Chapter 1686: Pressing Forward Step by Step (Second Update)

Anastrian and Dranosh joined the Scourge, and the biggest hit was naturally the Horde.

One of them controls the tribe's magical communication network, and the other's father is the highest military commander under Thrall. In many cases, Varok is the one who controls the largest number of troops in the tribe.

Unfortunately, as the Northrend tribe's army directly shifted to a state of rest and the tribe hurriedly changed its communication system, in a sense, Arthas did not get much useful information.

The Alliance has never been able to defend the Horde, let alone the Forsaken who have direct hatred. If it weren't for Duke's pressure here, Sylvanas would have caused trouble for the Forsaken over there. If Duke gives another little hint, Queen Hope will mobilize the whole country and pull the night elves together to kill the Forsaken.

In fact, what Arthas wanted most was the Magic Network.

Without the Magic Network, the strength of the alliance's mages would have dropped by at least 50%. It’s not like the Scourge Legion has never killed any mage from the Alliance. Looking at a certain mage who was roaring and fierce before he was alive, he kept throwing fireballs for free. Once you turn into a lich, you stop eating.

The Magic Network provides too much support to the Alliance mages, almost to the point of replacing a shotgun with a cannon. As long as the overflowing mental power is injected as the energy for the operation of the magic network, in wartime, the elements can be used almost unlimitedly within the range that does not exceed the upper limit of one's endurance.

There is no need to even communicate with the elemental world. All elements have already been filtered, purified and stabilized in the magic network in advance. As long as the mage completes the last step of elemental shaping work, he can complete an attack magic that far exceeds his own combat power level.

The Magic Network is Duke's lifeblood and is directly under Duke's control.

If you don't have the magical ability to overpower Duke, you won't be able to steal it.

Speaking of building something similar to the Magic Network to compete with the Magic Network...

Unfortunately, even with the presence of two magic masters, Malygos and Anastrian, the magic network belonging to the Scourge could not be created.

This is what pissed Alsace off.

There is no way. Although Holy Light and Shadow are two independent elemental energies, they are purely spiritual energy. There is no independent elemental realm independent of the main plane.

Among the four elements, if you want to obtain more elements, you must have higher authority. Except for Alsace, who has a certain amount of authority over the water elemental realm, they don't have the other two.

It goes without saying that the Sun King's strength has not entered the divine realm.

Malygos originally had some authority, but unfortunately after he was cut in half, not only did he lose his authority, he also lost the Titan runes, making it impossible to control the arcane energy extended by the Titan energy.

Therefore, Alsace's only hope is to build a frost elemental magic network to completely drive out Duke's magic network.

Therefore, after the tribe retreated, the coalition forces and the Scourge started a battle for the magic leyline node on Icecrown Glacier.

The previous Shadow Vault was one, and the Scourge City was another. The remaining nodes are not completely symmetrical on the map, and their positions are quite easy to recognize, because the Scourge Legion built strong defenses on them early. .

They are: the archetypal vault to the north of Ordusa, the Desolation Gate, the vault to the west of Modretha, the Death Gate, as well as the Dark Cathedral and Icecrown itself.

They are not only battlegrounds for military strategists, but also the nodes of the magic leyline.

Everyone knows this is happening, it just depends on who can seize the opportunity.

For several days, anyone with some magical sensing ability could feel that Alsace was expanding a new frost elemental energy network with Icecrown Citadel as the center.

In contrast, Duke also strengthened the ley lines in Scourge City and the Shadow Vault in the north, using them as new nodes of the magic network.

On March 20, in the natural disaster city, Duke came to inspect.

The Scourge City has been burned to the ground. Although the Red Dragon Legion has purified the place with flames, no one can guarantee that there are remnants of the plague poisonous gas in some corner of the city.

At this time, it is time for inhuman creatures and mechanical creations to appear.

The ruins of the dilapidated city are filled with patrolling fire demons and mechanical gnomes commanding mechanical spiders, tanks and other mechanical creations.

Duke used the wind to support his feet, opened the frost shield, and arrived at the center of the city.

The huge ghost tower that once existed here has been dismantled immediately and replaced by a Titan array composed of countless golden Titan runes.

Seeing Duke's arrival, Exotus, the manager of Duke's elemental messenger, hurried to greet him.

"Master!" He bowed and saluted.

He once served Ragnaros the Firelord, but now he has fully adapted to his identity.

It was a rare opportunity for him to play, so he naturally did his best.

"How's the progress?" Duke asked.

"It was a bit unsatisfactory at the beginning, but with their help, we have caught up with the progress." The 'them' that Exotus was referring to were naturally the water elements who were helping beside the Titan Rune Circle. Each of these water elements is huge, at least three stories high.

Interestingly, even though water and fire are incompatible, the water elements and the fire demons somehow maintained restraint.

Duke smiled.

What he is doing now is digging up the roots of Alsace.

If you simply introduce the flame element from the fire elemental world and try to change the elemental proportions of this continent that is already covered by ice and snow, it will be thankless.

Replacing Exottus with Ragnaros, the Firelord, might still have a chance of success.

So Duke gave up on pure confrontation and instead called in the Hydraxian water element.

As creatures of the water elemental realm, the Hydrasian water elements do not like Ragnaros, nor do they like water elements or water elemental creatures being contaminated by the dark power of Arthas.

Duke easily reached a consensus with Duke Hydrasis again. The Hydrasian water element would help lead away the frost element that was overflowing on the Icecrown Glacier, and then Exotus and the Red Dragon Legion would join forces. Make trouble and disrupt the magical ley lines in the Icecrown region.

This approach of digging up the roots and cutting off the source is the most damaging.

Duke was not in a hurry to let the alliance advance the front, just like tightening a noose, slowly, slowly chipping away at Alsace's wings.

The last time Alsace attacked in the east and west, the coalition suffered a huge loss. This time Duke learned his lesson. Just put heavy troops in the Shadow Vault and Scourge City, and withdraw the main force from other places, leaving only symbolic defenses, and they are all mechanical gnomes and mechanical dwarves.

If you have the ability, you Scourge Legion can turn these robots into undead creatures!

In the Shadow Vault, in addition to the Knights of the Ebon Blade, there are now four guards of Alkavon, plus Hodir, Onyxia, Vashj, and Kalecgos who came to hang out.