Chapter 0129: Battle of Stratholme (5)
In the twentieth year of the Dark Gate calendar, at the intersection of autumn and winter, the first snow finally fell on the land of the former Lordaeron Kingdom, near the Plague Lands in the East and West, when night was about to fall, indicating that winter had officially arrived in the northern hemisphere of the Eastern Continent.
On this day, in the northern region of Stratholm in the Eastern Plaguelands, two important events occurred that were enough to go down in the chronology of Azeroth and to stir up the entire planet Azeroth.
The first major thing is:
The Flame Queen of unknown origin, led her army of the Flame Kingdom, which was also of unknown origin, and launched a massive offensive against the undead Scourge at the most desperate and terrifying moment for the creatures of the Eastern Kingdom.
In just two days, the Fire Elemental Legion was in the Eastern Plaguelands, north of Lake Blackwood, including the military town of Stratholme, and wiped out all the undead scourge troops!
According to incomplete statistics, in the past two days, their Flame Empire has slaughtered nearly 200,000 undead calamity troops. During the battle to capture Stratholme, they also slain the Dreadlord of the Nasrezm clan, a demonic race belonging to the Burning Legion. And made a specimen of its corpse and hung it on the wall near the entrance of the city gate on the side of the newly built capital of their Flame Kingdom, the City of Flames!
The second major thing is:
The powerful and mysterious Queen of Flames, the Daughter of Flames, the powerful demigod of the Kingdom of Flames - Anne? Queen Hasta, who had just taken the city of Stratholme, had an earth-shattering and powerful super-war with the Burning Legion Grand Commander and the Archdemon and Polluter Akmund who had rushed to the news.
According to records, the battle between their two sides, after smashing countless mountains, burning countless seas of fire, and sacrificing countless heroic fire elementals, their queen of fire elements, finally succeeded in repelling Akmund, the most powerful demon that has ever walked in the world of Azeroth!
Since this incident, the Flame Kingdom and their Queen Majesty have been unrivaled in the northern region of the Eastern Continent, not only terrifying the Burning Legion and the Undead Scourge, but also causing countless Lordaeron refugees and other creatures who have not had time to flee west or south to leave their original shelters and flock to the Eastern Plague Lands, to this place shrouded in the light of the Flame Queen, in order to seek refuge......
(Here, I have to mention one more thing: after countless years, archaeologists of various races have verified that those fire elements in the Fire Kingdom are actually the minions of the ancient gods who were locked up in a prison by the Titans in ancient times!) And the place where the fire elementals are imprisoned, that magical prison, is a fire elemental plane called the Fire Land, which coincides with the origin of the fire elementals!
But the strange thing is that historians of all races, no matter what, can't find out why that mysterious and powerful little human girl, why did she become the queen of the Flame Kingdom? And gained the support of the fire elementals? Because, according to archaeological discoveries, in the Titan records left behind on the planet Azeroth, the original leader of the Fire Lands should be a powerful fire elemental lord known as the King of Fire Demon - Ragnaros!
But why, after Ragnaros, the Fire Demon King, was summoned to Blackstone Mountain by King Thoresen of the Black Iron Dwarves, the little girl inexplicably took his place and became the queen of the Fire Lands? What is her relationship with Ragnaros, the Fire Demon King? Are the two sides father and daughter? Or is it a seizure of power?
In this regard, although many people have asked about the fire elementals that have spread throughout the planet Azeroth since then, it is a pity that those fire elementals either choose to keep silent, or simply say that they don't know, or just keep it secretive and talk about him.
In the end, this matter can only become a big mystery in the archaeological community of Azeroth, which has caused speculation and gossip among many do-gooders, who have written thousands of different versions of the queen's biography......
Actually, history is like this, archaeologists just like to mess around and write nonsense, especially those dwarf dwarf archaeologists, who dare to dig the prison where the Titans hold the ancient gods! )
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Well, in fact, the above two things are all recorded in the official documents of the later Flame Kingdom. What was the specific situation, the fire elemental who was on the scene at the time, and the members of the envoy sent by the Lordaeron Kingdom to watch the battle, they didn't see it that way at all......
For the first thing, the members of the Lordaeron Kingdom Spator Group, those humans are irrefutable! Because, these things are all real records on the surface, whether it is the Dreaddemon King who was killed, or the undead scourge that was destroyed and those territories captured, these things are well documented, and there is not much room for argument.
But for the record of the second thing in the official documents of the Flame Kingdom, they didn't dare to compliment it so much.
The two sides did have an earth-shattering and powerful super-war, but... And that was only in the beginning; They scoffed at the fact that they had smashed countless mountains, burned countless seas of fire, and sacrificed countless heroic fire elementals to defeat Akmund.
They watched the whole battle, and it was an irrefutable fact that Akmund was defeated, but where were those things that smashed the mountains and burned the seas of fire? Even the fire elemental didn't die much, did he?
They remembered very well that at the beginning of the confrontation in front of them, the terrifying Great Demon Akmund was indeed extraordinary, and when he came up, he summoned thousands of green evil energy hellfires, and those green meteorites were like rain, densely packed, and kept smashing into the city area of Stratholme, and soon melee with those fire elemental legions. Although this melee between the younger brothers on both sides did not last long, it can also be described as an earth-shattering, crying ghosts and gods, a super collision of strength and strength, and it can't be faked! For this, they couldn't agree more!
After seeing that the great demon took the lead, the queen of the fire elementals, she also quickly began to prepare to fight back. At that time, the members of the viewing group had already seen that she seemed to have gathered a large amount of magic power, and guided all the fire power in the area of the former Stratholme city that was caught in the sea of fire, and it didn't take long for her to guide the spells, and the momentum at that time looked simply mighty, and it scared people to death, as if the goddess of fire had descended to earth herself, and the shock caused to the members of the viewing group was not small......
And then what? And then ...... And then it's gone!
Right! You read that right! The rest is really gone!
Just as the members of Lordaeron's watchgroup were about to risk their lives to watch a god-level super-battle up close, just as the fire elemental army was still fighting with the ever-falling evil hellfire...... Something happened that made all the members of the Lordaeron Kingdom Spectator Group collectively dumbfounded......
The demigod queen who had already finished channeling the spell and was about to make a move to use the heaven-destroying earth-level magic, she actually dispersed the spell so inexplicably? Then she pointed her little hand at the nose of the great demon Akmund, and said something arrogantly, and then ...... The big demon actually nodded, patted his butt and turned his head to leave? Before he left, he would be kind enough to dissolve the massive Hellfires that he had summoned?
These envoys of the original Lordaeron Kingdom, they instantly fell into a daze, they didn't know at all, just between the two sides, whether something happened that they didn't know? Or maybe they fought a battle in a mysterious realm they couldn't see?
What about the good and the endless? What about the god-level super war? What about destroying the world and moving mountains and seas?
Why was it that at the moment ago, the two sides who were still talking cruelly to each other and wanted to mock the enemy to death, and wanted to go directly to each other to kill each other with a knife, after a period of wordless staring at each other, the two brothers were so good, and suddenly they stopped fighting? What kind of international joke is this?
In the eyes of the humans watching the battle group, you, a Burning Legion Great Demon, have just summoned so many green fire monsters, and now they are still falling down, and it seems that you are still fighting with the fire elementals, winning and losing each other, and you don't see any big disadvantages to them? Why did you, the boss, suddenly shake your hands?
Moreover, whether you are Akmund in size or the surging strength on your body, you may not be weaker than that Flame Queen, so why did you suddenly admit it? Could it be that you look at other people's little girls so cute, so you can't bear to do it?
And also! That Flame Queen too, you've already made such a huge formation, and the spell has been channeled, so why don't you hurry up and smash it out? Whether it's blowing up that Akmund, or roasting him, or even if your magic directly shatters the entire planet of Azeroth and everyone plays with it, they won't be as unacceptable as they are now......
So, after watching the great demon Akmund turn around and leave, the first thing that came to mind for the members of the viewing group who had been excluded from the time loop was: What the hell is going on? What about the War of the Century? Why did you suddenly stop fighting like this? That's too anticlimactic, isn't it? They are melon-eating viewers, saying that they are absolutely unacceptable!
The second thing that came to mind was: there must be a shady scene inside this Nima!
Don't...... Was it this little girl who used some spell that they couldn't see to beat this demon away? Or is it... What shady delight has been reached between the two of them? Or... Is this little girl related to that demon or something? Otherwise, how could they suddenly stop fighting?
You know, a moment ago, they were still talking cruelly to each other, and the fire elemental and hellfire under their hands had already begun to fight in a short battle, and the two big guys were about to hit the brains! But...... Why is this the end result?
"That...... Captain, how do we write a report when we go back? Both of them... Doesn't there seem to be a special relationship? ”
The same timid cavalryman asked, they didn't know how to describe what was happening in front of them when they returned......
Do you want to say: the big demon and the little girl queen, after the two of them let each other out for a while, threw countless meteorites on one side, and the other side channeled the super spell, and then ...... Just shook hands and made peace suddenly?
"Alright, there's nothing to see, let's go back! As for the report...... I'll know how to write it, I don't need you to worry about it! ”
After pondering for a moment, the captain finally spoke. Compared to the coward recruit who kept yelling that he wanted to escape in advance, as the captain of this viewing group, he could observe much more carefully.
He found that when the great demon Akmund turned around and left, his face was full of grief and helplessness, the kind of gloomy and desperate desire to tear the other party's face alive, it definitely didn't seem like he was forcibly pretended, he must have been forced to leave helplessly!
If you think about it carefully, before, the subordinates of the opposing sides have also begun to fight in a melee with short handovers. The losses caused by those green hellfires to the red fire element legions are definitely not small, one by one, meteorites are generally thrown down from a high altitude without money, and there must be three or five thousand casualties, and now, in the area of the head of Stratholme City, those fire element corpses lying still are enough to explain everything!
Therefore, based on the analysis of all the circumstances, the other party, the big demon named Akmund, he must have suffered a big loss at the hands of that little girl! So much so that he conceded defeat and had to go!
So...... This little girl is even more powerful than this big demon? Or rather...... What could she do to make Akmund jealous?
But no matter what, now, the great power displayed by this Flame Queen is beyond doubt! Well, it's time for them to go back. Perhaps, Commander Dasohan and Generalissimo Garissus should also face up to the existence of the Flame Kingdom. No matter how the relationship between the two sides is handled, in the eyes of him, the cavalry captain, being in a hostile relationship with the Flame Kingdom will only be the worst choice! I hope the leaders above don't make such stupid and inferior mistakes......
"Long live the Queen! Long live the Queen!! ”
When he saw the archdemon Akmund, he stopped and turned away, and after disbanding all the summoned hellfires, causing them to fall apart into a useless pile of green rocks, the fighting Flame Legion finally realized that the enemy seemed to have run away on its own? Immediately, they cheered loudly! Because, they found that it seemed to be their mighty Queen Majesty who had struck away that murderous demon!
"Long live the Queen! Long live the Queen! Long live the Queen!! ”
Compared to the surprise and puzzlement of some humans, the fire elementals didn't think about so many detours.
All they knew was that their Great Majesty had just defeated the mighty Great Demon, and that their Fire Elemental had won the battle!
This indicates that after their first victory, their fire elemental has established itself in the world of Azeroth! Now that they have captured a large chunk of territory with enough fire elementals to survive, this is a glorious victory for all of their fire elementals to cheer about!
"Congratulations, my esteemed and great Majesty the Queen! Congratulations on your victory over such a powerful enemy! Your light, like the sun in the sky, is scorching and bright, and it will surely lead our fire element to infinite glory! ”
Seeing that Her Majesty had driven away her opponent so simply, Shane Knox immediately ran over to compliment.
"You must be the messenger given to us by the great god of fire, and I, Shannox, swear that we fire demons and other fire elementals will be loyal to you forever, following in your footsteps until the end of the world! We are your strongest shield, the sharpest spear, to crush all your enemies and make them all prostrate under your light......"
Although Shane Knox was also a little incredible, it didn't think too much about it, anyway, their Flame Kingdom had won the final victory under the leadership of Her Majesty, and that was enough!
And after discovering that the green hellfire had fallen apart on its own, turned into a pile of useless rocks, with nothing to do with itself, and no longer needed to direct the battle, it hurried to the top of this section of the city wall that was still intact, and knelt beside Queen Anne, flattering and flattering all kinds of flattering and praising sycophants, and of course, at the end did not forget to express its own loyalty to Her Majesty......
"Oops! Alright, alright! You can do it yourself, I'm tired now, I want to go back and get some sleep first! ”
Little Anne doesn't want to care about Shane Knox's sycophant, this old fire demon is really getting more and more slippery now, so she won't be confused by its three or two sentences!
Stratholme, who has been fighting with these fire elements for a long time today, even missed a nap.
Just now, I fought with that Akmund, worked hard, fought wits and courage, and used hundreds of spells in different ways, this thing is really not done by people!
Now, little Anne was already feeling very tired and tired, especially mentally, and she felt very tired. Hundreds of spells down, although it didn't have a big impact on her body, after all, time had flowed back, but ...... The mental load can't be alleviated by time flowback, otherwise, the big demon wouldn't have confessed so quickly, right? He felt tired when he was beaten, could he stand it if he was beaten?
You know, Anne herself is just mentally exhausted, and what about the other party? It's both physical and mental torture, and whoever is beaten with hundreds of super spells, and without a suitable means of counterattack, I'm afraid no one will be able to stand it, right?
But no matter what, today's matter is over anyway, and the big demon has signed a non-disclosure agreement with her, and he won't be here again for the time being...... Therefore, little Anne decided to go back to the royal palace in the Flame Canyon first, rest well for the night, and sleep until the sun on her ass tomorrow, as for the rest of the ......
Hey? She doesn't seem to have any special arrangements, does she? Where will there be anything after that? Tomorrow's story will be discussed tomorrow!
"Yes! My Majesty, I will take care of the matter here, so rest assured. ”
When Shannox heard this, he quickly bent down deeply, and then greeted their Majesty, until he saw Anne enter the portal and disappear, he stood up erect and sent for his nephew, Shaturu, the chief hunter, and now that the war was over, it was time to get down to business.
"Shaturu, you immediately explain, let those fire demons quickly transform this place, and strive to transform this place into a flame city suitable for our fire elemental survival as soon as possible before the cold winter comes, this is the first priority!"
Looking at the small snowflakes that fell from the sky and were melted and evaporated by the hot fire here in Stratholme before they reached the ground, Shane Knox frowned. It's just a light snowfall now, and if it snows heavily, at that point, if the renovation is not completed, it will be very bad for their fire elemental creatures!
"By the way, you also have to remember to send an engineering team to build a splendid queen's palace in the middle of this city, not only tall! And look magnificent! It's absolutely forbidden to cut corners like you did in the makeshift camp in the Flame Canyon, do you understand? ”
Shannox intends to transform Stratholme into a royal city in the world of Azeroth, a fire kingdom of the fire elemental.
Perhaps, from now on, this place should not be called Stratholme, so what should it be called...... A new land of flames? Or the City of Queens? You need to think about this slowly, and you don't need to be in a hurry. After all, the construction of this city is a long-term project! Anyway, in the cold winter, it is not suitable for the activities of the fire elementals, so they can simply nest here and build slowly.
"That...... How tall do you have to be, Lord Steward? How magnificent? ”
Shaturu doesn't know too much about this meaning, so he should always give an indicator, right? So, it hurriedly asked. It's afraid that if the time comes, if the built one can't satisfy the chief manager, it will be light to tear it down and start over, and it will inevitably be beaten by the chief manager!
"Hmm...... Then follow the scale of that Safron palace in the Land of Flames! You should get the idea, right? Then, build two large flame portals on each side of the palace in the middle of the city! ”
Anyway, Shane Knox was already planning to hold on to their thighs with Her Majesty Queen Anne. Later, they will settle here, and the fire elemental will settle here.
Now, how bad is Queen Anne of their Flame Kingdom, so powerful big demons have let her run away, and the other miscellaneous fish don't dare to come here to be presumptuous, right?
Therefore, with such a powerful demigod as their backer, absolutely no one can easily drive their fire elementals back to the Land of Flames! Therefore, it is completely feasible to build a city of fire elementals here and settle down!
"That's right! You also have to remember that outside our city of flames, in the place where the great demon was standing just now, a huge statue of our queen must be taller than the one called Akmund, and then, using the words of our fire demon and the lingua franca of Azeroth, record today's queen's achievements, and the stone tablet inscribed with words must also be larger, do you understand? ”
After shouting out to Shaturu, who was about to leave, Shane Knox quickly said his thoughts again, this is the best way to show Queen Anne's strength and deter those miscellaneous people who have bad intentions towards the fire elemental!
In the future, any creature that comes here will be able to see it at first glance: it is here that Her Majesty, the Queen of the Fire Elemental, defeated the powerful, invincible leader of the Burning Legion, the Polluter, Akmund!
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The battle of Stratholm has come to an end, and in the hand of Tyre, in the lord's mansion here, the generalissimo of the kingdom of Lordaeron, Osmar? Gathers, looking at a letter written by Da Sohan himself and delivered by the messenger on a fast horse, looked at a letter with a gloomy look in his hand, in which only three things were mentioned:
First, he had managed to convince most of the refugees in the Flame Canyon and borrowed some of his troops from the Fire Demon to escort them back to the Chapel of Light's Wish, so there should be no surprises on the way.
Second, on the morning of their departure with the refugees, Anne, the queen of the fire elementals? Hasta, she actually launched an offensive against the undead scourge north of Lake Blackwood, and her intention is likely to capture the entire Stratholme area! And he Da Sohan has already sent a small group of cavalry envoys as a viewing group, and they will pay attention to the opponent's actions and evaluate the opponent's combat strength throughout the whole process.
Thirdly, and the most important of the three, he Da Sohan told him great news in his letter: he actually found the last member of the royal family of their kingdom of Lordaeron, the princess - Kalia in the refugee camp in the Flame Canyon? Minahill! It turns out that the royal family of Minethil of the Kingdom of Lordaeron is not extinct, and they are about to welcome back Her Royal Highness the princess of their own kingdom!
When Generalissimo Garissus suddenly saw this, he almost wanted to scold his mother directly on the spot!
Those fire elementals attacked the north and grabbed the territory of their Lordaeron Kingdom, and now, he, Da Sohan, actually came to cause trouble for him? How unreasonable! In the royal family of Minethiel, which Garrissus originally thought should have died a long time ago, he really found a Princess Kalia by him? At this critical time?
Well, now that the Princesses are back, he Garissus will still be the Generalissimo of the Lordaeron Alliance in the future, but he can also imagine that he will never be the same Generalissimo again...... In the future, there will be a princess of the kingdom who will crush him to his position, and even ...... The Queen of Lordaeron?
If...... If it weren't for this Princess Kalia, once he, Garrissus, regained the homeland of the Lordaeron Kingdom, then he would be the hero of the entire Lordaeron and the Alliance, and even the hero of the human race!
Then, with this merit, it is not impossible for him to be crowned king in one fell swoop!
But now? No more fun! Even if the land was recovered and the undead were banished, it was done under the leadership of the great Princess Kalia. Can Princess Kalia add a heavy touch to her own upcoming crown - the princess of revival? The queen of ZTE?
And he, Garissus, is at most a general under the Queen's command! Who will remember him then?
Grand Marshal Garishers can already imagine that once Princess Kalia returns to the hands of Tyr, from now on, the remaining forces of the Kingdom of Lordaeron will no longer be centered on him Marshal Garishers, and will no longer bow to his orders, because they have a better allegiance and a bigger banner!
Alas...... It's not time for me to be with me......
Just as Garissus was frowning and sighing at the letter, preparing to deal with the approaching Princess Kalia, a herald soldier walked in just in time.
"Report! Your Excellency Generalissimo, five high elves of Quel'Thallas riding dragon eagles flew outside, claiming to be emissaries of the Kingdom of Quel'Thalas, and saying that there is something important to meet with the Supreme Governor of the Hand of Tyr here, and to inform the humans about some things about the Kingdom of Quel'Thalas. ”
"Humph! Emissary of Quel'Thalas? Those long-eared elves over and over again? Supposedly, aren't they already plagued by the Alsatian hap. Why don't you stay in the north and lick your wounds, and still have time to come here in our Lordaeron Kingdom? ”
Garissus frowned, pondered for a while and said, he put himself in his shoes for a while, he didn't understand the meaning of the elves at the moment, he had heard that the other party had been plagued by the army of the undead of Arthas before, although in the end, they won the battle inexplicably, but Quel'Thalas had also become full of holes, and now he should take advantage of the fact that the undead have not yet moved, and honestly lie dormant in Quel'Thalas, and slowly recover, right?
You know, the main force of the undead scourge is all here in Lordaeron, even the demons that have recently descended! They have every chance to shrink back and develop, just as they have done for more than 2,000 years. And now, they have long ears but run out at this time, what kind of trouble are they going to make? Don't you think there's enough going on here in Gallissus?
"Your Excellency? Do you want to see them or not? ”
The soldier didn't dare to answer the marshal's words, and he didn't know how to answer, after all, he was just a small soldier, and now he came in just to convey a message, and he couldn't see it all by the marshal's words, what was the use of telling him so much?
"Forget it, there's nothing to do anyway, so you might as well meet it! Wait a minute, you invite them to the castle hall now, and I'll be there when I'm ready." ”
Eventually, Garissus thought about it and decided to meet the elven messengers, but before he could do so, he needed to put on his generalissimo's outfit, not to weaken the human momentum! He wanted to see what those High Elves with long ears were trying to do here!