After considering, Aiden discussed it with the others, and everyone nodded in agreement.
Except for Sinestra.
She had just witnessed the combat prowess of both sides.
Kil'jaeden, wielding the Dark Seether, was even more terrifying than Archimonde had been, and the sheer size of the Old God was enough to dissuade anyone from antagonizing it.
"Are you guys crazy?! It's so dangerous there, are you going to throw your lives away for nothing?"
"We're not asking you to go," Aiden replied.
Although Sinestra's previous actions of fleeing with a large number of magical crystals and Dralgonax, the Shadow of Death, had indeed displeased him, she had now brought back important information, and the value of this information far exceeded the crystals she had taken.
So Aiden wasn't planning on dwelling on the previous trivial matter.
Sinestra couldn't help but say, "You haven't seen Vanaar; he can carry the entire Outland! What makes you think you can fight him? To be honest, your weapons can only cut off the hairs on his body at best; it's difficult to even break his skin!"
"Thank you for your concern, even if your tone isn't pleasant," Aiden smiled.
"We might not participate in the battle personally, but we must ensure that the outcome aligns with our original plan.
The Old God must be destroyed; only then can we escape!"
—
When Aiden and the others arrived at the battlefield, he personally saw the Old God Sinestra had described as being able to carry the entire Outland—"The Immortal" Vanaar—and everyone instantly fell silent.
"I bet that guy's legs are thicker than the Shattered Halls!" Khadgar said, almost dumbfounded.
"Unbelievable, how can there be such a massive monster!"
"Good heavens, his sneeze could cause a hurricane, right?"
"Perhaps past earthquakes were caused by him stretching his legs in his sleep at the Draenor's core?"
Vanaar's size far exceeded the limits of everyone's imagination.
When such a creature stood before people, it truly challenged their past worldview.
Sinestra couldn't help but scoff, "When he first appeared, he was at least five times bigger than he is now!
One of his tentacles was bigger than several Shattrath Cities!"
She had been extremely reluctant to come, but in the end, she couldn't help but follow.
She still harbored a sliver of unrealistic hope: perhaps Dralgonax, the Shadow of Death, was still alive?
"I think my imagination isn't quite enough."
"Old Gods, so they're this terrifying?" Thrall murmured.
He had heard snippets about the Old Gods from Aiden in the past, but in Thrall's imagination, the Old Gods were, at most, giant beasts lurking underground, maybe the size of a plaza, with highly developed minds, occasionally tempting some weak-willed powerhouses to release them from their imprisonment.
But clearly, the reality of the madness far exceeded his imagination.
Not only him, but even Aiden didn't know how to describe his feelings at this moment.
The Old Gods pushed by players in the game were completely different from the one before him—he believed that C'Thun and Y'Shaarj could be imprisoned with prisons of that size, but what kind of prison could hold Vanaar in front of him?
Moreover, this was Vanaar after his size had been reduced many times—what must he have been like at his peak?
Aiden couldn't imagine.
Perhaps when the Titans first arrived, the planet of Draenor was almost Vanaar himself?
Aiden shook off these useless thoughts.
He noticed that the situation on the battlefield was somewhat peculiar—Vanaar was chasing Kil'jaeden, but the demons of the Burning Legion were chasing the Old God's minions.
And some of the Old God's minions were passing a burning greatsword to each other at the cost of their lives.
While chasing Kil'jaeden, Vanaar also looked after his minions.
Once he discovered that other demons might snatch the Dark Seether from his minions, he would drop Kil'jaeden and go to help his minions.
After discovering that the Old God couldn't touch the Dark Seether, Vanaar could only throw the sword to his minions, letting them use their bodies to catch the sword and pass it to other minions.
For the Old God's minions, catching the sword with their bodies was tantamount to death.
Even the strongest primal thorn beasts would be reduced to ashes if the sword's burning flames touched them.
Only some that were powerful enough and reacted quickly could survive by instantly severing the burning parts.
But Vanaar couldn't think of any other way and could only use this clumsy method.
If he could defeat the Burning Legion, he wouldn't have to care about this sword and could let it drift into the void!
He had considered ignoring it directly and letting the sword sink, but Kil'jaeden had the ability to teleport through space, which would be tantamount to handing the sword back to the opponent.
"What are they passing around?" Aiden was too far away and only saw a ball of fire darting back and forth in the Old God's camp.
The minions touched by the ball of fire were all reduced to ashes.
Under normal circumstances, the Old God should avoid this ball of fire at all costs, but judging from the battle situation, the demons were clearly fighting for this ball of fire, while the minions were desperately trying to protect it.
"That's Kil'jaeden's sword," Sinestra said with lingering fear, "a sword that can even wound the Old God!"
She didn't recognize the Dark Seether and couldn't hear the sounds when hiding in the Twisting Nether, so she naturally didn't know that the broken sword came from the dark titan Sargeras.
Aiden keenly sensed a glimmer of opportunity—a sword that could wound the Old God; if they obtained it, wouldn't they have the ability to kill the Old God?
Perhaps they could even use it to deter Kil'jaeden!
He remembered that he still had the Eye of Sargeras and the Scepter of Sargeras obtained from Archimonde.
These two treasures were both artifacts that greatly countered demons.
With them, he might not even need to fear Kil'jaeden anymore!
"What does that sword look like?" Aiden asked urgently.
He thought of a sword with infinite power—in the Twisting Nether, Sargeras had used this sword to fight against Aman'Thul's power.
If it was that sword… Aiden felt himself becoming restless.
"It's a burning broken sword—the blade is broken in half, but I don't know why it's still so terrifying!" Sinestra had previously ambushed Kil'jaeden with Dralgonax, the Shadow of Death, so she naturally wouldn't forget what the sword looked like.
"A broken sword—" Aiden felt an uncontrollable excitement, "It's it, it really is it!"
"What is it, Aiden?" Khadgar asked.
"The Dark Seether—Sargeras's sword.
After combining with the sword's tip, it will become the most powerful weapon in the universe!
But even if it's only half, it's still infinitely powerful!"
After Aiden explained this, everyone immediately understood his thoughts.
"Say it, what do we do!"
Aiden stared at the battlefield.
The battle between the Old God and the Burning Legion was extremely fierce, with hundreds of casualties occurring every second.
And as a third-party force, if they rashly rushed into the battlefield to seize the high-profile broken sword, they would definitely be besieged by both sides.
"Let's change our disguise," Aiden said in a low voice.
Now that the broken sword was controlled by the Old God's minions, the only way to approach safely was to disguise themselves as these minions.
After leaving the others outside to provide cover, Aiden, Kassadin, and Malzahar cautiously entered the battlefield.
Malzahar possessed very clever illusion techniques.
Back when he was in the Twisting Nether, he could even deceive the demons of the Burning Legion.
Aiden pondered for a while and felt that there shouldn't be any special means of distinguishing friend from foe among these Old God's minions.
If there were, with Kassadin here and the support of these heroes on the periphery, it shouldn't be difficult for them to escape.
Malzahar disguised the three of them as treants.
After stealthily moving for a while, they arrived at the edge of the battlefield.
The three of them simultaneously attacked the demons on the periphery, and then took the opportunity to move towards the Old God's minion legions—their guess was correct; at least, there was no special telepathy between the Old God's minions to identify friend from foe.
They successfully integrated into Vanaar's legion!
At this time, the battle was even more intense than before.
After a long battle, Kil'jaeden became somewhat impatient.
He knew that the Old God couldn't possibly master the Dark Seether, and if this continued, Vanaar's minions would eventually be exhausted.
But without the broken sword, he was powerless to resist Vanaar, and eliminating the opponent was even more distant.
Vanaar clearly still had energy; he could still summon a large number of clones or minions with his own power.
Such a battle might continue for ten days or half a month without ending.
But the longer the time dragged on, the more likely unexpected events would occur.
Kil'jaeden hadn't forgotten his other important goal—to avenge Archimonde and eliminate Aiden and the Outland Allied Forces!
Although he had completely scattered the fragments of Outland before leaving the Twisting Nether, and the Dark Portal had drifted to a very distant place, as long as they searched patiently, they would eventually find them one day.
The concerns Aiden had previously held about the thin air and loss of gravity wouldn't reach life-threatening levels before Vanaar's death. This is the special characteristic of the Plant-type Old Gods: they don't die, and even if the world is shattered, the planet will still retain life; but if they die, even if the planet still exists, it's just a shell that will soon perish. The atmosphere protecting the planet will immediately dissipate, and the vegetation and animals attached to the planet will all die in a very short time.
Half a month is likely enough time for the air force on the Exodar flying ship to find the Dark Portal and evacuate everyone from this world.
"Swift victory, then immediately go and destroy those people." Kil'jaeden silently decided, preparing to use Sargeras' Soul Disk again. As the original owner of the Dark Seether, the power within Sargeras' soul container could instantly summon this weapon to his side.
However, Kil'jaeden had already used Sargeras' power once when he destroyed Outland, and if he forcibly used it again in a short period, there would be relatively serious after-effects.
"It's an acceptable price," Kil'jaeden said to himself after a moment of silence, convincing himself.
But just as he was about to summon the Soul Disk, Aiden, who had been lurking in Vanaar's army, made his move—Kassadin used his Void Walk ability to instantly bring him into the air. At this moment, the Dark Seether had just been passed over by a beetle minion being consumed by the Flames of Destruction. Aiden stepped out of the Void Gate and reached out to directly grasp the hilt.
The instant he grabbed the sword, the Flames of Destruction on the blade instantly extinguished. Then, a strange piece of information was transmitted into his mind. He noticed that it was a special rune, a rune whose structure was very close to the Dark Naaru code!
"Identity verification: Titan"
"Authority granted: Normal Authority"
"Correcting energy input mode: Destruction → Devastation"
"Loading..."
"Loading complete"
This was the meaning of those runes, directly conveyed into Aiden's mind.
Just like the verification in the Titan laboratory under the Shattered Spire, the Dark Seether's verification also regarded him as a Titan.
However, Aiden immediately realized that this weapon originally belonged to Sargeras, and it wasn't surprising that the sword considered him the user after Sargeras tried to merge with him.
He was still dressed as a treant, covered in vines and bark. This appearance was very ordinary among the Old God's minions, but his actions caused an uproar.
"The fire on it went out!"
"Why?"
"Did the energy run out?"
"Vanaar protect us!"
The Old God's minions were stunned for a moment, then immediately cheered and erupted in excitement.
Kil'jaeden, who was preparing to use the Soul Container to summon the Dark Seether from afar, was initially angry when he saw this scene, but he quickly calmed down and even revealed a hint of interested smile.
He saw that things were becoming interesting.
A primal thorn beast, hundreds of meters tall, strode over and reached out to Aiden, who wasn't even as tall as its hoof: "Give me the sword! Let me give it to Father God first!"
Several thick vines extended from its hand, almost touching Aiden's nose.
"It's the Eternal Thal'naar, one of the offspring of the immortal Vanaar!"
"The Burning Legion has failed!"
Aiden heard countless voices in his ears. He smiled and pressed the sword in his hand against the vines. The blade, which had originally stopped releasing the Flames of Destruction in his grasp, immediately reignited with raging flames the moment it touched Thal'naar. The flames spread upward along the vines, reaching Thal'naar's hand in almost a single breath.
The Eternal Thal'naar let out a miserable wail, and twisted off his burning arm with his other hand to avoid being incinerated by the Flames of Destruction.
Judging from the previous results, this action was effective. But just when he thought he had stopped the flames, his entire body suddenly burst into flames, turning into a huge burning object.
The shrill scream stopped abruptly in just half a breath, leaving only scattered ashes in its place.
"You are not one of us!" Vanaar, who had been ecstatic, finally shouted angrily.
The other minions didn't have the ability to distinguish friend from foe, but Vanaar certainly wouldn't be without it. He saw the Flames of Destruction scorch his son and immediately realized something was wrong. Upon investigation, he understood that this guy was not his minion, but a despicable sneak attacker!
And it was very likely a demon disguised as a minion!
At the thought of this possibility, Vanaar trembled in fear—he had to immediately kill this person before he returned the sword to Kil'jaeden!
The Dark Seether would definitely be able to unleash greater power in Kil'jaeden's hands. Vanaar saw that this "demon" disguised as a treant wasn't strong, and was likely just a small leader in the Burning Legion with special disguise abilities. Eliminating an opponent holding the Dark Seether like this was obviously easier than eliminating Kil'jaeden holding it!
As long as he killed this person, everything would return to his control!
Vanaar immediately shouted angrily: "Surround him! Kill him!"
He himself also abandoned Kil'jaeden, preparing to kill this person with all his strength!
Kil'jaeden was very happy to see this happen. He retreated a little, leisurely preparing to watch this good show.
How could the Deceiver not see that the treant was actually Aiden? He was originally the most skilled illusionist.
Whether Vanaar killed Aiden, or Aiden killed Vanaar, both outcomes were what he wanted to see.
Everyone believed that the Dark Seether couldn't unleash much power in Aiden's hands.
After being seen through by Vanaar, Aiden restored his original appearance, but Kassadin and Malzahar were still in hiding. There was no need for them to expose themselves now.
In fact, Aiden himself didn't know how much power he, with his normal authority, could unleash with this sword. He tried to pour energy into it and tried to launch an attack.
The blade of the Dark Seether burned with fierce Flames of Destruction, this time it was the real Flames of Destruction—not just in form or name—when Aiden swung the sword, a ridiculously long arc of flame appeared in the air. Wherever the fire passed, all living things instantly turned to dust, without even a chance to struggle.
A huge void instantly appeared in Vanaar's army. And just a moment before, there were tens of thousands of Old God minions here!
Such destructive power not only stunned the Old God's army, but also equally shocked the demons, and even Kil'jaeden.
Kil'jaeden's strike that severely injured Vanaar didn't have such power either.
"His usage authority is higher than mine—but why?"
Kil'jaeden muttered in a voice that only he could hear. His burning eyes couldn't express his unbelievable expression, but the unconsciously widened mouth still revealed uncontrolled shock.
Aiden activated normal authority, while he only had secondary authority.
"A mortal—how is it possible?"
"No, of course a mortal is impossible—he is not a mortal—"
"Only in Sargeras' hands would the Dark Seether have such power."
"Could it be…they merged?"
Countless thoughts flashed through Kil'jaeden's mind.
Finally, he thought of the fusion in the Twisting Nether. Not only did Aiden guess that, but he also believed that Aiden must have obtained Sargeras' mark during the fusion process, and therefore had the qualification to activate the Dark Seether's normal authority.
As for the legendary highest authority—that was when Sargeras had not yet fallen, only when he personally used the Dark Seether could he activate the highest authority of this strongest weapon in the universe.
Sargeras could leave a great reputation in the universe because the Flames of Devastation under the highest authority of the Dark Seether would burn any enemy it touched to ashes—any enemy!
But at that time, this sword was only used to fight against evil, such as the Old Gods and the demons of the Abyss. It was destined to only be used to fight against evil creatures.
Therefore, after Sargeras' fall, this sword was broken into two pieces. One part belonged to the Pantheon, used to continue to maintain their justice and order; the other part belonged to Sargeras, following him to destroy countless worlds.
The current broken sword, the "Dark Seether," can be used to fight against any enemy, but its power is far inferior to what it was in the past. At least it wouldn't have such a terrifying attribute of "the Flames of Destruction burning any enemy it touches to ashes."
But even so, no one wanted to personally test its power.
When Aiden held it, he suddenly felt that he could single-handedly fight against the entire world.