Chapter 249: Grand Duke of Silver Moon City

Silvermoon City.

The polluted energy of the Sunwell has not yet affected this place, and a large number of Quel'Danas civilians have escaped through teleportation. The news of Quel'Danas's fall has also been heard.

Richard and Sylvanas were discussing the defense of Silvermoon City, and at this time a wounded dragon hawk knight hurried over.

"General, Your Excellency, His Majesty's urgent order!" The dragon hawk knight took out a roll of parchment and handed it to Sylvanas.

This is the last letter of appointment from King Anasterian. The content on it is very short and the font is very sloppy. It does not use the rune cursive characters that the high elves are used to. It can be imagined that it was already the last moment, and the king was ready to die in battle.

In addition to the king's seal and signature, there are only two short sentences on the letter of appointment. Sylvanas Windrunner is hereby appointed as the Grand Duke of Silvermoon City and the general manager of Quel'Thalas's military and political affairs!

There is also a line of words at the king's signature: Lead more high elves to survive and rebuild the country.

After reading the letter of appointment, Sylvanas was silent for a moment, but soon, her eyes showed a resolute look. At this moment, she felt the burden on her shoulders was heavier than ever before.

The lives of tens of thousands of high elves and the future of the Kingdom of Quel'Danas are in her hands.

The high elves have reached the most dangerous time. If her decision is wrong, the entire Kingdom of Quel'Danas will be in danger of destruction.

"Sir, can Silvermoon City be defended?" Sylvanas was very hesitant.

"Where else can the high elves go now?" Richard asked back.

The territory of the high elves is not large, only a few hundred thousand square kilometers. Although there are many areas such as Eversong Forest, Sun Chaser Island, and Windrunner Tower, the only area that can accommodate tens of thousands of high elves is Silvermoon City.

After all, civilians are not rangers and can live in the forest.

Sylvanas was silent for a moment, shook her head and said: 'No more. '

"Even if you evacuate Silvermoon City, can you outrun the undead?" Richard continued.

The undead do not sleep or rest, and can march 24 hours a day without supplies. If the high elves really run away, Arthas will laugh to death. Those high elf rangers run fast, but what about the civilians? Besides, where can they run?

The whole Quel'Thalas is gone, and the final result is that they are killed by the undead after running exhausted.

"You only have one choice, to hold on to Silvermoon City. As long as the loss of the undead is large enough, the undead army will not waste time with you."

"Arthas's goal this time is the Sunwell, in order to resurrect Kel'Thuzad. Now he has succeeded. If you show enough strength, Arthas will bypass Silvermoon City."

"But, sir, the Sunwell is polluted. Without the energy of the Sunwell, what should we do next?"

Richard said: "It's very simple, set up a purification magic circle to purify the energy of the Sunwell."

For the high elves, purifying the Sunwell is difficult, but for Richard, he has too many ways to purify the energy.

"Sir, can you purify the energy of the Sunwell?" Sylvanas was overjoyed.

Richard wrote down the materials he needed, handed them to Sylvanas and said, "Go prepare the materials."

Arcanists were the main source of pollution on the Prime Material Plane, and became the target of public criticism during the Arcane Empire, one of the reasons. In addition, the pollution of the Prime Material Plane is not a good thing for Arcanists.

Therefore, after the establishment of the Supreme Arcane Council, they began to study ways to purify the pollution, and cooperated with the druids to purify many places.

The most difficult to purify is the pollution caused by powerful creatures such as ancient evil things and gods. This is already a change in the power of rules, and it takes hundreds or thousands of years to change.

And this kind of pollution, which is only the energy of the dead and the dark energy, is not difficult to solve. Casting necromancy and resurrecting liches only causes negative energy and necromancy energy pollution.

Richard prepared a set of purification rune arrays. The energy of the Sunwell is transported to Silvermoon City through the earth vein network. Richard arranged a rune array at the channel of the earth vein network.

Then guide these energies into the Mage Tower in Silvermoon City, and arrange a second energy purification array in the Mage Tower. The two purification arrays can basically purify all the undead energy, dark energy, and negative energy.

At the same time, Sylvanas began to recruit militia from civilians. Even if they were civilians, high elves would more or less be able to shoot arrows or perform some magic tricks.

The regular army in Silvermoon City was only 2,000 people, while the undead army was hundreds of thousands. Such a big gap could only be supplemented by militia.

Soon, Sylvanas issued the first order that all adult high elves, regardless of gender, must participate in defending the city. The old, weak, sick and disabled among them would be arranged separately to transport supplies, take care of the wounded, prepare food and other tasks.

All other high elves were reorganized into militias for training. The main task of these high elf militias was archery. Sylvanas asked Lor'themar to be responsible for training the militia.

There was no need to train them to be strong and elite, just to make them understand various commands and be able to complete volleys. In fact, the strength of these elven civilian archers was also stronger than that of regular human archers.

It can only be said that the talents of the high elves are really powerful. In this way, Sylvanas obtained a militia of 20,000 people.

Silvermoon City was preparing for war, and Arthas, who had resurrected a large number of high elf undead, began to leave Quel'Danas Island and headed for Silvermoon City.

There was only a very narrow strait between Silvermoon City and Sunstrider Island. Arthas used Frostmourne again, summoned the Ice Bridge, and headed directly from Sunstrider Island to Silvermoon City.

Soon, the boundless army of undead crossed the strait and came to the land, and then came to Silvermoon City in a mighty way.

Last time, because of Richard's intervention, Arthas retreated in a mess, and he was very unwilling. Therefore, after resurrecting Kel'Thuzad and the High Elf Mage Corps, he wanted to come to Silvermoon City for revenge.

There was a powerful lich with a group of high-level undead mage corps, attacking Silvermoon City without the energy of the Sunwell. Even with Richard, he had the confidence to consume them to death.

Richard looked at the seemingly endless undead outside the city without any expression. For him, if he goes all out, it is not impossible to kill these undead, but he is not the nanny of the high elves.

"Can we win?" A militia archer next to him said with a trembling voice.

"Yes!" Sylvanas said firmly.

"Kel'Thuzad, have all those long-eared mages been selected?"

Looking at Silvermoon City not far away, Arthas' eyes were full of anger. He had not forgotten the last embarrassing escape. Since he picked up Frostmourne, he has not felt such humiliation all the way through the entire continent.

"Your Majesty, the selection has been completed. Together with the mages in the original army, we now have a 400-man undead mage group." Kel'Thuzad said.

"Where is Darkan? Call him over and let him find the right time to destroy the protective barrier of Silvermoon City!"

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Kel'Thuzad passed the order down, and the traitor Darkan of the high elves could only do it, but he didn't know that the protective barrier of Silvermoon City had been adjusted and was completely different from the previous barrier.

His method of destroying the barrier was doomed to be ineffective.

"Since we are ready, let's get started!" Arthas smiled grimly, then waved Frostmourne in his hand.

Endless armies of the undead were dispatched in an instant.

"Everyone, prepare for defense, catapults ready!"

Dozens of catapults were quickly ready, and the catapults were equipped with magic bombs.

"Protection barrier activated!"

The wizard tower in Silvermoon City lit up, and then an energy barrier enveloped the entire city. A large number of undead were blocked outside by the energy barrier. The catapults kept throwing magic bombs.

In a short time, a large number of undead were blown to pieces, and the elven archers next to them also began to shoot arrows. Countless arrows fell, and soon groups of undead fell.

Originally, the undead were not afraid of bows and arrows, unless they were hit in the vitals, but the arrows of these elves were extremely accurate, and most of the undead were shot directly through the head. The soul fire was hit, and these undead naturally could not survive.

"Necromancer, aim at the protective barrier and cast spells!" Kel'Thuzad, who had integrated four hundred necromancers, commanded the necromancers to continuously pour necromancy spells into the protective barrier.

Continuous evil balls fell on the protective barrier, causing continuous explosions, and ripples like water waves appeared on the protective barrier, but the protective barrier showed no signs of damage.

In Kel'Thuzad's view, the Sunwell was polluted, and Silvermoon City would soon lose its magical energy. They could not hold on for long, and the protective barrier would be broken, but what he did not know was that with the purification rune array, Silvermoon City did not lack energy at all.

On the other side, Kandar cast camouflage on himself, disguised as an undead, quietly came to the vicinity of the protective barrier, and then prepared to destroy the rune stone of the protective barrier and then open the barrier.

But as soon as he started, Richard discovered him.

"Sylvanas, that must be the traitor of the elves!" Richard blessed Sylvanas with the Eye of Truth, and Sylvanas saw the culprit who caused the destruction of the elven kingdom at a glance.

The anger in his heart was instantly ignited. Erhuo didn't say anything, picked up the bow and arrow in his hand, took out a magic-breaking arrow, and shot it at Kandar's head with maximum force.

Kandar released his magic power to unlock the protection of the rune stone, but no matter how he unlocked it according to the rune key, he didn't get a response. At this moment, a cold light came instantly.

Kandar's face changed suddenly, his hair stood up, and he instantly activated the defensive barrier on his body, and poured all his mana into it to block the arrow.

But the arrow was like a stream, instantly penetrating his defensive barrier. The magic-breaking arrows used by the high elves are specially used to deal with magic, and even among the elves, the price is extremely expensive. Sylvanas hated this traitor very much.

Therefore, after seeing Kandar, he directly used the magic-breaking arrows. The arrow pierced through the barrier, leaving him no chance, and shot through his head, which then exploded.

This elven traitor turned into a headless wizard.

Kandal was killed, and many high elves cheered. For any race, traitors are more hateful than enemies.

When Arthas learned that Kandal was dead, his already dark face became even darker. Well, since he became a dead knight, his face has become a gray-black dead face, and it can't get any darker.

Without Kandar, they can't destroy the high elves' protective barrier, which is very disadvantageous for the attacking party.

"Your Majesty, don't worry, even without Kandar, we can break through Silvermoon City. The Sunwell has been polluted, and the energy inside is dirty. If the high elves dare to use it, they will be in chaos. At that time, there is no need for us to attack, and these elves will become undead themselves."

"They are now using all the energy stored in Silvermoon City. Once this energy is exhausted, this protective barrier will be invalid. At that time, the whole city will be at your disposal, Your Majesty?" Kel'Thuzad said.

He didn't think the elves in Silvermoon City could hold out for long. As long as they kept attacking, the barrier would soon be destroyed.

Richard looked at the endless undead outside the city, frowned slightly, and waved the staff in his hand gently. In an instant, countless red lights appeared in the sky. The next second, countless basketball-sized flames fell from the sky.

Instantly, the northern area of ​​Silvermoon City was covered, the flames fell, the earth burned, and the world was like the end of the world. The battle line that was several miles long was directly covered.

The spell of Fire and Meteor was originally a nine-ring spell, but with Richard's super magic skills and the blessing of the staff in his hand, it has a power close to the tenth ring.

Richard's mana is still abundant, especially with the abundant energy of the Sunwell around him, the mana is inexhaustible. He wants the high elves to grow up as soon as possible.

The dense and countless undead army attacked for three hours in a row. The protective barrier of Silvermoon City showed no signs of breaking, and the loss of the undead army was astonishingly high.

In just three hours, nearly 100,000 undead died. Although Arthas didn't care about the loss of the undead, once the loss was too great, how could he attack Dalaran?

Now it seems that even if they attack for another three hours, they have no chance. Arthas and Kel'Thuzad hesitated.

"It seems that we underestimated that lord. He should have a way to solve the pollution problem." Kel'Thuzad said.

"Your Majesty, we can't waste time any longer. We must follow the Lich King's orders!"

"These damned long-eared creatures, I swear, I will kill them all!" Arthas vented his anger. Although he was unwilling, he still turned the army around and bypassed Silvermoon City and left here under the urging of the Lich King.