3. Storm Crags Landing Battle (Part I)
The resurgence of Alsace has left the whole of Northrend in disarray. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
The Lich King's existence is not about how high his individual combat power is, but because of his will and overall command, in the absence of Arthas, the Viku of Howling Bay and the spiders of Eldraine Nirub, the undead of the Dragonbone Wilds, and the constructed colossus of ZΓΌdak all act alone, and neither of them is willing to obey the command of the other.
Arthas gave command to Kel'thugad before falling asleep, and the lich did a good job of making a mess of the Eastern Continent, but after Kelthugad also betrayed, the entire undead society became loose, which also led to the destruction of the north wind tundra.
In fact, if Arthas had woken up a week earlier, on the day Enqila was attacked, Eldraine Nirub's Spider Demon would have poured out, and if they wanted to capture Enqira, the coalition would have to be prepared for a protracted battle.
To put it simply, without Arthas's undead natural disaster, it is equivalent to a mentally handicapped AI-controlled Go, which can only be passively defended and cannot make effective attacks, and a slightly smarter guy can draw, but after Arthas wakes up, it becomes a game of opponents of the same level, and it is likely to fight until the last moment to determine the winner.
The difficulty has been directly increased several times!
The most direct manifestation of this is that other battlefields except the Borean tundra were hit hard at the same time.
The Viku people of Howling Wind Bay came out from two directions of their tomb, Alebyron and Utgard Castle, and attacked the orc army stationed in the Western Fortress and the Giant Plains by surprise, at the most critical time, if it were not for the Sarufar Overlord and Wojin with their respective personal guards, one left and one right to withstand the tide of giant charges, and the Demon Viku led by Gavincent rushed from Vagard into Utgard Castle and made a big fuss, I am afraid that the orc colonization of Howling Wind Bay would be declared bankrupt.
Even worse news is that the Amber Pine Camp and the Moon Creek Brigade in the Stormwind Kingdom have been attacked by undead trolls from Daxalon Fortress and werewolves from Blood Moon Island respectively, and the losses have been heavy.
Worst of all, there was a Night Elf emissary who was visiting the destroyed World Tree site of Vodasil, and was attacked by an undead troll.
Zudak's Dhakale trolls had entered a counterattack against the undead constructors with the help of the Zandalar trolls, but an army of Death Knights raided Zudak's troll city of Gudak, and the Dhakale trolls had to return to help, causing their previous counterattack to fall short.
Even the Borean Tundra, which has ended the war, has been attacked by the army of spider demons from Eldraine Nirub, and they even sneaked into the dreadnought fortress from underground.
However, the paladins led by Mograini and Fording were also provoked by an almost insane provocation, and Mograine and the Crypt Lord Abu Barak fought on the snowy field for nearly 30 minutes, and finally Anubarak escaped with serious injuries, but the paladins also suffered heavy casualties.
For a while, the Northern Expedition, which had already been on the right track, was suddenly overshadowed.
Only then did everyone realize where they were and what kind of opponents they were fighting!
However, it also accelerated the process of the Northern Expedition, and after realizing the value of Northrend, the rulers of the various powers changed their thinking, and realized that the war did not seem to be unprofitable, and even the most war-weary goblins began to actively start their activities.
The ore and the oil buried in the ground are meaningless to the dragon, so at the behest of Dick, the goblin merchant Warren, at a very fast speed, several major consortia in one day, sent messengers to join forces to eat all the mines of the entire vast dragon bone wilderness, they paid a huge amount of gold coins, but they will harvest a high-quality mineral deposit that can be mined for at least nearly a hundred years.
The dragons who had obtained the gold coins and the goblins who had completed the contract were satisfied, and before Dick left, the goblins' mercenaries had set out from Treasure Bay and Hot Sand Harbor, ready to defend the Princes of Trade with force.
Storm Cliff, this is the highest place in the whole of Azeroth, its average altitude is more than 5000 meters, it is no exaggeration to say that an ordinary person can not even breathe when he arrives here, which is why Dick can only bring his own forces to attack Ulduar, no matter how many ordinary soldiers come, it is useless, the environment here determines that it is not suitable for mortals to survive.
And the trickiest part of Storm Cliffs is that this place is surrounded by mountains, almost a valley surrounded by mountains, and there is almost no way to enter it except for flying mounts.
Of course, the question was nothing to Dick.
With the thunder that pierced the sky, Dick's figure appeared at a height of thousands of meters, surrounded by lightning that could appear at any time, and there were almost thin gray clouds under his feet, Northrend was already close to the North Pole of Azeroth, and in the highest mountains of this continent, the temperature could no longer be described as cold, and the weather here could hardly be described as sunny, it was very bad weather!
He looked ahead, his figure disappearing in the falling snowflakes, and when he reappeared, he was standing on the ground of the Stormy Cliffs.
Dick looked at his waist buried in the snow, the snow here was at least 1 meter thick, and from that alone, he could tell that no one had been here for a long time.
In fact, it is true, the most recent war that took place here should have been a battle to escape from here tens of thousands of years ago, and since then, this place has become a place of peace, but under this calm, there is a deeper evil, the evil that originated at the beginning of this world.
Dick could hardly have dared to be careless when confronted with it.
The paladin took out a stone engraved with Viku's unique runes from his bosom and threw it into the snow in front of him, and after a few seconds, a golden ring marked on the snow in front of him formed, and his body suddenly flashed, accompanied by the sound of a sharp blade piercing into steel, and the body of an iron dwarf agent who was hiding in the snow in the distance and probing his brain to observe Dick was impaled.
The paladin frowned and withdrew the Wind Chasing Sword without a trace of blood, looking at the corpse of the iron dwarf in front of him who was almost cut in half, they were almost exactly the same as the dwarves of the Iron Forge, the only difference was that their bodies were made of hard metal, and they were also engraved with various runes, which looked extremely mysterious.
This is the iron dwarf under the command of Loken, from his blood-red eyes, you can see that this creature has been occupied by chaos, and after this iron dwarf was killed, in less than 10 seconds, the ground began to tremble, Dick turned around, dozens of iron dwarves, were rushing in his direction.
"It's like stabbing a hornet's nest!"
Dick scolded to himself, and with a wave of his hand, a network of lightning smashed towards the iron dwarves, knocking them away and scattering them, Dick didn't even care about the results of the battle, he had only been here for less than 5 minutes, and he was found by these iron dwarves scattered on the storm cliffs, obviously, Lorcan was full of eyeliner everywhere, and it was pointless to hide.
Dick didn't intend to hide it.
With a golden light piercing the sky shining into the rune that Dick had just thrown into the ground, the gate of the firmament of Valagar opened again, this time projecting not a heroic spirit, and in the golden sword-like light, teams of tall Viku heroic spirits stepped out of the light.
As the teleportation device of Wallagar, the Gate of the Sky can project an army of 500 people at a time, and it takes a day to recharge in between, so these 500 people are all the support that Dick can get on the first day.
But it was enough, the paladin needed the rune mages of the Immortal Legion to build a permanent portal, and the Demon Ancient Legion and the Earth Spirit Legion gathered in the Broken Isles brought it over, and he only needed to hold on here for about half a day before waiting for his own army.
In this damn place, ordinary magicians are useless at all, and can only rely on Odin's support.
Walking behind the Heroic Spirit was the tall, wild armor-clad Heimdall, the moment the Heroic Leader stepped out of the aperture, the golden lightsaber disappeared into the black sky filled with thunder and lightning.
"Ah, Ulduar, Storm Crags, I haven't been back for tens of thousands of years!"
Heimdall moved his shoulders in the heavy snow, looked at the rune mages who were already busy preparing to build the portal, and then strode towards Dick, this guy's personality is very straightforward, he asked directly,
"What are you going to do? Attack Ulduar directly, or do you go steady?"
The paladin glanced at him and let Fox Heimdall ask a stupid question, Dick raised his hand and pointed to his head, "Of course, steady! The entire Stormcrag is full of Lorcan's fallen minions, and even if we can storm Ulduar? If we can't deal with Yugsaron in a very short time, we'll be in danger of being caught between two sides." β
Dick's voice softened, and he realized that Heimdall wasn't joking, but testing his commanding skills, so he paused, organized his words, and reached out to draw the general terrain of the Storm Crags in the air in front of him, explaining in detail,
"The Storm Crags are inhabited by the clans of Hodir and Torrim and Loken and Mimiron, their numbers are so large that it is almost impossible to bypass them and attack Ulduar, my plan is to open the line from Danie Fenray to the Storm Temple first, where we will encounter the clans of Torrim, but those Veku are creatures cursed by flesh, and their combat power is not worth mentioning in front of the Valhalla!"
Dick paused, drew a circle to the right of the first line, and focused on it, "I'm most worried about the Frost Giants of Danny Fenray, those Hodir's clans are extremely large and difficult to deal with, but taking back this place is equivalent to snatching back the Creator Engine! β
The paladin glanced at Heimdall, who was unresponsive, coughed lightly, and continued,
"The second point is the Hall of Lightning, where there is a Forge of Will, but to get there, we have to break through the Rock Hall and the Creator's Sanctuary, where Mimiron's clan is located, and there is a possibility that one or two Guardians will be blocked, but when the two largest barracks of Ulduar are recaptured, the main body of Ulduar will become a real cage, and at that time, we can advance and retreat, retreat and defend, and we are almost invincible!"
"Bang Bang!"
Heimdall nodded and applauded, "Yes, yes, if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I really wouldn't have imagined that you would know so much about the Storm Crags, but it's your secret, I don't care, you're right, if you want to rush into Ulduar to solve all the troubles, it's almost impossible, it's better than Tyr back then, and you can only steal to get back the platinum disc, which says it all." β
Heimdall turned his head to glance at the snowflakes rising on the ground in the distance, reached out and took off the Storm Sword behind his back, and nodded at Dick,
"Lord Odin handed over the command of the Heroic Legion to you, but there are only 1W6000 people, it's not that we are stingy, the war with Hela has been going on for tens of thousands of years, most of the Heroic Spirits have injuries, and they must go through enough rest to continue fighting, the Heroic Spirits are different from mortals, although they are stronger, but the injuries of the soul are difficult to heal, you have to understand us. β
The paladin also spotted the second wave of enemies coming back from afar, and he also drew his thunderous and lightning sword and smiled at Heimdall,
"I can understand, in fact, as long as we recapture the Creator Engine, we will have no shortage of ordinary soldiers, but the next 2 days will be difficult, I suspect that at least one Guardian may appear in the end, and I don't know if it will be Torrim or Loken?"
"Hey, hey!"
Heimdall's left hand was wiped on his waist, and a throwing axe fell into his hand, and he threw it out without looking, and the weapon roared through the heads of the tall steel viku people who jumped out hundreds of meters away, and cut off the heads of a dozen iron dwarves behind him.
"Lorken better not come, Lord Odin can't get out of Valagar, but his Gangnir has been looking for an opportunity to impale that traitor!"
With that, Heimdall raised the golden Storm Sword in his hand, and under the sky of surging black clouds and lightning, the anger that had turned into gold surged around his body, like the scene of Dick using the Holy Light, and the fierce Viku Heroic Spirit shouted, even overpowering the thunder that glittered in the sky.
"Warriors of Odin, charge with me!"