Volume 9: Disaster Chapter 554: The Undead Scourge vs. the Fourth Scourge
The Scourge's pace did not stop because of the scorched earth strategy. The undead were not tired and did not need supplies. Although their marching speed was not fast, they were able to last longer.
They can march without interruption and their speed is actually faster than that of ordinary armies.
Not to mention facing an army of more than two million undead, there is no army that can withstand this natural disaster and torrent of death.
In just two days, the Scourge passed through the Hillsbrad Foothills, crossed the Antana River on the third day, and crossed the Rim Mountains on the fourth day. By the fifth day, the vanguard of the army had entered the territory of Dalaran.
However, even with such a rapid advance, the adventurers gathered in Dalaran were still very dissatisfied.
I've been waiting for so long and the Scourge still hasn't come. My sword is thirsty for it.
Those who are impatient, brave and skilled can't help but run to Hillsbrad and start guerrilla warfare.
Although the army of more than two million undead looked terrifying, the huge scale also had its disadvantages. It stretched for dozens of miles, with more than a dozen routes advancing at the same time. The army of more than two million people lacked organization and had no formation.
Especially since the Scourge is mostly composed of brainless skeleton zombies, they are very slow to react to attacks.
These days, with all kinds of videos uploaded to the Internet——
What, "Solo Scourge", "How to use Scourge to level up quickly", "Priest's guide to quickly farm the undead"...
Various fancy and extreme operations have aroused the interest of adventurers, and more and more adventurers are running to use the Scourge to kill monsters, upgrade and get equipment.
These adventurers often travel in small groups, squads, and teams, with a large number of mages and priests in the team. Like flies, they launch piecemeal attacks around the huge, bloated and constantly wriggling undead army.
Use various AOE magic to madly slaughter those undead minions that have no long-range counter-ability. It's so cool to upgrade by killing the undead minions.
Adventurers are not afraid of death anyway, and generally they will not bring too good equipment for safety reasons. Even if they are discovered by the Death Lords in the legion, it is not too bad if they are wiped out by the Death Lords and their elite undead troops.
By the fifth day, the number of adventurers surrounding the Scourge had reached tens of thousands.
Although there were teams that accidentally attracted too many monsters and ended up in trouble, overall, adventurers were continuing to drain the Scourge.
Even some bosses were pulled out of the army and killed.
At this moment, the Alliance army was already on full alert outside the city of Dalaran, ready for battle.
All the top leaders of the alliance gathered together to discuss strategy.
"Report! The Scourge is approaching, 70 miles away from Dalaran."
"Continue investigating."
"Haven't the troops of the tribe and the Dark Night Alliance arrived yet?" Murphy asked Godwin.
Godwin shook his head. "The Eagle Knights of the Night Alliance have arrived, but they only have a few thousand soldiers. They are of no use at all. As for the Horde, I don't think it's possible for them to come. The hatred between the Horde and the Alliance is too deep. Even if they sign an alliance agreement, they are still neutral units. You know those adventurers well. If the Horde comes, there will definitely be a fight."
"Then it seems that our alliance can only defend alone. I feel a little alone."
Although all the Alliance countries understood this time that the threat of the Scourge was no joke and responded to Dalaran's call for help, they also left a large number of troops to guard their own territories, mainly to guard against the plague attacks constantly launched by the Cult of the Damned.
It has to be said that although this cursed sect was badly targeted by players who knew the history, it also achieved the meaning of its existence.
As a result, the number of troops sent by various countries to support Dalaran was obviously too small. At this time, the total strength of the Alliance outside the city of Dalaran was only 500,000, which was no match for the two to three million Scourge troops.
"But it doesn't matter. Don't forget that we still have adventurers."
This made everyone feel relieved, at least the player heroes felt relieved.
The Alliance was the first official optional faction to be opened, so it has the largest number of adventurers. Now there is a large-scale event like the Scourge invasion, and there is no level limit, resulting in the number of adventurers outside the entire city of Dalaran reaching as high as one million. How can you lose?
The two million undead army looked terrifying, but it seemed nothing in front of the millions of adventurers.
The most powerful thing about the Lich King is that he can transform the killed soldiers and heroes into part of the Scourge, but adventurers are not afraid of transformation. With millions of adventurers around, he can be crushed to death even if they are piled up.
The real threats are still the Lich King himself and Galakrond, two world-destroying bosses.
Once the Scourge takes Dalaran and completes the ritual to summon the Burning Legion, the story campaign will be considered a failure. No matter how many adventurers there are, it will be useless at that time, because once the Scourge goes from being a mobile legion to a local resident, it will gain the authority to refresh locally, and then it will be an endless protracted war.
However, the NPCs do not have this awareness. In their minds, adventurers are just a mob, just there to make up the numbers.
Right now.
The Dalaran Council of Six, headed by Antonidas, and generals from various countries all had solemn expressions as they carried out pre-war mobilization.
Antonidas (Speaker of Dalaran): "This time the Alliance is facing an unprecedentedly powerful enemy. We are alone and have no choice but to fight alone. However, for the safety of the Alliance and the survival of this world, we must fight to the end..."
A tragic atmosphere permeated the conference room.
at the same time--
Winter is Coming (Death Knight): "Master, a large number of adventurer teams have appeared on the left and right wings of the army. We have lost about 500,000 troops in the past few days. Although they are all low-level cannon fodder troops, if they continue like this, the intimidation will still be very dangerous."
What? Half a million troops?
Gul'dan was also shocked. There were a total of two million troops, but a quarter of them were killed in just five days. Are these adventurers so powerful?
Fortunately, Dalaran is about to arrive. If it takes a few more days, my troops will be wiped out before we reach the destination.
Gul'dan suddenly felt a little panicked.
Gul'dan (Lich King): "These damn adventurers, Conan the Barbarian, winter is coming, each of you two will lead a team of frost bone dragons to clean up these garbage."
As the air force was sent out, the adventurers' attacks were finally interrupted. No matter how mobile the adventurers were, they could not compare to air units.
Thousands of adventurer teams were wiped out in droves because they failed to retreat in time.
Unfortunately, after a round of searching, not a single prisoner was captured, nor was a single undead soul converted.
However, the Lich King has long been accustomed to these strange adventurers.
It doesn't matter, as long as we capture Dalaran, everything will be over.
At this time, the Alliance also sent out its own air force, and the air units of both sides were already fighting fiercely for air supremacy.
In this continuous attack, the vanguard of the Scourge finally reached a place thirty miles outside the city of Dalaran.
Kel'Thuzad looked at Dalaran in front of him with mixed feelings.
After two years of absence, he is finally back. The former member of the Six-Man Council has now become the Death Lord of the Scourge.
Kel'Thuzad has not yet transformed into a lich. The transformation into a lich requires powerful magical power, and there is only one chance. In order to gain the ability of immortality, a powerful magical item must be made into a phylactery. However, he already has a goal. The treasury of Dalaran stores a large number of powerful treasures and even artifacts. He can choose one as his phylactery.
Of course, everything will only be realized after winning the battle.
At this time, the defenders of Dalaran also completed their assembly. Instead of choosing to defend the city, they directly lined up outside the city.
An army of 500,000 strong spread over a cross-section of more than ten miles, and in front of this cross-section was an army of up to one million adventurers.
The quality of these one million adventurers is naturally not very high, as there are a large number of small accounts of levels 10 or 20 mixed in them. But even so, compared to the Scourge, which is composed of a large number of skeleton zombie cannon fodder troops, the Alliance is still better in terms of individual quality.
Looking at the dark and surging defenders, the Lich King suddenly felt something was wrong. Why did it feel like the number of the enemies was no less than that of his own Scourge?
His original plan of overwhelming Dalaran with a tidal army of undead seemed to be a little difficult to implement.
Kel'Thuzad (Grand Necromancer): "Master, shall we still fight according to the predetermined strategic plan?"
The Lich King's plan was to use low-level undead cannon fodder to launch continuous attacks to consume the defenders' firepower - in the Lich King's expectation, the enemy would definitely hide in the city and defend it to the death.
Once all of Dalaran's firepower has been explored and the magic power has been consumed, we can send out elite troops to capture the city in one fell swoop.
But now, something is not right.
But there was nothing that could be done to change what was wrong. There were two million undead troops, and the ones in the front were all low-level cannon fodder, all crowded together in a mess, with no way to adjust their formation.
I can only go directly.
Gul'dan (Lich King): "Yes, proceed according to the plan. The first echelon, attack on all fronts! Uninterrupted attack until the enemy is destroyed! Go, soldiers of the Scourge, warriors from the bitter winter, devour these living people."
With a dragon roar from Polyleus, the Scourge - moved!
Countless Undead warriors let out strange roars, wielding rusty swords, and rushed towards Dalaran like a tide. On the Dalaran side, countless adventurers also rushed towards the Scourge like a tide.
The players shouted passionately and howled with excitement. It was so exciting to watch such a large-scale national war involving millions of people.
Forget about protecting the world, fighting against the Lich King, or defeating bosses to get equipment.
Just participating in such an unprecedented war is an unprecedented gaming experience.
boom!
The two torrents suddenly collided with each other. The Scourge Undead had no concept of formation or coordination. They just charged forward mindlessly, biting, slashing, and releasing their undead hatred for the living.
However, the adventurers were even more terrifying than the undead, and they had completely gone crazy. It was unclear whether it was because the game was too realistic, or the undead were too scary, but many adventurers were completely bloodthirsty, and they were slashing and killing like crazy, consuming potions without considering the concepts of teammates and formations at all.
There are enemies everywhere, just kill them all unless they are alive.
The destructive light of magic continued to explode in the crowd. The mages hiding in the back were really happy. Every spell could hit the enemies in large numbers. It was simply a paradise for leveling up.
However, the Scourge Undead are not just sitting there doing nothing. There are also a large number of Necromancers, Undead Wizards, and Corpse Wizards hidden inside. There are many elites and small BOSS-level strongmen among them. They release the plague of death into the crowd and use corpse explosion to detonate the fallen bodies. Blood and flesh fly everywhere, poison spreads, plague rages, and frost bites the bones.
Undeads and adventurers fell in large numbers. Judging from the scene, the Scourge was actually having the upper hand.
The main reason was that they had been attacked by guerrillas before and a large number of low-level cannon fodder had been consumed. Now the average quality of the troops has improved a lot. In addition, there were too many cunning adventurers, and many of them hid in the back and were unwilling to rush forward to die. As a result, after the first wave of troops were consumed, soon no one was willing to rush forward to be the front row.
This allowed the Scourge's front line to continue to move forward.
Gul'dan felt somewhat relieved.
The Scourge's army is still very powerful.
However, what he didn't expect was that the front line soon began to move towards Wang Tiancai's army and pushed back.
It turned out that the fallen adventurers had resurrected and ran back to the battlefield. They had just died once and were very angry. When they saw many adventurers hiding in the back and unwilling to rush forward, they immediately became angry.
They simply rushed over in groups from behind, forcing the adventurers' formation to move forward.
Now those adventurers who were previously in the second row and are now in the first row have no choice but to fight hard. The formation of the million-strong army of adventurers is so crowded that there is nowhere to escape even if they want to.
You can only keep rushing forward with the crowd, killing the enemies in front of you, or be killed by the enemies in front of you.
The surging tide of people and the tide of the undead constantly collided with each other, like waves, stirring up a bloody storm of flesh and bones.
Gul'dan was stunned. These adventurers were so invincible and could be resurrected. Who were the undead? Who were the Scourge?
Behind the army of adventurers, the senior generals of the alliance were all dumbfounded.
Especially those NPCs, Antonidas, Muradin Bronzebeard, Uther, Duke Lothar...
Although a call for adventurers was issued before the war, no one ever took the adventurers seriously.
As a result, they suddenly discovered that they had nothing to do with the battle. It seemed that the adventurers were about to defeat the Scourge. This, this, this...
Everyone's CPU was in a daze.
Murphy, Godwin and the others were also surprised. Although they were well aware of the power of adventurers, they had never seen adventurers gather in such a large scale before. They also did not expect that the number of adventurers would be so terrifying when it reached a certain level.
This is not an adventurer at all; he is clearly the legendary fourth calamity.
Godwin (King of Lordaeron): "Why do I feel like we have nothing to do?"
Darkseid (King of Dice): "I wonder if the Scourge will be crushed by a wave of adventurers?"
Morgan Lisa (Arcanist): "Wait a minute, if the adventurers wipe out the Scourge in one wave, who will get the Lich King's head?"
Voldemort (Shadow Mage): "Nonsense, whoever is closer gets the reward."
Everyone looked at each other, and suddenly they all reacted.
At this time, if anyone can rush to the front and cause a little damage to the Lich King, and wait for the Lich King to be killed by the adventurer, then he can get a plot kill for free.
Not only the Lich King, but all the bosses of the Scourge can be calculated in this way.
Thinking of this, the heroes present could no longer sit still.
Godwin (King of Lordaeron): "Soldiers of Lordaeron, you must not let our brave adventurers fight alone. For Lordaeron, for the Alliance, follow me!" He launched an attack with the Knights of the Silver Hand.
Darkseid (King of Disi): "Soldiers of the Disi Kingdom, we must not let the name of the mountain warriors be tarnished. Follow me."
Kaya Windrunner (Ranger-General): "What are you waiting for, elven warriors? Attack for the glory of Quel'Thalas."
Watch as troops break away from the lines and launch attacks.
Those NPCs couldn't sit still anymore. He was indeed worthy of being the King of Holy Light. He was so brave and fearless.
Oh my god, King Disi, a mere king of a duchy, can be so brave?
What, an elven general like Kaya Windrunner is also on the battlefield?
No, no, we have to go too.
"For Khaz Modan!"
"For the Alliance!"
"For the glory of Stormwind!"
Amidst waves of commands, each legion of the alliance launched an all-out attack.
Gul'dan looked at the Alliance army that was attacking actively, and his face turned pale.
Gul'dan (Lich King): "Come, come all, come to meet your destined destruction, mortals, come to meet your final fate, ants! Soldiers, warriors, servants of the Scourge, for your master, kill all living life!"
The core force of the Scourge Legion, the Death Lords of hundreds of meters in size, the Scourge BOSS, led their elite monster groups and also launched a full-scale attack.
