After discovering that the number of Iron Dwarves near Engine of the Makers was far less than he expected, Aaron became deeply worried about the next Ulduar strategy. Is Loken determined to defend Ulduar?
If Azeroth and other forces were surrounded like this, and without reinforcements, then the surrounded party would almost be in a certain death situation. However, Loken and his steel army are completely different.
Loken occupies Ulduar, which means that he is sitting on a powerful violent weapon: Forge of Wills.
Although the primary use of Forge of Wills is to shape the senses of Azeroth World-Soul, this powerful artifact can also be used to create various Titan-forged.
Without Forge of Wills, even Titan Keepers would not be able to create even a living creature out of thin air. At most, they can only create some steel golems or the like, or build on existing creations. Basic transformation is carried out to make certain creations more powerful. There are countless examples of this, such as Val'kyr and Stormforged Creatures under Odyn.
On the contrary, as long as you have Forge of Wills, you only need to provide some inorganic substances such as stone and steel to create an endless army of Titan-forged.
What Aaron is most worried about now is that if Loken exerts all his energy and activates Forge of Wills to frantically create an army of creations loyal to him, I'm afraid if it takes a while, Ulduar will be filled with all kinds of steel creations. By then, the outcome of this expedition of the expeditionary force will be uncertain.
It was based on such concerns that after Aaron determined that the Frost Vrykuls had completely established their advantage and that the Iron Dwarvess stationed here had no other way out but to run around, they ordered the expeditionary force to advance towards the Titans city or prison in the distance, where the whole picture could be clearly seen from the plains.
But before that, the Aaron expeditionary force received a new reinforcement - Frost Giant from Dun Niffelem.
Archaedas finally convinced Frost Giant, who had been suppressed and beaten by Thorim's family members for tens of thousands of years, to let them cross the mountains of Storm Peaks and come to Engine of the Makers.
It was just that after these Frost Giant arrived, they almost had a conflict with Frost Vrykul under Thorim. Fortunately, Thorim tried his best to restrain them, so the two sides barely started fighting as soon as they met.
In order to avoid another conflict between the two sides, Aaron simply arranged the two sides on the two wings of the expeditionary force, and secretly decided to absolutely avoid having both sides appear in the same area.
After resolving this minor disturbance, the expeditionary force could finally continue to move towards Ulduar. However, the front of the expeditionary force finally stopped at a place that could be said to be only one step away from Ulduar.
What blocks the expeditionary force's path is a deep canyon that runs between Ulduar and Storm Peaks. You can see that there should have been a road on both sides of the canyon.
However, this road that was supposed to traverse the canyon has collapsed due to tens of thousands of years of wind and rain and the impact of the Sundering thousands of years ago. Currently, only a section of remaining rock roads can be seen on both sides of the canyon, but it is no longer possible to move forward through this stone bridge.
"Earthen, can we repair this road?" Aaron looked at Archaedas who was standing aside expectantly and asked.
Archaedas shook his head. "It probably took Earthen people several years to build this road. Now it may be too late to rebuild it."
"Yeah, it's too late." Aaron said as he approached the canyon. If it really takes a few years to repair this road, I'm afraid we will have to face the overwhelming Iron Legion by then. Now we can only see if we can walk down this canyon, but Aaron didn't hold out much hope. After all, this canyon was originally designed to prevent outsiders from entering the area near Ulduar. Unfortunately, now this canyon has become a good protection for the Betrayer entrenched in Ulduar.
"This place is a bit difficult to walk through." Standing on the edge of the narrow plain outside Engine of the Makers, Aaron looked at the canyon in front of him and couldn't help showing a helpless expression.
This canyon is located between Ulduar and Storm Peaks. Standing on the edge of the canyon and looking down, you can see that the canyon is almost bottomless. You can only see the jagged rocks on both sides of the canyon and many snow-covered mountain walls. However, at a glance, you can't see the bottom. You can only see the layers of rocks protruding from both sides of the canyon, which eventually obscure all the sight.
"Can we go down here?" Aaron frowned and looked at this deep canyon. In the game, every time he came to Ulduar, he flew over from the air. He was not familiar with this canyon at all.
The current scale of the expeditionary force's air force is enough to transport all soldiers who cannot fly by themselves to the other side of the canyon, but once Ulduar's attack is thwarted, then this canyon will become an idea. Aaron does not want to play a last-ditch battle, it is better to push forward safely and smoothly.
After all, if you do this, although the morale of the soldiers will be much higher than usual, the members of the expeditionary force are not Aaron's subordinates. They are just different armies assembled by Aaron in the name of attacking Ulduar. If these soldiers follow Aaron's wishes and embark on a battlefield full of dangers and no retreat, I am afraid that the commanders of the expeditionary force will protest or even simply disobey.
In order to achieve this goal, Aaron needs to find a passage that is sufficient for the expeditionary force to retreat safely when necessary, but this may not be easy to find, at least Aaron can't see anything shallower in the canyon as far as he can see.
Just when Aaron was about to let the expeditionary force's air force reconnoiter along this deep canyon to find out if there was any area that could be easily passed, Archaedas, Ironaya and Thorim got together and pointed at the canyon.
"I remember it was in that direction, right?"
"It should be over there."
After a brief discussion, Archaedas came over to find Aaron and pointed out a path to Ulduar.
After Aaron listened, he looked in the direction pointed by Archaedas, but he couldn't remember any road over there that could lead to Ulduar.
However, since Archaedas said so, Aaron decided to go over and have a look. Just out of caution, he arranged for some air troops to conduct reconnaissance in other directions. He himself drove Dreadwake to the southwest corner of Ulduar according to Archaedas's guidance, and finally found a road here that could barely be called a passage.
Aaron looked at the road and then understood why Archaedas just insisted on Aaron using Dreadwake to bring the Earthens here. "This place... No wonder you asked me to bring the Earthens."