Chapter 0150: Illidan and the Flame Alliance (6)
Although there was a lot of reluctance, but in the end, the green-headed monster ...... Oh no, it's Grand Druid Malfurion, who, still reluctantly, led their group of Night Elf troops back to their secret landing site on the west coast of the Silver Pines Forest under the watchful eye of a large group of Fire Alliance air forces, and after removing the camp, they all boarded the ship and returned to the continent of Kalimdor to their west.
Things have gotten to the point where they can't go without thinking about it.
Because, according to the news revealed by the humans of the Flame Alliance in a few words, after the seemingly powerful Flame Alliance completely captured the ground area of the Lordaeron King City, the alliance air forces that had nothing to do, except for a few who were still patrolling around Lordaeron, most of the rest were ordered by the uneasy generalissimo to go directly south, fly over the huge Lordanmere Lake, and support the group of alliance officials and three kings who went south to the ruins of Lordaeron.
So, when Malfurion and Tyrande hesitated to force their move, they saw a large group of Allied air forces to the north, at least in the thousands, which seemed to be obscure, and they had to quickly admit and order the entire army to retreat.
And Illidan on the Naga side was even more simply, when those Flame Alliance air forces were still far away above the northern skyline, he directly took the initiative to stop the magic ceremony, and also ordered the Naga fish people to put away their weapons, indicating that they had no intention of becoming enemies of the Flame Alliance.
This time, Malfurion and Tyrande came to the Eastern Kingdom at Mavi's request for help, and this time the operation was a bit hasty, and it was very unsmooth.
Not only did they fail to capture Illidan this time, but they were also hostile to a powerful flame alliance, because at the beginning, Malfurion ordered the archers to attack and drive away the flame queen......
This time, they crossed the sea to the Eastern Kingdom, and the only gain was to know the distribution of the power of the Flame Alliance here, and perhaps, the only way to stop Illidan's ritual of destroying the planet was to stop it, and only this thing could be comforted a little. After all, no matter what, this time, they didn't come in vain, right?
So, in the end, Malfurion could only lead his troops, and just like that, he sailed away with the Night Elves, along with his newfound title of the Antlered Greenhead, and the warden Mavi, who was still gritting his teeth and cursing Illidan and reluctant to leave.
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On the evening of the day when the Night Elves withdrew in disarray, the army of the Flame Alliance completely captured the entire royal capital of the former Lordaeron, and wiped out the chaotic and independent undead scourge and a small number of demons.
The massive human city, including the labyrinthine underground city that had been dug out by the undead on two floors underground, had all been cleaned up by the coalition forces.
As night broke, there was not a single undead or demon that could continue to move on the ruins of Lordaeron except for the bones, rotting corpses, and charred stumps of the eaves.
While the battle on the ruins of Lordaeron had ceased and the battlefield had begun to be cleaned, underground, the cleansing of the undead had come to an end.
Especially when a group of paladins led by Mograine, armed with the Ash Bringer, they acted as the vanguard, and under their powerful attack, the commandos of the Flame Alliance quickly attacked the last hall of this dark and damp underground city dug by the undead.
After the paladins had easily purified some of the elite spirits left behind by an unknown Death Knight, they were finally able to see what was going on in the underground hall.
In the middle of the gloomy hall grounds, there, there is a huge arched structure that has been blown into several sections. Although the main part of it was almost blown up, the bigwigs of all races, according to the residual runes and magic circuits on it, can vaguely see that this should be a portal.
"Ah......hh What a pity! They even let them run away again, it's all the fault of those greenheads! ”
On the second basement floor of Lordaeron, in this spacious underground hall, when she saw the portal that had been destroyed, little Anne knew that at that time, she sensed the teleportation fluctuations here in Dalaran, which must have come from this large portal.
Therefore, she now directly blames all the faults on the heads of those Night Elves.
Who made them waste so much of her time then? Otherwise, if she had made it back sooner, she might have been able to catch that abominable undead knight in time!
According to the data roughly counted by Generalissimo Garissus of Lordaeron, combined with the scale of the dungeon and the number of remnant undead, the results show that this large portal has been open for a short period of time, and it has probably teleported away nearly sixty or seventy thousand elite undead! In this siege battle, what the Flame Alliance coalition forces finally eliminated was only about 200,000 or 300,000 undead, and a considerable part of them were just those miscellaneous fish, zombies, skeletons or ghouls.
"Her Majesty Queen Anne, what shall we do now? Where exactly does this portal lead? Shall we continue to send troops in pursuit? ”
The generalissimo looked at the closed portal in front of him, and his heart was a little uncertain.
He didn't know where the undead and Arthas had teleported, or what was going on on the other side of the portal. Therefore, it is necessary to ask Queen Anne, who is proficient in spells, she is also a demigod, this kind of thing, it should not be difficult for her, right? That's her specialty!
Now in the hall on the second floor of Lordaeron's underground ground, a group of high-ranking officials of the Flame Alliance began to gradually gather after cleaning up the undead in other places, so now in this huge hall, a large number of elite guards of various races have gathered, and they can only stare at the destroyed portal.
So, Gallisus plans to ask the Alliance's moe master, their Queen Anne, first, to know what to do next? Where exactly did the enemy go? Do you want to try to fix and open the portal, and then continue to send troops to chase the enemy?
"I'm sure I'm going to chase it! We must not allow these dead spirits to wreak havoc in our Flame Alliance's territory, and perhaps they will resurge before we are noticing! ”
Before little Annie could speak, Eagle's Nest Mountain Brute Hammer Dwarf Lord Furstad? The Brute Hammer brandished his hammer and shouted loudly, and he didn't really care much about whether the undead ran away or where they went.
He only knew that this glorious battle of annihilating the undead natural disaster, from the beginning of the attack on the Western Plague Land to the current defeat of Lordaeron, saw that the battle was about to enter the final stage, but from beginning to end, he had not been able to personally fight the undead!
Before, when they were in Dalaran in the south, when they confronted those Night Elves and Naga, the three sides couldn't fight, and those Night Elves saw their air force appear, and Vorstad is still very unhappy!
If you don't rush this time, then it is estimated that the war will be declared over immediately, if this is the case, he Fustad will completely hit the soy sauce this time!
If he returned to Eagle's Nest Mountain another day, those elders asked him how many undead he had killed, did they want him to say: He didn't have a chance to do it at all? How could he say that? In this war, he didn't get a little bragging capital, which made him feel uncomfortable.
"Maybe the Death Knight and the Lich are still hiding somewhere in the Northern Kingdom, so I suggest that you keep sending troops to hunt down the undead and wipe them out!"
Although the Great Lord Vorstad? The brute hammer doesn't know what it is appropriate to chase after the poor and not sell the verses of the overlord, but he also knows another point, that is: to deal with the undead natural disaster, then you must fight to the death, and rectify it to the death! Only the undead who are completely dead and will not move are good undead!
"Well said, Great Lord Furstad is right! We should never let the executioner of Alsace go so easily! What if they continue to spread the plague in the borders of the countries again? Therefore, I also agree with sending troops to pursue, and we must completely eliminate those culprits! ”
The bearded dwarven lord had just finished speaking, and Queen Sylvanas had also stepped forward to speak.
The hatred of Arthas, in addition to the people of Lordaeron, who were the most slain, may be the High Elves of Quel'Thalas.
After all, last year, their High Elves were almost wiped out by the Undead Plague. Even later, Anne rescued and survived a lot, but now, the remaining High Elves are estimated to be less than a quarter of their heyday, right?
With such a feud that was almost on the verge of extinction, how could she, Sylvanas, easily let that thug of Arthas run away like that? So, unlike Furstad who only wanted to find the undead to kill, Sylvanas really wanted to hunt down and destroy all the undead! Of course, that Death Knight Arthas must be missing!
"I also agree to go after the undead, as everyone must know, the speed of the undead scourge and their terrible plague of death, once spread again, can cause too much damage! Therefore, we must not allow them to regain their strength. ”
After talking to the paladins with the Silver Hand for a while, Dasohan also nodded in favor of the suggestion to pursue.
They all knew that once the undead were relieved and spread the plague again in the Northern Kingdom, then perhaps the undead disaster would flood the lands of humans, dwarves or High Elves in the Northern Kingdom, and they would not be able to withstand another toss.
This matter cannot be prevented, only by completely beating Arthas, Kel'thugad, and their never-before-seen Lich King master Naozu to death and completely purifying it, can the possibility of the undead catastrophe breaking out again can be eliminated once and for all!
"Chase, chase, chase, and fart!"
Seeing that these laymen didn't figure out anything, they kept clamoring to chase the undead, and little Anne was furious!
"You've all seen it! This portal has been destroyed by their undead spirits themselves! And the other that matched it, but far away, on another continent to the north of the sea! ”
Little Anne snorted angrily and pointed to the large portal in front of her that had been blown into several pieces by the undead, it was obvious that this was the undead's handiwork, in order to prevent the army of their Flame Alliance from using it to pursue.
Moreover, Anne is also sure that the other portal that matches this one at the end of the teleportation, as long as the undead are not stupid, must have been blown up together! The one in front of them, even if they work hard to fix it, it's useless!
"If you really want to chase it, it's easy! You build your own ships, build many, many ships, and then transport all your soldiers to the north, on the continent where we don't know the exact location, and then you may be able to find the undead! ”
Anyway, little Anne would never go to great lengths to help them drive this kind of long-distance teleportation across the ocean.
This kind of ultra-long-distance teleportation, if it is only the teleportation of thousands of eight hundred soldiers, it may not be much of a problem, and it is still within her ability, who is little Annie? She's a powerful demigod!
But if she was allowed to teleport the army of the Flame Alliance of 100,200,000, she would not be able to kill her! In that case, they might as well honestly go to the shipbuilding and transport troops!
"Uh...... Can't you open a portal like you did when you first went to Dalaran? And then we just rushed over? ”
The dwarven lord Vorstad still asked a little unwillingly.
Now, their Flame Alliance has been preparing for a few months, and they have been busy for a long time, fighting for nearly a month, and in the end, they have just watched the undead natural disaster run to another continent to have a good time? Even he, a bearded dwarf with a simple appearance, always felt a little unwilling.
"If you really want to chase it, I can open a portal and reluctantly help you send a thousand or two thousand people over, are you sure you want to chase it?"
This bearded man even wants her to open a portal? How far is Dalaran from here? How far is it from the northern continent?
Ha! If this bearded dwarf really wanted to chase him so much, little Anne felt that she could satisfy him.
A portal over a long distance, she can really open it, but ...... She couldn't guarantee how long it would last, after all, it was a magical thing! So, she just opened the door, but in the end, she didn't care if they could run a thousand or two thousand.
"Only one, one or two thousand? All right...... I think it's better for us to let the undead go for now. ”
Furstad wiped his nose haphazardly, extinguishing the desire to pursue.
Although they dwarves are a bit simple-looking, they are not stupid, and now, let him lead one or two thousand people to pursue at least tens of thousands of elite undead? What's the use of that point? That's not a chase at all, that's called a thousand miles to send people's heads!
"Annie, don't we have any other way?"
Sylvanas asked unrelentingly, and at the same time hated and broke one of the arrows in his hand in half. She felt a fire in her stomach at the thought that the undead were now free from their armies and could continue to exist on another continent.
"Of course there is! And it's very simple! ”
"Build a ship, transport some soldiers and mages to explore the northern continent, measure the spatial coordinates, and then exchange coordinates between the two sides, and build a portal at the same time, when the time comes, as long as there is enough energy, you can also directly teleport the army to the past like those fleeing undead!"
Without even thinking about it, Anne directly told the undead what they had just done.
As long as there is abundant energy, and then build portals on both sides at the same time, it is the same as the door of darkness or the flame gate of the fire element, how many troops do you want to teleport over, is it not the same as playing?
At most, it consumes a lot of expensive magic materials and a lot of energy.
"Forget it, it's so troublesome, then it's better to directly build a ship and transport troops over!"
Furstad muttered a few words, picked up his hammer and turned to leave.
He also knew that building a portal was very expensive, let alone building a portal that could allow 200,000 troops to pass through! Rather than that, it may be more affordable to build a ship directly.
Besides, their current Flame Alliance, although it looks glamorous, but except for the Flame Kingdom and their Eagle's Nest Mountain, which are still strong and have not been affected by the undead natural disaster, the rest, whether it is the Lordaeron Kingdom or the Quel'Salas Kingdom, they are already in a half-crippled state.
Now, when they needed time to recuperate and regain their strength, where could they have so many manpower and material resources to prepare for an expedition across the sea to another continent?
Furstad had already estimated, and he felt that if they Quel'Salas and Lordaeron wanted to launch another expedition in three or five years, it would be only two words: no play!
"Humph! This is really a bit unwilling! ”
Sylvanas was also a little annoyed, sure enough, it was all those low-level, all those Night Elves who were to blame!
If they hadn't made up that mess with Dalaran, maybe this Arthas and Kel'thugad wouldn't have been able to escape so easily! Even if he runs away in the end, it will never be possible to take so many elite undead with him!
"So what do we do now? Just let the undead run away? ”
After listening to their discussion for a while, Dasuohan and the other paladins also looked at each other a little.
The armies of the four countries of their Flame Alliance launched this large-scale battle that was powerful and spanned and covered most of the northern continents, but in the end, they got this ending that was not up or down? This is a little different from what I expected at the beginning.
"What else? Cold! Anyway, I'm going to go back to sleep first, and you can do the rest for yourself! ”
After seeing that there was nothing wrong with her, little Annie waved her hand very irresponsibly, and soon opened a portal to the officialdom of the Palace of the Flame City, and then walked in first, followed by the thousand elite fire demon royal guards.
These fire demons are the guards responsible for the queen's safety.
Now that Her Majesty is going back, of course they have to follow. Otherwise, they would have to crawl back to the Flame City in the eastern region by land, which is a journey of nearly half a month across half a continent...... Where is it faster to follow the queen directly through the portal now?
"Okay, that's it, that's all we have to do now!"
After seeing little Anne enter the portal and disappear, Generalissimo Gatheris turned his head and spoke to the heads of state of Quel'Salas and Eagle's Nest that were still here, as well as the other generals.
"Now, our Flame Alliance's battle against the Undead Scourge has basically come to an end, and everyone has worked hard! Let's go to the palace castle above, prepare to count the results of the battle and discuss the aftermath. ”
This large and gloomy underground hall here is obviously not an ideal meeting place, so Generalissimo Gatrishers plans to let everyone go back to the ground first, but fortunately, the original palace of Lordaeron is not too badly damaged, and it is estimated that it can barely be used when the time comes.
From this day on, the city of Lordaeron, which bears the name of the kingdom, is once again back in the hands of the new kingdom of Lordaeron! In the future, it will still be the capital of the Lordaeron Kingdom, but it will still need to be cleaned and purified for a long time. In addition, facilities like the underground that have been dug up by the undead also need to undergo long-term renovation, which is obviously not a small project that can be completed in three or two years.
When the battle against the Scourge of the Dead had finally been declared over by the Generalissimo, the group began to whisper to each other, either relaxed or worried, and prepared to return to the surface for a meeting to deal with the rest of the matter.
Now, the city of Lordaeron has been defeated, but in the Silver Pine Forest, in Gilneth, in the Arathi Heights and the Hillsbrad Hills, there are still a lot of undead and demons scattered around, and that is enough for their Flame Alliance to work for a long time.
"Your Majesty, on the shores of Lake Lordamire to the south, there is a demon hunter named Illidan and a few Naga, and they have said that they have something very important to ask to see you."
As soon as the group reached the surface from the underground entrance, the High Elves of Lotherma hurried to Sylvanas's side with a High Elf Ranger scout.
He nodded apologetically to the surprised humans and dwarves next to him, and then went straight to their side of Queen Sylvanas and reported in a small voice.
"Illidan? Is it the other group from Dalaran before? ”
Queen Sylvanas was stunned for a moment before she asked Lotherma. She doesn't remember how she crossed paths with the half-demons or the Naga, huh? What conspiracy do they have to find themselves?
"I don't care if he's a half-demon or a hunter, or a midnight squirrel, I don't have anything to talk about with them! Missing! ”
After confirming that it was the other group of monsters on Dalaran's side, Sylvanas, who was nesting in a fire, snorted dissatisfiedly, and then flatly refused the request to meet!
In her mind, if they hadn't messed around in the south at night, how could they have allowed Arthas to run away so easily? Now, they even want to come and see themselves? She's going to be busy, where can she have time to talk to that half-demon?
"That...... Your Majesty, I think you'd better take a look at this first! ”
After carefully glancing at the humans and dwarves who were curiously looking at the other side, Lotherma carefully handed Queen Sylvanas a small piece of parchment, on which were written a few words in the ancient script of the upper elves, and Lotherma believed that as long as Her Majesty saw this, she would change her mind and go to see that Illidan, she would!
"It's ......"
Sure enough, Sylvanas was stunned for a moment when he first saw this ancient text at first glance.
After all, the grammar of the upper elves and the current lingua franca of Quel'Thalas, after nearly 10,000 years of evolution, whether it is grammar, vocabulary or writing, there are already big differences, but well, although there are great changes, but she is from a family of Windrangers, and she can barely recognize it.
"Where are they? Now, take me right away! ”
Sylvanas struggled to comprehend the contents of the small piece of parchment, her pupils shrank slightly, and then she slammed the parchment shut and ordered to Lotherma with a solemn expression.
Because, on that little piece of parchment, it was written the origin of their Quel'Salas Well of the Sun! On it, there are a few words: Darthrema, the well water of the Well of Eternity, the Well of the Sun......
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Twenty-one years of the Dark Gate of Azeroth, in the northern hemisphere during the transition of spring and summer.
The Flame Alliance, led by the Flame Kingdom, dispatched more than 200,000 allied troops, together with more than 100,000 people who transported the baggage, combined with an army of 400,000, led by Garithers, the generalissimo of the New Lordaeron Kingdom, launched a comprehensive offensive against the Northern Kingdom Undead Scourge and the remnants of the Burning Legion, which is generally called in the history books: The first revenge battle of the Flame Alliance against the undead!
After the battle began, in less than a month, the Flame Alliance's nearly 200,000 troops directly descended on the city of Lordaeron, and captured the entire Lordaeron in the evening of the same day, annihilating nearly 300,000 undead scourge and demons. The culprits of the undead Scourge, Arthas and Kel'thugad, led some of the undead to flee in confusion, and their whereabouts are still unknown...... At this point, the power of the Undead Scourge in the Northern Kingdom was declared to be destroyed by the Flame Alliance the following month!
Soon after the battle, under the introduction and recommendation of Queen Sylvanas of the Kingdom of Quel'Salas, the Demon Hunter and the more than 100,000 powerful deep sea Naga and fish-man tribes led by him officially joined the Flame Alliance and became the fifth member of the Flame Alliance, providing tens of thousands of the most powerful navy for the Alliance legions, supplementing the shortcomings of the Flame Alliance's naval strength!
At the end of the summer season of that year, the Flame Alliance not only completely conquered all of the northern continent, including all of Gilneys, the Deep Silverpine Forest, the Hillsbrad Hills, and the Arathi Highlands, but also forcibly expelled the Stormwind Kingdom and a camp established by Ironforge in the town of Southsea on the northern continent.
At this point, a vast territory encompassed all the lands of the northern continent; And the super league with strong strength and many races has finally shocked the entire Azeroth once again!
This incident is also called by the few good deeds, this is another major event that can go down in the history of Azeroth after the fall of the Burning Legion on Mount Hyjal!
At the end of the summer season of the same year, the orcs, trolls, minotaurs, some boar people, and the undead who had gained free will and remained in Kalimdor for unknown reasons, under the increasing oppression of the Night Elves, led by the orc leader Thrall, officially formed a new alliance called the Tribe, intending to fight against the oppression of the Night Elves in Kalimdor and gain the right to live.
Almost at the same time, the Night Elves, who had lost the ability of the Well of Eternity and Immortality, and the humans led by Seramogiana, the Kingdom of Stormwind and the Dwarves of Ironforge, in order to maintain the peace and stability of the world of Azeroth, also formally signed an alliance and established a new Stormwind Alliance, in order to fight against the increasingly powerful Flame Alliance, an evil force!
In the autumn of the same year, the Moe Lord of the Flame Alliance, the Queen of the Fire Kingdom, the liberator of the Fire Elemental, the Grand Lord of the Fire Land, the powerful demigod, the Immortal, the Destroyer of the Undead, the Daughter of Flames, the common master of the two groups of Fire Demon and Fire Eagle, the Great Annie? Her Majesty Queen Hasta, mysteriously missing......
It is said that before she disappeared, she only left a small note for her maid Lana saying that she was going home, and then, without any of her attendants, disappeared alone in that strange portal......
In this way, little Anne irresponsibly left her Flame Kingdom and the huge Flame Alliance that he had founded without discussing it with anyone or with the consent of the other kingdom leaders......
No one knows where Queen Anne of the Flame Kingdom will go...... Where is the home she said in the note?
In the spring of the twenty-second year of the Dark Gate, after spending a winter in chaos and strife, the members of the Flame Alliance finally came to the City of Flames again, and held the second summit in the same conference room at that time, intending to elect a new leader of the Alliance.
Eventually, after the regent of the Flame Kingdom, Shannox, abstained, Illidan who received the vote of Queen Quel'Thalas? Furywind, the master of the Naga and the founder of Illidare, finally won the leadership of the Flame Alliance, the most powerful organization in Azeroth, by a margin of 0:2:0:1:1.
"It's all your fault Lordaeron, look at it, let you vote for me and you don't vote, it's good, let that bastard of Illidan get the position of alliance leader, right?"
Outside the venue, the Great Lord of Eagle's Nest Mountain, Furstad, who had just come out, began to shout, and complained that Generalissimo Garissus of Lordaeron was not righteous and did not let their Queen Kalia vote for him.
"Humph! Didn't you also vote for us Lordaeron? ”
Of course, Garissus would not give Lord Eileen a good face, and he actually had a little premonition in his heart about the result this time.
In his mind, the Well of the Sun, which the High Elves of Quel'Thalas were building right now, had absolutely nothing to do with Illidan! Otherwise, the shrewd Queen Sylvanas would not have introduced the other party's power into the Flame Alliance, and she would not have said good things about Illidan today!
It seems that their Lordaeron Kingdom really made a mistake today, and gave away the throne of the alliance leader in vain, and the next election will have to wait until three years later!
"You guys...... Does it make any difference who is the leader of the alliance? Anyway, big things have to be discussed and decided. ”
Kalia, who had come out with Sylvanas, looked at her own generalissimo and the dwarven leader who were preparing to quarrel with her.
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Tibbs ...... This place is not Valoran! ”
Little Annie, who walked out of the portal, was so angry that she almost wanted to smash the space gem after seeing her surroundings clearly.
Of course, this is just a thought, this treasure that can help her cross the barrier of the plane, but her only hope of returning home, how could she be willing to smash it?