In the spring of the 21st year of the Dark Gate of Azeroth, in the season when everything in the northern hemisphere of this planet is awakened, a huge explosion came from the Kalimdo continent to the west.
After the entire planet of Azeroth, Archmond, the arrogant polluter, was inexplicably bombarded to death by one of the leaders of the Burning Legion, who had been so powerful that he could easily break through the defense lines of the three clans and attacked the world tree.
Perhaps Archmond would never have thought that he would die so frustrated and suddenly; he would have thought that the power of the massive eternal well he absorbed into his body was mixed with a lot of natural power. Then, naturally, the ancient spirits summoned by Malfurion's horn of Senarius were attached to him and played with self-destruction and detonated the power he absorbed into his body at the same time...
So, when Archmond was extremely happy and was delusional to absorb the power of the Well of Eternity and surpassed Sargeras in one fell swoop, he did not expect that he was plotted by a small druid and even lost his life.
The Burning Legion under his command and the Dead Army of Dead Scourge were defeated by the three tribes who had been waiting for a long time... Finally, at the end of spring and before the summer, the offensive of the Kalimdo coalition forces began to enter the final stage, completely ending the war.
Through the endless sea, looking into the direction of the Kalimdo continent, Illidan sighed deeply.
It's been ten thousand years, and Illidan has been imprisoned for a full ten thousand years...
Ten thousand years ago, during the ancient war, Illidan successfully saved the Azeroth world for the first time in the way he thought was the right way.
But... he ended up with a tragic end of eternal imprisonment at that time!
In the Watcher's dungeon, Illidan was imprisoned for a full ten thousand years... If it weren't for the Burning Legion's re-invasion, I'm afraid... he would have been imprisoned?
Ten thousand years ago, after the victory of the Great War with the Burning Legion, Illidan still remembered it very clearly that, before the explosion of the Well of Eternity, he secretly filled the well water of the seven bottles of the Well of Eternity with huge energy with seven bottles.
Illidan believes that although the night elves have won, the Burning Legion will invade again sooner or later.
The brutal war between the Azeroth World and the Burning Legion was just beginning! Therefore, Illidan firmly believes that rebuilding a new well of eternity will surely save the night elves again in the next Burning Legion’s invasion.
Therefore, he found the well water of three bottles of Eternal Well in a hidden lake, and turned the lake into the second new Eternal Well forever.
Illidan was naive at the time that his night elves would regard him as a hero... However, he was wrong. He did not receive any honors that heroes deserved. Instead, those cowardly and incompetent people used this as an excuse to lock him in prison for a full ten thousand years!
...
But now, ten thousand years have passed, and facts have proved that his behavior at that time was extremely correct!
Let's see, if he hadn't recast the new Well of Eternity, why would they Night Elves kill Archmond? With their ridiculous power of nature? Or with the power of those ethereal moon gods? What in the end? In the end, wasn't it the new Well of Eternity that he made ten thousand years ago by Illidan?
And now? Ten thousand years later, after they killed Archmond with the Well of Eternity created by him, Illidan, and smashed the Burning Legion's conspiracy, their incompetent and short-sighted people actually sentenced him to his crime that did not exist at all, and announced that they would permanently expel him, Illidan from the Night Elf clan... This is really a huge irony!
But...forget it, now everything is over!
Just as Tyrande said to her after he saved him in Watchmen's prison: He agreed not to participate in the battle for the night elves, but just for her alone.
Now that the war has ended, Archmond has been defeated, and Illidan has fulfilled his promise at that time!
So, now, he, Illidan, will try to save the Azeroth world in his own way! He will never pretend to be someone else or be mercilessly at the mercy of others, absolutely not!
Not long ago, Kiljadan, the lord of another Burning Legion, crossed numerous barriers, contacted and found Illidan. He asked Illidan to help him destroy the natural disaster leader who betrayed the Legion and turned Arthas into his number one general, the Lich King Neozu. As a reward for destroying the Lich King, Kiljadan promised that after completing the mission he issued, he would give Illidan whatever he wanted.
Illidan has always disdained this kind of lie about this demon!
However, after he saw Kilgardan's power comparable to Archmond, under the situation stronger than others, Illidan could only agree first.
Anyway, in his opinion, the Lich King, as the vanguard of the Burning Legion's previous vanguard of the Azeroth world, also caused considerable damage to the Azeroth world. So, he can try it a little to see if he can destroy the Lich King Ner's Aozu and gain more power with it. It is also a good choice.
So, Illidan was about to find the Eye of Sargeras that Kiljadan mentioned to see if it had infinite power. Perhaps, after the ceremony, he could still secretly intercept part of it?
However, before that, he had to find and control some of his subordinates who obeyed his orders. He ran naked and beat others' army alone, or was beaten by others' army alone. He Yilidan no longer wanted to experience it! If there was no strong subordinate of his own, he felt that sooner or later he would be arrested again and then locked up for tens of thousands of years?
Illidan knew very well. Mavie, the mad woman of the Watcher, was still obsessed with him! Now, I guess he should still be on the way to hunt him down? If he didn't hurry up and put some hands on the scene, he would probably be beaten and caught by the crowd at that time!
It is precisely because of this that Illidan has arrived here now. He is standing on a reef in the Broken Islands, with huge demonic horns on his head and a pair of equally huge demonic wings behind him. After staring at the rolling waves in front of him for a while, he is ready to cast spells on this reef and summon the troops he needs!
At this moment, in the sky, dark clouds were surging and lightning was surging; above the sea, there were great waves and strong winds howling; a heavy rain was coming, but Illidan was not concerned about the changes in the surrounding environment, and he was still concentrating on casting spells...
He was about to go to the Tomb of Sargeras in the Broken Islands, find the Eye of Sargeras that Kiljadan told him, and then use it to hold a ceremony to see if it can destroy the frozen throne in one fell swoop and kill the Lich King Neozu!
Unfortunately, there are many powerful monsters in the Tomb of Sargeras. With the words of Illidan alone, he obviously cannot get the thing he wants. Therefore, he planned to temporarily summon some subordinates who could come in handy. Those powerful ocean monsters were sleeping under this deep sea. He had seen everything below from his Sargeras Curse Vision. He believed that those monsters would surrender to him!
While continuing his summoning, Illidan began to recall what had happened before. Thinking about the fact that he was once again treated by his brother Malfurio as a traitor by him and sentenced to permanently expelled. Illidan couldn't help but start to laugh at himself with a laugh.
Ho, traitor?
In fact, I am the one who is truly betrayed!
Until now, I have been hunted down;
Until now, I have been hated and cursed by the people I have saved...
But now, my blind eyes have allowed me to see what others cannot see...
Those idiots,
Even if they have intact eyes, they are just a group of blind people with open eyes!
And I,
But he sees it for a long time than anyone else...
Sometimes, the hand of destiny must be controlled by oneself!
so,
All awaken, existence in the deep sea,
Follow my call, set off a craze of destruction, and eliminate those enemies who dare to fight against us...
...
The heavy rain began to pour down, mixed with lightning and strong winds. The huge waves kept rushing against the dangerous and hideous reefs. The rising sea surface occasionally slid across Illidan's knees and quickly retreated. After a while, it hit again, constantly repeating...
Illidan stood silently on the reef, letting the heavy rain and angry waves wet his whole body. He looked at the huge half-human and half-serpentine deep-sea monsters that kept emerging from the deep sea and walking on the beach without saying a word - Naga!
"Ha, it turns out that you awakened us? A powerful demon?"
After sleeping in the deep sea and being awakened, Vasqi, the female Naga with hideous snake hair and four slender arms, slowly moved towards the demon standing on the reef.
She is actually not unfamiliar with the demon. In fact, a large part of the reason why Vasqi became like this ghost now and fell into this situation in front of her is because of the demons!
It was raining raining in the sky now, and the dark environment around her made her unable to see the appearance of this demon, so she planned to get closer and take a closer look with the lightning that lighted up from time to time to see what the demon that awakened them looked like.
This guy... looks familiar?
The closer she got, the more Vasqi felt that the demon in front of her vague feeling gave her a sense of familiarity... But, she dared to conclude that the demon in front of her was definitely the first time she had come ashore and came into contact with in ten thousand years! Before that, she had never seen the other party, absolutely not!
"Who are you……"
The closer you get, the stronger the familiar feeling is. It seems that something is opening her memory that has been covered with for many years of Vasqi.
When a lightning flashed suddenly, Vasqi took advantage of the moment to move her gaze to the face of the powerful demon, and when she saw the narrow cloth scarf covered with her eyes, she couldn't help but be stunned.
"You are... Lord Illidan?"
With a hint of secret joy in her astonishment and incredible tone, Vasqi finally recognized who the demon in front of her was.
Although the other person's body changed a lot, she still had not forgotten that feeling and the cloth scarf covered with eyes even after ten thousand years, and was still firmly imprinted in the depths of her memory...
"Naga...how did you know me?"
This time it was Illidan's turn to be shocked.
You know, Illidan was imprisoned in the Watcher's prison for 10,000 years! Moreover, he was sure that he had never seen any Naga before, including the one in front of him!
So, how could she know herself, the female Naga who is barely capable of strength? Not only can she know her, but she can also call out her name in one word? Look at that tone, it looks like an old friend I haven't seen for many years? This incident was really a bit horrible for him...
In fact, he really just wanted to summon some helpers who could help him forcibly attack the Tomb of Sargeras!
"Ha... Sure enough, Lord Yilidan, can't you recognize me anymore..."
Vasqi lowered her eyes and snake hair and sighed softly. At the same time, a dim and sad light began to appear in her eyes.
That's right. Think about it, almost ten thousand years have passed. The two sides met again at this time, but things have changed...
Illidan, he has also changed from the handsome and brave elf who was desperate to save Kadore to the current appearance of his current appearance of his devil... And hasn't she, Vasqi herself, changed from an elegant and beautiful upper elf to the current appearance of her current appearance of a disgusting and ugly one?
"Ms., I'm sorry, although it's a bit offensive, but who are you?"
Illidan just wanted to summon a group of powerful thugs, but now he summoned such a female Naga who seemed to be very familiar with him. Even from Sargeras's curse vision, he still saw the abnormality of the female Naga in front of him. What was the silent and affectionate look when the other party looked at him?
This made him feel uncomfortable all over. When the other person's gaze swept across his body, he almost got goosebumps, the demon hunter. He didn't like this feeling very much.
"That's right... Now, you have become a demon, and I... have also become this ugly ghost..."
Vasqi sighed again with pity, then reluctantly smiled and continued to say as he looked at Illidan on the reef.
"So, let me give you a little tip: the cloth scarf covered in your eyes was given to you ten thousand years ago."
Ten thousand years have passed, and the other party's head is still carrying the cloth scarf she gave him after his eyes were burned by Sargeras. This makes Vasqi turn into a cursed deep-sea cold-blooded animal like Naga, and the heart that has already become cold has flowed through a trace of rare warmth.
"You are... Vasqi..."
In Yilidan's mind, he quickly recalled the memories from thousands of years ago.
During the ten thousand years he was imprisoned in the Watchmen dungeon, all he had was these memories... so he quickly called out this long-clogged name.
Back then, when Sargeras was forcibly burning his eyes and implanting them with these magic eyes, Queen Azshara's maid Vasqi took care of herself for quite a while.
"Ha, it seems that you still remember me now... Then, dear Lord Illidan, what are your instructions to summon us now?"
Ten thousand years passed in the blink of an eye. This was the first time Vasqi showed a sincere smile after being sucked into the deep sea and cursed to become this strange Naga form.
“…”
For some reason, Illidan always felt uncomfortable all over! He vaguely felt that summoning these Nagas this time seemed to be a small mistake for him?
...
"Hurry up! You lazy guys, hurry up and pack this batch of supplies! There are also the forage and clean water there! No one can be missing, and all of them are packed and packed!"
In the camp of the four clans of the Flame Alliance, a logistics commander was loudly scolding the newly recruited strong civilians and asking them to quickly pack the materials needed by the army. Because their Flame Alliance army was about to attack westward, as the logistics commander, the task was very difficult.
In the 21st year of the Dark Gate, at the end of the spring, in the season when the snow had completely melted, the Fire Alliance, which had been prepared for the end of Archmond's defeat, was finally ready to launch their long-prepared spring offensive.
Now, at the intersection north of Dalong County, nearly 100,000 elite flame legions of the Flame Kingdom have gathered; the new First and Second Infantry Legion and the Silver Hand Knights of the New Lordaeron Kingdom have nearly 40,000 personnel; the Dragon Eagle Knights of the Kingdom of Quelthalas, the Far Traveler Rangers and two new mage regiments have more than 20,000 personnel; as well as a large number of griffon knights and a small number of goat cavalry of the Wild Hammer Dwarves of the Eagle Nest Mountain, plus some heavy armored infantry guards, they also have more than 20,000 personnel.
Nearly 200,000 elite troops from the four countries of the Flame Alliance gathered here, preparing to launch an annihilated attack on the remnants of the Undead Natural Scourge and the Burning Legion, whose strength has been sharply reduced in the west, and strive to purge the entire northern continent of the Eastern Kingdom in one fell swoop before the end of summer!
In fact, they gathered here one after another as early as the end of the 20th year of the Dark Gate, waiting for the leader of the Fire Alliance. At the command of the Queen of Fire, the army could drive, and then cross the Sodoril River, break through the defense line of the undead, and push the Western Plagueland!
Then, he kept going west and headed straight to the land of Tirisfalin, and came to the original Royal City of Lordaeron, destroying the two Alsace and Kel Thujad who were said to have returned to Lordaeron. These two almost almost destroyed the entire northern continent!
And now, with the Burning Legion being defeated and Archmond was dead, and the Fire Alliance had cleared the Eastern Plagueland, the entire Quel'thalas area and the Hindland, and the huge army and countless powerful people, how could they still take these undead natural disasters seriously?
After receiving the news of Archmond's death, they could not help but want to fight and start the war!
The reason why I waited until now was just to take care of the fire element army, which was the pioneer and the main force. After all, in the northern continent where snow is generally accumulated, the battle against the fire element is not very beneficial.
But now, in the military camp of the Flame Alliance, there were waves of discordant noises coming from the fire alliance.
"Why are the entire Arachi Heights given to you dwarves? Can you guard the Eagle Nest Mountain in such an important place on the Saldo Bridge? I think it is more appropriate to give to us Lordaeron!"
The one who was talking was Garithers, the Grand Marshal of the Kingdom of Lordaeron, who was also the front line commander of the coalition forces. After all, he was the only one who was good at large-scale legion combat. If there was no professional commander to coordinate, I am afraid that once the war started, the fire elements would run all over the map. The original Battle of Stantolme was enough to explain everything!
He objected to the fact that the Wildhammer Dwarf of Hinterland wanted to dominate the Arachi Heights!
After all, the Saldo Bridge over there is an important military important place connecting the two continents of the north and south! Whether they want to go south or people from the south to go north, this bridge is a key place that must be focused on guarding! Back then, during the Second Orc War, their Lordaeron Alliance and the Orc Tribe fought many times here.
Besides, after a while of investigation, there are only a few good places in the Alachi Highlands that have not been ravaged too seriously by the undead. Once immigrate in the future, it does not need to be managed, and it will become a fertile land in the Kingdom of Lordaeron!
"You Lordaeron still want Arachi Heights? Bah!"
Fistard, the lord of the Wild Hammer Dwarf, spitted hard and looked at Garithers with contempt.
"You have now been divided into Silver Pine Forest, Hillsbrad Hills and Gilnes. Now, you still want to come and earn this Arachi Highland with our Wild Hammer Dwarfs?"
Fistard Manchu was a little unhappy. The Grand Marshal of the Kingdom of Lordaeron was a bit ugly! He had already allocated so much land to them in advance, but he actually wanted to come and earn the Arachi Heights with their dwarves? He decided that this matter could not be tolerated!
"Because we have divided a large area in the northern part of the Tirisfalinland and the Western Plagueland to the Kingdom of Flame, so the Arachi Highlands can be regarded as compensation and should be given to us!"
In any case, Grand Marshal Gallithers will definitely not give in to the territorial matter. Especially the Arachi Heights, such an important place as this area will definitely be a bridgehead for the Flame Alliance to go south in the future, a perfect military base!
"Give it to you Lordaeron, where do we want the Wild Hammer Dwarfs in the Eagle Nest Mountain?"
Fistard? The man was angry. This man is too greedy! I want this, and I want it too. How many people are left of Lordaeron? One Hand of Tyre is almost enough for Dalong County!
"Don't you have a whole piece of Hindland? How many of you have? Then why do you still want the Arachi Heights?"
Garithers glanced at Fistard with contempt and began to retort disdainfully.
"Hinterland was originally our dwarfs!"
Fistard? The Wildhammer almost didn't want to go up and beat Marshal Lordaeron with one hammer. He didn't think so before, but now, he thinks this human marshal is so annoying?
"It turns out that most of Hindland is a troll! Now, those trolls have asked us to clean up for you! Otherwise, can you still develop in Cinzaro now?"
Marshal Lordaeron continued to snort at the dwarf lord with contempt. Didn’t their dwarf’s Hinterland still not digest it?
"It was the army of the Flame Kingdom who helped us clean up. What's wrong with you Lordaeron? Don't think I don't know. Most of the cavalry you sent at that time were Paladin apprentices, and they were all here to train and consume food!"
When talking about this, Fistard was a little angry!
When they started a war against the trolls and other forces in Hindland, their Kingdom of Lordaeron came over and said how to support friendly forces, but what was the result? He was all a group of new recruits who had never been on the battlefield. Apart from wasting food and slapping cold jacks to siege some lonely enemies, there was nothing to do!
"Okay, you can stop! Before you start attacking, you are just quarreling first?"
Queen Sylvanas of the Kingdom of Quel'thalas couldn't stand it anymore and finally frowned and spoke, interrupting the two of them.
They don't even want any place for the high elves, and they don't understand what these two have to make. Now, the entire territory of Quel'thalas is enough for their high elves to slowly transform and repair them for many years.
According to the reproduction rate of high elves, even in a few thousand years, they may not be able to digest the land. Moreover, the current Mo Yin is still plaguing their tribe members, and the population has been in negative growth. The total number is estimated to be less than 180,000.
If the Fire Kingdom had not sent a large number of fire elements to help them clean up the undead and trolls before, they might not have been able to gather more than 20,000 troops this time.
"Everything is enough. The Arachi Heights are jointly developed and managed by the Fire Alliance, and so are the defense, so do you no longer have to make any more money."
.Finally, before the Queen of the Flame Kingdom arrived, Shannkox, the chief general of the Fire Demon standing in the main position, spoke up, and set the tone of this matter at once. Don’t snatch anyone, let’s develop it together.
It is a little confused. The current Fire Alliance is a whole with relatively strict results. Besides, since all members of the alliance allow all citizens of the four tribes to travel and live freely, then in the future, the entire northern continent will definitely be a situation where the four tribes live together. If that is the case, what's the point of earning these? Besides, can they develop so many lands in the northern continent, and their Eagle Nest Mountain Dwarves and the humans of the Lordaeron Kingdom? After the rampage of the undead, the next few hundred years will probably be an embarrassing situation with a vast land and sparsely populated population.
"snort!"
After seeing that neither side had any chance, Grand Marshal Gallithers and Dwarf Lord Fistard looked at each other, then snorted coldly at each other and turned their heads away.
OK! No one can end up losing this time, but we can barely reach an agreement.
Anyway, the current Fire Alliance and the other three countries can be said to be full of the light of the fire element. If it weren't for the help of the Fire Kingdom, they might have been so miserable now! Therefore, they still respect the will of the Fire Kingdom. Since the Fire Demon General spoke, they no longer argued about it.
"By the way, Master Chief, where is your Queen Anne?"
After the group waited for a while, Queen Caria of Lordaeron could not help but ask.
Originally, Lordaeron's Grand Marshal and other general commanders were unwilling to let their Queen Caria go to the battlefield. Now, Lordaeron's Kingdom is the only one who is left. If she has a little accident, something big will happen!
However, after Kalia knew that Arthas had returned to Lordaeron from Kalimdo, she said she would participate in this operation no matter what! Because, no matter what, she wanted to go in person to ask her brother who had transformed into the Death Knight, and wanted to ask him why he did this kind of thing in the first place!
"Uh... Her Majesty the Queen should have something important, I guess it will come soon..."
Shannox rolled his eyes and thought, would he want me to tell you: Our Queen is actually still sleeping in now? In her schedule, sleeping is ahead of everything?
As soon as Shannox finished speaking, before the others could react, a blue arcane light suddenly lit up at the door of the Alliance Commander's tent. Then, an arcane portal was erected. The fire queen who had been waiting for for a long time, the great Majesty Anne, finally rushed out from inside in a hurry.
"Wow! Everyone is here? Then, I announce now: The army will attack and start the attack! Kill the undead knight!"
On this day, Little Anne has been waiting for a long time! Thinking back to the time when she was in Quel'thalas, she was chased and beaten by the Death Knight and bullied by his undead army many times. It's so pitiful. Now, it's finally her turn to bully him! This feeling is really great!
So, just after coming out of the portal, little Annie gave the order to dispatch the entire army without thinking.
“…”
After hearing Anne's order, a group of people stared at her blankly, watching the little girl give such orders, which made them feel a little overwhelmed.
For example, in this historical event where the entire northern continent is about to liberate the entire northern continent and to wipe out the dead and demons in one fell swoop, at this exciting moment, shouldn't she mobilize first, mobilize everyone's enthusiasm, express some thoughts and feelings, and finally say some words to boost morale. This is the formal process...
But now, you just gave orders as soon as you came in casually, looking so casual... Is this really good?
"Huh? Why are you still standing there now? Why don't you go quickly!"
Little Annie was angry. These people kept urging her to come early, which made her get up a little earlier with an exception. But now, she has arrived, why are these people doing here cold? Why don’t they hurry to lead their army? She couldn’t wait to catch the Death Knight who was chasing her and then burn him with flames!
Chapter completed!