Among the five-colored dragon clan, the red dragon is second only to the black dragon in size, and resembles the bronze dragon. While size is not an indication of absolute strength, this is true for most of the time – in a few cases, the larger the size of the same group, the stronger.

And this red dragon is the largest of the kind, and may even be one of the several consorts of the red dragon queen Alexstasa.

Not only the few people on the ground, but also the gargoyles in the air didn't expect the arrival of the red dragon, and they were about to launch a dive attack, so they didn't have time to react.

The red dragon's chest bulged high and spewed out a fiery breath of dragon breath. Hundreds of gargoyles couldn't dodge, and they were reduced to balls of fire and were thrown far away.

Then the red dragon came unabated, its wings fluttered, and it rushed straight into the remaining hundreds of gargoyles, like an eagle swooping into a flock of sparrows, no, in terms of size difference, it should be an eagle that broke into a swarm of bees, biting a few to death with one mouth, crushing a group with one claw, and fanning one by one, and several people on the ground who looked at it were dumbfounded.

But the good times didn't last long.

Although the gargoyle is small in size and weak in strength, it is better than agility, and after recovering from the initial blow, it actually shows a machine-like precision under the direct control of the Lich King, some are responsible for containing the attention of the red dragon, some are responsible for attacking from its relatively poorly defended abdomen, and some are specifically attacking its wings to reduce its ability to fly, and after a while, it crawls all over the red dragon's body, gnashing its teeth and claws, and constantly has large pieces of hot dragon blood splashed down with the peeling dragon scales, melting and dyeing the snow field.

The red dragon was extremely helpless, like an elephant crawled all over by ants, with no power but no way to exert it.

Just when Oryx thought that the red dragon was about to die, the latter's body erupted with azure magical light, and a series of geometric shapes of great regularity and beauty appeared out of thin air, followed by a cloud of arcane energy......

It looks like hundreds of mages are casting arcane blasts at the same time!

No, that's not all, the burst of arcane energy quickly turned into plastic magic, simulating flames and frost. The Red Dragon's sorcery is nothing short of that of the Blue Dragons, who wield the highest level of magical knowledge in Azeroth.

The torrent of magical energy rolled by, and the gargoyles on the red dragon's body swept away, some were burned to ashes by the flames, some were frozen into ice mounds, and some were simply crystallized by the magical energy, turning into crystal clear blue crystal statues.

This one magic alone actually killed hundreds of gargoyles. The remaining dozens of them, as if given some order, knew that they could not defeat the red dragon, and fled in the direction of the Icecrown Glacier without looking back.

Several people on the ground remained in shock.

Alexandros Mograini was shocked by the strength of the red dragon and why it wanted to help his group, but he did not let his guard down, and was ready to urge a few people to leave here - the all-round cooperation between the five-colored dragon clan and mortals was a matter for future generations. In this era, with the exception of the Night Elves, the remaining mortal races generally regard the Five-Colored Dragons as beasts, at most a little more intelligent than their ancestral dragon relatives.

Illusia Barov was shocked that the level of spell casting of this red dragon was so high, it simply refreshed her cognition. Even Antonidas, the most powerful human mage she knew...... No, even the High Elf Prince Kael'thas, who has been working on magic education in Dalaran for many years, can't do this.

And what surprised Oryx was ......

This red dragon is probably none other than the magical genius of the Red Dragon Clan, the youngest consort of the Red Dragon Queen, Clay Ostraz, who is a high-level elf and serves as a member of the Council of the Six Kenrito.

What other red dragon could have such a high level of spellcasting?

Just when everyone was stunned, the red dragon covered in bruises slowly landed, and the wings and membranes full of scars could not provide enough lift, and finally almost fell to the ground, making a loud bang, shaking the earth and raising a cloud of snow and mist.

But it didn't seem to be a big deal, just a skin wound, and it lay quietly in the distance, staring at Oryx with those eyes full of wisdom, as if to see him through.

"Let's go, let's get out of here." Alexandros Mograini glanced into the distance, where were the two paladins still nowhere to be found, I am afraid that they had already turned into scraps of flesh scattered throughout the battlefield, mixed with the corpses of gargoyles, and could not be found. He beckoned the two of them to leave, silently remembering the place.

Oryx took one last look at the red dragon and left. I wanted to help the exhausted Illusia walk, but in the end I simply carried it on my back...... This girl was so thin that she didn't sink much more than a bag of one hundred and ten pounds of wheat, and if it weren't for the thick enough clothes, she probably wouldn't have had her back.

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After returning to the camp, the mages who had received the call for help also returned. After learning what happened to the group, they were shocked.

But there was more to it than that, as news came that all the teams were to be evacuated immediately and return to the rear reconnaissance camp in the Howling Fjord. So Iluhia drank a few bottles of so-called "mana potions" that boosted her mental power and helped restore the sequelae of mana overdraft, cheered up, and set up a temporary portal with several teleporters for twenty minutes, and took everyone to Howling Fjord.

When I arrived here, I learned that the other two exploration teams had also been attacked to varying degrees. Half of Saidan Dasohan's expedition to the north of Icecrown was killed or wounded, and Gavinrad Doom's team was even worse, as he was the only one who survived and was seriously wounded, and had been sent back to the Eastern Continent for treatment.

The whole camp was filled with anger and confusion - the news had returned, and Dalaran had already come back to his senses, this must not be a simple "teleportation channel erection mission", they were not fools, and everyone could see that the Knights of the Silver Hand must be hiding something.

And the "firefighter" Luo Ning also rushed over and took over all the affairs of the Dalaran survey team. The Council of Six was shocked to learn of this and sent him in. Of course, nominally, he was only sent by Antonidas, the leader of Dalaran, after all, in this era, not to mention outsiders, even most of the mages inside Dalaran did not know about the existence of the Kenrito Council.

"What the hell are you hiding?"

In the makeshift field hospital tent, Ronin gritted his teeth and asked as he faced Da Sohan, Mograine, and Oryx, who were being examined by the priest for their injuries.

Before coming, after listening to the attack on the undead creatures stated by the Kenrito Council, he was shocked and angry, shocked that there were rare organized necromantic creatures in Azeroth, and the anger was not how many people died, but the Knights of the Silver Hand obviously came to investigate these necromantic creatures, but they hid such an important matter from Dalaran. It turned a reconnaissance operation against the undead into a reconnaissance teleportation anchor.

Otherwise, the corresponding needs would have been prepared from the beginning of the fight, and such heavy casualties would never have occurred.

Oryx glanced at Da Sohan, who was about to respond, and said, "Concealing a prophecy about the invasion of the undead. ”

This was discussed early in the morning. When this kind of thing happens, it is indeed a catastrophe. Oryx was responsible, but it was the head of the regiment who made the plan, Uther, the deputy commander, Dasohan, and the top of the Order who were responsible for the main responsibility - despising the enemy, not planning well, and ignoring the risks of the mission in order to buy time, which Oryx could not control.

Even so, it at least made Dalaran discover the existence of the "Scourge". There is no need to conceal prophecy in the face of negative effects. Even if they don't say it, Dalaran will pursue it on his own.

"Prophecy?" Ronin frowned.

"All the mages of Dalaran will not believe in the so-called prophecy, time is pressing, and we can only make this decision." Oryx whispered.

Indeed it is.

In the eyes of a mage who understands the world with an absolutely rational mind, the "prophecy" that often exists in the mouths of the Holy Light practitioners is nothing more than a superstition. Although there is also a special school of "prophecy" in Dalaran, which inherited the division of the High Elf magic school, it is fundamentally different from prophecy in the true sense.

"I see," Luo Ning rubbed the red hair on the top of his head irritably, and said helplessly, "The Holy Light has shown you a future fragment of these necromantic creatures, so you came here to verify it?" Still thinking of 'dragging us into the water' and helping you fend off some terrible future? Don't you say it's good? Even if we were to reveal signs of undead activity in Northrend, we would not turn a blind eye to it, and we would have rushed to investigate it as soon as possible! ”

It is worthy of Luo Ning, the future leader of Dalaran, his mind is still very transparent, and in one sentence, he directly guessed the purpose of the Knights.

The mages of Dalaran still studied the nature of the "prophecy". All Origin Forces will change the world according to their own vision, so it is only natural that they will resist the actions of the opposing Source Force that hinder the realization of this vision, and will guide their practitioners in the form of prophecy to break through the obstacles.

It's just that how the Origin Force guides is one thing, and how the practitioner interprets the prophecy is another. Sometimes, the revelation of the Source Power is just a collection of millions of future fragments, and the amount of information is so great that it is difficult to distinguish which one is correct.

Some people can indeed see the future, but at least with Dalaran's current knowledge, it is as difficult as teleporting an entire planet to the end of the universe to accurately find a future that will surely be realized from the millions of "revelations". The probability is too low, none of the predictions of the past and present can be realized, and the realization is also a small probability event of great luck.

"I'm sorry that this is a remiss on our part. In a hurry, we were a little inconsiderate. Saidan Dasohan took a deep breath and said in a deep voice.

"Your Excellency don't blame yourself, I'm not ...... Ah! Luo Ning didn't know what to say, but he complained a little, these paladins were too old-fashioned, and this matter could have been better solved.

At this moment, Oryx suddenly spoke:

"It's called the Scourge and its leader is the Lich King—an orc 'loyal' to the Burning Legion. It was he who dragged the orcs into the quagmire of enslavement, and because of the defeat in the second war, he was captured by the Burning Legion, and endured hundreds of millions of years of torture in a certain realm of the warped void where time flowed extremely fast, so he possessed majestic spiritual power. After receiving the Necromantic Consciousness of the Nasrezm Clan, who are proud of the material universe, they were put into a container by the Burning Legion and thrown into our world. His mission is to use his psychic power and necromantic knowledge to create an army of the undead before the army of the Burning Legion arrives, weaken our power, and clear the way for the demon army so that the Burning Army can completely destroy our world! ”

As soon as the words fell, everyone was stunned. The amount of information about this "prophecy" is much larger than the previous one, and no one in the Knights of the Silver Hand has ever heard of it. Not to say yes, is the Scourgeon just intending to launch an attack on the Eastern Continent? How is it still the vanguard of the Burning Legion invading this world again?

For Ronin, the reason for his shock was simple. Every word in this passage belongs to Dalaran's secrets, and many of them are secrets discovered during the investigation of Karazan and Medivan. Even he didn't know anything about it not so long ago.

Moreover, in the First and Second Wars, the orcs who invaded Azeroth were also driven by the Burning Legion, and not many people know about it. Most people don't even know what the Burning Legion is, and only treat the orc invasion as an isolated incident, let alone something as concrete.

There's also Nasrezm, the guardians of the Council of Tirisfa, who have encountered the Dreadlord many times over the millennia, a realm of the Twisted Void where time flows incredibly fast, and even Necromancy. The Distorted Void is not unstudied by Dalaran, and there are also very few studies that have shown that some of the realms in it may have a phenomenon that the flow of time is not consistent with the material universe. But this is already an extremely advanced cognition, even he has only heard of it, but has never understood it deeply.

How did this young paladin know?