This was originally a temple where the night elves worshiped the demigod of the wilderness, the father of Cenarius, Malorne the White Hart. It was also a place where the night elves druids learned and lived.
Now the druids here who were originally sleeping in the Emerald Dream have been awakened and have joined the night elves' armies resisting everywhere. The night elves civilians living nearby have also been relocated.
A few days ago, at Jaina's request, the night elves gave up this place as a position for Jaina to teleport the Theramore human army.
Almost at the same time that Jaina tried her best to teleport the last Theramore human army here, the vanguard of the Burning Legion also appeared at the foot of the mountain east of the sanctuary.
This is an army composed of ghouls, abominations and other undead creatures under the command of necromancers, and the supreme commander is a lich, Reki Winterhan.
Some soldiers in the human army recognized this tall man who looked like a lich transformed from a woman, because a few months ago, Hearthglen, an important town in the west of the Kingdom of Lordaeron, was besieged by the undead Scourge.
Its commander is the lich in front of him who wears an iron crown, wears chains, has a skeleton body, wears a purple forked robe, and seems to have no legs.
The undead army led by Reggie Winterhan was composed of several human necromancers under him who secretly passed through the defense line of the night elves in Darkwhisper Canyon, summoned Reggie Winterhan from behind, and activated the magic circle.
Summoned.
In fact, Reggie Donghan's military action was a private act and did not receive any approval from the Burning Legion's top brass.
Since decades ago, the invasion of the world of Azeroth has been planned by Kil'jaeden the Deceiver, one of the three giants of the Burning Legion.
Kil'jaeden first bewitched the orcs on Draenor, attacked the draenei who had fled there, and then drove the orcs to attack the world of Azeroth. Unfortunately, the two orc invasions were ultimately defeated.
So Kil'jaeden sealed the soul of Ner'zhul, the spiritual leader of the orcs, shaman, and leader of the Shadowmoon clan, turning him into the Lich King, surrendering to the continent of Northrend, and launched a campaign that swept across the Eastern Kingdom.
Scourge of the Undead in the North.
As Regi who was turned into a lich by Kil'jaeden along with Ner'zhul, Donghan was an orc warlock student of Ner'zhul during his lifetime. He was different from Ner'zhul who regretted it after realizing that he had been deceived.
, unlike Ner'zhul's other ambitious student Gul'dan, Reki Wintercold has always admired and followed Kil'jaeden.
Therefore, as a former student of Ner'zhul, after he was summoned to this world by the fallen Prince Arthas and Kel'Thuzad, he has always had a disdainful attitude towards the undead Scourge.
Also because of his disdain for the undead Scourge Legion, when the undead army swept across the entire Kingdom of Lordaeron, as one of the top commanders of the legion, he almost did not participate in any wars.
And when Arthas led the undead army to capture the magic city of Dalaran, stole the artifact Book of Medivh, and summoned Archimonde to this world, Reki Winterhan also had to listen to this burning man.
An order from one of the supreme leaders of the Legion.
He led his necromancers and mages from the Cult of the Curse across the ocean to the continent of Kalimdor, and opened many teleportation circles in the Dark Whisper Canyon to summon more demons.
Wherever there are intelligent creatures, there will be battles, not to mention the Burning Legion, which is composed of demons of different races from various worlds. Regi Winterhan has always regarded Kil'jaeden as his master, but he is unwilling to listen to Archimonde.
command.
Regardless of the relationship between the top brass of the Burning Legion, at least among the middle and lower levels of the Legion, there are all kinds of disharmonious conflicts. There are many causes of conflicts, such as the struggle for power and gain, or how to destroy a newly discovered world.
In the end, this contradiction was reflected in Reggie Winterhan, who secretly teleported himself to the back of the Whispering Canyon, preparing to be the first to attack the World Tree in order to defeat his master Kil'jaeden and another terrifying
He performed well in front of the great demon Archimonde.
Reggie Winter Cold was approaching fiercely, and his subordinates were all undead creatures. They were tireless and hardly had to rest or eat, so they pushed all the way towards Malorne Sanctuary and killed them.
Reggie Winterhan's private actions caused huge trouble to Jaina's Theramore human army. The human army had just been teleported, and they didn't even have time to set up defenses. Jaina's mana didn't even have time to rest and recover.
was forced into the battle.
Similar to the situation in the Battle of Azshara, Reki Donghan took the lead in sending out the sea of ghouls, intending to use the simplest "ghost sea tactics" to push back everything that dared to stand in front of him.
But most of the human army led by Jaina followed her to escape from the Kingdom of Lordaeron. A few months ago, they fought against the undead army in the Kingdom of Lordaeron, and a few days ago
Fighting another group of ghouls in Azshara.
Therefore, although the war came too quickly and there was no time to make better defense preparations, the human soldiers still quickly jumped into the battle and relied on their rich experience to repulse two attacks in succession.
Reggie Donghan immediately sent out an army of abominations and necromancers, and hundreds of abominations, as well as thousands of skeleton warriors and skeleton mages summoned by the necromancers, followed them into the battle, bringing considerable damage to the human army.
trouble.
Whether it was in the original Kingdom of Lordaeron or the Azshara region a few days ago, the number of abominations faced by the human army had never been so dense as before. Coupled with the sea of skeletons summoned by the necromancers, the human army's
The temporary position suddenly became precarious.
The Abominations even forcibly broke through the defense line at one point, but the brave human cavalry and some Paladins frantically rushed back towards the Abominations and Skeleton Sea that had broken through the defense lines, killing several Abominations and Skeleton Seas in a frantic way.
Dozens of necromancers created opportunities for the follow-up troops and once again stabilized the defense line.
These brave human cavalry and paladins were also submerged by the sea of ghouls and turned into brand new ghouls and skeletons.
Jaina continued to encourage her soldiers, and then continued to shuttle between positions, using spells to support the soldiers who fought hard and tenaciously. However, she did not have much time to rest, and she did not have much mana to cast more powerful attacks.
Group magic.
Following her, some human mages from Dalaran, as well as priests from the Kingdom of Lordaeron and Kul Tiras, were also fighting nervously, assisting Jaina against the seemingly endless army of undead.
Compared with the night elf army, the human army lacks air troops. In fact, in the entire world of Azeroth, except for the hippogryph knights of the night elves, the dragonhawk knights of the high elves, and the griffon knights of the Wildhammer dwarves, there are only
Some trolls possess giant Battroopers.
In other words, the air force in the world of Azeroth is too scarce, and the humans of Theramore obviously do not have the strength to build a combat-effective cavalry, at least not yet.
Fortunately, a small number of night elf raptor druids were temporarily assigned to Jaina as messengers and scouts. Faced with the undead army that was still endlessly attacking the position, Jaina was worried.
The bad news is that Reggie Donghan has ordered the necromancers in the rear to make a summoning circle, intending to continue summoning and teleporting more undead armies; the good news is that in the east, at least for now, there is only such an undead army.
Come and kill.
After arduously resisting the attacks of several consecutive undead armies, the human coalition forces were exhausted. During these two consecutive days of fighting, they had built six defense lines that were constantly destroyed and rebuilt, using simple wooden
Formed by palisades and barbarians, they still firmly guard Malorne Sanctuary despite the continuous retreat of the defense line.
It was another endless night. Jaina sat tiredly next to a big tree. Her mana had been exhausted. She had not rested for three consecutive days. She was exhausted, and her heart gradually became numb.
.
A batch of middle- and lower-level officers on the front line have been replaced, because most of the middle- and lower-level officers on the front line of the human coalition have died under the impact of countless undead armies.
According to current statistics, in the past two days, the human coalition has lost more than a thousand elite veterans from the Eastern Kingdom Continent. Together with the wounded, the human army has reached 5,000. Currently, the available soldiers are barely more than half.
"I don't know how long I can hold on!" Jaina thought, her beautiful hair became dull and she looked haggard. She picked up a piece of bread and ate it with a frown.
These days, the human coalition forces don't even have time to cook. The food for the coalition forces is quickly made with spells by mages using a small amount of supplies and ingredients provided by night elves.
The food quickly formed by these spells has no taste, and can barely fill your stomach and replenish your physical strength. Even so, these foods are almost out of supply, because most mages, like Jaina, have consumed too much physical energy.
and mana.
"Woo~~~" A melancholy horn suddenly blew from the front line. Jaina stood up holding her staff, patted the dust on her robe, and saw a cavalry messenger running over.
The messenger's armor was in tatters and covered with blood and dust. He shouted in a hoarse voice: "Another group of huge undead spiders were summoned from the opposite side. These spiders can burrow into the ground. They burrowed into the rear of our position.
Attacked us from behind and we suffered heavy losses..."
As soon as he finished delivering the information, he fell to the ground. A human officer next to Jaina raised a torch and stepped forward to check. He saw that the armor on his back had been blown to pieces by some kind of magic, and the flesh and blood on his back were all broken.
It was blown up quickly and turned into a black mass.
The human officer gritted his teeth, drew his long sword, and chopped off the neck of the messenger. They had rich experience in fighting the undead and knew that the soldier had been contaminated by the plague spell of the undead and would soon turn into a corpse.
A ghoul without consciousness.
Jaina turned her head to the side, not wanting to see this sad scene. She paused her staff and said, "Let's go and take a look!"