Aiden watched silently for a while, then asked Ophiel beside him, "How is her injury?"
Ophiel replied, "With the protection of Archangel Kayle's Lightforged Armor, even without Divine Protection, that mage's magic would hardly injure her fundamentally if she still has energy. This time, she'll probably be asleep for about ten days," she guessed.
Angel Pamyel said, "Commander, I will protect your safety closely in the next few days."
"Alright, thank you," Aiden nodded.
He returned to his room and began to summarize the gains and losses from this battle. Now there was a lot of energy in his Heart of Valoran, and Aiden felt it was time for a major construction spree!
This siege operation had exposed many problems.
For example, communication barriers—Aiden lived in the Internet age, where as long as there was a signal, he could contact anyone he wanted to. To convey any message, all it took was a simple text message.
But here, it wasn't so easy.
If Garithos's army had been able to notify Aiden the moment they faced difficulties, their line of defense would definitely have held until Aiden's southern army arrived to support them. Then none of the later events would have happened.
If Archmage Antonidas had been able to notify them when he was intercepted by Dar'Khan on his way to provide support, he wouldn't have been completely unaware and unprepared for the appearance of such a mysterious mage.
If he could directly issue orders to the defenders of Andorhal, they could have organized more troops to intercept Broxigar, and the outcome of the war would have been completely different.
In the future, when they venture to Northrend, it was expected that there would be many more battles, involving more troops and facing a more complex command environment. The communication situation would definitely be worse than this siege.
Aiden felt it was necessary to improve their communication capabilities.
—This was when the power of technology was needed!
Without a doubt, this was the time for those tech-based heroes to show their talents. Piltover's scientist, "the Defender of Tomorrow" Jayce, and Zaun's "Machine Herald" Viktor were both good choices, but clearly there was an even more suitable character—the Yordle "Great Inventor" Heimerdinger!
Having made up his mind, Aiden entered the Heart of Valoran and summoned this hero—Heimerdinger appeared before him as comically as he did in the game: he was about as tall as most Yordles, about a little over a meter. Similar in size to the gnomes of Azeroth, but his head was unusually large. Not only was it larger than a normal Yordle's, but it was also two sizes larger than a human's head. This formed a strong contrast with his small and slender body, making him look very disproportionate.
Heimerdinger's hair perfectly matched Aiden's impression of a mad scientist—it was the kind of messy, dirty, explosion-like hair.
The Great Inventor Heimerdinger was known as the smartest hero in the League of Legends, and also the craziest—but speaking of which, apart from the Defender of Tomorrow Jayce who seemed alright, the other two weren't quite normal. The Machine Herald Viktor had transformed his flesh and blood body into a cyborg. And Heimerdinger had performed surgery on his head to increase his brain capacity.
The surgery was successful, and he gained a larger brain capacity, but also a large, deformed head.
"Commander, ah-ha, hello!" The Great Inventor greeted Aiden, and before he could answer, he impatiently shouted, "Commander, quickly summon my laboratory too! I've stored a lot of questions in my head during these years I've been frozen! These questions are about the theorems of the universe, and I must experiment on them immediately!"
Aiden looked at him raising his head and couldn't help but worry whether his thin neck could support the weight of his large head—
"No hurry, no hurry, let me ask you a question first—can you manufacture very portable devices that can communicate over very long distances?"
"How big is 'very portable' specifically? How far is 'very long distance' specifically?" Heimerdinger raised his head, looking at him through his blue-tinted glasses.
Aiden roughly described the mobile phones on Earth, gesturing as he said, "In my original world, we used a communication tool called a mobile phone. It's smaller than the palm of your hand and can communicate in real-time with anyone tens of thousands of miles away. Uh, that's the most basic function. Of course, its communication function is based on the coverage of cell towers."
"Oh? That sounds good! Our planes are also equipped with short-range communicators that can transmit voices to each other. But the range can't exceed one kilometer," Heimerdinger looked at Aiden with interest, urging, "Quick, tell me about its principles. I think I can develop it too once I understand it!"
So Aiden had to try to recall his understanding of modern wireless communication, explaining his half-baked knowledge to Heimerdinger. However, he completely underestimated a scientist's thirst for knowledge. Often, answering one question would lead to even more questions.
He spent almost the entire day explaining the history of human technological development to the Great Inventor.
Fortunately, Heimerdinger was more powerful than he had imagined. He quickly combined Valoran's magic technology to deduce some possible communication solutions.
Aiden quickly summoned the "Hextech Research Institute" he needed, as well as his laboratory assistants, which finally sent the Great Inventor away. Asking any further, Aiden felt he would definitely not be able to stand it.
Then Aiden began new deployments—last time Tirion Fordring came over, he told him that King Terenas had already had his fleet join forces with the Kul Tiras navy to explore the continent of Kalimdor. They had already established a dock in Theramore and sent an advance team to explore deeper.
Aiden also paid attention. If the orcs were really tricked into going to Northrend by him, then what would become of Kalimdor in the future?
Without the help of the orcs, the tauren might really be wiped out by the centaur. The trolls of the Darkspear tribe might also suffer a catastrophe.
Without the orcs going to Kalimdor, there would be no conflict between the night elves and the orc clans, and the demigod Cenarius would not die under the axe of Grom Hellscream.
Cenarius had once helped Aiden, and he felt he had to repay this kindness. Being able to save this forest demigod from a disaster would also be considered repaying his kindness—although without the orcs, this forest demigod might not realize what his original fate was like, nor would he think that Aiden had unknowingly changed his trajectory.
Aiden thought about it and decided that the tauren were still worth saving. As the aborigines of the planet Azeroth, the tauren devoutly believed in the Earth Mother. Heaven had given them huge bodies and unparalleled strength, but also endowed them with a peaceful and nature-loving character.
The simple, kind, loyal, and brave tauren were definitely worth winning over. Aiden felt that this was something he should do.
And he was very sure that he could gain the friendship of the tauren—because Valoran also had a tauren hero—the Minotaur Alistar!
If Alistar were to lead a group of people to rescue the tauren who were currently in deep water, he would probably easily gain their friendship and loyalty.
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The Minotaur Alistar was the most powerful warrior of the Valoran tauren clan. His life experience had some similarities to Thrall of the Warcraft world: both were captured by humans and trained as gladiators, and both escaped with the help of a crucial, kind maid—comparing the two, Aiden felt that the designers must have been lazy when designing Alistar's background story, and just copied Thrall's experience.
But this wasn't important, anyway, Blizzard hadn't spoken up.
As a key link in the Kalimdor strategy, the Minotaur Chieftain had to be considered carefully—Aiden was going to send him to Kalimdor, which required some ships that could cross the sea.
There were two heroes with the "Captain" tag in League of Legends: "the Saltwater Scourge" Gangplank, commonly known as the Captain, and "the Bounty Hunter" Miss Fortune, commonly known as Fortune—the one with the biggest breasts in League of Legends!
As a man, Aiden really wanted to choose Fortune. She could satisfy all of a man's fantasies: she was beautiful, had a super figure, dressed revealingly, and had a very outgoing personality… But Aiden, after experiencing that brutal battle, was now only thinking about how to increase his strength.
So, from this point of view, Captain Gangplank was a better choice. Because the Saltwater Scourge Gangplank's warship could provide long-range artillery support, which was very beneficial for large-scale battles. Especially since they were going to Kalimdor to help the tauren, which would inevitably involve fighting the centaur.
Aiden first initiated the summoning, summoning the Tauren and the Captain.
When Captain Gangplank saw that he was summoned together with Alistar, he immediately joked, "Yo ho, big guy, what a fate! I'm going to make you my good friend!"
"I don't care!" Alistar snorted and looked down at Gangplank, "You're too short!"
Aiden: "…"
This wave of AOE really caused tons of damage—as a tauren, Alistar was nearly three meters tall. And Gangplank and Aiden were both standard humans, only about one meter eight. The top of the Captain's head was only about the height of the other's elbow—and that was including the height of that pirate hat.
Alistar saw Aiden glaring at him and quickly said, "I wasn't talking about you, Summoner. I was talking about how short Gangplank is!"
"Alright, alright," Aiden quickly waved his hand. Gangplank wasn't shorter than him, so what was the difference between saying the Captain was short and saying he was short? "But Alistar, you really have to seriously consider Gangplank's proposal. Because you will be working together for a while!"
"Are you serious, Summoner?" Gangplank was a little disbelieving. He sized up Alistar, "I have absolutely no common interests with this minotaur!"
"I also don't think there's anything to get along with a scumbag like you," the Minotaur Chieftain retorted sharply.