On the ruined walls of Andohar.

Arthas couldn't remember how long he had held out, and he couldn't remember how many times he had looked back and forth in the northwest and southeast directions, all he knew was that in front of him, in the land of his future kingdom, the people who were supposed to be his people, who had enjoyed the glory he had brought them, were now grim-looking, lifeless zombies, or some other undead monster.

This is provoking Arthas's bottom line of tolerance all the time, if it is not impossible, he wants to rush out now to find the mastermind behind the scenes and completely correct him!

At first, the zombies were one after the other, without a trace of fatigue or fear, and they rushed towards the already small and not thick city walls! At first, they crowded under the walls, becoming easy targets for the defenders to kill one by one with bows and arrows and muskets, but then, as if they suddenly had wisdom, they climbed up little by little with the bodies of their kind!

If they just gathered under the city wall and crowded around the city gate, it would not be terrible, Arthas didn't even need to order the soldiers how to act, just send more people to close to the city gate and not let those monsters squeeze through the city gate and rush in, but now, the combat power difference has reached a desperate 10,000 to 1 or even greater, and those monsters have learned to use the "human ladder" to climb the city wall!

This made the battle that seemed to last until Uther and his troops arrived sharply, and it was even as if the massive undead monsters were pouring into the city in the next second!

Faced with such a situation, there was no need for Arthas to personally command, and the commanders of the various sections on the city walls had already urged his soldiers to push down the sleepers and large stones that Adran had prepared to tear down the house even if he wanted to cause public anger.

"Knock, knock......"

"Bang-"

The heavy sleepers rolled down, killing and injuring dozens of zombies, but more importantly, it could effectively reduce the height of the zombies piled up into small hills layer by layer, so as to relieve the psychological pressure of the human soldiers on the city wall.

And when the few large rocks were pushed down, they caused a lot of damage, and any zombie that dared to stand in its way would be crushed into a puddle of mud!

This undoubtedly boosted the morale of the human soldiers, and the city walls were cheered!

But what is desperate is that there are only 8 large stones of this size, Arthas divided them evenly on the four walls, and now the northern wall where he is only pushed down by one piece, although a large area of "open space" has been cleared, but the enemy does not care at all, they still walk forward unhurriedly, and will not even look at the one who is not dead because he is crushed under the large stone. The same kind of people who keep waving and scratching with their inhuman arms, and the zombies that come up from behind will even keep stepping on them one by one, and finally kill the kind that seems to be still "struggling......

Soon, the city was filled with all kinds of zombies again, and this time, the skeleton archers in a little further away also began to exert their power, they gathered together, and the arrows they fired were very effective in suppressing the movements of these soldiers at the head of the city, making the human defenders, who already lacked long-range attack methods, very passive.

At this time, Arthas stepped forward, as the only remaining high-level professional in the city, the only person who could generate holy light energy to restrain these undead monsters, and even better, his identity was still His Royal Highness the Prince. At that moment, Arthas's tall and resolute posture standing on the city wall, the dazzling light that was favored by the holy light as if it were walking on the earth, were deeply engraved in the eyes of all people, and titles and praises such as savior, chosen one, and fearless king had been formed in the minds of those soldiers who had not received much education.

In the eyes of the soldiers, Arthas lived up to everyone's expectations, holding the "Healing of the Light" deed also written by His Majesty Alonthos Fao, and the increased light began to gather intensively on his heavy and very lethal Minethil power warhammer, which made Arthas more and more like a "man of light".

"Feel the wrath of the Light!"

With Arthas's command, the heavenly holy light appeared in the array of the group of skeleton archers, instantly evaporating dozens of monsters in its enveloping area, and the wave of qi that fell from the sky also swept several circles of skeleton soldiers around them to the ground. When the pillar of light disappeared, a hot ball of light that lingered around the holy energy appeared in place, and it was constantly throwing out small stars of holy light around it......

If Adran saw it here, his mouth would be wide enough to fit an ostrich egg, because this is the priest's skill to summon the Fountain of Light, which was originally only used to share the healing pressure of the priest's multiple targets, and was summoned to the nearby people to heal with holy light.

But now, Arthas has been inspired by Adelan's many cross-class "performances", and has directly used this healing skill to destroy the undead monsters without even converting the spell model and concept, and the effect is outstanding!

In fact, originally, the distinction between priests and paladins in the use of holy light is not very obvious, the two professions are not separated from each other in origin, and originally Arthas not only received strict martial arts training before becoming a paladin, but also as a priest training for members of the royal family for the sake of the holy light belief in the Minahir family.

Not only does this allow Arthas to harness the power of the Light in advance, but it also explains why the eldest princess, Kalia Minehir, the last bloodline of the Minethir royal family, is a powerful priest in the days of the return of the Legion.

The northern wall where Arthas was located, which had suffered the most undead attacks, and when his imposing Fountain of Light appeared on the battlefield, it almost cleared the skeletal archers, which greatly reduced the pressure on the defenders, and the soldiers on the city once again erupted in enthusiastic cheers and morale.

This made Arthas, whose face had become a little pale due to excessive extraction of holy energy, also relaxed. But this scene fell into the eyes of his guard captain Faric, as a veteran, Faric knew very well that not long after such a hard battle to defend the city, His Royal Highness the Prince had already experienced severe fatigue, which was a very bad sign.

Maybe outsiders can't see it, maybe the soldiers who are cheering and attacking the zombies who still want to build a "human ladder" under the city wall can't see it, but he, Farek, has been following His Royal Highness since he was a child, and he is 100% sure that His Royal Highness has consumed most of his strength with the kind of holy light spell that he has never seen just now!

This is not a consumption that can be recovered after a while, when he fought against the orcs before, even if His Royal Highness the Prince rushed to the front line, he didn't see his expression so solemn, and the consumption was so large, why? Isn't it just an undead who only rely on numbers and have no brains? Leaving it to the soldiers to slowly familiarize themselves and practice their hands can also consume their numbers, why did His Royal Highness the Prince make such a self-inflicting action?

Thinking of this, Faric couldn't help but think of the person who was silent, but always able to show up at a critical moment to give everyone confidence, the person who was always by His Royal Highness's side to reduce the risk for him as much as possible...... He looked to the northwest, Lord Edlan, how long will it be before you return?"

After all, Farick was only a junior officer, and he didn't get a good higher education, and he didn't learn a lot of things from an early age like Arthas, like the Chosen One, including various techniques and tactics passed down by Uther and others, what he should do as a leader, and so on.

For example, just now, Arthas didn't stand up, just commanded as usual, of course, as Faric thought, he could slowly familiarize those soldiers with the enemy's attack rhythm, and then be able to calm down again to meet the enemy. But sometimes, especially when the disparity between the enemy and our forces is so desperate that a leader who can immediately give them hope, give them hope for victory and survival, stand up and do something that inspires and inspires them, and that is very important.

It's true that you see things differently depending on the height you stand at.

But there are also pros and cons to doing this, just like Arthas has not yet breathed his breath, and the horn for help was blown on the southern city wall, which made Arthas have to arrange the defense of the northern city wall, and lead the mobile troops to rush to the south wall that has been visible to the naked eye The dozen zombies pouring into the city, the local defenders can't even recapture the city head position!

It should be said that it is the "strong" performance of Arthas that makes these soldiers begin to trust and worship at the same time, but also produce a kind of dependence psychology, as long as His Royal Highness the Prince is there, it will be fine, His Royal Highness the Prince will save us, His Royal Highness is a representative of the Holy Light to walk in the world and other more and more exaggerated expectations, will be planted in the hearts of the soldiers with Arthas's efforts again and again, so that he will also be weighed down more and more by that expectation.

It's not what a leader should do, but Arthas clearly hasn't understood it yet.

It can be said that this battle for the defense of the city has entered a white-hot battle from the very beginning! On one side is the defenders who have been absent from the battle formation for a long time, and on the other hand, the undead who are not afraid of death and fear, if it were not for the fact that the two warring sides are different in species, I am afraid that even if there is Alsace pressing the battle, some of the defenders in the city of Andohar will have the idea of wanting to surrender and save their lives.

But the other party is an undead spirit, and it is impossible to accept the surrender of the living, unless you are willing to become a walking dead like them......

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On the other side, Edlan looked solemn, he had packed up a lot of "rangers" on the way back, although he had very little holy energy now, but it would not be too much of a problem to clean up those "little monsters".

Finally, after half an hour of tossing, he came to a relatively safe place. He glanced back at the two bodies of the deceased on the other horse, and they were all right. Then he played with a longsword that glowed red, and he knew it was a fiery sword called Tib.

According to the game's premise, this is a world drop, which means that if you do anything to pick up items throughout the world of Azeroth, it is possible to pick up such a "laser sword" with a thick, visible magical flame wrapped in it.

This is a desperately rare drop rate in the game, but Adelan unexpectedly obtained it from the glittering storage ring on the ground after the unknown necromancer was overwhelmed by the Holy Energy and the rampaging magic in his body...... Along with it, there were a number of magical materials and coins that he couldn't read.

This storage ring is not big, and after stuffing in a Tithull Blazing Sword, it will be full if you throw in the magic materials just now, but this thing is quite beneficial, saving yourself bags and weight, this is a must-have for home travel to kill people and set fires. Of course, this thing is only popular among the mages of Dalaran for humans, and it is not possible for ordinary people to get this unless you are lucky, through some adventure, from some ruins, or by defeating some dangerous monsters.

However, in the "afterlife", they will appear with great fanfare is also due to the fact that when Quell Sellas was captured by Arthas, the surviving elves went south, and these storage rings or other storage backpacks and other things would flow out with these elven refugees, which was the first time that this very convenient magic item was circulated in the human world.

In the second round, after Gianna represented the entire human world in the defense of Mount Hyjal, these magical items in the hands of the Night Elves will also be used as a reward for the feat of defending the World Tree.

In the third round, after the Night Elves chose to join the Alliance, they generously provided many of these magical creations, and the real production method of this item, and in order to raise funds and support for the reconstruction of the destroyed Dalaran, those arrogant mages also spread this magical technology, and these two two-pronged efforts really met the needs of all levels of the human world for the "storage space" series of items.

This is the first loot that Edlan obtained in the real sense after he crossed, and the price paid was that his own holy energy was only 10% left after several large-scale consumption, and now it has recovered to more than 30% after a simple supply of water, and all the royal guards who accompanied him died in battle, and even the future Knights of the Black Blade Knights, the death knight of the Knights of the Black Blade, Sassarian, also died at this time.

I don't know how to describe Adelan's mood......

He could only focus on the loot in his hand again.

I don't know which enchanter's hand this sword is, but the magic flame attached to its surface only needs to be slashed by the willpower of the sword wielder, and it can be easily triggered, causing additional fire damage to the target, which is usually a scorching effect. Edlan found a scabbard and put the sword in the sheath, which he found didn't fit, but it was better than hanging bare on top of it to become a "glow stick", right?

On the way, Edlan tried the effects of new weapons several times with a few wandering zombies that didn't have long eyes, and found that the scorching of holy energy and the burning of flames were two effects, which did not conflict, which made him more efficient in killing zombies faster than before, mainly to save him some unnecessary holy energy output.

After all, in this place that is about to become a realm of the undead, in the face of countless undead natural disasters, Adelan's even more holy energy is not enough for him to squander, this is not to say that although he alone has overturned 3 or 400 ghouls, killed 2 abominations and a necromancer, it seems to be very powerful, but in fact, because he can't find a specific reason for his holy energy consumption to double, every time he uses skills, he consumes twice as much as others, so this is a very severe test for Adelan.

And getting this sword can more or less reduce Edlan's holy energy consumption during one-on-one martial arts attacks, which is somewhat comforting.

So he collected his mood and began to look at the undead army that surrounded the city of Andohar with his dwarf engineering binoculars, and then he realized that there was no way to pass through the barrier and enter the city of Andorhar, which looked like it was at the end of the horizon through the telescope.

There were three paths in front of Edlan, one was that he was now closer to the Felstone Farm to the north, and after passing through Darsong Farm to the north, he could enter the Hearthvale Boundary, where there were considerable reinforcements, and there was also an old friend of Tyran Fording and his Paladin's troops. However, the owners of places like Firestone Farm had already been tricked by Kel'thugad into infecting the humans of the area through the magical dust cooked in the plague cauldron. If Edlan had been mindless enough to get in, he might have been caught red-handed by Kel'thugad in that place, and it would have been a lot of fun, which was an opponent that Adelan was far from being able to match now.

Another option is to go to what was later known as the Fortress of the Dead, now a large outpost called the Outpost of Lordaeron, which is the choke point between the Tirisfal Glade and the West Keldaron region, so naturally there is a team of about 500 people stationed there, and Edlan can also send to the Abbey of the Light, his Barony of Anaheim, and even the royal city of Lordaeron through the messengers there!

This was also the place where he wanted to send a royal guard to go back to ask for help after this operation to find the dwarves, but now that everyone was dead, he was the only one, and he hesitated, because doing so would mean that he would be separated from Arthas, he himself was unwilling to leave this good friend, he wanted to do his best to reverse his fate, if he left at this time, he would be lured to Stratholme by the deceived Kel'thugad like the "plot", all the way to the point of no return.

The third option was to go straight south from here, crossing the name of the river that he still didn't know about flowing from Lake Dalongmere and then into the underground water system to Lake Lordammere, through which he could bypass the undead and turn into the direction of Icewind Hill, if he was lucky, he could meet Uther's reinforcements, and if he was unlucky, he would have to find a way to find a helper to open the way and then follow the previous path to Andohar into the city.

This choice is relatively safe, but it is very time-consuming, and it takes so much time that Edlan wants to give up this option completely, because with this time, he has almost moved the rescue troops from the Lordaeron outpost! And he is very sure that the plague has not appeared in the Tirisfal glade for the time being, not that the cursed sect cannot penetrate, but that they can't do it for the time being, and they don't want to do it, because this is the place where they left Arthas's soul to become a prisoner of Frost Sorrow, and come here to kill their father. Slaughtering the city, the "testing ground" where the last ray of humanity in his soul completely died out!

Therefore, although the Outpost of Lordaeron is very close to the Farms of Firestone, either the people on the farm have not yet been transformed into undead, or the Cult of the Damned will definitely draw an invisible line that all undead will never cross into the sight of the humans in the Tirisfal Glade, at least not yet.

"So, there's no choice. Edlan put away his binoculars, and he fired several red flares into the air in the direction of the city of Andorhar, although he didn't make an appointment with Arthas, but hopefully he would be prepared after seeing this warning.

Then he walked in the direction of the Lordaeron outpost without looking back, he didn't know how much of a "plot" change his choice would bring, but it was certain that even if he had many prophetic traversals, Edlan was only a mortal after all, and he was just a mortal who was about to be brought in this era of the undead, even if he was now a powerful nobleman, there were too few things he could change......

Later that day, after Edlan's tired figure appeared at the Outpost of Lordaeron and told him about the situation of Edlan and Andohar, the local defenders sent people around to ask for help, and at the same time wanted to use these 500 men to immediately launch a fierce attack on the area of Andorhar, which had at least 450,000 undead spirits, in order to rescue the trapped prince.

But Edlan said coldly: "You'd better not even think about it, because after this point passes, I'm afraid it will change from how to save people to how to make the soldiers not die again, because those necromancers will pull the dead up again and become one of those disgusting undead." ”

So after Adelan's good words, and after he was sent back through his scouts to report the truth, the guards here gave up this reckless and stupid idea of wanting to fill the hole with human lives.

This gave Edlan a brief break to wait for reinforcements to arrive, and after the Guards agreed to return the bodies of the two Royal Guards to the Royal Cemetery for burial, he was finally able to sleep peacefully......