N'Zoth's every plan was for the sake of breaking free. Now that even the cage is about to collapse on its own, it naturally doesn't need to waste its brainpower plotting how to escape. Therefore, Azshara's success or failure is no longer crucial to N'Zoth.
The only thing it fears is that Aiden might have some means to re-strengthen the seal—although this possibility is relatively small. But after so many encounters, N'Zoth is fully aware that even if there is only a sliver of possibility, it cannot let its guard down against Aiden—because this guy can always create miracles in desperate situations and impossibilities!
It has already suffered several losses. If it weren't for Aiden, it would have already ruled Azeroth during the Nightmare invasion years ago.
At this critical juncture, N'Zoth absolutely does not want Aiden to ruin its plans again, so it ordered Azshara to delay for time. If she really can't hold on, it's alright to abandon the mission and escape back.
Azshara's strength is not bad, and N'Zoth doesn't want to give up on her so easily.
Queen Azshara reacted and immediately knew what to do.
Just as the two sides were fighting fiercely, a monster with three tentacles emerged from nowhere and silently ran to the box containing Y'Shaarj's heart. It inserted its tentacles into the black heart, greedily and frantically drawing the essence of Y'Shaarj's power.
The seven semi-corporeal Sha in mid-air screamed frantically, trying to stop its behavior, but they had just died once not long ago and had no ability to condense into a physical form. Intimidation was still possible, but they completely lacked any real combat power.
Queen Azshara blasted Kael away with a spell, and the corner of her eye caught this scene. She suddenly turned her head, took a closer look, and hesitated, "An Old God?"
The monster was focused on absorbing power and completely ignored Queen Azshara.
In fact, apart from the people on Azshara's side, everyone else was very clear about this guy's background—it was 'Vel'Koz, the Eye of the Void'!
Ever since tasting the essence of the Old Gods' power in Shurima, Vel'Koz had been trying every means to absorb more energy to strengthen himself. It felt that it had found a shortcut to evolution, which would allow it to evolve into a perfect form earlier than other Void creatures!
So while others were fighting to the death, it was attracted to Y'Shaarj's heart as soon as it arrived and pounced on it.
Aiden was paying attention to the entire battlefield. When he heard Queen Azshara call Vel'Koz an 'Old God,' his heart stirred.
In a sense, Void creatures are indeed related to the Old Gods, and can even be said to be inseparable.
During the game monster invasion that year, the Old Gods came from 'World of Warcraft,' while the Void creatures came from 'League of Legends.' The so-called 'destructive will in the universe,' or rather, the universe's instinctual adjustment behavior towards the mismatch between the mirror world and the physical world, affected specific creatures in the imaginary world, infecting the Old Gods and Void creatures, which, from the perspective of the imaginary game world, were 'monsters' and 'destroyers.'
The reason why Vel'Koz didn't launch a crazy attack was firstly because the imaginary world crisis broke out after it joined 'League of Legends.' Its setting was that it was a Void creature, and also a hero in League of Legends; secondly, even if it was a Void creature, it belonged to the part of the Void creatures that had not been infected by the destructive will. Just like the Old Gods are divided into two types, the mad and the original. N'Zoth is the former, and Velen of Outland was the latter.
However, this will not change Vel'Koz's essence. In 'World of Warcraft,' it is a well-deserved Old God!
With the prefix, it would be a Primal Old God, like Velen.
However, Primal Old Gods and Mad Old Gods are not purely hostile and opposed. On the one hand, the Primal Old Gods do not want to become mad; on the other hand, the Mad Old Gods want to transform the primal races into their side.
Seeing Queen Azshara recognize Vel'Koz as an Old God, Aiden's mind raced, and an idea immediately popped into his head—he instantly conveyed this plan to Vel'Koz through his mind. In this era of collapsing order, perhaps Vel'Koz could create a miracle once again.
Didn't it create a 'miracle' once in Shurima?
Uh... perhaps strictly speaking, that time was a blunder—it parasitized on Xerath, then released Xerath's Arcane Barrage, and finally extracted part of Xerath's energy. It was a mess, anyway, the process was thrilling, the result was bizarre, and overall it was still very good.
After receiving the idea conveyed by Aiden, Vel'Koz's big eyes glanced at Queen Azshara and also conveyed its own idea: "Call me 'Vel'Koz, the Eye of the Void'! The Titan's order has collapsed, it is your honor to serve me!"
There was nothing amiss with these words.
Now that the Titan's seal on the Old Gods is disintegrating, and the planetary defense system is also collapsing, other Old Gods can indeed take the opportunity to come to Azeroth.
Aiden being able to break through Dimensius' blockade here and forcefully enter Azeroth through the Eternal Kingdom's teleportation array is clear proof.
Most importantly, Vel'Koz has never shown its face in Azeroth. Today is its first time coming to this world. Apart from the heroes of Valoran, no one knows its background!
Aiden wanted to use this point to let Vel'Koz infiltrate the enemy again and be an undercover agent once more!
Queen Azshara heard Vel'Koz admit it, and was slightly dissatisfied with the arrogance of this 'Eye of the Void,' because in her opinion, she could tell from its size that Vel'Koz's power was not strong, perhaps even weaker than her! However, she was still relatively clear that the Old Gods were the true rulers of the world, and she was at most a high-level servant.
Azshara dared not disobey N'Zoth, and also dared not contradict Vel'Koz.
"Lord Vel'Koz, the situation here is not good, let's retreat!" Queen Azshara said anxiously to Vel'Koz while resisting Kael's attack, because she saw that Aiden had broken through the previous elites' obstruction and was killing his way over here.
She was already having enough trouble dealing with Kael, and adding Aiden would definitely make it impossible to escape.
At this time, she could only hope that this suddenly emerging Old God could help her escape the danger.
"Hmph, can't even deal with this little trouble—step back, watch me!" Vel'Koz conveyed its idea very arrogantly.
It condensed a huge amount of energy and fired a white-purple Disintegration Ray. Wherever the ray passed, all life was disintegrated into basic particles—now it was standing on the naga army's side, so the ray should of course be aimed at the Valoran heroes, but it was extremely normal for the ray to kill thousands of 'friendly troops'—such as naga, faceless ones, mantid, etc.—during the transfer process.
Those Valoran heroes had already received Aiden's instructions, and each of them acted as if they dared not confront it head-on, retreating in panic. Even Aiden retreated to the back after symbolically resisting for a moment.
Queen Azshara was shocked. She was a powerful mage and could of course feel the powerful power of this Disintegration Ray.
"As expected of an Old God!" She felt that she had really underestimated this ordinary-sized 'Eye of the Void' before.
After the Disintegration Ray forced back Aiden and others, Queen Azshara immediately activated the teleportation, screaming, "Retreat!"
With a flash of white light, the elite naga army of Vale of Eternal Blossoms, as well as Vel'Koz, who had just displayed great power, disappeared without a trace. Most of the remaining hundreds of thousands of troops were still unclear about the situation. The ones in the back were still rushing forward, while the ones in the front wanted to retreat, and they collided with each other for a while.
Aiden and others made a comeback. Before long, Chen Stormstout led a group of pandaren warriors to kill out from the side, and then the guards of the Great Wall reorganized their troops and ambushed from behind. To the north, there was an even larger troll army with a population of nearly 100,000, holding the flags of the Alliance, the Valoran Federation, and the Troll Kingdom, joining the battlefield. Behind them, there were even angel legions and airship units joining. Most of these hundreds of thousands of Old God's minions lost their lives in the chaos.
After this battle, the mantid in the Dread Wastes and the Townlong Steppes outside the Great Wall were severely injured and no longer had the ability to attack the Great Wall.
However, Aiden had already left here before the end of the war.
The defense of Mount Hyjal was a large-scale army battle, and it would be difficult for Aiden to directly affect the outcome of the war whether he joined or not; the operation to deal with Dimensius was in full swing, and his joining might startle the snake.
After Aiden went back, he didn't hesitate. First, he secretly informed the heroes of Valoran about Vel'Koz's undercover mission, and then he went to Draenor through the teleportation array.
He had been away from here for almost four years. The great war here had once destroyed the world, and he had even activated the Titan's equipment to reshape the entire world.
But as soon as he stepped on here, his heart sank: the planetary defense system here was also collapsing, and at the same time, the Old God Velen sealed underground was also gradually breaking free from his shackles.
At least for now, the Titan facilities throughout the universe are collapsing!
What exactly happened?
Aiden tried to contact Velen. Back then, this primal Old God had given him very important guidance. The information revealed by the other party helped him unravel the fog and understand the truth of the world. Without Velen, Aiden might not have known his true identity until now, let alone understand the essence of the world, and he would not have been able to obtain the vast power he has today.
Among the people Aiden had met, besides Aman'Thul and Sargeras, Velen was the only one left who was a "sober one."
He slowly infiltrated his mental power towards the ground. Not long after, he came into contact with an extremely manic spiritual body. It was incomparably huge, its power was extremely tyrannical, and almost as soon as Aiden's spiritual sense sensed it, it launched a mental attack!
Fortunately, Aiden had made certain preparations, and coupled with the fact that he was best at dealing with mental attacks, he didn't suffer a loss.
But his heart sank, because he was completely sure that it was Velen.
He recalled their last exchange a few years ago, when Velen frankly told him that his body was being corrupted by imaginary energy, and that they might be enemies the next time they met.
I didn't expect that today it would come true?