Chapter 108: The Prologue Begins
On a mage tower in Dalaran, Archmage Antonidas was frowning, looking seriously at the undead Scourge army gathered outside the city of Dalaran.
Just last night, in the north, the undead army of the former King City of Lordaeron suddenly made a big move. They actually froze part of the lake surface of Lake Lordaeron. The miraculous Ice Bridge detoured directly from the southeast, and finally assembled in the south, completely blocking the way to the south of Dalaran, the capital of magic.
Originally, prior to this, Archmage Antonidas did not quite believe the rumor that Arthas used the magic sword Frostmourne to cut a bridge of ice over the sea and captured the Sunwell of the high elves. .
In his opinion, at least a large number of high-level mages need to work together and consume a huge amount of mana to make such a bridge, and it is definitely not something that the other party can do with just a magic sword!
But now, the facts were cruelly placed in front of him, and he had to admit that the magic sword was indeed terrifying, far exceeding his original expectations. That magic sword should not be something that can be produced in this world, it seems to be the creation of the gods.
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"Dear Master Archmage, thank you very much for allowing us to use the portal to send the army over, so that we finally have the opportunity to face Alsace, the enemy of Quel'Thalas!"
Prince Kael'thas of the high elves was standing beside Antonidas at this moment. The two of them were standing side by side. From the towering Mage Tower, they looked into the distance. Gather a massive army of undead ready for battle.
Among them, there are a large number of ghouls, sewing abominations, necromancers, siege grinders, and gargoyles flying all over the sky. If you add those massive skeleton zombies, the number will be at least There are as many as three to four hundred thousand!
From this point of view, these natural disasters of the undead have made such a big battle this time, and their attack on Dalaran must be inevitable?
Who gave them confidence? Even if Dalaran is really captured, how many of them will be left in the end? Is there such a way of playing regardless of your own casualties? Antonidas did not understand this point! Perhaps, the thinking of those undead dead is not the same as that of the living?
Different from Antonidas' doubts, Prince Kael'thas was scanning the undead army outside the city with cold eyes. He wanted to find the figure of the death knight Alsace, find out the massacre of elves, and kill his father. The murderer who pollutes the Sunwell!
In the original timeline, the current Kael'thas should have rectified the few remaining clansmen, and after detonating the Sunwell, he went south to seek refuge with the former Grand Marshal Garithos of Lordaeron.
But now, the situation is different from the original timeline!
Because, under Little Annie's random intervention, the high elves had an extra population of 200,000! Although Silvermoon City was also destroyed, the confidence of the high elves was still there.
Therefore, after reluctantly detonating the Sunwell, Prince Kael'thas disregarded the strong opposition of the Grand Duke Sylvanas, and forcibly selected more than 20,000 people who were loyal to the royal family in the newly formed Quel'Thalas army. Elite fighters and rangers, and rush to Dalaran through the portal!
He Kael'thas wants to be here in Dalaran, in this place, and that Quel'Thalas' life and death enemy - Alsace, fight to the death!
"No, His Royal Highness Prince Kael'thas, in fact, we, Dalaran, should be the ones to say thank you!"
Antonidas glanced at the high elf prince, and then at the elite high elf rangers and mage troops around the border fortifications. With more than 20,000 Quel'Thalas troops participating in the defense of the city, he is more confident in defending Dalaran. After all, this is a timely help for the people of Dalaran!
"His Royal Highness Prince,
We express our great regret for the misfortune suffered by the Kingdom of Quel'Thalas. After all...we, Dalaran, were unable to help you at that time. But now, you have spared no effort to help us, which really makes us feel ashamed..."
Regardless of the purpose of the other party coming to Dalaran, whether it is to help Dalaran or seek revenge from an enemy, in general, Dalaran must owe the Kingdom of Quel'Thalas a big favor this time. This old man doesn't even know what to give back to others.
Maybe... After defeating these undead this time, Dalaran can provide a batch of living supplies and send a group of engineering teams to help the elves rebuild their homes? After all, the main city of their high elves is gone, so there must be a lack of various supplies now, right?
He, Antonidas, has also heard about it. It is said that the high elves seem to have used some kind of powerful magic weapon to blow up the entire Silvermoon City and its surrounding areas in one blow, and even let Alsace The army of hundreds of thousands of undead was destroyed in an instant! That's really amazing, and I don't know if their elves still have such a thing?
Look, the army of undead outside also looks like hundreds of thousands. If they have any kind of weapon, let's blow it up outside the city again, then he, an old man, will no longer have to worry about undead coming south to make trouble Bar?
It's a pity that this kind of thing must be the highest-level top secret of Quel'Thalas, and Antonidas must not be ashamed to ask it.
"My lord, you are too polite. To help you is to help us. Besides, that Alsace outside is the eternal enemy of our high elves! Now that we have this opportunity, we must fight with him." Do the math first!"
Kael'thas was wrinkling his long moldy hair while dealing with the old man next to him. He continued to search hard in the undead ranks in the distance.
It's a pity that he has never been able to find the figure that he hates so much! Could it be that the death knight is not here? This is unlikely, right? Since the other party created the Ice Bridge and led an army across the lake, then the other party must be somewhere outside, there is absolutely no mistake in that!
"By the way, Your Excellency Antonidas, I have to remind you here that the enchantment of Dalaran...is probably not so reliable anymore. Natural defense measures are very familiar!" Speaking of magic defense enchantment, Kael'thas's heart will be aching!
Their Quel'Thalas High Elf Kingdom suffered from too much belief in magic protection barriers! It is because the elves trust magic so much that those damned undead can calmly break through the elves' gate and the defense of Quel'Danas Island with the help of traitors.
Now, when Kael'thas saw Dalaran's magical defense barrier once again, he couldn't help but start to worry, and reminded Antonidas in time.
The legendary lich who was resurrected in the Sunwell——Kel'Thuzad, when he was a human, was not only an archmage in Dalaran, but also a high-ranking member of the Human Kentoril Council. Being in a high position, he must have been familiar with Dalaran's defense measures a long time ago, right?
So, will this magic defensive enchantment in Dalaran...will repeat the similar mistakes of their high elves? If that's the case, it's really terrible! It really complied with the philosophic saying - the strongest defense is often the easiest to be breached by the enemy from within!
"Thank you for your reminder, Your Highness Prince Kael'thas. In fact, there is no need to worry too much about this matter. We have already taken precautions against this." Antonidas nodded and agreed with Kael'thas' concerns, but He looked relaxed and didn't seem too worried.
"You may not know that since the outbreak of the undead natural disaster, we have started to make important adjustments to the enchantment. Thanks to the inspiration of the holy light that restrains the undead: the current Dalaran magic enchantment can target The undead entering the barrier have the effect of focusing on killing! The longer their undead stay in the barrier, the greater the damage they will receive! Moreover, if they want to destroy the defensive barrier, their undead must forcibly attack. Destroy the three mage towers that preside over the enchantment one by one, and eliminate the mages stationed inside. Otherwise, what awaits them can only be slowly eroded by magic similar to the holy light attribute. Shattered into a heap of useless dry bones!"
Antonidas is very confident about the upgraded Dalaran enchantment now! This was jointly negotiated by several masters, and it was specially upgraded to target monsters with evil energy like undead!
Anyway, he, Antonidas, absolutely does not believe that the undead can still attack and destroy those important magic defense nodes under their layers of protection!
What's more, now in Dalaran, they have an extra 20,000 high elves elite army out of thin air!
With so many advantages, there are a large number of defensive troops, a large number of mages and magic barriers against the undead. With the coordination of these three elements, even if the army of undead outside is twice as large, he will have it. Confidence can hold here!
"Although it seems to be true, but...for some reason, I always have a bad feeling! I think you'd better be more cautious. Although I really don't want to mention this matter again, but here I am I still want to remind you one more thing: We Quel'Thalas..., it is because we trust the magic barrier too much, and you must know it as a result. Sigh...or else..."
Having said that, Prince Kael'thas sighed softly, he didn't want to say any more.
The high elves of Quel'Thalas lost a lot because they underestimated the enemy, because they didn't really pay attention to the enemy, and they lost that traitor-Dar'Khan!
Whenever he thinks of this name, Kael'thas can grit his teeth! If we were to say which two people the high elves of Quel'Thalas hated the most, Alsace must be the number one, and the traitor Dar'Khan, the collaborator, must be the number two!
It's ridiculous to say it, just such a humble traitor, the result is that the national defense project built by the Kingdom of Quel'Thalas for thousands of years was destroyed... The embankment of a thousand miles collapsed in an ant. It seems that it is really a great irony!
"Hmm... That's right! Your opinion is right. How about this? I'll call out half of the guards in the Dalaran treasure house and let them focus on defending these three crucial magic nodes. If this is the case, it should be safe. ?”
Antonidas thought for a while, and agreed with Kael'thas, after all, the Quel'Thalas High Elf Kingdom is a lesson learned from the past! The high elves, because they trust the magic barrier too closely, so in Dalaran now, it is better to listen to Kael'thas' opinion.
At that time, if something goes wrong with the magic barrier, causing the army of hundreds of thousands of undead to rush in easily, the consequences... Antonidas would be afraid to think about it!
"You will find that this is a wise decision. Let me add a layer of insurance. I will draw 3,000 rangers from our Quel'Thalas army and divide them into three groups to assist You defend these three important places, so there must be no major problems!"
This time Kael'thas brought a lot of Farstrider rangers, and he easily drew 3,000 of them. Although a considerable part of them were newly formed troops, if it was just for defense, it would be better to use fixed shooting to attack those troops. The undead, assisting humans in defense, are still very good at them. Anyway, even the recruits of the far traveler are much stronger than those human archers!
"That's really great! It's not too late, let's do it like this, I'll notify you right away, and let the people below get ready."
For a long time, Dalaran has not had a regular standing army, but only some security guards and a large number of mages.
Now, if there are elves and rangers working together to protect the magic enchantment node, Antonidas will not have too many worries. Right now, all they have to do is wait and see how the undead want to attack. That's it.
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