" Anveena, what's the specific situation?" Jiang Jie asked hurriedly after confirming that the Earthen and Stone Keepers were no longer moving.
"Brother, I'm Lesser Keeper now!" Anveena exclaimed with joy. "A message entered my mind! It turns out there are three levels of Titan Keepers: Lesser Keeper, Keeper, and High Keeper! I'm now the lowest level, Lesser Keeper!"
Keeper? And they have levels?
Jiang Jie was taken aback, then his eyes lit up. " Anveena, can you control these Earthen and Stone Giants? For example, can you make them obey your commands and attack the Rockjaw Trogg and Dark Iron Dwarves outside?"
At most, they'll attack those other things. They certainly won't let them attack this temple and Archaedas inside. Since the Titan Keepers are divided into three levels, Archaedas should be a second-level " Keeper," a true Keeper has received Titans's power, and has a very high status!
Anveena's rank is one level lower than his.
"This... there's so much information, brother, let me sort it out first." Anveena's voice disappeared.
The little girl's current state is strange; she's essentially inside Jiang Jie's body. Jiang Jie can sense her presence and "see" Anveena's true form in his sea of consciousness—tiny, like a little bean sprout. Jiang Jie feels she resembles a "primordial spirit" from a cultivation novel.
Jiang Jie could see the little girl muttering to herself, her eyes blinking rapidly, clearly studying, recalling, or processing something.
"Then you can take your time tidying up, we'll rest a bit." Jiang Jie pulled Old Chen to close the door to prevent any pursuers from outside, then sat cross-legged to meditate.
The reason we were in such a hurry was that if we dragged it out too long, all those Earthen and Stone Giants would be awakened, and then facing so many guardians, we would have virtually no hope of obtaining the Disc of Norgannon.
Now that Anveena can command these Earthen and Stone Giants to continue sleeping, this place is the safest, provided, of course, that the one deepest in the temple doesn't go mad, otherwise, who knows what the situation would be like.
Now, there's plenty of time.
Anveena seemed to have received a lot of information, and it took her a full hour to digest it before she finally finished.
"Brother, I can control these Earthen and Stone Giants, any Titan Keepers! I can send them to attack those Rockjaw Trogg, because they've been enemies of the Rockjaw Trogg for a long time and have the support of the Titan Keepers!"
Anveena stretched her arms and legs, blinked her eyes playfully, and said, "But I can't get them to leave here to attack the Dark Iron Dwarves outside, because Archaedas ordered them to guard the dungeon, and I can't change his orders."
"It's alright, I don't want to provoke the Dark Iron Dwarves anyway." Jiang Jie was already quite satisfied, then asked, "If we go to attack Archaedas, who will these Earthen and Stone Giants help?"
"Some Earthen and Stone Giants have never been awakened since their creation; they've been dormant. If I awaken them first and give them commands, they will obey me. After all, although my authority isn't as high as Archaedas's, we are both Keeper, and in the eyes of the Earthen and Stone Giants, we are all the same."
Anveena said, "But those who have been awakened will listen to Archaedas! Brother, it's a matter of first come, first served; whoever gets it first gets it, although in reality, most of them were created by Archaedas."
Jiang Jie understood.
Simply put, Archaedas is like a worker, engineer, or scientist who created Earthen and Stone Giants, which are like robots, but that doesn't mean he is the master of these Earthen and Stone Giants.
Whoever issues the first command can change permissions and become the master of the Earthen and Stone Giants, just as the manufacturer cannot control the robots that have been sold.
"In that case... that's interesting! Anveena, awaken all the Earthen and Stone Giants that haven't been awakened yet, and we'll have a rock army!" Jiang Jie decided to use this army to attack Archaedas; their chances of victory would be very high.
"Brother, there aren't any here." Anveena cautiously reminded him, " The Earthen and Stone Giants here were created by the Forge of Wills and brought here by Archaedas. Archaedas has the highest authority over them, and my authority is insufficient. Only the Earthen and Stone Giants deep within the Seat of Khaz'goroth were created by Archaedas using the rocks here, and they haven't been awakened yet."
The earliest Stone Giants were created by the Titans themselves, while later Stone Giants were created by the Forge of Wills of Forge of Wills, as were Earthen.
However, the Forge of Wills was jointly created by Archaedas and Mimiron, the two Titan Keepers.
The Forge of Wills can create all sorts of Titan-forged, so Archaedas certainly can too.
However, if he were to do it himself, he could only carve and imbue it with intelligence and soul little by little, which would be very slow, far slower than the Forge of Wills. Moreover, the Titan-forged he could make would not be as good as those made by the Forge of Wills.
Because they lack the Forge of Wills to shape their souls and the sophisticated machines designed and manufactured by Mimiron, they appear rather crude, have limited intelligence, and are unlikely to become Earthen Wizards (mages). At most, they possess a little bit of talent and are primarily Warrior.
The Seat of Khaz'goroth contains Titan-forged created by Archaedas himself. It seems he wasn't idle while hiding in the dungeon!
He created these Titan-forged to defend the dungeons and protect the Disc of Norgannon, but perhaps he also intended to raise an invincible Titans army, then launch a counterattack on Ulduar and wipe out Loken?
Of course, Jiang Jie
It's clear that he simply cannot do it.
Because Loken controls the Forge of Wills, which has been corrupted by the Old Gods Yogg-Saron, he can create a larger, more powerful, and more perfect army of Titan-forged.
Archaedas probably knew he had no chance of winning, so he slowly imprisoned himself in the Seat of Khaz'goroth, even ignoring his Earthen and Mechagnomes, and was eventually forgotten by everyone, becoming a myth.
For some unknown reason, some of the Earthen and Stone Giants were not awakened. Jiang Jie guessed that Archaedas might have done this to prevent the Curse of Flesh.
Unawakened Titan-forged are essentially no different from statues, just like the rocks outside, and are not subject to the Curse of Flesh.
"... Alright." Jiang Jie, being thick-skinned, certainly wouldn't blush in this situation. He nodded and said, " Anveena, first, move all the Earthen and Stone Giants away and have them clear out the Rockjaw Trogg in the dungeon!"