Teleportation Plan

Aggramar, who had rushed over, clearly could not understand Sargeras's words. He asked in confusion:

"I-I don't quite understand what you mean, my brother."

"Exactly what I said, my brother. These demons fallen beneath our wrath seem not to be appearing for the first time. Take this Pit Lord, for instance—I recognize the scar on his head. I cut it into him myself once."

"Th-then this situation has become troublesome. If it truly is as you say, wouldn't all our hard-fought battles have been for nothing?" Aggramar became somewhat dejected upon hearing Sargeras's description.

"Do not give up, my brother. These demons are not impossible to destroy. There must be something we do not yet know, and we will find it. I promise." Sargeras saw the doubts in Aggramar's heart and encouraged him.

"The most important matter now is how to completely wipe out these evil creatures entering the Dark Void. As for the demons that have reappeared, I will find a way to deal with them."

Reinvigorated, Aggramar's fighting spirit blazed anew. "My brother, you are right. We will erase them from this universe!"

Sargeras and Aggramar's campaign continued. After battle upon battle, Sargeras's suspicions were finally confirmed: they discovered that creatures they had previously destroyed would sometimes reappear before them after some time. In the end, these terrible facts made them certain that after demons from the Twisting Nether were defeated in the material universe, they did not truly die. Those evil souls escaped the Dark Void by some means, reshaped their bodies in their stronghold—the Twisting Nether—gained new life, and continued their endless invasions.

Likewise, as his encounters with demons grew more frequent, Sargeras began studying the demons' birthplace—the Twisting Nether. He wished to find a way to resolve this infuriating rebirth at its root. Fortunately, after countless battles with demons, Aggramar had become a mighty warrior no less powerful than Sargeras. With Aggramar now able to stand on his own, Sargeras had ample time to conduct his research.

Finally, after prolonged effort, Sargeras made a major discovery in his study of demons and the Twisting Nether. He realized that the souls within these chaotic destroyers existed in a special manner. They were firmly bound to the Twisting Nether. Thus, even if he destroyed their bodies in the material universe, Sargeras, lacking means to deal with souls, could only watch as those sinful souls fled back to the Twisting Nether and remade their bodies.

Therefore, though Sargeras still did not fully understand that unstable realm after thoroughly studying the Twisting Nether, he was already able to control and shape some of its energies. At last, Sargeras came up with a solution. Since he could not destroy these demons' souls, he would gather these villains and imprison them in a place close to the Twisting Nether. That way, those destroyers would be unable to harm other creatures in the material universe.

Having made up his mind, Sargeras continued exterminating demons while searching for a suitable location. But regrettably, the Twisting Nether that birthed demons was simply too mysterious. Though Sargeras traveled through many places, he still could not find a suitable site, and it left the mighty warrior somewhat irritated.

Having just successfully crushed demons invading a world alongside Aggramar, the two Titans departed amid the local people's praise and cheers, entering the Astral Realm to continue their seemingly endless campaign. Sargeras's long and fruitless search had made him somewhat anxious, and his adjutant Aggramar noticed it all.

"Has something happened, my brother? You seem to be in low spirits. Did we not just save a world from the demons?"

"Oh, that was certainly heartening, Aggramar, but that is not what worries me," Sargeras replied in a somewhat low voice.

"Then can you tell me what troubles you, so I may help? My brother."

"Of course, Aggramar. I am glad you are willing to share my worries. This is what happened..."

Sargeras laid out the plan in his heart to Aggramar in full, including his efforts to find a point where the Twisting Nether and the Dark Void came closest together.

"So the problem now is that we cannot find the place you described, correct?"

"Yes, Aggramar. Since this plan took shape in my mind, I have searched for far too many ages, yet I still have not found it. It worries me greatly."

Aggramar seemed to think of something. With a somewhat strange expression, he said to Sargeras:

"Uh... my brother, I understand your concern now, but it seems I have a way to solve it."

Sargeras's eyes lit up upon hearing Aggramar's words, and he quickly asked:

"Oh? Is that true? Aggramar, if you can help me resolve this worry, it will be the best news I have heard in a long while."

"Uh... probably, my brother. In fact, you should have obtained the solution long ago. Vanidak should have given you something. Do you remember?"

"Vanidak? Him? Oh, this?" Realizing what he meant, Sargeras took out the gem-inlaid disk and asked Aggramar, "You mean this? Vanidak did give this to me before I set out, but I have never known when to use it. He told me it was a portal leading somewhere. How did you know, Aggramar?"

"Actually... Vanidak told me this before I departed as well. If you had not mentioned searching for such a place, I might have already forgotten what that fellow with a mind full of madness said..." Aggramar explained somewhat sheepishly.

"Hmm... I cannot blame you, Aggramar. To be honest, I would not place much trust in that fellow's mad ramblings either. Who knows if, after you believed him, he would tell you, 'Oh, my dear brother, I was only joking!' That is the most vexing part."

Seeing Sargeras's lifelike imitation, Aggramar laughed as well. Then he looked at the Gift of Vanidak and asked Sargeras, "So what should we do, brother? Should we use it? This will not be another 'joke,' will it?"

"I do not think so, Aggramar. Perhaps you do not know him well, but I, who have traveled and fought beside him, know very clearly that while my prank-loving brother likes to cause trouble in ordinary times, he remains reliable in certain matters. Hmm, I should say extremely reliable!"

Sargeras glanced at Aggramar, saw the doubtful expression on his face, and smiled.

"Since you still have doubts, why not test it? If this is another prank, then I think Vanidak will be in terrible trouble from now on!"

"As you will, my brother."

"Very well, let us activate it."

A surge of Titan energy entered the gem at its center. After the blue light flashed several times, a voice came through:

"Hello? Hello! Hello? Hey, has this thing activated? Hey! Norgannon, has your damned magic gem started working yet?"

"It started working just now, you idiot Vanidak."

"Hey! Do you want me to give you some proper affection? My dear Norgannon, I will come find you tonight. We can have a good heart-to-heart, my dear brother. All right, enough nonsense—I still have something to say here!"

Listening to the familiar exchange coming from within, Sargeras and Aggramar exchanged wry smiles. This did seem exactly like their brother's style.

"Ahem, ahem. Hey there, Sargeras, uh, and possibly Aggramar. You have finally opened this teleportation device. Hmm, a wise choice. Perhaps you do not know where this portal leads, but would the great Vanidak deceive you? Everything is within my plans. I predicted every last thing about you..."

"Smack!" "Speak properly. This thing does not have time for your nonsense!"

"Hey! Eonar, did you not say before that you would stop hitting my head? How can you break your word like this?"

"Finish your boring boasting already. I am sick of listening to it from the side!"

"All right, all right, my dear sister. In any case, Sargeras, beyond the gate is what you seek. That is all. Farewell!"

The voice vanished, and Sargeras and Aggramar looked at each other in silence. After a while, Aggramar finally spoke first. "Hmm... how should I put it? Typical Vanidak style, but the content gives me a bad feeling... Are we really going to..."

Sargeras let out a long breath, seeming to make up his mind. He said to Aggramar, "We have no other choice, do we? Rather than continue worrying over it, we should give it a try. At least... it is an opportunity, is it not?"

"All right, I will listen to you, my commander. I hope he does not continue that detestable joke in this matter."

"If it is true, he is dead, Aggramar. I promise."

"Then let us depart now!"

Activating the disk in his hand, intense energy fluctuations surged from it. Immediately afterward, strands of silver light shot out from the disk, converging and weaving together before them. The violent spatial fluctuations gradually intensified along with the gathering silver light. Slowly, a deep spatial rift was torn open. The woven, converging silver light solidified around the entrance to the rift, and at last, a spatial gate covered in strange patterns appeared before Sargeras and Aggramar.

Titan Astral Realm Directional Teleportation Experimental Device No. 01 successfully formed. Good luck to the test subjects. Hehehe!

Hearing the familiar voice after the spatial gate formed, Sargeras and Aggramar exchanged a glance, then stepped resolutely into the portal.

After an unknown length of violent tumbling, Sargeras, who was nearly ready to tear Vanidak into eight pieces in his heart, finally felt himself pass through something like a thin membrane. The prolonged turbulence finally ceased. After steadying himself, Sargeras quickly began surveying his surroundings. When he sensed a massive celestial body nearby, even Sargeras's heart suddenly tightened. With faint surprise in his voice, he said:

"Vanidak, my... brother... was all of this... truly... within your plans?"