Volume IV Reign of Chaos 212 Siege of Dalaran
If you were me......
For example, when you say this, she says, "Because my instincts are accurate." How Would You Answer?
I wouldn't laugh and say, "You're such a detective!" "But I'm really out of words. Hum...... I can't figure it out anyway.
It's really brain-burning.
Three days later Kel'thugad returned, with Soval badly wounded, and so did the traitor, and less than a tenth of the soldiers had fled as they had set out.
Arthas squinted at the group, they didn't speak, and Soval was almost dead.
Arthas had Soval carried down to heal his wounds, saying that he would be equipped with enough blood to heal his wounds, but the lich was unscathed.
"Let's talk about it." Arthas leaned back in his chair and stared at the two men in front of him with interest.
The traitor glanced at Kel'thugad, who stood straight and straight like a candlestick, without saying a word.
"I ...... We...... Attacked by humans. He said. And their mages are powerful. ”
Arthas stared at the guy with his chin in his right hand and didn't speak.
"We ...... Can't get in. He said.
"Why?" Arthas asked faintly.
"There's a magical barrier outside that city...... I...... When we get there, we can't get in. He said.
"That can't kill so many people."
"The human army is behind us...... We can't stop it. He raised his eyelids and looked at Arthas, "No Your Majesty, we ...... Can't stop them. ”
Arthas turned his gaze to Kel'thugad, "Aren't you pretty good?" ”
"The magic barrier...... It's been strengthened! Kel'thugad said.
"But you at least know how to crack it, do you?" Arthas stared at Kel'thugad.
"I was cracking at the time, but ...... The human army is too fierce! He said. We are outnumbered! ”
"Don't you count how many troops I gave you?"
"The subordinates are indeed ...... Impotent! Kel'thugad bowed his head! At this time, the traitor's head was lowered, and he said, "I beg your majesty to take the expedition yourself!" We're going to be able to get there! ”
I looked back at Arthas and then at Sylvanas, Arthas's face was expressionless, but Sylvanas's face was palpable.
Now that I think Kel'thugad was a big lie, I feel that he must be better than Antonidas. It had to carry 20,000 men with it, and the traitor had brought at least 10,000 men.
These 30,000 or 40,000 people can completely dismantle Dalaran into seven, seven, eighty, eight. Soval is one of Arthas's cronies, and the fundamental purpose of coming back this time is to convince Arthas that the enemy is really powerful, and he has to go in person, and he has to go.
This thing......
Can you understand what I'm talking about?
Don't understand? There is a serious problem here, which Alsace has overlooked, and I have ignored...... Or......
Gee!
Arthas really believed it, and all the remaining armies rushed to Dalaran!
The city of Dalaran is a ...... The City of Magic, that place is called the Holy Land by many people, the Holy Land of Knowledge, the Holy Land of Magic, in my eyes, there are not only people with knowledge, but also some people with nostrils facing the sky.
I don't like pointed hats.
Not only are these guys magical, but some of them are good at business. So on the outskirts of the main city of Dalaran, a large number of people tried their best to sharpen their heads and wanted to buy a house or land here, after all, the goods flowing from here were sold for a good price.
But the Dalaran higher-ups have a lot of brains, so they don't let the land be sold to outsiders without restrictions, most people are only allowed to own property here, but very few people are allowed to own land. The land was held in the hands of the Dalaran higher-ups forever, and then leased to the peasants, who had become second-hand landlords or peasants of a higher rank. And Dalaran has always controlled the population, and they will neither let too few locals, nor too many locals.
I don't really understand economics, and I don't know why they do it. That's not the case with Lordaeron.
The last time Kel'thugad arrived, he had only destroyed the commercial and residential areas on the outskirts of the main city of Dalaran. When we came back, not only was there no one here, but the corpses on the street had been cleaned up.
Do you know what I mean by that?
Instead of withdrawing his army from the commercial district, Arthas approached Kel'thugad and asked him how he could break through the magical barrier to Dalaran, to which Kel'thugad said that some magical barrier needed to be destroyed. And when asked how many he destroyed last time, he said that he couldn't destroy any of them.
Arthas looked displeased, but he didn't say anything more, just ordered his men to lead their teams to destroy the magical barrier.
A lot of things are thought of beautifully, and once you do it, there will be all kinds of accidents. When the Death Knight Lord led his troops to destroy the barrier, Dalaran began to fight back.
The army that came out of Dalaran was fierce, I don't know the names of those men, but there were a few I knew, and I had seen them during the Battle of Talenmir.
The first contest began.
Instead of standing on the ground and casting their magic like fools, the mages rode their horses and let them go. The woman at the head should be one of the higher rank of Dalaran, and the color of her robe turned out to be purple!
The arcane energy unleashed by this spell spread widely, and she was the vanguard of the street, not knowing what spell was used, and the horse under her crotch could easily knock the undead soldiers around her away.
Her team tore a hole in the avenue for the walking corpses. Seeing this, I opened my bow and arrows to shoot her, but my arrows clearly hit her head and I saw that they were bounced aside.
The woman turned her head to look at me, then immediately turned her horse's head and ran down the street to the west.
Kel'thugad wasn't here, so I didn't know her name, but I didn't look like her face.
The first round of the attack was over, after the first round of the attack was taken by me with an arrow from me. The troops that dashed out of Dalaran seemed to be only a temptation. Arthas, on the other hand, saw them retreat and immediately chose to press on all fronts.
The main entrance to Dalaran was sealed by magic, and the energy was visible to the naked eye, and our soldiers were burned to ashes when they arched their heads. Even if ten or twenty arch up together, the result is the same.
Arthas did not announce the cessation of the attack, not that it was not a pity that the corpses of these operations were wiped out in this way, but that they were waiting for a while for a human army that would rush out from somewhere.
But I'm more concerned about when the guys who went to destroy the barrier will get back the news that the barrier has been destroyed.
In fact, we now have a certain advantage, this city is not as small as we imagined. When the orcs invaded, I heard that there were about 700 magician apprentices in the city, and the lower apprentices had to live in apartments. Add laboratories, gardens, plantations and so on to this place!
And how can this little man in the city withstand an attack from all directions?
If it was just suicide, it would probably take a day for others to consume these walking corpse troops, and finally after waiting for a few hours, Alsace stopped this suicide.
The afternoon sun is overcast, and the light is not bright and the sky is barely blue. The shield didn't normally exist, and Kel'thugad said he had only heard of it and had never seen it open. In other words, it is completely unknown whether it can be destroyed or not.
But as it stands, if the siege continues, it may not be a good thing. We can't trap the people inside, but the human forces outside should still be gathering.
After two hours, the sky began to darken, and the day was coming to an end, and I was still wondering if it would be easier at night, after all, it would take a lot of manpower and energy to maintain this energy field.
Alsace was in a hurry, so he went to check the damage himself. I thought that this kind of destruction would be just a group of people digging up the enchantment rune stone and something like that, but when I got to the scene, I found that it was not so easy.
It's a bunch of lichs using their spells against this power, canceling out the enchantment energy. But since we're destroying outside, there are people on the inside to support us.
As a result, the people in the house didn't win for a day, and we didn't take advantage of it. I suddenly remembered that I could teleport, wouldn't it? Kel'thugad was a magician in Dalaran in his early years, so he would definitely teleport magic, wouldn't it be good to teleport over?
But Kel'thugad shook his head, the shield would block out the sudden wave of energy, at least that's what he knew.
Seeing that this guy is unreliable, Arthas is personally involved in the fight against the magical enchantment. He stuck his sword into the side of the enchantment runestone, and the lichs behind him cast a spell together, and in an instant he could feel that the earth was crawling with insects and we were standing on them, and the land instantly turned black and seemed to spread all around. Those of us standing on the sidelines couldn't help but step back.
This black thing is the kind of power that has corrupted the land of Quel'Thalas. When this black energy tried to climb the rune stone, it was like water splashing on a hot stone.
The sizzling sound is getting louder and louder, and the black gas is coming out more and more. The color change in the rest of that layer of energy shield was not very large, but the energy layer around this runestone began to turn red significantly, more and more red.
I just can't help at all.
Just as he watched as the energy around the stone began to glow, suddenly Arthas straightened up, and he pulled his sword out of the ground, and saw that the hilt of the sword was pitch black. Not even the light emitted by the runestone could illuminate it completely. And as he plunged the sword into the dirt again, he heard a very crisp sound.
"Smack!"
I've never heard that kind of sound. But that voice told me what was broken!
In an instant, a stream of cold air gushed out from the sword body, and the black ground quickly frosted! And the rune stone that was still glowing just now was extinguished in an instant, and the energy layer around the rune stone disappeared all at once!
It's like a chain reaction, and the energy shield on the entire wall is gone!
"It's a success!" Kel'thugad shouted! "Long live my king!" He shouted and waved, "Where are the gargoyle troops!" Let the gargoyle troops rush in! ”
But as he waved his hand, the energy shield began to recover again, but it was as thin as a soap bubble and had a flowing light.
Arthas reached out to touch it, and the energy layer reacted somewhat to his armor.
The gargoyles came, and Kel'thugad shouted for them to fly in, but Arthas shouted: "All the gargoyles are piled up!" Give me a staircase into the city! ”
Gargoyles descended from the sky, they fell to the ground and pounced on the wall, and when they reached the edge of the wall, they quickly petrified, and then another gargoyles pounced on them, and the gargoyles like arhats built a ladder up the ladder.
A group of ghouls next to them let out a constant growl, and they couldn't hold back in their rest.
"Ghoul troops, come with me!" Arthas raised his sword and slashed at the newly healed energy layer, and the moment the sword slashed, a large hole was cut in the energy layer, and then he rushed in first. "Let them bleed like a river!"