"These vines..." Aaron looked at the vines coiled around the pillars of the temple. He was in a daze for a moment. Fortunately, he reacted before something went wrong. Seeing these vines with black spikes on the surface, Aaron had a sense of sight, as if he had seen these vines somewhere.
"These vines..." Vereesa, who followed Aaron, felt a similar familiar feeling when he saw these vines. After thinking for a moment, Vereesa patted them gently. Hands, suddenly said, "Aren't these the things that are also found in the depths of the Nerubians kingdom? Aaron, I remember you asked the Nerubianss to burn all those vines, right?"
"Oh yes, it's these vines..." Aaron heard Vereesa's words and recalled this incident. Although these vines are much stronger than those growing deep in Azjol-Nerub, they are still quite similar in appearance. You can tell at a glance that they come from the same source.
Moreover, compared to the vines of Azjol-Nerub, the vines growing around Temple of Wisdom have a more obvious impact on the spirit. It probably has something to do with the fact that this place is closer to the cage where Yogg-Saron is imprisoned.
"Did these things corrupt Loken?" Archaedas also noticed the abnormality of these twisted vines and immediately thought of Loken. This is Loken's temple. These vines growing here must have had a serious impact on Loken's mental state.
"It probably has something to do with it." Aaron sighed. It's too late to say this now. Regardless of whether Loken's corruption can be reversed, the most important thing to do now is to break through Ulduar first. However, these vines staying here still make Aaron feel a little uneasy.
Although judging from the situation of everyone present, the impact of these vines on people's spirits is not very serious, basically to the extent that they will be a little trance-like after a few more glances, but this location is an important passage into Ulduar. If these vines mutate, the expeditionary force will be unlucky.
It was with such worries that Aaron decided to get rid of all these vines, and before arriving at the Command Temple with the expeditionary force, he used Holy Light to burn all the vines one by one.
"Are these things still moving?" Vereesa blinked, and she noticed that when Aaron started to attack the vines, the vines would actually twist slightly, "Aaron, you mean these things are the tentacles of Old Gods named Yogg-Saron, won't you disturb that guy by doing this?"
"You don't have to worry about that." Archaedas, who was idle, relieved Vereesa's worries for Aaron: "Yogg-Saron's body is very large. If you just attack these tentacles, you don't have to worry about waking up the guy. To Yogg-Saron, these tentacles are nothing at all."
"I think so." Aaron pointed at the slowly struggling vines and said, "Judging from the extent of the struggle, it's probably just the natural reaction of the vines. Don't worry so much."
Aaron also had some unsaid words. Even if Yogg-Saron reacted to attacking these vines, as long as that guy didn't break free from Ulduar, even if he jumped in pain, he could only struggle in the cage. Could he still jump out and fight back? If that guy had really escaped, he would have driven a lot of Faceless Ones to come and cause trouble for the expeditionary force, right?
While Aaron was purifying these vines here to kill time, Vereesa seemed to be slightly affected by the struggle of these vines, so he simply ran to the throne in the center of the temple, wanting to rest there for a while.
Not long after, Vereesa seemed to have discovered something on the throne, and began to circle around the throne, as if looking for something.
"Aaron, come over here and take a look at these things." After Vereesa found what he was looking for, he called Aaron to come over and take a look at his findings.
"Do you think these look like some kind of writing?" Vereesa pointed out his findings to Aaron. There are many runes of the same style near the throne. These runes look somewhat similar to the runes commonly used by dwarves, but the differences are much greater. Even Brann cannot decipher these runes.
In the end, Archaedas discovered that these idlers were gathering around the throne and making a fuss, so he told everyone that these runes were Titan language, a language that was once popular between Titan Keepers and Titan-forged.
Archaedas glanced at these runes roughly, his expression changed several times, and finally turned into a sigh.
Upon seeing this, Brann immediately pestered Archaedas, hoping that the other party could tell him the meaning of these runes. For Brann and Explorers' League, they definitely hope to master this language.
Archaedas couldn't resist him, and finally agreed to help him translate sentence by sentence into Common. Everyone on the side also took this opportunity to know the meaning of these sentences that looked like random scribblings.
"I had another nightmare today. Are those restless prisoners still trying to struggle? Give up, I won't let you succeed."
"Sif's smile makes me feel full of confidence to fight against nightmares, but she is Thorim's..."
"Sif is starting to become cold towards me. Maybe I need to have a good talk with her."
"Sif is dead, I can't believe I missed it... No, it's not my fault, absolutely not."
"It's unbelievable, Sif appeared in front of me again, and she said she forgave me."
As expected, these sentences are all casual records left by the owner of the temple - Loken. From these intermittent sentences, we can roughly know the process of Loken's fall. Generally speaking, it is similar to what Aaron knows.
It was only at this time that Aaron realized that Loken had been eroded by Yogg-Saron's whispers much earlier. However, in the first tens of thousands of years, Loken still relied on its own strength to resist this erosion.
It's a pity that Loken couldn't escape the influence of Yogg-Saron in the end, and eventually became Old Gods's minion and started to attack other guardians.
After reading these sentences, Archaedas punched the cold stone throne hard, regretting in his heart why he didn't discover Loken's strangeness earlier, so now the two sides can only fight against each other.
After Archaedas adjusted his mental state, the expeditionary force gradually arrived around the temple. Aaron summoned the commanders of the expeditionary force and began to discuss the specific plan to attack Ulduar.
The Ulduar map provided by several guardians makes it much easier to lay out the strategy. However, it is not yet known how strong the defense of Loken inside Ulduar is. Unfortunately, Ulduar is a closed fortress, and there is no way for air troops to conduct reconnaissance first.