The wind howled, the blizzard fell, the sky was vast and chaotic, and the earth was solemn and depressed......

Winter in the Far North takes up almost three-quarters of the year, but in such a harsh environment, there is still an ancient city with a long history, with an endless sea to the north, a large amount of ice floating all year round, and to the south of the Eldas Mountains, which stretch for thousands of kilometers. For thousands of years, it has been weathered and mottled, but it still stands, dutifully defending the vast territory behind it - the Osland Empire!

From a distance, the towering ancient city wall is simply a steep white mountain wall, and the moss that crawls over the city wall is frozen under the frost, faintly revealing a trace of greenery, proving its tenacious life. The top of the mountain wall is full of red flags with angel patterns, the holy angel is naked, his hands are clasped in front of his chest, the huge wings behind him are suddenly opened, his eyes are slightly closed, and his expression is indifferent, this is the military emblem of the [Angel] Legion of the Oslan Empire, symbolizing that it is an army that guards the empire like an angel. The flags tumbled wildly in the blizzard, the red background looked like burning flames, and the legions of angels with outstretched wings stepped on the burning flames, which stood out and shook in the snowy sky.

"That's the northern gate of the Oslan Empire, the city of Neptune!" the young officer in a black uniform put down the lookout glasses carved with delicate patterns and leaned in front of the huge glass curtain wall and whispered to himself, projected on the glass curtain wall was a finely carved face, thick eyelashes, narrow eyes, a high nose bridge, and black pupils as bright as jewels, but there was an abyss-like chill in such a delicate face, and his voice was also as cold as frost, like ice condensed on the banks of a winter river," If you pry it open, will you be able to witness the prosperity of the ancient empire?!"

"The City of Neptune, the northernmost city of the Oslan Empire, is said to be a military fortress in Osland, garrisoned by an army codenamed [Angel], and it is not easy to pry it open. The old man, also dressed in black, stared at the young officer in front of him and added respectfully, "After all, the long history of the [Angel] Legion can almost be traced back to the origins of Osland, and it is said that the commander in charge of the entire [Angel] Legion and the owner of this military fortress is a direct member of the Oslan royal family, a prince with the surname Sesliya. ”

"Really, Ceslia......" the young officer smiled meaningfully, and his handsome eyebrows revealed a chill, "What a long-lost word...... Is it a bit of a surprise and a little interesting for the noble descendants of the royal family to come and guard the cold country in person?"

"Colonel Parsis's remarks are a little ......" At this time, another young soldier standing quietly behind the young officer suddenly spoke, he gracefully and calmly propped up the pair of silver-rimmed dark glasses that rested on the bridge of his upright nose, his tone was steady and indifferent, but he could still hear some disdain and arrogance in his voice, "It's too exaggerated, isn't it? I'm afraid that invincible only exists in the long river of almost legendary history?!"

"Today, Oslan is more like an arrogant gentleman, who has inherited the glory and glory of his ancestors, but is only a vain appearance. It is not difficult to see from the reconnaissance reports of the past dynasties that the contradictions and conflicts within the empire are intensifying, and the fragmentation of the political power, the divisions between the army, and the increasingly intensified contradictions between religion and imperial power are gradually eroding this once powerful country to stand at the top of the world. A cruel smile crept into the grim face of the young soldier, "I think...... Today, Osland itself is already a flat boat in the storm, crumbling, as long as it ......"

"Colonel Steyr is really arrogant, even if the political situation in Osland is turbulent, but it is equivalent to the history of magic for nearly 10,000 years, which is not something you and I can speculate about. Throughout the ages, the empire of magicians that has bred the most and most powerful mages on the continent is not something that can be easily subverted overnight......" The old man known as Colonel Parsis smiled helplessly, and then said, "You underestimate your opponent too much, right? Young man, underestimating the enemy and being arrogant, no matter what time it is, it will only lead to the fatal consequences of losing everything!"

"Interesting! Is it Colonel Parcis's peculiar way of thinking to elevate your opponents and degrade yourself?or is it that the Oslan Empire has left some indelible shadow on you that you have forgotten ......" Colonel Steyr had a mocking smile on his grim face, "You are the colonel of the United Empire of Bacda! Such remarks are inevitably suspected of demagoguery! and the sentence "The empire of magicians that gave birth to the most and the most powerful" is not right, it can only be said that it was once there...... The most powerful mage should have been born in the United Empire of Bhakda!"

"With the help of more and more advanced scientific and technological forces, the United Empire of Bakda should be the king who can finally ascend to the throne of the world!" Steyr looked arrogant, his misty eyes were full of infinite anticipation, "We should be the supreme being above all magicians! The kingdom that has begun to decay and wither has long since fallen many years ago, and it is just waiting for a young and powerful successor to take over the supreme scepter from its hands, and we are this replacement." It's time to let the world know that a new era is coming, that the United Empire of Bhakda is a new type of empire far above the ancient magical realm, and that we are the true overlords of the new era and the leaders of the world!"

"The real overlord?!" the young officer turned his face sideways, looked at the old and young who were arguing fiercely, and smiled indifferently, "Do you think so too? This ancient empire that has stood for thousands of years has long since decayed? Even if it has a long history, it is now just an ancient tree that is dying!" The world is always like this, even the sun, moon and stars will always have a moment when they grow old and fall, no one can sit on that dazzling throne forever, one day, the old emperor will be replaced by the new one, the country is like this, and the world is like this......"

"Of course, Bakda is undoubtedly the Empire that is about to replace Oslan," the thin face of the young soldier looked serious and serious, "and Major General Karthas, you must be the hero of the Empire who took off the crown for Bakda!"

"Imperial Hero, I'm not interested in being an Imperial Hero...... The young major general known as Karthas looked out the window again, the other end of the blizzard, the ancient city wall that looked mottled and desolate between the snowy sky and the earth, and a trace of imperceptible coldness and murderous aura swept through his deep and gloomy eyes, "I just need to witness its destruction with my own eyes......"

"By the way, it's been two days, and there are no new instructions from the State Council?" Steyr turned his head to look at Colonel Parsis with suspicion.

"There are no new instructions issued, and Admiral Nostra's last instructions are still on standby!" Pasis replied calmly, "According to the report that Bakda and Oslan are still in further negotiations on the mining rights of the Eldas Mountains, although everyone knows that the negotiations are not optimistic, but as far as the current situation is concerned, the two sides have not reached a stalemate to the point of saber-rattling. Although the National Committee also wants to use the research results of these years to try its hand, especially in the face of an ancient empire like Oslan with a legendary monster level, it wants to provoke Oslan just on the basis of those untenable crude reasons, which will only discredit the Bacdad Empire internationally, and the slightest carelessness may cause a joint crusade of all countries, and I am afraid that it will ...... The gains outweigh the losses, so the current attitude of the National Committee can only passively wait and see. ”

"Waiting for Oslan's concessions......" Karthas frowned slightly, "or let the enemy be the first to provoke?"

"Well, that's pretty much it!" said Colonel Parsis respectfully.

The Eldas Mountains stretch for thousands of kilometers across the continent and are the border between the Osland Empire and the United Empire of Bhakda. But for a long time, there was ambiguity about where it belongs. One of the oldest and most mysterious regions of the continent, the Eldas Mountains have long been mythical and legendary, and many bizarre and eerie stories have been sketched out of it.

Although most of the stories are fictional, but the danger of its mountain range itself is an indisputable fact, as one of the earliest birthplaces of Warcraft, its mountains contain far more types of ancient Warcraft than people imagine, and there are legends that the strength of the abyss-level Warcraft comparable to the ancient gods is also entrenched in it, such a dangerous place will naturally have any scruples, and the two empires have not deliberately emphasized its belonging. Over time, this amazing and shuddering landscape became borderland.

But with the most terrible and dangerous temptations are often the most extreme and coveted.

Warcraft itself is a commodity with extremely high value, especially those rare and powerful high-level Warcraft, whether it is its fur, bone marrow, or even flesh and blood, it may be a treasure that is rare in a hundred years, or used to temper weapons, or blended with elixirs, but compared to these, what is more coveted is the deepest part of that vast area - the magic crystal vein.

Magic crystal is an important energy source that the continent has relied on for thousands of years, and no one can say exactly when it was first discovered by whom, and where, as if it has existed in the eyes of mankind since the moment of recording history.

The magic crystal is an element crystal extracted from the magic crystal vein, and the heaven and earth are filled with a large number of various elements that are invisible to the naked eye, and the precipitation and accumulation over the years slowly penetrate into the depths of the earth, gradually forming a magic crystal vein containing powerful energy, and the magic crystal ore extracted from the magic crystal vein can be quenched into magic crystals of different elements through special alchemy methods.

Different elements of magic crystals can serve different fields of human life through their own properties, such as fire-based magic crystals are mostly used in the field of smelting alloys and making weapons, water-based magic crystals can improve perennial arid areas, and wind-based magic crystals can provide power for large freighters.

Some people say that the appearance of magic crystals has created today's magic and magicians, in the world before the magic crystal mine has not been excavated, there is actually no magic and magicians, until one day, the magic crystal ore buried deep in the ground reappeared, a large number of mining and use of magic crystals gradually made the descendants of human beings have a mutation, more and more people can feel the existence of the huge but slim elements between heaven and earth, at first people can only control the elements through the alchemy weapon that fuses the magic crystal, and finally with the gradual evolution of human beings, it slowly evolved into being able to control various elements of the natural world alone, and magic and magicians were born。

Magic crystals have gradually become an indispensable and important part of the long history of mankind, from production to life, and even in wars between humans, magic crystals have played an extremely important role. Before human beings know it, it has become an indispensable and competing important resource.

Although there are different sizes of magic crystal veins found all over the world, after years of mining, there are very few magic crystal veins available for mining today, and the resources of magic crystal veins are gradually hovering on the verge of disappearing.

Countries around the world are salivating over the new magic crystal veins, and legend has it that the depths of the Eldas Mountains are buried rich in magic crystal veins, and the two countries connected to the mountains, whether it is the ancient magic country of Osland, which has a history of thousands of years, or the new technological empire of Bakda, which is only three hundred years old, formed and merged by seven small kingdoms, can not be moved.

For hundreds of years, the two countries have almost continuously sent expeditions into the mountains to conduct covert investigations, but the strangeness of the Eldas Mountains is not groundless, even with professional mercenary escorts, there are still very few people who can survive from the mountains in the end, and most of the people who survive have gone crazy, even the few who barely retain their personalities do not want to mention the bits and pieces of the mountains again, and the nightmarish experience has always been like a rotting scar gradually eroding their remaining will.

Of course, the heads of the empire will not give up on this, constantly raising the price of bounties, increasing the number of mercenaries and equipping them with more advanced weapons, to continue to maintain a survey team that constantly changes members, and continue to investigate this uninhabited land occupied by Warcraft.

But the result is still no clue, and the only thing that has changed is the increasingly feared image and legend of the Erdas Mountains. This result has also maintained the peace between the two countries for more than 100 years.

However, regrettable things still happened after all.

A meteorite fell from the sky in the depths of the Eldas Mountains.

Brilliant and magnificent veins of magic crystals appeared in the crater......

Like an extremely seductive young girl, she slowly fades off her tulle-like long skirt, and her beautiful * body is unabashedly presented in everyone's sight......

The war, which had been dormant for many years, was slowly brewing in silence......