Chapter 38 The Beginning of the Collapse

Edlan was curious, the "historical" Anastria had so many auras, and his elite Magister legion was on the side, and at the same time, by the Well of the Sun, the magic power of the High Elves could be raised by more than one notch! This was like the situation of the Wyvern riding his face, how did he lose? Is it really because of his age?

Edlan had thought about this question for a long time, but now that it was combined with Sylvanas's description, he had a bold guess...... The Sun King's combat experience and fighting habits in his youth led him to abandon the use of magic to kill enemies, and instead fight Arthas in close quarters like a warrior......

Think about it, are there still few masters who die under the sword of Frostmourning?A group of veteran paladins went to melee combat and died, Sylvanas in "history" ran out of arrows and finished in melee combat, and then the Sun King estimated that he would still go to melee combat and finish (in fact, he really went to melee combat)...... Later, there was the duel between Illidan and Arthas, although Illidan faked his death, but it can be seen that Arthas's melee ability is too strong after obtaining the Frost Sorrow!

This is also one of the reasons why Adlan would rather be called a "coward" by Arthas, a guy who has taken refuge in death, and scolds that this is not a paladin's battle at all, but also uses long-range spells to constantly bombard.

After all, if you want to change your fate, you must first save your life, and there is nothing safer than the "kite flying" method of warfare.

"Look, Your Majesty, the evil Death Knight has appeared!" the voice of Archmage Belowell broke the silence.

All eyes were focused on the "image" displayed in the surveillance magic, where Arthas was riding on his mount, "leisurely" starting from the middle of his army to the front.

At this moment, Adlan's voice sounded like a threat, "Your Majesty, I suggest that you go to the southern wall now and use a spell to stop Arthas's further movements, otherwise I think something will happen soon that we don't want to see......"

Of course, in the face of the "intimidation" of an outsider and a foreigner, the high-level High Elves present were disdainful. Because judging from the "picture", the battle situation on the scene is very stable, and even after the addition of the Magister Legion, a large number of undead have been swept away, although they will soon be replenished to attack the city again, but this is indeed a real record. This also made the command of the Magister Legion, who was watching the battle from the rear and the front, very pleased.

What a bullshit army of the undead, but that's it...... Such a self-confidence and optimistic attitude are prevalent in the conversation of these people.

"Paladin Edlan, I recognize your strength, but on the scale of this war, individual prowess cannot play a decisive role. Just as the bravery you did with Sylvanas only wounded and slowed the advance of Arthas, the war is all about who has the more elite troops. Anastria's words all revealed his confidence in his Magister Legion, and he was very satisfied with their achievements, because they gave him enough face and the High Elves enough face, especially on the premise that Edlan killed and wounded the enemy chieftain, which was enough to prove that the High Elves were far superior to humans.

Although this seems to be a battle of will, but helplessly, many High Elves have to eat this set, their arrogance has always been to never allow themselves to be worse than the human achievements they have always looked down on, and the failure of the Ranger force can be understood because the Ranger is not the core of the High Elf, nor is it their most powerful means.

Only the Magister Legion can claim the prestige of the High Elves! Now, they are worthy of this honor and the halo on their heads!

In the tense state of the defense of Silvermoon City, the input of the Magus Legion instantly rewrote the battle situation, allowing everyone to see the hope of victory, even if the city was densely packed with undead monsters outside the city, even if it was still pouring towards Silvermoon City from the end of the horizon were undead monsters, it didn't matter, under the attack of the powerful Magister Legion, all threats would become invisible!

This is the persistence and pride of the High Elves.

So the Sun King said so much, and Edlan is not easy to pick up, what else can he say? His identity is doomed to his embarrassing position, just like now even if he has made meritorious contributions, he will be hidden in the snow, not to mention that he can "mouth escape", this world is not a different world of toilet paper, how can there be so many good "mouth escape" people.

In that case, then I will be a beautiful man quietly and watch you die.

Edlan was a little numb to his inability to change the "historical inertia" for various reasons, he felt that he had saved the lives of Van Cleeff's father and daughter, indirectly changed the predicament of the Green Dragon Legion, let Tirio out of the mountain in advance, and maintained Muradin's activity among the Copperbeard Dwarves. Saved Nathanos, let Kalia appear in the public eye in advance as the banner of Lordaeron's restoration, and it is likely that the Red Dragon Legion will discover the secret of the Black Dragon in advance, changed the situation of Whitemane, saved Sylvanas, and even got on the line with Naru in advance, and finally the fate of some other people who are not too famous in "history", it seems that it has done a good job now, right?

Where is the leap from quantitative change to qualitative change?

With enough "merits" to be "complacent", Adlane was helpless at the same time, but he was also unconcerned about changing the fate of the Sun King. The mentality of the traverser is so complex and ...... High up, because he knows the fate of these characters, he can change a lot of "history" trends, so there are always times when Edlan will feel that his mentality is a little broken, and he always thinks that he is a god who can change the fate of others......

It is always said that the high elves are arrogant, but in fact, this is the real arrogance, obviously powerless, but delusional that only God can do it.

So driven by this complex and contradictory mentality, Edlan doesn't force it now, he feels that he has done well enough, and if he can't talk about it, he won't talk about it, and there is nothing to talk about with a dying person.

Moreover, with the situation of the High Elf race, if they are not allowed to suffer a catastrophe, I am afraid that they will really not be willing to participate in the ranks of defending this world, and the acre of Quel'Salas alone is enough for them to "entertain themselves" to play the role of the strongest race among mortals in the world.

Edlan didn't speak, and he silently focused his gaze on the surveillance magic, paying attention to the situation on the battlefield.

Since Arthas slowly moved from the back of his army to the front, the undead's offensive has become even more frenzied, this kind of non-fatal impact, this way of building a "human ladder" directly with his body, has made the scalps of the High Elf defenders on the city walls feel numb, including the elite of the Magus legion.

The Magister Legion is very powerful, and they have proven themselves strong as soon as they appear, but this strength is based on their own mana reserves. Blizzards, Firestorms, Arcane Orbs, Supernovas, Ice Bombs, and other end-of-effect spells all cost a lot of mana and their mental power. Although the elites of the Magister Legion have excellent spell damage, their mana is consumed very quickly under the impact of life and death under the undead army!

Even if they rotated into battle, half of them quickly used awakening spells or high-priced magic crystals to replenish their demons, and it felt like they couldn't make ends meet.

So far, on the safe city walls, under the cover of others, the Magister Legion has eliminated a total of hundreds of thousands of undead, but those are more low-level undead such as skeletons, zombies, and ghouls, and the main force of the real undead army has not been injured.

Don't look at this data is very good, but this is exactly what Adelan wants to remind, now it's just an "appetizer", the real "main course" has not yet been served, for the undead, like that kind of lowest-level troops, how many or how many, the human corpse is gone, and you can also use animals, but now in order to make the enemy more frightened visually, Arthas or Naozu only chose to use humanoid corpses as cannon fodder.

Then, when Arthas approached, it was most likely a signal that the undead were about to launch a new onslaught.

Sure enough, while the low-level undead who were attacking the city continued, the wall-like array of abomination began to move forward, and at the same time, the slow-moving meat grinders finally moved to a suitable distance, and they began to exert their true threat at this time!

The meat grinder is different from the ordinary siege stone thrower, they are a unit that collects corpses and throws heavy objects, and the threat of ordinary small meat grinders is naturally small, but this time, five meat grinders that slowly drove from the horizon were several times larger than the young dragon wings, and when they appeared in the sight of the defenders, the collective throwing began!

From litters of ghouls to abominations, these giant meat grinders are thousands of meters away, and with the blessing of some kind of evil magic, they are simply the weapons that destroy all the forces defending the city!

This is simply not comparable.

This is also something that Adlane has never seen, at least in the "history" he knows, the Scourge has never used such a thing, far beyond the range of the defender's counterattack equipment, and can even throw such a large tonnage of abomination! And at this speed, 10 seconds can throw a round, whether it is an abomination or a dozen ghouls, this is only 10 seconds for the reload time!

What kind of black technology is this?

Ordinary meat grinders can only throw a few ghouls is the limit, or use some useless corpses to smash the city wall, but now the appearance of these five large meat grinders has changed the pattern of war! Even if Arthas didn't use any large-scale freezing with the help of Frost Sorrow and Naozu to sweep away the defensive forces on the city wall, just with this throwing efficiency, the defense of the city wall would be a mess!

Not to mention the fact that there are also low-level undead who have been attacking the city one after another, and a 3-4 meter high "wall" formed by the abomination that is getting closer and closer......

"Quick, don't let those monsters get close, shoot them all at me!" the commander of a section of the city wall shouted loudly, he even forgot that he was an archmage from a famous family, and he had to maintain grace and calmness at all times, which was the most basic quality of a nobleman, but now, like those low-class, commoner ranger commanders, he shouted loudly, his face was full of horror, and there was no trace of the temperament of a nobleman.

The surrounding mages didn't need to talk too much, because they all realized what those thrown things meant, so they interrupted the awakening spell that had replaced them to rest, which was a spell that could quickly restore the mana in their bodies, and then quickly took out a large piece of expensive magic crystal and used it, and then returned to the battle.

With the blessing of the Frozen Blood Spell, the mage shot the Ice Arrow almost instantly, and hit the Abomination with great accuracy, staining it with frost, and then his Ice Spear continued to shoot out one after another, and finally succeeded in freezing the Abomination into a lump of ice in the air!

This made him breathe a sigh of relief, because his companion, another mage's ice arrow, was very clever in matching with the end of his attack, directly shattering the large ice block!

The ice scattered and smashed against the city walls, inevitably causing some skin injuries, but this was much less threatening than the war machine-like abomination thrown at the walls!

"What a beautiful fit!"

"You're not bad!"

The two mages' "commercial blowing" was not over yet, and a new danger appeared in their eyes, this time a dozen ghouls and an abomination! Almost the same trajectory, almost the same speed, these undead monsters danced their teeth and claws in the air, and pus splattered everywhere, trying to teach the living on the city walls an unforgettable lesson!

And they were greeted by an unmistakable blizzard "laid down" by three mages!

The three mages' blizzard landed in front of their parabolic path with great precision, dealing a large number of blows to these undead monsters that were temporarily in the air, and then, the two "commercial blows" mages continued to use a single spell to kill the abomination first, completing the defense work achieved by the five mages together.

But before the five mages could catch their breath, it was not difficult to see from their solemn eyes that what they were about to face next was three abominations and the number of more than thirty ghouls thrown in their direction!

What should I do?

In terms of combat intensity and combat experience, this is far beyond what five mages can handle.

Although the High Elves are born to be mages, it doesn't mean that all of them are born to be battle-experienced battle mages, even the most elite Magus legions, and their last war was more than a decade ago when they helped humans repel the attacks of orcs and trolls, and that was a war between the living and the living.

In that kind of war, the mages are often in the back of the formation of elegant and fast spells, as much as possible to carry out a single blow to the enemy, and as long as the mages have the opportunity to unleash a wide range of lethal magic to cause a lot of damage to the enemy, the enemy will retreat purposefully, instead of the current onslaught, the undead do not count the loss of the onslaught, from the Magister Legion appeared on the battlefield, they almost have no moment to rest!

There are too many places where the walls of the entire Silvermoon City need to be supported! There are ten mages here, five are responsible for defense, and five are rotated, but just like that, when those giant meat grinders appeared, more and more monsters were thrown from the air, and after five skilled mages attacked together, and after reducing a certain threat, round after round of heavy pressure, they began to collapse.

For example, now, when three Abominations and more than thirty ghouls were thrown from five different directions, these five mages began to mess up, and their goals began to disperse, some people felt that it was better to deal with Abominations first, some people felt that it was better to slow down and create cold veins first, and some people thought about how to maximize their damage because the previous spell accumulation was enough to launch the Glacier Spikes, and some people felt that no matter how to control the enemy first, it would be convenient for them to act later, so he used Transfiguration......

What made them feel most helpless was that the other five mages here must continue to "bombard" the undead under the surging city wall, otherwise those low-level undead who can climb up by stepping on the bodies of their "companions" will easily rush to the top of the city, which is as dangerous as a dam bursting, so the five of them can't spare their hands to help their comrades solve the threat from the air!

Of course, the air threat here is not the gargoyle, the gargoyle can no longer hold its head up under the double blow of the ranger and the dragon eagle force, and gradually retreats to the top of the undead camp to wait for the opportunity. Now it's more of a ground attack, and now it's the undead army thrown by the five giant meat grinders that "dominate" the air!

Lacking the experience of fighting such a massive enemy, and in this passive situation, these arrogant Magus began to pay a terrible price for their arrogance...... After all, not every High Elf mage has participated in the Battle of the Ancients and faced the endless demons. The current Magister Legion is more of a "newcomer" from the founding of Quel'Thalas, so they are now the first victims of the change in the mode of warfare.

At a time when the mages' attention and mental power were almost depleted, Arthas apparently seized this perfect opportunity to start a new offensive, and then, the attrition of the Magus Legion began.

"Boom-"

It wasn't too outstanding, and it wasn't even as loud as the movement of a mage when he cast a firestorm, but the shock of the impact on the walls of the city had reached the depths of the defenders' hearts, and it seemed to them as if all the colors in the world had lost their brilliance, as if all the noises were not as powerful as this one, as if this was the prayer of the coming end......

A wide-bodied, fat-bodied abomination was lucky enough to dodge a strong damage spell shot in the air that a mage's attention began to drift away, and at the same time, due to the lack of effective cooperation and fire concentration of many people's ideas, this abomination became the first to smash down a section of the expensive white jade-like and carefully enchanted wall, and rolled on the wall several times before stopping.

And it caused not only the potholes and dents in the white jade-like passage, but also the casualties to the personnel that were the most unacceptable to the High Elves! Just from this direct landing and rolling, three guards of Silver Moon City and a ranger had already been killed, and as for the mages who were slightly back from being directly affected by the first round of damage, because of the vibration caused by this huge impact, and because of the damage caused by the flying stones, it would not be able to form any combat effectiveness for a while.

It was this sudden change that made the defenders on the walls of Silver Moon City instantly blinded!

The abomination staggered to its feet, and without saying a word, swept out with its massive machete, forcing back a small team of several Silvermoon City guards and rangers who were trying to encircle and drive it away, and one of the Silvermoon City guards who retreated more slowly was even cut in two by the powerful sword, along with the shield and body......

"Bang!" the abomination axe fell, leaving a deep mark on the city wall!

It was a ranger who rushed to the mage who was in a daze on the side and dodged the blow, but before the two of them could get up, the next round of airdrops fell, and they were surrounded by more than a dozen ghouls, and the two of them immediately used their own life-saving skills, ice barrier and deterrence!

The mage was able to temporarily secure himself from the dense monsters, while the ranger was dodging very hard, and the dozen or so ghouls were very "smart" to bypass the mage whose whole body was covered in solid ice, and all surrounded the ranger in biting and claw strikes!

This didn't last long, as reinforcements arrived from a defensive position, a rain of arrows and a magical "face-to-face" bombardment, killing these low-defending ghouls again.

The three consecutive thumps of "boom-boom-boom-" made everyone feel that the entire city wall was crumbling!

At this time, those who came to support were just relieved and ready to clean up this abomination...... It was such a coincidence that despair descended while people were hopeful. Three more abominations, falling on this already chaotic defensive position, as soon as they fell, they instantly crushed more than a dozen unlucky ghosts, even the mage who opened the ice barrier inevitably became a "meatloaf" under the throwing of that quality......