Since the invasion by the Mogu and Zandalari troll allied forces, to ensure that no one else would attempt to seize the power of the Forge of Origination, the surviving Tol'vir used the power leaked from the Forge of Origination to obscure the mountain paths leading to this place, thereby completely isolating Uldum from the sight of mortals and severing contact with the world outside the barrier.
In his previous life, Galen learned about this civilization, which resembled ancient Egypt, because of the Cataclysm caused by Deathwing, which damaged the device supporting the magical barrier, allowing the outside world to enter this land through the Gates of Unending Doom.
Galen and his group entered Uldum through the northeastern part of the region. The Gates of Unending Doom they passed through led to a canyon. The canyon was flanked by huge man-made walls, constructed from massive stone blocks, and every fifty meters, a pair of fifty-meter-high Anubisath statues were embedded in the walls, resembling guardians of the canyon.
In reality, there wasn't even a single living guard in this passage. Perhaps in the centuries after the Mogu and Zandalari troll invasion, the surviving Tol'vir would organize armies to patrol the various entrances of Uldum, but as time passed, that became less certain.
"These buildings... they look a lot like tombs."
Archaedas, who was clearing the way, casually waved his hand, burying a poisonous scorpion under the heavy sand, causing it to scurry away in fright.
"Not 'look like,' you big oaf, this is a tomb! Look, there are words on it, a variant of Titan language: The Tomb of Khartut!"
Mimiron came to the largest building and pointed to the words above the gate.
"Yes, and above the tomb is a giant Tol'vir statue, which should be what the tomb's owner looked like in life."
Galen looked up. The giant Tol'vir statue was at least a hundred meters tall, and with the base of the tomb below, it should be close to a hundred meters.
The construction method of the tomb plus the Tol'vir giant statue reminded Galen of the Egyptian Sphinx and the pyramids nearby.
At this moment, he also remembered the name Khartut. He was one of the pharaohs of ancient Tol'vir. The construction of this massive tomb consumed a lot of manpower and resources. After Uldum was opened, it attracted the covetous eyes of many tomb raiders. Even the famous archaeologist Harrison Jones used dynamite to blow up the tomb door in search of the legendary Ark of the Covenant.
"This should be the tomb of a Tol'vir king. They also lost their eternal life due to the Curse of Flesh. Birth, old age, sickness, and death are normal."
After Galen finished speaking, he took out a vehicle from his backpack: a Mechanical Hog.
"Want me to give you a ride, Mimiron?" Aragorn consciously sat behind Galen, who pointed to the Big Boss seat on the Mechanical Hog and asked.
"Oh!"
Mimiron's mechanical eyes lit up with a red glow, instantly scanning the manufacturing structure of the Mechanical Hog: "Not a bad design concept, but the power source is too primitive. It still uses fuel energy. If you switch to Titan energy as the power source, its speed should be able to increase tenfold!"
"..."
Galen was speechless. As the ancestor of the gnomes, Mimiron was qualified to comment on the mechanical motorcycle made by the High Tinker himself.
It's just that Galen preferred the domineering name Mechanical Hog, so he named the motorcycle Mechanical Hog.
"After the Uldum affair is over, I will select a few masters in engineering to go to you as apprentices. You help me train them well."
Galen had this idea after obtaining Ulduar. Although Mimiron was also his follower, Galen preferred to deal with gnomes and goblins with flesh and blood bodies.
Looking at Mimiron's mechanical body, he was always curious about what was in his head, always wanting to open his skull and see if there was a pile of precision gears inside.
This stemmed from when Galen watched Ultraman in his previous life, there was a scene where a humanoid robot opened his skull and lubricated his brain...
Woo!
Woo!
After Mimiron sat in the Big Boss seat, Galen twisted the throttle with his right hand, and the Mechanical Hog sped away with a roar.
In order to cope with this desert environment, Galen specially replaced the Mechanical Hog's tires with sand tires. He and Mimiron led the way in front, while Archaedas and Freya ran behind, resembling Attack on Titan.
"Mimiron, do you feel it? The magic nodes here seem to be close to exhaustion, but the power of the wind element in the desert is unusually active. This is very abnormal!"
Galen, wearing goggles, drove the Mechanical Hog through the desert while asking the King of Creation beside him.
"Oh, Highlord, you really asked the right person with this question. My creator is the Titan Norgannon, he is the guardian of divine magic and knowledge, the master of arcane, knowledge, secrets, and mysteries, and I also inherited some of his authority."
The little mechanical gnome ancestor boasted a little, then pinched his beard and continued: "This place was originally the southern end of the ancient Kalimdor continent, and it is close to Silithus, where the Chamber of Heart that can connect to the Azeroth world-soul is buried. Moreover, there are five arcane nodes here, so logically speaking, there should be no arcane energy depletion."
Archaedas and Freya, who were running, also became curious, and pricked up their ears to listen to Mimiron's words while running.
The Titan guardians and Galen both knew about the existence of the Chamber of Heart, especially when C'Thun died, the Azeroth world-soul even pulled Galen into her dream.
Galen placed Fandral and Valstann Staghelm and the two legions in Silithus to secretly search for and guard this important place, but now is not the time to open the Chamber of Heart, we still need to wait.
"The real reason is that this place is too close to the elemental plane!"
"It's the Skywall!"
Galen finally reacted when he heard this. Uldum and the Skywall, which seals the wind element, seemed to be very close!
"That's right, it's the Skywall. Among the original elemental lords, I participated in the Water Elemental War. Archaedas and Freya dealt with Stone Mother, while Al'Akir, the Wind Lord, was jointly sealed by Lei, Thorim, and Hodir. It seems that Al'Akir is sealed above the ten-thousand-foot high sky in the south!"
The confusion was resolved, and Galen's thoughts also became active.
Wind Lord's Throne, he might also be named Trollbane.
Well, that's right, the Wind Prince is now his Wind Elemental King in Draenor, but Draenor is too small, far inferior to Azeroth, perhaps he can go further and become the Wind Elemental King of Azeroth!
The journey continued. Galen remembered that after entering Uldum, he only needed to head west to find the Vernel River, a north-south river that ran through the entire desert. This river originated in the mountains of Angor in the north.
And the Ramkahen, a large tribe of the Tol'vir, was located in the oasis around this river.
Sure enough, after Galen added fuel to the Mechano-Hog three times, a touch of green finally appeared before them.
At the same time, signs of civilization were discovered in the oasis. They were the indigenous inhabitants of Uldum, the Tol'vir after the Curse of Flesh!
Like humans, dwarves, and gnomes, these guys were transformed from stone bodies into flesh and blood after the Curse of Flesh. However, unlike humans, dwarves, and gnomes, who had forgotten their origins, these Tol'vir remembered their history.
They were still performing their duties, still guarding the Halls of Origination.
The residents of the oasis were attracted by the commotion caused by Archaedas and Freya running, and they all turned to look.
Immediately afterward, a team of Tol'vir soldiers wearing leather armor, shaped like tigers with four legs and tails but with humanoid bodies, or black panther-like, came to the edge of the oasis.
The strong hindquarters of the tiger bodies gave them the ability to run fast, and the humanoid torsos allowed them to skillfully use various weapons. Each was nearly four meters tall, and their muscular bodies looked full of explosive power.
Although the bloodline of the Titan creations was eroded by the Curse of Flesh, it still allowed the flesh-and-blood Tol'vir to maintain physical qualities far exceeding those of humans.
This was simply a born fighting race! Some Tol'vir even had wings. If you added a fishtail and gills, they would be all-terrain warriors capable of operating on land, sea, and air!
In the formation of these large cat-people, there were huge lions with fluffy and majestic manes, and some of the lions were even covered in armor.
They held bows and arrows in their hands, waiting in formation, looking like well-trained elite warriors.
Galen stopped the Mechano-Hog, and Archaedas and Freya also stopped.
After ensuring that Galen and the others were not hostile, a Tol'vir wearing a golden eagle mask, dressed in a white robe, and holding a scepter in the Tol'vir formation carefully observed Galen's group. Then, he left the army in place and ran towards Galen and the others alone.
As the distance closed, the details on this Tol'vir became clear.
This was a Tol'vir with a yellow spotted tiger appearance. Judging from the energy aura contained in his body, he should be a Sun Priest.
This Tol'vir priest came before Archaedas, Freya, and Mimiron. Galen could even see his body trembling slightly.
That was the rhythm of the bloodline, the official certification of the Titan creation factors remaining in the Tol'vir body when facing Titan creations with high-level authority.
"You are the Earth King Archaedas, you are the Life King Freya, and you are the Creation King Mimiron."
The Tol'vir priest carefully identified the aura on Aragorn's body and finally confirmed: "You are the Order King Tyr!"
Galen was so magnificently ignored.
Archaedas and the others were very satisfied with the performance of this Tol'vir priest. Being able to recognize them was already commendable.
You must know that after the Curse of Flesh, humans had long forgotten their mission, only the legend of Tyr was circulating, while the dwarves, who were the earthen descendants of Archaedas, and the gnomes, who were the flesh-and-blood mechanognomes of Mimiron, remembered nothing.
"Very good! Very good! It seems that you still remember your duties. I am indeed the Earth Shaper Archaedas. Tell me your name, descendant of Lei, descendant of the Tol'vir."
"Respected Titan Guardian, my name is Natun, and I am the prince of the Ramkahen tribe. My brother is Pharaoh Faoris, the pharaoh of the tribe."
Galen felt inexplicably familiar when he heard this name. After thinking for a while, he realized it was him!
The Ramkahen tribe survived to the end because it was located upstream of the Vernel River, far from danger.
Back in the Cataclysm version, Galen's first pot of gold was earned by panning for gold in the sands of Uldum, mining a large number of Elementium Ingots. At that time, he often stayed in the city of Ramkahen.
"Ramkahen tribe…"
After the Curse of Flesh, this group of Tol'vir, like the other descendants of the Titan creations, developed into a clan society.
"Prince Natun, please tell me in detail about the current situation in Uldum! We are entering here for the first time and know nothing about the situation here."
Facing the Earth King's inquiry, Natun organized his words and then said: "A long time ago, our gods lost contact, and our ancestors were cursed into flesh and blood, but we still remember our mission!"
"Later, we gradually divided into four tribes, namely, our Ramkahen, Amun, Ossirian, and Neferset!"
"Each of our four tribes has its own mission. The Ramkahen are responsible for guarding the Star Obelisk, the Amun tribe is responsible for the Sun Obelisk, the Ossirian tribe is responsible for the Moon Obelisk. The three obelisks are the three key points to open the Halls of Origination, and the last Neferset tribe is responsible for guarding the origin of the Tol'vir: the Tol'vir City."
Hmm?
Four?
Galen remembered that there were only three tribes of Tol'vir, right? Among them, the Neferset tribe turned to Deathwing in order to get rid of the Curse of Flesh. The Ossirian tribe refused to cooperate, and under the order of Deathwing, a huge sandstorm created by the Wind Lord destroyed the city of Ossirian.
The vast majority of the Ossirian tribe died as a result, with only a few survivors. The Scepter of Ossirian, which they guarded, was transferred to the Ramkahen tribe.
Where did this Amun tribe come from?
Because of this doubt, Galen continued to listen to the secrets of the Tol'vir.
"Several centuries ago, the Amun tribe, which guarded the Sun Obelisk, had already perished due to the erosion of the wind element and the double blow of the natural environment. Now, the supervision of the Sun Obelisk has been transferred to the Neferset tribe."
So that's how it is. It's been too long, and Galen couldn't remember many of the details clearly.
However, he quietly kept this hidden danger of the wind element in his heart, and would find an opportunity to open the Skywall, return Prince Thunderaan to the Maelstrom Throne and the Throne of the Four Winds, and change the banner on the city wall.
In addition to the wind element, Galen also had a debt to settle with Ragnaros.
Don't worry, now that Galen has removed two of the Old Gods, there are not many crises on Azeroth. When Galen has time, he will go to each of their doors, open the cages of the elemental planes, light fireworks for the traitors inside, and help the growth of the Azeroth world-soul.