In the twenty-first spring of the Dark Gate of Azeroth, during the season of awakening in the northern hemisphere of the planet, a huge explosion was heard on the continent of Kalimdor to the west.

After a violent upheaval across the entire planet of Azeroth, Akmund, one of the leaders of the Burning Legion, who had been able to easily break through the defense lines of the three races and attack all the way to the bottom of the World Tree, was inexplicably killed!

Perhaps, Akmund would never have imagined that he himself would die so aggrieved, so suddenly; He would never have imagined that the power of the massive Eternal Wells that he had absorbed into his body was actually mixed with a lot of natural powers, and then, naturally, he was possessed by the ancient spirits summoned by Malfurion's horn of Cenarius, and played self-detonation and detonated the power he absorbed into his body at the same time......

So, when Akmund was extremely sad and delusionally thought that he had absorbed the power of the Well of Eternity to surpass Sargeras in one fell swoop, he did not expect that he was calculated and given his life by a little druid.

The Burning Legion and the Death Army of the Undead Scourge under his command were immediately defeated by the long-awaited alliance of the Three Clans under the leaderless of the dragons...... Finally, at the end of spring, before the arrival of summer, the offensive of the Kalimdor coalition began to enter the final phase, ending the war once and for all.

Looking across the boundless sea, looking in the direction of the continent of Kalimdor, Illidan? Fury sighed deeply.

It's been 10,000 years, and he, Illidan, has been in captivity for 10,000 years......

Ten thousand years ago, during the Great War of the Ancients, he Illidan succeeded in saving the world of Azeroth for the first time in the way he thought was right.

But...... He ended up in a miserable prison for eternity!

Within the Watchman's dungeon, he Illidan was imprisoned for 10,000 years...... If it weren't for the Burning Legion re-invading this time, I'm afraid it would ...... He's going to be imprisoned, right?

Ten thousand years ago, after the victory in the battle against the Burning Legion, Illidan remembered very well that he had secretly filled seven bottles with water from the Well of Eternity, which contained great energy, before the Well of Eternity exploded.

Illidan believes that despite the Night Elves' victory. Sooner or later, however, the Burning Legion will invade again.

The brutal war between the world of Azeroth and the Burning Legion has just begun! Therefore, Illidan firmly believes that rebuilding a new Well of Eternity will save the Night Elves once again in the next invasion of the Burning Legion.

So, without telling everyone, he found a hidden lake on the top of Mount Hyjal, and poured water from three bottles of the Well of Eternity into it, turning the lake into a new Well of Eternity forever.

Illidan was naïve enough to think that his Night Elf people would see him as a hero...... However, he was wrong, he did not receive any of the honors that a hero deserves, and those cowardly incompetents used this as an excuse to keep him in prison for 10,000 years!

……

But now, 10,000 years have passed, and the facts have proved that his behavior at that time was extremely correct!

Look, if he hadn't forged a new Well of Eternity in the first place, how could their Night Elves kill that Akmund? With their ridiculous power of nature? Or with the power of those ethereal moon gods? Eventually? In the end, it wasn't the new Well of Eternity that he made 10,000 years ago, Illidan?

And now? Now, 10,000 years later, after they had killed Akmund with the Well of Eternity he had created by Illidan and shattered another plot of the Burning Legion, their incompetent short-sighted people had convicted him of a crime that did not even exist, and had declared that he had permanently expelled Illidan from the Night Elves...... What an irony!

But...... That's it, it's all over now!

As Tyrande had said to her after rescuing him from the Watchmen's Prison, he had agreed to fight not for the Night Elves, but for her alone.

Now, the war is over, Akmund has been defeated, and he, Illidan, has fulfilled his promise at that time!

So, now on, he's Illidan? In its own way, Fury will try to save the world of Azeroth, which is being watched by the Burning Legion! He will never pretend to be or at the mercy of others again, absolutely not!

Not long ago, Kil Gardan, another lord of the Burning Legion, crossed the barrier and contacted and found Illidan. He asks Illidan to help him destroy the Scourge leader who betrayed the Legion and turned Arthas into his number one general, the Lich King Neozu. As a reward for destroying the Lich King, Kilgardan promised to give Illidan whatever he wanted after completing the tasks he had enacted.

Illidan has always been dismissive of such a lie from this demon!

It's just that after he saw Kil'Gardan's power comparable to that of Akmund, Illidan could only reluctantly agree first when the situation was stronger than others.

Anyway, in his opinion of Illidan, the Lich King, as the vanguard of the Burning Legion's destruction of the world of Azeroth, has also caused a lot of damage to this world of Azeroth. Then, he can try it a little and see if he can destroy this Lich King Naozu and gain more power from it, which is also a good choice.

So, Illidan was going to find the Eye of Sargeras that Kilgardan was talking about, to see if it had infinite power, and perhaps, after the ritual was over, he might be able to stealthily intercept some of it?

Before he could, however, he had to find and master some of his men who were under his command. Running naked alone and beating someone else's army, or being beaten by someone else's army, he Illidan never wanted to experience it again! If he didn't have some powerful subordinates of his own, he felt that sooner or later he would have to be arrested again, and then locked up for tens of thousands of years?

Illidan knew very well that Mavi the Watcher, the mad woman, was still obsessed with herself! Now, I guess I'm still on the way to hunt him down, right? If he doesn't hurry up and get some men to survive the game, I'm afraid that when the time comes, he will still be beaten and caught by the crowd in the end!

That's why Illidan is here now, standing on a reef in the Broken Isles, with huge demonic horns on his head and an equally huge pair of demonic wings behind his back, and after staring at the rolling waves in front of him for a while, he is ready to be right here, casting spells on this reef and summoning the armies he needs!

At this moment, above the sky, dark clouds are raging, and lightning is coming; Above the sea, the waves are surging and the wind is howling; A heavy rainstorm is coming, but Illidan is unoblivious to the changes in his surroundings, he still concentrates on casting spells......

He's about to go to the Tomb of Sargeras in the Broken Isles, find the Eye of Sargeras that Kilgardan told him, and use it to perform a ritual to see if he can destroy the Frozen Throne and kill the Lich King Neozu in one fell swoop!

It's a pity that there are many powerful monsters guarding the tomb of Sargeras, and if he Illidan alone is alone, he obviously can't get the thing he wants. Therefore, he plans to temporarily summon some subordinates who can come in handy, those powerful sea monsters, sleeping under this deep sea, he has seen everything below from his Sargeras cursed horizon, and he believes that those monsters will definitely surrender to him!

As he continued his summoning, Illidan began to laugh at himself as he began to reminisce about what had happened before, thinking that he had once again been treated as a traitor by his brother Malfurion, whom he had pronounced and was sentenced to permanent expulsion.

Heh, traitor?

In fact, I am the one who has really been betrayed!

Until now, I have been hunted down;

Until now, I have been hated and cursed by the people I have saved......

But now, my blind eyes allow me to see things that no one else can't......

Those fools,

Even if they have good eyes, they are just a bunch of blind people with open eyes!

And I,

But he sees the long-term more than anyone else......

Sometimes, the hand of fate must be in your own hands!

So

Wake them all, beings in the depths of the sea,

Obey my call to unleash a frenzy of destruction and destroy those who dare to oppose us......

……

The torrential rain began to pour down, mixed with lightning and strong winds, and huge waves crashed against the dangerous and hideous reefs, and the sea rose from time to time to Illidan's knees and quickly receded, and then again and again, and repeatedly......

Illidan stood silently on the reef, letting the rain and the angry waves wet his whole body, and he looked at the huge half-human, half-serpentine deep-sea monster that was dense and dense and kept emerging from the deep sea and walking onto the beach, Naga!

"Oh, it turns out that you woke us up? A powerful demon? ”

After slumbering and waking up in the depths of the sea, Vasqi, the female Naga with hideous snake hair and four slender arms, slowly moved towards the demon standing on the reef.

She is actually no stranger to demons, in fact, a large part of the reason why she Vasqi has become the ghost she is now, and she has fallen into the situation in front of her, is due to the demons!

Now there was a heavy rain in the sky, and the dark environment around her made it a little difficult for her to see the appearance of this demon, so she planned to get closer and take a good look at what this demon who woke them up looked like with the help of those lightning bolts that lit up from time to time.

This guy ...... Looks familiar?

The closer she got, the more Vaschi felt that the demon in front of her gave her a faint sense of déjà vu...... However, she dared to conclude that the one in front of her was definitely the first demon she had come ashore and come into contact with for the first time in 10,000 years! She had definitely not met each other before, absolutely not!

"You ......"

The closer she got, the stronger the familiar feeling became, as if something was opening up her memories that had been sealed for years.

When a flash of lightning suddenly lit up, when Vaschi took advantage of the light of this moment, she moved her eyes to the face of this powerful demon, and when she saw the narrow cloth towel of the other party's blindfolded, she couldn't help but be stunned.

"Are you...... Lord Illidan? ”

In her stunned and incredulous tone, there was a hint of joy in her voice, and she finally recognized who the demon in front of her was.

Although the other party's body shape has changed a lot, that feeling, as well as the cloth towel that the other party's eyes are covered, even after 10,000 years, she still hasn't forgotten it, and it is still firmly imprinted in the depths of her memory......

"Naga...... How did you know me? ”

This time it was Illidan's turn to be shocked.

You know, he, Illidan, has been imprisoned in the Watchman's Prison for 10,000 years! Moreover, he was sure that he had never seen a single Naga before, including the one in front of him!

So, how did the female Naga in front of her, whose strength was barely good, know herself? Not only do you know each other, but you can also call out your own name? Look at that tone, like an old friend who hasn't seen you for years? This was really a bit scary for him Illidan......

Actually, he really just wanted to summon some helpers who could help him force his way into the tomb of Sargeras!

"Huh...... Sure enough, Lord Illidan, don't you recognize me anymore......"

Vassky lowered her eyes and snake hair, and sighed softly, as a dull and sad glow began to appear in her eyes.

Also, think about it now, almost 10,000 years have passed, and the two sides meet again at this time, but they have long been different......

Illidan, he has also changed from the handsome and brave elf who was desperate to save Cadore, to the demon he is now...... And she, Vasqi herself, has not changed from an elegant and beautiful upper-class elf to the strange appearance that even she feels disgusting and ugly?

"Ma'am, I'm sorry, it's a bit offensive, but who are you?"

Illidan just wanted to summon a group of powerful thugs, but now, he summoned such a female Naga who seemed to be familiar with him? Even from Sargeras's cursed vision, he still saw the anomaly of the female Naga in front of him. What is the silent and affectionate look when the other party looks at him?

It made Illidan feel uncomfortable, and when the other man's gaze swept over his body, it almost gave him goosebumps as a demon hunter, and he didn't like it.

"Yes, too...... Now you've turned into a demon, and I'm ...... It's also become this ugly ghost......"

Vaschi sighed with self-pity before reluctantly pulling out a smile and looking at Illidan on the reef to continue.

"Now, then, a hint to you: the cloth towel you wore over your eyes was given to you by me myself 10,000 years ago."

It's been 10,000 years, and the other party's head still carries the cloth towel she gave him after his eyes were burned by Sargeras, which makes Vasqi's heart that has already become cold after turning into a cursed deep-sea cold-blooded animal like Naga, and a rare warmth flows.

"Are you...... Vasqi ......"

In Illidan's mind, he quickly recalled the memories of 10,000 years ago.

In the 10,000 years he was imprisoned in the Watchman's Dungeon, all he had was these memories...... So, he quickly called out this long-forgotten name.

Back then, when he was forcibly burned by Sargeras and implanted with these magic eyes, Vaschi, the maid of Queen Azhara, she took care of herself for a considerable period of time.

"Ha, it seems that you still remember me...... So, my honor, Lord Illidan, what do you command when you call us now? ”

Ten thousand years had passed in the blink of an eye, and for the first time since being sucked into the deep sea and cursed into this strange Naga form, Vasqi had shown a smile other than a genuine smile.

“……”

I don't know why, Illidan always feels uncomfortable! He vaguely felt that summoning these Naga this time seemed to be a small mistake for him?

……

"Hurry up! You lazy people, hurry up and pack this batch of materials into a truck! And the hay over there, and the clean water! No one is missing, all of them are packed and cared! ”

In the large camp of the four clans of the Flame Alliance, a logistics commander was loudly reprimanding the newly recruited strong people, telling them to hurry up and pack the supplies needed by the army. Because, their Flame Alliance army is about to attack to the west, and as a logistics commander, his task is very difficult.

In the twenty-first year of the Dark Gate, at the end of spring, when the snow had completely melted, the Fire Alliance, which had long been prepared for the end of Akmund's defeat, was finally ready to launch their long-prepared spring offensive.

Now, at the crossroads north of Dalong County, nearly 100,000 elite flame legions of the Flame Kingdom have gathered; The new First and Second Infantry Legions of the New Lordaeron Kingdom and the Knights of the Silver Hand have nearly 40,000 men; More than 20,000 people from the Dragon Eagle Knights of the Kingdom of Quel'Thalas, the Far Traveler Ranger Troop and two new mage regiments; As well as a large number of griffin knights and a small number of goat cavalry of the Eagle's Nest Mountain Brute Hammer Dwarves, plus some heavy infantry guards, they also have more than 20,000 people.

Nearly 200,000 elite armies of the four countries of the Flame Alliance gathered here, preparing to carry out a devastating attack on the remnants of the Undead Scourge and the Burning Legion in the west, which had been greatly weakened, and strive to wipe out the entire northern continent of the Eastern Kingdom in one fell swoop before the end of summer!

In fact, as early as the end of the twenty years of the Dark Gate, they have gathered here one after another, just waiting for the leader of the Flame Alliance, the Flame Queen's order, the army can be mobilized, and then cross the Sodoril River, break through the defense line of the undead, and push the Western Plague Land!

Then, all the way west, attack the Tirisfal Glades, and attack the former royal city of Lordaeron, destroying the two Arsaces and Kel'thugad, who are said to have returned to Lordaeron, and the two culprits who almost destroyed the entire northern continent!

And now, when the Burning Legion has been defeated and Akmund has already died, when the Flame Alliance has finished clearing the Eastern Plaguelands, the entire territory of Quel'Salas and Hinterland, and there are a large army and countless powerful people, how can they still take these undead disasters seriously?

When they got the news of Akmund's fall, they couldn't help but want to go straight to war!

The reason why I waited until now was just to take care of the fire elemental army, which was the vanguard and main force. After all, here in the northern continent, where snow is common, it is not very advantageous to fight against the fire elementals.

Only now, in the big tent of the Flame Alliance's barracks, there were bursts of discordant noise.

"Why should the entire Arathi Heights be given to you dwarves? Is the Saldo Bridge such an important place, can you hold on to the Eagle's Nest Mountain? I think it's more appropriate for this Arathi Heights to be given to us Lordaeron! ”

This one who is speaking is none other than the Generalissimo of the Kingdom of Lordaeron, Garithars, who is also the front-line commander of this coalition. After all, he is the only one who is better at large-scale legion battles. If there is no professional commander to coordinate, I am afraid that once the war starts, the fire elements will be able to run all over the map, and the original battle of Stratholme is enough to explain everything!

He was opposed to the Hammer Dwarves of Hinterland trying to dominate the Arathi Highlands!

After all, the Saldo Bridge over there is an important military point linking the two continents of the north and south! Whether they're going south, or people from the south are heading north, this bridge is a key place to watch! Back then, during the Second Orc War, their Lordaeron Alliance and the Orc tribe fought a lot of battles here.

Besides, after this period of reconnaissance, the Arathi Heights is one of the few good places that has not been ravaged too badly by the undead, and once it immigrates in the future, it will become a piece of anointed land in the Lordaeron Kingdom without much governance!

"You Lordaeron still want the Arathi Heights? Phew! ”

The Lord of the Hammer Dwarves, Furstad, spat hard and looked at Garissus with disdain.

"You've now been divided into the Silverpine Forest, the Hillsbrad Hills, and the whole of Gilneys, and now, you still want to come and fight our Hammer Dwarves for this Arathi Highland?"

Furstad? Brute Hammer is a little unhappy, this generalissimo of the Lordaeron Kingdom, his appearance is a little too ugly! So much land has been pre-allocated to them, and they still want to come and earn Arathi Heights with their dwarves? He decided that this could not be endured!

"Because we have divided a large part of the northern part of the Tirisfarda and the Western Plaguelands to the Fire Kingdom, the Arathi Heights can be regarded as compensation and should be given to us!"

In any case, in this kind of thing of turf, Generalissimo Gather will definitely not give in. Especially the Arathi Heights, such an important place as this one must be a bridgehead for the Flame Alliance to the south in the future, a proper military location!

"I'll give you everything Lordaeron, so where do we want the Eagle's Nest Mountain Hammer Dwarves?"

Furstad? The Brute Hammer is furious, this human is too greedy! I want this, I want that, how many of you are left in Lordaeron? One Hand of Tyr and the Talon County side are almost enough!

"Don't you have a whole piece of Hinterland, too? How many of you are there? Then why do you still want the Arathi Heights? ”

Garissus glanced at Furstad with disdain and began to retort disdainfully.

"Hinterland was originally our dwarves!"

Furstad? The Brute Hammer almost didn't want to go up and blow up this Marshal Lordaeron, he didn't think anything about it before, why now, he thinks this human generalissimo is so annoying?

"Hinterland turns out to be mostly trolls! Now, we've got you cleaned up with all those trolls! Otherwise, you're still developing in Cinchero? ”

Generalissimo Lordaeron continued to snort coldly at the dwarven lord with contempt, didn't their dwarven Hinterland still not finish digesting it?

"It was the army of the Flame Kingdom that helped us clean it up, what do you Lordaren do? Don't think I don't know, most of the cavalry you sent at that time were Paladin apprentices, and they were all here to train and consume food! ”

As soon as he talked about it, Furstad was a little angry!

When the war started against the trolls and other forces in Hinterland, they came to the kingdom of Lordaeron and said that they would support their allies, but the result? He's all a bunch of recruits who haven't been on the battlefield, and there's no use for farts other than wasting food and smoking cold to besiege some lone enemies!

"Alright, you can stop in moderation! You haven't started attacking yet, but you're arguing with your own people first? ”

Queen Sylvanas of the Kingdom of Quel'Salas couldn't take it anymore and finally frowned, interrupting the two of them.

They High Elves don't want a single place, and they don't understand what these two people have to earn? Now, the entire realm of Quel'Salas was enough for their High Elves to slowly transform and repair for many years.

According to the reproduction rate of the High Elves, even if it is a few thousand years later, they may not be able to digest those lands, and the current Demon Yin is still bothering their people, and the population has been in a negative growth, and now the total number is estimated to be less than 180,000.

If it weren't for the fact that the Flame Kingdom had sent a large number of fire elementals to help them clean up those undead and trolls, they might not have been able to muster an army of more than 20,000 this time.

"It's all enough, the Arathi Heights will be jointly developed and managed by the Flame Alliance, and the defense will be the same, so you don't have to earn any more."

Finally, before the queen of the Flame Kingdom arrived, the fire demon chief Shaan Knox, who was standing on the main seat, spoke, and immediately set the tone for this matter, no one should rob it, and it would be developed together when the time came.

It is a little incomprehensible, the current Flame Alliance, but the result is a relatively tight whole. Besides, since all the member countries of the alliance allow all citizens of the four tribes to travel and live freely, then in the future, the entire northern continent will definitely be a situation where the four tribes live together, in this case, what is the point of earning these more? Besides, there are so many lands in the northern continent, are they the dwarves of the Eagle's Nest Mountain and the humans of the Lordaeron Kingdom, have they developed them? After the ravages of the undead, it is estimated that the next few hundred years will be an embarrassing situation of being vast and sparsely populated.

"Humph!"

Seeing that neither side was playing, Generalissimo Garissus and Dwarven Lord Furstad glanced at each other, then snorted at each other and turned their heads away.

Get! No one can end up at this time, but it can barely be regarded as an agreement.

Anyway, the current Flame Alliance, the other three countries, can be said to be stained with the light of the fire element, if it weren't for the help of the Flame Kingdom, they wouldn't know how miserable they would be now! Therefore, they still respected the wishes of the Flame Kingdom, and now that the Fire Demon Grand Administrator had spoken, they no longer argued about it.

"By the way, Your Excellency, what about your Queen Anne?"

After the group waited for a while, Queen Kalia of Lordaeron finally couldn't help but ask.

Originally, Generalissimo Lordaeron and the other generals and commanders did not want their Queen Kalia to go to war. Now, there is only Kalia left in the kingdom of Lordaeron, and if she has a little accident, something big will happen!

However, after Calia knew that Arthas had returned to the royal city of Lordaeron from Kalimdor, she said that she would participate in this operation as well! Because, no matter what, she wanted to ask her brother in person which of her had become Death Knights, and she wanted to ask him Arthas why he did such a thing in the first place!

"Uh...... Her Majesty should have something important to do, presumably it will come soon......"

Shannox rolled his eyes and thought to himself, "Do you want me to tell you, "Our Majesty, in fact, is still sleeping?" In her schedule, sleep is ahead of all the things?

As soon as Shane Knox's words were finished, before the others could react, a blue arcane light suddenly lit up at the door of the alliance commander's tent, and then, an arcane portal was erected, and the long-awaited flame queen, the great Anne, finally rushed out of it in a hurry.

"Wow! Everyone's here, huh? Well, I declare now: the army is on the offensive and begins! Kill that undead knight! ”

Little Anne has been waiting for this day for a long time! I think that at the beginning, when she was in Quel'Thalas, she was chased and beaten by that death knight, and she was bullied many times by his army of undead, God is pitiful, and now, it is finally her turn to bully him with the army of the Flame Alliance! It's a great feeling!

Therefore, just after coming out of the portal, Little Anne didn't even think about it, and directly gave the order for the whole army to go out.

“……”

After hearing Anne's order, a group of people looked at her in such a daze, watching this little girl give such an order in such a child's play, which made them feel a little overwhelmed all of a sudden.

Like now, in this historic event that is about to liberate the entire northern continent and wipe out the undead and demons in one fell swoop, is it ...... She shouldn't have mobilized first, mobilized everyone's enthusiasm, expressed a little feelings and feelings, and finally said something to boost morale, this is the normal process......

But now, as soon as you come in, you give the order, so casually...... Is this really good?

"Huh? What are you doing now? Don't hurry up yet! ”

Little Anne was furious, these people had been urging her to come early, so she made an exception to get up a little early. But now, she has come, what are these people doing here? Why don't you hurry up and lead their army? She couldn't wait to catch the death knight who was chasing her in the first place, and then burn him with flames!