One Hundred and Twentieth IX Battle of Stratholme (5)

In the twentieth year of the Portal of Darkness' calendar, in this season when autumn and winter intersect, on the land of the original Kingdom of Lordaeron, near the Plaguelands in the east and west, when the night is about to fall, the first scene finally falls here. Snow, which indicates that winter in the northern hemisphere of the eastern continent has officially arrived.

On this day, in the northern area of ​​Stratholme in the Eastern Plaguelands, two important events that were enough to be recorded in the chronology of Azeroth's history and enough to cause a sensation on the entire planet of Azeroth happened.

The first big thing is:

The Flame Queen of unknown origin, leading her Flame King's team of unknown origin, brazenly launched a huge offensive against the natural disaster of the undead at the most desperate and frightening moment for the creatures in the eastern kingdom.

It only took two days for the Fire Elemental Legion to wipe out all the undead Scourge troops in the Eastern Plaguelands, north of Blackwood Lake, including the military town of Stratholme!

According to incomplete statistics, the Flame Empire slaughtered nearly 200,000 undead natural disaster troops in these two days. In the battle to capture Stratholme, they also killed the demon race belonging to the Burning Legion, the dreadlord Varimathras of the Nathrezim clan. And made its corpse into a specimen, and hung it on the newly built capital of their Flame Kingdom—the City of Flame, on the wall near the entrance of the city gate!

The second big thing is:

The powerful and mysterious Flame Queen of the Flame Kingdom, the Daughter of Flame, the mighty demigod——Queen Anne Hastur, she is at the head of the Stratholme city they just captured, and the one who rushed to hear the news The leader of the Burning Legion, the great demon, Archimonde the Polilator, waged an earth-shattering and powerful super battle.

According to records, in the battle between the two sides, after smashing countless mountains, burning countless seas of fire, and sacrificing countless heroic fire elementals, their queen of the fire elementals finally succeeded in repelling Archimonde, The most powerful demon that has ever walked the world of Azeroth!

After this incident, the Flame Kingdom and their Queen had the same momentum in the northern part of the eastern continent. Not only did the Burning Legion and the Scourge of the Undead frighten them, but they also attracted countless Lordaeron refugees who did not have time to go west or south. Or other creatures, all left their original refuges and flocked to the Eastern Plaguelands, flocking to this place shrouded in the flame queen's light, in order to seek shelter...

(Here, I have to mention one more thing: After countless years, archaeologists of various races have verified that the fire elements in the Flame Kingdom were actually imprisoned by the Titans in a plane prison in ancient times. The minions of the ancient gods! And the place where the fire elementals are imprisoned, the magical prison, is also a fire elemental plane called the land of fire, which is consistent with the origins of the fire elementals!

But strangely enough,

Historians of all races couldn't find out, why did that mysterious and powerful little human girl become the queen of the Flame Kingdom? And won the support of the fire elements? Because, according to archaeological findings, in the records of the Titans left on the planet Azeroth, the original leader of the Land of Fire should be a powerful fire elemental lord known as the Lord of Fire—Ragnaros!

But why, after Ragnaros, the Fire Demon King, was summoned to Blackrock Mountain by King Thaurissan of the Dark Iron Dwarves, why did this little girl inexplicably replace him and become the Queen of the Firelands? What kind of connection does she have with Ragnaros, the Firelord? Both are father and daughter? Or to seize power?

In this regard, although many people have asked about those fire elements that have spread throughout the entire planet of Azeroth, it is a pity that those fire elements either choose to keep silent, or simply say that they don't know, or they keep secrets and care about others. For him.

In the end, this matter can only become a big mystery in the archaeological world of Azeroth, which has caused speculation and gossip by many interested people, and they have written thousands of different versions of the queen's biography...

In fact, history is like this. Archaeologists just like to mess around and write nonsense, especially those dwarf and dwarf archaeologists. They dare to dig the prison where the Titans hold the ancient gods! )

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Well, in fact, the above two things are all recorded in the official documents of the later Flame Kingdom. How about the specific situation? The Fire Elements who were on the scene at the time, and the members of the envoy sent by the Kingdom of Lordaeron to watch the battle, they didn't see it that way at all...

For the first thing, the members of the Lordaeron Kingdom spectator group, those humans are irrefutable! Because, these things are all real achievements on the bright side. Whether it is the slain Dread Demon King, or the destroyed undead natural disasters and the captured sites, these things are well-documented. Too much room for debate.

But they dare not be so flattering about the second matter recorded in the official documents of the Flame Kingdom.

The two sides did have an earth-shattering and powerful super battle, but... that was only at the beginning; for smashing countless mountains, burning countless seas of fire, and sacrificing countless heroic fire elements to defeat Ah They scoffed at the matter of Kermond.

They had watched the whole battle, and it was an irrefutable fact that Archimonde was defeated, but how could there be such things as smashing mountains and burning seas of fire? Even the fire element didn't die much, did it?

They remember very clearly that at the beginning of the confrontation, the terrifying big demon Archimonde was really extraordinary. He summoned thousands of green fel hellfires, and those green meteorites were like Like rain, densely packed, it kept hitting Stratholme's city head area, and soon got into a scuffle with those fire elemental legions. Although the scuffle between the younger brothers of the two sides didn't last long, it could be described as shocking, weeping ghosts and gods, and the super collision of strength and strength couldn't be faked! Regarding this point, their spectators agreed very much!

After seeing the big demon take the lead, the queen of the fire elements, she also quickly began to prepare for a counterattack. At that time, the members of the spectator group had already seen that she seemed to have gathered a huge amount of magic power and channeled all the power of flames in the original Stratholme city area that was engulfed in flames. It didn't take long for her to guide After finishing the spell, the momentum at that time seemed to be mighty and mighty, and it scared people to death, just like the goddess of fire descending to the earth in person, which caused a lot of shock to the members of the spectator group...

And then what? And then... and then it's gone!

right! You read that right! The latter is indeed gone!

Just when the members of Lordaeron's spectator team were about to risk their lives to watch a god-level super battle at close range, and when the fire elemental army was still fighting furiously with the falling fel hellfire... let Lordaeron All the members of the kingdom spectator group were collectively dumbfounded...

That demigod queen who had already channeled the spell and was about to make a move to use the magic of destroying heaven and earth, she actually dispelled the spell so inexplicably? Then she arrogantly used her little hand to point at the nose of the great demon Archimonde, and said a few words arrogantly, and then... the great demon actually nodded and patted his butt Turn around and leave? Before he left, he actually kindly dismissed the massive hellfires he had summoned?

These envoys from the original Kingdom of Lordaeron fell into a daze for an instant. They didn't know at all. Did something happen between the two parties just now that they didn't know about? Or have they fought a battle in a mysterious field that they can't see?

What about immortality? What about the promised god-level super battle? What about destroying the world as promised and moving mountains and seas?

Why were they talking cruelly to each other just a moment ago, wishing to mock the two sides who were dead enemies, wishing to go forward and kill each other with a knife. Let go of your hands? What kind of international joke is this?

From the eyes of the humans watching the battle group, you, a big demon of the Burning Legion, have summoned so many green fire monsters just now, and they are still falling down continuously. It seems that you are still fighting with the fire elementals. There are winners and losers, and I don't see any big disadvantages between them? Why did you, the boss, suddenly let go?

Moreover, you, Archimonde, are not necessarily weaker than that Flame Queen, no matter in terms of size or surging strength, so why did you suddenly give up? Could it be that you saw that the little girl was too cute, so you couldn't bear to do it?

besides! The same goes for the Flame Queen, you have already made such a huge formation, and the spell has been channeled, so why don't you hurry up and smash it out? Whether you blow up that Archimonde, or grill him, or even if your magic directly blows up the entire planet of Azeroth, let everyone play along, they will not be like this Unacceptable...

Therefore, after watching the big demon Archimonde turn around and leave with gaping mouths, the members of the spectator group who were excluded from the time loop, the first thing they thought of was: What is the situation? ? What about the war of the century? Why did you stop fighting like this all of a sudden? Isn't this too anticlimactic? These melon-eating audiences expressed that it was absolutely unacceptable!

The second thing I thought of was: there must be something dark inside this shit!

Could it be...the little girl used some magic that they couldn't see to drive away the demon? Or... Between the two of them, some shady deal was reached? Or... Does this little girl have something to do with that demon? Otherwise, why would they stop fighting all of a sudden?

You know, just a moment ago, they were still talking harshly to each other. The Fire Elemental and Hellfire under their command had already started fighting hand-to-hand, and the two bosses were about to blow their heads out! But... the final result, why is it like this?

"That... Captain, when we go back, how should we write a report? The two of them... It seems that there is some special relationship?"

The same timid cavalryman asked, now, they don't know how to describe what happened before them when they go back...

Do you want to say: the big devil and the little girl queen, after talking cruelly to each other for a while, one side threw countless meteorites, while the other side finished channeling super spells, and then... just like that, they suddenly shook hands and made peace ?

"Okay, there's nothing to see, let's go back! As for the report... I will know how to write it, and you don't need to worry about it!"

After contemplating for a while, the captain finally spoke. Compared to the cowardly recruit who kept yelling and wanted to escape early, as the captain of this spectator group, he observed much more carefully.

He found that when the great demon Archimonde turned around and left, the grief, indignation and helplessness on his face, the gloomy expression on the other side's face that he wanted to tear him apart, definitely did not look like he was pretending forcibly, he must be Forced and helpless, had to go!

If you think about it more carefully, before, the subordinates of the opposing sides had already started hand-to-hand melee. The damage caused by those green hellfires to the red fire elemental corps is definitely not small. Meteorites are thrown from high altitude without money, and there must be three to five thousand casualties. Now, in the area of ​​Stratholme city head , those corpses of the fire element lying still are enough to explain everything!

Therefore, analyzing all the circumstances, the other party, the great demon named Archimonde, must have suffered a great loss under the hands of that little girl! So much so that he gave up and had to leave!

So... this little girl is actually more powerful than this big devil? Or...she has any means to make Archimonde extremely afraid?

But no matter what, now, the powerful power displayed by the Flame Queen is beyond doubt! Well, it's time for them to go back now. Perhaps it's time for Commander Dathrohan and Generalissimo Garithos to face up to the existence of the Flame Kingdom. No matter how to deal with the relationship between the two parties, in his opinion as the cavalry captain, being in a hostile relationship with the Flame Kingdom would only be the worst choice! I hope the leaders above don't make such stupid and inferior mistakes...

"Long live the queen! Long live the queen!!"

When he saw the big demon Archimonde, he stopped and turned his head away. He also dispelled all the summoned hellfires and let them fall apart into a pile of useless green rocks. The flame legions who were fighting Only to finally realize that the enemy seems to have run away by himself? So, they immediately cheered loudly! Because, they discovered that it seemed that their mighty Queen had beaten that ferocious big demon away!

"Long live the queen! Long live the queen! Long live the queen!!!"

Compared with the astonishment and puzzlement of some human beings, the fire elementals didn't think so much about detours.

They only know that their great queen has just defeated the powerful big demon, and their fire element has won the battle completely!

This indicates that after their initial victory, their fire elements have completely established themselves in the world of Azeroth! Now, they have occupied a large area enough for the fire elements to survive, so for all their fire elements, this is a glorious victory worthy of their cheers!

"Congratulations, my respected and great Queen! Congratulations on defeating such a powerful enemy! Your light, like the sun in the sky, is scorching and bright, and will definitely lead our fire element to infinite glory!"

Seeing that Her Majesty the Queen drove away the opponent so easily, Shanknox immediately ran over and complimented her.

"You must be the messenger bestowed upon us by the great God of Fire. I, Shannox, swear here that we fire demons and other fire elements will be loyal to you forever and follow your footsteps until the end of the world." ! We are your strongest shield and sharpest spear, crushing all enemies for you, making them all prostrate under your brilliance..."

Although Shane Knox felt a little unbelievable, he didn't think too much about it. Anyway, under the leadership of Her Majesty, the Flame Kingdom has won the final victory, and that's enough!

And after discovering that those green hellfires had fallen apart by themselves and turned into a pile of useless rocks, it had nothing to do with itself, and it didn't need to command the battle by itself, so it hurried to this relatively intact city wall immediately. On it, it prostrated and knelt beside Queen Anne, flattering all kinds of flattery and compliments, and of course, in the end, it would not forget to express its loyalty to Her Majesty the Queen...

"Oh! It's okay, it's okay! You can figure out what to do here, I'm very tired now, I want to go back and have a good sleep first!"

Little Anne doesn't want to care about the sycophant Shank Knox, this old fire demon is really getting more and more slippery now, so she won't be confused by his few words!

Stratholme, who played with these fire elements for a long time today, even missed his nap.

Just now, I fought with that Archimonde again, exhausted my heart and soul, fought wits and bravery, and used hundreds of spells in different ways. This is really not done by humans!

Now, little Annie is already feeling very tired, especially mentally, she feels very tired. After hundreds of spells, although there is no major impact on her body, after all, time has flowed back, but... the mental load cannot be relieved by time flow, otherwise, the big demon will not So you will give up soon, right? He felt tired even after beating himself, so could he bear it if he was beaten?

You know, Annie herself is just mentally exhausted, but what about the other party? It is the double torture of physical and mental. Anyone who has been beaten with hundreds of super spells and has no suitable countermeasures, I am afraid that no one will be able to bear it?

But no matter what, today's matter is over anyway, the big devil has signed a non-disclosure agreement with her, and he will not come here again for the time being... So, little Annie decided to go back to the palace of Flame Canyon , take a good night's rest, and sleep until tomorrow the sun basks in your buttocks. As for the next thing...

Huh? She doesn't seem to have any special arrangements, does she? Where will there be anything after that? Let's talk about tomorrow's matter tomorrow!

"Yes! Your Majesty, I will definitely handle the matter here properly, so don't worry."

After Shannox heard it, he quickly bent down deeply, and then greeted their Queen, until he saw Anne walk into the portal and disappeared, then he stood up straight and sent someone to summon Here comes his nephew, Shatulu, the chief hunter. Now that the war has ended perfectly, it's time to get down to business.

"Shatulu, please explain it immediately, let those Balrogs quickly transform this place, and strive to transform this place into a flame city that is suitable for our fire elements to survive before the cold winter comes. This is the first priority!"

Seeing the small snowflakes falling from the sky, which were melted and evaporated by the high-temperature fire in Stratholme before they hit the ground, Shanknox frowned. It's just a light snow now. Once it snows heavily in the future, if the transformation project is not completed by then, it will be very bad for their fire element creatures!

"By the way, you have to remember to send an engineering team to build a magnificent queen's palace in the middle of the city. Not only must it be tall! It must also look magnificent! Absolutely no cutting corners like the one in the Flame Canyon temporary camp , do you understand?"

Shanknox intends to transform this Stratholme into a royal city in the world of Azeroth, the Flame Kingdom of the fire element.

Perhaps, from now on, this place should no longer be called Stratholme, so what should it be called...Land of New Flames? Or the City of Queens? This needs to be thought about slowly, don't worry too much. After all, the construction of this city is a long-term project! Anyway, in the cold winter, it is not suitable for the activities of fire elements, so they just nest here and build slowly.

"That...Master Chief, how tall do you want to be? How majestic?"

For this meaning, Shatulu is not very clear, should he give an indicator? So, it hurriedly asked. It is afraid that if the building is not satisfactory to the chief executive, it will be considered light to overthrow and rebuild, and it will be beaten by the chief executive at that time!

"Hmm...then follow the scale of the Saffron Palace in the Land of Flames! You should understand now, right? Then, build two large flame portals on both sides of the palace in the middle of the city!"

Anyway, Shane Knox is already planning to cling to Queen Anne's thighs. In the future, their fire elements will settle here.

Now, how cheating is Queen Anne of their Flame Kingdom, she has chased away such a powerful demon, and other miscellaneous fish will not dare to come here to be presumptuous, right?

Therefore, with such a powerful demigod as their backer, absolutely no one can easily drive their fire elements back to the land of flames! Therefore, it is completely feasible to build a city of fire elements and settle down here!

"By the way! You should also remember that outside of our city of flames, at the place where the big demon stood just now, a huge statue of our Queen must be taller than the one called Archimonde , and then, use our Fire Demon’s language and Azeroth’s common language to record the queen’s achievements today, and the stone tablet inscribed with the words should be bigger, do you understand?”

After calling Shatulu who was about to leave, Shannox quickly expressed his thoughts again. This is the best way to show Queen Anne's strength and deter those bastards who have no good intentions towards the fire element !

From now on, any creature that comes here will be able to see it at the first sight: Her Majesty the Queen of the Fire Element is here to drive away the powerful and invincible leader of the Burning Legion, the polluter - Akmon Germany!

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The battle of Stratholme has come to an end, and at the Hand of Tyr, in the lord's mansion here, Osmar Garithos, the Grand Marshal of the Kingdom of Lordaeron, is gloomyly looking at the copy in his hand. In the letter written by Dasuohan himself and sent by the courier Kuaima, only three things were mentioned in this letter:

First, he, Dathrohan, has successfully persuaded most of the refugees in the Flame Canyon and borrowed part of the troops from the Fire Demon to escort a large group of them back to the Holy Light's Hope Chapel. There will be no surprises.

Second, on the morning they led the refugees to set off, the queen of those fire elementals—Anne Hastur, she actually launched an offensive against the natural disasters of the undead north of Blackwood Lake. Her intention was probably Take the entire Stratholme region! And he, Dathrohan, has sent a small team of cavalry envoys as a spectator group, they will pay attention to the opponent's actions and evaluate the opponent's combat power throughout the process.

Third, this matter is also the most important of the three. He, Dathrohan, told him the great news in his letter: he actually found them in the refugee camp in Flame Canyon. The last royal member of the kingdom, the princess—Calia Menethil! It turns out that the royal family of Menethil of the Kingdom of Lordaeron is not extinct, and they are about to welcome back the princess of their kingdom!

When Grand Marshal Garithos suddenly saw this, he wanted to scold his mother on the spot!

Those fire elementals attacked the north, and it was fine to grab their territory of Lordaeron Kingdom, but now, he, Dathrohan, came to make trouble for him? It's really unreasonable! In Garithos's mind, the Menethil royal family, which should have died long ago, was actually brought back by him to a Princess Kalia? Just at this critical time?

Well now, the princess is coming back. Although Garithos will still be the Grand Marshal of the Lordaeron Alliance in the future, he can also imagine that he will never be the previous Grand Marshal... In the future, his position will be There will also be a princess of the kingdom who will crush him, or even... the queen of Lordaeron?

If... If there is no Princess Kalia, once Garithos regains the homeland of the Kingdom of Lordaeron, then he will be the hero of the entire Lordaeron and the alliance, even the hero of mankind!

Then, with this achievement, it is not impossible for him to become king in one fell swoop!

But now? It's over! Even if the land was regained and the undead were expelled, it was done under the leadership of the great Princess Kalia. Princess Kalia can smoothly add a lot of money to her upcoming queen's crown - the revived princess? Queen of ZTE?

And he, Garithos, is at best a general under the Queen's command! By then, who will remember him?

Grand Marshal Garithos can already imagine that once Princess Kalia returns to Tyre, from then on, the remaining forces of the Kingdom of Lordaeron will no longer be centered on him, Marshal Garithers, and will no longer They will no longer bow to his orders, because they have a better object of allegiance, a bigger banner!

Alas... time is not with me...

Just as Garithos was frowning and sighing because he read the letter, and was preparing to deal with the upcoming Princess Kalia, a soldier came in at the right time.

"Report! Your Excellency the Generalissimo, five Quel'Thalas high elves riding dragonhawks flew outside. They claimed to be the envoys of the Kingdom of Quel'Thalas, and they also said that they needed to meet Tyr's Hand for important matters. The highest officer here, and inform mankind about something about the Kingdom of Quel'Thalas."

"Hmph! The emissary of Quel'Thalas? Those long-eared elves who keep repeating? It is said that they have been harmed by that bastard of Alsace? Why don't they just stay in the north and lick their wounds? Are you free to come to our Kingdom of Lordaeron?"

Garithos frowned, pondered for a while and said, he put himself in his shoes and thought for a while, he didn't understand the purpose of the elves coming at this moment, he had heard about it, the other party had been severely harmed by Alsace's undead army before , although in the end, they somehow won the battle, but Quel'Thalas has become riddled with holes, and now they should take advantage of the time when the undead have not yet moved, and honestly lie dormant in Quel'Thalas. Sarasley, should you slowly recover your strength?

You know, the main force of the undead natural disaster is all here in Lordaeron, even the demons that descended recently! They elves have every chance to huddle and grow, just as they have done for more than two thousand years. But now, their long ears are running out at this time, what kind of trouble is this going to cause? Do you think he doesn't have enough things here in Garithers?

"Your Excellency Marshal? Do you want to see them?"

The soldier didn't dare to answer the marshal's words, and he didn't know how to answer. After all, he was just a soldier, and he came in just to convey a message. Whether he could see him or not depended on the marshal's words. What's the use of telling him so much? ?

"Forget it, there's nothing to do anyway, so let's meet up! Wait a minute, invite them to the castle hall now, and I'll go there when I'm ready."

In the end, Garithos thought about it, and decided to meet the elves' emissaries, but before going to meet, he needed to wear his Grand Marshal's outfit, so he couldn't weaken the human aura! He wants to see what those high elves with long ears want to do here!