After Melganis sent Mantein and Dorman out of the room, he returned to Antonidas and asked with a puzzled face, "Teacher, do you really want to do it yourself?" ”

The titles of Leader of Dalaran, Speaker of the Council of Kenrito, and Legendary Archmage each represent the status and status of the apex of this world, but their master, Antonidas, looks no different from an ordinary white-bearded grandfather, with a kind smile on his face, looking at this disciple with whom he is most satisfied.

"Do you think there's a better way than for me to do it myself?"

"Of course I didn't mean that. I just think that just for the sake of a lich who has just entered the legend, I am afraid that the Holy See of Light will say that we have fallen and are no longer qualified to profess to be the guardians of humanity. ”

Antonidas shook his head indifferently: "Melganis, you are mistaken, no one is qualified to call themselves the guardians of humanity, we are just taking the place of ordinary people to carefully guard the powerful power of magic. If they prove that they are capable of wielding this power, Dalaran is happy to contribute. But until now, even the Griffon Dynasty, considered the most powerful empire in human history, has been filled with all sorts of desires and impulses, which eventually led to the disintegration of this vast empire and the way it is today. That's why the Council of Kenrito decided to take back control of the mages, and they shouldn't be the tools of those kingdoms in their struggle for power. ”

"That's why you want to use this opportunity to deter disgruntled kingdoms, right?" Melganis felt that he was finally able to understand the teacher's painstaking efforts.

"That's just one of the purposes. Melganis, don't you think that this war has begun to deviate from the track we have set for it? The situation in the province of Barria, which had been calm, turned so much in turn overnight that it eventually led to the loss of the Krk fortress, and even affected the progress of the Battle of Radre, forcing Mantein to personally invite me to intervene. Who of us had predicted this? Even I thought that the battle would end with victory after a hard-fought battle between the combined forces of Virgil and Minus. But now? Is it all a coincidence? Or is it a conspiracy? Antonidas's face was full of worry, "I have to go there to check it out myself, and at the same time, I personally take action, at least I can make the possible mastermind behind it more or less." Moreover, I always felt that the matter of the Book of your had a deep connection with all of this. ”

Melganis thought of the whole process from leaving Dalaran to fleeing back in embarrassment, and he had always thought that he was too unlucky, and that he had encountered a shadow wolf in Shadowfang Castle, which caused him to miss out on the Book of your; In Cordila, Elvira forcibly snatched the Book of your from his hands, forcing him to use secret methods to escape. Every time you get a little bit of luck, the result will be completely different.

But if Antonidas' worries were not unfounded, it meant that his two encounters with the Book of your had been specially arranged. Thinking about it, Melganis felt that all this was a little too scary.

Missing out on the Book of your in Shadowfang Castle eventually led Dalaran to turn his attention to Maltan and miss other possibilities. In the case of Kodila, it led to a conflict between Dalaran and Elvila, the Shadow Witch, and even developed to the point that Kodila explicitly forbade all Dalaran mages from entering the city.

"Now it seems that if there is such a mastermind, then he has managed to buy himself a lot of time. Use a book of your to play us around. Antonidas sighed and said. In fact, Khadgar's direction of investigation is the right one in Antonidas's opinion, and if the evil forces in the Tirisfal Woodland can dig out their heels, maybe the mastermind behind it will be exposed to them sooner. But what he didn't expect was that in order to suppress the opposition of those nobles and prevent the expeditionary force from ending the expedition hastily due to internal divisions, Khadgar had to detonate the bomb in advance, and the final result did succeed in suppressing the noisy nobles, but also cut off the clues to continue the investigation.

Antonidas believes that it is precisely because of the loss of these clues that those evil forces can continue to lurk, and finally at this critical juncture, he dealt a fatal blow to the Kingdom of Virgil, almost making the Battle of Radre useless.

"Who has the ability to do this? Could it be those old monsters of the Council of the Dead? ”

"I don't know, so I'm going to see for myself! Being able to force Dalaran to this point, no matter who the other party is, deserves our greatest attention. ”

At the same time that Antonidas was leaving for the coalition camp, Maltan was also excited in the castle of Radre. He didn't know that Bunker and Ingman were Kel'thugad's pawns by his side, because these two subordinates were personally promoted by him, and without his help, Bunker and Ingman would still be stuck in the strength of the Seventh Order.

In front of Martan was a gargoyle sent by Buncraik to deliver the message, bringing uplifting news to the spirits of the undead trapped in the castle.

"Good! That's great! Bunker and Ingman are really capable! Now, I'd like to see if the Virgils are going to continue this war or to save their own people! Bunker said in the message that he personally led these low-level undead to rescue his master, while Ingman was continuing to transform the undead in Barria Province in order to provide more help for his master's revenge, "Compared to the two of them, Drake and Shears are just rubbish, and they are still blocked from the border, are they playing hide and seek with those humans?" I swear I'll punish those two fools when I get those humans back! ”

Steyr and Enrique stood in the hall, looking at each other. They felt that the angry master might have forgotten that Drake was just a ghoul, and Shills was a brainless zombie, and that the two of them had not been killed by those humans until now, and they could already be said to have performed very well. Martan's master really shouldn't have expected more from them.

But they didn't dare to say this, since the last time they were attacked by two legendary-level powerhouses, their master had become more and more timid, and they didn't even want to leave the room. This has greatly increased the pressure on the two of them, and under the onslaught of the coalition forces at all costs, many wounds have been added to their bodies. In this way, Steyr and Enrique had to live and die together with the city wall.

Fortunately, Buncraik arrived with reinforcements and defused the crisis. However, the situation is not yet completely reassured.

"The hosts. The reinforcements brought by Bunker are almost all cannon fodder, although the number is very considerable, but it is difficult to cause serious damage to those humans, from the results of the previous attack on the southern camp, it can be seen that there are nearly 200,000 undead who have been put into the attack, but only less than 10,000 human soldiers are left, which shows how bad the combat effectiveness of those undead is. "Steyr is the most capable of military command among Maltan's men," and there are two legendary forces outside the castle, Bunker is alone and powerless to fight, and if we don't react quickly, I'm afraid it won't be long before those reinforcements are wiped out by the human army that has come to their senses. ”

Steyr's reminder finally brought Maltan back to his senses, and he immediately realized that this reinforcement was only superficial and could not be relied on at all, but that Ingelman, who was continuing to search for troops in Barria, was putting more pressure on the humans outside. As long as Ingman was allowed to play freely in the province of Barria, in less than a week, 500,000 reinforcements would become 1 million, 2 million, or even 5 million.

Quantitative change will eventually lead to qualitative change, a legendary-level combat power may be able to destroy 100,000 undead cannon fodder without blushing or panting, but in the face of millions of undead, his end is only death, and he is exhausted to death!

So, whether it's to neutralize the reinforcements or to get back to the province of Barria as soon as possible, those humans will attack Bunkerek's army of half a million. If he doesn't make a decision, then this support army will be wiped out.

"What do you think we should do? Do you want to leave the castle and join Buncraike? Or was he ordered to bring these undead into the castle and rejoin the defensive forces on the city walls? ”

The former was dangerous, and if the humans seized the opportunity to leave the castle and launched a desperate attack, losing the protection of the walls, Steyr would not be confident that he would be able to join Buncraik unharmed. And the latter is not practical, Ladre Castle can't be stationed so many undead, even if it is stuffed in like a can, at most there can only be about 300,000 in number, and the rest will have to be stationed outside the city, and when the war resumes, these undead may not even be cannon fodder, it can be said that they are completely wasted.

"Left or right, do you want Buncraik to take the initiative to attack those humans?"

Steyr thought it was a good idea, and once the army of the undead had caught the attention of the humans, he could take some of the elite of the castle with him to flank them, and maybe cause the human army to suffer heavy losses. But there is one problem that must be solved in order to do so, and that is those two Legendary Forces.

Steyr felt that although his master couldn't defeat those two legendary-level existences, it was still no problem to drag them down with a large number of props on his body and some treasures left by Griman. But alas, since his injury, Maltan has been completely reluctant to fight those two legends. The miser always thought that the humans were still lurking in ambush, and wanted to give him a fatal blow while he fought.

In the end, Steyr still failed to convince Maltan to take the initiative, because half a day of the attack on the southern camp was wasted. Before Maltan could decide how to use the massive, but under-strengthened, reinforcements, the undead who had gone out to scout reported that the humans had begun to make some moves.

Steyr and Enrique immediately walked up to the wall, and from a distance, they saw that the humans had left the camp and were drawing something on the specially leveled plain in front of the camp.

It's a pity that Martan didn't dare to go up the city wall and couldn't see what these patterns were. Steyr and Enrique didn't know much about magic, so they didn't know that the coalition was preparing for a large-scale war magic.

When Antonidas appeared in the camp, Laclaus knew that Manteine had finally chosen to give in to Dalaran. This means that the Kingdom of Virgil is likely to withdraw from the Twelve-Power Alliance and become a puppet of Dalaran. However, Laclaus did not resent Mantein, and he could fully understand Mantein's distress in doing so.

What really made Mantein succumb was not the 500,000 undead, but the identity of those undead. That means the lives of a whole half million civilians! And what's even more terrifying is that he has no idea how many civilians will become like this for every hour he holds on.

The population of the Kingdom of Virgil is not abundant, the whole country together is less than 20 million, only more than the Duchy of Girardin, the Duchy of Nasol and the Dominion of Karasimis, the loss of a full 500,000 people in just a few days, has scared Mantein half to death, if this number is increased several times, then the Virgil family will definitely be ousted by those nobles.

Laclaus reminded him not to forget the importance of the Twelve-Nation Alliance, but Manteine said that as long as the Virgil Kingdom was okay, he would not betray, but the problem was that if this continued, the Virgil Kingdom would have to change its name, and then he would not even have to be a king, so where would he care about the Twelve-Nation Alliance.

No one wants their interests to be lost, especially when he has enjoyed the beauty of power, and it is more painful to let him give it up than to kill him.

"Father, are we just looking at it?" Laclaus's son asked, this son inherited his body shape, but not his brain, and if the other children were not yet adults, Laclaus would never have put effort into cultivating him. He thinks that his heir will be a worthy warrior, but he will definitely not be a worthy king!

"That's right, that's all we can look at now!" Laclaus's tone was full of helplessness, he didn't even want to look at Manteine who was standing beside Antonidas, he was afraid that he would not be able to help but pull out his axe and hack this traitor to death. "Remember, son, never trust a Virgil promise! Even the barbarians make me feel closer to these Virgils! ”

But the evil words of the King of Minus could not stop the lines of magic that formed the magic circle from slowly lighting up.