Chapter 7 The Last Guardian Chapter 6 Aegwynn and Sargeras

Medivh had been away for a whole week, and for Khadgar, this was also an unusually fulfilling week.He buried himself in the library every day, and Moros was in charge of three meals, and at night he would make do with the big table in the library, and that was all for a week. He found some ancient books, some ancient books about time and light and magic.While he was deep in his studies, he received a letter from the Kirin Tor.The letter was a reply to his last report: Jazibah wanted him to send him a copy of the Aegwynn Epic, Ms. Dales said in the letter that she had no idea what those books were about, and asked Kad Can Jiake extract a paragraph of text under each bibliography and mail it to her? Oronda firmly believes that there is a fifth type of troll in the world, and thinks that Khadgar did not read all the monster manuals carefully.Khadgar brushed their plea aside, he had more important things to do.

The Breach is a simple spell, Eagle Eye, which allows the caster to see things in the distance by multiplying their field of vision several times.A priest calls it the "Law of the Sacred Vision" and teaches it to the local monks.Since it could travel through space, perhaps with modification, it could travel through time, Khadgar guessed.This kind of attempt is probably not feasible in the outside world, where the rigid time limit is too much. But here, in Karazhan's Tower of Medivh, anything is possible.At least, the distorted space and the flowing sand of time here provide the prerequisites for the experiment. Once those weird time fragments are encountered, they will be easily taken into another time and space.

Despite the clues, Khadgar couldn't find any more information. He needed more information. Maybe those were sleeping in the ancient books that were guarded, and it was damnable. He turned his attention to the most important research notebook - the notebook written by Medivh himself.Oddly enough, the notes rarely deal with these visions, which seem to be reserved for other visitors.Did Medivh hide these materials in another place, or was he more interested in things outside the castle? It is very complicated to create a magic that summons illusions in the tower, not as simple as casting eagle eye spells outside.How does time work?What does the present time indicate?It is only with a deep and thorough awareness of these issues that it is possible to create that magic.A slight difference in a gesture, or even a change in the smell of the surrounding air, will cause the failure of the entire magic, and the gathered energy will disappear as a result.Sometimes, failed magic can cause energy disturbances and get out of control; in recent research, Khadgar found that the more violent the energy disturbance, the more serious the consequences, which means that the magic is closer to success, but generally speaking , Those energies will disappear silently because of the failure of the magic. You must know that life is unsatisfactory in all likelihood.Of course, only very few mages can survive the violent energy backlash. From this point of view, mages are also a very dangerous profession. - -!

When Khadgar was researching, he was always worried that Medivh would return, looking for an epic scroll or something that would suddenly appear behind him.What if found out?Would he tell Medivh about his research?Suppose he told Medivh what he had done, would the great astral mage encourage him, or stop him? After five days of fear, Khadgar felt that his magic was about to succeed.On the basis of retaining the original structure of Eagle Eye, Khadgar gave his new spell a random function, which can search for phantoms that appear randomly.Compared with the real environment, those scattered sands of time are brighter and hotter; all in all, they are weirder, and the new magic finds them by this.

The spell also has a new feature: sound reproduction.Just like people who are hard of hearing are used to hold their hands in a cup shape and put them next to their ears to increase their hearing, magic can collect and amplify sounds, and after processing, the caster can easily understand others' speech in illusions.Although it can't handle distant sounds, it has a wonderful property: whoever the caster looks at, he can hear that person's words. On the fifth night, Khadgar completed his magic calculation.He stood up and left an inconspicuous manuscript and a map of the magic circle for Medivh. The manuscript wrote down the entire process of magic.If something unexpected happened this time, at least Medivh would understand what was going on.Khadgar walked into the warehouse with these thoughts in mind.

Like other archmages, Medivh has a huge warehouse of magic raw materials. Well, you can imagine the warehouse of the most powerful magician in Azeroth. There are only things you can't think of, nothing you can't find.Only one hour later, a magic circle appeared in the library. Its outer ring was surrounded by amethyst, and the quartz full of energy was used to pile up the inner circle of the magic circle.Finally, everything is ready, only the east wind is owed.Khadgar reviewed the spells for the last time (most of them were already known in Dalaran), practiced a gesture for the last time (he learned it by himself), put on a loose robe (to increase luck), Into the magic circle.

Khadgar paused and adjusted himself.Yes, this time it is not a trick, nor is it a simple instant magic, this is a huge and dangerous magic.If it was in Violet City, a group of mages would definitely find him and force him to swear that he would never dare to do this again.He shook his head, took a deep breath, and started. The magic array emits a magnificent and soft light, and powerful magic begins to operate in the array.Like a rainbow swaying gently on the surface of the water, he felt the energy congeal inside him, coalescing into a warm ball.This is the center of magic control. As long as the caster does not have any accidents, it can quickly respond to commands and change the magic effect.

Khadgar transmitted consciousness into the sphere: I'm going to find an apparition, these apparitions are in the tower, bring it here, bring it to me.The sphere roared for a while and then fell silent, seemingly waiting for specific orders from Khadgar. "Bring a vision," ordered the young mage, "and show me young Medivh." With a soft crack, the energy flew out of his consciousness and entered the real world to find the master's goal.While Khadgar waited for a reply, a wind blew in the library.wind?How can there be wind here?Khadgar looked around and found that the library seemed different from before.It was an illusion that slowly surrounded Khadgar.

It was like someone opened a window and a gust of wind blew, and Khadgar felt chills, and he entered a vision of error. Another gust of cold wind, that icy air that seemed to come from Nordson.Although Khadgar kept telling himself that this was just an illusion.But he still couldn't help shivering all over his body, it was so cold! The surrounding walls gradually receded, replaced by a white plain; the cold wind swept away the books and scrolls, leaving behind a deep and thick snow field; chairs, books, and bookshelves all disappeared, and flakes of goose feather snow swirled float down.

Standing on the hillside with his knees buried in the snow, leaving no trace, he became a ghostly presence in this vision. Khadgar looked around, and the white breath he exhaled rolled away.To the right was a forest that had been mostly buried by the snowstorm.In the distance on the left is a shining white mountain peak. Khadgar thought it was a whole piece of white boulder at first, but after he looked carefully, he found that it was ice, a huge ice layer attached to the cliff, like Some invisible hand brought the river here and froze it.The glaciers stand tall like the mountains of Dalaran, and a few tiny black dots move in the white. They are either eagles or falcons. On the giant icebergs, they appear so small.

Before him was a canyon through which an army was trudging.The soldiers stepped on the white snow and stepped on the black soil under their feet, leaving a winding black trail behind them.They wore red battle armor, horned helmets, and a black high-necked cloak floating behind them.It can be seen from the weapons they wear that they are a group of hunters.In front of the procession, the leader held aloft a long wooden pole with the head of a huge green reptile hanging from the top - so Khadgar thought. The army drew closer, and when Khadgar saw what it was, he gasped—it was the dragon's head.Even in Violet City, he had only seen the skull of a dragon, and he never thought that he could see the head of a dragon with his own eyes.Where exactly is this place?What is the age here? There was a roar from the army, maybe they were shouting slogans or singing, but the voices of those guys were really unflattering, it sounded more like some kind of curse.The voice was very muffled, as if it came from a deep well, but at least Khadgar could hear every syllable. They got closer to Khadgar, and Khadgar finally saw what kind of team this was.They didn't have red battle armor, red was their skin color; they didn't have horn helmets either, the two horns grew on their heads; the black high-necked cloaks were even more nonsense, replaced by two pairs of fleshy wings. They are demons.Khadgar had heard them in Jaziba's speeches, and there were references to demons in Querrigan's collection of handbooks.They are a more bloodthirsty and cruel monster than orcs.It looks like this team has just been through a fierce battle, their swords are covered in blood, and most of the demons are scarred. There are so many demons here, they just returned from hunting dragons.Where exactly is this place?What year is this? There was a slight sound behind him, and Khadgar turned his head, only to realize that there was someone behind him. It was a woman, radiant with holiness, who approached quietly from behind Khadgar, leaving only imperceptible marks on the snow.She didn't notice Khadgar, or rather, she didn't bother to notice him. She was wearing a silver scale dress, and a white cloak with a hood lay obediently behind her. Yixi could see the green silk lining of the cloak, and the silver-rimmed hood tightly covered her blonde hair. This white dress made her cleverly Hide in the snow.She stood quietly on the cliff, and it seemed that the cold weather did not affect her. (Khadgar sneezes - -!).She also wears an emerald necklace, which emits a blurred green light, as beautiful as her eyes--as brilliant as emeralds after wiping off sassafras; as calm and majestic as the sea after a storm.Khadgar was familiar with that look, and Medivh had stared at him with the same look, as if trying to see into his heart. This is Medivh's mother, Aegwynn, the legendary mage closest to God. By this time, Khadgar also knew where he was.He had seen this battle between Aegwynn and the demons in the epic in the library, and this place was the battlefield. Khadgar suddenly understood what was wrong with the magic.Before Medivh left, he had borrowed the "Song of Aegwynn" from Khadgar.Could it be that Magic had misunderstood him, instead of showing the phantom of the young Medivh, and brought him the scene that Medivh had noticed? Aegwynn looked at the demon in the canyon coldly, frowning into a "chuan" character, Khadgar seemed to be able to see the roaring green storm in her eyes. She raised one hand and uttered a short incantation, the tips of her fingers flickering.I saw a huge white light draw an arc and cut into the demon team abruptly; this is not ordinary lightning, nor is it a thunderstorm with a range attack, but elemental lightning; the cold air is like being split in half by a powerful purple-white arc, A burst of thunder exploded on the ground, tumbling in everyone's ears. After the lightning, there was a pungent and slightly sour smell in the air. Apart from demons, Khadgar is the closest person (ghost?) to elemental lightning, even though he knows he is only an illusion, even though he knows what he sees is an illusion, even though he knows that the thunder is in the ear of his own ghost. The power has weakened a lot; even though he knew all of this, he was still so shocked that he fell to the ground and was stunned in front of this terrifying elemental lightning technique. The elemental lightning accurately hit the flag pole with the green dragon head, and the demon holding the flag had no time to snort, and turned into ashes in an instant; with him as the center, all the demons within a few meters of the radius exploded in an instant, and their bloody bodies scattered in the air. It was like a rain of blood. Whether it was intentional or unintentional, the elemental lightning only hit dozens of demons, and most of the demons were still outside the attack range.These giant demons (bigger than ten people holding each other) were stunned by the sneak attack, but after a while, the largest of them roared with a broken gong, and they turned their attention to Aegwynn. side.Half of the demons flew up to kill Aegwynn (and Khadgar), and the other half took out their blackwood heavy bows, skillfully placed rockets, and shot at Aegwynn. Aegwynn unhurriedly raised one hand and made a big circle. A wall of blue flames appeared in the sky in front of him. The flames were blazing, and orange rockets shot onto it, like sand sprinkled into water, easily swallowed. A little turmoil. The blue wall of fire extended into the air, and the demons in the sky had no time to stop, and were burned by the fire wall that appeared out of thin air. From time to time, demons wrapped in blue fire screamed and fell from the sky, and quickly moved around the fire wall, rushing aggressively. down; the sky was covered tightly by their huge black wings, and there were more than twenty more in sight. Aegwynn wore the faint smile that Khadgar had seen when Medivh fought the orcs, but it was more mature and confident than her son's. Khadgar looked down into the canyon, where the demons gave up their bows and gathered to chant low, drawn-out incantations.The time and space around them began to distort, strange purple air emerged out of thin air, and a black hole appeared there, forming a strong contrast with the white snow on the ground.More demons emerged from the black hole. They had the features of beasts and eyes like flames; they could only be distinguished by their wings: some were black fleshy wings of bats, some were transparent and thin like insects, and some had gray feathers like carrion birds. wing.These summoned demons immediately joined the casting team, more and more demons came out of the hole, more and more demons participated in the summoning, and the black hole grew bigger and bigger in the cold northern air. Aegwynn didn't care about the gathering of more and more demons below, but focused on the enemies coming from the air. She flipped her palm, and half of the demon turned into glass in an instant, and was shattered by the subsequent sonic attack.The remaining demons fell heavily to the ground, drew their weapons and slashed at Aegwynn.Only ten left. The guardian quickly made a gesture, and the muscles of the four demons began to melt, exposing the thick bones. They screamed in fear, until their throats also turned into a pool of green water in the snow, and they could never cry out.There are six more. Aegwynn grasped secretly with his right hand, and the three demons exploded without a sound, and a large group of bees, bumblebees and other small insects flew out from their dead bodies, and it was these insects that were implanted instantly. Explode the demon's body.There are three left. With a wave of her hands, a demon's limbs were torn apart, as if being pulled away by an invisible hand.There are two left.Aegwynn held out two fingers, one of which fell into the quicksand trap, and only the dying curse floated in the cold wind. The last one, he is the head of this group of demons, the leader who directs the attack.Khadgar was closest to him, and he could even see the details of the scar on the man's cheek, a one-eyed man with eyes burning with hatred. Neither side attacked, but looked at each other; by this time, the canyon was already full of summoned demons. The demon boss spoke first, and to Khadgar's ears, his voice was muffled and seemed to come from afar. "Guardian of Tirisfal, you fool," the fellow said in broken human tongue. Aegwynn laughed, his voice sharp as a dagger. "You say I'm a fool? I came to sabotage your dragon hunting operation. It seems that I have succeeded, haven't I?" "You pompous idiot," said the demon vaguely. "While you fight us, my brothers in the valley have summoned reinforcements. Among them are death knights, dark dogs, pit lords, doomguards, nightmares and even the leader of the Burning Legion. You are finished. " "I know they are coming." Aegwynn was very calm. "You know?" the demon laughed loudly. "Do you know you're alone now? Do you know how many opponents you have?" "I know," the Guardian said with a smile. "The Guardians are too difficult for you to deal with, so you will definitely go out of your way to summon reinforcements." "You know?" the devil continued to laugh, "If you knew, you wouldn't come to the Frozen Continent alone." "I said I knew it, but I didn't say that I came alone." Aegwynn smiled lightly and snapped his fingers. The sky suddenly darkened, like a large flock of birds densely covering the sun. But now it was not a bird, but a dragon, a huge dragon that covered the sky. Khadgar never dreamed that there were so many dragons in the world. They flapped their huge wings and soared in the air, waiting for Aegwynn's next signal. "Idiot Burning Legion, you are the idiot!" Aegwynn laughed. He screamed and pulled out the bleeding sword, but Aegwynn was faster than him. She stretched out three fingers, and the unlucky guy who was called an idiot showed an incredible expression. His chest suddenly disappeared, leaving only a cloud of blood. His hands fell to the ground, his feet fell on his knees, and the rolled head still maintained a surprised expression. He was dead.Blood red on the snow. This was the signal to the dragons, and these hovering creatures swooped down, unleashing their wrath upon the demons that swarmed the canyon.This time it was very lively, some drew out their weapons to resist, some chanted spells and cast spells, and some tried to escape from the slaughterhouse.But that was of no avail, and the demons fell like harvested wheat. At this moment, in the center of the corps, the call sounded. It was the strongest spellcasters in the team. Amid the gushing dragon's breath, they desperately gathered together, gathered all their energy, and fought like never before. Devoted and fervent, summon their most powerful demons. The demons of the corps tried to organize a counterattack, and the dragons began to descend from the sky. Their bodies were not afraid of rockets, and could resist poison and low-level magic.The demons are forced to concentrate towards the center where the spellcasting is crazier Aegwynn stood on the edge of the cliff, overlooking the entire battle situation, she gritted her teeth, her green eyes rolled with energy, this was the first time she showed seriousness.A shadow that Khadgar didn't recognize suddenly appeared in time and space. Aegwynn's face changed, and he chanted a spell, trying to destroy the magic structure that the devil had worked so hard to build. Just as you bend to break them, direct that energy to destroy itself in turn. The confrontation between the two sides became more and more direct. The demon's call was as fierce as burning pitch. Aegwynn had given up using the opponent's energy now. She raised her arms high and shouted loudly. And spread out. The guardian's magic was first launched, and a dazzling light shone from the center of the demon. The sun-like dazzling light made it impossible to look directly at it, and the world changed color for a while; the earth-shattering explosion followed, and the devastating shock wave and scorching air swept across The whole valley.The magic effect covered the entire battlefield, even affecting some dragons who stood too close. A thick column of smoke rises from the canyon, turning into clouds and rising in the air.Aegwynn gasped for breath, and she smiled.This is the smile of a wolf, the smile of a successful hunt, and the smile of a winner. But as far as Khadgar was concerned, the matter was not over yet.He found that the cloud in the sky was a bit strange, it made a rumbling sound, it seemed to be gathering together consciously, wriggling restlessly, getting tighter and tighter, the black and purple cloud gradually outlined the appearance of a person. In that cloud, Khadgar saw the face of the god. It was a titan, bigger than any god, any dragon.His bronze body was covered with thick black armor made of obsidian, his terrifying beard and wild hair were like flowing flames, and two huge horns emerged from his black eyebrows.His eyes, that is the bottomless abyss.The ground trembled as he strode out of the cloud.The spear in his hand was engraved with mysterious words dripping with scorching blood, and a huge fireball was burning at the end of the spear. The dragons had fled the battle, but Khadgar could not blame them.Although Medivh has great power, and even though his mother Aegwynn has shown even stronger power, they can only be regarded as two small candles in front of the powerful natural force of the Fallen Titan. "Sargeras," Aegwynn took a breath. "Guardian," the roar of the fallen titan was as deep as the sea, and the distant ice wall collapsed without even sending an echo. Aegwynn stood up straight, brushed the messy blond hair around his ears, and said, "I have wiped out your toys, and you have completely failed here. Run away while you still have your life." Khadgar looked at the Guardian, my God, is she crazy.Even he could see that the battle had drained her strength, and now she was as weak as Khadgar after he dealt with the orcs, and the fallen titan would not be fooled by her.According to the epic, Aegwynn won in the end, and he, wouldn't he see another ending, Aegwynn's death? Sargeras didn't even laugh, but his loud voice rolled over the earth and crushed Khadgar. "The age of Tirisfal has come to an end," said the Fallen Titan. "The world will soon fall under the onslaught of the Burning Legion." "As long as there are Guardians in this world," Aegwynn said, "as long as I live, this will never happen," her fingers curled slightly, and Khadgar could see that she was resummoning her power, gathering her Her energy, her intellect, her will, her energy, were ready to strike. Khadgar took a step back, then another step, then another step, he despised himself somewhat, but since that old self could see himself in the illusion, since the young Medivh could see himself in the illusion, could it be that the two A greater force that great mages and fallen titans will not see? Or, he's so small that he doesn't deserve to be noticed at all.Maybe? "Surrender, now," said Sargeras' rumbling voice, "I need your strength." "Never," Aegwynn clenched his fists. "Then die, Guardian, your world will perish with you," the fallen titan raised his spear dripping with hot blood. Aegwynn threw up his hands and let out a cry that was half curse, half prayer.A flowing rainbow from her palm, with colors never before seen in the world, pierced into the center of Sargeras's chest like a conscious lightning. From Khadgar's point of view, it was like shooting a bow and arrow on a big ship, and it would have no effect at all.But Sargeras actually staggered back a small step under this blow, and the huge spear in his hand fell to the ground, just like a meteorite hitting the ground, the ice and snow on the ground caused huge ripples under the heavy blow, and Kaka Degas stood unsteadily, knelt on one knee, looked up at the fallen titan. After Aegwynn's magic hit, a black spot spread across Sargeras' chest, no, it wasn't a black spot, it was a cold shadow of death, the part of his hot bronze body that was hit was frozen Inert metal instead, the metal of destruction spread like wildfire from the center of his chest. Sargeras began to be amazed by the spreading destruction, then panicked, then frightened, he touched the destroyed body part with one hand, and this hand also began to change, leaving only Black rough inert metal.Sargeras began to chant, gathering all the energy to heal himself, he tried to reverse the process, stop this undercurrent, extinguish the wildfire that meant destruction.His voice became more and more heated, and the unaffected skin was protected by higher intensity.He became as scorching as the sun, roaring loudly, like those black shadows of death invaded his heart. Immediately afterwards, another bolt of lightning concentrated on the center of Sargeras' body, just as strong and aggressive as the previous one.Khadgar turned to look at Aegwynn, who was watching her foe surrounded by fire and darkness.The flames lit up the entire sky, leaving a long shadow behind her. And then the battle is over... Khadgar turned and blinked, the fire was too bright.Looking back into the rift, he found that the fallen titan—Sargeras had fallen to the ground, like a pile of ordinary statues made of metal, life had been burned out.The ground couldn't bear the Titan's heavy body, and Sargeras sank slowly, as if he had hit a hole on the ground... Everything around gradually calmed down. Aegwynn laughed, despite looking exhausted.She rubbed her hands and giggled as she walked towards the fallen Titan not far away.Khadgar noticed that she was going downhill with difficulty, not floating as lightly on top of the snow as she had begun. As Aegwynn drifted away, the library's original face was revealed.The snow and ice sublimated into thick steam and disappeared.Bookshelves, corridors and chairs gradually reveal their dark shadows. Khadgar turned mechanically and returned to the workbench.Everything around has returned to normal, and it can't be seen that anything has just happened here. Khadgar exhaled a cold breath and rubbed his cold hands, well, the magic worked well, although not so precise, and summoned a clear vision, although not the one Khadgar originally thought.What's the problem?Need to find out and fix it. The young mage took out his writing tool bag, found a few pieces of blank parchment, put a nib on his stylus, dipped it in the octopus ink in the ink fountain, and began to quickly record everything that happened just now, starting from how he Cast the spell until Aegwynn gets stuck in the snow and goes further and further... An hour passed quickly, and Khadgar was still deep in thinking and writing, uh, someone knocked on the door?By the time Khadgar realized it, Moroes had already knocked on the door twice. Khadgar raised his head somewhat annoyed. He just thought of an important matter, but he just couldn't grasp the details, as if these details were deliberately avoiding him and wandering around the edge of his thinking. "The mage is back," Moroes said. "He wants you to go to the top of the observatory quickly." Khadgar looked at Moros with a blank face, and before he came back to his senses, "Medivh? He's back!?", he finally came to his senses. "That's right," Moros moaned, trembling with each word. "He wants you to fly to Stormwind with him." "Stormwind? Me? Why?" Khadgar was surprised. "You are his apprentice, I think that may be the reason," Moros said, still frowning. "Observatory, top floor. The griffins have arrived." Khadgar looked at his parchment, it was full of neat handwriting, the details of what happened just now were clearly recorded, but there were still some things that needed further study.Then he made up his mind "Okay, okay, let me get my stuff together first." "As you please," Moros said. "It's just that the Archmage wants you to fly to Stormwind with him, no big deal." Then he turned and walked into the corridor. "Top floor," came his hollow, echoing voice. Stormwind!Khadgar couldn't figure it out. That was King Lane's castle. Why did he, a little mage, go there? Could it be because of the reports of those orcs? Khadgar looked at the notes he had just written. His thoughts had been disturbed by the news of Medivh's return and their departure together. Now his mind was full of new adventures to Stormwind. He noticed the last sentence he wrote: Aegwynn has two shadows... Khadgar shook his head. Whatever he was trying to write, he couldn't remember now.He blotted off the excess ink with blotting paper, then set the parchment aside.Then he packed his tools and quickly returned to his residence.If he is going to ride a griffin, he needs to change into traveling clothes.Plus, you can't go to see the royal family without wearing your best magic cloak.