I'm somewhat of a Titan myself

"You can't kill me!" Loken stood behind the massive stone giant Kologarn, as if the giant could bring him a great sense of security.

In fact, as a guardian, his figure was also very large, half a head taller than Aiden's "Deep Sea Titan" Nautilus, easily fifteen or sixteen meters tall!

Most of the attacking forces were small in front of Loken, but this did not bring him psychological security.

Because even so, in the enclosed foyer, he, alone and weak, was destined to face failure.

He was very clear about this, and in order to avoid death, he had to do everything he could to think of every possible way.

After uttering that sentence, he already had a complete idea.

Loken tried his best to appear calm. Whether he could successfully stall these people depended on his eloquence—the King of Wisdom had to use all his wisdom to have a chance.

After the heroes in the rear caught up, Aiden, while deploying the attack, said to Loken, "Tell me your reasons. You have one minute, Loken."

Loken was very nervous. He could only watch as the other side completed their tactical deployment step by step, surrounding all of them, but he did not dare to act rashly, at least not to show any obvious hostile actions.

He knew that if persuasion failed, what awaited him would inevitably be a siege!

"One minute." Loken muttered this number. As the leader of all the guardians of Azeroth, the Titan servant with the highest authority, when had he ever been threatened and looked down upon by mortals like this?

"I am the Prime Designate, personally appointed by the Titans. Once I die, the Titans of the Pantheon will receive a signal, and then the observers will descend!

Whether you are clear about it or not, I want to say that the development of Azeroth has completely exceeded the Titans' original settings.

Once the observers detect the situation here, the Pantheon will definitely destroy this world!"

What Loken said was basically the truth. He knew that after these mortals invaded the Halls of Stone, they must have obtained some authority from there.

There must be some hidden settings in the mainframe of the Ancient Tribunal that he was not aware of, otherwise, it would be impossible for this situation to occur where he was clearly still alive, yet Ulduar suddenly activated its emergency defense mechanism!

Even more terrifying was that his authority could not open the restrictions, but these mortals could!

If he wasn't maintaining control over these servants under him, Loken would almost have thought that he had been stripped of all authority—now it seemed that someone among the mortals had temporarily obtained higher authority than him through some method he didn't know.

According to Loken's understanding of the Titan system, this temporary authority had a clear time limit. As long as they dragged out this period, victory would still belong to their side!

He would never know that among the group of people in front of him, there was someone who possessed complete Titan authority, so all his guesses produced a huge deviation from the truth.

Based on wrong deductions, he would only go further and further astray.

"So what?" Aiden asked very cooperatively.

"You should see the conclusion—if you kill me, the Titans will wipe out all of us; if you want to survive, your only way out is to leave here and pretend that nothing happened!" Loken suppressed the excitement in his heart and said his ultimate goal.

Now they were at a disadvantage. If they could "persuade" these people to retreat, he could save his life, and then regroup and eventually have a chance to take revenge on these mortals!

"If this is the level of eloquence of the King of Wisdom, I can only say I'm very disappointed." Aiden signaled to the heroes around him to be ready to attack at any time.

"I don't think your plan is very good. I have a suggestion—why don't you just surrender and then help us remove the control of the other guardians? We can consider not killing you.

When Yogg-Saron is resealed, you can also save your life, and the Titan observers will not come. This is what I think is the most perfect way out."

"So, surrender or die, which one do you choose?" Aiden stared at Loken.

Under his gaze, the fallen guardian couldn't help but take two steps back.

Loken shouted loudly, "I will never surrender! If you kill me, it means the destruction of Azeroth! All of you will be buried with me!

And my master, even if the Titan observers descend and reshape this world, it will still exist! It will definitely be the ultimate victor!"

"Thanks for the reminder, but our affairs don't need you to consider for us. You'd better take care of yourself!" Aiden gestured to the heroes behind him, "Attack!"

Loken had previously held a one-in-ten-thousand hope, guessing that the other party might be bluffing, and all the threats and intimidation were to force him to surrender.

But when the heroes around Aiden rushed up with murderous intent, he realized that the other party did not have the intention of forcing him to surrender!

They were here to kill him!

Loken stared at these mortals, as if mocking himself and others, and said his classic line: "I have witnessed the rise and fall of many empires in this world, the birth and extinction of species.

In countless times, only the stupidity of mortals is eternal, and your actions have verified this."

He couldn't understand at all why these mortals were willing to risk the descent of the observers and the formatting of the entire world to kill him—this wasn't even called a risk, but a certainty!

The Titans who left Azeroth for the second time tens of thousands of years ago would not know that their appointed chief guardian had fallen, and the prison holding the Old God had become his territory.

Nor would they know that the continuously spreading Curse of Flesh had infected the entire world, and that few of the once loyal giants remained.

Those who remained, after being cursed and turned into flesh, abandoned their faith in the Titans and no longer obeyed the iron laws and rules set by the Titans.

Based on Loken's understanding of the Titans, after the observers descended, they would definitely rely on the Titan system to reshape the entire world!

This time would not be too long. Immediately after Loken's death, the observers would descend! His death also meant that the lives of all living beings in this world would enter the final countdown.

No one would be able to see the sun tomorrow, or even the moonlight and starlight tonight!

"Ignorance! Madness!" Loken fearfully and angrily labeled these mortals.

But anyone who could understand his meaning, how could they not be afraid of the impending death?

Unless… these people were still holding the idea just now, wanting to force a surrender by fighting? First defeat all resistance, and when he was desperate, surrender to the mortals, and then lead them to liberate the other guardians, and finally go to seal his master Yogg-Saron?

This was the most reasonable inference Loken could think of—as the King of Wisdom, he always thought things would be more complicated than humans.

He felt that these people couldn't be so brainless as to sacrifice everyone's lives for the sake of sealing the Old God. Such behavior was obviously not something a rational person could do.

It must be, it must be like this!

Loken almost affirmed this inference. Based on this idea, he immediately had a new idea…

Pretend to resist, and then surrender when defeated, help them "liberate" the other guardians, and then take all of them to Yogg-Saron's lair, and then betray them—he immediately became excited about this perfect plan!

Wouldn't this be going around in a circle and perfectly achieving the master's plan?

Loken remained calm and even didn't plan to notify the few servants around him of his thoughts—who knew if any of them would leak his perfect plan for various reasons?

Anyway, as long as he was willing, he could have more such servants at that time! Selling a few, he didn't feel bad at all!

Because Loken had such small thoughts, he began to "slack off" in the battle. He pretended to resist very hard, but often poured his powerful attacks on those heroes who had already made defensive preparations, and even directly released them into the open space.

He loudly ordered his few servants to charge bravely. The stone giant Kologarn, the female giant Algalon, and the three servants of the Iron Council did not doubt him and fearlessly charged towards the numerous heroes of Azeroth under his command.

The result was predictable. Under Loken's blind command, these seemingly powerful servants fell one after another at the feet of the heroes in just a few minutes.

It's just that Loken's acting was too fake. Those who were interested noticed that every time he commanded these servants, he almost arranged for the other party to go to crowded places, which was simply letting them die!

And he himself always hid behind, releasing a lot of flashy and impractical skills, which did not pose any real threat to the heroes.

This was not like the performance of the King of Wisdom at all, but rather like the King of "Morons"!

After all of Loken's servants had fallen, Loken retreated while resisting, eventually finding himself cornered in front of a defensive gate. He immediately shouted, "I surrender! I surrender!"

"Accept his surrender," Aiden conveyed this thought to the minds of the heroes around him. "But be wary of him. Eliminate him before he leads us into Yogg-Saron's lair!"

The heroes who received his thought felt a wave of embarrassment. Most of them hadn't expected that this usually upright leader of Valoran would have such a cunning and treacherous side.

After all, the impression he had previously left on everyone was one of great integrity, and this sudden shift surprised them somewhat.

However, when the target became a lackey of the Old Gods, no one felt any psychological burden. Showing good faith and morality to these evil and depraved fellows would be truly pedantic!

Aiden made this decision because, after reviewing the history of Azeroth, he had never found anyone controlled by the Old Gods who would surrender directly under the threat of fear and death.

Recalling how Loken was killed in the Halls of Lightning in other timelines, he only uttered wild words, saying something like his master showing him future scenarios where "Yogg-Saron will be released, and the Pantheon will eventually fall."

In a sense, this is a common tactic used by the Old Gods to bewilder Loken and all other fallen ones. Each Old God possesses a very special and powerful mental strength, and creating extremely realistic and believable future illusions is their forte.

Neltharion fell into corruption under N'Zoth's maddening whispers, becoming Deathwing, and it can almost be certain that Nozdormu also lost himself and went mad due to the illusions given by the Old Gods, eventually falling into the Infinite Dragonflight in the future.

Yogg-Saron was able to induce Loken's fall, undoubtedly by presenting him with a terrifying future it described—"The End Time," a disaster spreading throughout the universe, where countless Old Gods would be released from the Titans' seals, then gather to counterattack the Pantheon, and destroy all the Titans.

All the Old Gods believe that this day will come, and it is their ultimate goal!

From Aiden's perspective, it is easy to understand why the Old Gods have such an obsession. After "World of Warcraft" began its free operation, the Titans were ordered to investigate why monsters were invading reality. Aman'Thul and Sargeras came to this world with the mission to investigate and resolve this huge hidden danger.

They regarded the Old Gods as the most important target, and the power they wielded posed a great threat to the Old Gods.

For this reason, the Old Gods are so determined to destroy the Pantheon, and even the Burning Legion would be their target—because of Sargeras!

The Pantheon adheres to certain rules and did not completely destroy planets severely infested with the Old Gods, but chose to seal them. However, the Burning Legion's philosophy is different—the philosophy of "constantly destroying worlds" was instilled into the minds of every demon in the Burning Legion by Sargeras, its first leader.

The Old Gods are parasitic on planets. To kill them, you must destroy the planet. Conversely, destroying the planet can eliminate the Old Gods—Aiden quickly guessed the difference between the two brothers after separating from Aman'Thul.

If the Burning Legion is constantly destroying worlds to eliminate the Old Gods, then the disagreement between Aman'Thul and Sargeras is easily explained—it is a dispute between the two brothers over how to deal with the Old Gods.

If Aiden were an outsider and regarded the World of Warcraft only as a game, he might have sided with Sargeras.

Because no one knows whether the Old Gods will really pollute the entire universe in the future. The sealing method has already been proven to have huge hidden dangers in Azeroth. Who knows when and under what circumstances the Old Gods will break the seal and come out?

But now that he has come into contact with the people of Azeroth and the heroes of the Valoran Federation around him, he can no longer regard it as a purely game world—although not long ago, this was the essence of the world. But since the port connecting the game world to the real world was closed, these two worlds have become truly independent universes. It really exists, and everyone is indeed real.

Everyone here will not be refreshed after death. They have their own independent thoughts and feelings, as well as ways of life and attitudes, striving for their dreams and ideals, and many people have shown extraordinary courage and faith that ordinary people do not possess…

How could Aiden regard the people fighting alongside him as data, as NPCs?

Being in this world, he instead understands Aman'Thul's choices and methods. Perhaps the "Father of the Gods" also has a unique affection for this world?

These thoughts flashed through his mind quickly, and then he strode forward and said to Loken, who had surrendered, "Now, lead the way!"

Although the Stone Giant Kologarn was dead, and no one could build a bridge across the Shattered Walkway, this was not difficult for everyone at all. The Blue Dragonflight flew forward and spat out a beam of arcane energy, creating a temporary arcane bridge between the two sides of the passage.

With Loken, the "master," leading the way, they didn't have to fight for a long stretch of the road. After safely passing through the antechamber, Aiden opened the mechanism leading to the Guardian's Hall.

"Hodir, come over!" Loken led everyone to the room of Hodir, the King of Winter. The tall Titan Guardian walked over at his command.

"What are your orders, King of Wisdom!"

"Follow these mortal heroes. We are going to seal the Old God Yogg-Saron in the underground prison!" Loken said righteously to the Guardian, who had already been brainwashed by the Old Gods. "Now is the time to fulfill our duty!"

Hodir was stunned for a moment, as the will of his current master, Yogg-Saron, entered his mind: Do as Loken says!

After receiving the instruction, the King of Winter immediately raised his giant hammer and shouted, "As you command, Prime Designate!"

Loken was very satisfied with Hodir's performance. Now was the time to act. He tried his best to pretend to be helping these mortal heroes, trying to gain their trust to the greatest extent. Once they entered Yogg-Saron's prison, everything would be reversed!

Loken was secretly pleased with his wit, inwardly mocking the ignorance and foolishness of these mortals. But at that moment, the group of heroes suddenly surrounded him, pointing their weapons at him, and some were preparing spells.

"What, what are you doing!" Loken stammered.

Aiden sneered and asked, "Loken, do you think you can deceive people with such tricks?"

"What are you saying? Are you going to go back on your word?" Loken deliberately pretended to be angry and questioned.

"Do you think we didn't get anything from the mainframe in the Halls of Stone? We know the current situation of the Guardians, and we know it even better than you!" Aiden suddenly swung his sword. Loken's face changed drastically, but he didn't dare to resist at all and could only let the sword fall.

The Silver Hand, carrying a touch of blue light, directly severed Loken's right arm. He let out a scream, his face filled with fear and panic.

"Watch Loken. If he dares to move recklessly, kill him!" Aiden instructed Kael'thas beside him, then stared at the howling Loken and threatened, "Now we are going to put enough pressure on Hodir to restart his internal system. If he resists, we will kill you! If you play any more tricks, we will kill you too! Understand?"

Loken only clutched his severed arm, his terrified eyes already giving the answer.

In the end, these Guardians are actually intelligent robots manufactured by the Titans—but after being seduced and cursed by the Old Gods, they have gained some human-like changes. And their level of intelligence is very high. If they were just simple robots, no matter how Aiden threatened them, it would be useless.

Because Loken is afraid, Aiden's threat worked.

The mortal heroes went up to besiege Hodir. Although the bewildered King of Winter roared, he did not resist.

In just half a minute, the emergency mechanism inside the scarred Hodir was finally activated, the intelligent core restarted, and he completely regained his sanity.