Azeroth: Starting with Eagle Eye in the Necropolis.

"What are you laughing at?" Azshara's voice turned cold. "You think my empire...is laughable?"

“No, Your Majesty, I was not mocking the Empire’s power,” Rhodes said, his smile fading.

"What I'm laughing at is your... candor, or rather, your limited understanding of 'power'."

You so easily revealed all of the Empire's military secrets to an otherworldly visitor whom you cannot yet fully trust.

In my world, this is a fatal mistake that no competent leader would make. Intelligence is the lifeline of war, the most important winning factor in deciding a large-scale battle, and the ultimate showdown between two countries.

"In my world, revealing this kind of information is tantamount to suicide. If I were your enemy, I would take targeted precautions and strikes based on the information you provide." Rhodes bluntly pointed out Queen Azshara's weakness.

Her Majesty opened her mouth, as if she wanted to say, "You asked me to tell you," but how could she say that? She looked like a little girl who had been deceived.

"Insolence! You're toying with me!" Azshara finally lost her temper, and the surging arcane energy around her swept out like a tangible purple storm, causing the starlight water in the bath to boil violently.

"You mean that you, or that weak world you speak of that needs 'nuclear weapons' to maintain peace, possess the power to threaten the very foundation of my empire?"

“A threat?” Rhodes shook his head. Facing the suffocating magical pressure, he slowly straightened his body. Holy light flowed naturally from his body, forming a soft yet resilient golden halo on his skin, quietly repelling the oppressive arcane energy.

“Your Majesty, you have misunderstood me. I am not provoking you, but stating a fact—if you do not believe me, perhaps I can show you with your own eyes.” Golden light gleamed in Rhodes’ eyes.

As Rhodes became more and more adept at manipulating the Holy Light, he has now developed a new skill. This skill was conceived by Rhodes when he was using the Disguise Technique, and it is the ability of illusion.

The Holy Light's greatest strength isn't healing, but rather illusion and deception. When your Holy Light power reaches a certain level, you can weave illusions that are impossible to distinguish from reality, a power comparable to the Sharingan Tsukuyomi from the Naruto world.

Rhodes' eyes gleamed with golden light as he projected some of Earth's projections into Queen Azshara's eyes, allowing the queen of the Night Elf Empire to see it for herself.

"Watch closely, Your Majesty. You will find that your army would be no match for Earth's army. Earth can mobilize millions, even tens of millions of troops at any time. Humanity has never encountered such a force."

To put it bluntly, if Sargeras were to discover humanity on Earth, his first thought wouldn't be to destroy the planet, but rather to turn humans into a new type of soldier for the Burning Legion.

Human history is a grand war, and such a warlike race is the Burning Legion's favorite.

Queen Azshara's body began to tremble, and the other maids tried to step forward, but were restrained by Rhodes.

"Don't worry, ladies, the show is about to begin."

Chapter 327 My worldview has been overturned; my empire is utterly vulnerable.

Rhodes sent Azshara images of the luxurious city, a city with a population of tens of millions, where the night was as bright as day and the city was brightly lit.

People were dressed in gorgeous clothes, or at least in her opinion, rather gorgeous clothes. The materials used would be unaffordable for ordinary people in the Night Elf Empire.

Airplanes, high-speed trains, regular trains, and cars completely overturned Azshara's understanding of the world.

What shocked Queen Azshara even more was the news from Rhodes about World War I and World War II, large-scale fleet battles, plains battles involving millions of troops, and tank mass assaults!

There are also modern warfare drone operations, ultra-long-range strikes, and beyond-visual-range combat.

The attack was launched before you even noticed the enemy or had a chance to react, and the immense power of missiles and nuclear weapons completely shocked the queen.

The earth-shattering, all-consuming white light, the mushroom cloud soaring into the sky, made Azshara's body tremble.

Even with a magical defensive barrier activated, Suramar, which she was so proud of, could not possibly withstand such a weapon. According to Rhodes, the temperature generated at that moment was even higher than the surface of the sun.

Please, how is this possible? How could there be such outrageous weapons? How could there be such an absurdly powerful country?

"This, this is impossible, none of this is real." Queen Elsara, regaining her senses, steadied herself against the pool beside her and said, somewhat distraught.

"What if, I mean, what if, there were an attack that could ignore your mage legion, ignore all magical defenses, and directly affect the Well of Eternity itself?"

Alternatively, there is a plague that can affect the body or the mind, completely rendering your army and all your civilians defenseless, even causing mass deaths, and also becoming infectious.

Or perhaps, there is an ideology that does not advocate conquest by force, but is quietly spreading among the common people and even the lower-ranking nobles of the night elves, shaking the foundations of your rule... How will your army and your demigods deal with these?" Rhodes said with a smile.

The wars that have occurred in modern times have all been limited in scope, and have not involved the use of any unscrupulous means of warfare or particularly cruel weapons.

For example, the biological warfare tactics and viral warfare tactics that humanity has explicitly prohibited from using against its own kind are, frankly speaking, extremely terrifying if an alien race were to be discovered to threaten humanity.

During World War II, humans were already skilled in using poison gas and bacteriological warfare. How terrifying are the superbugs and superviruses cultivated in modern precision laboratories?

There are even more deadly poison gases, and some psychoactive ones at that. They could take down not only night elves who are about the same size as humans, but even elephants and blue whales in an instant.

Furthermore, humans can use precise GPS positioning to launch hypersonic missiles for long-range strikes. Try intercepting such missiles and see what happens; your Well of Eternity will become nothing more than a target for humanity.

Or to put it another way, all your military targets, and all your major cities, are sitting ducks; a single bombing raid from your bombers will wipe you out.

The army lost its command structure, and the civilians suffered heavy casualties, or even total annihilation. They didn't even get to see any other humans.

The Well of Eternity is a vast lake of energy, and physically destroying it might indeed require an equivalent amount of energy (such as detonating an entire planet). But there are other ways to "act on" it.

For example, dropping a super-powerful nuclear bomb into the Well of Eternity would cause the massive energy shock, nuclear radiation, and subsequent radioactive fallout to violently disrupt the stability of the well water.

While it might not necessarily "destroy" the well water itself, it would certainly make it extremely unstable, filled with deadly radiation, and unusable. This would be devastating for the Night Elf civilization, which relied on the well water for its energy.

This is like injecting a persistent poison into a civilization’s only water source; although it doesn’t instantly evaporate the entire lake, the effect is equivalent to destroying it.

If the Well of Eternity needs to be completely destroyed, then one won't be enough, I'll use two; if two aren't enough, I'll use ten super-powerful nuclear bombs.

Once the Night Elf race loses its source of magic, and the Eternal Gold is destroyed, it will almost certainly be doomed. As for humans, you may wipe out our army of millions, but I can still raise another large army, or even ten more.

Humanity is currently undergoing a new round of technological revolution, and in the future there will be all kinds of unmanned combat systems, unmanned mechanical dogs, unmanned mechanical spiders, drones, and integrated air and space warfare. Please, what will the Night Elves use to play with that?

As for the last one, that's color revolution. Sometimes, the spread of ideas can be more terrifying than war or aggression.

(Logically, the Burning Legion, which has mastered interstellar travel and is almost a spacefaring civilization, was defeated by a surprise attack on its homeland from Azeroth. This writer's brain must have been trampled by a donkey a hundred times. It's like a group of primitive people, outnumbered, defeating a modern heavy combined arms brigade with bows, spears, and stones. Honestly, the more I write this novel, the more absurd the plot seems. Speechless.)

Rhodes introduced the concept of "asymmetric warfare": he showed Azshara a form of warfare completely different from what she understood. Her thinking was still at the level of legion confrontation and magical bombardment, while Rhodes described "decapitation strikes", "beyond visual range strikes", "strategic nuclear weapons" and "system destruction".

Using information asymmetry for deterrence: Rhodes described a "nuclear weapon" as one whose principles Azshara could not comprehend, but which Rhodes, through the Holy Light, made clear to Azshara about its destructive consequences—the "ultimate weapon." By describing its ability to destroy cities and render the land barren for centuries, he successfully created a terrifying image in Azshara's mind that was equal to (or even surpassed) the forbidden magic she knew.

Vulnerability of the attack system: The "node" problem pointed out by Rhodes is a fatal weakness that exists in any civilization that is highly dependent on centralized energy.

The more glorious Azshara's empire became, the deeper its dependence on the Well of Eternity became, and the more obvious this weakness became, a fact that Rhodes astutely grasped.

Therefore, the conclusion is that modern weapons themselves do not have "anti-magic" properties, but their operating mechanisms are completely outside the magical cognitive system, and their destructive effects are sufficient to cause irreparable damage to the physical carriers on which the magical system depends (such as the mage's body, energy conduit facilities, and even the environment of the energy source itself).

Azshara wanted to refute him, but couldn't find a suitable reason. In fact, as the queen of the Night Elf Empire, it seemed that her empire was completely unable to defend against the attack methods Rhodes had described. Moreover, Rhodes was not a leader; he had clearly stated that he was just a commoner.

All that I know is just data on paper, just information released by the government. How many more deterrent weapons are hidden from the public?

This is a strike that covers the entire planet, yet it was known to ordinary civilians. Just how much was hidden behind the scenes?

"I mention my world not to show off, but to show you a possibility—the possibility of developing a magnificent civilization without relying entirely on a single energy source (such as the Well of Eternity)."

It's not wrong for you to crave greater power and to desire contact with higher levels of existence.

"But perhaps the path to power isn't just the one you imagine, and blindly pursuing it might bring disasters you can't control or even understand," Rhodes said.

Now Rhodes wants to test Queen Azshara and the Highborne to see if they have made contact with the Burning Legion.

As for the danger at the time point mentioned by the Bronze Dragon King, Rhodes plans to investigate it later.

Queen Azshara gripped the edge of the icy pool, her knuckles turning slightly white from the pressure. For the first time, a look of near bewilderment and fear appeared on her face, a face capable of captivating all beings.

The images and information transmitted by Rhodes through the Holy Light were like a monstrous wave, completely shattering her preconceived notions.

A city that never sleeps with millions of people, a massive charge of steel torrents, precise decapitation strikes beyond visual range, and the ultimate, blazing white mushroom cloud symbolizing absolute destruction... all of this points to a cold, hard fact: in the face of the form of warfare described by Rhodes, her proud mage legions, sturdy city walls, and even the protection of demigods may all become insignificant background elements.

Azshara decided to make good contact with this traveler from another world, as her empire definitely needed to improve.

“Your Majesty, I admire your ambition to pursue power and to reach higher beings.”

But please allow me to ask a question—in your exploration of the boundaries of power, have you ever... heard any 'whispers' from distant stars or some indescribable dimension?

"Perhaps they promise you unparalleled power and knowledge, promise to elevate you and your empire beyond the limits of the mortal realm? Their leaders call themselves gods," Rhodes asked.

"You... what do you know?" Azshara's expression changed as she asked.

“In my world, we have studied the rise and fall of many civilizations. A common pattern is that when a civilization develops to a certain critical point and is eager to break through, it often attracts some… ‘unsolicited help.’ And this so-called selfless help is actually the biggest price to pay,” Rhodes asked.

Rhodes carefully chose his words. He couldn't directly point out Sargeras and the Burning Legion, as that might immediately trigger an uncontrollable reaction. However, judging from the queen's reaction, she must have already made contact with Sargeras.

Chapter 328 General Sasser is watching you, the greatest warrior of the Pantheon

As soon as Rhodes finished speaking, Azshara's expression turned extremely ugly, because, just as Rhodes had said, a mysterious and powerful being had contacted her.

The reason why the night elves were able to become so powerful is because of the Well of Eternity and the powerful magical energy it brings.

After she ascended to the throne of the Night Elf Queen, she spent thousands of years conquering east and west, greatly expanding the territory of the empire.

And she instructed the Highborne to continue researching the power of the Well of Eternity. Not long ago, a Highborne mage named Xavius ​​told her that an incredibly powerful god in the universe had taken notice of the Night Elves and was very generous, willing to impart knowledge unimaginable to the Night Elves.

As a top-tier arcanist, her mental perception far surpasses that of ordinary people. When she delved into the origins of arcane magic and attempted to establish a connection with the deeper rules of the universe, some vague yet alluring thoughts did try to communicate with her.

Those whispers promised power beyond the Well of Eternity, promised her that she would become the rightful queen of the new world, and she saw them as recognition from some ancient and powerful being, a ladder to a higher level.

Besides him, many Highborne mages sensed this great being; his slight display captivated all the mages.

That was a power they simply couldn't comprehend or even imagine.

"What do you know about outsiders?" Azshara asked.

"Answer my question first, Your Majesty, have you had any contact with this powerful being?" Rhodes asked.

Rhodes came here to maintain the integrity of the timeline, so the War of the Ancients was inevitable, and he had no intention of stopping it.

If the War of the Ancients hadn't happened, the Well of Eternity wouldn't have exploded, and the Night Elves would have continued their research. Eventually, the Burning Legion would have used the energy emanating from the Well of Eternity as their main force, sailing their ships and spending thousands of years to reach Azeroth and launch their war of conquest.

If the Burning Legion were to arrive thousands of years later, Azeroth would be absolutely unable to stop them, so in a sense, the Well of Eternity must be destroyed.

This thing has been continuously developed and utilized, and has now become something that continuously emits energy outwards and even extracts energy from the distorted void.

It was a beacon for the Legion, so it had to be destroyed.

Sargeras knew of Azeroth's existence, but by the time the Titans arrived in Azeroth, Sargeras had already betrayed them, so he didn't know its exact location. This is why Sargeras was never able to come to Azeroth.

The Titans laid down numerous barriers around the planet Azeroth, turning it into an impenetrable fortress, accessible only by spatial magic.

Moreover, the more powerful a being is, the more difficult it is for them to enter the world of Azeroth.

"You know a lot. I originally thought you were just an ordinary traveler. It seems you came to our world with a purpose."

"Indeed, a powerful being contacted us. He promised me a bright future, that my people would live a life of paradise, that our entire race would evolve, and that I would become his queen and rule with him," Azshara said with a smug look.

Rhodes rolled his eyes at her words. Just how narcissistic are you, woman? Sargeras would be interested in you, just like a human would be interested in an ant.

You'd be better off Sargeras liking a Wild Warrior than liking you, or even liking Azeroth, which would be quite normal.

“You and your empire don’t know much about this universe. There are real gods in this universe, but there are also demons. There should be legends about the Titans in Azeroth, right?” Rhodes asked tentatively.

Rhodes' words struck Azshara like a bolt of lightning, piercing her thoughts which were clouded by pride and temptation.

The legends of the Titans? Those supreme beings depicted in the oldest elves' epics as sculptors of mountains and rivers, regulators of the elements, and benefactors of dragons? What connection does this have to the "gods" she is now encountering?