Chapter 38 The Death Knight is Born.
When the orcs try to open up the passage guarded by the Dark Iron Dwarves, the six human kingdoms in the north are still singing and dancing in peace.
Anduin Lothar, the defeated commander from Stormwind City, visited several kingdoms in succession and told the king about the power of the orcs.
After his efforts, the kings finally paid attention and began to discuss whether to form a coalition.
Many, many years have passed since humanity split from the Arathor Empire into seven kingdoms.
Since there is no powerful enemy, the Seven Kingdoms have never had a precedent of joining forces.
There may even be some minor frictions between kingdoms.
Needless to say, there is no need to say much about the resistance when such kingdoms are suddenly allowed to form a coalition!
However, the Kingdom of Lordaeron, which has the strongest comprehensive strength among the six kingdoms, is willing to make every effort to promote this union.
King Terenas Menethil of Lordaeron is a king with a very far-sighted vision.
The kingdom in the south often goes to war with the jungle trolls, so the strength of the army cannot be weak.
However, they were quickly defeated by the orcs.
This result is very scary to think about.
If we cannot form an army several times larger than the orcs, it may be difficult to stop those guys from heading north.
At the meeting where the top leaders of the seven human kingdoms gathered together, King Terenas, who was in his prime, banged on the meeting table.
"Everyone, I believe those savage and brutal orcs are ready to invade us.
If we cannot unite, our homeland will face a terrible catastrophe!"
King Terenas predicted this. The sub-alliance has played a very good role in promoting.
Some kings have a more warlike personality and originally wanted to fight the orcs.
After some consideration, the kings were the first to nod and agreed to use their troops to form a coalition.
Even if other kings have objections, they can only obey the majority.
The wealthy Kingdom of Lordaeron generously sent out 200,000 new soldiers.
Although the new recruit Danzi has little fighting ability.
But the enemy won't come right away.
If they practice for a year and a half, they will be ready to fight!
Other kingdoms were not far behind.
The stronger one is one hundred and eighty thousand, and the weaker one is thirty thousand twenty thousand.
The Magic Kingdom of Dalaran, which does not have a decent army, provides some mages to carry out spell attacks.
In the end, the seven countries gathered nearly 600,000 troops.
In order to fulfill its ancient covenant with the human empire, the High Elf Kingdom also sent a team of rangers to provide long-range fire support.
A long-range force of hundreds of people is inconspicuous in this kind of million-level war.
But it is impossible for the high elves to send more troops from the mainland.
At most, some high elf mages will be mobilized from Dalaran to provide support.
Herard had the same idea.
He paid no attention to the regular orc troops.
The orcs look very powerful, but are actually not very strong.
Black Iron Dwarves, Bronzebeard Dwarves, and Gnomes, these three forces are not easy to mess with.
When the orcs confront them, they must deploy a large number of troops to surround them in order to ensure that those forces do not take their back.
Especially the Burning Plains where the Dark Iron Dwarves are entrenched is like a Jedi!
If you want to pass through that area, you can only pass through the huge black stone tower.
The Black Stone Tower that the Dark Iron Dwarves spent countless manpower and material resources on would allow these orcs who come up to fight and kill to easily pass through?
In order to storm the gate of Blackrock Tower, the orcs have fallen thousands of Blackstone orcs and fire-belly ogres.
The only ones who can perfectly display their combat effectiveness in the Burning Plains are these two very heat-resistant races.
When their losses reached a certain level, Orgrim's heart was about to explode.
In order to make up for the losses of the Blackstone clan in several battles, the warlocks have even used dark magic to ripen the young clan members.
But spending time with those short guys is obviously not the solution to the problem.
Orgrim ordered Gul'dan, who had just woken up from a coma, to quickly find a way to solve this problem.
Gul'dan had previously attempted to infiltrate Medivh's soul to steal confidential information.
As a result, Medivh was hacked to death by his disciple Khadgar and his group of relatives and friends. Gul'dan, whose soul was shocked, almost burped.
When it woke up after being in a coma for several months, the weather outside had changed!
The tribal chief Blackhand it supported was headshot by Orgrim with a sledgehammer.
Most of the warlocks under his command had their heads smashed, and a few of them defected to Orgrim.
Although Gul'dan is very powerful, he can only give in when faced with Orgrim's artifact hammer.
It’s not enough to be cowardly.
Now the entire Horde listens to Orgrim.
What's even more annoying is that this guy is backed by a divine weapon.
If you dare not accept it, initiate a duel, and then hit the head with a hammer!
Facing Orgrim, who had an absolute advantage in personal strength and power, Gul'dan had no choice but to be obedient.
Gul'dan looked at the towering Black Stone Tower and the huge slope leading to the tower door, and silently gave up the attack.
The huge slope alone is not that easy to step on.
As long as an enemy dares to step on it, the Dark Iron Dwarves will rush out and fight to the death!
The blood of the Blackstone Orcs and Fire-Belly Ogres filled all the rock crevices on the slope.
No one can shake the Dark Iron Dwarves' determination to defend their territory.
Since these tenacious black iron dwarves cannot be shaken, we can only use some extraordinary means!
Gul'dan quickly came up with a solution to the problem.
That is to send people to exhume the bodies of human knights.
The standard it gives is that the physical body must be preserved intact, and the stronger the strength during life, the better.
Orgrim sneered at Gul'dan's tricks.
But now is an extraordinary moment, and this kind of desecration of the dead can only be accepted for the time being.
The knights have high strength, status and wealth.
Their bodies were embalmed in the most professional manner.
Even though the body of the knight had been buried for several months, there was still no serious decay.
Orc warlocks are basically shamans who have changed their profession.
In addition to being able to summon the power of the elements, shamans are also very good at communicating with the dead.
Gul'dan, a great warlock, is also very good at necromancy.
However, its goal is larger than simply creating a batch of zombies.
Having learned that Orgrim had killed all its warlocks, Gul'dan was planning how to resurrect his brothers.
Although those slain warlocks have been destroyed from the physical level, their powerful souls still linger in the world and do not want to leave.
Therefore, Gul'dan used props to properly store their souls, waiting for the right opportunity to be resurrected.
After the knights' corpses were professionally processed and painted with mysterious magic patterns, Gul'dan inserted a purple crystal into the corpse's chest.
The purple spar is rhombus-shaped and about the size of a thumb.
This is the Soul Stone used to store the Warlock's soul.
The Soul Stone is made up of a large number of soul fragments, and its material is somewhere between illusion and substance.
Under the influence of necromancy, the soul stone merged with the knight's corpse.
The warlock's soul also perfectly took over the new body.
The warlocks who received new bodies subconsciously wanted to master dark magic again.
However, their bodies are dead and cannot produce normal mana.
The mutated mana generated from the dead corpse is a kind of cold, evil and strange energy.
The cold ability cannot be matched with any known spell.
In other words, dead corpses cannot become spellcasters.
However, this cold energy running inside the body can greatly increase the physical strength of the dead body.
Even large axes and heavy hammers can hardly break through their dead bodies.
Seeing his men getting up from the ground one after another and looking at their new bodies, Gul'dan was very satisfied with this batch of works.
With this group of the dead spreading death and fear, it's more than enough to break through Blackrock Tower!
(End of chapter)