The hall is surrounded by many marble columns over twenty meters high, and archways inlaid with gold patterns, making it magnificent, solemn and elegant.
In the center of the hall is a high platform inlaid with black and white stone bricks, which looks like a chessboard magnified hundreds or thousands of times. On the chessboard are magnified versions of various creatures, including humans and Orcs!
Jiang Jie noticed that Garona's eyes narrowed sharply as she stared intently at the Orcs chieftain and the Orc Warlock beside him, her body trembling slightly!
There are very few things in this world that she can fear, but there is at least one person who is definitely among them: Gul'dan, the first Warlock of the Orcs, and one of the representatives of mortals who became gods!
"That's... Llane? And... Blackhand?" Meryl was clearly surprised; everything before him was completely unexpected: how could people who were supposed to be dead still be alive?
He even saw other familiar figures, such as a bishop Priest from Northshire Abbey, Sir Lothar standing next to Llane, and an Archmage, the only court Archmage from the Battle of Stormwind City.
For the past few decades, Meryl has lived in Duskwood. Sometimes he disguises himself with magic and goes to Stormwind City, so he knows many people there.
These people should all be dead, how could they still be alive?
However, he quickly frowned, a magical light flashing in his hand, indicating that he had sensed something amiss.
Those people were all like the Shade of Aran, yet not exactly the same. He didn't know, and couldn't discern, the specific differences.
This is incredible! It's Demigod spell that he can hardly achieve. There are probably very few people in the entire world who can use it!
Jiang Jie, of course, didn't know what was going on either. Xiao Feng made it clear that if they wanted to scan and analyze everything here, the game pod's energy reserves would probably be completely depleted, which shows just how wondrous everything here is.
All he knew was that since it was reality, it was definitely different from the game.
This is the Chess Hall.
It's neither international chess nor Huaxia chess, but Azeroth version of chess.
One side consists of humans, and the other side consists of Orcs.
The leader of the humans is Lothar, and the leader of the Orcs is Blackhand.
This is the pattern of the First World War, the pattern of the orcs just after they came to this world.
At that time, the Horde consisted only of Orcs, and the only force resisting the Orcs was Stormwind City.
Without a doubt, this Chess Hall was actually created by Medivh during World War I to simulate that war. It's just unknown whether he was thinking about how to help Stormwind City defend against the Orcs or how to help the Orcs Devastation Stormwind City.
That's not important anymore; it's all in the past now.
However, the next moment, Jiang Jie's expression changed slightly, because he saw " Medivh ".
It's not the real Medivh, but rather Medivh's echo, similar to the Spell Shade outside, or the Shade of Aran —an echo that exists only in this hall.
And now, this illusory, almost invisible Medivh suddenly spoke, his voice resounding throughout the entire Chess Hall:
"Choose your roles, the war... is about to begin!"
Is it about to begin?
What's going on?
Meryl clearly saw Medivh as well, his expression changed, and he wanted to speak.
Garona's gaze was filled with complex emotions as she looked at the person she both loved and hated. Her body was no longer trembling slightly, but trembling violently, to the point that she could barely hold the dagger!
Just then, Medivh's voice rang out again. "Interesting, I didn't expect it to be you... Very well, you don't need to choose roles anymore, let me choose roles for you!"
As soon as the words were spoken, a white light flashed, and the entire Chess Hall was shrouded in white light.
Soon, the white light disappeared, and Jiang Jie found that they were no longer in the original hall, but in another place.
This is a city, Stormwind City.
However, this was Stormwind City during World War I, far less magnificent and imposing than the Stormwind City of today; the city walls were much shorter.
The moat wasn't very wide either, making it seem rather small. And now, Jiang Jie stood on the city wall, wearing a set of golden armor and leaning on the divine sword " Strom'kar the Warbreaker."
The biggest problem is that everything else is gone. Except for the game pod and Strom'kar, everything else is gone. It's like his soul has been transported into another body!
He couldn't mobilize his Chi, couldn't merge with Anveena, couldn't sense the Orange Bow Thori'dal, and couldn't sense anything at all!
The only weapon he can use now is the divine sword Strom'kar the Warbreaker, which is his only reliance.
Although he couldn't understand it at all, Medivh's magic had stripped him of everything—the game pod was because Medivh didn't yet have the power to do so—so why hadn't it stripped him of Strom'kar the Warbreaker?
"Lord Lothar, what should we do? There are too many Orcs!" A soldier who looked like a captain stood next to General E and whispered.
Lord Lothar?
Is someone calling me?
So I'm playing Lothar from World War I now?
If that's the case, then everything can be explained.
The divine sword Strom'kar is Emperor Thoradin's weapon, Lothar is the last of Emperor Thoradin's bloodlines. Lothar and Strom'kar are a perfect match, even more fitting than the original " Great Royal Sword ".
Medivh may have taken this into account when he made this decision.
"Who are you?" Jiang Jie turned his head and asked the soldier who had just spoken.
" Marshal Lothar, have you lost your mind? You weren't struck by Medivh's magic Reginald, were you?" The soldier looked at Jiang Jie with concern. "I am your captain of the guard, Reginald Windsor! We just killed Medivh and teleported back from Karazhan!"
Reginald?
Jiang Jie looked at the guard in his early twenties beside him, whose eyes were filled with worry and admiration. He wondered, "So this is what the marshal looked like when he was young?"
" Medivh's magic? You mean we've already ambushed and killed Medivh? What's the situation now?" Jiang Jie asked, puzzled.
What's going on?
Shouldn't Medivh's Chess Hall be displaying the battles before his death? Judging from Reginald's words, it's already after the raid on Karazhan?
"Oh no, Marshal, you weren't really hit, were you? Even Lord Khadgar looks like an old man now, you won't have any aftereffects, will you?"
Upon hearing Jiang Jie's words, Reginald became even more worried and quickly replied, " Medivh is dead, Elwynn Line has fallen, and even Northshire Abbey has been destroyed! Now the Orcs are launching a full-scale attack, and King Llane has been killed by Garona. You can't be harmed! You are the only pillar of Stormwind City!"