Chapter 10 Angry at the crown?
Uther's statement allowed the Valley of the Hearth to be "liberated" without bloodshed.
But again, in hindsight, it took a lot of effort for both Uther and Edlan to appease the fanatical Scarlet Crusaders.
"I'll give you the answers you want, and the answer is in Stratholme, in the Grand Knight Dasohan!" said Adlan, conclusively.
Ethanlien hadn't gone completely mad at this time, and Uther's reappearance in front of these fanatics of the Light in a new, even more powerful way, made them ecstatic beyond measure. Because they felt that if they could also become lightcasters, it would definitely be a great thing for Lordaeron!
Fortunately, Edlan poured cold water on them in time and told them, "Although the lightcaster represents the elite of the elite, the conditions for becoming a lightcaster are very harsh, and the chance of death is very high if the living person is alive, and the soul will be wiped out." Moreover, once you become a lightcaster, if there are no special circumstances, you can only obey the orders of the Naru, and you will be running around in the cause of fighting demons for the rest of your life, and you will have to go to all corners of the universe, and you will no longer have the opportunity to intervene and participate too much in the affairs of the mortal world, you must think clearly. ”
Edlan wasn't lying, and Uther kept emphasizing it. Slogans like "Defend Azeroth" and "Fight for Azeroth" are indeed very inspiring and can make people's blood boil, but in reality, when you really need to make a choice, you need to give up all your power, fame, fetters and even life in the world to be possible, pay attention to the possibility of getting such a better opportunity and stronger strength to defend and fight for xxx, who can answer this situation without hesitation and willingly?
At least Ethan Lion couldn't do it, even if he thought he had been cornered by the undead scourge and forced the country to ruin, he couldn't answer the question right away.
As a result, the top brass of the Scarlet Crusaders in Hearthvale, led by Ethanlion and Tyranfordin, have re-donned the robes of the Knights of the Silver Hand, only this time, the leader of the Knights is no longer Uther, and the Knights are now under the command of Edlan. The latter, however, secretly said that if it weren't for the re-entry of those fanatical followers of the Holy Light, he would have wanted the name of the Knights of the Silver Hand to become a historical term like this.
Because of this, Edlan changed his cavalry unit from the Knights of the Silver Hand to the Knights of Lordaeron and then to the Knights of the Holy Light, and like a subordinate force, he hung the Silver Hand under his name, as for the choice of the commander, Edlan is currently more interested in the Dawn Messenger of Erigor and Baron Max Veltyrosus.
These two are well-known in "history", the former is the leader of the Silver Dawn, and the latter is the hero who helped everyone through the difficult days when Old Ferding did not take over the Ashes Messenger to support the situation.
However, this is all for later, since Fireplace Valley is the private domain of the Fording family, and Edlan has no legal authority to install his own people in it, so after arranging the personnel who will stay at the outlying watchtower and finalizing the cooperation with Firehand Valley, a day later, officials who have arrived from Anaheim City to negotiate (co-manage) began to resume production in Firehand Valley.
The bloated cavalry force, which had grown to 10,000 men, joined up with Herrod's cavalry on standby in the avenue, and Erigor on the other side was successfully completed with the help of Terenus, but he would remain as the new field commander to contain the undead scourge in the ruins of Andorhar, so that the Firewall Valley and Icewind Hills could rest easy.
So after Adlan handed over the recruits and most of the troops that were not suitable for cavalry in Hearthvale to Erigor and reorganized his troops, he led the remaining 12,000 cavalry troops to pass through the ruins of Andohar like an indestructible drill under the shroud of bright holy light!
The undead who have been cowering in the ruins of Andohar are under the command of their unknown lich and the necromancer of the Cursed Sect.
This was almost never the case in the past, except once when the Ember Bringer himself led an army against Andorhar, but on that occasion the undead defenders took advantage of the location to hold the Ember Bringer back and inflict heavy damage on his army.
But this time, I don't know if it was those lich's sensitivity to the detection of holy light that they discovered Edlan's backhand, or if they had other plans, a certain traverser originally wanted to give these undead a ship-ground coordinated ground-washing strike, so that they could feel the change of the times, and at the same time, it was convenient for them to reduce the natural disasters in the Western Plague Land when they passed by, and at the same time greatly weakened the danger of their own back roads, but they didn't expect that the army under his command was directly "released".
If it weren't for the rush to expose Banazal's conspiracy, Edlan really wanted to destroy the ruins of Andohal through the carpet bombardment of the eco-ship, drive out the undead hiding here, and then use the repeated charges of the paladins who formed the legion and the washing of the spaceship, and then take care of most of the undead!
If you can replicate the "Holy Light Array" on Haigar Peak, you can directly add a bunch of new recruits to the Lightcaster Legion!
But now, time is not allowed, and Adelan doesn't want to open the hole cards too early, in order to beware of the possible danger that Medivan said, the ecological ship is continued to be arranged by Adelan to dive in the clouds, even if he is in danger and is cut off by the undead gushing out of the ruins of Andorhar, he can avoid the enemy's pursuit and interception at any time by airborne or emergency loading jump!
This tactic is the favorite airship tactic of a certain traverser on WAR3 before the crossing, timely protection of ground units that are dying by fire, or rapid deployment of combat troops, or sending powerful heroes to harass enemy bases, airships are really very useful. And now it is the ecological ship of Naru Technology, although it is not a complete combat ship, but the firepower it has can definitely easily kill those bone frames on the ground, and the old priest of Wei Lun is still there, and the power of the ecological ship is even stronger!
After quickly passing through the ruins of Andorhar without attrition, Adlan's forces arrived at the Sodoril Bridge, which had been the focus of contention between the two sides, but now strangely enough, not only the undead Scourge were nowhere to be found, but also the forces of the Scarlet Crusaders.
As he crossed the bridge, Edlan set his sights on the southern island of Kelldaron on Lake Daron Mill, a huge fortress that symbolized the rise and fall of the Barov family and now an important stronghold of the undead scourge. Therefore, whether it was the Ash Messenger at that time or the current Edlan, they could only temporarily ignore this easy-to-defend and difficult-to-attack place for various reasons, and watched the scum among the living enter this place that was already called the Psychic Academy to learn those evil and dirty necromancy......
"Daddy, this place...... I felt that it was full of distortions, as if there were countless dead souls, and it was as if there was a passage to the world of the dead......"
Avena's whisper brought Edlan back to his senses from his momentary wandering, and he replied helplessly: "It used to be a beautiful and peaceful manor, and the owner of the manor was one of the best nobles in the country. ”
“...... Is this the price of eternal life?"
With Anvina's cognition, she expressed her incomprehension of such a pursuit and existence.
"I'll explain it to you when I have time, Anvina. Now I just want to tell you one thing, what is pursued is your own personal business, whether it is to cater to the mainstream values and use your own strength to help the weak, whether it is to pursue maverick and pursue strength based on your own strength, but you must not impose your own preferences on others, let alone become unscrupulous like the Barov family, which has involved countless people in disasters. Something is wrong
It's a mistake, and that can't be covered up with the excuses that you have done nobility. ”
After listening to Adelan's general explanation, Anvina tilted her head to express her confusion, "Well, people's minds are really complicated......"
Edlan smiled, ended the short stop, and sped across the bridge with the troops.
Next, the army passed through the Mares Farm, the Crown Tower, Talonshire, and the Cowlin Junction, which were no different from the ruins......
Along the way, except for a few wandering stragglers, the army of the undead in the Eastern Plague Land seemed to have evaporated from the world! If it weren't for the devastated plague-infected land, if it weren't for the disgusting smell of corpses in the air, I'm afraid no one would believe that this was the hardest-hit area of the plague.
"It's strange, even though our guys have done a big cleaning before, it's too quiet here. Tyranfording rode alongside Edlan, and he was amazed at the sight of a large number of undead in the lands that had not yet been recovered by the Scarlet Crusaders.
Not only him, but even Ethan Lien, who was almost at home, felt this way.
"I know that's why we've slowed down like this...... This may play into the hands of the enemy, but we will not be devastated. Despite Edlan's strangeness, he continued to advance steadily, and the power in his hands was enough to turn around any battle in the Plaguelands now, so he couldn't scatter his troops, let alone rush forward after being reminded by Medivan!
Moreover, if it weren't for the fact that the current situation of the Dragon Legion was a bit painful, Edlan would have wanted to use his "merits" to directly use the favors (prestige of the brush) he had sold before to repay the benefits! For example, how good it would be to let the Dragon Legion come directly to wash the floor! Let Teregosa, who originally promised the Blue Dragon Legion to help solve the plague problem, take the lead, and then let Crassus call someone, so that he could use Seradan in the north of Hinterland, which is separated from the Eastern Plague Land by a mountain range. If this plan is feasible, let the dragons directly go north from Seradan through the Emerald Dream and the Gate of the Present World with the help of the Green Dragon Legion, and make a big news...... Isn't it a drizzle to climb over a mountain range with the flight ability of a dragon?
If that's the case, you don't have to go so hard and have to do it yourself, hide in the territory and make money with peace of mind, or go directly to Nomorigen to understand the basics of "farming", and talk to the master craftsman Gerbin about how far Azeroth's engineering can realize his ideas today......
At that moment, the scout in front fired a yellow flare into the sky, a warning that something was in danger. Seeing this, Adlane decisively ordered the whole army to stop advancing and immediately form a formation and prepare for battle.
At the same time, the scout's fast horse also returned, "Report! A large number of undead have been found in the direction of the Hand of Tyr, the number is preliminarily estimated to be more than 50,000! There seems to be an ambush in other directions. ”
As if to testify to the scout's words, several thick clouds of smoke rose in the direction of Tyr's Hand, this was by no means normal cooking smoke or someone bored burning corpses, the Scarlet Crusaders burned corpses with strict time control and regulations, this kind of black smoke rising from east to west could only mean one thing that Tyr's Hand was attacked, and the undead army was definitely not small, and the offensive was also very fierce.
"Edlan?" asked Tyran, an old friend who had been silent since hearing the information.
"Well, I'll listen...... "No matter what danger he might have, he can't be seen since he's been touched by himself, and most importantly, "Damn Banazal! If you dare to touch a single hair of Bridt, I'll make you like your master and you won't even be able to go back to the Twisted Void!"
Facing Edlan, who suddenly raised his head to the northwest sky and didn't know who was cursing, Tyranfording felt very strange, and at the same time felt that this precocious fellow also had this kind of hot side? This is much better than his indifferent attitude when he holds power, although it is not a good thing to be angry for a woman as a superior person, but this is also not the kind of politician who calculates all the gains and losses for the sake of profit, but more like a person......