It seemed this Wise Man had been screwed over by the Lord of Order. After diligently guarding this place for hundreds of years, he'd been reduced to a ghost-like existence who still had to clock in. With Rorschach's arrival, he finally saw a glimmer of hope for escape.
Rorschach figured the Wise Man shouldn't have had to go through so much trouble just to bring him here. 'So, am I to understand that you no longer wish to coexist with the Shadow Land? Can't you just self-destruct?'
"Can you pull yourself up by your own hair?" the Wise Man explained. Before his death, he had erased the will of the Elf Elders from the Holy Statue and used an Elven device to become part of the Holy Land itself.
Thanks to the Lord of Order's modifications and the authority granted to the Wise Man, his current state—as Rorschach understood it—was nothing more than a program running inside the colossus, a highly intelligent Tower Spirit ultra.
