With Anastrian and Dranos joining the Scourge, the Horde would naturally suffer the greatest blow.
One of them controlled the tribe's communication network, while the other's father was the highest-ranking military commander under Thrall. Most of the time, Varrock was the one who controlled the most troops in the tribe.
Unfortunately, as Noscent's army went into a resting state and the tribe hurriedly changed their communication system, Arthis didn't get much useful information.
The Alliance had always been wary of the Horde, not to mention the Forsaken who had a direct grudge against them. If it weren't for Duque, Cirvanas would've already caused trouble for the Forgotten Ones. If Duque gave a hint with his eyes, Queen Sylvanas might even annihilate the Forsaken with the power of the entire country and the Night Elves.
In fact, what Arthis wanted the most was the Weave.
Without the Weave, the strength of the Alliance's mages would drop by at least half. It wasn't as if the Doomsday Army had never killed a Mage from the Alliance before. Looking at the ferocious appearance of a certain Mage when he was alive, throwing fireballs nonstop as if they were free. As soon as he turned into a Lich, he was done for.
The Weave had given the Alliance's mages too much support, to the point where it was like replacing a shotgun with a cannon. As long as he infused his overflowing spiritual force as the energy for the Weave to operate, he would be able to use the elements almost limitlessly in battle as long as he didn't exceed the upper limits of his tolerance.
He didn't even need to communicate with the Elemental Plane. All the elements had been filtered, purified, and stabilized in the Weave. As long as a mage completed the last step of elemental modeling, they would be able to cast an offensive spell that was far beyond their combat level.
The Weave was Duque's lifeline and was directly under Duque.
Without mastering magical abilities that were above Duque's, there was no way he could snatch it.
Speaking of creating something similar to the Weave to fight against the Weave …
Unfortunately, even with the two Master Magicians, Malygos and Anastrian, they still couldn't create the magic net that belonged to the Doomsday Army.
This was what infuriated Arthis the most.
It couldn't be helped. Although Holy Light and Shadow were two independent elemental energies, they were pure spiritual energy. There was no independent Elemental Realm outside the main plane.
Among the four major elements, if one wanted to obtain more elements, one would need to have higher authority. On their side, except for Arthis who had a certain amount of authority in the Water Elemental Realm, the other two didn't.
Needless to say, the Sun King hadn't reached the God domain yet.
Originally, Malygos still had some authority. Unfortunately, after he was cut in half, not only did he lose his authority, but he also lost his Titan Rune. It was impossible for him to control the Arcane Energy that the Titan Energy extended.
Thus, her only hope was to create a Weave of Ice Element and completely expel Duque's Weave.
Therefore, after the Horde retreated, the battle between the allied forces and the Calamity Army became the magical ley lines on the Icecrown Glacier.
The Shadow Vault was one of them, and the Calamity City was another. The remaining nodes were not completely symmetrical on the map. Their positions were also quite easy to identify because the Calamity Army had built strong fortifications on them long ago.
They were: the prototype vault on the north side of the Desolation Gate, Ordusa, the vault on the west side of the Death Gate, Modressa, and the Dark Cathedral and the Icecrown Glacier itself.
Not only were they places that the military would fight for, but they were also the nodes of the magical ley lines.
Everyone knew what was going on. It was just a matter of who could seize the opportunity first.
For a few days, anyone with a little bit of magical sensing ability could feel that Arthas was expanding a new Ice Elemental Energy Weave with the Icecrown Fortress as the center.
In contrast, Duque was also strengthening the ley lines in the Calamity City and the Shadow Vault to the north, using them as new nodes of the Weave.
On the 20th of March, in the Calamity City, Duque came for an inspection.
The Calamity City had been burned to the ground. Although the Red Dragon Army had purified the place with flames, no one could guarantee that there were still remnants of plague gas in a certain corner of the city.
At this time, it was time for the non-human creatures and mechanical creations to appear.
In the dilapidated city ruins, there were fire demons patrolling everywhere, as well as mechanical gnomes commanding mechanical spiders, tanks, and other mechanical creations.
Duque supported his feet with the wind, opened the Frost Shield, and arrived at the center of the city.
The gigantic Ghost Tower that had once existed here had already been dismantled and replaced by a Titan Formation that was formed from countless golden Titan runes.
Seeing Duque's arrival, Majordomo, the manager of the Elemental Emissaries under Duque, hurried to greet him.
"Master!" He bowed.
He had once served the Fire Demon Ragnaros, and now he had completely adapted to his identity.
It was rare for him to have a chance to appear, so he naturally did his best.
"How's the progress?" Duque asked.
"It wasn't ideal at first, but with their help, we've caught up." The "them" that Majordomo was referring to were naturally the water elementals that were helping beside the Titan Rune Magic Circle. These water elementals were all huge, at least three stories tall.
Interestingly, although water and fire were clearly incompatible, the water elementals and fire demons were at least restraining each other.
Duque smiled.
What he was doing now was to dig out the roots of Arthas.
If he simply introduced the fire elementals from the Fire Elemental Realm in an attempt to change the elemental ratio of this continent that was already covered in ice and snow, it would be arduous and unrewarding.
Replacing Majordomo with the Fire Demon King Ragnaros might have a chance of success.
So, Duque gave up on a simple confrontation and called upon the Haidacian water elementals instead.
As creatures of the Water Elemental Realm, the Haidacian water elementals did not like Ragnaros, nor did they like the water elementals or water elemental creatures being contaminated by Arthas' dark power.
Duque easily reached a consensus with Duke Haidacis once again. The Haidacian water elementals would help to draw away the overflowing frost elementals on the Icecrown Glacier, and then Majordomo and the Red Dragon Legion would join forces to disrupt the magic veins in the Icecrown Glacier area.
This method of digging out the roots and cutting off the source was the most damaging.
Duque was not in a hurry to let the Alliance advance the battle line. Like a noose, he slowly, slowly cut off Arthas' wings.
Last time, the Alliance suffered a great loss because of Arthas' diversion. This time, Duque had learned his lesson. He placed a large number of troops in the Shadow Vault and the City of Calamity, and withdrew the main force in other places, leaving only symbolic defense, and they were all Mechanical Gnomes and Mechanical Dwarves.
If you have the ability, why don't you turn these robots into undead creatures!
In the Shadow Vault, in addition to the Black Edge Knights, there were now the four Guardians of Alkavon working together to guard it, plus Hodier, Onyxia, Vashj, and Kalecgos.
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