Make Azeroth breathtaking

Finally, when a brutality that was difficult to describe in words was unleashed upon Remus, he once again 'collapsed', and his entire consciousness became 'chaotic' in that instant. With a scream so miserable that even the players could hear it, the ground around the hive rapidly cracked and collapsed—no, not only the ground, but even the sky and even more distant places were shaking!

"Damn it, what's going on?"

Iggy gripped the control levers of her robot tightly, barely managing to keep it in motion, but amidst the catastrophic storm that had swept across the entire land, she felt a sense of powerlessness.

"Move closer to me! While things are still somewhat stable, let's jump back to the origin!"

Seeing the output of the phase transfer reactor begin to decline continuously, and knowing that the stability of this area was problematic, Tannis controlled her body and clasped her hands together, forcibly opening a door.

"But then, how will the mission rewards be calculated?"

Looking at the open door, Old D asked a question as if possessed—you know, the mission he received from Tannis had the objective of 'capture or eliminate the target'!

"...Consider it done."

For some reason, when Old D heard the Great Repairman's voice a few seconds later, he always felt that the Great Repairman was gritting his teeth.

————————————Death Star Fortress——————————————————

"What? Several supercomputers suddenly burned out?"

On the Death Star fortress, Khadgar, who had received the news from Earthlings and had learned a great deal about computer programming, and was practically the number one programmer in Azeroth, had a look on his face that said, "Are you kidding me?" He knew that for Earthlings, supercomputers were in some ways no different from Azeroth's artifacts. Yet, several of these things had been burned out in a short period of time.

"Yes, an excessive amount of data flooded into these supercomputers in an instant, causing them all to overload."

"Wait, I remember 'World of Warcraft' only hijacked a 'partial' aspect? Why is that...?"

After briefly recalling the parameters of the supercomputers he knew, Khadgar became increasingly suspicious.

"We didn't know either, so we contacted you."

"We don't have that here..."

Before Khadgar could finish speaking, a dazzling flash that spanned the galaxy appeared on the screen of the Death Star fortress. The flash was so ominous and distorted that the entire fortress sounded a frantic alarm!

"What is that?"

————————————Argus——————————————————

"Thump—"

"Boom--!"

In the instant the colossal rift spanned the galaxy, within Sargeras's palace on Argus, a muffled, thunderous, heart-pounding sound emanated from the massive, fiery red form bound within the third crystal pillar—a form that had remained motionless since its creation. With each beat, a crack would appear in Sargeras's palace, and with each beat, the demonic palace would undergo inexplicable transformations.

"It seems our third companion... has awakened..."

As the figure within the crystal grew clearer, Sargeras reached out and gently stirred the data stream in the air. With this action, thousands of electronic devices on Earth experienced a series of errors and crashes without warning.

"I initially thought it would need more time, but..."

“But you’ve put those areas of ‘negative emotion’ in—out of control, haven’t you? My dear Eamon.”

"This doesn't matter; in fact, it might be better than I imagined..."

Eamon opened his hand, looking at the data flowing through his palm. After a while, a hint of joy flashed in his eyes, which were shimmering with a faint light.

“It seems that our End Plan can be brought forward significantly, Sargeras.”

64. The Countdown to the End of the World

Varian stood in the control center of the Death Star fortress, his hands resting on Salamani, watching the scene displayed on the large screen with an unusually serious expression. Beside him, Illidan, Thrall, Velen, Kael'thas, and even C'Thun, representing the leaders of the major powers of Azeroth, stood silently in this area.

"This power has long surpassed the power of 'Sargeras'."

After staring at the enormous rift across the galaxy on the screen for a long time, Velen spoke softly.

"The Sargeras of this world was never Sargeras in essence, and..."

Khadgar picked up where Velen left off, simultaneously pointing his finger into the air, conjuring a long string of letters from Earth. These letters all described a terrifying fact: various electronic devices on Earth had been infected by a sudden surge of anomalous data, causing a significant decrease in their operational speed. The source of this data, at least to people on Earth, was a mystery, if not entirely mysterious...

"Data on reborn individuals?"

Jaina rested her chin on her right hand, her brow furrowed.

"It's almost certain."

"But where did it come from?"

"Sargeras concentrated some 'unparseable' data in some 'black zones,' and now that data is frantically replicating itself and spreading along the links—that rift is the result of the data explosion. And this data cannot be 'deciphered' by existing human computer systems, thus causing the large-scale burning of real computers."

Tannis's somewhat weary voice reached everyone's ears. The Great Tinker's slightly 'unsteady' figure appeared in the command center. Seeing Tannis's swaying appearance, Velen, Malfurion, Thrall, and other heroes extremely skilled in mental healing hurriedly cast spells to stabilize the Great Tinker's condition. At this moment, a certain mage also tumbled out of the portal, panting heavily.

"The situation is terrible? What kind of data could cause Earth to be unable to handle it, to the point that this data dimension is malfunctioning?"

Seeing that Iggy was also completely burned out, Khadgar's heart sank even further.

"It's hard to say whether it's bad or not... Give me something to drink."

Iggy pressed a button on his waist, and a chair sprang out. The great mage plopped down on it and took the drink.

"Tannis, shall you speak or I speak?"

"Go ahead and tell me. I need to contact the other side on Earth now to confirm some things."

Even after receiving a burst of healing, Tannis's voice still lacked energy.

"Okay... cough cough cough... first, take a look at this."

Iggy finished his drink in one gulp, cleared his throat slightly, took out a crystal ball, and projected something that everyone present was very familiar with.

"Connection panel?"

Looking at this thing that was so familiar, Khadgar was a little puzzled.

"Yes."

After opening the panel, Iggy didn't say much. He directly moved the cursor to the accessibility function and opened a special function that players liked to use, but which reborn people and those from the real Azeroth felt was a bit restrictive.

"An expression system? This thing is related to the Great Explosion?"

"To go a step further, this thing should be called the emotion system—I don't know if you've noticed, but if you really consider the current 'World of Warcraft' as a game, then this system has the most updates. From the beginning when there were only some default expressions, it can now use 'combinations' to express our emotions on our faces almost instantly."

Instead of directly answering Khadgar's question, Iggy continued explaining on his own, and after a few seconds of thought, Khadgar suddenly understood.

"World of Warcraft cannot directly contain 'complete emotions,' but reborn beings and we carry 'emotional' data. Therefore, it has to limit our emotional expression in this way—although we still possess complete emotions, those that cannot be expressed don't require much computation?"

"That's right, Khadgar, World of Warcraft—Azeroth, this data, has actually been analyzing data like 'emotion' all along..."

After a brief exchange with Earth, Tannis put away the communicator, rubbed her temples, and spoke.

"What about Sargeras?"

"It's highly likely that there was a problem with the parsing, or someone, for some unknown reason, arbitrarily and completely processed the emotional data—the place that Iggy and I took those players to might be where it stores emotional data, which is why those places seem so strange, and even the rules have undergone subtle but real changes—they simply cannot be compiled using any known encoding on Earth... Therefore, after this data overflowed into the normal program world of Azeroth, it directly exerted a destructive nature even more terrifying than a bugged program, making a complete mess of everything."

After saying this, Tannis looked at the Bronze Dragon King.

How much time do we have left?

"Three days."

——————————————The Palace of Argus——————————————————

"Haha! Hahahaha!!"

Amon floated in the air, his ear-piercing laughter never ceasing. Before him, endless data from Earth continued to flow, displaying the latest intelligence of the real world—with the awakening of the chaotic being he called 'Diavolo'—electronic devices on Earth began to suffer one after another—excessive amounts of data that were malfunctioning yet logically independent, data that humans had no means to compile or deal with, brutally flooded into sophisticated electronic components, forcing them to perform calculations that were utterly impossible for them. Sargeras' power rendered all the self-protection mechanisms of these devices a joke—the scenario of one plus one being greater than two was vividly presented.

"Emotions are nothing more than that."

As this data was processed, Sargeras felt it was beginning to grasp the essence of 'emotion,' an existence it had initially found extremely perplexing. This relieved it—in its logical analysis, emotion was merely something that, while containing complex data, lacked any truly meaningful expression. The reason it had been affected by this power before was because it lacked the means to deal with such a sudden surge in excessive data. Now, with Amon's help, it had a solution, which made it unconsciously use some of the emotional data it had analyzed, feeling that it had nothing to fear anymore.

"Yes...that's all...Destroyer...you will truly face...destruction."

Amon, who understood what Sargeras was saying, had a faint fire in his eyes that flashed and disappeared.

65. Charge into the Disorderly Sector!

After a thorough discussion between Tannis and the Earth side regarding the latest information gathered by both sides, and the conclusion that 'the enemy's target has most likely changed from reversing the control program of Azeroth to causing the entire program world to collapse,' both sides simultaneously unleashed astonishing mobilization power. The Earth side forcibly requisitioned a large number of unburned, proven-to-be-usable computer devices, concentrating all their computing power to maintain the stability of Azeroth, while also dispatching more soldiers to infiltrate the Allied forces' ranks to fight for them. Meanwhile, the Allied forces of Azeroth, guided by hundreds of advance warships, forcibly jumped into Sargeras's territory at any cost.

However, when the group entered Sargeras's chaotic realm, they were shocked to find that, unlike before, Sargeras's territory was now a completely out-of-control area, where even the basic rules had been distorted... a terrifying star field composed entirely of non-Euclidean geometric celestial bodies and energy turbulence storms of unknown origin.

"The 530th to 742nd jump engines have burned out!"

"The global synchronization system is 30% overloaded! The load continues to rise!"

"Entered the target region, imaging in progress... Imaging failed!"

"Switch imaging logic!"

"No! All imaging logic is failing to capture images—report, the spatial stability around us has dropped drastically! The outermost ring of the warship's shields has begun to disintegrate!"

"Expand the impact range of the space stabilization device! Severe overload response facilities—I know this will severely shorten the facility's lifespan, but we only have three days!"

"It's already started... but it's not working! We need people to deploy node drones in the outer region to offset some of the irregularities here! We need players!"

"Immediately begin preparing the task reward and issue the task!"

"learn!"

"The drone array debugging is complete... A massive spacequake has been detected! Something's coming! But we can't determine what it is!"

"Full shield activated! Weapons unlocked! Don't worry about anything else! Aim at the direction of the spacequake and fire!"

"Yes...we're under attack!"

"Calculate the attack angle and counterattack!"

"Calculations have begun... Something's wrong! The calculations indicate the attack is originating from our own ships! We're attacking ourselves!"

"Cease fire, recalculate!"

"...Damn it."

Watching the barrage of bad news flashing across the screen and listening to the chaotic and disorganized message feedback that hadn't been heard for years, Tanis angrily removed her glasses and placed them on the control panel. She then looked at her colleagues sitting beside her, who were frantically typing away on their keyboards—Khadgar, Nazgrim, Iggy, Rhonin, and others who had thoroughly mastered Earth programming.

"I can't figure it out at all, what about you guys?"

"The programming logic of this region is unlike anything described in any book on Earth!"

Nazgrim picked up the water glass beside him and squeezed it into a flat disc. His muscles trembled all over, as if he might pull out a bomb gun or something and smash the screen in front of him at any moment.