It had been two months since Kael'thas had taken the elves up the mountain.

During this period, the battle in the interior of Danmoro continued uninterruptedly, and the alliance stubbornly resisted the attacks launched by the tribe.

Until this day

"Those monsters haven't attacked in two days."

Aurelia and the elves cautiously looked across the snowfield, behind the simple defense of the wood pile, where a large group of orcs rested freely.

It's daytime, the view is good, and they shouldn't attack.

However, two days of silence gave Aurelia a new wreathing, and she kept an eye on the Alliance's intelligence to make sure that she would not be attacked.

"Hope is just an accident, not what they're planning."

She said to her subordinates.

But, unfortunately, very quickly, a piece of news reached her.

On the opposite side, half an hour away from this battlefield, the thieves of the Alliance spotted a massive group of tribal soldiers.

Among the tens of thousands of soldiers, there were some classes that they had never seen before.

"A monster with two heads?"

"And the miserable white knight on a skeletal horse?"

Aurelia instinctively touched her heart just by hearing these descriptions.

She felt that the other side was not simple.

"All hands ready, build the strongest defense!!"

Aurelia immediately gave orders to the elves, and then ran into the human formation and consulted with the commanders.

Like her, all the commanders were sensitively aware of the danger and began to set up their defenses in a hurry and cautious.

However, just as Aurelia and the others were worriedly preparing for battle, an urgent letter of order was delivered from the base camp.

On this letter of order, there is only a short sentence: Retreat immediately!

"What's going on?"

Aurelia was shocked, and without saying a word, she directed the elves and humans to retreat together.

"Our entire line of defense in Danmoro was broken through ten minutes ago."

A human commander, riding on horseback, nervously replied to her:

"Now, if we don't retreat, we will be surrounded."

Aurelia immediately understood the seriousness of the matter, in fact, in Danmoro, the Alliance's defense line crossed almost the entire continent.

But because of the topography, Aurelia is located in a flat central point, which is the most critical line of defense, and the tribe and alliance have deployed tens of thousands of soldiers here.

In addition to them, there are also countless small troops engaged in offensive and defensive battles in some surrounding mountains and forests, and all of them together have more than 100,000 soldiers in Dan Morro's alliance.

So many soldiers to form a defense? It was all broken through?

[Those new troops are strong! 】

Aurelia came to this conclusion in an instant, and without the absolute overwhelming power, she would not have been able to get the order to retreat directly.

But when it comes to how strong they are, even Lothar hasn't been able to figure it out.

"Hurry up and clean up!"

"There's a tent over there!"

In the main camp of the Alliance, Lothar and Uther rode their horses, and watched with solemn faces as the soldiers around them hurriedly packed up their things and retreated.

"Can't you really resist?"

Tulayan asked behind them, a little hesitantly.

"I can't."

Lothar said coldly:

"We can only retreat."

Uther also nodded in agreement:

"We first found those guys last night, and before we could make a countermeasure, it was just a morning when the entire continent's defense line was torn apart by them."

"It's not a force we can defend against right now."

He glanced back at Tulayan:

"Lothar's decision is correct, and we can preserve our strength by retreating to reduce casualties before we are dealt a complete blow."

"We can't fight until we find the weaknesses of those monsters."

The newly discovered troops of the Horde really dealt a huge blow to the Alliance this time.

Aside from the Black Dragon, Lothar didn't expect the tribe to have such great power. Those two-headed ogres are extremely powerful, they are strong enough to directly go into battle and hedge against the warriors, but these two-headed ogres turned out to be warlocks.

A ranged class with a melee body and a monster.

Even more disturbing are the death knights on skeletal horses.

Before this, no one had heard of such lifeless monsters, they possessed powerful shadow powers, and they were not inferior to human paladins, however, this was not terrifying. The horror is that the other party will hardly die

They were already dead, and no matter what kind of attack they encountered, even if it pierced their hearts, the Death Knights would not fall.

They don't hurt and they don't die.

From the images transmitted by some of the mages of Dalaran, the death knights who tirelessly slaughtered humanity had a lifeless glow in their eyes, which made Lothar and Uther feel cold all over.

The biggest reason they decided to retreat was because of these Death Knights.

How to fight against the existence of this taboo?

"Thankfully, though, there aren't many of them."

Lothar recalls the number of Death Knights:

"If there are large numbers, our warrior losses will be great."

Although the line was breached, most of the human soldiers did not die, leaving a small number of men to resist the advance of the tribe, while the rest were retreating.

The number of Death Knights is very small, and there are only two or three in a team of 1,000 people, which makes the pressure on the Alliance's side much less.

"From the outside, those immortal knights should be made of the corpses of battle-hardened elites, and the bodies should be intact, and there are almost no possible surnames for mass production."

Uther frowned, a palpable expression of disgust and disdain on her face:

"Find a strategy against them, and the threat will not be great."

"However, I had always thought that the tribe was just a raging and chaotic race, and now I had to change my mind."

He looked at Lothar and said:

"Playing with life is a taboo in all magic, and no patron of the Light can forgive such behavior."

"Moreover, I think, seeing these monsters, Dalaran's ** divisions will definitely not be able to sit still."

"That's not a bad thing for us."

Before this, although Dalaran also fully supported the alliance, he was still conservative about the provision of strong divisions.

Such monsters have appeared in the tribe, and it is time for those mages to act.

Lothar also understood this, and felt a little relieved.

"Tulayan, have you sent someone to inform Her Royal Highness the little princess?"

He continued to ask Tulayan if anything could happen to Kael'thas and Kalia.

"Well, according to your orders, I asked them to go directly to the mouth of the tunnel and retreat with us."

Tulayan replied:

"They should have heard by now."

Lothar nodded, calculating the time in her heart:

"That's fine, wait a little longer, and when the elves come back, all retreat."

- Kael'thas and the others had been in the mountains for two months, and they had long wanted to go down.

But when they received the order to go down the mountain, no one could be happy.

Anyone can see that the alliance is already in crisis.

"Brother, are we going to help the troops next to us evacuate?"

On the way down the mountain, Kalia hesitated to ask Kael'thas a question.

If they go straight down the mountain, they will encounter a unit responsible for the defense of the Alliance's flanks, and Kalia wants to join them up for a day to evacuate.

"Don't go."

Kael'thas certainly won't allow her to make this move:

"If they have already retreated, we will be caught in the net if we go down."

"Don't worry too much, we've received orders to retreat, and they're sure they've left a long time ago."

He looked at Kalia's somewhat worried brow and comforted:

"Moreover, the news from Lord Lothar informs us that he has sent almost all of the paladins around to help with the retreat."

"His message to us is obvious, that we don't want to do anything superfluous."

Kalia was relieved by Kael'tham's analysis.

"I've been waiting for two months."

Onexia said unhappily on the side:

"Isn't it too much to retreat directly?"

From the time she joined the elves, almost everything she saw was passive, and Onexia was very displeased.

As a princess of the black dragon, she has always been a strong party and rarely falls into passivity.

"Sometimes, retreat is the best option."

Kael'thas had already guessed that the Horde was stepping up its offensive, and he was surprised but convinced by the Alliance's decision.

"In the face of a strong enemy, retreating can give you the opportunity to counterattack, and more importantly"

He looked at the people around him and smiled:

"More people can be protected."

This is the most important thing, the essence of war is to protect people, on this continent, the dwarves have been blocked underground, then, the soldiers have become the most important people.

There are not many humans in the wetlands, and the Lothar side should have chosen to retreat because they were sure to block the tribe in the wetlands.

Anyway, Kael'thas prefers to think like this.

"So, brother, can I ask you a question?"

Listening to Kael'thas words, Kalia had an impulse in her mind for some reason.

She raised her head and looked at Kael'thas with strange eyes:

"Can you give me a truthful answer?"

"What's the problem?"

Kael'thas nodded, ready to answer.

“”

Kalia took a deep breath:

"If your favorite person and people need protection at the same time, which one would you protect first?"

That's the right question.

But it's also a wrong question.

Because, this question should not be asked at this time.

Kael'thas didn't really like a person, and now his answer doesn't make any sense at all. What's more, now, this problem has the attention of many elves.

In this case, Kael'thas had only one answer:

"I'll choose the people Kalia, you're such a fool"

His answer was recognized by all the elves, however, it accidentally created the legend of another king.

It wasn't until a long, long time later, when Kalia had grown up, that she understood what the second half of the sentence meant

She's a fool indeed

Because she is a fool, she almost lost her way in the process of reaching happiness.

(To be continued)