Later history proved that the Highborne could not abandon arcane magic. Therefore, in the current Night Elf society that hates the Well of Eternity and, by extension, arcane magic, the Highborne's path to arcane pursuit would inevitably be difficult.
Those Night Elves who lost their loved ones were watching them closely. Even if they abandoned darkness for light, they could not cover up the crimes of the Highborne.
The current Night Elf era belongs to Elune and the Druids. The Dragonflights and Wild Gods are their allies. This is the general trend and cannot be stopped.
Even in Eldre'Thalas, which belonged to Galen, the Moonwells were hidden and used. The mages of the Shen'dralar organization, under the leadership of Thossa'drian, also practiced Druidism to conceal the arcane aura on their bodies.
However, they were both empowered and limited by Druidism. The teachings of nature kept them guarding their own small territory, no longer expanding their map.
Galen left behind a map of the Eastern Kingdoms in Eldre'Thalas, along with a bottle of pure water from the Well of Eternity, and a letter explaining his true identity. At the same time, he informed Dath'Remar that the price for this gift was his soul after death, and instructed him to refuse any spoilers about his experiences before traveling to the ancient times.
Finally, Galen left his Transformation Orb to Ancagalon, instructing him to transform every few thousand years and use the identity of Galen'Remar to wander around, refreshing his presence. He couldn't let the Night Elves forget him, especially the people of Eldre'Thalas, who were his direct descendants in the Night Elf race!
Galen held hands with the Windrunner sisters, and then Galen released the stasis spell he cast with Chromie. The Bronze Dragonflight mark on the three's wrists began to activate and run automatically!
A repulsive force began to manifest on them, as if this time and space were rejecting them.
Nozdormu's power flowed from the mark, enveloping them and entering the timestream.
The light in the timestream was strange and colorful. Galen seemed to see the whole picture of Azeroth. The Great Sundering in the center of the planet was quite obvious.
Then, like watching a slideshow, black spots kept appearing in the location of Un'Goro Crater in southern Kalimdor. At first, it was a very small spot, and then the blackness continued to expand, beginning to spread to other parts of the crater.
Just as half of Un'Goro Crater was covered with black spots, a long shadow extended eastward from the original location of Azshara in the north. Galen guessed that it was a huge naval fleet!
Soon after, with the arrival of the shadow, a small point of light lit up on the northernmost island of the Eastern Kingdoms, like a lighthouse being lit up at sea.
Soon, in the center of the Eastern Kingdoms, large black spots also appeared in the Arathi Highlands. The shadows expanded, constantly moving north!
Just as Galen was fascinated watching the history of Azeroth evolve in the timestream, an iron-blue figure quickly approached the three of them, and this figure seemed ready to attack!
"Bang!!"
A black smoke similar to dragon breath spewed towards the three figures, and a bronze protective shield lit up on Galen and the others!
It was the protection barrier left by Nozdormu!
"Damn Nozdormu!" The huge black shadow roared with resentment, and then sprayed dragon breath again, trying to destroy the protection of the power of time.
"An Eternal Dragon!"
Galen was forced to interrupt his viewing. When he looked up, he saw the figure attacking them!
The huge cyan-black body, with black particles constantly escaping from them into the surrounding space, who else could it be but an Eternal Dragon!
"Mortal, you are very unusual." The huge Eternal Dragon seemed to be stalling for time, waiting for the power of dragon breath to corrode the bronze shield.
"When I knew that Nozdormu was sending people back to the ancient times, I knew that my plan had been seen through, but there are so many important time nodes supporting Azeroth that the Bronze Dragons cannot take care of everything. We have many opportunities, as long as we succeed once! Hahaha!"
Galen was dumbfounded. Who was this, why was he talking so much!
Sylvanas and Alleria looked nervous!
This was a demigod-level dragon, and its pressure made the two of them unable to breathe. Fortunately, Galen stood in front of the two sisters, helping them resist a large amount of the dragon's might.
At this moment, the two sisters exchanged glances. Sylvanas finally understood the reason for her sister's downfall. This damn sense of security was too addicting!
"The plan of the War of the Ancients was to destroy the world. Later, I discovered that you, Galen Trollbane, you are also an important fulcrum in this timeline, the most important one. As long as you are killed, this timeline will still be destroyed, and Azeroth will still be destroyed!" The Eternal Dragon said triumphantly.
"Who are you!" Galen knew that the Eternal Dragons were all transformed from Bronze Dragons, but he only knew Nozdormu and Chromie, and at most he remembered a Dragon Queen, whose name he had forgotten. He was not familiar with the rest of the Bronze Dragons!
"I am Murozond!"
Mama mia! The Eternal Dragon Aspect!
Galen was a little nervous. In the timestream, it was the home field of the Bronze Dragon Aspect and the Eternal Dragon Aspect. How could he fight!
Murozond saw Galen's nervousness and became interested: "Mortal, have you heard of me?"
"It doesn't matter if you don't say it, it's not important. Nozdormu was originally waiting for your return in the timestream, but for some reason, the time he preset was delayed. I destroyed the node of the Thoradin era and directly led him away. I didn't expect that this extra bit of patience would just wait for you!"
The Eternal Dragon Aspect's eyes began to glow. His Eternal power had already begun to destroy Nozdormu's bronze barrier. If it took any longer, Galen and the others would be dead. He would use the Sands of Time to make Galen and the others age and turn into bones!
Galen was also stalling for time. Nozdormu's power was still working. They were still traveling in the timestream. Galen estimated that they had already traveled five thousand years, and half of the journey remained before they could return to their own time!
At this time, the black shadows in Un'Goro Crater were full, and even the black shadows began to diverge, with most of them heading towards a city in the northwest, Eldre'Thalas!
Although Galen didn't have time to count the number of Night Elf archers and druids under his command, he could feel that the appearance of each archer and druid would increase Galen's strength through the power of kingship from the Altar of Kings!
Galen felt his power constantly increasing during the traversal of the timestream!
As long as he delayed a little longer, he could use the power of kingship brought by this population explosion to break through to demigod in one fell swoop!
Galen was suppressing a surge of anger within his heart. Other people's transmigrations, whether to parallel ancient worlds or different realms, allowed them to indulge as they pleased.
But he had come to Azeroth. During his early, weaker days, he had to lie low, fearing scrutiny from the Bronze Dragons. Only with great difficulty did he become strong, resolving numerous crises in Azeroth. Not long ago, even the Bronze Dragon Aspect Nozdormu had acknowledged the legitimacy of his existence and requested his help in correcting the history of the War of the Ancients.
What was this? After years of painstaking effort to survive, diligently cultivating his land, building his base, and developing the Origin Heart, finally emerging victorious, an Eternal Dragon Aspect singled him out for assassination!
This was unbearable!
It should be known that even the Old Gods or the Burning Legion, who aimed to destroy Azeroth, targeted all living beings in the world. The Eternal Dragon Aspect, openly declaring his intention to eliminate Galen, was the first villain to make such a clear and direct threat!
How could Galen let him live?
It was a fight to the death!
In the tunnel of time, the two sides engaged in a series of probing actions. The Eternal Dragon Aspect once again spewed out a breath of eternity, the shadow power contained within further deepening the corrosion of the barrier around Galen and his companions.
Galen attempted to unleash an energy blast, containing the power of Holy Light, Nature, Fire, Frost, and Arcane, a powerful move he had developed based on the shaman's elemental blast.
Galen's idea was simple: with my diverse energy attributes, surely one of them can counter the enemy!
Facing Galen's attack, the Eternal Dragon Aspect did not dodge or evade, allowing Galen's energy blast to strike his chest, wanting to test Galen's strength!
The energy ball exploded on the Eternal Dragon Aspect's body. The flames sputtered and died, leaving only a dark patch on the blue-black dragon scales. The frost energy was also ineffective, turning into a lump of ice and falling away, disappearing into the flow of time.
The power of Nature also failed to break through the Eternal Dragon Aspect's defenses, only the Holy Light managed to shatter a small piece of dragon scale.
However, Murozond quickly healed that small crack!
"Insignificant ant, how can mere mortal power harm me? You simply do not understand the greatness of time and the power of time. With a slight reversal of time on my body, all your attacks are futile!"
What a load of bull.
Galen scoffed inwardly. The Holy Light content in the energy blast just now was not much, but it still caused him damage. All fear stems from insufficient firepower, and dealing with Murozond's Holy Light firepower was precisely Galen's forte.
Galen drew out his Brotherhood Sword, the long-lost sensation instantly transmitting from his palm to his entire body. Throughout the War of the Ancients, Galen had not used this weapon, fearing that someone ten thousand years later might trace his identity through the appearance of this weapon!
Galen and Galen'Remar must be two separate individuals, one an Night Elf leader, the other a Crusader Highlord.
However, even if Galen used his preferred attack methods in the river of time, it was still difficult for him to attack the Eternal Dragon Aspect, after all, this was his home ground!
After an unknown amount of time, Galen discovered that in the northern Kalimdor of the time stream, a huge shadow began to move south, with bursts of light erupting in the southwest corner of the continent!
And at this point in time, Galen's body felt a long-lost sensation!
He broke through!
He stood on the boundary between mortal and demigod, he was about to ignite the divine fire and become the first human demigod in Azeroth!
That's right, the first!
Medivh and Aegwynn, mother and son, clearly possessed the power of a demigod, and their combat power even surpassed most of the demigods of Azeroth, but the essence of their souls was still only mortal.
Because the core essence of a demigod is the soul, Medivh and his mother were artificially infused with power, stacking the power to the level of a demigod, they only contained the power of a demigod in their bodies.
Galen's body began to grow larger, a manifestation of the power within breaking through the shackles of mortality, and Galen was not proving the Dao with Holy Light!
He was purely proving the Dao with power!
Or rather, he was a warrior demigod!
"What! This is impossible!"
The Eternal Dragon Aspect was stunned. Who could tell him what was happening?
The enemy broke through while fighting!
If all enemies were like this in the future, what was there to talk about destroying Azeroth and launching the End Time?
Galen's body had grown to five meters, and the surface of his skin seemed to shimmer with a luster that did not belong to flesh and blood. The ancestors of humans came from the dragon-slaying Vrykul clan, and the Vrykul came from the Titan's creation, the original stone Vrykul!
Galen's body reverted to its ancestral form, at this moment he was more like a Titan Watcher!
At the moment of his breakthrough, he felt a lot of information pouring into his mind, there were invitations from unknown existences in the universe, whispers from the depths of the earth, and a wail that seemed to be the pain of Azeroth, but these voices only appeared for a moment before being blocked!
It was the power of the Origin Heart, all spiritual connections from unknown sources were isolated by the Origin Heart system!
Taking advantage of the Eternal Dragon Aspect's stunned moment, Galen pushed Alleria and Sylvanas behind him, away from the battle range between himself and the Eternal Dragon Aspect.
Subsequently, the Windrunner sisters, under the guidance of Nozdormu's power imprint, continued to return to their respective timelines.
"No! Galen!" Alleria also wanted to stay and fight side by side!
"Galen, you must survive, my sister and I will wait for you to come back in Windrunner Village!" Sylvanas was more rational, she knew that she and Alleria could not pose a threat to a demigod now, staying would only become a burden to Galen!
Galen only left the two sisters with a back view, waving his hand to indicate that he would definitely return safely.
But in the eyes of the Windrunner sisters, this back view was full of parting meaning, Galen left the hope of life to them, leaving himself behind to delay the enemy alone!
Soon Sylvanas and Alleria's figures disappeared, Galen put away the Brotherhood Sword in his hand, which was as ordinary as a toothpick, and prepared to start close combat!
"Top up! Bronze Dragon Power! Target: Soridormi!"
Galen originally wanted to use Nozdormu's power, but now he was only at the initial stage of demigod, at most he could only top up the power of the middle stage of demigod, Nozdormu's Dragon Aspect level was the peak strength of demigod, he could not use it yet.
Bang!
The huge fist, blessed by the power of time, broke through the Eternal Dragon Aspect's defenses and directly smashed into his chin!
The breath of eternity that the Eternal Dragon Aspect was about to spew out was directly interrupted, except for a small amount of dragon breath leaking from his nostrils, more of it was beaten back down!
"This... is the power of time! How could you possibly master the power of time! Nozdormu! It must be Nozdormu!"
The Eternal Dragon Aspect looked incredulous!
"No! It's not Nozdormu's power!"
Murozond tried hard to discern it. He had been Nozdormu a long time ago, and he was extremely familiar with his original time power. This was not his original power.
At this time, the Eternal Dragon King's speech was a bit leaky, and his voice was a bit hoarse. Just now, Galen knocked out several of his teeth, and his throat was also burned when the dragon breath poured back!
"The aura of this power, the aura of this power…"
Finally, the Eternal Dragon King's eyes changed: "Ant, what is your relationship with Soridormi!"
This was not an ordinary power blessing. The intensity of this time power was simply power sharing!
Galen didn't answer the Eternal Dragon King's question, but instead shot out a burst of natural power, containing some grass seeds.
This power was shot by Galen onto the top of the Eternal Dragon King's head, and then the power of nature stimulated these seeds, and a large area of grass seeds sprouted on the top of his head, growing into a grassland.
"No… this is impossible…" Murozond shouted angrily.
It seemed that he understood. This might be a universal way of expression in the entire universe and all time and space!
"You drift ignorantly in the stream of time, wriggling like a drowning reptile towards endless madness and despair. I have witnessed the true end of time, you simply don't understand what you are facing! Here I want you to die!"
The Eternal Dragon King went berserk. Time bombs, distortion bombs, eternal breath, he used various moves to frantically output towards Galen.
Such a powerful attack, even if other Dragon Aspects were hit, would result in death or serious injury. However, Galen now possessed the power of time, accelerating his body to dodge the breath. Even if he was hit by a time bomb, he could offset it with time reversal!
"Time power is useless to me! No matter where your time power comes from, it cannot change your death! Only a madman believes that repeated actions can bring different results. Doing it again will not change anything. You will surely fail!" Murozond forced Galen back with a breath of dragon fire.
The flow of time continued, and the battle fell into a stalemate!
At this time, Galen noticed a vortex appearing in the southwestern part of the Eastern Kingdoms. The vitality of the surrounding land was being extracted by the vortex, and the originally green land in that direction turned into a patch of Scarlet!
Galen knew that he didn't have much time left. They had already arrived in the Year Zero of the Dark Portal. If he couldn't solve the Eternal Dragon King earlier and continued to be delayed in the stream of time, then Azeroth would have nothing to do with him later!
Thinking of this, Galen tried to compress the power in his body. This attempt was indeed effective. His figure began to shrink, and then, under his extreme compression, his size finally settled at a height of two meters and two!
This figure could finally use his original weapon. He was not a monk. He was really not used to fighting with his bare hands, and he couldn't exert his full strength at all!
After shrinking in size, Galen once again took out the Brotherhood Sword, and the wings of holy light behind him spread out, beginning a close combat with Murozond.
The Eternal Dragon King, whose mind was in chaos, couldn't block Galen's long sword. Soon, his front was already covered in wounds.
The demigod-level Galen used the power of holy light even more skillfully, and the judgment of holy light was even hotter. The holy light power brought by Crusader Strike and Judgment directly shattered a large number of dragon scales, adhering to the flesh and blood.
"No! This is impossible, I am the Eternal Dragon King!"
The villains never understand that they die from talking too much.
Murozond had been chattering all the time, and Galen didn't say a word, burying his head in output!
Just as Galen was preparing to use a big killer, a bronze figure was going against the current in the stream of time!
It was Nozdormu!
"Galen! I'm here! The Windrunner sisters have returned to the real world, and they sent me to save you!"
Damn!
Galen cursed inwardly. This Bronze Dragon Aspect came at the wrong time. His hand had already reached into his backpack, holding a golden small disc. A little later, the Eternal Dragon King would have eaten my Dragon-Slaying Cannon!
"Quick, Nozdormu, help me restrain this Eternal Dragon, I can kill him!"
Galen released his palm, allowing the golden disc to fall back into his backpack, and then Galen tightly gripped the Brotherhood Sword, beginning to mobilize the holy light power of his whole body!
Nozdormu was shocked when he heard Galen's words, and then he reacted. What did he see? His old opponent, his future fallen self, was already covered in wounds and seemed to be at a disadvantage in the battle!
And he hadn't used time reversal to restore his body!
What did this mean? It meant that his power was already running low, not enough to reverse time!
Then he discovered that Galen was exuding the aura of a demigod!
Nozdormu immediately accelerated his speed in the stream of time. Soon he came to his future self, and taking advantage of the gap between him and Galen's entanglement, he bit the Eternal Dragon's neck, and then his two dragon claws grabbed his dragon wings fiercely!
Murozond was in pain, and then struggled frantically, shouting: "Nozdormu, you simply don't understand what you have done! Ah! Aman'Thul… I… saw… it…"
Galen would not waste such a good opportunity!
Directly amplify the move!
"Execution!"
A giant sword composed of holy light formed above the Eternal Dragon King's head, and then fell rapidly!
Boom!
The golden great sword hit the Eternal Dragon King's nose, hitting the Eternal Dragon King.
The tip of the sword entered from the Eternal Dragon King's crown and protruded from the chin, splitting his head open!
Eternal Dragon King, dead!
"Demigod spirit found, collect?"
"Collect!"
Murozond's huge body drooped weakly, emitting a puff of bluish-gray smoke. If the Bronze Dragon Aspect hadn't grabbed his body, he would have fallen into the turbulent flow of time at this moment.
Nozdormu looked at his future self and said to Galen with disbelief: "The final moment has finally arrived. My future died at this moment, the cycle is over, and my future self can no longer do evil!"
"So? Double the quota for eternal life?" It was definitely not appropriate to touch the corpse in this situation. Galen could only ask the Bronze Dragon Aspect for a reward!
"..." Nozdormu was speechless.
"Galen, in the future, I will still… fall into madness. And you must destroy me. As long as Azeroth is not destroyed, we will still fight for survival, then the cycle will continue, again and again."
"Giving some treasures is also okay. What treasures do you bronze dragons have?" Galen remembered that there was an Eternal Ring that was barely okay, which could replace one of his guardian rings.
"Give, give, give! Can't I give it!"
Nozdormu was furious. The future corrupted version of himself had died, filling him with a mix of emotions. At the same time, his understanding of the time loop deepened.
He was eager to share his newfound appreciation for the present moment with Galen, but Galen interrupted him twice in a row, causing him immense distress!
"Fine! I'll give it! I'll double your share of immortality!" the Bronze Dragon Aspect relented.
Compared to Galen preventing his future self's corruption and stopping the sins he would commit, a mere five slots of immortality was a huge profit for him.
"Very good indeed." Galen was quite satisfied as well. He had many friends, loved ones, and legion commanders under his command, so even ten slots might not be enough.
However, there would be many opportunities to cooperate with the dragons in the future. He could slowly fleece Nozdormu, and if that didn't work, there was always Murozond's soul!
"Let's leave this time stream quickly. The light in this time tunnel is making me dizzy!"
"Follow me, we'll leave here!"
… … … … … …
"Nozdormu, you bastard!"
Galen angrily questioned the small gnome before him: "When I entered the time tunnel to go to the ancient times, it was the seventh year of the Dark Portal, but you're telling me it's now the fifteenth year of the Dark Portal!"
Damn it, no wonder Nozdormu brought him out of the time stream and then handed him over to Chromie before running away without looking back. He was afraid Galen would discover he had disappeared from Azeroth for nearly eight years and come to question him!
"Galen, it wasn't Lord Nozdormu's intention. The time node his power imprint guided you back to should have been the day after you left. But we waited a whole day without any reaction from the time stream. As a result, we waited eight years. It wasn't until the two Windrunner ladies suddenly emerged from the time stream the day before yesterday that I regained news of you! And I immediately asked Lord Nozdormu for help!"
Chromie didn't dare to ask why five people had gone to the ancient times, but only three had returned.
However, Chromie was "well-connected." She learned from her night elf friends that during the final battle of the War of the Ancients, a green-skinned alien warrior had delayed the Demon King with his life at the last moment, buying time for Malfurion to close the portal.
So Chromie speculated that the orc warrior who had left with Galen and the others must have sacrificed himself. As for the other weak human, Chromie simply ignored him.
The dragons would care about a powerful lion like Galen, but not a small ant like Cliff.
"Eight years, Chromie, do you know how important these eight years are to me!"
Galen wasn't lying. Such a long time was enough for Galen to fill Azeroth's unclaimed lands with bases.
Chromie also knew that Galen was a great lord of the humans, and he had the ability to develop a large amount of land and increase Stromgarde's wealth and strength in these eight years.
Therefore, Chromie also felt that her side was in the wrong, so she couldn't refute it.
Galen saw that there was a chance!
"Compensation, there must be compensation!" The man began to clamor, his face resembling those successful blackmailing old men and women.
"Okay, we can talk about this!"
Chromie breathed a sigh of relief. It was good to talk. Lord Nozdormu had indeed given her some authority before he left, and as long as Galen's demands weren't too excessive, they could be agreed to.
"I need some powerful magical equipment, preferably rings and accessories!"
"Phew ~" Chromie breathed a sigh of relief. This was simply a piece of cake. "No problem, you and the two Windrunner ladies will each receive a ring blessed by Lord Nozdormu!"
"Three? Have you forgotten that five of us went!"
"Five! It must be five!"
Galen pushed his luck, feeling that he could take three, and the other two would belong to Sylvanas and Alleria.
"No! Galen, you can't do this. Broxigar and Cliff have already sacrificed themselves!" Chromie was taken aback by Galen's outrageous demands. People were already dead, and you still wanted to collect equipment for them!
"Broxigar and Cliff did sacrifice themselves in the War of the Ancients, but they still have families. Broxigar's daughter is in Silvermoon City. This is called a settlement allowance, do you understand?"
Cliff was left by Galen in the ancient times to help Ancagalon maintain the Altar of Kings, and he had long since died of old age.
Chromie was cornered by Galen. At this time, she remembered that the Bronze Dragon Aspect had told her that Galen was suspected of breaking through the shackles of mortals and had become a demigod. Thinking of this, Chromie's aura weakened even more, and she was completely overwhelmed by Galen, resulting in a complete failure of the negotiation.
In the end, Galen obtained three Rings of the Eternal Champion, one Ring of the Eternal Seer, and one Ring of the Eternal Defender. In addition to giving Sylvanas and Alleria one Ring of the Eternal Champion each, Galen took three for himself.
Chromie was so angry that she returned to the Caverns of Time overnight. She decided to give Galen the cold shoulder for three months, otherwise, she wouldn't be able to heal her wounded heart.
Galen, Sylvanas, and Alleria gathered in the castle of Silvermoon City. Galen had just distributed the rings he had obtained from the bronze dragons to the sisters.
Sylvanas and Alleria were stroking the rings on their fingers, and the three were silent, with a special atmosphere enveloping them.
"Galen, I didn't expect this adventure to make us disappear for eight years. Although eight years isn't very long in terms of high elves' lifespans, we have to go back to Windrunner Village to tell our mother and younger siblings that we're safe," Alleria, as the eldest sister, was the first to break the silence.
The Windrunner family's male member, Lirath, had graduated from the knight training camp in Silvermoon City five years ago and then returned to his country to join the ranger corps for training.
"Yes, I also have to go back to Stromgarde Palace. I hope my father doesn't beat me to death when he sees me after disappearing for eight years!"
"Pfft!" Sylvanas couldn't help but laugh, and then the three looked at each other and laughed.
"Galen, you should explain to me what's going on between you and my older sister!"
Galen's smile froze on his face. Oh crap, is this a Shura field?
Galen secretly glanced at Sylvanas's expression. It didn't seem like there was any murderous intent. Was there a chance?
Oh, today is really my lucky day.
"Alleria is an excellent woman. I was too greedy, trying to have both you and Alleria at the same time!" Galen said to the Windrunner sisters with a sincere expression.
Only children make choices, I want them all!
Today's Galen is so tough!
What's wrong? I've become a demigod, can't I do whatever I want?
"In the time tunnel, I faced the Eternal Dragon King and broke through to the demigod rank in a life-or-death battle. At that time, I faced the questioning of my soul. Sylvanas, Alleria, you are all my beloved."
"I hope to be with you for ten thousand years, one hundred thousand years no... until the end of the universe!"