Leiden forced a smile as Eileen happily walked away with Leidens Fist.
"I need to return to Ulduar," he said.
He was preparing to leave this sorrowful place, having lost not only a fragment of AmanThul's Soul but also Leidens Fist.
"Don't forget our agreement," Gale said with a smile.
"Don't worry, once I have the research results, I will send them to Ulduar."
Leiden walked out of the underground palace and, controlling lightning, headed north.
The Alliance Army watched Leiden depart with awe. This was a Titan Guardian; his power was truly immense. Such a massive body, yet he could control lightning to leave—it was almost unimaginable.
Although Gale could also do it, his physique, compared to Leiden's, lacked the same awe-inspiring presence.
Gale summoned Salador and the leaders of the allied races to discuss how to deal with Thunder Isle.
"I have decided to turn this place into a naval base and imprison these Mogu and Trolls in the underground palace. From now on, the naval base on Thunder Isle will be responsible for the maritime security of Pandaria. All allied races can join the navy here."
Opening naval enlistment to allied races meant that the Thunder Isle naval base belonged to the Alliance, not the Kaldorei Empire. Although the Kaldorei Empire was the leader of the Alliance, the Alliance's navy was almost equivalent to the Kaldorei Empire's navy.
However, the opening of enlistment meant that other races had the opportunity to access the ocean, dispelling rumors that the Kaldorei Empire wanted to restrict the allied races' maritime power.
While this was indeed Gale's true intention, he could not let his allies actually believe it, otherwise, the Alliance he maintained would be at risk of falling apart.
There were also rumors that the Kaldorei Empire was constantly depleting the populations of its allies, preventing them from growing stronger. Gale promptly refuted these rumors, asking, "Haven't the Night Elves always been on the front lines in every war? Many have died, alright!"
Gale suspected that someone was secretly trying to dismantle the Alliance. He wasn't suffering from persecution paranoia; rather, this method was a common trick of the Old Gods, very much in line with NZoth's style of action.
However, Gale was not afraid. Given the current size of the Kaldorei Empire, all allies combined were no match. His imperial strategic plan had completed its first step, and now it was time for the second step.
To resolve all threats to Azeroth, the primary goal was to eliminate the Old Gods.
Eliminating the Old Gods required gathering all six Infinite Gems. Currently, Gale already possessed the Reality Gem, the space gem, and the Soul Gem. While seemingly many, their quality still needed to be improved, otherwise, with the current quality of the space gem and the Soul Gem, a snap of the fingers could shatter them.
Quality improvement required an opportunity, but the time stone now had a lead.
The knowledge of time magic on AmanThul's Soul fragment gave Gale inspiration. He could completely transform the eye of amanthul into a Soul Gem. This Pillar of Creation itself possessed immense power, and after the transformation, its quality would definitely surpass the Reality Gem.
Acting on his thoughts, he entrusted Salador with the matters of the Thunder Isle naval base. Eileen and Inute returned to Sky City to oversee things, while Draksa led his army to Zandalar to assist Hydross in punishing the Trolls.
Shao Hao also stated that he would launch an expedition against the Zandalar Trolls, as they had brought war to Pandaria, causing the deaths of tens of thousands of Pandaren.
However, he also stated that there could be no ethnic cleansing of the Zandalar Trolls, as this would not be humanitarian.
Gale agreed; he had never intended to cleanse the Zandalar Trolls. He still needed the Zandalar Trolls to lead all Trolls, to serve as cannon fodder at some point in the future!
After calling Hydross aside and giving him some private instructions, Gale returned to the Sun Temple to enter seclusion.
In AmanThul's consciousness space, he studied time magic, absorbing AmanThul's residual power and browsing the river of time.
Soon, he discovered that this timeline had been invaded countless times.
The Crossing(transmigration) of Rhonin and his two companions was an invasion; they came from other timelines. According to the time paradox, it was impossible to transmigrate to the past; one could only transmigrate to the past of other timelines.
Moreover, acts of invading other timelines, like Rhonin and his two companions, would link these two timelines, forming a tree-like structure.
This meant that Gale could not transmigrate to a time before Rhonin and his two companions' timeline; he could only transmigrate to a time after it.
Therefore, time travel had many restrictions. Traversing too many timelines would create an extremely complex time network, causing time to become a tangled mess, a colossal time maze.
It was no wonder Nozdormu eventually got lost in the timelines; anyone playing a time maze where time was measured in tens of thousands of years would get lost in it.
The way out of the maze was to form a time loop. One would have to take a detour thousands or even tens of thousands of times to return to the starting point. It might even be impossible to return to the starting point, because at any moment, a new time passage could appear, blocking one's path.
Facing such a complex situation, Gale had an extreme headache. He had already discovered that many time invasions were related to him, although he didn't understand why he had never encountered enemies from other timelines.
But this did not stop him from continuing to create the time stone.
Many of the runes on the eye of amanthul were time runes; Gale only needed to make minor modifications. The more difficult part was transforming the energy within into Time Divine Power.
Fortunately, AmanThul's Soul fragment carried Time Divine Power, providing Gale with a template. Following this template for transformation was something Gale was very familiar with.
However, the energy within the eye of amanthul was too vast, and its quality was very high. Gale's transformation process was extremely slow, and it was not until a thousand years later that the energy conversion was completed.
He looked at the newly born time stone, feeling overjoyed. The quality of the time stone far surpassed the Reality Gem, which might be due to the material of the gem.
Gale eagerly activated the time stone, wanting to see its power.
Within the Sun Temple, countless time streams appeared before Gale. One of these timelines had a bright spot, representing his current location.
Following the timeline, countless black threads extended from other timelines, which were the invaders.
Gale's mind stirred, and he erased all invasion routes except for the invasion line of Rhonin and his two companions.
The black threads collapsed, and black dragons leaped out of them, filling the entire Sun Temple.
"Where is this?"
The black dragons looked around in confusion, but when they saw Gale, their eyes immediately filled with hostility.
"Gale Morninglight?"
"Kill him!"
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