Chapter 612
Chapter 612: Freeze
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
“They’re coming!!”
“Attention! Enemy attack!!!”
Although the alliance army had suffered heavy casualties in the battle with the Burning Legion led by Archimonde, those who could gather here were the elites of the various races, so they didn’t flinch or retreat. With the sound of the battle horn, all the warriors of the various races participating in the defense of Mount Hyjal pulled themselves together and stared nervously at the growing black spots in the sky.
When the dragon liches were still hundreds of meters away from the ground, the alliance soldiers on the ground could already see the appearance of these giant dragons clearly. At this moment, their first thought was that they had encountered frost dragons again.
After all, they were all resurrected corpses, and dragon liches looked very similar to frost dragons. But unlike frost dragons that could only use freezing breaths as undead, Roy’s dragon liches could use all the magic that the dragons could use when they were alive!
Therefore, the moment the battle began, the alliance army on the ground immediately welcomed an overwhelming baptism of magic.
Countless Meteor Showers fell from the sky and rained down on the alliance army below. Before the Meteor Showers even ended, the sharp ice pillars of Ice Storms were stabbing down from the sky. In this dual baptism of ice and fire, there were also other spells such as Arcane Storm, Arcane Missiles, and so on. These magic attacks basically came from the former blue dragonflight.
In addition to the blue dragons, Roy’s dragon lich army had a small number of red dragons and green dragons, and there were even two black dragons. These were all dragon corpses that he had dug up in Dragonblight. He didn’t know which era they were from, but he had resurrected them into dragon liches because they still had some residual fire in their souls. Now, these dragon liches displayed the superior offensive abilities of dragons. They circled above the battlefield and swept the ground with flame breaths, venom breaths, and shadow breaths.
This was a doomsday-like scene. The attack of hundreds of dragons at the same time had the momentum of wanting to destroy everything. In just a single exchange, the alliance army was shell-shocked. Countless soldiers screamed and fell, and countless others turned into ashes before they could even scream.
However, the alliance army did not collapse because of this. They quickly reacted, and a crystalline green mist of rain enveloped the entire battlefield in an instant. Malfurion, the number one druid, took the lead to cast the nature spell Tranquility and Breath of Life to heal the injured soldiers. The other druids used Purge to expel the remaining magic power still attached to them.
On the human side, the Holy Light of the priests began to shine one after another. Before the souls of the dead soldiers left their bodies, the power of Resurrection made them stand up again. At the same time, the human mages cast various spells that could resist magic damage, such as Mana Shield, to cover the soldiers.
To be able to entangle with the Burning Legion for so long, the combat strength of the alliance army should not be underestimated, and their counterattack soon began. A large number of night elves’ glaive throwers were placed on a hill, and they used their high elevation to obtain the ability to attack the sky. Incomparably sharp glaives shot out at high speed and tore through the air, slashing sparks on the bones of the dragon liches as they passed.
The orcs also erupted. With the roar of ‘Lok-tar Ogar!’, the brave orc warriors jumped up with heavy hammers and sharp axes one after another. When the dragon liches approached low altitudes, the orcs smashed their weapons on them. Some of the more reckless ones even tried to grab the wings of the dragon liches and pull them down from the air.
The battle on the ground was just as intense. In the sky, Roy was riding Rafaro, and Julia and Benia were riding Malygos and Sindragosa while watching the battle.
Even Julia and Benia were very impressed by the resistance of the alliance army. “They didn’t retreat at all when facing the attack of hundreds of dragons. And they seem to be fighting well. No wonder these native races could beat Archimonde and the Burning Legion until they were buried in dirt…”
“That’s not surprising. After all, this alliance army can be said to be the strongest native alliance army on this planet!” Roy nodded. “The leaders and elites of the various races are all in this army.”
“Then, can the dragon lich army win?” Benia asked.
“It’s hard to say. The alliance army has no way out in this battle, so they can only resist with all their might!” Roy thought for a moment and said, “But an army of hundreds of dragon liches is also incomparably powerful. It’s unrealistic for one side to crush the other all at once, so this is a process of mutual consumption. It depends on which side can’t hold on first.”
Clearly, not only could Roy see the battle situation, but Tyrande, Jaina, and the others could as well. Moreover, there was a problem. The dragon liches were undead and had the characteristic of tirelessness. So in the eyes of Tyrande and the leaders, if the fight continued like this, the alliance army would definitely be the first to collapse.
Furthermore, they noticed that the King of Despair, Osiris, was still in the sky and had yet to take action…
“We have to end this quickly. We can’t drag it out with these dragons for too long!” Tyrande gritted her teeth and urged the white tiger under her to run toward a hill.
“We’ll cover you!” Jaina and Thrall realized what Tyrande wanted to do, so they rushed toward the hill with her.
After arriving at the top of the hill, Tyrande looked up at the densely packed dragon liches circling in the sky. Then she raised her elven longbow high, closed her eyes, and whispered, “Elune, please bless your people!”
With Tyrande’s words, the night elf engravings on her body instantly glowed, and the phantom of different moon phases appeared around her and kept spinning around her. A ray of moonlight descended from the sky and enveloped her and her mount, and a faint murmur seemed to resound throughout the battlefield.
At this moment, Tyrande became the focus of the battlefield. As the strongest Priestess of the Moon of the night elves, she was currently arousing her lunar power.
Countless dazzling lights appeared. These dazzling lights were like huge meteors that illuminated the entire battlefield. This was originally a beautiful scene, but there was immense killing intent hidden in the beauty.
The meteors fell from the sky with tremendous force. They locked onto every dragon lich in the sky above the battlefield and smashed straight into them. Every dragon lich that was hit seemed to suffer heavy injuries as they let out miserable dragon roars and fell from the sky. Even after landing, the meteors above their heads were still continuing to smash down until they turned into a pile of broken bones.
When the alliance soldiers saw this scene, their morale soared. They shouted slogans of victory and welcomed the falling dragon liches on the ground. To be honest, the flying ability of the dragon liches gave them a lot of pressure. The suppression of air to ground had always put the alliance army at a disadvantage in their counterattack. But now, things were fine. Tyrande’s Starfalls were directly knocking these skeletal dragons down from the sky.
At least two-thirds of Roy’s dragon lich army was shot down in this attack. Even the dragon liches that were not shattered by the meteors were warmly received by the alliance army after falling, and swords and axes smashed them into piles of broken bones.
On the hill, Tyrande called for meteors to land in waves, but she was not in good condition. In just a short while, the magic power in her body was about to be exhausted.
Suddenly, the expressions of Jaina and Thrall, who had been staying beside Tyrande, changed. They stepped forward in unison and blocked in front of Tyrande. Jaina slammed her staff on the ground and formed a giant Mage Shield to envelope the three of them. Thrall roared and threw the Doomhammer in his hand upward!
They had no choice but to do this because a strong flash of light suddenly erupted in the sky a second ago. Thrall and Jaina saw it clearly. It erupted from the mouth of the strange colossal dragon under Demon King Osiris. Realizing that Osiris was attacking, they naturally had to do their best to protect Tyrande.
The Helium Flash erupting from Rafaro’s mouth formed an enormous pillar of magic power that shot toward Tyrande with intense light. This intense light even suppressed the starlight filling the sky and illuminated all of Mount Hyjal. Before anyone else could understand what this light was, the Helium Flash had already collided with the Doomhammer that Thrall threw!
Boom!!! An incomparably powerful explosion occurred. The Helium Flash directly defeated the Doomhammer, and the explosive force blasted it far away. The remaining impact force continued forward and hit the three people on the hill.
In the face of this powerful impact force, Jaina gritted her teeth and struggled to hold on. The originally invisible Mage Shield completely displayed its outline and light at this moment. But she only persisted for about ten seconds before the shield made a crisp sound and was completely destroyed. Intense flames drowned the three people on the hill.
It wasn’t until the Helium Flash subsided that people realized that the hill where Tyrande and the others were had been completely flattened. Not only that, but the impact force even extended farther, plowing a deep fissure nearly two kilometers behind them.
What kind of power is this?! The alliance soldiers looked at the sky in horror, forgetting to fight the dragon liches for a moment.
Only Malfurion rushed to the hill crazily to check on Tyrande. But when he arrived, he found that Thrall and Jaina were both heavily injured. Only Tyrande was unscathed under the cover of moonlight.
“Dear, are you okay?” Malfurion asked in disbelief.
“I’m fine. Elune protected me!” Tyrande shook her head.
But even so, Tyrande was exhausted. She turned to look at Thrall and Jaina. “Darling, quickly treat them. We can’t lose them!”
Malfurion nodded and immediately began to save Thrall and Jaina.
In the sky, Roy naturally saw this scene. When he saw the sphere of moonlight covering Tyrande, he couldn’t help rubbing his demon horns thoughtfully, “Elune?”
Of course, Roy knew about Elune. But although he knew her name, even the night elves of Azeroth didn’t seem to have seen her true body. Even the statues of Elune enshrined in the night elves’ Temple of the Moon were imagined by combining the images of the night elves themselves… But even though they didn’t know her true appearance, no one could deny the power of the true god Elune.
According to Roy’s understanding, Elune might be stronger than Sargeras. When such a mysterious moon goddess protected Tyrande, even Roy couldn’t hurt her.
Yes, Rafaro’s Helium Flash had actually used Roy’s power. He had injected magic power into Rafaro’s body and then attacked through Rafaro’s amplification. He thought that he could kill the three people on the hill, but he didn’t expect an accident to happen.
However, although the attack didn’t fully work, Roy could still tell that Thrall, Jaina, and Tyrande were only at the demon lord level. Perhaps they would gradually increase their strength as they fought in the future, but now, they still had no power to fight back against a demon king like him.
Thinking of this, Roy actually became more and more speechless about Archimonde. If Archimonde had been more cautious, how could he have suffered defeat in such an easy task? Demon kings could completely crush demon lords. There was no one else who could lose like this…
After realizing that the alliance army below couldn’t have much resistance, Roy was unwilling to prolong the battle. His hands glowed with the light of magic power as he raised them at the ground far below.
The next second, the corpses of the dragon liches destroyed by the Starfalls on the ground reassembled, and the dragon liches stood up again!
With a simple mass undead resurrection spell, Roy directly turned the efforts of the alliance army to naught. After standing up again, the dragon liches angrily transformed into humanoid liches and began to wreak havoc on the battlefield.
Dragons flew in the sky, and liches erupted with magic power on the ground. The battle became fierce again. The dragon lich army entangled with the alliance army while Roy flew toward the World Tree Nordrassil with Julia and Benia.
After experiencing Archimonde’s self-destruction, Nordrassil had suffered heavy injuries. But the life of the World Tree was not so easy to extinguish, so it was still standing above the Well of Eternity. Roy rode Rafaro straight to the top of Nordrassil’s tree crown, jumped off his back, and stepped onto a branch.
This enormous tree crown reminded Roy of Kabbalah, the Tree of Life. The Kabbalah he saw in the illusion of Eden was even larger than this World Tree. He didn’t know if there was any connection between the Tree of Life and the World Tree.
The moment he stepped on one of its branches, Nordrassil’s entire tree crown trembled. He didn’t know if it was anger or fear, but he didn’t care about it all. His purpose for this trip was to destroy Nordrassil.
Perhaps some people might ask: It’s just a World Tree, so why are you staring at it so intently?
In fact, apart from being the pillar of faith for the night elves, this World Tree was also the entrance to Aspect Ysera’s Emerald Dream. The Emerald Dream was deeply connected to Nordrassil, and destroying the World Tree would not only destroy the will of the night elves but also bring immense trouble to the green dragon Ysera.
Yes, Roy planned to start with the Aspects as his achievements in the Burning Legion. As long as he had this merit, he would even surpass Archimonde and Kil’jaeden. The failure of these two in leading the Burning Legion’s invasion of Azeroth would accentuate Roy’s success.
As his magic power rose, the next second, the burning sky of Mount Hyjal suddenly ‘darkened’!
When the absolute zero temperature enveloping the entire mountain erupted, all light was devoured, and time seemed to stand still on Mount Hyjal.
This endless darkness lasted for ten seconds. After the darkness dissipated, the alliance army, who was at a loss and didn’t know what was going on, noticed Nordrassil’s situation.
Nordrassil’s towering trunk was completely frozen! The originally exuberant vitality contained in its trunk had completely disappeared…
Nordrassil was frozen to death!