Dalaran, an office in the tower of Violet Castle.

"Your Excellency, that spy still didn't survive in the end. ”

"I see, is there any other information besides that letter?"

"No more. ”

"Got it, bury the body of that secret agent. ”

"Yes. ”

Antonidas finished the debriefing he had received from his subordinates, and once again focused his attention on the letter, which was already somewhat soaked in blood and had some illegible handwriting, which clearly reminded Dalaran that the undead army was moving strangely in the direction of the Tirisfarh Glade and the Silver Pine Forest, and that at least a million undead had disappeared after entering the Silver Pine Forest, and the letter warned Dalaran that the target of the undead was likely to be the mage capital.

Things have come to this point, and it has to be said that the words of the self-proclaimed prophet who warned Antonidas have almost all been fulfilled, and now even the northern edge of the Silver Pine Forest has been reduced to a paradise for the dead. Although Dalaran had already received a warning from Muradin's Copperbeard after the fall of Lordaeron, when the Council of Six decided to intervene in the tragedy of Lordaeron caused by necromancy, the undead scourge that swept Lordaeron was divided into two routes, one east to north, and all the west to the Silver Pines Forest!

For this reason, Antonidas had to send some battle mages to evaluate the combat effectiveness of those undead armies and their commanders, but unfortunately, after the elite team composed of those battle mages swore to set off, there was no news back so far, just when he hesitated to send more people to continue the trial, it was not long ago that Kael'thas resigned as a member of the six-member council due to the destruction of Silvermoon City, which made Antonidas feel that the situation was a little out of control.

At about the same time, the Lordaeron army, still stubbornly resisting in the Silver Pine Forest, began to shrink their defensive line in an organized manner, and they moved out of the way, retreating to the vicinity of Fenris Island, and finally moving north, towards the royal city where they had fallen, and completely disappeared from Dalaran's sight.

So now, with the fall of Lordaeron, the destruction of Quel'Thalas, and the resolute seclusion of Gilneth with the Wall of Greymane, the army of millions of undead hidden in the Silverpine Forest could at any moment attack Dalaran without the shield of his allies. This feeling of isolation was a headache for all of Dalaran's higher-ups, even though they agreed that the undead were too numerous to break through the magical defenses that Dalaran was so proud of.

Of course, Antonidas was one of them, including the elite battle mage army that had not returned for a long time, and he only thought that they were entangled in something and could not contact Dalaran for the time being, because with the hint on the letter and the composition of the undead army that he had learned, there were very few that could pose a mortal threat to their elite battle mages.

If Edlan was here, he would definitely scoff at it, because the last force that believed in magical defense barriers, although it was not a grave, could be regarded as a ruined country. Besides, you Dalaran is not as profound as the magic of Silvermoon City, I really don't know where those people got their confidence. And without practice, there is no right to speak, and I don't know where Antonidas got his confidence, and from this information alone, he can assert that his battle mages are okay?

Of course, a certain time-traveler is not here, and there is no need for Antonidas to explain so much to him. The old, wise, powerful, but equally arrogant ** master chewed on the tough wording of the letter repeatedly, as if the other party had seen the destruction of Dalaran and was admonishing him.

It's like the "prophet" who warned him. Because Antonidas did not listen to the words of the "prophet", the plague broke out, and countless people became accomplices in death, and he closely followed the situation after the plague broke out and swept through the region of Andorhar. At the time, he had thought that it was only a local war that would not shake Lordaeron's roots, and he had not expected that the young prince who claimed to have gone to Northrend to find an artifact against the undead and the plague would kill his father after the "triumphant"!

Terenas Minehir was an old friend of Antonidas, and the mages were committed to not interfering in the internal affairs of other countries, so when this sensational thing happened, they also adhered to this view, and initially believed that although the prince "rebelled", it was only the internal affairs of other countries, and even if Dalaran joined the Lordaeron Alliance during the war, he would not and could not interfere.

So, even if Antonidas was saddened by the death of his old friend, there was no way for him to move the Council of Six to attack Lordaeron's undead by sending a force of battle mages. Whatever method Arthas used, it was still only Lordaeron's "internal affair" in the eyes of those mages.

It wasn't until the Undead Scourge quickly dismantled the defenses of the Tirisfal Glade at an incredible speed and gathered a force of undead so large that everyone was terrified that all the higher-ups, including Antonidas, regretted it.

At this time, Antonidas was not even in the mood to pay attention to the development of the new territory opened up by his beloved in distant Kalimdor.

In the same way, the common people, who had been engaged in business and many businesses serving mages, were also panicked by the increasingly nervous high-level of Dalaran and the rumors that were spreading among the people that were becoming more and more confusing. The "rule by inaction" that the mages insist on is fine in peacetime, but now it seems that some control is insufficient, and there is a lack of a large number of grassroots management personnel, which makes the originally orderly Dalaran City a little chaotic, which greatly involves the energy of many ** divisions, and they have to deal with more and more crimes and cult organizations.

After all, they are mages, and at least 6 of the 10 mages are synonymous with the magic version of squatting at home, and the remaining 3 are only

It's a non-academic battle mage, and the remaining one is probably a little interested in these powers, but it's just interested in it after all, and they're not specialized government administrators.

This has caused Dalaran to be all right when he is in peace in peacetime, the atmosphere of civil freedom and enlightened scholarship are very strong, and the trade here is also very developed, so that Dalaran has always been a dazzling new star among the countries of the Northlands, but now the scale of the war, the impact is far from being handled by those mages in charge.

So now, in the eyes of people in other countries, the mages who are only a thin line away from the madman are out of order, and to be precise, the chaos of the Second Orc War has reappeared. While the mages at the grassroots level were worried about the endless crimes and cults, there was endless debate at the top over whether or not to follow the blood-stained secret letter and move the incapable civilians and the academy mages and their apprentices to the Hillsbrad Hills for refuge.

This also greatly involved the energy of those mages who were supposed to be in charge of the overall situation.

In the end, after two days of discussion and countless meetings, it was Antonidas who passed the resolution strongly, because he felt that he regretted enough and did not want to let the situation develop to the point of no return because of his stubbornness, but he only approved the evacuation of civilians and apprentices, and all the academic mages had to stay.

I have to talk about the national composition of Dalaran here, the fixed population of Dalaran is about 110,000 people, of which the proportion of mages is only about 10,000, and there are only about 3,500 battle mages who can really fight, including those highly respected ** divisions. Of course, this figure does not include apprentices and those who are not even apprentices.

Although Antonidas and the other ** masters believed that Dalaran was capable of dealing with the army of millions of undead who were more and more obviously aimed at him, when the refuge order was issued, the hearts of all the mages could not help but waver...... Is it true that the magic they are so proud of can't even protect their own city?

Antonidas's order was given a little too late.

Dalaran is a free academic capital, a magical capital, and a trade capital, with a large floating population, about 300,000 people, but after the clouds of war approached, those civilians believed in the ability of the mage and the safety of Dalaran did not leave this place of right and wrong before the crisis broke out, which led to the fact that before Antonidas's order was issued, those grassroots mages were originally considered to be able to deal with the government affairs that could be handled by working overtime, but now they have been completely paralyzed after the order was issued.

The evacuation of nearly 400,000 people was not a result of the leader saying "we're retreating" and everyone answering "yes," and everyone began to pack up their baggage and get out, and there were enough things involved here to make a set of administrative teams in any country feel numb! Not to mention the chaotic political system and scale of Dalaran, it was an internal disaster caused by the coming war.

For example, even if everyone travels lightly, what should be the evacuation batches given the distance of the civilians? what vehicles should be used? what size units should be used to manage the shards? who should be the managers? how should the evacuation routes be arranged? how should the temporary shelters and final settlements along the route be managed and how much food, tents, and even guards should be provided? and what should be done if there are any accidents along the way? how many types of accidents need to be planned? and what about negotiations with the destination? If it involves transnational borders, it is necessary to at least confirm with the other party whether it can accept these people and whether there is enough land to accommodate these people......

All sorts of things were by no means the work of a regime like Dalaran, and the order was like a devastating "civil strife." However, fortunately, the homeland is difficult to leave is a thought that many people have, even those floating population, they have gradually regarded themselves as citizens of Dalaran in the past ten years of stability, they just lack an officially recognized identity.

Many of the first batch of people who responded to this call were mage apprentices, and this group of people would serve as role models, but when this group of 5,000 apprentices and more than 2,000 civilians with a strong sense of crisis left Dalaran under the leadership of two 50-person battle mages, the army of the undead hidden in the Silver Pines Forest began to show their hideous fangs......

Gargoyles flew in the sky, and the fast ghouls on the ground frantically burst in, slicing through the towns and villages on the outskirts of Dalaran! The tens of thousands of peasants and miners on the outskirts were slaughtered almost overnight, and when a few lucky ones fled into Dara, panic inevitably broke out......

It was only then that more and more civilians who had no combat power and loved life began to flee spontaneously, because all the rumors at the beginning were fulfilled, destroying the undead army of Lordaeron, bringing countless undead creatures with them, no matter how much they trusted these mages, but civilians will always take ensuring their own lives as the highest priority in the face of the upcoming war, this is the instinct of human beings to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, and no one will criticize them.

More and more people are fleeing, and the chaos caused by this has aggravated the already paralyzed government affairs to a greater extent, but it is also because of the spontaneous flight of those people, so there is no need for those grassroots mages to manage and be responsible for them. So as far as the results are concerned, the grassroots mages have invisibly reduced some of their workload because of the departure of these people, which can be regarded as a little mercy for them after working overtime to numbness......

After discovering the enemy's movements, through the long-range observation magic of the Violet Eye, Antonidas, who had detected the enemy's situation, noticed that there was something in the dense army of undead that soon attracted his attention, it was a magic fluctuation that he was very familiar with, it was Kelsel'Uzgad who had been expelled from Dalaran by the Council of Six!

All the ** divisions felt the tricky magic fluctuation beside the lich, the young man riding on the death horse, I am afraid that he turned to ashes Antonidas would recognize him as Alsace Minehir......

And all the mages who saw this scene would be frightened by the army of the undead who were "at the height of their military appearance". Because as far as ordinary people are concerned, there is no difference between the concepts of 100,000 and 1 million people, because no one has directly seen 100,000 people acting side by side, crowded on the already not spacious Silver Pine Forest Avenue, not to mention that after these 100,000 "people", the next 100,000 is followed by the next 100,000, and the next 100,000......

This number of troops were coming in their direction in a dense manner, even if it was ants, it was enough to make a normal person panic! The many academic mages who had previously privately laughed at Kael'thas for resigning as members of the six-member council in order to deal with the "mediocre" undead scourge were now unable to laugh, and after they had seen the scene through remote observation of the magic in a deep and intuitive way, they were not even in the mood to express their feelings, because they only had fear left in their hearts......

What frightened them even more was that the members of the elite battle mage team of more than ten people who were originally sent out to test the level of the undead army were now the remaining casters of the undead, and they followed the undead army with expressionless faces like a "dead man", if they were not friends who knew them well, they would even think that it was a member of the evil necromancer called the cursed sect.

So before the first army of the undead approached Dalaran, from the top of the Violet Castle Tower, the purple sphere that was completely condensed by the rich magic from the inside to the outside began to gradually brighten, and the magic condensed sphere like an eye was the "Violet Eye", which was used as the coat of arms of the first Arachi mages.

After the nature of the Violet Eye began to change, the magic nodes of the various mage towers in Dalaran City were connected, and huge energy began to gather and charge the Violet Eye, and after a while, a layer of lilac "balls" enveloped Dalaran in it.

Soon after, the first ghoul without any intelligence stepped into the lilac "sphere", and it quickly turned into a puddle of powder and dissipated with the wind, as if it had never appeared in this world, and the various undead who came up after it also turned into colorful powder.

This sudden and unexpected "beautiful scenery" relieved the mages who had been paying attention to the outside world......

......

"Ah, Dalaran, what a place to miss, what a wonderful magical protective barrier, and what a stupid mage leader. Kel'thugad floated beside Arthas, its ribs as white as jade opening and closing with a "click" sound, and its bone-like mouth didn't move, and the sound flowed from the bone.

Kel'thugad's lich form will paralyze any civilian who sees this "honor".

It was a new body constructed from the energy of the Well of the Sun and the demonic spells of Tikdios, and in short, it was a complete body of bones, and no one knew what kind of humanoid bones it was, but the height of the abomination and the protruding fangs and horns meant that it didn't look like the species Azeroth should have.

This white bone may only seem terrifying to ordinary people, but in the eyes of knowledgeable mages, they will find that there are countless inscriptions densely engraved on the white bones! These things alone are enough to make this white bone that looks loose and seems to fall apart at any moment is strong, stable, and full of lethality.

But what is really used to stabilize the lich's body is not only the inscriptions on the bones themselves, but also a chain made of special metal, which naturally has inscriptions engraved on the body, and they are suspended around the lich's body, and the purpose is to use this mysterious spell to stabilize and maintain the lich's form, and add a certain degree of protection to them.

In addition to this white body of bones, Kel'thugad changed the black robe of the previous necromancer, and changed into a purple robe with unknown magical energy, which seemed to be priceless at all, and was divided into eight petal-like "tails" below, each of which was inlaid with crimson gems, which was undoubtedly fixed to amplify his spells.

And as the core of the lich, the powerful mind body is imprisoned under this layer of protection. Also because Kel'thugad embraced death and cold, its mind body was filled with ice blue and cold, which made every word it "spoke" exude a chill, but now all around it, except for Arthas, were dead people, and they didn't mind it in the slightest.

"Those hundreds of dead zombies have completed their task, and it's the damn magic protection barrier" Arthas ignored Kel'thugad's self-talk, his brows furrowed, these magicians always like to engage in magic barriers in addition to being very dark in their hearts, and the result is not dead, wasting so much of his time in vain, but he can only face these dead things, which is really disappointing. "Do you have a way to get it? ”

"Frankly, you've stumped me, and even though I've been sublimated, it's not enough for me alone to decipher the fluctuations of this enchantment in a short period of time, so I suggest you show your strength, King of the Death Knights, now is your chance. ”

"......" Arthas spoke, he slowly walked forward, stood still, the zombies and ghouls around him began to fall like harvested wheat, and finally turned into a ball of blood and water to be absorbed, the ugly crimson and pitch black two colors climbed up the original ice blue frost sorrow sword body, this magic sword full of endless death breath was condensed to the highest point, was swung down by Arthas......