Chapter 1287 The fundamental contradiction between civil servants and military generals
Regarding Odin and Laden, Sarlayan obtained some information from insiders, including Mimiron and Azadas, based on their respective subjective judgments.
Although they are both responsible for all the Titan Guardians in Azeroth, Laden and Odin actually have no overlapping areas of responsibility.
To put it simply, Laiteng is equivalent to the head of the civil servants, while Odin, who has gained a reputation on the battlefield, is undoubtedly the leader of the military commanders.
As we all know, the relationship between civil servants and military generals is usually not much better due to the huge differences in their ideals.
Military generals can hardly play any role in peacetime, so for those ambitious military generals, they would like to be born in turbulent times, so that they can have the opportunity to show their talents and make achievements.
However, civil servants are different. Their ability to govern can only be maximized in peacetime. The two are completely contradictory from the starting point.
According to the barrage, in the ancient times of their world... and even in modern times, once they enter a peaceful period far away from war, military generals who have nowhere to show their talents can only grovel and lick the soles of civil servants.
This irreconcilable ideological difference destined that Odin and Laiteng, who were respectively military commanders and civil servants, would not have a good relationship.
The willful Odin offended many people in order to further strengthen Azeroth's armed forces.
Moreover, this guy is also a racist. He believes that all creatures other than Titan creations are useless chickens and dogs, and he disagrees with other colleagues on the canonization of the Dragon Guardian.
However, Odin's opposition alone could not twist his thigh. With the strong support of many guardians, including Laiden, the Pantheon finally gave the leaders of the five-color ancestral dragons a part of their power.
After the Wyrmrest Temple was officially established, the angry Odin sealed himself in the Hall of Valor and vowed to prove to everyone that his ideas were correct.
However, Odin, who was too hasty, finally got away with it, and his adopted daughter Hela and Loken joined forces to seal them in the palace that he raised to the sky with his own hands.
Tens of thousands of years passed, and with the defeat of Hela, the seal against the Hall of Valor was weakened.
But because Loken, who is in charge of the other half of the seal, is still alive and kicking, Odin is still unable to leave the scope of the Broken Islands.
After tens of thousands of years of forced calmness, Odin's edges and corners have been smoothed by the passage of time, and he has become much smoother than before.
Perhaps he still looks down on all flesh and blood creatures, including mortals, in his heart, but at least it will no longer be so obvious on the surface.
As the saying goes, the people who know you best are often your enemies.
Odin and Laiden are not enemies, but because they have different ideas, in order to find loopholes in each other's views and suppress the other's power, Odin once conducted a detailed investigation of Laiden from the inside out.
investigation.
The Titan Guardians built a large number of strongholds and observation stations on the ancient continent of Kalimdor in the ancient times of Azeroth. Due to the impact of the earthquake 10,000 years ago, many of these buildings sank into the sea.
Laideng, who does not need to breathe and is not afraid of the pressure of the deep sea, does have the possibility of entering the depths of the sea and shutting himself down, but so far, Azshara's Naga has not found any information related to this great guardian.
Therefore, Sarlayan speculated that Laideng was most likely hiding in a Titan stronghold on land, and the people who knew the locations of these strongholds best were undoubtedly Laideng's colleagues.
Counting the three brainwashed guardians in Alduern, Loken's side has more than 6 demigods with high-end combat power.
On Sarlayan's side, there are only four of him, Valeera, Thorim and Azadas, and the manpower is obviously insufficient.
Among the four, Valeera's frontal combat effectiveness is the weakest. Even if she holds an artifact, it will be difficult to break through against a guardian with a titan body.
But... by coincidence, Mimiron was robbed of his guardian body by Loken, and now uses the body of a weak mechanical dwarf.
Moreover, the "brain-dead" Mimiron would always develop some weird weapons. Under the premise of obtaining relevant information from the barrage in advance, Sarlayan believed that Valeera could defeat the mentally ill Mimiron.
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The opponent Sharlayan chose for himself was Freya, the Guardian of Life.
Freya and Mimiron, Guardian of Wisdom Loken, and Guardian of Earth Azadas, these four guardians who focus on logistics are the weakest in frontal combat capability among all the secondary titans.
Therefore, the subsequent distribution of combat power will be a matter of course.
Azadas and Loken will have a rough fight with each other, while Thorim will have a heated exchange with the Ice Guardian Hodir, who is also a general.
However, here comes the problem. Even if we exclude Yogg-Saron who has not completely escaped from prison and cannot move freely, Loken still has a powerful Xeraki left - Vezax.
The real Azeroth is not a game, everyone will just stand there stupidly waiting for the enemy to challenge.
Sarlayan didn't think that Loken's side would come up one by one to kill people. It was very likely that they would gather all their high-end combat forces and swarm them.
So the question is, when the dragon clan is banned due to Odin's ban, who can stand up and stop Vezax?
Azshara? It's a good idea, but Sharlayan doesn't think that the arrogant queen can be moved so easily. Besides, she has to be distracted by monitoring the other ancient god En'zoth.
So the best choices are Odin and Laden, who are both guardians.
But Odin can't leave the Broken Islands at the moment, and it's obviously impossible for Loken to place the decisive battle in Stormfjord.
After excluding all other possibilities, the only thing left to hope for now is Laiteng, whose whereabouts are temporarily unknown.
Before parting ways with Laden the last time in Pandaria, he said that he wanted to travel to this world that had become very strange. Sharlayan originally thought that Laden would reappear in a few years.
However, a few years later, Laiteng seemed to have disappeared from the world. Only through the fragmentary information investigated by the Backlight Blade did we know that he had indeed walked throughout Azeroth.
Sarlayan didn't know whether Laden had encountered some unexpected situation or had become autistic again. In any case, in order to successfully win the battle of Ulduar, he had to find Laden before the war started.
Under such circumstances, any information that may point to Lai Deng's whereabouts must not be let go.
"The Broken Islands..." Sarlayan said with all his thoughts: "It just so happens that this war related to the future of Azeroth cannot be lost. In order to increase the winning rate, it is time to take out the Creation that is sealed in the Broken Islands.
It’s a sacred artifact.”
There are a total of five Pillars of Creation artifacts in existence, among which the Tears of Elune have been kept in the hands of the night elves' moon priests.
According to the information provided by Malfurion, this thing is essentially a portable power bank, which can store a large amount of non-attributed energy inside.
With the Forge of Origin as its backing, the Tears of Elune were not very important to Sharlayan's side in a war that was mainly fought by titan-forged people.
The Tidestone of Golgonneth is currently held by Queen Azshara. In a waterless battlefield environment, the Tidestone is not very useful and can be ignored for the time being.
The remaining Shield of Aggramar, Hammer of Khaz'goroth and Eye of Aman'Thul can all provide considerable assistance to the army on the battlefield.
In particular, the two offensive and defensive artifacts, the Shield of Aggramar and the Hammer of Khaz'goroth, can greatly speed up the advancement of the battle line as long as they are used well.
The Eye of Aman'Thul is still kept by Suramar. It just so happens that the Grand Magister Elisande, who came to Pandaria with Sharlayan, is traveling around this familiar and unfamiliar continent to her.
It is unlikely that the Nightborne will personally participate in the battle between the Titan Guardians, but simply lending the Eye of Aman'Thul is not a big problem, as long as Sharlayan promises to return it to Suramar afterwards.
The relationship between Issalayan and the Highmountain Tauren, as long as he offers to temporarily borrow the Hammer of Khaz'goros, the chief of the Highmountain Tribe, Ulan Gaoling, should not refuse. After all, this is also to protect Ai.
Zelas.
The last Shield of Aggramar is more difficult to obtain. If the normal process is followed, Sarlayan will have to pass the long and smelly test of Utna who guards the treasure house of Aggramar.
If you really want to go through the process, it won't be difficult with Saraian's current strength and the information he has in hand.
But he didn't want to waste time on such formalistic things. He planned to find Odin to take out the Shield of Aggramar directly through the back door.
"correct."
Speaking of the Shield of Aggramar, Sarlayan suddenly remembered a certain patricide son who had been coveting this artifact.
"Just in time, we can take advantage of this trip to the Broken Islands to fulfill the promise we made to Queen Britta and completely kill her traitorous son named Skovald."