The Dark Portal of Azeroth has been open for twenty years. In this originally ordinary year, many extraordinary events, even significant enough to be recorded in history, have occurred.
At the beginning, the Burning Legion once again planned a conspiracy against the planet Azeroth after planning for thousands of years and learning the lessons of its failure thousands of years ago.
This time, they first found and used a chess piece - the Lich King Ner'zhul. More than ten years after the end of the Orc War, they used this orc former shaman to launch a new round of war against the world of Azeroth. offensive! The death plague of the undead Scourge spread across the land of the original Kingdom of Lordaeron. These were the works of Ner'zhul after he became the Lich King. Of course, all of this was actually carried out under the command of the Burning Legion.
Later, the fall of Prince Arthas Menethil of the Kingdom of Lordaeron happened again, and the entire Kingdom of Lordaeron collapsed... Therefore, this war was plotted by the Burning Legion and led by the wizard The death storm directly implemented by the Demon King finally swept across the entire northern continent of the Eastern Kingdom. Both the human Kingdom of Lordaeron and the high elves' Kingdom of Quel'Thalas were destroyed in this storm!
Even Dalaran, the magical capital of mankind, was not spared. This has been recorded, Dalaran was destroyed by war for the third time! It's just... this time, even their chief mage Antonidas died on the spot, and a high elf prince, Kael'thas, was sacrificed for this!
It seems that... the entire northern continent of the Eastern Kingdom is shrouded in the shadow of death. The threat of undead natural disasters is like a haze that will never dissipate, pressing so hard on the heads of all creatures in the northern continent. ; And like the sword of Damocles, you never know when it will fall on your head...
Especially after Arthas and Kel'Thuzad successfully stole the Book of Medivh and summoned Archimonde the Defiler, the demon lord of the Burning Legion!
Ever since Archimonde officially arrived, and from the moment the Burning Legion announced that it was once again coming to the world of Azeroth, the entire eastern continent seemed to have... no hope at all.
A large number of humans, as well as the remaining orcs still stranded in the deep mountains and old forests, began to organize themselves and flee, desperate to stay away from this world destined to be ruled by death...
Except for a small number of humans who tried to cross the strait and go south to Dun Morogh to the territory of the dwarves, or to seek refuge in the Kingdom of Stormwind further south, many others chose to cross the Endless Sea and go to Ka'ar on the other side of the ocean. Go to Rimdo Continent to take refuge. Among them are the humans led by Lady Jaina Proudmoore and the orc tribe led by the new generation orc Thrall.
The arrival of Archimonde the Defiler, Lord of the Burning Legion, had a huge impact on the situation in the entire Eastern Kingdom. It was like a huge shadow, shrouding everyone's hearts. Some powerful people who have sensed the strength of the other party have chosen to stay dormant and no longer try to come out to cause trouble or cause trouble.
For example, at that time, due to a certain bad girl, Ragnaros, the Fire Demon King, and Nefarian, the Black Dragon Prince, were almost separated in life and death! Now, these two life-and-death enemies, who have an extremely tense relationship, still occupy the upper and lower parts of Black Rock Mountain respectively. Now, no one of them dares to mention the matter of continuing the fight, for fear of accidentally causing too much noise. , thereby attracting the attention of the big demon.
As for the forces in the southern continent across the strait, such as Ironforge or the Kingdom of Stormwind, because they lack sufficient understanding of the specific situation in the northern continent, they are still only vigilant and concerned. Because of the unequal information, they are still not very clear about what kind of terrible things happened on the land of Lordaeron.
After all, the distance between the two parties is too far, and the information in this era is still relatively closed. Communication basically relies on shouting, and now they can only receive some scattered news. For them, it seems that they just stopped at the terrible plague that broke out in the Kingdom of Lordaeron?
In this way, in the twentieth year of the establishment of the Dark Portal, when the cold winter in the northern hemisphere of the world of Azeroth is about to come; when some human kingdoms and dwarf forces still choose to stick to and protect themselves; When some powerful people choose to lie dormant or flee from this continent; when the Paladin Dathrohan is escorting their last Princess Kalia of the Kingdom of Lordaeron to the Light's Hope Chapel; here in the Eastern Plaguelands , the Flame Kingdom that had just risen in the Flame Canyon, one morning, under the slightly immature command of a little girl, brazenly blew the first horn of the counterattack against the undead natural disaster and the demon army!
Countless years later, whether it is dwarves or gnomes who like archeology, or historians of the human kingdom and high elves, they all like to mark the events that happened on this day that had a major impact on the world of Azeroth. The first battle against the Burning Legion was emphatically called the Wrath of the Fire Queen in historical records!
It was this mysterious little girl whose origins no historian could find out, this powerful being who called herself the Queen of Fire. She led her army of fire elements and wiped out everything in just two days. All the land north of Blackwood Lake in the Eastern Plagueland, whether it is the human town where the undead are entrenched, the ziggurat base, or the sentry towers and barracks left by the elves and humans, under the attack of the fire elemental army, The undead and buildings were all burned to pieces of white ground. This was the first time that her Kingdom of Fire showed their ferocious fangs to the world of Azeroth...
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Stratholme, this majestic human city built of solid white granite, has been reduced to a dead place since it was massacred by the former Prince of Arthas.
Now, this place has become a paradise for the undead. Right now, in this once huge city of mankind, there is an army of at least 100,000 undead! If it were normal times, it is estimated that no living person or creature would approach here at will. For all creatures, this is a place of death and an extremely terrifying evil existence!
However, today, this terrifying Stratholme is surrounded by more than 50,000 flame armies from the Kingdom of Fire. Outside of Stratholme, the sky and the earth are reflected red by the flames of the flame elements. Looking around, Go, as if the city has been surrounded by a sea of fire... Well, it's not as if, this is actually a fact!
"Hey! I said you guys are really useless! You still have to fight a monster like this for a long time?"
As soon as Anne floated off the back of the pure-blooded Fire Eagle Lord Celia, she saw several Fire Demon Centurions and Fire Demon Hunters in front of the Stratholme moat lake, in the open space opposite a meat grinding ground. He was leading a group of lava dogs to besiege a huge sewing abomination.
There are also many small Balrogs outside the siege formation who are throwing small fireballs at the Abomination. However, even the opponent's back is lit with raging fire, and the back is burned with a squeaking sound, and even the disgusting fat , have been baked out by the high temperature, and it still doesn't seem to have much impact on this huge abomination.
Because, in its fat body, before those key vital points are burned, these flames still have no great effect on it. You know, it is just an undead patched up by a pile of dead flesh. That’s all! Whether it is cooked medium-rare or medium-rare, what difference does it make to this abomination?
The fire elements below also looked at each other a little bit when they saw their queen arriving. After all, they can't be blamed for this, it's just because this patchwork abomination is really too big. At least it is as tall as the lava giant Otuk. It's so fat that they really can't do anything with it.
I don’t know if the undead were stimulated by Otuk before, so they made this abomination so big that neither the fire demon’s war blade nor the bite of the lava dog could do anything to it, and the fire Even if the demon hunter's bow and arrow had penetrated the opponent's skin and penetrated deeply into the tail feathers, it could not cause much damage to it. On the contrary, several lava dogs that rushed too fast and were eager for success were trampled to death by it. A few pieces of hot lava slag...
"snort!"
Anne snorted coldly. A hatred like the one in front of her, which only had a huge size but no corresponding protective power, could not defeat her!
Only those evil undead would create such disgusting things that are superficial! There is no metal armor, no resistant skin, just a lot of smelly meat piled together like this. Is it a big deal to be big?
Therefore, Annie, who floated down from the back of the fire eagle, threw out a shattering fire without even thinking, and the huge exploding fireball hit the hating and disgusting head.
After a loud explosion, Abomination's head was blown to pieces. At the same time, after the control center inside was destroyed, the huge meat mountain shook back and forth twice before having to fall straight down. As he fell down, the huge weight caused the nearby ground to shake slightly...
"Do you know where Shannox is? Find him quickly! Let him gather his troops immediately, we are ready to attack the city!"
Looking at the messy fire elements all around and fighting on their own, Annie shouted unhappily towards a fire demon centurion who was still in a daze.
The fire elements were running too scattered. Anne had already seen it from a high altitude. Just now she looked down from a high altitude. The ground was full of thick smoke and flames. The tens of thousands of flames were actually spread out. It's everywhere, it's a mess!
Now, the fire element's front has been stretched so long and messy that it has almost lost its organizational structure. If it weren't for the fact that the opponent was too weak, and the characteristics of the fire elements happened to restrain the undead, and if it were a ruthless character like an orc who was willing to fight without his life, he might have been beaten by him. It’s pushed back!
Look, these relatively fast-running fire demons and lava dogs have already arrived here, but where are the slow-moving flame turtles and lava giants? Maybe they are all still far behind and haven’t even seen their shadows? Otherwise, why would they have fought so hard against such a huge abomination? The lava giant punches down. Is this meat mountain abomination tougher or is it the stone man?
"Ah? Ah...! Yes! I, I'll go right away!"
After seeing that Her Majesty the Queen was speaking to him, the Fire Demon Centurion was stunned for a while. When he saw the Queen glaring at him dissatisfied, and was about to get angry, he suddenly reacted and quickly led the Two lava dogs, running around looking for their great butler, Shane Knox, all over the world.
Soon, after the queen's order was issued, the fire elements quickly cleared away the undead natural disasters around the entire diseased wood forest, and soon, under the scolding of the chief manager and the fire demon leaders, they spent a short time. Only then did the basic formation arrangement gradually be completed. At this time, on the road behind, the lava giants who were racing against the elite lord Tyropene of the Flame Tortoise and his descendants finally arrived slowly at the southern gate of Stratholme.
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Now, high in the sky, countless pure-blooded fire eagles were soaring and circling among the clouds, and from time to time, there were clear eagle whistles. As the only ace troops of the fire element, they are waiting for their queen to give the order to attack.
Once they receive the order, these more than a thousand powerful fire eagles will roar and swoop down, directly breathing scorching heat on Stratholme below. They are guaranteed to kill the fire elements on the ground before they break through the city wall. Turn this city into a sea of flames in one step!
In front of Stratholme's protective lake, more than a hundred lava giants were activating their unique earth magic. Giant stone pillars and ground thorns began to rise from the lake and then shattered. They needed Open several more passages on the lake so that the fire elements can pass through smoothly. After all, the lake water can cause quite a lot of damage to the fire elements.
And now, in the diseased forest that was burned by the sky-high fire, an army of flames were gathering all over the mountains and plains. They were moving freely back and forth in the doomsday purgatory-like fire scene.
Whether it is lava dogs, flame turtles, or various types of balrogs, these forest fires not only have no impact on them, but also increase their power. From time to time, some fire demon centurions come and go. Among the troops, they were constantly scolded and worked hard to maintain the basic order of the army.
The undead camps that were originally in the Sickwood Forest were now gone. After all, under the might of the flame army and in the sea of flames soaring into the sky, whether it was the defensive ziggurat or the meat grinder built by the undead, they had been burned to ashes long ago...
This situation in front of Stratholme instantly frightened the necromancers in the city and the members of the Cult of the Curse who still remained alive!
In their opinion, maybe these flame armies in front of them are the real Burning Legion, right? Look, they burn wherever they go... With the flames soaring into the sky outside, I guess there won't be anything left after this forest fire, right? What if... what if they break through the city wall and rush into Stratholme... This scene is terrifying just thinking about it!
The situation is so bad that those necromancers or sect members who still maintain their independent consciousness are already thinking about how to escape. Maybe, when the city is broken, they can try to escape to the north to break out. ?
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"Listen to me, the undead in Stratholme! I give you one hour...ah, no! You have to surrender within a quarter of an hour at most, otherwise, when we rush in, we will burn you all!"
Anne was now standing on the head of Otuk, the tallest lava giant, before they walked out of the flame army's formation. At the moment, she was putting one hand on her waist and pointing in the direction of Stratholme City, shouting sweetly. .
Now, don’t mention how proud little Annie is!
I think back when she was in Quel'Thalas, she was so bullied by the numerous undead that she was chased by them several times!
But now? Has the tide turned? Aha! Now it's finally her turn to bully the undead! She has been waiting for this day for a long time, and little Annie is very vindictive! Regardless of whether they surrender or not, she will burn them all!
"Humph! Stupid and ignorant humans, just continue to be proud! Lord Archimonde is coming here soon, and your doom is coming!"
Varimathras on the top of Stratholme City was looking at the army of flames outside and the little girl standing on the head of the giant lava giant with a sinister look on his face.
Now, after that idiot Balnazzar died, Stratholme was naturally placed under his control. But he never expected that just a few days after he took office here, and before he had time to rectify military affairs, these fire elemental armies would actually reach the gate like this?
The reason why he is not scared to run away now is just because he knows that Lord Archimonde is already on his way here after getting the news.
If it weren't for the fact that Lord Archimonde's energy level is too high, and this world still has the defense mechanism left by the Titans, if the portal is used at will, a being of Lord Archimonde's level would easily be defeated by Azeroth. The world's defense mechanism is directly squeezed out, so we can only use flight to fly over slowly! Otherwise, they would have been teleported here long ago. How could these fire elements be given a chance to show off their power here?
"Huh? Archimonde? Is he the big demon? So... when will he get here?"
Annie was a little scared. If it was the big devil, she really couldn't defeat it. If she was attacking the city and the other party arrived in time, it would not be fun if she was attacked from behind. !
"Hmph! Are you scared? Lord Archimonde will arrive here at night at the latest. Perhaps, if you surrender now, it might still be too late?"
Varimathras actually knew what the Defiler was thinking.
Lord Archimonde really wants to get these powerful fire elemental troops under the Legion's command, and prepares to serve as the main force in the attack on Kalimdor together with the forces of the Burning Legion. After all, on the continent of Kalimdor, there are not only a large number of humans and orcs who have escaped, but also an unknown number of night elves with unknown strength!
"Is that so, we really have to arrive at night? Haha! Then you're dead!"
"Explosive Flame Technique!"
Hearing this, Annie's eyes lit up. If she could only arrive at night, she could burn all these nasty undead in the city first! There is definitely enough time!
Therefore, after she threw a huge explosive fire spell at the big Dread Lord bat on the city top, she jumped directly from Otuk's head. Fire Eagle Lord Celia swooped down in time and jumped to The little Annie in the air was caught on its own back.
"Legion of Fire! Attack!"
At Anne's order, the lava giant Otuk led hundreds of other lava giants under him and rushed directly to Stratholme's city wall through the lake water. They needed to destroy the obstacles in advance for the fire elemental army behind them. city wall.
At the same time, the huge number of Fire Eagle troops from high in the sky also rushed down. Countless breaths of flames exploded in the city. Those ziggurats and meat grinders that had not had time to attack were caught in the flames. Surrounded...
"Asshole! Prepare for defensive operations!"
After hurriedly dodging Annie's explosive fire spell, Varimathras sternly told the undead that they were wrong. The city where he originally stood has been blown into ruins by Anne's explosive fire technique. If the city wall hadn't been made of rocks, it would have been burned into a sea of flames, right?
"Hellfire!"
Varimathras did not intend to sit back and die. There were more than 100,000 undead troops in Stratholme. Although the good and bad were mixed and there were not many elites, they would definitely not be able to defeat these fire elements. However, if he just delayed the defense until Lord Archimonde arrived, he would still be a little confident.
Therefore, after avoiding Annie's spell, he also guided them to the large-scale summoning spell that the Dread Lord is best at. In an instant, countless green hellfires appeared from the sky and roared into the charging lava giant formation. Coming down, while disrupting the opponent's charging formation, they quickly turned into dozens of green hellfires the same size as those small lava giants.
"Wait! Who is this voice?"
He had just finished summoning Hellfire and was about to unleash another big earthquake when Varimathras suddenly felt something was wrong. It seemed like... something was falling from high in the sky?
Ignoring the backlash caused by interrupting the spell, he quickly looked up at the sky and saw... a huge flaming meteorite dragging a long tail flame, screaming and crashing down on his position...
run!
Varimathras had just had time to release a flicker, when the wall he was originally standing on was smashed to pieces by the huge meteorite, and then...
boom! After a loud bang.
After the power of the meteor impact destroyed a large section of the city wall and wiped out thousands of undead, a giant red hellfire that was even bigger than Otuk slowly stood up in the big pit...
"Hmph! Do you think you are the only one who can summon hellfire? No matter how many green fires you have, what's the use? Are they as big as my hellfires? Are they as fierce as my hellfires?"
In the distance, little Annie, standing on the back of Fire Eagle Celia, slowly retracted the hands that had just guided the spell. At this moment, the red flame arcane light was still lingering around her body. This was a normal phenomenon after casting a spell. And the huge red hellfire that was raging in the city of Stratholme and trampled a certain green hellfire into pieces with one kick was her masterpiece just now!
Otherwise, do you think Annie, a demigod, can only throw small fireballs and big fireballs? The intimidating power of a demigod can only be fully demonstrated in a large army battle like this and under the heavy protection of the army.
Adhering to the principle that big is beautiful and fierce is good, the things Annie summons will definitely not be too petty.
Look, that huge red hellfire she just summoned is so ferocious and domineering. Although there are still time and other restrictions, it will not exist for too long, and it may fall apart after a while... However, this is enough to tear down that annoying city wall!
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Just this chapter
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After all, it’s a chapter of more than 6,000 words, so I’m too lazy to divide it into two chapters.
