After Valeera and Stellagosa split some of their work, Sharlayan only needs to focus on two things.
He didn't need to personally follow up on Kel'Thuzad's news for the time being. The most important task at the moment was to cross the sea and find the former guardian Aegwynn who was living in seclusion outside Ratchet City.
Since handing over inter-state intelligence gathering to the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Backlight Blade has only been tasked with gathering intelligence on supernatural events beneath the surface of Azeroth that ordinary people cannot handle.
Magna Aegwynn, the Keeper of Tyrrisfal, is one of the tipping points for these supernatural events.
To be more precise, Medivh, the astral mage whom Aegwynn wants to resurrect, will most likely become the central figure in the coming period.
Barrage has already told Sarlayan about Medivh's life in detail before, so there is no need to elaborate further.
After getting rid of the shackles of Sargeras' soul and truly gaining freedom, Medivh still had many things he wanted to do, among which the highest priority was undoubtedly to redeem the sins "himself" had committed.
While his soul was drifting in the astral realm, Medivh accidentally strayed into the Twisting Nether and overheard the next phase of the Burning Legion's plan for Azeroth.
In order to avoid being discovered by powerful demon lords such as Kil'jaeden and Archimonde, Medivh did not dare to get too close. He only heard some intermittent sentences and memorized a few important keywords.
Lich King, Army of the Undead, World Tree, Sunwell.
After the secret closed-door meeting, Medivh, who was very worried about Azeroth, continued to lurk in the Twisting Nether. Through the fragments of information revealed during conversations with other high-level demons, he roughly pieced together the full picture of the Burning Legion's plan.
In fact, to put it bluntly, there is nothing new in the Burning Legion's plan to invade Azeroth. It is essentially the same invasion plan 10,000 years ago.
After the War of the Ancients that year, high-level demons, including Archimonde and Kil'jaeden, were all wary of Azeroth, the most special world in the universe.
Among them, Archimonde personally participated in the War of the Ancients, and was seriously injured when he fought for his life with Malorne, the strongest demigod in the war.
Over the next 10,000 years, Kil'jaeden the Deceiver intermittently inserted many demonic officers who happened to be stuck in the planet's boundaries to accept their limits into Azeroth.
But in the end, most of these demons came back in a gray state, and some of them are still reading the resurrection message.
Kil'jaeden and Archimonde were both Eredar before, and together with Velen they were the three archons of the Eredar civilization.
At the beginning, Sargeras domineeringly promised to the Eredar civilization that he would give them unparalleled power, lead them across the star sea, conquer all battles, and explore all the unsolved mysteries in the universe.
Kil'jaeden and Archimonde, who were thirsty for knowledge and power, readily agreed to Sargeras's recruitment. Only Velen, the eldest and wisest prophet among the three archons, saw an ominous sign from Sargeras.
After several efforts, Velen was still unable to convince his friend Kil'jaeden, and could only lead some Eredar who were unwilling to join the Burning Legion on a journey of exile.
These Eredar who refused to surrender became what became known as the Draenei, a word that means exile in the Eredar language.
In the early days when the eredar joined the Burning Legion, Sargeras fulfilled his promise. He gave the eredar a lot of knowledge he collected while traveling the universe, and also used evil energy to infuse them with powerful power.
Before discovering and invading Azeroth, the Burning Legion was indeed invincible as Sargeras said. They conquered and destroyed countless civilizations in the universe.
But the invincible Burning Legion suffered a big loss in the little-known world of Azeroth.
Not to mention Archimonde the Defiler, even Sargeras, who was the charioteer himself, had a conspicuous wound cut on his leg by a mortal, and was expelled by the "flush toilet" before he could officially enter Azeroth.
As a victorious army that has never experienced a defeat, the defeat encountered in Azeroth became a thorn in the hearts of all demons.
In the long time since then, the Burning Legion has sent elites to infiltrate Azeroth more than once, trying to disintegrate their resistance from within, just like the Dreadlords have done countless times before.
However, the results of these infiltration operations were extremely disappointing to the fraudsters who were hiding behind the scenes.
Ten thousand years have passed, and Azeroth is still impregnable. The Burning Legion, which is invincible in the universe, has nothing to do with this small planet.
More than 800 years ago, Sargeras finally became impatient with Kil'jaeden's infiltration tactics.
This time, he planned to go out in person.
The demon king's ghost sneaked into Azeroth and achieved great results. The orcs who were bewitched by the demon invaded Azeroth and caused huge damage to the Eastern Kingdom.
However, this is of no use.
The main mortal force that had participated in the ancient war, the night elves, were still squatting on the other side of the sea watching the fire, unaffected by the orc invasion.
Under the resolute resistance of Medivh's own soul, Medivh, who was possessed by the spirit of Sargeras, was humiliatingly killed by three mortal heroes.
This unexpected incident directly caused Gul'dan, who was secretly controlling the tribe at the time, to fall into a coma.
When he finally came to, the king's flag had changed at the top of the city.
The warchief Blackhand, who obeyed Gul'dan's words, died in a duel on Mak'gora. Orgrim, who was in power, slaughtered all of Gul'dan's capable men, the Shadow Council.
Coupled with Gul'dan's own ambition to become a god, he quietly took away the spellcaster troops that Orgrim needed most in the final battle.
In the end, the orc tribe that invaded Azeroth was defeated by the Alliance due to internal turmoil.
Most of the orcs who had high hopes from Sargeras were imprisoned in asylums. The side effects of the demon's blood stimulants began to take effect, and they never regained their former courage.
Kil'jaeden and Archimonde were very irritated and uneasy about Sargeras's failure again, and subconsciously began to doubt whether Sargeras' original promise of sweeping the universe could still be realized.
When Archimonde planned to encourage Sargeras to take action again, Sargeras suddenly lost interest in Azeroth, which he had once regarded as a thorn in his side.
For several years, Sargeras had been hiding in the Burning Throne of Antorus, secretly plotting something with the old bastards from the coven.
Kil'jaeden asked Sargeras' next plan many times, but he never received a positive response.
With Sargeras unable to escape, control of the Burning Legion naturally fell into the hands of the two demon lords, the Deceiver and the Defiler.
Medivh happened to hear the agitated two men's new invasion plan for Azeroth.
After subsequent verification, he learned about the fraudster's plan.
Kil'jaeden planned to use the new Well of Eternity that nourishes the World Tree to open a super-large portal, bypassing the protection of the planet's magic circle, and send the high-level demons of the legion, including Sargeras, at once. Enter Azeroth and completely end this small world.
However, due to the existence of the planetary formation, the Burning Legion was unable to deliver a large number of demons to Azeroth at once, and could only expand from within.
It was at this time that the Scourge Legion plan was thrown out by Kil'jaeden. The massive undead were the first "gift" prepared by the Deceiver for Azeroth.
Sharlayan did not believe that a deceiver could not detect Ner'zhul's deep-seated hatred and resentment towards the Burning Legion.
Perhaps to Kil'jaeden, Ner'zhul, who was ambitious but not talented, was not a threat at all, and he was confident enough to handle him.
Just in case, Kil'jaeden sent several Nasrezim elites, including Tichondrius, to infiltrate Azeroth.
On the one hand, they assist the fledgling Lich King in establishing the Scourge. On the other hand, these fear lords are also responsible for monitoring Ner'zhul.
Once Ner'zhul wants to make a small move, the Dreadlord will immediately inform the trickster of the information.
In Kil'jaeden's plan, this is how things should have turned out.
However, Kil'jaeden, who prided himself on being omniscient and calculating, missed one point, or rather... there were loopholes in his plan due to wrong intelligence.
Long before the Legion was founded, the Nathrezim were created by Emperor Denathrius of the Shadow Realm, who was forced to exile them from the Shadow Realm due to a series of events.
Including Sargeras, all demons do not know the true origin of the Nasrezim race, and they all think that they are really native demons born on the planet Nasreza.
It was precisely because of the lack of this important intelligence that the Lich King finally broke free from the control of the Burning Legion and became the most threatening third-party force in Azeroth for a long time, despite the Dread Lord's deliberate attempts to let it go.
The forces on the death side.
After boarding the passenger ship bound for Ratchet City at the Port of Boralus, Sarlayan ignored the quarrel between Jaina and Tinagosa and stood on the bow of the upper deck, looking at the vast sea.
"Astral Mage Medivh, I hope your return can bring me some surprises."
