brother was dead! He couldn't even avenge him, because he himself hadn't escaped the danger!
Not far away, Benedictus had begun to prepare spells almost the moment he discovered Aiden's reappearance. He raised his staff, summoning the power of the Holy Light, trying to cast a protective spell on Cho'gall.
Also not far away, the distorted Loken roared and rushed over, raising his forelimbs to release a powerful lightning bolt, trying to force Aiden back!
Neither of them would allow Cho'gall to die in front of them, and even less could they accept that the target they had originally painstakingly thought they had killed suddenly came back to life, and launched a real counterattack when they were unprepared.
Even this counterattack had already succeeded in the majority - at least Cho'gall had suffered heavy damage, and even if he could survive, he would definitely lose most of his power.
What's more, it's not certain whether Cho'gall can survive. Because Aiden didn't intend to let him go!
Aiden's eyes were resolute, Cho'gall must not be left behind, he would rather risk being injured than eliminate Cho'gall first!
This two-headed ogre has absorbed the power of C'Thun, and in time, he will become another C'Thun.
The guy who originally died was at least still under the Titan's seal, but now Cho'gall is completely free. As long as he is given time, he will eventually become another C'Thun!
Aiden killed the real C'Thun, and now this C'Thun who attempts to grow up in Cho'gall's identity must not be left behind!
The "Twilight Father" Benedictus is almost unmatched in his understanding of the power of the Holy Light among humans.
The Holy Light does not distinguish between good and evil. Even if this Archbishop has long been secretly corrupted, he can still use the power of pure Holy Light. The battle when his identity was exposed at Stormwind Keep was the best proof.
Now that he has been resurrected by the Old God, although he mostly uses the evil power of shadow, he still possesses the ability to cast Holy Light spells.
At this moment, of course, the power of the Holy Light is needed to protect Cho'gall. Therefore, Benedictus immediately summoned the power of the Holy Light to descend upon Cho'gall, transforming into a shield that emitted a faint halo, protecting his other head.
With Benedictus's abilities, the shield he cast was naturally extraordinary. Aiden knew that even if his sword could break through the shield, Cho'gall would definitely gain time to breathe, and then he could escape through magic.
This was not what Aiden wanted to see.
However, this did not mean that Benedictus's rescue strategy would be effective.
Although the Holy Light does not distinguish between good and evil, this power itself has the same origin as the divine power used by Aiden.
Since it is the same power, why forcefully resist it?
Aiden had spent so much time with the Light Naaru that his understanding of the essence of the Holy Light surpassed most of the priests in this world. The shield cast by Benedictus was already within his expectations, and he had already prepared a way to deal with it.
Now, what he had to do was not to pour more power into resisting the Holy Light shield, but to absorb it and assimilate it!
The edge of the burning holy sword touched the shield, and the shield seemed to melt, immediately forming a gap, without hindering Aiden's attack in the slightest!
Benedictus originally thought that the situation was set. As long as the shield could slightly block Aiden's sword for the blink of an eye, Cho'gall would have several ways to escape before his last head was chopped off.
But the defense of the shield seemed to turn a blind eye to Aiden's attack, and it did not have any blocking effect at all!
The moment the Holy Light shield was put on him, Cho'gall even thought he had escaped. Because his instant teleportation spell was about to be completed, and he could teleport away in the blink of an eye. As long as he kept his distance, Aiden would never be able to touch him again.
Although this plan to eliminate Aiden had substantially failed, as long as Cho'gall was still alive, the loss to the Old Gods would still be acceptable. It's just that Yogg-Saron would be resealed—this was originally an expected outcome.
But if Cho'gall died, it would mean that one of the Old Gods might be permanently absent—C'Thun's body had already died, and its heart contained most of its essence and power. After Cho'gall absorbed it, as long as he slowly digested these essences, C'Thun's consciousness would return to him and be resurrected in the form of an ogre.
This heart is like a parasite, and Cho'gall is the host that provides it with nutrition.
And if this host died before C'Thun's consciousness recovered, then it would be almost impossible for C'Thun, who had lost his last essence and power, to be resurrected!
This was a loss that the Old Gods could not accept. Even though they had fought among themselves before, they had now put aside their prejudices and were working together to deal with the common enemy.
In the eyes of N'Zoth and Yogg-Saron, Cho'gall was basically an incarnation of C'Thun, and he would soon be qualified to become a god like them. Moreover, the free Cho'gall could achieve many things that N'Zoth and Yogg-Saron wanted to do but could not, which was very important for them to break the seal and descend upon the world.
No matter which aspect you look at it from, they could not accept the tragic price of Cho'gall's death as a host before C'Thun's consciousness recovered!
But in the current situation, no one could save him.
The moment this battle occurred, it was captured by Yogg-Saron, because the battle location was in its stomach. But even if it had all kinds of abilities, even if it was a master of spirit and illusion, and the God of Death, it could not stop Aiden from swinging his sword.
Can a person punch and kill the worms in their stomach?
No!
So Yogg-Saron was almost powerless.
The only thing it could do was to launch its most powerful mental attack, trying to stop Aiden by such means.
Its majestic mental power surged towards Aiden like a monstrous wave, but when Aiden felt this power, the Silver Judgment in his hand had already touched the neck of Cho'gall's second head.
In that instant, countless crazy thoughts were transmitted into his head, making his brain feel like it had been forcibly stuffed with a pile of garbage.
Aiden was so uncomfortable that he almost couldn't hold the sword, but he still held back.
This was not the first time he had faced a mental attack. When facing the Dark Titan Sargeras in the Twisting Nether, he was almost forcibly fused by the opponent in the face of the opponent's incomparably huge mental power. But he persisted to the end.
Two forces played a key role in this.
The first is the protection of Aman'Thul's divine power;
The second is the password from the Light Naaru!
After learning the essence of the Naaru password, Aiden already had a way to resist mental attacks. Just after Yogg-Saron's countless crazy mental thoughts poured into his brain, he felt uncomfortable for a moment, and then immediately activated the Naaru password and began to analyze these 'mental garbage'.
After the analysis of the Naaru password, the originally chaotic and crazy pure mental power turned into countless orderly information, and all of this information came from Yogg-Saron's memory!
"Die!"
Aiden roared angrily and poured more powerful Holy Light power into the Silver Judgment!
With a muffled sound of "poof", Cho'gall's second head soared into the sky.
Almost at the same time, the instant teleportation spell prepared by Cho'gall was cast. Although he lost his head, the magic power that had already been condensed still teleported his headless body out. In the blink of an eye, it appeared hundreds of meters away, at the exit of Yogg-Saron's stomach, the place where it entered the intestines.
The huge body shook twice, and finally fell down weakly.
Cho'gall—is dead!
Aiden extracted some interesting information from Yogg-Saron's compiled memories, but he didn't have time to examine it carefully, because at this time, Loken's lightning attack had already arrived.
Aiden didn't intend to use his body to measure the power of this spell. He instantly summoned "Divine Protection", and a golden shield surrounded his whole body. The polluted lightning hit the shield, but it didn't cause any damage to him inside.
Now that Cho'gall was dead, Yogg-Saron's mental attack was ineffective against him, and the situation of attack and defense was instantly reversed. Now he was the hunter, and the distorted Loken and Twilight Father Benedictus became the prey!
After canceling Divine Protection, Aiden glanced at the two enemies standing in different positions, and then instantly made a choice—attack Benedictus!
This guy can turn into other people's appearances. Before, he turned into the Guardian Medivh and almost deceived everyone.
Aiden learned about the other party's terrible plan by compiling some of Yogg-Saron's memories. I have to say, if he hadn't noticed something was wrong at the last moment, things would have really developed as N'Zoth had envisioned!
If time went back two hours, all the cause and effect would be directly presented to Aiden.
In fact, before Malfurion found the Ruins of Ahn'Qiraj, Cho'gall, who had teleported here first, had already completed the absorption of N'Zoth's heart. He was there specifically waiting for Malfurion to come.
Then the two fought fiercely, and when the battle was in full swing, "Medivh" appeared.
But this was not a real Medivh, but Benedictus who had turned into Medivh's appearance. He pretended to be Medivh, and the spells he cast seemed powerful, but they were just illusions. With Cho'gall's cooperation, they looked flawless.
Then Cho'gall "lost" and fled, and the Old Gods' plan suddenly unfolded.
"Medivh" tracked the coordinates of Cho'gall's teleportation technique and directly opened a teleportation portal to pursue Cho'gall. And this teleportation portal directly led to Yogg-Saron's lair!
It is undeniable that there is indeed such a precise teleportation technique. If there was enough time, the real Medivh could indeed cast it, but Benedictus, who had turned into Medivh's appearance, successfully tracked it and successfully opened the teleportation portal in a very short time, which was a bit incredible!
Next was the most ingenious part of the plan—even if Aiden was an enemy of the Old Gods, he had to admit the horror and precision of N'Zoth's conspiracy.