Volume 9: Disaster Chapter 565: War Mobilization
It is true that people with different identities speak differently. Now he is an important figure in the alliance, and he got Antonidas's promise with just a few words.
It turns out that strength is everything.
After leaving Dalaran, Murphy chose to return to his castle to prepare for a new round of war.
An hour later, Murphy slowly landed on the square of Dragonsong Castle.
He directly ordered his men to gather for a meeting in the castle hall. When everyone was present, Murphy began to assign tasks.
"Freshanks, I have a mission for you. Go to Northrend to meet Varian and tell him that the Burning Legion is about to invade Mount Hyjal on Kalimdor. There will be a war that will determine the survival of this world. If he wants to protect this world and prove his righteousness, then this battle will be his best chance.
Of course, this is not my request for his oath, so he needs to make his own choice and repeat my words to him clearly, understand?"
"I understand, Lord Aidandelon. I will make sure this matter is done." Freshanks agreed and left with the news.
There is a deep meaning in arranging Freshanks to do this task. Freshanks is a netherworld dead dragon, and it is not easy for him to have misunderstandings with the Undead Covenant.
Then Murphy turned his gaze to the Dragon Worship Priest.
"Angus, do you know what the recent missionary activities of the Dragon Worship Church are about? Why did the Dragon Worship Church spread its faith to the guardian dragons? Is this something they do on their own, or is it a mission assigned to them by the guardian dragons?"
Angus shook his head awkwardly : "I'm sorry, Master. Ever since I joined your army, the Archbishop no longer trusts me. He seems to have noticed something and seems to have some complaints about you. I can no longer get direct instructions from him.
But I did learn from some priests I know that the Dragon Cult is carrying out a major operation, which is said to be related to the return of the Dragon God."
The Dragon God has returned? Why didn't I get the news? I'm supposed to be the incarnation of the Dragon God.
No! Could it be that this Dragon God meant something else?
Murphy frowned and couldn't help but sigh. It turned out that trying to win over other people's bosses to work for you would indeed bring side effects.
This means we have lost a source of intelligence.
But it doesn’t matter, Angus is not the only one among his men who has the ability to gather intelligence.
"Lysajes, I have a mission for you. Use your wind whispering to monitor the situation over at the Dragon Islands for me. The guardian dragons seem to be planning something. I must keep track of their movements and monitor them. If anything happens, notify me immediately."
Lysajes nodded, "Yes, Lord Aidandelon, I will see to it."
Murphy had no doubt about this. He had been confused by the wind speaking technique before. Even a guardian dragon would probably be unable to defend against this kind of elusive monitoring ability.
Then he turned his gaze to Roland.
"Roland, gather the troops of the Dragon Knights, and we will go to Kalimdor."
"I will follow your instructions, Captain." Roland agreed.
The Knights of Dragonfall suffered few casualties during the War of the Three Kings because they were supporting the rear, so they were able to join the Holy War of Mount Hyjal.
Although personal strength is important, appearance is equally important. At least when fighting for the right to speak or distributing benefits, the troops in your hands are also very important.
"If we use the Storm Dragon King's fleet for transportation, we can transport up to 5,000 troops. Do we need to recruit some adventurers to fill the gap?"
"No need, they will go on their own. This war will be an unprecedented war, and it will not happen too soon. We have plenty of time to prepare. Oh, and Prince Anvilmar, bring your dwarf craftsmen. We need to fight a defensive war this time, so some fortifications are also necessary."
Asona, a warmonger, was extremely excited. "Finally, my fateful battle is about to happen."
As they were talking, there was a shouting suddenly from outside.
A knight rushed into the castle hall, "My lord, you'd better come out and take a look."
When Murphy led everyone out of the gate and came to the tower of the castle, he saw at a glance a huge green flame cloud floating in the distant sky, and meteors burning with green flames were passing through the cloud and falling to the ground.
It's hellfire rain!
Murphy reacted immediately.
Judging from the direction and distance, it should have fallen deep into the Alterac Mountains.
Murphy frowned slightly. He didn't expect that the game mechanism would be refreshed so quickly, and it happened to appear in Alterac.
Is it just good/bad luck?
No, the game mechanic of hellfire rain should involve the entire game. At this moment, I'm afraid that all countries have suffered such an attack.
"You guys continue to follow orders, I'll go over and take a look."
As Murphy spoke, he transformed into an ancient dragon, flapped his dragon wings and soared into the air, flying towards the direction where the meteorite fell.
When Murphy flew to the target location, the cloud of fel flames had disappeared, and dozens of hellfire demons landed on the snowy field below.
This should be the energy reaction caused by the Burning Legion's long-range troop deployment. Looking down from the air, the originally white snowfield was now full of craters left by the explosion. Green fel fire was burning on the ground, and one huge hellfire demon after another crawled out of the pit. They ignored some nearby snowmen and ice wolves, and gathered directly into a group, heading towards the direction of Alterac City.
Murphy counted them and found a total of thirty-three hellfires, each of which was more than ten to twenty meters tall. They were all monsters above level 80. The most powerful one was even a catastrophic-level BOSS, which was forty to fifty meters tall.
Although the highest level is only disaster level, the basic template of the Hellfire Demon is the Colossus template. Even ordinary monsters have a health volume of up to 15,000, so Murphy did not underestimate it at all. Such a group of Hellfires is enough to destroy a small city.
Murphy was not concerned about these Hellfire Demons, but he was concerned that in this way, Alterac might not be able to mobilize all its forces. Not only would Alterac not be able to launch a full-scale attack, but all the Alliance countries would probably need to retain enough troops for defense.
I'm afraid that Godwin's order to recruit troops will encounter obstacles.
He was just about to dive down to destroy these hellfires when he saw many small black dots densely packed on the distant horizon.
Murphy's Ancient Dragon's Eye seemed to be very close at first glance. It was the adventurers who seemed to have discovered that there was a rain of hellfire falling nearby, so they formed a group to come here to fight the wild BOSS.
The number of adventurers from afar increased. At first, there were only three or five groups with one or two hundred people, but soon there were thousands of them.
Their target is naturally these moving Hellfire Demons. Because they are version mechanism monsters, the drop rate of these Hellfire Demons is very high, and they will drop a large number of rare materials. It can be said that each one of them is walking real gold and silver.
Especially for studios, it is definitely a great opportunity to make money.
Murphy suddenly felt relieved. Haha, he had actually forgotten about these adventurers.
He did not dive down, but soared above the clouds, watching the situation on the battlefield. The adventurers were first frightened by the size of this group of Hellfires. Dozens of huge guys several dozen meters tall moving together would make an extremely loud noise, and a rash attack would inevitably result in heavy casualties.
But the adventurers soon came up with a countermeasure strategy. Each guild sent out many hunters to pull the monsters. They would shoot an arrow from a distance and draw the hatred of a Hellfire demon away. When it was lured away several hundred meters and left alone, a group of adventurers would immediately rush forward like hyenas besieging a bison, and kill the lured Hellfire demon in minutes.
There were more than thirty Hellfires. Hunters were pulled out of the monster group one after another and were beaten to death by adventurers. This group of Hellfires were completely devoured by adventurers before they had even walked halfway.
There were even some player teams that failed to grab the monster.
The last BOSS-level Hellfire was beaten by thousands of people and died in an extremely miserable way.
Murphy thought that it seemed that he was worrying too much. With the existence of adventurers, the game mechanics of this version, such as Hellfire Rain and Demon's Gate, were basically providing equipment materials to adventurers.
Because it is a mechanical monster, the drops are quite powerful, richer than the general wild BOSS, isn't it meat?
The only thing we need to guard against now is the Burning Crusade mechanism. The setting of this mechanism is that the Burning Legion will send a large army of demons to attack a certain camp until the camp is completely destroyed.
It is of course impossible to destroy an official camp, and it is most likely just an excuse, but if the goal is to destroy a camp, the force must be very large, and it is definitely not something that can be solved by just a few thousand or eight hundred adventurers.
I'm afraid we'll have to be careful when the time comes.
But it doesn’t matter. There are many players in the Burning Legion. As long as there is such a big move, it will definitely not be concealed. We can just respond in a targeted manner when the time comes.
The most urgent task is to gather troops and occupy a position in Mount Hyjal. Mount Hyjal will soon become a battlefield where various forces gather, so we have to find a suitable place to deploy our troops.
The fel power in Archimonde's hands must be obtained.
Thinking in his mind, Murphy flew towards the direction of Longshang Castle.
At this moment, it was not just Murphy who was gathering troops and preparing to join the war to seize Archimonde's power.
Several major official camps are also hesitating and preparing for war.
The Alliance is the one that is most concerned about this war. After all, they have just defeated the Lich King and are particularly sensitive to threats.
Although you didn't get the official reward for defeating the Lich King (because Lich King Gul'dan was split into two, which resulted in the destruction of the Lich King's golden body and the loss of the savior reward corresponding to killing the Lich King), you still got a lot of Gul'dan's drops, and most of those who participated in the battle and killed the Lich King got some good things.
Some people even got legendary weapons.
And those Death Lords who were eliminated in the war contributed a large number of top-quality equipment and plot equipment.
Coupled with the massive amount of plot points, the soldiers, lords, and hero players who participated in this battle have all received a wave of upgrades. Many of them have been promoted and even gained legendary expertise.
Although the casualties are not small, the undead transformation mechanism provides a safety net.
Now that the Burning Legion has returned and Archimonde is in charge personally, the equipment dropped will be even better, and the plot points given will be even more. Whoever can grab this wave of benefits will definitely become a strong player in the next game.
Archimonde's drop attracted countless covetous eyes.
As soon as Godwin issued the mobilization order, players from all countries responded immediately. However, the NPCs did not seem to be so concerned. Their vision was relatively narrow and they could only see the tragic casualties in the War of the Three Kings.
However, Godwin did not force the various countries. Due to the limited naval capacity, his goal was to gather 500,000 elite troops to participate in the war. Forget about the militia. In a war with a force of the Burning Legion's level, the militia would just be sending their heads off.
It may be useful against skeleton zombies, but it will probably be of no use against the demon army of the Burning Legion.
So, as the leader of the alliance, he presented a relatively reasonable number of troops to all the countries.
Lordaeron independently took on an army of 200,000, with Stormwind at 80,000, Dalaran at 80,000 (Dalaran had recruited too many soldiers to deal with the Scourge, and now they were no longer needed so they were simply sent to Kalimdor as cannon fodder), Alterac at 30,000, Gilneas at 30,000, Kul Tiras at 50,000 (mainly navy), and Stromgarde at 10,000 (in view of the heavy losses in the war with the Scourge). Godwynn also sent troops to rescue Stromgarde and expel the Frostwolf clan's army.
Ironforge, Aerie Mountain, Quel'Thalas, and Gnomeregan also allocated a certain amount of troops.
Other countries were relatively respectful of Godwin's mobilization. On the one hand, Lordaeron was now at its peak, and defeating the Lich King had allowed Godwin to attain the legendary rank. The situation was stronger than the person, so the leader of the alliance had to be given face.
On the other hand, when Godwin called on everyone to fight the Scourge, no one believed it. But in the end, it was proved that the Scourge was indeed real. Now facing the more powerful Burning Legion, people believe it more.
There were also few twists and turns on the Horde side. The key problem was that the orcs and the Alliance were at odds, and they had no relationship with the night elves. To be honest, there was still a grudge between them - although this grudge was forged by the good master and apprentice pair of Ner'zhul and Gul'dan, it was undeniable that the night elves had a very bad impression of the orcs.
From this perspective, it seems a little unreasonable for the tribe to join the war.
However, as the great chief, Badao Wuqing still has some prestige, and the key is that he is good at fooling people.
Tell the majority of tribal orcs directly that this battle is to completely free the tribe from the shadow of demonic rule, and to avenge the heavy casualties caused by the enslavement and exploitation of the Burning Legion. The orcs will never be slaves, and must defeat their former masters.
The speech successfully aroused the orcs' fighting spirit.
Of course, the main reason is that many of the clan chiefs are players, and they all want to join the battle to grab the spoils, so they naturally cooperate with Badao Wuqing's orders.
So, an army of 500,000 orcs gathered one after another and marched towards Kalimdor.
Finally, it’s the night elves.
At this moment, the Divine Emperor has arrived at Mount Hyjal and met with Tyrande, Malfurion and his wife to discuss plans to fight against the Burning Legion.
In the conference room, Emperor Shenwu and the top leaders of the Dark Night Alliance gathered together.
