Compared with the Halls of Stone outside the outer wall of the vast Ulduar complex, the Halls of Lightning stood farther inside. Without obtaining access through the Tribunal of Ages and opening the road into Ulduar, Dick and his party would not even have been able to approach it.
This was Ulduar's outermost watchtower. Of course, when the Titans still existed in this world, it had merely been an ordinary laboratory, or at most a barracks. Now, it was Loken's evil headquarters.
Dick had guessed countless times at why Loken stayed away from Ulduar, but had never reached an answer. According to the setting, however, the Halls of Lightning should have contained a star chart of all Azeroth. Supposedly, Loken had spent millennia studying it, intending to launch some evil scheme.
"That has to be nonsense."
Standing at the main entrance to the Halls of Lightning, Dick watched the green storm vortex before him and muttered to himself, "Maybe he's studying the star chart to seal off Azeroth's World Barrier. Tch. A guilty conscience."
Heimdall, standing behind him, asked curiously,
"What are you talking about, Dick?"
"Nothing. I just remembered something."
The Paladin turned toward the Valarjar's Gatekeeper and the golden Val'kyr behind him. They were the Val'kyr Guard commanded by another of Odyn's great generals, the Val'kyr Queen Eir, serving as reinforcements for this assault on the Halls of Lightning. Of course, nine Val'kyr also stood behind Dick. They were his followers, white Val'kyr who had once belonged to Helya, only to be dispatched by her to Arthas's side.
In essence, there was little difference between the two. The golden Val'kyr had been blessed by Odyn, but his blessing merely granted them the ability to use golden rage. The white Val'kyr could not use golden rage, but they had