In the northern hemisphere of the world of Azeroth, in the final month of the cold winter of the twentieth year of the Dark Gate, Akmund the Polluter and his Burning Legion have finally completed the summoning of the Legion soldiers in the Warped Void and the preparation of basic supplies.

The demons of the Burning Legion are not undead scourges, nor are they elemental beings, although they are more ferocious than the other, and each is more capable of fighting, but some basic necessities and strategic resources still need to be prepared in advance, which is why Akmund has been patiently hiding here in Lordaeron for so long.

And now, the death knight Arthas and the legendary lich Kel'thugad, the two of them have basically completed the sweeping of the southern region of Lordaeron, the kingdom of Gilneth in the north of the Great Channel, the Silverpine Forest, the hills of Hillsbrad and the Arathi Heights, in which no force can effectively resist the invasive invasion of the undead and the demon legions.

Different from the original timeline, under the extraordinary power of Akmund, and under the terrifying power of the Death Knight Arthas's magic sword Frost Sorrow, the self-proclaimed kingdom of Gilneys, along with their Wall of Greymane, collapsed in an instant after the Dreadlord harnessed the power bestowed by Akmund...... A human kingdom in Nuoda, known as the third largest human power in the eastern continent, was destroyed in advance...... After they swarmed in with an army of 200,000 undead and a small number of elite demon legions, the country was wiped out almost instantly, and there were few survivors......

In the original timeline, the town of Southsea that has survived and resisted for many years is no exception, under the death and withering magic of the legendary lich Kel'thugad, the former Alliance soldiers stationed in Southsea Town have to flee south by sea in a panic after resisting for a period of time and losing nearly half of their soldiers and strong civilians......

Since then, on the northern continent of Lordaeron across the strait, with the exception of the Fire Kingdom in the Eastern Plaguelands, the remnants of Lordaeron in the Hand of Tyr, and the High Elves of Quel'Thalas, there are still a large number of surviving creatures......

After exterminating most of the living humans and sapient beings in these places, the Scourge finally regrouped and returned to the former Lordaeron in the Tirisfard Glades before the end of winter. Now, outside this plain of ruins, dense undead, hideous and terrifying demons, all gathered here, just waiting for the order of their master, the polluter Akmund, they will start to cross the sea and attack the continent of Kalimdor to the west!

Tik Dios ...... You...... I'm so disappointed...... You've really disappointed me! ”

Akmund the Polluter endured the mad anger in his heart, and with cold and merciless eyes, he stared at the Dreadlord prostrate at his feet, the first lord of the Nasrezm clan, Tikdios.

"I still remember the order...... Let you and Manolos lead the elite of the Legion to Kalimdor to set up a vanguard outpost, gather intelligence, and monitor the actions of the Night Elves...... But now, what have you two fools done? ”

Just now, when Akmund was looking at his Burning Legion and the Death Army in high spirits, and was about to make a pre-battle mobilization, this Dreadlord ran back in such a mess...... When the idiot came out of the portal, he Akmund couldn't believe what his own ears were hearing!

He had just ordered the two of them to build a sentry and, if could, try to stir up friction and war between the orcs and the night elves, slowly draining their vital strength!

And now? Manolos is dead! Or was it hacked to death by the orcs who drank its blood? And that's not all, the remaining vanguard elites of the Demon Legion were also wiped out under the combined siege of the Night Elves and Orcs? Now, a good outpost camp is gone, and now, all that comes back alive is this stupid bug who is crawling at his feet begging for mercy?

"Uh-huh...... My vanguard general, Manolos, is dead...... And you're still alive and well...... Tell me, Tikdios, how am I going to punish you? What price will you pay for your stupidity? ”

Fortunately, Akmund was originally happy that things were going well on the Lordaeron continent, all the legionnaires had been summoned as he expected, and the supply reserves had basically ended. Even the two idiots, Arthas and Kel'thugad, have returned from their mission ahead of schedule! Just as he Akmund was ambitiously preparing to swing his army west to take the Well of Eternity, this Dreadlord, this damn little bat, actually gave himself a blow to the head?

Opposite Kalimdor now, not only did they not complete the basic tasks according to their own arrangements, but they also caused the tragic death of a member of the Burning Legion, the Vanguard General? The vanguard is still completely annihilated? The Night Elves, Orcs, Minotaurs, Trolls, and Humans, all of them are now united, waiting for themselves to fight a landing and anti-landing battle?

Hehe..... that's great!

Although, Akmund didn't pay much attention to the rabble, and he was confident that he could easily crush their ridiculous defensive positions, but ...... He must not forgive this stupid bug in front of him for wantonly destroying his own original plans and arrangements!

"Lord Akmund! The little one is really wronged! ”

The first sentence of shirking responsibility must be to cry out for injustice. What's more, the Dreaddemon King Tikdios was really wronged when he was brought to this point in front of him, who let him have such a pig teammate who went to the wave with a small advantage?

"In the original plan, everything was fine! I also convinced Manolos to tempt the orcs with his blood, and to kill the powerful forest demigod of the Night Elves! However, it was Manolos who refused to listen to me, insisted on controlling the orcs, and in turn ordered the orcs to attack their own tribal camp......"

"Then, he Manolos will be hacked to death by the orcs! It was also the appearance of Manolos that gave the Night Elves and Orcs the opportunity to unite, and finally led to the great alliance of Elves, Orcs and Humans, so it developed to this point...... Lord Akmund, you must believe me! ”

Tikdios trembled and prostrate as he desperately blamed all the blame on the dead Abyss Demon King, after all, it was indeed the case!

If Manolos hadn't made the decision on his own, had a convulsive brain, and let the orcs attack the orcs in turn, the current situation would never have been so bad as it was now! If everything goes according to Tatikdios's own plan, maybe the orcs are still fighting with the Night Elves for the right to the forest! Where can an alliance be formed so quickly?

"Lord Akmund! I was really wronged! The commander of the vanguard of the Legion is Manolos, and I really can't stop what he insists on doing......

After tearfully complaining about the Abyss Demon King, Tikdios hurriedly continued to prostrate and beg for mercy, hoping to get past this time. If Manolos was punished for that dead fool, he would have been wronged.

"Huh! Even if everything you say is true, you have an unshirkable responsibility! Never mind...... As for your punishment, let's put it aside for now, and when we attack Kalimdor, it's up to you, honestly on Lordaeron's side, and when we return victoriously, I'll decide how to punish you, now, get out of the way! ”

Enraged, Akmund kicked the stupid little bug aside.

Although he also knew that the situation might really be as this Tikdios said, all this was the pot of the Abyss Demon King Manolos!

However, even so, he was not willing to spare this little bat so easily! It's just that he doesn't plan to deal with the other party now, everything has to wait until he returns victoriously, and at that time, it's a little worm that can only pray that his mood is good or bad......

At this time, he Akmund no longer wants to be distracted by these bullshit things, he is ready to swear to go on the expedition immediately, and strive to destroy the entire Kalimdor continent in one fell swoop! Whether it's Night Elves, Orcs, or Humans, they're all going to be reduced to dust in front of the Burning Legion!

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At this time when Akmund and the Burning Legion were about to advance westward, in the distance in the former Stratholme City in the Eastern Plaguelands, the fire elementals' large-scale construction of the new capital of their Flame Kingdom was finally basically completed after more than two months!

Looking at the entire world of Azeroth, I'm afraid that no race can build as fast as the fire elementals! Because, they all directly use racial talents, forcibly melt hard rocks or ores, and then like pinching mud, they directly straighten the ground, and after kneading the shape and leveling the surface, they just wait for the building to slowly cool down by itself! If it were another race, they really wouldn't have been able to learn this technique!

Now, the original Stratholme is long gone, replaced by another magnificent fire city with the characteristics of the fire elemental!

After obtaining the personal approval of Her Majesty Queen Anne, the city was officially named after the Grand Governor of Shane Knox: above the towering gate at the head of the city, it was engraved with fire runes and inlaid with special flame gems that glowed red, and arranged them to form four large words of Azeroth's lingua franca - the City of Fire!

This is the first and only large city of the Fire Kingdom in the world of Azeroth, and it is also the new royal capital of the Fire Kingdom, the new military and political center of their Fire Elemental, and the official palace of their Queen.

When the royal city was officially completed, Her Majesty the Queen of their fire elements also officially moved to the palace of this large city. On the other side of the Flame Canyon, only a small camp of less than a thousand fire elements was reserved in order to ensure the daily operation and maintenance of the temporary portals and the Queen's temporary palace over there.

Now, this magnificent city of flames is divided into several large areas by the Fire Demon Grand Administrator.

In the middle, that large piece of land, is the palace of Her Majesty Queen Anne! This palace, which is comparable to the castle of Suffron, the land of fire, has been built by the fire elementals to be extremely grand and domineering, the palace is like a huge mage tower, surrounded by six huge pillars, and the pillars are also shining with huge dark red runes, obviously some kind of magical building with defensive functions; And at the top of its middle hall, there is a huge main tower that towers straight into the clouds, and at the top of the main tower, it also uses a combination of huge flame crystals to form a large gathering magic array, and the eternal flames are burning on it!

At night, it resembles a red star high in the sky, and almost the entire population of the Eastern Plague Lands can look north and see the bright light it emitts...... It symbolizes the brilliance of Her Majesty Queen Anne, shining on the entire continent of Lordaeron!

In front of the Queen's Palace, there is also a huge flame square, and in the middle of the square, there is a fountain made of boiling magma, and in addition to a wide and straight avenue leading directly to the Queen's Palace Square and the southern part of the city. On the left side of the avenue, one of the narrow areas near the avenue is divided into trading areas by the Grand Chancellor of Shanenox, while the other on the right side of the avenue is allocated to living people outside of the fire elemental, or other creatures as special habitation areas.

On both sides of the central palace, there are two large summoning squares, where there stand two flame portals comparable to the dark doors, they are so tall that even a huge lava giant like Otuk no longer has to bow his head and bend down like when he came out before.

Finally, behind the Queen's Palace, there is a large military area, where the most elite royal legions after the reorganization of the Flame Legion are stationed, and they have nearly 40,000 elite fire elements, all of which are composed of elites above the high level! The other fire elementals, who could be pulled up at any time and used as military calls, occupied large and small areas in other parts of the city of fire, so that they could be inhabited by their own people who were summoned to the world of Azeroth!

For example, the Fire Eagles occupy the area around the City of Fire, near the mountains, and they nest in the mountains; And the elite lord of the Flame Tortoise Tairobene is the one who leads their clansmen, the group of large and small Flame Kings, who alone occupy a huge magma pool located in the back half of the city that was transformed by extracting the planet's lava leyline.

The other smoldering elementals and lava dogs are not far behind, occupying large and small territories, and the most intelligent fire demon clan has begun to build a variety of neat, deep fire elemental style double-storey buildings behind the trading area, and they are now beginning to live a social life similar to that of human structures.

Well, in fact, none of the above is too important, because, today, on the day when the Fire City of the Fire Kingdom is officially completed, here, in the Queen's Palace of the Fire City, there will be an important meeting that will affect the entire northern part of the Eastern Continent, and even the distribution of power in the entire Azeroth world in the future!

Today, outside the City of Fire, here are the representatives of the countries of the northern part of Lordaeron!

Is there a queen from the kingdom of New Lordaeron - Kaliami? Led by Nehir, and the important officials related to her New Lordaeron Kingdom, their group has already arrived, and they have also ridden from the land from the hand of Tyr, because, now the entire Eastern Plague Land has long been swept away!

There is also a queen from the Kingdom of Quel'Salas - Sylvanas? The Windranger and the envoys of the High Elf Kingdom led by her, the vitality of their High Elf clan has been preserved in large quantities because of Annie, and just now, they only came by opening the portal by the mages who arrived here on the Dragon Eagle first.

Finally, of course, the dwarven leader from the Eagle's Nest Mountain, Furstad? Brute Hammer and his delegation of griffon knights, who were also plagued by the undead, were also plagued by the undead, and when they received the official letter from the humans and the High Elves of Lordaeron, they rode griffons, and finally arrived here on this day.

They were all informed that they had gathered here on this day, and here in the newly built City of Fire, they were ready to join Queen Anne of the Fire Elemental Kingdom in preparing to form a new alliance against the Scourge of the Dead and the Burning Legion,

Before the envoys entered the city, they had to pass the bridge at the southern gate and the huge steel statue of Her Majesty Anne, the Queen of Flames, just outside the bridge! It was built on the basis of Akmund's actual height at the time, with a thick pedestal, and in the end, the statue was slightly taller than Akmund's then, as a reminder of their feats as the Queen of Flames.

The first to enter the city were the human envoys who had already arrived here, each riding tall military horses, and slowly walking up the bridge in turn, they were mainly composed of Queen Kalia of the Kingdom of Lordaeron, Generalissimo Garithas, the chief commander of the Knights of the Silver Hand, Dasohan, and the new leader of the Church of Light, Archbishop Fao.

The Fao in the human ranks was particularly conspicuous, and he even showed his dead face so blatantly, completely ignoring the surprised and suspicious gazes cast at him by An Ren and the High Elves.

No one knows what their human kingdom of Lordaeron has been through in the past two months, and now it can still live in harmony with the undead natural disaster?

It is said that it has something to do with their Queen Kalia. Now, in addition to ascending the throne on the same day as the queen of the High Elf Kingdom, the queen of Lordaeron has also begun to accept the undead who have been turned into undead due to disasters, but have independent consciousness and can withstand the test of the Light, and they have been given a secret residence to live away from the living......

"Until now, I really didn't believe that little girl, she really defeated such a powerful demon? And that demon, is he really as tall as this statue? ”

Riding a horse followed Da Sohan, who was half behind his own queen, and after looking up at the huge statue, he began to look at the base of the statue, and kept sighing. For, he saw, in front of that pedestal, on a stone tablet taller than the pedestal, written in special fire runes and the lingua franca of Azeroth:

Twenty years into the Dark Gate of Azeroth, on this day of the intersection of autumn and winter, the queen of the great flame kingdom, the great lord of the Fire Lands, the liberator of the fire elementals, the powerful demigod, the immortal, the daughter of the flames, Annie? Her Majesty Queen Hasta, who has defeated the invincible Grand Lord of the Burning Legion here, Akmund the Polluter, has erected this monument as proof!

"Humph! Look at these fire elements, what a show! Are they flame kingdoms, is this trying to demonstrate against us? That's great! Alright, Da Sohan, without further ado, let's get inside! ”

Generalissimo Garissus glanced at the huge statue with jealousy on his face, and began to urge impatiently.

He looked at the two full rows, each row of more than a hundred tall lava giants standing motionless on either side of the wide gate bridge. They weren't as exaggerated as Lord Otuk's, but they were a little taller than the three humans combined! The fire elementals don't know where they are, and the significance of the demonstration is obvious!

Behind Queen Kalia and the Generalissimo, dozens of members of the Human Emissary Corps also rode forward in turn. One by one, they looked sideways in shock at the statue of the Queen of Flames next to the bridge and the words written on the stele......

With such a huge steel statue, I'm afraid that only the fire elementals can make it...... The statue of the queen alone can be so breathtaking, what if it was really Akmund standing in front of them? When these human cavalrymen thought of this, they couldn't help but start to feel uneasy...... The current Akmund, it is said, is still on the side of the royal city of Lordaeron......

Unlike the human envoys, who were either disdainful, shocked, or thoughtful, when it was the turn of the envoys of the High Elf Kingdom of Quel'Thalas to enter the city, a group of dozens of them, as they passed by the steel statue of Queen Anne, they all followed their Queen Sylvanas, on the saddle of the white chocobo, all slightly leaning on the side, and respectfully bowed to the statue with a quil Salas gaze.

After all, at the beginning, in the most critical and difficult moment of their High Elf clan, when they were most desperate and helpless, it was the queen of this flame kingdom who saved the kingdom of Quel'Thalas regardless of danger and annihilated hundreds of thousands of undead armies!

It could even be said that it was this Queen Anne who saved their entire High Elf clan of Quel'Thalas! Therefore, now they just salute the statue collectively, which seems too light. Their High Elves will forever remember this deep kindness!

"Sister! Is this Her Majesty Queen Anne who saved our Kingdom of Quel'Thalas? Is it really a little girl? Is it really that powerful? ”

At the end of the salute, the High Elves rode their all-white chocobos and began to trot across the City Gate Bridge. At this time, Queen Sylvanas's sister, Winresa? Windranger patted the white chocobo under his seat, sped a few steps forward, and ran to her Queen's sister to ride alongside her.

When Arthas began to sweep through the Silverpine Forest and march towards the Kingdom of Gilneis, the new leaders of Dalaran, Ronin and Waunresa, had to sail back to Quel'Thalas with the remnants of the Dalaran mages and High Elves in a boat, narrowly enough to catch the throne of Queen Xi.

After Sylvanas Windrunner officially became queen, the title of Duke of Silvermoon City that she left behind ended up cheapening this Wenressa!

After all, this title belonged to the previous king, Anastarian? What the Sunstrider taught to the Windranger family is now reigning in Sylvanas, and the Windrunner family is left with only one Winresa in the end? In the case of Windranger, it would only be cheaper for her. So, Winresa didn't do anything, and as soon as he returned to Quel'Thalas, he got mixed up with the title of a duke! caused the current leader of Dalaran Luo Ning, in front of his wife, he almost couldn't raise his head.

"Yes, it's really her ......"

As if remembering the appearance of a certain little girl, Sylvanas couldn't help but smile at the corner of her mouth.

Originally, their Kingdom of Quel'Thalas did not dare to touch this sudden fire elemental kingdom at first, but after being threaded by the Lordaeron humans and knowing that the queen of the Fire Kingdom was the great benefactor who saved them in the first place, Sylvanas tried his best to facilitate this alliance meeting united by the four surviving forces in the northern part of the Eastern Continent.

First, she needs to bring the parties closer together to deal with the coming threats. Second, she, Sylvanas, also hopes to repay the Flame Queen Anne for her kindness to their High Elf clan.

After the High Elves rode through the gates on beautiful white chocobos, it was finally the turn of the dwarven griffin knights of Eagle's Nest.

"Big Boss, that's an exaggeration...... These fire elements are also too extravagant and wasteful! You all see, just this statue, the bridge at your foot and the city gate, I'm afraid they are all made of steel, right? How much steel does it take? What a loser! ”

The Hammer Dwarves of Eagle's Nest Mountain, who rode past on foot on griffons, cracked their mouths when they saw the statue. How much steel does it seem to them to be wasted? After cutting it out and melting it, it is estimated that they will be able to arm all their dwarves in Eagle's Nest Mountain! Moreover, there is also the palace in the distance, which stands upright on the clouds, which seems to be also a half-steel and half-stone structure? Gee...... Sure enough, it's some loser's stuff!

"Alright! Guys, after the fire element melts the ore, you can also jump into the molten steel to have fun, not only will it not be scalded, but you can also pinch the molten steel like mud to play, although we dwarves are also very good at striking iron, but we can't learn this kind of method! ”

At the front of the team, the current leader of the dwarves of Eagle's Nest Mountain, Furstad? Brutehammer, sitting on his griffin, chuckled.

Furstad? Brute Hammer is now the great patriarch and leader of the Brute Hammer clan in Eagle Nest Mountain! He had never died during the Dragon Age, so anyone who bullshit and said he was dead was a hooligan!

"In that case, if they already have so much fire elemental steel, I don't know, can they sell those extra steel?"

One of the dwarves quickly thought of the possibility of a trade between the two sides, after all, steel smelting was too advantageous for the fire elemental! Let's take a look, there are so many of them that they are used to build bridges, walls, palaces and statues, so it's not too much to come out a little bit to support or sell them to friendly troops at a low price, right?